First Hunt ( Part 3)

Fatty was looking at the beast with his mouth agape. August had told him it was an A-class beast but, Looking at it now it was definitely not A class.

' What should I do? Can I really do it ?'

Fatty was ruminating over how he could achieve what August had told him.

Suddenly the entire cave lit up. As fatty looked over to the direction where August was, he could see the beast breathing a blue plasma-like ray to where August was standing.

*BOOOM*

There was a loud noise and the entire cave trembled.

' Can he survive that? No way, am I going to die too ?'

Fatty fell down on his knees and despair painted all across his face.

' It's over. Everything is over."

All the preparations are in vain. We never stood a chance. He looked soul-less as he stared at the beast breathing the plasma ray.

After the dust settled, the beast looked where August was standing. There was a crater formed around where he was. It thought the body must have evaporated because of the gamma breath. The only thing that was left would be his condensed quantum force. But a voice came out of the

" That was a tough one. " A figure was standing in the crater, crossing his elbows. His entire body was covered in black smoke, but looking closely he had no clothes on.

" BROOO…" Fatty suddenly stood up and shouted, seeing his face he was really glad.

" Damn.. you ruined my suit. "

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-One minute before,

' Activate '

My body suddenly felt light and I could feel the power surging through my muscles. I survived the gamma breath in the nick of time.

[ Sir, even if your body was destroyed, you could have rebuilt it afterwards. ]

' Shut up ' I didn't like unfavorable circumstances. Besides if my body disintegrated how am I supposed to keep fatty alive?

' Show me my stats '

[ Strength : 11+150 ]

[ Agility : 9+150 ]

[ Vitality : 10+1000]

[ Dexterity : 15+10 ]

[ Intelligence : 31 ]

[ Wisdom : 29 ]

Looking at my stats there was a smile on my face. Especially the vitality,

' I never thought changing the molecular structure like this would give me so much power.'

I clenched my fists and felt the overwhelming physical power coursing through my cells.'

*ROAAAR *

The beast howled and rushed towards August. August could sense that it was trying to use gamma breath again, so he ran sideways to get to its blind spot. The beast used another gamma breath.

*Bwahhhh*

August avoided the gamma breath and jumped to the quantum beast's head. The beast sensed that he was aiming for its head so it phased through the field to get away.

' Damn it, this phase skill is really troublesome. If I don't get an opening I can't take him down.'

August tried to focus his quantum field around his enhanced body.

I have to somehow get close enough to touch him. While pondering what to do, he saw another gamma breath heading his way. He jumped to his left and used dash to get to the beast while it was breathing gamma rays. While he was 10 meters away from the beast, it phased again. After appearing 100 meters away It swung his claw towards August. Red and black matter mixed together headed in his direction like a web.

August tried to avoid the matter by applying his force field around him like a shield. The matter bounced off of him and corroded the ground around him. He applied his force into his muscles and increased the concentration.

' Use maximum conversion.'

The system used all his quantum force field and condensed it into his muscles and bones. The outer layer was depleted and used only to enhance his physical power.

He hit the floor and dashed straight at the beast.

' I will get you now'

When he reached just beside his head and tried to touch him, his hand went through his head.

' Not again.'

He tried to sense his position but it was to no avail. Looking around he was alert and ready to jump in.

"Come on... Why are you being such a scaredy-cat ?"

He used his force field to sense the surroundings. After a moment a gamma beath was fired above him. August didn't have time to react so he used his force field to concentrate on his hand took the attack head-on.

*BOOM*

August didn't wait to recover and used all his strength to dash towards the beast.

The beast sensed his approach and used phase again. August changed his trajectory to 50 meters away. When the beast appeared again it was just 5 meters away from him.

' Almost '

While they were playing hide and seek, August noted down how it phased and how much distance it covered in each phase. It gave him time to calculate the next move of the beast. While the beast was focused on gamma breath, August keenly observed its exit points. After getting the pattern he guessed the next position of the beast using his force and timely changed his trajectory. But he was just a little off the mark.

" Fatty it's your time to shine."

Fatty heard me and applied his aura to the hammer. He channeled all his strength for his next attack. After confirming that he was ready I used my cosmic bridge to teleport him to the ceiling of the cave.

As I had already guessed the location the beast was gonna poop up, I placed fatty right above it. After the beast appeared again, fatty was falling down right above him with his hammer pointed right at its head.

"HAAAAAAA" Fatty screamed as he approached the beast. The beast had no time to phase again as it just canceled the skill. The beast unwrapped its wings and tried to block fatty's attack. It knew that the attack was not particularly powerful so it was not worried. When fatty's hammer hit the best's wings a shockwave ensued.

*WHAM*

The beast was surprised by the impact the attack generated. It clearly sensed that the person wielding the hammer was weak, so to generate that much power was not easy. Before it could snap out of its thought, it felt a gentle tap on the back of his head.

" Checkmate."

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As they were walking to the end of the cave August looked at fatty.

" Do you think you can distract it for a second ?"

" I... I can try."

" Hmm. to successfully distract it we have to successfully deceive it. We can't show all our cards in the fight."

As August thought about using fatty in the fight, he prepared several approaches. Firstly, he could send him in when the beast was cornered by him or when he was engaged with him, fatty could get close and get a hit. But the phase skill was a variable he had to take into consideration.

" Fatty, can you channel your aura to your hammer."

" Sure.."

" Show me"

Fatty activated aura and channeled it through his hammer.

' It is decent but still not enough to stun the beast.' August thought.

' Apply force coating with his aura'

[ Applying force coating... To external artifact ]

[ Yes / No ]

' Yes '

" Fatty, I will ask you to join the fight when the time is right. So stay prepared."

" Leave it to me."

Fatty gave me a thumbs up.

*sigh*

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-The present

'Acquire'

[ Skill acquired : Sonic Scream(S), Phase(S), Gamma breath(S), Authority(S=>S), Quantum Force Channel( A=>S), Sleep(A), Claw of Devastation(A)..]