The anima's eyes widened as it saw Mark crouched with his arm drawn back. The anima immediately shifted all of its attention to the area Mark punched before as it increased the defenses around that area! It knew that Mark wanted to damage the same spot over and over again, and it was going to use this advantage to gain the upper hand in this fight!
Once Mark attacks, he would be shocked to see that the area is heavily defended, and it would counterattack before Mark can regain his bearings!
But the anima had no idea that this was exactly what Mark wanted it to do. Mark hit the same spot over and over again to make it think that he was trying to weaken that spot. That way, when Mark changes his mode of attack, it would be too sudden, and the anima would be caught unawares. And the fool fell for it, hook, line, and sinker.
Mark pulled his hand back before it could connect with the ant's side and he redirected the attack to its defenseless, unprotected shoulder!
Boom!!!
[Critical Hit]!!
Squelch!
The sound of bone breaking and skin tearing was like music to Mark's ears as he saw the anima's bladed arm fly away from it and disappear into the forest below. The anima held its arm in pain as it screeched and stumbled back and Mark wasted no time as he followed after the anima and released a flurry of punches relentlessly!
Boom!
Boom!
[Critical Hit]!!
Boom!
[Critical Hit]!!
Boom!
Boom!
Mark grabbed the anima by the head and brought his knee up to slam it into its face! Blood sprayed through the air as the anima's nose broke!
Mark grasped the anima's arm and swung it around before slamming it into the ground to create a new crater! He then placed his foot on its body and used all of his strength at once to drag the arm out of the socket!
Squelch!!!
SCREECHHH!!!
Mark used the arm to smack it across the face to make it stop screaming before he then kicked it in the stomach!
Bam!
[Critical Hit]!!
The anima flew back for two hundred meters as it broke through hundreds of trees in the forest!
Mark turned around and caught the large vine that was about to slam into him and he grit his teeth as he held the vine tightly and dragged it forward as he ran through the forest! The vine tried desperately to get out of Mark's grip, but Mark held on tight as he continued moving!
The anima was large, but it was weak. In a tug of war between it and Mark, Mark was always going to win! Mark felt a great amount of resistance holding the anima back and he realized that it was almost out from the ground. Mark quickly used all of his strength and wrapped the end of the vine around a tree before he pulled!
Crumble! Crumble! Crumble!
The ground under the tunnel began to crumble before the large anima finally appeared from underground! It was a green octopus-like anima that had more than fifty tentacles wriggling around on its large bulbous body.
ROAR!!!
The anima roared into the night and its many rows of sharp teeth peeked through its circular mouth as it tried to intimidate Mark with its size. Mark tossed the tentacle he had been holding away as he slowly started to move toward the large creature!
His eyes were narrowed into an angry glare as he quickly increased his speed until he was moving faster than a racing car and he jumped high into the air with his arm pulled back!
ROAR!!!
"Shut the fuck up!!"
Ka-Boom!!!
[Critical Hit]!!
...
It couldn't die here. Not like this. Not yet.
The anima was crawling forward pitifully as it tried its hardest to get back to its feet. Both of its arms were only stumps now and there was a long trail of blood behind it to show that it already crawled a long way! It never thought that Mark would be this strong! How was Mark able to develop this quickly in only that short time?
When the scouts came back, they told it that Mark struggled against Disaster classes and he couldn't win against a calamity class! So what the hell is this!?
The anima was making its way towards the crater once more! It had to awaken the queen and get her to help him! Even if they didn't use Mark to make the queen any stronger, the queen already ate a lot of superhumans and animals and she would have enough strength to defeat Mark if they fought together! It was better to kill Mark and then find a way to use him later than for it to die here!
Step! Step! Step!
Footsteps echoed from behind the anima and the anima froze once it heard it! It immediately shuffled up to a seating position to try and get a look at what was behind it and it almost had a heart attack on the spot as it saw a blood-covered Mark stalking towards it like a demon.
Mark used one hand to clean the blood that stained his face before he spat a wad of his own blood out to the side. He never allowed his gaze to reduce in intensity as he made his way towards the anima.
"No… no! Stay away! Stay away from me! You monster! You are weak! You are beneath me!
Stay away!"
The ant began to shuffle back again and it tried to get to its feet to run, but it couldn't get to its feet quickly enough and it fell down on its stomach like a worm. It quickly tried to crawl away from Mark, but a hand grabbed it by the antennae and dragged it to its feet! Its legs dangled over the ground as Mark carried it into the air easily!
"I've been facing monsters for four straight years, and you are the first one to piss me off this much."
"You think you've won!? There are monsters beyond your wildest imagination coming! Monsters that will make you quake in your boots and cry! My queen will avenge me! She will avenge me! My death will not be in vain!"
Squelch!
Mark's hand shot out from the Anima's chest and blood sprayed everywhere as the anima immediately slumped in Mark's arm. Mark brought his hand out and flicked the blood to the side to get rid of it. He narrowed his eyes at the Anima and wondered what the hell it meant by it's queen would avenge it.
[User has killed 1 Low-Level Calamity Class +100 stat points]
[User has killed 1 High-Level Calamity Class +100 stat points +100 skill points]
Mark shook his head and got rid of that thought. It didn't matter to him. He just needed to get Arit and get out of here. Mark quickly ran back towards the underground tunnel. He jumped down the tunnel and looked towards where the pod was lying and his brow furrowed.
It was empty.