Chapter 14

Ella who didn't know Sam that well didn't realize the change but to Edward it was obvious, the person in front of him wasn't his old brother but he didn't say anything about it, not yet at least.

He looked as the midnight cat came closer and Sam just stood there stretching his muscles, this scene was very weird as danger was right in front of him and death was looming over his head but he looked extremely relaxed!

When the cat was less than 5 meters away it pounced at Sam's throat with its sharp fangs but it was dodged in extremis.

'Mechy are you sure you can do this ? You almost got me killed right now !'

[Trust me, I can calculate every possible outcome in 0.000001 second and decide the best possible move for a counter offensive. This cat is too slow for me.]

In this moment of danger Sam had given the control of his body to Mechy, it was the best solution Mechy could think of and Sam trusted it so he relinquished the control but he didn't plan on doing that often, it wasn't a good feeling to see your body out of your control.

As Mechy dodged the cat it kept flying a few meters until it safely landed on his legs and turned to look back at Sam, it's speed had increased by at least 5 folds and it's intelligence too apparently as it looked surprised that Sam could dodge it's attack.

Beasts were very sensitive to energy fluctuations, just like Olphis who Ella descended from and so the midnight cat could feel that Sam was a lot weaker than itself but weirdly enough it felt a lot more threatened by Sam than by Ella who released an incomparably stronger energy or by Edward who looked stronger.

The beast tried to use it's speed to finish the fight quickly and dashed towards Sam's legs, it was trying to incapacitate him by stopping his movements, Ella who realized it's plan couldn't help but say out loud:

"It became smarter ! Earlier when fighting all of us all it could do was fight using it's instincts, now it's using it's head!"

Mechy jumped lightly and the cat's claws that were aimed at it's calf went under his feet, then he stomped down with his blazing legs.

The cat pulled out it's leg that had been burnt and it threw a venomous gaze at Sam, he was slow but it seemed like he could guess each of the cat's movements in advance!

Sam who was also a spectator of the fight didn't have the time to enjoy this feeling and was instead looked intensely at how Mechy fought, he needed to learn as much as he could now because he probably won't have such an opportunity again !

The cat was slowly going around Sam from a safe distance and waiting for an opportunity when it suddenly disappeared, instead of the cat all that was left was darkness, no sound, no cat, nothing!

"Innate ability !"

Ella was surprised but at the same time realized there was no reason to be, this was after a grade three beast so it wasn't surprising to see it using it's innate ability.

Edward who was next to her heard her and so he asked:

"What's an innate ability?"

"It's what we usually call skills, if this cat who awakened it's innate ability died then it would be more likely to drop a skill crystal than a normal beast but on the other hand the difficulty in killing it just went up too."

There was some apprehension in Ella's eyes, this beast was already a pain enough when it was a second grade beast and now it had evolved and on top of that awakened it's innate ability!

While Edward and Ella were watching on the side, Mechy and the beast didn't stop clashing. Even thought the cat had used so sort of concealment to hide it's presence Mechy was just too strong! It calculated from which angle the beast was most probably going to hit based on all the moves it had seen until now and it wasn't wrong even once!

Everytime the cat used its claws to attack it would be dodged and Mechy would counter attack it on the same spot everytime ! By now the cat's neck had taken a few tens of hits and not only was it completely burnt it was also starting to get almost deep enough to see the bone!

Sam who was spectating the fight couldn't help but let out a dry sigh:

'There is no point in learning from this monster, how could a human mimic such moves?'

Obviously the monster he was talking about was Mechy, he had seen people fight, videos of strong evolvers were all around the Uninet but he had never seen someone so single handedly beating a beast like this, the fight had been going on for a bit more than three minutes and the beast hadn't even landed a single hit!

"It'll probably try to run away now but I don't have any way to finish it, we need to work on this together."

Mechy said and threw a glance at Ella, she looked into it's eyes but couldn't see a single emotion and she felt weird. How can such a human exist ? He was beating a grade 3 beast before even turning into a grade 2 evolver!

"I'll help you."

Suddenly her bow was pulled into a crescent shape and released a light blue arrow that went straight for the midnight cat's neck where it had a gruesome burn.

As the cat was focused on Sam the arrow landed and made the cat start bleeding again, it was followed very closely by a burning kick that cauterized the wound as soon as it came in contact with it ! The cat didn't stop wailing as the pain was getting unbearable for it.

Just like this Mechy with the help of the grade three evolver Ella finished off a grade three midnight cat ! Everybody but Sam looked completely astonished as the cat fell down and it's breathing stopped, Ella and Edward both looked at Sam who had also collapsed and was gasping for air with awe.

Ella couldn't help but think:

'He's insane..."

Meanwhile Edward thought:

'Who was that?'