Immediately fmes burst ience along the carapace of the big fug bug.
"I fug k!" I yelled with a wide grin seeing this.
For text I had thought it odd that the bug had such a bright red coloration a not a hint of fire and if anything seemed more like a physical fighter than anything else what with the charging and scorpion stinger and all. For some weird reason(universe rules I guess) the creatures that got elemental traits took on a different coloratioed to their element, red was typically fire reted hence my fusion.-
"Ah I see! I had to warm you up first before you started to use those fmes right?" I said more a statement then a question.
"SKKKKKKRRRRRRREEEEEEEE!" the bug screamed angrily and I was forced to dive to the side as it uself at me far faster than before. Naturally I wasn't pnning to let the living pyre get anywhere near me as fire resistant as I may be I was not fire proof. "BANG! x3" I fired three shots at the bug and it barely eveed when they cracked it's hard carapace where the bullets struck.
'It's speed and defense raised from fming up? I call hacks!' I thought annoyed as I was forced to evade yet again.
Clearly the bug wasn't done showing off as the fmes suddenly grew in iy turning blue as the heat started to bake the floor and ceiling and the air became stifling. It didn't stop there but jumped up and smmed down three time sending a ring of blue fmes expanding in every dire with each impact.
"FUCK!" I cursed as I tracted my leg muscles a high up to avoid the fmes but leaving me vulnerable as well.
The bug seemed to almost teleport as it went from the ground perfectly still to mere feet away from me midair with cwed legs stretched out but DEFINITELY not asking for a hug.
'Shit! Blue fmes made it even faster!' I thought in horror as I realized that this bug was sidered highly dangerous by the Eridians for a very different but equally valid reason than the Colossus. Uo dodge since I was mid air my mind raced with possible escapes and I found only o it sucked balls, I had to let it hit me.-
I felt the heat start to strain my shield and with gritted teeth shed out with my gun held hand straight into the waiting cws. The shield broke immediately and my right sleeve burnt away shortly afterwards as the cws ripped into my flesh but the impact thankfully pushed me away before I suffered catastrophic damage in it. I hit the ground hard and rolled but got to my feet immediately while ign the vicious burns and weeping gouges in my arm. All my senses heightened as adrenaline FLOODED through me and a massive predatory smile crossed my faot uhe snarl of a tiger uar.-
THIS, this was my element! The da the tip of a bde that made me feel more alive thahe chilling wisps of deaths breath on the bay neck was intoxig. I entirely failed to notice my tattoos glowing in respoo my emotional state nor that my eyes were practically bzing green as I locked my entire focus on the bug. There was no missed beat as the instant the bug 's legs tore apart the ground as it tur's forwards momentum into sideways momentum.-
It was slower now that my senses were firing at full fug capacity but still moved like a slightly blurred image. I could see HOW it got so motherfug fast too as the fmes were shooting behind it much like a thruster pushing it forward. I pushed off to the side mere moments before it would have barreled into me and noted immediately that all that speed came at a cost, trol. It's couldn't turn without serious effort and that gave me some ideas. I located the wall and began to sprint towards it while keeping an eye on the bug that was w to cel it's forward movement.-
I reached the wall just in time as the bug ositioning itself to charge me once again and I crouched priming my legs for a full force vertical jump. The bug blurred towards me but I remained perfectly still. It drew near but still I refused to move. It was within two meters of me when I unched myself up and over it as it smmed head first into the wall at full speed.
"BOOM!" the room shook from the impad the bug half buried itself ione leaving it stunned and more importantly, vulnerable. I emptied my gun into the joint in the ter of it's back as I went up and once more on the way down for a total of fourteen shots. I had no iion of nding oill fming bug though and kicked off the wall to roll behind it instead. The strain made my arm bleed again by pulling at the scabs my regeion had already created to stop the bleeding previously. The bug did NOT like my fourteen "gifts" and screeched in agony and rage as it tore itself out of the wall even at the cost of worsening the wounds.-
"SKKKKKKKRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" with a loud screech it became clear that I had ehe "final stage" mode of this boss battle as the fme grew brighter and brighter into it clearly passed a threshold and wisps of white began to appear in it.
'Oh shit that's a suicidal level of heat!' I thought with horror as I watched the carapace of the creature start to ge color whidicated that it had started to get cooked by it's own power if only slowly.
Like most is it became clear that now that I presented a viable threat to it's life and not just food that fought back it was going all out to survive. You might ask how that was when it was harming itself but the answer retty simple, betweeh and injury which is the better choice? While this heat was enough to hurt it, if it killed me and thus survived why would that matter? I barely mao dodge as my instincts screamed at me and the bug's after image at it's previous location vanished as a line of fme scorched the ground it passed over that shht past where I was just standing.-
Let me tell you that put my balls in my throat in instinctual terror as every instinct I had was screaming a single word at me, DEATH.
'Looks like I have to use THAT finally.' I thought relutly as I activated that aspey powers i had been avoiding since I got them, [burn].
The instant my lifeforce stnited I stiffened as my body ballooned in size and all my senses reached ridiculous levels yet didn't overwhelm my mind that was fug ked up to five hundred.-
My wounds immediately bulged and healed in an instant as if they were here and red energy coated my entire frame as if it were fire. The bug was clearly unaware of just how fucked it was at this point a charging at me at it's ridiculous speed only for me to kick it in the face. It's body was forced to a halt with a siing "CH!" as it's head and the bones and flesh of my leg shattered. Moments ter the leg regeed bones and all but the bugs head certainly didn't. -
The fmes went out immediately on it and I hurriedly cut off the [burn] causing a crippling sense of loss as that godly feeling I just had slips through my fingers as my body deftes back to it's inal size and my senses dull.
'I khat the boost would be signifit but what the absolute fuck!? It was like all of my traits had been pushed to twenty! Is that what I will be like all the time if i go far enough?' I ponder seriously taken off guard by what I just experienced.
{Lifeforce: 377,110}
I hiss in shock when I observe my stores of life force as I had lost 126,468 units of lifefor that short span of maybe two or three seds. I cursed like a particurly rge vocaburied sailor at the loss and doubly so when I realized I was no doubt going to lose even more lifeforce by taking the traits of the bug. I sighed before opening my house and dragging the corpse inside while ign it's traits since I was sort of on a deadline before people start showing up to e at the vault.-
Leaving my house I hurry into the now funal vault portal and after a moment of disorientation notice it was a bit different tha one I went into. Not much as it was just a big open pocket dimension with no real walls and lots of statues of Eridian design and of course the four chests in the far back of it. The real difference was that in the ter where there was a siatue holding my house on Baal there were three statues in this vault holding the prize. Said prize was iing as it appeared to be a person sized bck tech cube with purple energy lines swirling along it's entire length.-
[Eridian data module
Level: Relic
Description: Knowledge is it's own reward, doubly so when it's about guns!]
"Oh fuck does that mean what I think it does!?" I excim in shod more than a little greed.
Uhe description was lying this cube here was a motherfug treasure trove as it taihe methods the missing alien race used to craft their ons! This was huge as so long as I could crad trahe information into something I could uand I could make my own corporation based oech.-
That might sound rather uninspired but keep in mind that corporations not only held moary power but also military and political power as well. Before I could get caught up in my power fantasies though I reached out to grab the cube only to freeze the moment my hand touched it. The glowing purple energy of the cube surged into my arm and my eyes rolled back as knowledge was directly imprinted into my brain from the cube. This sted all of two minutes before it finished and I slumped to the ground and my mind refocused itself.
{Eridian engineering expertise-Mythical grade}
[Eridian data module
Level: Relic
Description: Ay library waiting to be filled!]
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https://.pa treon./user?u=81578854#:~:text=pa treon./pa treon_loskro
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Alexander Drake
Lifeforce: 377,110
Ied Traits: [Gun expertise-Unon grade], [Clever mind-Unon grade]X3,[Enhanced senses-Rare grade], [Omega body-Rare grade]x4,[Superior bones-Rare grade],[Armored hide-Rare grade], [Fire resistanon grade], [Beion-Unon grade], [Corrosioanon grade], [Energy proje-Epic grade]x2, [Superior vitality-Epic grade],[Fme breath-Unon grade],[Mineion-Rare grade][Iron stomaon grade], [Disease resistance-Epic grade],[Amphibious lungs-Unon grade], [Thermal sensing-Unon grade], [Water resistanon grade],[Active camoufge-Epic grade], [Eridian engineering expertise-Mythical grade]
Stored traits: [Amphibious lungs], [Water resistance],[Quick thinking], [Energy reservoir], [Effit lungs-Rare grade]x4
