What the fuck! How did it even find me?!

  “Graggaragahhhh!!” The beast shouted in front of my face, splattering its disgusting cluster of saliva around. Before I could even react and process the situation, its feet were already facing me. It was traveling fast in the air.

  The mana inside my body was burning me with passion. A core amassing this much power was feeding me with a mountain of pride and arrogance. I had no idea about the real value of my strength or my standing in the world, but at that moment, I had enough confidence to consider myself above this monster, no, this beast of the forest.

  I fisted both my hands and pumped my chest forward. With my teeth gritted, waiting for the perfect moment, my hand moved and met the beast’s paw. “Ahhhhhh!” I underestimated it.

  The bones in my arm sounded like they cracked. The beast had sent me flying to the entrance of the cave. My body dug halfway through, causing me to release twice the amount of blood the first time I was blown to a wall.

  What? Wait! Idiot! With the impact of the beast’s attack, my brain was racked like a thief. I realized that I didn’t even concentrate my energy on my fist. My survival was no less than a miracle.

  But the beast wasn’t going to let me complete my thoughts and understand my power, though he didn’t know I was doing such a thing. The beast attacked me again while I was stuck on the wall, blasting me outside of the mountain, pulverizing any tree in my way until I stopped.

  I continued my thoughts by ignoring the slightest pain in my body. In the current situation, my mind was racing my ambition. When I was about to conclude, the beast jumped into the sky and landed on top of me, burying me in the ground.

  It raised its feet, leaving a crater slightly bigger than its paw the size of a car. My body was perfectly all right, other than the bruises from the first two attacks, I was smiling with a psychopathic nonending laugh. After seeing me stand up, the beast wailed again, releasing another giant wave of air, blasting the trees like an angel descending from heaven.

  Unlike last time, I wasn’t going to get blown again. I stood with conviction. While I was being played around by the forest beast, the most basic use of Qi, or any energy was to cover my body with it to protect me as the shield of my body, an energy-coated dress.

  While waiting for the beast to settle down it’s crying, I confidently ignored it as I undressed all the padding of my clothes. Of course, I wasn’t going to throw my bag of riches and place it inside my pants including with the cultivation book. The people of the old times always wore tight clothing. Even if the outward appearance may be Eastern, the inside was still what I expected. It was weird but what do I care about this world’s fashion sense? That will never matter.

  As I perfectly completed my stripping, the beast’s face was filled with anger. It slowly walked above me and raised its paw, ready to pummel me to the ground once more. I closed my eyes for a short moment and took a deep breath. While I opened my eyes, I pulled my right arm to the back, then launched myself to the sky, uppercutting the beast right down his chin.

  “I am the king of the forest! Bitch!” I dropped down with a smug on my face, rubbing my nose until everything went dark and I was facing the floor covered with my blood. The beast was completely fine. There was not a single damage just like when Harry attacked it with a sword. It even took me by surprise, making my qi armor openly unstable.

  Shit! Arrogant! I slapped my face hard enough to leave a red imprint and a lasting scar on my hand. Bitch! This is it again! I was repeating the same reason I was even here in the first place. The arrogance of a son of a bitch. Truly unlikable.

  Once the beast had completely stopped striking me, making a crater big enough for a pond, I immediately jumped out of it, going under its stomach.

  Qi was a delicate power. Just like magic or aura, it was an unnatural power that I had never tasted in my entire life. Of course, no matter what I ever did, such a fantasy would have never been true. Humans are filled with so much knowledge, only hindered by their greed and pride. I was no different.

  At that moment I reached what they call enlightenment in cultivation. I understood the concept of cultivation in this world. If magic uses mana to create something outside of its body, aura uses mana to strengthen one’s body. However, cultivation was not only the combination of the two, but much higher. Purifying the soul, creating power to bend the laws of the world.

  I don’t know anything about martial arts, but I atleast know how to punch.

  I guided qi from my core into the tip of my arm. Energy enveloped my hand till it felt like a car was implanted into my body. All in a second, I struck above me, not even touching the beast’s stomach.

  Once I opened my eyes, the beast was flying in the sky, it had become just as big as my two hands. That was me? I did that! After being entranced by my own power for a few seconds, I was not ready to stop.

  With the giant beast dropping at any second, I distanced myself from the landing point and began to fill my legs with qi.

  The monster dropped causing an earthquake and flattening the remains of the small mountain, forming a plateau in the forest where a mountain once resided. The power to change the world. That was once again eating me alive.

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  Wasting no time, I jumped into the sky. Neither having learned gymnastics nor parkour, I launched the top of my body and hugged my legs. The entirety of my being became a spinning globe in the sky.

  With the momentum of my spins, I opened my body and struck the beast with the heel of my feet, clawing its back deep. The ground fell down deeper. The beast was stunned by the amount of constant pain it had been dealt with. Though with the lack of visible damage, the beast wasn’t moving.

  I didn’t stop there and immediately went to its most vulnerable part. The weakness of every being. It’s eyes. More so the beast that had dangling eyes that was close be as vulnerable as a snail.

  I jumped down to its flattened cheeks and stared at its closed eyes. From the very first moment I saw this giant dog I thought the eyes were like testicles. But now that I had gotten closer to it, I was a hundred percent sure it was a pair of testicles. The eyelids looked like dried skin, with multiple folded strikes.

  My mouth was about to release the only food I had eaten in this just from the sight of this beast's eyes. With my only saving grace, I closed my eyes and grabbed the eye. Fuck! It even felt like actual balls. I didn’t have the energy to even fathom the sensation my hands were feeling.

  With my entire body covered with my qi, I just pulled the balls and emptied my mind like a zombie. Every fiber of my body was being stretched to its limits. The body that had endured all of my attacks proves the difficulty of pulling this beast’s eyes. It was like nailed to its skull in every possible space.

  “Argggg!!!!!!” The monster had begun to wake up from my screams and disturbance. Now that it was moving, I believed that what I was pulling was finally coming off from it’s screws.

  I yelled more and more, pulled more and more. While I was pulling, I was dragging as much of my qi to my arms as possible. Why is it not even budging?! Then I heard a slight tear of paper. The eye was launched to the sky, dragging me along its feet.

  I flew to the sky and landed with the eye as my cushion while it rained blood into the forest. Fuck! Then the monster once again dropped to the ground. With that second I felt a sense of immense relief. It took all of my strength but I had finally defeated that son of a bitch. Though a little anti-climatic, it was done.

  “I’m tired.”

  “Gragggggggggg!”

  “What?”

  Shit! The beast began to stand up while its socket flooded with blood. Fuck! Guess it wasn’t over yet. I said in my head. But when I tried to stand up, my body wasn’t responding. Once again I had frozen. No, it wasn’t like the last time when I was scared.

  My entire body was feeling such excruciating pain until it just instantly disappeared. It was like my entire life had just been my imagination. That all the things I had done were a dream. I was dead, no limbs, no head, no life. It was all just the sight of my dream life. This was hell, to witness my dream shatter, that was hell’s biggest punishment

  The beast yelled sending a much bigger shockwave than ever before flattening the entire forest. I was blown as far as the beast turning into just a small equivalent of my fist. Everything around it was rid of trees, not a single thing was left standing up. It had made a battlefield for itself.

  It’s mouth was fizzling and howling. The beast was spinning around, looking for me, until we locked eyes and it began to run.

  My entire body was lying on the ground pathetically. I couldn’t move nor even change where I was looking. The last scenes of my life were the screen of a laptop and an artificial plateau in the middle of a forest.

  At least, this time, I was gonna die in a fight. The death of a warrior, I at least worked for my death. Not some overwork type shit, you know?

  I had never once feared death. From the moment I turned 12, I had accepted death as something that happened to every human being. Inevitable, that was the word that described death the best.

  But why? Why right now I feel like I don’t wanna die! I didn’t even regret not finishing my novel, being the best writer, or getting a movie or an anime, or even atleast a comic! So why?! Why?! I lived the same in these two days as I did for so many years, so why?! Why do I not wanna die now?!

  In the face of death, life didn’t flash in my eyes. Not anything of those bullshit. All I saw was a wasteland with my killer approaching me.

  The beast jumped in the sky, reading to slam me to the ground, making another of its grand craters. It knew I wouldn’t be affected, right? Or will I?

  When the beast disappeared from my eyes, my body stood up on its own and ran. I stood still, looking in front of me as the ground shook from the beast landing behind me. But I didn’t care, there was no point in looking at it. None. I just wanted to find my life in that distant sky. My reason. The reason I was given another chance. However, I already knew the answer to that.

  There was none. I believed in a creator, a God. But I never believed in the “everyone was born with a purpose.” That isn’t true. We were born to find our purpose. That was our freedom. There is never a real reason or right definition for something that happens in someone’s life. It was all just up to that person how they would interpret it. That is the reason for my existence.

  The beast charged at me with its mouth open, ready to eat my unguarded back. At that moment I felt something close behind my head and acted based on feeling, grabbing the beast’s tongue with both my hands.

  With all the remaining energy in my newly developed core. I pulled the beast up and slammed it to the ground. Then I raised my hand into the sky, draining the last bit of qi inside my body, smashing its head to the ground.

  The impact delivered a giant crater. The beast was flattened, revealing its foul-smelling brain. I had succeeded in causing an injury on this monster’s skin. Relieved of my pain, my burden, my memories, everything, I was determined to start anew, to be a human being who was rightfully recently born.

  Onto the next journey... of my new life.