Chapter 40: Evolve

"He did, he has always made it" Noah said with a smile plastered on his face.

'Swoosh'

A figure stopped suddenly right at their front, his speed generated breeze which blew their hairs backward. Few eye eaters which survived could be seen flying away in the distance, going to different directions.

"That was great" Bright exclaimed

"So did we save the day?" Jerry asked

"What was the source of the beast... the hell, what's happening to him?" Mikel was speaking before suddenly exclaiming.

"What do you mean by what's happening to him? " Bright asked with a confuse gaze

" You... you're disintegrating" Sylvia stuttered while pointing at Bright

" Hmm.... what does she mean?" Bright noticed to horrifying look of the others and decided to check himself up, but suddenly he gave voice to a loud shriek. "Ahhhhhhh". His bone bent awkwardly.

"System what's happening to me?"

"Get out of there, the nest Crystal is been absorbed ad made into a formation to increase your body, your body is to weak to hold it that's why you are faring..... hurry enter into your separate space right now" the system responded

" At least warn me before hand you idiot" he cursed before disappearing into thin air.

" What just happened now?" Ben questioned

"He was here one minute and the next he's gone, just like that? " Timmy said

" This isn't good, what could really have happened to him ?" Samuel said worriedly." Not again Bright, we are t losing you this time"

"Emm.. sorry to ruin the mood, but i guess we are forgetting that the more we leave the beast and their crystals unattended to the more we risk losing them to other beasts around" James tried to bring everyone back to track." Before you decide to chide me, i don't know why but that guy gave me this feeling that he will always survive, he's not someone to be underestimated, I'm sure he will scale through no matter what, so let's do our best to clear this place and patiently wait for him"

They all reluctantly went to carve the crystals from the beasts which number is up to a thousand and more low level beasts.

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"It hurts alot!!!" A figure in what look like a formation circle was screaming at the top of his lungs.

His body went through the repeated process of breaking and healing, blood was flowing out of his orifice, it went on for minutes before ending, the figure floated above the formation and began moving away in it's passed out state toward the edge of the formation.

The formation hummed and the guardian beasts all appeared on it before another evolution process began again, at the centre of the formation the black next crystal could be seen floating and emitting a partially strong energy into the formation.

The crystal shook violently due to it losing more energy at a very fast pace, the violent movement of the crystal begin to slow down until the shade in it disappear and it break into small particles, everything became silent there after.

After what seems like 10 minutes....

'Groan'

Bright opened his eyes which were at first heavy, he could feel powerful and domineering aura around him, tilting his head to know where the source of the pressure is, what came in his sight made his heart jump.

"What is this?" he could see three matured beasts laying lazily around like a guard.

" They are the guardian beasts" the system replied.

"Hmm... how are they big now?" he voiced out which made one of the beasts growl before falling back asleep.

"What you see now are three advanced tier guardian beasts" the system responded.

"Wow, how come they grew so fast, or have they broken their growth limitations? " he asked

" They broken their growth limitations the moment the bonded with you, but what made them advance quickly is the nest Crystal you harvested" the system replied.

" What did you just say!!!?" he shouted which made the beasts wake up and gave him an angry stare, before standing to leave his perimeter. "Phew... they really got angry, i thought they would have attacked me any second there"

" Remember you can talk to me with your mind, so you don't need to shout " the system complained

" You haven't answered my question" Bright reminded the system

"I know what you're thinking, how are you going to explain to the others that you used what was suppose to be the source of the beasts outbreak....it's simple, all you need to tell them is that you got something they call a nest Crystal and due to your existence fading right in their presence you had no choice but to use the nest crystal to keep your existence" the system spoke lengthily

" Really, and you expect them to buy that... even if they do, what will i use as a proof to the teachers as the reason behind the out break? " he asked

" You really are becoming smart, here i thought you wouldn't ask, well i kept the peak eye eater you you killed...... " the system explained

" Okay, so the beasts were the one who actually used that massive energy to evolve, amazing really amazing" Bright muttered.

" What's that tone, you were the one who actually used up most of the energy in that crystal" the system chided

" How? " Bright inquired

" Dumbo didn't i tell you, your existence was rebuilt, have you even tried checking your body" the system said sarcastically.

" (checking his body) my body feels light and it's as if it contains immense power, while is my skin glowing even though it's still dark, I feel as if a little breeze could blow me into a long distance" Bright kept on muttering.

" That body contains power which people at your level can't contend with, you now have large ATP and energy to use, no one at your level can dream of hurting you.... i had to stop fuelling you so as you won't be too powerful which will draw unnecessary attention to you, so i decided to make them evolve, when you're ready check your own evolution" the system spoke lengthily.

" Alright, let me get to the others now, I can't wait to check what this evolution is" he got up and was ready to go out if the separate space.

"Don't you think there is something you aren't telling him?" the voice of the blade could be heard.

" What do you mean, system what does the blade mean? " Bright questioned.

" Can't you just keep quiet for once you old rotten blade!!!" the system androgynous voice resounded in Bright's head. "Must you always ruin everything"

"Never you call me old rotten blade, you treacherous system who keeps something from it's master" the blade responded.

" How dare you call me treacherous, you old fool who knows nothing about me" the system retaliated and released a foreign energy that shook the whole separate space.

"Hey guys stop it already, what the hell is going on?" Bright tried to calm them down, but they totally ignored him.

" Old fool? I am an ancient and legendary blade who cleave to half any substance it touches, I'm all powerful in my field, unlike a no name foreign substance who luckily became something unknown calling itself system" the blade released it's sharp and dense energy that cut every foreign energy to pieces.

The two energies clashed and made the separate space vibrate, theirs noise was giving Bright immense headache, the constant clash of the two powerful entities made the separate space vibrate more intensely, the beasts growled and went into hiding while Bright couldn't stand it and decided to come out but before he could go out a massive discharge of clashing energy exploded and pushed him out forcefully.

He landed in the outer world on his knee, breaking the ground due to the immense force, everyone around turned their head to look at what made the ground quake and right there they could see who they had been waiting for, they were awestruck at what was behind him.

The ground and rocks that were behind him had all flattened, it look as if a battle between two powerful entities had taken place, if they had knew it was just a minimal energy that manged to escape the separate space, their jaw will be touching the floor.

"Was he the one who did that ?" Jerry asked

"He came back and decided to destroy this place, what a nice display of power" Mikel snickered.

Samuel rushed forward, while the others followed behind but a loud scream made them stop dead on their track.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh....stop it already" Bright screamed on the top of his lungs making his voice become hoarse, he rolled on the floor while gripping his head tightly and screaming.

"What's up with him?" Sylvia questioned

They all stood and watched silently as he screamed till he couldn't scream again, they were watching him wail in pain, after what seems like few minutes the pain died down and the air around him became solemn.

They moved closer to him to check up on him, on getting to his position, his eyes were shut tightly.

"Hey lad, I'm very sorry.....i lost it, forgive this ancient weapon" the blade apologized.

" You caused it all, if not for him i would have showed you what I'm capable of, and moreover this is beneficial for his mental sphere.... he should be happy we had to fight" the system said with no remorse evident in it's voice.

"Do you really think that was my power, oh how have the mighty fallen, can you even dream of existing if my full power is unleashed? " the blade responded.

" Are you guys done or you want to start over again? " Bright's angry voice shut them up.

.......

Back to the real world...

He opened his eyes and stared directly at the worried faces of his companions, he couldn't say anything to them due to his voice being hoarse, the all stared at him even though they wanted to ask him what happened, they silently agreed not to disturb him.

He stood up and started moving ahead not saying anything, the all followed closely behind.

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'Thud🍂, Boom💥, Blast🗯️..

"We can hold out more, we need not give up, it's either their lives or ours, keep on fighting" the commander in charge on the military base on the red planet shouted and at the same time swung the beast weapon on his hand in a downward arch, killing the beast before him.

The base had been under siege for the past one-hour, the wave stopped coming based on the joint work of Bright and his group but the beasts around didn't stop attacking.

"We can't keep on any longer, they are just too much, we have lost enough of our colleges, why is helping taking so long? " some of the students were complaining.

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" I can sense that there is battle going on over there, we need to hurry up" Andy broke the silence.

Bright came to an immediate stop, and turned back to face the others, they wore surprised expression swing him stop so sudden.

"I have a gift for you guys, gather together and hold yourselves, hurry up" he ordered

They did as they were told while he walked towards them placed his hand on the nearest person's shoulder.

"Energy siphon, transfer mode" Bright muttered

(Energy siphon)

(Transfer mode in use)

(What does host want's to transfer?)

"Transfer energy from me into them, stop when they are all refilled, then increase their base energies by 50%" Bright ordered

(Host energy will be transferred to selected candidates)

(Note: Host will permanently lose the 50% transferred base energy given to each candidates)

(Should system proceed?)

"Yes" Bright muttered

(Affirmative, energy will be transferred)

While the others were getting impatient after waiting for few seconds and nothing is happening, suddenly they could all fill a jolt in them and their energies were all restored accompanied by a 50% increase in their base energies each.

"What is this?"

"I can feel my energy being refilled and it's as if I've grown stronger in the spot"

" You never sieze to amaze us"

" A team full of weirdos, I'm glad I'm on their good side"

This thoughts were running through their minds.

" Let's go help the others" Bright's word jolted them out of their thoughts.

'Swoosh 💨'

They all speed off into the distance.......