"I see you have gained some confidence, good, what we are about to face is far more than what you just faced" The voice advice. This time, getting around the forest was much easier, with his powers like a Sonar, he could navigate the dark path like the back of his hands. This time there was no cautious advances, he went in gravity skating with decent speed, soon he had covered a bit of ground before he saw humanoid chreatures banded around in what seems to be a blockade.
"It seems that the entire forest knows that you are coming this way I guess the last enemy was a scout"
Screeeeee!!!!!
As though nails being dragged across a black board one of the monsters opened its mouth and accurately aim where Sora was hiding. The sonic wave blasted him back. Upon getting on his knees, he spit a mouth full of blood. "I don't understand, I was so well hidden that I even minimized any sound coming from me" Sora said panicked. "Understandable you would think that it would work, but you should remember one thing, The sound you masked was only for the human ear to not notice. Unlike our enemies here, it would seem that they are blind and use sound based attacks, so to them you were as visible as day" The voice explained.
Upon closer inspection, Sora realized that, this new monsters seem to have no eye at all, matter of fact they don't seem to have any facial features except what seem to be an impossibly large ears. 'where is their mouth, what did they use to hit me with that attack.' Sora wondering, as soon enough he got his answer.
The featureless face seemed as if it was being ripped apart by an invisible knife, the shape was definitely that of a mouth, soon enough, sharp teeth came out like a retractable blade. Quickly they started to vibrate at a high speed before a wave of air carrying the vibrating teeth came his way. Sora quicky leaped up for two meters, perfectly dodging the sonic canines. When he looked back to where the attack made contact, he was amazed to find that, some small things could course such massive destruction. 'Lucky they just used basic sonic attack at first or I'd be having new sorts of holes now'
Seeing the target successfully ducked the attack, the enemy started to shake a bit, soon what seem to be horns, protruded from the palms of each monster before they were able to carry it like a weapon. Each horn had different kind shape, some where sharp as rapier, some shaped like a katanas, short sword and the other like. It was as though it was an army full of variable kinds of weapon users.
"Urm, just what are this monsters and what exactly is their abilities?" Sora asked curious. "Well what you see before you is a tribe of the Cruta, They are skilled in the bone conjuring arts, They are also able to vibrate every bone in their body on a very high pitch. They use this vibration in their everyday life, like so see, to scout and to attack also, as you have witnessed from some of those attacks, be careful though, unlike the last opponent, this one has some semblance of intelligence and can be really ruthless in their attacks" The voice explained.
Upon getting an insight of how his new opponents operate, Sora stilled himself.' This is not the time to get distracted'
Notice, earlier wounds have been healed, the body is operating in full strength
"Well that's totally unexpected and welcomed news, but I thought I need to be still before any healing took place" Sora asked confused. "Yes that was the case because like before, the system had to understand your spiritual body first, though this doesn't show on your system panel but you have to understand that your physical body is almost immortal, so the system was still trying to use that knowledge to try and replicate that ability to your soul and if it succeed you will have an almost immortal soul also" Explained the voice. "OW that welcomed news" Sora said excitedly.
He quickly got up to his feet, did a bit of stretching to feel the conditions of his body. Then he stilled himself on where he stand. 'This is about to get interesting' . The enemy was made out of at least 13 opponents, each of them appeared to be an expert in their respective weapons.
Fshhhh!
A small blade like bone hit right besides Sora, upon checking the attacker, Sora discovered that he had his empty palm aimed at him and what seemed to be the same blade being form from thing air, soon that blade flew as well.
Sora quickly got out of its way and used the trees as cover. Some of the close range ones advanced from where they were.
Upon discovering that staying there would get him surrounded, Sora started to hover a few inches off the ground and he quickly slid right out of the back the tree. Moments after he got away from the tree a long spear hit the trunk of that tree and piercing it to the other side where Sora was hiding a moment ago.
'oof that was close, if I had taken another second hiding there, I would have been bonded to that tree' Sora thought. "Sora you have to be strategic with this opponents, it seems hiding is not a option so you have to try to separate them somehow and pick each group one by one" The voice, Advised.
Sora checked his surroundings, luckily the place was not a flat bed, So the uneven terrain could be used to his advantage. While retreating he made sure to limit the sound he was producing, after a while, feeling confident he momentary lost them, an idea formed in his head. 'I wonder, What would happen if I try using Antigravity Manipulation and Core Attraction' Sora thought.
On that thought he tried to perform the action. The two abilities had the properties that acted against one another, One to attract while the other to reject. The act itself is counter productive. But Sora seemed content on seeing if any result will come though.
"I see what you trying to do there and I advice you to be careful. What you doing is working beyond what the naked eyes can see. Remember so far you have been working with gravity and your power are atomic gravity based meaning you are working for and against the building blocks of reality. So if...." Just as the voice explained something etraordinary happen. While both hands were working on Antigravity manipulation. Sora had the attraction manipulation focused in between.
The Core Attraction seems to have attracted the atomic core of an atom while the Antigravity was working against the bonds around it. Typically in the air Hydrogen atom can be found and just so happens that was just what Sora had attracted. When the one charge was being forcefully being worked against the energy of the bond was reaching an unstable critical state. Releasing energy at an alarming rate.
Unstable Atomic substance detected, Temporarily Unlocking Sub-Atomic Disintegrator.
Sub ability unlocked, Atomic lock skills created. Unstable Atomic substance locked.
Congratulations, new skill created, [Sub atomic projectile[Amateur[]
"Sweet, I created a new skill" Sora said excitedly. "Child! What you just did.. what you just did is quite dangerous, you have zero clues just how close we were to becoming dust in an Instant"
"What are you talking about, I was just trying to see if I can get something to help us out of this predicament"
"That wouldn't help if if we are dead, do you know what is a hydrogen nuclear bomb. Just the word nuclear Bomb should make you realize the danger we were just in, if it weren't for the system fail safe this expedition would have ended right here" The voice was clearly frustrated by the lack of concern Sora was showing
But Upon hearing the work Nuclear bomb, Sora felt his throat dry at an instant. It was an though he was suddenly dry but sweat was dripping down his face and a chill running in his back. 'Wa.. Was I playing with something that dangerous as if it's nothing.
Seeing Sora suddenly realize the gravity of his action the disembodied voice got a little bit softer. "It's ok, You just now experiencing your abilities, in all your lives. This is the first time you have abilities so it is understandable you won't understand the full scale of their distractive capabilities and to top it off, Your have awaken universal level gene sequence which is on its own scale. But look at the bright side, That ability it now reduced and graded Amateur so you could use it to practice for when Sub-Atomic Disintegration gets unlocked" The voice said,
Upon hearing that Sora checked and found a new skill on his list of abilities, Sub-Atomic Projectile[Amateur].
'It seems to be a long ranged attack, that will seriously help with those tree piercing attacks