Mysterious Energy

John was still confused about what was happening. He was walking around with no sense of direction, hoping fate would guide him to more lizards.

Remembering the mysterious presence, he felt in that clearing. He wondered how something could be so strong.

"Where are the stupid lizards?" John screamed out loud. Looking up at the sky, he did not know how long he had until dark. And finding a shelter was key, that mysterious presence was not anything to scoff about.

With nothing to do, John kept on walking around but decided it was time to finally observe that mysterious energy. After he had killed a lizard the second time, the body did not decompose but the energy was still absorbed by him.

"I wonder if I can control the energy," he mused to himself. Deciding there was no time like the present, John sat on the dry forest ground.

Closing his eyes, he tried to visualize the inside of his body. After meditating like that for 5 minutes and coming up empty, John decided to just try and feel for the energy.

This time he instantly got results. He could the energy constantly revolving inside his abdomen.

"This is quite weird, it feels like a cave is inside my abdomen," he said slightly confused.

Reaching out for the energy, he realized that he could feel it. But as he tried to grasp it, the energy kept on slipping from his hands. It was like trying to hold a snake from its tail.

Exhausted, John stopped trying to control the energy in his abdomen. Pausing to think about a solution to his problem, he decided instead of trying to control, he would try and direct it instead.

This solution instantly bore fruit as the energy albeit unwillingly moved around where he told it to.

Thinking of an idea, he wanted to know what would happen if he directed the energy at his arm. Directing his energy, he took it to his arm.

The moment the energy reached his arm, he was shocked to realize that his arm felt almost weightless. As he tried moving it around, John was shocked as he heard a gigantic boom.

Turning his head, he realized that one of the gigantic forest trees had a giants mark on it. What really shocked him was the mark was distinctly similar to the shape of his hand.

The moment he realized the loud noise was caused by him, John immediately felt tired as he felt the mysterious energy of his had been depleted.

As John tried moving his body. He felt that his body was slow and unresponsive like back when he first came to this world.

Deciding that he should probably rest, he decided to go and lay on a tree stump and wait for his energy to recover.

It took a while but soon enough, he absorbed the mysterious energy recover in his body. Knowing that his energy had recovered he stood up.

"Looks like the energy I absorbed from the lizard is what gave me the strength. When I directed it into my arm, it massively increased the kinetic force of my arm."

John was awed at his sudden display of power, he was just like a real-life superhero. In his past life, things like this were seen as things in movies.

But even though he was happy about this power he had gained, it also told him that there were other creatures with powers like him.

Deciding he had enough messing around with his powers. He started walking around the forest again looking for those delicious lizards.

John noticed as he was walking around, there was little hole littering the ground. He really did not know what they were, and his fear of the unknown overpowered his curiosity.

Walking around he noticed that the further he walked into the forest the more the holes and appeared.

Eventually, the holes littered every single piece of ground in the forest.

'Click'

'Click'

'Click'

The moment John heard the weird clicking noise, he knew that something was wrong. He immediately started backing away slowly trying not to aggravate whatever was making those noises. It did not take long but he could see colorful heads sticking out of the hole.

"The lizards," he gasped. "So that's where they have been hiding all along. No wonder I couldn't find them, they have been hiding underground."

Excited at his discovery, John stopped moving and started thinking about a way to kill the multitudes of lizards. Remembering about the mysterious energy of his that had already recovered.

John immediately thought of a plan. The moment he saw that a few lizards had popped up from the ground. He directed split his energy directing some of it to his legs and the others to his arm. It was quite mentally taxing but he was able to do it.

The moment his energy had spread. He instantly jumped towards the holes with the lizards in them. Due to his use of his energy, his arms and legs kinetic energy increased massively albeit not as much as before, due to directing it into more than one place.

John managed to grab around 6 of the lizards before they realized something was attacking them. But even when he managed to grab another 2 before all the lizards retreated.

Looking at the 8 lizards writhing on the floor, he killed all of them before grabbing their corpses.

John could feel the energy of the lizards flow into his body. The moment the energy went into his body it went through pathways before resting at the cave in his abdomen.

He could feel his own reserve of energy had increased dramatically. John could feel like he was close to a breakthrough in his energy. The energy had completely filled up his cave with only a little room remaining. He was sure if he killed another lizard his energy would change.

Holding the corpses in his hand, he headed back to the spawning hole. Knowing that for a couple of days he and his brothers would not be hungry.