(Chapter 15)
'So, the third weird ability of mine is, I can meld the Beast Soul with its corresponding items? And the abilities or properties of the creature will be mine too but only when its Beast Soul is melded?... Like the eagle's eyesight, while I'm pulling the string of the melded bow, my eyes will constrict and change into eagle's to zoom in...'
Shyrveen thought after checking his appearance on the water stream and recollected all the abilities he found out so far and joked in his thoughts.
'Hee... The fourth ability might be releasing cosmic beams from my mouth to shoot down black holes?... Tch...'
He stretches his body while the Beast Soul was melded to his bow, and tried to meld the Beast Soul Armor to a certain cloth at the same time which put him kneel again on the ground with a sudden pain in his upper body this time.
'I should... Huu... Postponed hunting today... Haa... Better get used to this for... Emergency uses, first... Damn... The hell with this?... Even my endurance against pain from the past... Was useless from this...'
After deciding to halt and change the plan today, he pushes things to the end, and melded the Beast Soul Glyph to all his things that multiplied the pain...
While summoned Tank to protect him from any harm that might comes to him.
Two melded items that has been melded again by his camouflage, as expected. His body can't stop shivering that as if he was having seizures on the ground, he lost control of his body but he let it be.
He is still conscious but, he knows best that after being numbed from these pains, soon he will be back to normal, that this will be nothing but a normal occurrence again.
'But for now... Fuck this... I don't have emotions... But my mind can still curse to its brain contents... Haa... Tang ina... But wait... This is only Ordinary Beast Souls, right... Oh shit...'
Shyrveen gave up thinking about what will happen to him if he continues.
A total of seven hours was consumed to let his body and mind completely get used to the pain. Sitting on the big stone while playing with the water with his feet and staring at the night starry sky...
But then, his eyes gots widen after hearing the familiar deep voice of a man that called his name.
And looks at his back slowly just to see his old man, his father that he remembered how his father died after pushing them away from his hug to get in between the monster's mouth, to save and buy them time to run away...
"... You shouldn't be here..."
"Why not?... Because of what?... You can't face me because you pushed your mother and siblings that I pushed away to be saved from and into the jaws of death again?... HUH!?... RAWR!!!"
Then Shyrveen saw his father got angry and turned into the monster that killed his father at that time and lunged to him...
Just to be awakened again from his nightmare on the bed of Han Sen...
"... Huu... Is this really the only way?... I want to succumb to insanity a long time ago... But why?... That something is preventing me..."
Shyrveen felt his mind and heart beating too fast and in synchronization, while he murmured in the midst of his bitter smile...
He stands up and starts his routine once he woke up by his nightmares.
Four hours pass, the sun already rose.
He waited for another one hour but he guessed that Han Sen is still busy with the memory chips and went out of the room after fixing his things to look an average Non-Evolver again.
After reaching the Zephyr Valley for hunting the Swift Mantises.
He didn't move forward but instead search for a stone-like platform to be his stationary place to try out his melded bow.
Since he already familiarized himself with the pain, but still not perfected for being numb towards it. He pulls the string slowly and he realized that.
'The eyesight is based on how the string is stretched... Woah...'
Only to be amused, in his mind, how he can see so far away.
'This is around 9 miles?... Nice...'
With pulled string, he searched for Swift Mantises that he can discover instantly too in one glance.
Aimed at one Swift Mantis three miles away from him. His eyes are locked on its neck then release the brown feathered arrow first.
To check and see what's the quality of his arrows against Primitive creatures. But only to be stunned in a second after seeing his arrow penetrated its neck to nothingness. Severing the head of Swift Mantis in one shot, even not leaving the Swift Mantis to use its pride, the speed, to dodge.
'Primitive creature Swift Mantis was killed. No Beast Soul gained. Eat the flesh of Primitive Swift Mantis to gain 0 to 10 Geno Points randomly.'
'... The metal bow increased the firepower of Ordinary Beast Soul to Primitive?...'
Shyrveen stared at the melded bow on his hand and started to look for proofs to prove his calculation and the corpses of the Swift Mantises increases over time.
He didn't go down to collect the corpses but instead decided to become like a tower in a certain game with his current range, shooting everything he can see in three miles that some times in eight miles.
And he didn't realize it again but the second emotion was lit up again. He is smiling without his acting, that he is having fun...
But he discovered that the far it is, the harder it is for the arrow to maintain its flying speed to hit accurately since it's giving the mantises to have time to be alert to dodge the incoming arrow.
Soon he stopped after seeing the first quiver containing one hundred arrows was emptied, then looked back again to the valley, and sighed.
'Time to pick up things... Is there a Beast Soul that can give me movement skills? This very tiring...'
After four hours of picking arrows and corpses that he put into his inventory, and even losing the thirteen brown feathered arrows around the five miles to nine miles.
He was still satisfied and decided to go back to the shelter but not inside but around it since Han Sen said that Copper-Toothed Beasts are almost around the shelter.
He restarted again his experiment and soon discovered that the body of mantises is really too soft compared to the beasts, the arrow only penetrated and were stuck on their necks. Even the nearest shot will only leave a small hole to its neck but not severing it.
'Primitive creature Copper-Toothed Beast was killed. No Beast Soul gained. Eat the flesh of Primitive Copper-Toothed Beast to gain 0 to 10 Geno Points randomly.'
'Picking time-...'
But only to stop his hand that will pick up the corpse of the Copper-Toothed Beast in midair after feeling the same stare again.
He sighed and shook his head and acted to loot the corpses but his aim was to get close to the woman.
Only to discovered that stare is moving away too.
'... Is she cautious towards me?... Do you want to play like this, eh? So be it...'
Shyrveen decided to walk towards the creek and tactically use the big stone to be the blind spot for the woman to pull out both bows and meld them and act the seizure thing on the ground to bait the woman out of her hiding.
He even added to let himself fall on the ground to create a sound.
That soon was successful since he can feel the stare getting closer but slowly.
'... Still on guard? Then what about this?'
Shyrveen stops shivering and let the two bows disappear to let the woman think that it's his Beast Soul Weapon.
'I'm unarmed, unconscious, and add your kind of stare. That will be bullshit if you're not concerned, woman...'
Then he smug confidently in his mind after feeling the stare gone for a second and reappears, but only to be confused since something changed in the stare. That now is moving towards him with great speed.
"Brother Shyr!"
'Fuck... So that's why the 'adore' was gone even if the concern still stayed in the stare... Shit, the woman retreated the moment Han Sen appeared that noticed me?... I should stop this acting now, I don't like bromance even if I lost emotions...'
Han Sen appeared in his room after practicing for one day the Hyper Geno Arts that he discovered in the memory chip of Xue Longyan, the person who wants to rob him of his two Sacred-Blood Beast Souls, yesterday.
He wants to share the Geno Arts to Shyrveen but only to found nothing of his presence in the room and shelter.
'Maybe on the creek again... He made that place like his base, that only thing left was to create a basement underground... Tsk, tsk, tsk.'
But only to see Shyrveen on the ground near the water stream behind the big stone and stops shivering and the bow he's holding disappear.
Han Sen ran as fast as he could while panicking and worried at his only friend in this shelter.
"Brother Shyr!"
He shouted and the moment he arrived near his body, only to be shocked and stunned that Shyrveen woke up and stands up as if nothing happens and looked at him with his empty of emotions eyes while swiping his clothes out of the dirt with his hands.
"Ho-How? Wh-What... Is happening?..."
"Nothing. You just shooed away my prey. Pshh..."
Shyrveen can only roll his eyes, leans on the stone, and tilted his head while still staring at Han Sen.
Han Sen was a bit angry for the lack of his friend of emotions, and so he is having a hard time understanding him but can get a gist of what he means.
"... Damn it! What prey? There are only Ordinary creatures here! What creature you're against that you need to do some acts like that!?"
Shyrveen can only sigh and looks at above Han Sen's right shoulder then blurted out.
"Worst than any creature... Seriously? I was this close for catching and holding her wrist to ask her any of my questions in my mind but you came in the worst timing and now I can't never use the act again to catch her off guard... So great, my friend..."
"... So all this time you're flirting-!"
Han Sen sent out a nerve to pop up on his forehead for realizing what his friend doing but only to be covered with his friend's hand.
"... Don't continue that word or else, the sky will fall down on me, brother Sen. And what do you mean by that? I can't see what she looks like, even what her voice is sounded like. Now tell me, how can I do that with her?... Shit... Now, what triggered her?... "
Shyrveen pulled Han Sen to get behind the stone with him.
Before a slash came from the forest towards Han Sen's position but hit the big stone instead.
"... What's happening here!?"
Han Sen was so confused about why there's a sudden hostility towards him. He didn't even do anything!
But only to be answered by Shyrveen's murmuring before shouting in the air.
"That's a sign of obsession stage... Can I see your face!? How come your fantasy will happen if you're just staring at me from afar!?-"
Shyrveen can only do was to provoke her after he stands up and stared back at the location of the stare.
That he was pulled back again behind the rock by Han Sen after realizing the full picture now and whispered to him.
"Oi! Don't tell me you're more famous than Dollar!?"
"What Dollar? I don't even know such shit."
That was a hidden strike towards Han Sen's heart and coughed.
'Well, I didn't tell him about Dollar being me...'
"My friend, don't be rude for he's a hero of justice..."
"And my friend, no matter what kind of hero he is. I'm sure he will hide his balls inside his ass the moment he experiences an obsessive person towards him..."
Another arrow flew and strike Han Sen on his back and decided to risk it.
"... Brother Shyr, since it's my fault that I compromised your cover, let me fix this thing..."
"Can you? Remember that I'm staying here for 21 days, it will be hard for me to dodge her if she's on the offensive while in stealth mode... Well, not on me, but onto you though..."
Han Sen gulped and decided to risk it all.
"Of course, what's our being friends for, right?"
"Thanks..."
Shyrveen will be glad to feel the happiness again for a true friend shielding him from harm.
Han Sen nodded and summoned his Sacred-Blood Armor and punch towards Shyrveen solar plexus then restricted him for sure that he won't get up for the time being.
"... The fuck are you doing?..."
Shyrveen was stunned but can't feel any anger even if he wanted to, to a sudden betrayal.
"Sorry brother, I already have a trauma for this creature called woman so I don't have any plan to add more, and accept your faith... So we can still talk freely about what I found in the memory chip that I'm sure you will glad to have on your hands, but only after you made her your girlfriend, alright?... I'm out. Good luck, brother!"
Han Sen stands up and raised his both hands on the air and shouted...
"I'm innocent! Don't harm me, please! I'm just a weak Non-Evolver called Ass Freak by many! Can I have your mercy please!? I even help you out to do what you want with Shyrveen, I can swear with my future generations lives!"