Lizardman and Lizard

As I was crawling towards the lake, I can feel bloods gushing out on the left side of my face dripping into the ground. My legs were still intact but the bleeding was so tense that it created a trail of blood.

I slowly reached the place where the mana was abundant, my emotions lifted up and I started crawling faster.

As I reached the lake, I quickly dropped myself in the water. I can see small strings of blood floating, my blood actually caused some stains to the water.

'Woah it's cold' the water feels like it's coming in my torned thigh and it's getting cold too quick.

I got out of the lake and just sat at the shore of dead meat corpse, "What just happened...?" it feels unnatural to just sit down at the meat of an entity that I killed when I'm losing a part of me.

What if i use the meat of this monsters to make them my own, the parts that I lost, they can replace my lost parts.

'Even if I fully heal myself that would exhaust me a lot of mana and I don't even know if it will heal fully heal'

"But then that girl I've been together in arena managed to bring back my flesh" I wonder if I could use that too..

Right, magic is also an element. No, mana is the element and magic Is the result outcome of the element.

But mana is different from elements, how did it become an element? Just like normal elements, mana also has particles this is only based on my knowledge but ever since I've learned to control my mana. That is also the time where I've understood the basis of the mana, its and essence.

I grabbed a chunk of meat and measured it to fit inside my thigh. Huh!? The bleeding stopped? I mean there's still some blood dripping but its not like a while ago. It seems like it's the cause of the water being cold when I soaked myself in the lake.

Anyway, instead of more bad, I received some good news.

I quickly put it and it fits, the tissue in my skin that can feel pain has been torned so pretty much I won't feel any pain until the 24 hours. "Feeling numb was certainly good, but this feels uncomfortable" I felt somewhat disgusted and while at the same time I feel normal.

It's like molding a clay to fit in perfectly at the body of a sculpture. The leg part is now done, I tried going in the water again to utilize the effect of the healing.

To add some moisture and more flexibility to the flesh, it really felt uncomfortable. Having a part of you being a meat of a Lizard isn't really good.

"Water Essence huh? I can feel it" I released my mana and made it combine with he water essence and then formed a water mana. I forced it inside my body and when it came inside me I controlled it towards my left legs.

"(Connect, Combine, Create)[Restore]" The water mana suddenly started bursting and it rapidly spread to the chunk of meat. The color turned slightly light brown and the numb feeling I got this whole time is slowly vanishing. It's only been a few minutes but It truly felt like a year, the feeling of having a leg is back! I am delighted.

I slowly took my time soaking in the water, to be honest it's quite relaxing but it shouldn't be too long.

I immediately stepped out, the wet clothes were dripping continually. Water drips everywhere I go but I'm sure it won't last.

While waiting for the water to dry out, of course it won't dry that fast so I used mana to separate and constantly dry my clothes. Something ticked at the back of my mind "Right, why did this even happen? I should be back on the arena so how did i got here?"

Looking back to everything that has happened I just felt lazy, what's the purpose of this though? I can just can come out now that I'm free to use my spells not when back then using 'warp'

"Nice! I just killed it! [Warp]" My vision blurred, it feels as if moving faster than the speed of light. Although time doesn't stop I can feel like my body is passing through hundreds if not thousands of walls.

After the spell stopped I'm... Still in the lake. What's this? I cannot go out of this place? "I'm getting impatient [Radar]" My subconscious mind started to feel the essence of this whole place, the diameter of this place is... Very big!

It must be around a 34 kilometers in radius, I can see many place potentially possible for the exit and the closest to me is around 5 kilometers still. It's on the way I'm going to when I got hit by those damned beams, I continued running towards the way I am going back then and fought the other lizards left on the place I haven't reached yet.

I'm close to the place I'm going into and as far as I reached, the stronger the lizard I'm fighting. It's like on the entrance is where the fighter, guards and vanguard lizards are, in the middle is those who have no means of fighting, they might be just those normal lizard. Nevertheless they're also strong but not as much as on the entrance.

Upon reaching further and further away from the lake and closing at the end, the lizards seemed to get stronger and stronger until I finally reached the end. The king of the lizards tribe is right there, I don't know who the king is because there's a Lizard and a Lizardman but I can just say that they're both.

"[Sight] [Observe]" Yeah, pretty much the same in power and that's bad news for me. To be a ruler of a big tribe like this, one must become the strongest in the tribe, a monster's coronation isn't the same as humans that a blood of royalty is a must or one could be of a noble if they managed to produce big value.

Both of them don't seem to be wanting to communicate, 'I certainly want to and I certainly can'. In the midst of the silence, the Lizardman, that seemed to be the female here looked back at the big, perhaps the biggest Lizard in here and put her forehead close to the forehead of the Lizard.

I sensed danger coming at me making me crouch 'quick'. The Facedown was finally over, "A [Camouflage Body] " I looked above me and I almost got slashed. There I've seen the Lizardman with her body being crystallized that it has become like diamonds. At the same time, her arms and legs have become a sharp, deadly blades that seems like it'd cut me in half If I got hit by it.

She kicked me in my right upper torso but I've deflected it with my barrier, nevertheless, the shockwave still hung and pierced all the way to my body. After that, then she forced a barrage of punches and kick, it it made a crack in my barrier and still hurts me by the shockwave, suddenly, the barrier broke.

In reaction to that, I violently released my mana, that caused the lizardman to back away a few meters. 'She seemed to be intimidated by that' putting everything together, my chances of defeating this lizardman is quite slim. Not to mention that she also has that giant Lizard which I don't know what—!?

'Where's the Lizard?!' in just a split second, when I faced the Queen, it seemed like the King has already made its move.

I increased my consciousness more and enhanced my mind states for me to remain focused on this fight, I need it.

The Lizardman felt my discomfort by my body language and swiftly attacked me face on, her blades began to oxidized blue hue. Mana Essence, its capable of releasing mana without any element embedded in it just like me, the difference is that she might not be able to control it once it came out. That's a big plus for me.

I also released Mana Essence, formed it into tentacles that has rounded, bulging edges counted more than a hundred.

It's still kind of hard to have control in all of this, I must fire it quickly, the bulging parts had set apart to the mana strands I've constructed and reverted it back in me, so that's my limit for now. I cannot let the effort I've made out so I wrote spells again with mana and spread out all of it to the mana strands that's left.

"[Water Bullet]"

I fired it all at such speed of sound so it won't be impossible if I defeated her with all of this. That all happened in speed that's pretty hard to catch with normal eyes.

At this rate she would not be able to dodge it, when did that become my problem though? If f focused all my attacks on her certain parts, twenty bullets into her head, thirty to her body, thirty to this part and this part and more.

It's all hit so it's no doubt I've dealed some damages to that lizardman as she backed down.

At this point she should be injured... 'Huh?' there's nothing, not even scratches? That thing must have been bluffing.

I pushed myself only to see that? I'm not gonna fall that deep. I gathered mana again but this time I controlled it much better. I poured a lot of mana waiting to be released "I never said I was exhausted, [Water Beam]!" pressure on the spell was released and fired a blue beam like the beam the hit me back then.

Wall of water rose from nothingness trying to block my attack, in a split second it seemed to block it but still pierced a hole in it.

Finally, it reached the Lizardman and made her fly at such distance and knocking her down, she quickly stood up and look like about to fall again but she regained consciousness, seems like it. "You're not falling down huh?"

I wrote and created a threefold barrier in the left side of my body and a water beam was deflected from that "Lizard, as a Ruler, a monster nor an insect. You really like crawling to whatever places huh?" there I've seen the King Lizard crawling upside down. It moves quickly just like a total lizard, it's incomparable to normal lizards though.

The Lizard managed to dodge the spells I fired on it so I tried moving along with it. Following it's steps, we fired spells at each other consecutively causing mess in this cave, Not until it fired a water beam.

'It seems like it's the lizard's strongest attack" it certainly is more powerful than the first one that he fired at me. "Not pulling your attack anymore huh? [Warp]" the beam has hit the ground and exploded. As if to piss off the King of Lizards, I only went and warped to the place few meters away from the explosion.

This guy is pissed of, looks like something bigger is coming. This time, the Lizard again, fire its beams and I deflected it with my barrier. I let my guard down for a few seconds thinking it would be the same but it's a continuous attack. The barrier slowly got torn by the beam causing my life to be endangered.

Gratefully, I quickly reacted and rolled to my right. 'if that was a few seconds away I would have died.' I can see him, he's gonna fire the beam again, I won't let you do that' Since he's quite vulnerable when charging, I used that to full force an attack trying to kill the lizard.

'The Lizard has already put countermeasures...!?' a defensive barrier has been placed, five times stronger than that of regular barrier. It has got to be as strong as my *Fifth Movement* barrier.

(Changing 'stack' barriers to 'movement')

Just by that I'm sure I couldn't stop that. I readied a counter by doing the same water beam he's doing with full power, "[Water Beam]" we fired at the same time and when it clashed each other, both beams trying to overpower each other. Then I see the mana essences floating besides it being vacuumed in.

"it's gonna explode '(10th Movement)[Barrier]" I again, placed a barrier, now tenfold. The clash between to beams exploded thrice as strong as the explosion of normal beams. It covered the whole area in this cave rupturing the whole place, me, the Kkng and Queen of lizards. As the explosion stopped, I came lying down in the ground half dead.

'I'm all depleted. Even moving is hard for me. I just hope both of them was taken down with that. The barrier almost held to the end but still got broken down.

I looked around and there, I've seen both the Lizard and Lizard an lying together, it seemed like they both got injured too much and fell unconscious but not dead, I can sense their life force to be strong enough to carry their conciousness. As expected, monsters are stronger than humans.

I'm not unconscious and my mana is not fully drained so I can still heal myself, it will take time because of my injuries. But either way that's much better, if I was unconscious I wouldn't be alive now.

After some time, time has passed, I'm in the future, it took some time. I finally recovered to the point I can walk normally but my body is still broken as it is.

I walked whilst feeling pain in my body, I have no time to kill these guys. Reaching the ending of this path, I've seen an unusual door, a two way door standing in nothingness, I don't see any house or any walls behind this door. I looked at the back of it and there, I saw nothing.

I opened it and the thing behind the door I saw was like an endless abyss. Nothing could be seen inside of it and I don't think I want to bother coming inside that.

I suddenly felt something pulling me inside this door in front of me, I embraced myself to the ground trying to prevent this door from pulling me but all of this was pointless when the darkness inside the door came out and possessed me like a parasyte.

My body turned into a body of nothing but only darkness and the seemingly parasyte controlled me to go inside the darkness.

My vision turned dark and I cannot feel my body anymore, my body turned numb and it felt like I was on death floor. 'Just what is happening to me?'