Fad's eyes widened as he saw the web zooming to his face, it was faster and larger than those from the lust spiders he has previously defeated, and knowing how poisonous this webs are, he knew he had to avoid it at any cost.
Again, Instinctively, he kicked the ground as he gathered the moment to lung himself in the air, then performed a broken raiz spin, making the web to miss him by just an inch.
Landing, three more was shot to his direction, forcing him to sidestep, stepback then another touchdown raiz to duck the webs.
He just couldn't dare to allow them to touch his skin as that could be the end game to him.
"That was a close call." He sighed while looking around.
It wasn't a surprise that a powerful beast would show up to this location with this much blood spread around. That's was just the rule of the wild, they would always fight and kill each other, then feed on beast crystal located within the slayed beast, to grow stronger.
But of course, there are always those foxy ones who would want to benefit from other's sweat, like this intermediate lust spider.
"I need to find a way to get out of here before the stronger ones show up." Fad muttered to himself.
If it was up to him, he could have charged out of here long ago, but how could he possibly leave this cute young girl to die? Not at his watch.
He knew he had to find a way to either survive and get out of here with this girl, or completely defeat the beast and run out of here before the stronger one show up.
Normally, just like how humans are martial ranked based on their strength, beasts are also ranked based on their strength.
There are ten current know beast rank tier and they are as follows.
[Rank 1. Novice tier]
[Rank 2. Intermediate tier ]
[Rank 3. Advanced tier ]
[Rank 4. King tier ]
[Rank 5. Emperor tier ]
[Rank 6. Legendary tier]
[Rank 7. Demi-god tier ]
[Rank 8. Demon tier ]
[Rank 9. Primordial tier ]
[Rank 10. Transcendent tier]
An intermediate tier beast is at least ten times stronger than a basic tier beast at its prime, and with this information in his mind, Fad knew it might be completely impossible to defeat this beast.
The system had already confirmed it to him, but Fad just couldn't leave, he came to save this girl and that's exactly what he was going to do.
'While fighting those spiders, it felt more like my body was acting instinctively, more like I wasn't the one fighting at all. And if I allow the same feeling to take over my body without resistance, I might have a chance of defeating this creature.' Fad thought.
With such a thought, Fad knew he wouldn't the attack, at least not the first one, as his plan depended more on him being on a defence stand.
He planted his feet on the ground and take a fighting stance, remembering the trainings given to the disciples of Xu sect by master Yeng Xu and his family.
Taking this as an invitation, the spider lunged, slicing through the clearing like a living guillotine, legs churning, venom splitting the air in jagged spirals. The force of its charge bent branches, kicked up a cloud of ash and shattered bark.
Getting close enough, it lifted its limp and sweep it towards Fad. It was a fast and clean swept that caught Fad off guard. He expected his body to react but it didn't. He commanded it, screamed, but his body remained still, frozen in time.
'Sh*t! Did I overestimate myself?' Fad thought with his eyes widening in shock as he saw the incoming attack. His body wasn't listening to him anymore, and the attack was too fast to him to dodge. Thus, Fad knew all he could do is grit his teeth, tightened his eyelids as he waited to bear the pain.
The limp perfectly connected with Fad's body, the impact lifting him to the air as he was send flying backwards, and crushing against a tree behind that shuttered immediately, due to impact force.
[Critical hit received!]
[-80HP]
[HP: 20/100]
The scream displayed.
"Damn it!" Fad screamed as he rolled on the ground, quickly got to his one knee as he touched his chest.
A clean cut could be seen across his chest, forcing Fad to gulp heavily, fearing for the worst.
[Poison detected in the user's system!]
[Resistance: +1]
[Erro&#$ The poison isn't directly affecting HP]
[Resistance canceled]
[User's heartbeat is increasing rapidly]
A set of text displayed.
This was what Fad was afraid of, being poisoned by this spider.
The lust spider wasn't just a metaphor, they are called lust spider because they are full of active lust venom.
A single scratch from them and you are affected, and driving out such venom is kind of "tricky."
The lust venoms do not directly affects one's health,, they amplify their lust, more and more, forcing one's heartbeat to increase rapidly with each passing second, pumping the blood at an abnormal manner that would increase the pressure in their blood vessels.
These pressure would continue building up, and if the poison wouldn't be driven out soon, the blood vessels will explode, cause some massive internal bleeding that would result to an instant death.
"Damn! This is what I was afraid of." Fad muttered.
No antidote could cure this poison. But it isn't completely incurable. Only s*x can drive the poison out.
"I'm not going with assumptions any more!" Fad muttered after nearly getting himself killed. "I'm taking charge of my body." He spoke while feeling the amount of Qi still left in his body, while at the same time picking the spear next to him.
But... Suddenly.
"This..." Fad muttered, his voice thin and fractdured as heat pulsed through his veins.
The moment his fingers wrapped around the golden spear, something shifted. Not in the weapon, but within him.
Qi trembled, then surged. Not in waves. Not in streams. But in a torrent.
Every drop of energy in his body rushed outward, cuddling toward his palm as though compelled by a will beyond his own. He gasped, watching golden lightning flickering across the spear, a spectral aura that grew stronger, louder, more untamed with every second.
It was like he was summoning lighting, an elemental factor, which was strange since he didn't have a cultivation root. This was ultimately impossible.
Without a cultivation root, one can't channel elemental forces or aura directly, only use cultivated Qi to enhance physical traits.
"This..." Fad muttered. "It feels more like it was coming from the spear rather than me." He spoke in shock.
The spear was drinking too much Qi in him, making Fad to feel dizzy. His knees began to crumble as he was weak, and his vision started becoming blurry.
[You are losing too much energy]
[Internal conflict detected]
[System Override commence.]
Those were the last words Fad saw before he lost his consciousness, but his body remained standing still, gripping tight on the spear.