Chapter 6: Chapter 6 – Surrounded

I hurriedly finished eating the rest of the body and returned to the nest. Standing beside the siblings I can tell that I'm bigger than them by a large margin. I hadn't noticed it earlier when I woke up. I will ask the system later. It's not exactly the time for this now.

Lo and behold, I was right! My worst nightmare just became a reality.

I can see dozens of shadowy figures making their way over here, some of them are on the ground but the majority are in the trees.

We're surrounded.

I can't run, they are too fast. If I had feathers on my wings I'd have easily flown away and run but now? All I can do is wait for death.

Where the fuck is that Mama eagle? Just leaving her children like this in the middle of fucking nowhere.

*Bang!*

A rock just hit the bark of a nearby tree, leaving a big dent in it.

I turned to see where it came from, only to see a Dark Vunamian Mandrill just like the last one. I could tell that they were of the same rank just from his size and the speed with which he threw the rock.

It was close, I immediately launched two wind blades overlapping with each other.

Thanks to the fact that my [WindBlade] is now Advanced I can use it more proficiently.

*Vvwhooosh*

Everything about the blade was different this time. Larger, faster, and more compressed.

In just a fraction of a second, it severed the head of the Mandrill from the rest of its body.

*Thudd* *THUDD!*

The body tilted from the branch and fell to the ground below.

[You have Killed a Body Refinement(Mid) Monster |Experience Points +2000|]

Even though I just insta killed this big monster, it brought me no joy. Just the opposite. The situation is becoming more and more hopeless because the other monsters also realized something!

This isn't a weak-ass prey, but something they will use their full strength to bring down.

*Roarr*

The moment I heard that roar, I shook like a leaf!

This is the pressure of a monster that I've never faced before.

*Boom!!*

A black figure jumped from a branch up high that I haven't even noticed before and landed on a big branch almost crushing it under its weight.

When I saw it, my heart skipped a beat!

This Dark Vunamian Mandrill is larger compared to even the ones in the mid Body Refinement realm, which only means one thing.

He's either a High, Peak, or worse a monster of The Foundation Establishment realm.

I immediately appraised it.

[Appraised Target: Dark Vunamian Mandrill

 

Cultivation Realm: Body Refinement(High)

 

Health Points(HP): 315/315

Magic Power(MP/Mana): 170/170

Spiritual Power(SP): 35/35

Magical Resistance: 35

Physical Resistance: 41

Spiritual Resistance: 11

Vitality: 69

Strength: 75

Stamina: 66

Intelligence: 40

Agility: 61

Spirit: 21

Description: The Dark Vunamian Mandrill is a monkey species that specializes in long-range attacks with rocks and is extremely strong in close-range fights thanks to their high Strength, Stamina, and Agility. They have several stealth skills that hide their presence and they can blend into the darkness.

Weakness: Very low spiritual resistance compared to monsters of the same rank.

]

I'm dead.

The Vunamian Mandrill looked at me with a gloating expression, it's not just the eyes no! There was an evil grin on its face.

The kind of grin you'd expect to see on a sadistic psycho who gets off from torturing other people.

*Screech...*

Thanks to the bodies I ate earlier plus my mana regeneration I have around half of my total mana, even with the previous fights.

I'll try to bait, just like I did to the one before it.

Fortunately, I look very miserable. A Low Body Refinement baby monster who hasn't even grown feathers yet, my appearance is very pitiful and doesn't evoke any feeling of danger at all. Just a weak helpless lamb...

I started moving around the nest slowly with my wing dangling by the side, it hurts like hell and I can't even move it.

Sigh... why am I even still struggling? There is just no way I can get out of this, If I'm lucky I can kill this fella, but so what?

I'm sure there are maybe dozens like him, even now I can see the others closing in.

I sat down and stopped moving while looking at the incoming monster...

If I had a skill that uses Spiritual attacks I'd have messed them up pretty well... but there are no Ifs in life.

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*Vwhoooooooshh*

Just as the big monkey was close to 40 meters from me, I instantly created 4 Overlapping wind blades.

This is by far my strongest attack yet and its speed was incomparable to the last one, coupled with the fact that he's very close he couldn't even process what happened.

*Splatter*

His head was split apart from the rest of his body, creating a beautiful yet bloody fountain.

[You have Killed a Body Refinement(High) Monster |Experience Points +4000|]

[Congratulations Host for Leveling up from 6 to 8. +10 Stat Points, +8 Skill Points.]

I hurriedly put my newly gained 10 Stats Points in Vitality.

I can feel my condition improving at a fast speed because every base Stat that I add gets a +140% Boost from Blazing Heart and The Stranger.

I'm very powerful! But so what?

*Bangg!!*

A rock flying at a crazy speed went by me, It only missed me by a hair's width.

Shit, but why did It sound like it hit something? The moment I thought of that I had a very terrible feeling.

Turning around, all I could see in the nest was blood!

I was petrified! The rock hit the male baby chick and he immediately exploded into a mess of blood, feathers, and body parts all over the nest!

I froze!

Death... Again!

Before, I was so engrossed in fighting and thinking of ways to kill my way out that I haven't felt much fear.

I was feeling too overpowered due to my recent upgrades and thought that I can get out of it, but now?

I can feel death slowly creeping in...

*Roaaarrrr!!*

I heard a roar even more dreadful than that of the previous monster. A roar that penetrated the depth of my being and wanted to consume it.

Because I killed the last monster, the others that were slowly closing in on us were shocked so they stepped back.

The branches are eerily quiet, even though I can see several Dark Vunamian Mandrills in them. However, they were looking below, frightened!

I looked down only to see a giant Dark Vunamian Mandrill, incomparable to anyone I've seen before.

It was as tall as 3 meters, standing before this mighty Mandrill all of the others look like babies, even High Body Refinement ones.

It looked the same as the others, yet everything about it felt different.

The roar, the pressure, the eyes...

My heart felt heavy...

'Appraise'

[Appraised Target: Dark Vunamian Mandrill

 

Cultivation Realm: Body Refinement(Peak)

 

Health Points(HP): 461/461

Magic Power(MP/Mana): 170/170

Spiritual Power(SP): 35/35

Magical Resistance: 49

Physical Resistance: 55

Spiritual Resistance: 27

Vitality: 109

Strength: 119

Stamina: 99

Intelligence: 76

Agility: 102

Spirit: 36

Description: The Dark Vunamian Mandrill is a monkey species that specializes in long-range attacks with rocks and is extremely strong in close-range fights thanks to their high Strength, Stamina, and Agility. They have several stealth skills that hide their presence and they can blend into the darkness.

Weakness: Very low spiritual resistance compared to monsters of the same rank.

]

A peak-level monster...

The monster moved, he was moving slowly. Like an emperor who feels that it's beneath them to rush...

It doesn't rush to appease the world, the world has to wait to appease it.

It was moving toward rock, and the moment I saw that my heart almost jumped out of my chest.

I'm all too familiar with what it's trying to do.

It carried the rock with one arm and stood up on its hind legs.

Looking in my direction, there wasn't even any trace of mocking in them.

They gave off the feeling of someone who's doing something beneath them, maybe if they weren't bored they might not even bother.

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