NOVEL NEXT Chapter 41: Well, F*ck!
The concrete shook violently but Draziel pushed his arm against the roof and as he fell, his body rolled sideways while airborne, letting the large but thin claw narrowly pass his waist, avoiding being pierced.
But Draziel appeared to have disregarded that he was still airborne and even if he was ten times as fast as an average human, the Mutant was created for the wind itself.
A skinny claw slashed at his exposed back while he was just half a meter away from the ground. His intuition flickered and Draziel eyes widened slightly. In that split second, he willed his body.
His cells received an abrupt jolt and they began to transform, his back muscles rapidly gathered as they solidified significantly, and his skin also fortified as it seem as though they had altered into pure metal.
BAM!
Draziel was tossed sideways, thrusting through the stairways as his body smashed against the wall of the stairs. Ignoring the searing pain flowing through every part of his back, Draziel kicked out backwards, reaching towards the door, attempting to close it.
But the Mutant seem to have deduced Draziel's intentions, and it was closer to the door than Draziel was added with its speed, it was sure to breach through the door before Draziel could lock it.
Draziel eyes flashed as he also came to this conclusion. He immediately willed his body and a great jolt of lightning seem to flash through his entire body as his cells rapidly slammed against each other, making his body and muscles hyperactive.
He was about to activate [Flash], when the metallic door suddenly sealed shut and then with a click, it locked.
Draziel paused in his track as he glanced at the person that had accomplished it, it was the man shivering earlier. He was bleeding slightly on his forehead as he panted heavily against the metallic door. He wasn't wearing the mask, allowing radiation to enter through his nose.
21.
"Bang!"
The door unexpectedly shook and the man was tossed forwards, flailing helplessly as he rolled down the stairs once more.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
At some degree, Draziel clutched his head, finally stabilizing the man's body from striking the concrete stairs.
"T-thank you." The man sputtered as he wheezed heavily, his voice sounding unnatural due to fear.
But then, Draziel instantly let out a cold chuckle as though he had heard the most funniest words.
The man frowned. "What's funn—"
"Bang!"
Fragments of bones laced with chunks of blood catapulted towards Draziel's shoulder, chest and face, but unable to pierce through his hardened skin cause of his physique, they bounced back.
Draziel's expression scrunched up in slight disgust, he shook his right hand willfully.
Rosy thick blood and a whitish slimy substance trickled from his fingertips, all the way to his forearm, and a sticky type of tissue that seem like greyish noodles stuck to his arm, hanging towards the ground, creating an awful smell, penetrating Draziel's nose.
[You murdered Alvin Pearson for fun, (Iron) Iron Sword dropped]
[Ding! 3000x Talent Triggered!]
[Soul Severing Saber (Gold) received]
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[ Soul Severing Saber ]
[ Rarity ]: Gold
━━━━━[ Base Attributes ]━━━━━
[Base Attack]: +200%
[Soul Damage]: +300%
━━━━━[ Special Abilities ]━━━━━
[Soul Rend]
↳ Each strike ignores 50% of the target's defense.
↳ Directly inflicts soul damage.
[Severance]
↳ On critical strike: 10% chance to sever a fragment of the enemy's soul.
↳ Permanently reduces target's stats.
[Soul Chain Breaker]
↳ Negates resurrection or revival abilities.
↳ Effect applies once per target.
━━━━━[ Passive Effects ]━━━━━
[Ethereal Edge]
↳ Blade phases through matter, striking incorporeal entities.
[Spirit Devour]
↳ Converts 25% of soul damage into vitality and energy.
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The mouth of the survivor hung open in shock, but apart from his nose and his mouth, the rest of his head had been crushed to bloody meat paste.
The body dropped to the stairs with a bouncing thud sound.
"BAM!"
The door to the stairway caved in, attracting Draziel's attention. The metallic door was designated to resist a tremendous percentage of pressure but the force the mutated human contained was obviously powerful than what the Architect of the building had in mind.
Witnessing this, Draziel glared slightly. Metallic doors a few inches thick would be incapable of holding the Mutant.
The conditions for his evolution ran through his mind and as he recollected the skinny body of the Mutated Human, Draziel couldn't help but exhale in disappointment.
Nuclei of 1st Degree infected (0/3)]
[Spinal Fluid of Mutated Human (0/350ml)]
[Bone Marrow of Type 1 mutated beast(0/5kg)]
[Heart of a 2nd Degree infected or a Rank 2 Mutated beast or a Type 2 Mutant or a Level 2 Super Soldier (0/1) ]
He ignored the eyes shine brightly as he grabbed the saber from the ground.
"BAM!"
The door trembled violently, and its hinges rumbled, fragments of bricks falling off its edges. The metallic door caved in even further with cracks materializing on the huddled in surface.
Even in the dead of the night and a few hundred meters above ground, the climate within the floors was still searing hot, cascading the atmosphere with slight fog.
The air within the stairs roared as the door shook once more, the entire surface of the door covered in cracks, a few holes already on the surface of the door. Sure the Mutant didn't excel in strength but in speed, even so, its power wasn't something to sneer about.
"BOOM!"
The Mutant burst through the door with great force the doors smashed into pieces, metal shrapnels flung outwards in all directions, jabbing towards the walls and the staircase.
Some creating large holes in the wall while others rebounding against the walls as well as the metal steel staircase.
The entire location was pitch black! Enhanced with the fog in the surroundings, the illumination from the passageways could barely reach the stairways, darkness blanketing the surroundings making everything scarcely visible.
Even then, the Mutant seem to be able to faintly see through the darkness as its tubular eyes scanned through the environment like, searching for something or someone.
The Mutant eventually caught the dead body of the other man lying helplessly on the treads with half his face pulverised but Draziel was nowhere to be found whereas, he had escaped!
A loud shriek surged and the creature looked down the triangular-shaped interior of the stairs, checking at the other for Draziel.
It was at that juncture Draziel unhurriedly slid the corpse of the man away from the top of his body, gently placing it to the side as he clenched the Severing Blade tightly, a wild grin twisted his face, making him look very much insane. Draziel wasn't one to escape from a fight!
The dark blade jerked in midair as they sliced the fog apart with their sharp edges, steering towards the skull of the Mutant who was still gazing downwards below.
The beast seem to have sensed something in the last minute and its neck twisted inhumanly backwards, gazing directly at Draziel.
It hadn't expected Draziel to suddenly appear behind it therefore it was unprepared for the sudden ambush. But even then, its reaction speed defied the laws of physics as its wings shifted, protecting its head and its chest. The two vital points Draziel's blades were aiming towards.
"Puchi!"
The Soul Severing Blade moved and unexpectedly, it changed directions as Draziel's wrist trembled.
Blood splattered as the blade stabbed deeply into the stomach of the creature, puncturing its kidney.
The creature was in shock as it hadn't expected to have been injured despite its extremely rapid reactions.
"Skreeeaaaaaaah!!!"
The remarkably sharp pitch ripple blasted into Draziel's eardrums, making his entire body tremble slightly. But he wasn't disorientated like what had transpired during his battle with the Sabre-Tooth tiger.
He kicked backwards heavily against the wall, behind him, his body jerked in a forward motion as he thrust powerfully against the creature, making its body incline forwards against the staircase bar, toward the gap in the middle that seem go endlessly without a bottom.
The creature shrieked even louder as it struggled, but by then it was too late.
Draziel pir more force behind his strike impaling the Soul Severing Blade even deeper into the body of the creature, completely knocking it down into the chasm.
Draziel rapidly backed up. Receiving an attack from a powerful beast was one thing and falling a few hundred of meters downwards was another thing. While he might be able to survive the attack of a powerful beast, even if he had ten times his optimism and constitution, he was aware surviving the fall would be unbelievable.
Abruptly, Draziel's eyes flashed and his expression altered slightly as his lips mouthed the words 'F**K'