Chapter 145: Chapter 94: Whiplash

It was all a game of HP regeneration rate, Kai knew.

No matter when the prophecy would have come true, it was all about HP regeneration. If his HP wouldn’t drop to 0 instantly, then his HP regeneration rate must overcome the depletion rate for him to survive. Kai would have never followed Petyr, knowing this, if it weren’t for the Titan’s buff given by the Skill Relentless Love.

It wasn’t just a buff. No. It was his lifeline.

A five-point increment in Stamina meant not only a temporary higher value of HP but also meant a higher regeneration rate. Then there was the magical flesh, dipped in the black sauce of filth. Combine all this with the Elementary Filth Manipulation, and even the loss of a corner of his head couldn’t bring down Kai.

The rest was a struggle.

Yes. A struggle. An angry struggle.

There was a dull metallic visorless spartan helmet over his head which shone dark bronze. A black-colored smooth mane crowned the helmet. The Titan’s helm had darkened Kai’s facial features, making it impossible for an outsider to see his eyes, but even it couldn’t hide the sheer amount of blood running down Kai’s neck.

The Titan’s buff kept eating away his MP, and Kai kept stuffing blood and meat into his mouth as he walked away from the crime scene. Even then, Kai didn’t forget to leave behind some blood to bait the attacker. There was murder in his eyes. And yes. Questions. They were there too.

Kai felt an unprecedented strength coursing through his veins. The only downside was… well, he was dying. Whatever MP he regenerated from eating the rotten meat and drinking the black blood, Kai used it to use the Skill Smoke Screen. With the Titan’s buff still on, he couldn’t secret the gas at its maximum output, but it seemed enough to him.

Then he waited. It was a bullet, Kai told himself, his sight lingering at the boundary of light and dark; life and death. It was a fucking bullet! Kai had an inkling when he had seen the prophecy, but this new world had shown him too many weird things for him to think of only firearms like a simpleton. For all he cared, it could have been the work of an invisible person.

Gulp! Gulp!

Kai put the blood jar on his lips and drank as much as he could. More carrion went down his throat than Kai had hoped for. Somehow, his Luck failed to kill him, Kai knew. What else could it be other than an unlucky encounter? All Kai cared about was that he had survived.

The bullet had scratched the top of his head. If it was any other time before the buff, Kai would have died there and then. But the ugly wound had all but healed now.

The bronze helmet disappeared. Kai also felt the young Petyr inside him vanish then. But the task was done, and he was out of danger. The only thing that remained now was to let the HP and MP regenerate at their usual pace. But losing that enhanced strength made Kai clench his teeth.

Kai hid in a corner, not leaving the cover of the gas. The Smoke Screen affected him as it would have affected anyone else. But Kai had endured itchier things than it, and the smell didn’t worry him either. Koffing’s blood essence was still activated. Kai used the next few minutes stuffing himself with as much filthy food as he could.

It was then Kai thought he heard a noise.

It isn’t a killer, Kai told himself. No killer would walk so loudly anywhere. Wrath exploded within Kai as he thought of the ill fate he had just avoided. Kill! Kill! The word screamed in his ears; his soul.

But I won’t, Kai reminded himself, burying the unbearable emotion. Not outright. I will take my sweet time with this one.

“Blue-tailed Boa Constrictor!” Kai growled, like a beast’s grunt in his throat. The geyser-like protrusions receded, and the snake-tattoo returned to his right hand, along with the reptilian eyes. With the transformation brought out by Koffing’s blood essence gone, Kai felt the actual taste of the food he had been eating. Only his sheer will made him not vomit on the spot.

Hisssss!

“Who’s there?” a high-pitched voice demanded. “Sparrow, is it you? It’s me. Cuckoo.”

Cuckoo? Kai’s slitted eyes narrowed. A code-name. But a moron, nonetheless.

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Elementary Snake Instinct Activated

Time Limit: 30 seconds

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It wasn’t the sewers where Kai would have difficulty in finding out the target’s location. There was no need to use Heat Sense when Kai could save his precious MP for some other tasks. He took out two non-poisoned sabers and slithered, following the voice.

Hisssss!

The hiss surrounded him like armor, his red hot skin steaming in the darkness. As Kai dashed in the voice’s direction, he saw the silhouette hidden behind the veil of the putrid smoke.

Then the danger banged against his Perception suddenly.

Kai could see the silhouette holding two pistols, but they were pointed in the wrong direction.

Now! Kai screamed at himself.

“Twin-saber style…”

“Who said that? Who’s there? I… I am Set Lord’s daughter…”

Kai was running so low that for a moment, it seemed he was a snake slithering on the ground. The smokescreen churned madly as if a giant gust of wind had come up, raging at its presence. Kai put one saber point into the handguard of the other, and suddenly his reach doubled.

“Giant Serpent’s Severing Whiplash!”

The two sabers in his hand became a metallic whip, and Kai lashed out. A crack resounded as the front saber’s edge effortlessly cut the knees of the silhouette in a single stroke. But this crack got outmatched by the sudden cacophony of the two pistols firing, not at Kai, but at the sky.

[Damage Done: 58 points]

[Elementary Snake Instinct: Proficiency 21% (+5%)]

[Elementary Slither Footsteps: Proficiency 51% (+4%)]

[Elementary Twin-Saber Style: Proficiency 50% (+4%)]

Kai panted, approaching the silhouette. He had realized it was a girl, but he didn’t know she was beautiful. What a cutie! Kai thought, amusingly. Set Lord’s daughter, she said. Heh! Her Inventory must be full of riches then.

“Well, well,” Kai said, towering over her stupefied face. “Someone’s being a little naughty bird.”

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AN: As you must have noticed, there are cases where MC call out names of the moves. There are two reasons for it. First, and foremost, when saying out the names doesn't affect the story in anyway, they are mentioned for the readers. Second, in cases like the one in the chapter, where MC call out the names to confuse the enemy.
It won't affect the story much, and I would request the readers to ignore it if they can. I won't lie, when I wrote them I thought of them as a good thing, but not all readers prefer them. If I could, I would have edited it all, but I don't have time, to be honest. What little time I get, I write new chapter in that. I hope you guys would be understanding. Thank you.

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