Chapter 58: The Primal King
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“UNGAAAH!”
Yanisse was startled by the roar of a caveman, the rider of the dinosaur that she had just slain. Because her Mana was low, her Mana Senses couldn’t catch up to his presence before his giant, log-like arms were to move down.
Her Void Magic was unparalleled, but her body was frail, and she knew it. She had dumped all her Stat Points into increasing her Mana and Magic-related Stats so her Void Magic could even destroy S Rank Monsters with ease.
The reason she didn’t care about sacrificing her defenses in exchange for even more magic power was because of her Blink Skill, which allowed her to do short-range teleportation.
However, right now, while restoring her Mana, there is no such option!
“Ah!”
Yanisse panicked as the mana elixir bottle fell from her hands. She tried to evade, but the caveman’s arms were faster, quickly changing their position midair and reaching her head, about to crush her!
FLASH!
However, out of nowhere, a bright golden light emerged from the skies and then descended at lightning speed. The Russian girl opened her eyes wide as she saw someone appear in front of her and the caveman.
A beautiful woman made of pure golden light, with eyes resembling rainbow jewels and long, silvery hair with a long ponytail, waving around as an Aura of rainbow light constantly shifted colors around her body.
Yanisse immediately recognized her.
“Bing Xue…!”
“GRAAH!”
The caveman roared furiously after being almost blinded, his giant arms charging with his strange Primal Power, and rushing down at Bing Xue with tremendous force. Each of his punches was like a meteor.
Her barrier gained cracks again, and Bing Xue could never have enough of how amazingly strong these primitive beings were.
However, she had no time to amuse herself.
She touched the giant caveman’s arms with her own, delicate hands and then lifted him off the ground within a second.
“GUGH?!”
The caveman opened his eyes wide as Bing Xue pushed him down, head-first, into the ground.
BAAAM!
The caveman’s skull gained a few cracks as it slammed into the floor with tremendous strength, but it didn’t die. Its legs swiftly kicked Bing Xue’s shield, trying to break it even as its head was deep into the floor.
“They’re tough…” Yanisse said.
“Incredibly so.” Bing Xue nodded. “You used void to kill them quickly, didn’t you?”
“Yeah, but that's..." Yanisse stopped talking when she saw Bing Xue’s doppelganger hands conjure a dark purple energy.
“Huh?!”
The energy gathered into a sphere, and the sphere pierced the caveman’s head within a millisecond, leaving behind a huge bloody hole in the middle of his forehead. The caveman died on the spot, dropping its giant, lifeless body.
“I knew it. Void is an all-powerful element…” Bing Xue laughed. “Of course, it worked.”
“You conjured the void element!” Yanisse said. “I-I thought I was the only one that could use it...”
“Well, not anymore.” Bing Xue said. “I have also begun my journey as a cultivator of the Dao of Void. But for now…”
Her eyes were set on the corpses of people; there were barely two survivors Yanisse had protected, and the rest were dead.
“{Time Rewind}”
FLASH!
Gray-colored Time Essence flowed out of her body as the river of time encompassed everyone, their time regressing and rewinding as their bodies regenerated back within seconds, even their souls coming back inside their bodies.
“Aaah! W-What…?!”
“I thought I died."
“I-I’m alive…”
As the Hunters celebrated their revival, Yanisse was once again left intrigued. She hated how little time she had to talk with Bing Xue before, as she was dying to act more friendly with her and to learn more about her.
"Incredible. I did see videos about how you revived people, but seeing it in real life is another whole experience,” Yanisse admitted. “H-How does it even work? Are there any limits? Could you…?”
“It works by rewinding the time of a certain target or many targets,” Bing Xue explained. “Usually, I can only rewind it for a couple of days. And as long as their soul hasn’t been destroyed yet, and as long as some of their body is left, full recovery is possible.”
“O-Oh, so it has limitations. But they’re still amazingly generous…” Yanisse said, although Bing Xue noticed her voice was rather melancholic all of a sudden.
“Did you want me to revive people that you lost long ago?” Bing Xue asked. “I am still growing stronger. Maybe one day I’ll be able to help you in that regard.”
Bing Xue smiled charmingly as Yanisse almost skipped a beat. As a bisexual woman, for a while now, she had experienced a slight crush on Bing Xue. Hearing her words full of kindness and her gentle smile was too much for the Russian beauty.
“T-Thank you, but it’s fine. Really. I would be shameless if I ever asked you something so ridiculously impossible,” Yanisse said. “For now, we should hurry; there are many other hunters out there and-”
RUMBLE!
The ground trembled, shaking furiously as the hunters nearby panicked. Gigantic draconic figures slowly began to approach, each one as big as thirty meters or even larger. Their appearances were clearly the same as those of ancient dinosaurs, the titans that once walked the Earth in ancient times.
Yet their ridiculously big proportions and the strange powers coursing through their bodies made them terrifying beasts beyond S-Rank. This energy, in particular, which Bing Xue called “Primal Power," was an energy that she was still analyzing but that she had realized was an amazing meld between Ki and Mana, and something else.
Perhaps a powerful Cosmic Dao was melded into this energy, giving it an incredibly unique essence and power that seemed to prioritize durability and physical might above all else. The very reason why the cavemen and the dinosaurs that were coming here had no magical powers other than sheer physical defenses and strength was because of this Primal Power.
“Bing Xue, I’ll bring these people back to the city; can you take care of them?” Yanisse knew Bing Xue was strong, so she trusted her.
“Don’t worry. I’ll send them myself,” Bing Xue said. With a wave of her hand, all the hunters were encapsulated into bubbles of space energy and teleported back inside New York. “I’ll need a bit of your assistance, Yanisse. Would you stay by my side?”
With a charming voice and her beautiful, bright eyes, Yanisse was already conquered by Bing Xue’s beauty, charisma, and strength. She immediately nodded without thinking twice. The opportunity to be by her side was something she couldn’t waste.
“Of course! I’ll take care of your back. Let’s do this!”
Dozens of dinosaurs and cavemen quickly surrounded them, charging against them with furious and primal roars.
…
“ROOOARR!”
“SHAAAH!”
“GRUOOH!”
A huge pack of over thirty dinosaurs charged against the barrier set over New York City, their bodies being at least ten times as large as their scientifically accurate counterparts.
Bombarding their incredibly tough bodies was an endless rain of swords made of white light. An army of hunters led by the one conjuring such magic clashed against the dinosaurs, surrounding them and conjuring magic to make them trip onto the floor.
Chains made of flames, swirling winds, dark curses, spears made of stone, and all kinds of magic spells bombarded the dinosaurs one after another as they fell.
At the same time, the man conjuring the magic never stopped. His presence floated above the skies like a true angel; his angelic wings, made of light, spread out, firing their own feathers made of light against the invaders.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The explosions of light spread out Holy Flames of golden and white color, which seemed to be slowing down the dinosaurs and making them weaker and more susceptible to magic damage. However, not a single one has died yet; the gigantic beasts were beyond S Rank.
In terms of Levels, the Hunter feared these creatures could be at the same level, if not higher, than the most recent Raid!
“Why is this happening out of nowhere?! It has barely been a week since the last Raid! Are the Gods of that damned Tower so dead set on killing us all?!”
John, the one conjuring the magic, lamented. His sharp blue eyes and his short blonde hair clearly gave away his identity as one of the most popular Hunters in America who wasn’t a World Class Hunter.
The guild leader of the Justice Guild, he took law and order into account and used his guild not only to protect people from the danger of the monsters but also from criminals, acting as “second police” and most of the time cooperating with them to maintain law and order.
His handsome face, which often wore a very relaxed and cocky smile, was now distorted as he struggled to keep up his relentless barrage of magical attacks. His Mana was going down rapidly; if it wasn’t for his amazing equipment that healed it quickly, he would have already run out of it.
“For how long… Can I keep this up?!”
The dinosaurs were not advancing due to his immense efforts and those of most of his guild. Now present here. He quickly started to realize that even the power the Skills he possessed granted him was not enough to fight the ridiculous monsters of the Tower.
“If only she was here... Where is she?!”
He had been fighting with the mindset of buying time for Bing Xue this entire time.
But deep down, he felt pathetic for even thinking about such a “strategy”!
“I used to be proud of my efforts and the place I had reached with my sheer determination." He lamented, blood coming out of his lightly smiling face. “
John was a man born into poverty who slowly rose to the position he had reached through effort and cunningness, and above all, his amazing skills were gifted to him upon the arrival of the Tower eleven years ago.
While most people saw the Apocalypse as a world-ending event, John and a few others saw this as an opportunity to rise through the hierarchy, and he did so even when he was gifted such amazing strength when he Awakened.
However, lately, he has realized that the Skills and Powers the System gave him were never enough, and his Level wasn’t increasing as fast as he wanted.
And even as his Level increased, the amount of stats he could gain was never enough to be capable of clashing against the monstrosities of the Tower.
After having explored up to Floor 17, where Monsters of Level 800 roamed everywhere, he realized how small and pathetic he was and returned to Earth, trying to use his strength to better protect his home.
Yet even now, he seemed incapable of doing so.
“That woman…”
He was full of jealousy towards Bing Xue, the woman who had even revived him; he felt tremendous jealousy! A returnee with a power that surpassed the system itself, she didn’t rely on the system; she simply relied on herself!
He wanted that power.
He wished he could have it!
“Was relying on the System our mistake from the very beginning?”
And that thought passed through his mind as John vomited blood and felt his entire body go limp, falling from the skies.
He felt his body paralyzed as he realized his Mana reserves had emptied faster than his equipment could regenerate them, taking tremendous backlash over his entire body.
And the giant jaws of a tyrannosaurus opened right below him, about to swallow him whole.
“No…! No, no, no!”
As he panicked, a sudden flash of bright light emerged from the skies, grabbing him and carrying him like a princess across the skies.
“Wha…?!”
His eyes widened as he saw the woman he had been thinking about for a while now; she had rescued him right before his demise.
“John, right?” A wave of blue flames covered his body as his wounds healed instantly. “You should be alright now.”
“Y-you're Bing Xue!” John muttered, seconds before he was thrown off from the sky. “Eh? Wait… WAIT!”
“You can fly, right?” Bing Xue said a second before she flew towards the Tyrannosaurus and punched its jaws, dislocating them.
CLASH!
“Y-You insane woman!”
John screamed furiously as he flew into the skies after regrowing his wings.
As he was about to assist her, he quickly realized there was no need!
The Tyrannosaurus head was sent flying into the skies and then fell over another dinosaur, pummeling it down into the ground.
Bing Xue’s hands were coated with two blue and gold-colored gauntlets, overflowing with cosmic flames and dark purple void energy.
“S-She punched its head off…?”
John’s eyes twitched in disbelief as he saw once more the true pinnacle he could never reach.
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As Dinosaurs and Cavemen battled against the defenders of this "settlement," the King of the Primal World glanced from the distance, sitting over the incredibly tall head of a brachiosaurus.
Unlike the other Cavemen, his body’s musculature, size, and the Aura of Primal Power he exuded were on another dimension completely.
Wearing the bones of dinosaurs as armor and clothes over his magnificently muscular and perfect body, the caveman giant smiled, showing his sharp fangs.
“Heh…”
Fun!
This world is full of weak little fighters; it was so fun!
“Ogah!”
He pointed at the city; his new goal as a conqueror was to invade this new “settlement” and make it his own property, like he had done countless times.
And he licked his lips as he saw that woman, made of light, fight relentlessly against his troops.
A worthy meal for a king such as him.
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