Vengeance of the Returner

Chapter 171: Titan

"Argghh!"

Nix growled pulling Jerina towards the hollow. Next to her was Ferdinand tightly clutching onto the rocks. It can be said that Ferdinand was slowing venturing and overcoming his fear.

After pulling her into the tunnel of the third floor he loosened the chain for Ferdinand to latch on it.

"Take it slow."

Nix said looking at Ferdinand and began to pull him.

"Fuck!"

He cursed as Ferdinand lost his grip and slipped a few steps down and abruptly locked the chain around his arm by shapeshifting it.

"Ferd...!"

Jerina screamed lent her hand to Nix in a startle.

"Ahh! Thanks, Mr.Nix!"

Ferdinand said heaving out a sigh of relief.

"Fucking brace yourself!"

Nix cursed and abruptly pulled him with immense force and threw inside the tunnel that was the entrance of the third floor.

He did not care if he was injured and stared at him in anger.

"For fuck sake man? You need some training!"

He yelled at him and began to take the stairs the stretched to the next floor.

As soon as he exited the hollow all he witnessed the same terrain which he explored on the second floor.

[Private ability~Doom prediction vision activated]

His eyes turned plain white including his pupils as soon as he activated his vision. In mere seconds the future visions showed a scene of him fighting against Cerberus. Fighting a single one of those beasts would Indeed destroy his body but he found himself over three of them.

The surprising thing was Ferdinand's assistance. He was actually trying to help him and the power he exposed was indeed phenomenal that it could rival a knight.

Nix turned towards Ferdinand and smiled.

"I am looking forward."

"I'll try to do my best Mr.Nix."

Ferdinand said with a bow.

'Imma get there to the S rank.'

He muttered to himself and began to approach the center of the floor where a few Cerberus were eating up a Titan. A monster with skin that was dark as coal possessed a long body like a centipede and of three heads like a Cerberus, Two hands similar to that of humans. 

This seventy-meter gigantic beast was the one that rushed to destroy Theemai during the Blood rain.

It seems they ganged together and brought the titan down. Can Nix do that? It will be a simple no. Because it was an opponent far from what he can handle. Then how will he defeat the pack of Cerberus? He had never really defeated the scalates nor the Intors with his own strength. He relied on his abilities so, one can say he was extremely lacking.

He abandoned the plan of becoming strong on his own. On his own, in the sense of not relying on the abilities, he was gifted with.

But, He had no choice but to accept it as his own power even though he didn't earn them from hard work. Those were fruits of what Dark Nix sowed as the seeds that will become a tree of destruction in hopes to himself.

He accepted it as his very own since the past him was himself. Rather he did not have the right to choose since that's the prime ability that had helped him reach the very point he stands at.

He launched the tornado of fire from his chains and distracted the pack. For the record, there was no scratch on the body of the beasts.

Immediately Nix turned towards Ferdinand and slightly nodded his head as though signaling him to do something.

"The Holy light surge!"

Chanting the spell Ferdinand placed his both his hands toward his chest while a football-sized orb rotated between his hand. Within one second he trusted his hand forward and released a pillar of energy that pushed the beast instead of killing them.

"Hmm, Even though he cannot inflict damage on those beasts his mana is a huge gift to him."

A healers' fortes are defense and support and they terribly lack in attack power. But Ferdinand's ability is abnormal enough to force the beasts and throw them away to several distances away from their original position. This inflicted quite the damage to four of the Cerberus in the pack and the trees of the floor.

Jerina looked at Ferdinand in a daze looked down at his legs which were trembling and his body was shivering as well yet, he was trying his best. She smiled inwardly and began to join him and shot a pillar of light as well.

Their use of abilities was evident enough to unravel their attribute which was obviously light.

"Damn how the hell am I supposed to unlock my attribute?"

He thought inwardly and surfed underneath the monsters and stood in the center clutching both his weapons while looking at Cerberus with his unwavering eyes.

He keenly had his sense wide awake as the beasts looked down on him. 

"Fuck!"

He cursed and slid under one of them and tore its abdomen and swiftly jumped onto the other Cerberus's back and shoved his dagger into its eyes and continued to do so to the other two pair of eyes and blinded the beast.

"AWrrr!"

The beast cried out in agony as he continuously stabbed it's until they turned into nothing but a chunk of meat. It fell to the ground and tried to push him of its back.

Soon he jumped onto another beast as the blinded Cerberus swung its paws towards him. As a consequence, it dealt a blow to its own brethren. 

"Haha!"

Nix couldn't help but feel invincible as he was able to take control of the battle. The beasts around him growled and looked at him with anger yet, none proceeded to attack him. They stood their ground and hesitated to attack him as he stood atop of the dead Cerberus's body with a menacing smile.

Both the beasts and Couple looked at him in fear. That's was obviously a natural phenomenon. Preys fear the apex predator. It was law of the jungle. Though Nix didn't have the slivered thoughtfulness to those things. He was in ecstasy since this was his first time instilling fear through the beasts.

He noticed that his heartbeat was wilder whenever he reached the pinnacle. The feeling of being supreme was indeed a drug. Was it instincts or his very own nature? He didn't know care about these things. He just enjoyed that short-lived feeling.

He smiled and slowly left the center without paying heed to the monsters and when one did he gave an immense punch to its jaw which made the other Cerberus flinch.

He was actually using Latent instincts and Doom prediction vision in unison which gave him a deadly perception over his surroundings and himself that he was warned several seconds before he might fall into the abyss of suffering.

And at that point, the Cerberus didn't approach him and ran away from that place while Nix approached the Titan.

[Private ability~ Truth eye activated]

[Opening information of the Target...]

MONSTER NAME: ETHIORUS

MONSTER TYPE: TITAN

STAT

VITALITY: 0

|TYPE: Carnivores|

|TENDENCY: Wild, Undying|

|LIKES: Flesh, Weeds|

|DISLIKES-Cerberus|

Untameable

HEALTH CONDITION: DECEASEDGOOD

'What Good and Deceased?'

He thought inwardly and walked towards the Ethiorus. Its body was half-rotten with worms squirming inside and outside of its body and there was a long hollow inside its shell that seemed to be uneaten.

As his interest perked up he stabbed his dagger into its core making its green blood spray on his body. He did not pay attention to the couple who puked after laying their sight on the beast and entered inside its body.

What caught his eyes was a tiny orb that was surrounded by wire-like nerves.

He grabbed it and pulled the orb out of its nervous system and looked at scratching his chin.

[Mana orb]

[Information: This mana which was reserved inside the Ethiorus's belly which directly connects to the heart which helps in reawakening its brain and heart by sending waves of mana.]

[Uses: Can be used to increase the capacity of Mana by 1 point]

"This here is a gold!"

Nix exclaimed and left the hollow.

"Mr.Nix...The thing you have is impure. The mana needs to be cleansed if you are planning to use it as a drug to bombard your mana core."

Jerina said hesitantly.

"Ohh? So how am I supposed to clean this?"

"I have the ability to do so? Can I try?"

She volunteered.

"Alright but, don't just destroy it and cleanse its usage."

He nodded his head and gave the tiny black orb to her.

Her hands trembled as she burrowed the orb since she was frightened that she could destroy the orb which was flimsy like a hollow egg.

Wire-like energy expelled out of her finger and rolled around the orb like a cocoon as he observed the scene with his hands crossed. The thread tightened as she poured more of her light attribute and suddenly torn it into shreds.

"Hah, I am sorry... This is extremely unpure and its mana Frequency is hard to decode."

'Ohh Since everyone's mana has a frequency. So their's can also be manipulated if you make a connection?'

He contemplated to himself with surprise.

"May I try Mr.Nix?"

Ferdinand asked and burrowed the orb.

This time he did the same and failed too. 

"Hah, give it to me I'll just devour it!"

He snatched the orb and swallowed the orb.

"AHHH!"

He shouted to the top of his lungs as soon as it entered his body. 

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