High rank stage one or otherly known as guardian slayer stage was a really huge deal on earth.
Being one meant you could have a life of influence,power and also have things like money,women etc. You could have anything and anyone at your beck and call. It was truly a man's dream, and this was only possible because of where it placed.
It was the only rank close to reaching the divine rank on earth meaning People who had this rank were usually clan leaders, elders or presidents of countries due to most of them having blood of the first group of slayers. There were also a few others who were able to attain it but the means through which they attained it was hidden from the public so people didn't know too much about it. But just being one granted you the value of an entire nation.
"Hah, I was able to attain such a rank this easily." Kent said to himself on his mind with his heart racing. He knew how hard and rare it is to become one but he already had become one in just a few hours of being inside the door.
"Perhaps, maybe I was already fated to obtain this power." kent presumed happily in his mind.
Kent's mood had immediately changed after learning of his rank up, You would think he is a different person
"Hehe all I need to do now is kill that cursed wolf and enter the door which will take me to a new place.
Kent had everything already figured out or so he thought.
"Howl" a large green ball of energy was fired by the wolf from its widely open mouth towards kent.
Immediately seeing this kent quickly jumped to the side but this didn't stop the attack from grazing him.
"Huff.. huff" Kents breathing was jaggered as he took in huge amounts if air from the atmosphere.
"What the hell, wasn't that creature supposed to be weak?"Kent said with eyes completely showing annoyance and anger. The cursed wolf was capable of using abilities beyond his comprehension. He had never expected it as he only saw the wolf use normal attacks on him. He had thought that he will be easily able to kill the wolf but he was wrong as he might truly be the one who might end up dieing here.
"I'm running out of energy, I need to finish this fight as soon as possible before it completely runs out".
Kent was In a hurry. He and the wolf had been fighting for about 30 minutes since he returned back to reality and now his energy was almost depleted. He couldn't use any special skill like the cursed wolf. All he could do was punch, kick and run at superhuman speed but even that wasnt enough. He was once again in a very tight spot.
"Tch that wolf attack grazed my arm just now, but it doesn't matter if,I can finish this fight before my arm melts off then all this pain I am feeling will be over.
Kent immediately after making his decision moved swiftly towards the wolf.
"Ha this bastard still wouldn't give up.?the wolf said now heavily panting. "But how did it even get this power, could it have been that voice it heard before?"
Although the cursed wolf was smart,it could not understand or speak human language as It could only understand how a person was feeling making it have its own limits.
"Hah, i can't stop too. I have my own pride and life on the line here" The wolf said to himself removing its mind from its previous thought.
Immediately after the decision it started charging up another attack in its mouth.
It opened its mouth wide revealing its sharp and deadly teeth with whom one could easily know has tore up plenty of flesh. It then started chanelling all of its substance from the central region of its chest to its mouth making the blue tattoo on its shoulder shine and in the process creating a large green ball of energy.
"Howl" Immediately a very large green ball of energy 3 times larger than before was shot towards kent who was approaching rapidly. Kent stared at the energy ball with fearful eyes but he didn't run from it rather he continued charging towards it showing a very determined expression.
The cursed wolf seeing this thought happily in its head
"Ha it seems this human has lost his mind, does he really think he can survive against a blast like this facing it head on. It seems i have won this fight the wolf thought in its mind but immediately it started rejoicing a sharp and gut wrenching pain was felt on the side of its stomach.
It had been stabbed.
"What the... how?" The wolf thought confused. Its entire right abdomen was now aching with immeasurable pain.
"Didnt that human die?"
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"Huff..huff, I did it I actually managed to do it kent exclaimed,'I thought it was not gonna work but it actually did."
Kent had managed to stab the wolf but it didn't mean that the wolf was dead.
"I have to go finish it off, now that it is heavily injured." Kent uttered limping towards the cursed wolf.
Kent had managed to stab it but it was not due to luck but rather strategy.
He had managed to remember a skill which students in the clan he was in on earth had been taught.
It was a skill called life and death. The tactic was incredibly complicated for most but could save ones life in tough situations.
It involved sacrificing more than half of one's energy but it was highly effective.
All one needed to do was to move quickly towards an opponent when he or she wanted to attack. Then immediately that person was to gather up about 95% of the remaining energy in their core, which is in their chest region and transfer it to their fists and hit their chest region with their fist releasing that accumulated energy at full force at the walls of their core, and if lucky the force can be enough to break the wall which is protecting their energy.
In simpler terms it is the causing of one own walls to break not from inside a person like when cultivating but outside a person hence him hitting his chest with his fist and when this wall then shatters he loses his entire presence but not his vision as he is now in reality not inside of himself.
Kent had used this method to lose his entire presence and had immediately grabbed the knife which was laying surprisingly close to him and apply some of his remaining substance and shoot it towards the now already happy cursed wolf.
"Ha it seems you too can bleed,uh" Kent said in a mocking and sarcastic tone as he met the wolf.
The wolf currently was on the floor panting and breathing heavily like it was on deaths door. Even kent who was talking was in a lot of pain. He had sacrificed his left side of his abdomen when he ran close to the wolfs attack. It was a very important step when using the skill in his own case as if he didn't run very close to the opponent when he used this skill he will not have been able to attack it as he does not have any long range abilities. The amount of time he also had to use this ability was very short .The only reason he had activated it when he had was because the distance between the him, the cursed wolf attack and the cursed wolf was not much so the time he had was enough to kill the wolf.
"Ha you probably don't know why u are on the floor and feeling such pain, right" Kent said in a mocking tone.
"Well you see while my energy wall was broken all the energy, some of the energy I had inside of me due to not having any wall to protect it were naked and some of your acidic energy which had remained in the atmosphere had mixed into my own creating a new energy which therefore created an attack mixed with both mine and your energy causing you to be poisoned by this new energy." Kent said with his black eyes staring deep onto the already now dead wolf body.
"It died when I was speaking uh, Kent said with a mocking tone 'but it does not matter because I won. I defeated that damned wolf. Finally I did it."
Note: substance and energy as seen in the novel is the same thing. They just come from different places and I am using different words for them.