Huáng Song extracted another blade from his hips and smirked derisively at me.
"Skill: Void Step"
I watched his body disintegrate swiftly into dust like particles and just like that he was gone.
I glanced around with shock written all over my face. How I'm I supposed to fight someone I cannot even see.
"Let me teach you a thing or two kid..." His voice range out, it was as if he was right in my ear and everywhere at once.
'So that's how he was able to stab me without seeing it coming!'.
I kept looking around, hoping he would pop out somewhere and just when I thought I heard something from another angle of the room, a slashing strike hit across my back.
"Argghhh!!!" A scream escaped my mouth as blood squirted from my behind.
It was some form of teleportation mechanism that allowed him to jump from one location to the other without any medium.
It wasn't like my Cloaking Skill, it was different. My Cloaking Skill bends light to make me look transparent to the human eye.
But this, he was completely invisible.
I contemplated initiating the Forever Armor but I decided to stick out a bit longer.
There was no way I could predict where he was coming from and there way no way I could protect myself.
A few more slashing attacks rained down on me from different directions, and now my clothes were completely soaked in my blood.
My breathing started to become shakey as I winced in pain.
"Skill: Regenerate!" I ordered.
Unfortunately for me, Regenerate doesn't work automatically unless the Forever Armor is active. So, I had to initiate it myself to heal whenever I got hurt.
[Active Skill: Regenerate]
My wounds healed immediately and almost in that instant, Huáng Song laughter ricocheting off the walls of the large room.
"Again?!!! It is infact a troublesome skill if you ask me!"
"Die!!!"
A sickening squelch burst into the air as he drove both his daggers into my mid section and revealed himself.
His murderous eye starring straight at me with a wide grin.
"This was fun, lets see you heal from that!!" He pushed the dagger deeper into my stomach and blood gulged out of mouth as my head fell limp on his shoulders.
"I don't think you can heal while the piercing object is still in you... I'm I right? Hehe!!"
He was right, there was no way I could Regenerate while his daggers were still stuck in my midsection.
[+ HP: 50%]
[+ HP: 49%]
[+ HP: 48%]
[+ HP: 47%]
I watched my HP plummet like an avalanche as he twisted and turned the blades causing more blood to gulge out.
"Wait!..."
"Not yet..."
"I'm not done yet..."
There was no way I was going to end up here, in an old warehouse with a bunch of small time drug dealers when I had the chance to be the greatest specimen of human evolution.
"I won't activate the Forever Armor!" I grabbed both sides of his head and landed a heavy head butt to his nose.
Wham!. Another
And another.
And another.
And another.
A skull crushing headache buzzed in my head as Huáng Song removed his blades from my insides and staggered backwards.
He shot back realizing I had gotten the space I needed to heal, his nose and mouth all covered in blood.
"Skill: Regenerate"
[Active Skill: Regenerate]
My headache siezed immediately and my blurred vision cleared instantly.
Huáng Song vanished immediately and tried repeating what he did to land us in this position.
I stiffened my grip on my weapon and furrowed my eyebrows, trying to anticipate his next attack.
'That was a close one! His meta ability is deadly and if I didn't think fast I probably would have died'.
Just then, a thought hit me like a freight train causing my eye to widen with surprise.
'I can't believe I haven't thought of that!....'.
"Why don't we play chicken... Hero. Try to guess my next move!"
I immediately closed eyes shut and dropped into a wide stance with my blade in front of me.
"Skill: Spacial Awareness"
[Skill Activated: Spacial Awareness]
Its one of the newly unlocked skills the Forever Core gave me, it grants me the ability to pinpoint the location of Meta energy within a specific distance.
For my current level so far, Spacial Awareness detects meta energy within 10 meters of my body in all directions.
So wherever he was coming from, I would be able to detect him immediately he enters within range of the skill.
I could see it now, almost like as if the world was in a constant black and white, x-ray state.
Up— I blocked with my blade.
Clash!
Left — ducked under his swing
Right — blocked with my blade again and this time it knocked his blade off his grasp and it pinned to the spot right before me.
"How are you reading my attacks!!!" He yelled out as he retreated into the distance.
"Idiot! Your skill doesn't work anymore. My Forever Core has adapt to it, show yourself!"
Dust like particles gathered a few meters in front of me and just like that he manifested.
"Forever Core? What are you talking about?" He asked twisting his head inquisitively.
Tti-ring
[Enemies Defeated: 0/1]
The system flashed a subtle warning sign, reminding me of my task.
I bent over and picked his blade with he lost a few moments ago and glanced at it. I could tell it was made out of fine material and customized to his taste.
A fine killing weapon which he has used to take many lives.
I remained silent.
Huáng Song had been paying attention only to the blades, so he got really stunned by the pain shooting up from his foot, causing him to loose his balance a bit.
I wasn't going to miss this opportunity.
Dash!
[Skill Activated: Flash Step]
[Target is within 11 meters. HP has plummeted six units because of mental exhaustion]
I rapidly got closer to my target in the blink of an eye.
My previous level of agility and movements were already overwhelming to him, but now with the Flash Step, Huáng Song found it quite disorienting.
And I used his blade to slash his neck around the jugular.
Kuwahhhhkkk!!!
Pssssffffffttttt!!!
Blood spurted out like a high pressure pipe bursted, he slowly fell to his knees and dropped limp face first to the floor.
[Enemies Defeated: ✓/1]
[Congratulations]
[You've leveled up!]
[You've leveled up!]
[You've leveled up!]
[You've leveled up!]
[You've leveled up!]
I let out a huge sigh of relief as I dropped both blades to the ground.
I looked at my body and observed my immediate surrounding including Huáng Song lifeless body quickly sinking in his own pool of blood.
"Ohhh... So much blood".
I took a couple steps backwards to avoid the blood soaking my shoes.
"Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhggghhhh!"
Just then, a feminine scream from behind me burst through the air like an avalanche hitting my ear drums with reverberating effect.
The sound scared the living day light out of me and I immediately ducked my head instinctively.
I spun around and to my surprise and also not so surprisingly I realized I fucked up.
Big time!.