Chapter 116: Mid terms 11

“Oi, porcupine girl!” I yelled, giving her a nickname, while looking around. “I know it’s you, come out before I come find you myself.”

The answer I got were a dozen more quills sent flying towards me. “Guess we’ll have to do this the hard way then.” I muttered, as I evaded each with minimal movements.

My eyes darted from left to right in quick succession, catching every detail, and checking for anything amiss.

Suddenly my ears caught the faint sound of movement from my side. My head snapped to the right, and there, I witnessed a clumsy attempt of a stealth.

The brown haired girl who could turn her hair to quill like spikes was trying to hide behind the stalk of a particularly large mushroom. What actually exposed her, was when she moved to her current hiding place.

I sighed, shaking my head. ’Should I just leave her alone?’ I thought. She probably didn’t even have any eggs, so it wouldn’t even be worth the effort. Shaking my head once more, I turned and decided to head deeper into the mushroom grotto.

Only for me to sense the displacement of air once more as over a dozen spiky quills shot at me. “Sigh, some people just don’t comprehend the art of self preservation.” I muttered, flicking to the side, and avoiding all.

Fwwhoosshh!

Then sprinted towards the place she was before she could even register my movements. I appeared before the girl whose eyes had widened in terror. My hand grabbed firmly onto her neck.

Crack!

I spun and slammed her hard against the stalk of the massive mushroom. The mushroom cracked and gave way under the force of the impact. She passed out on impact.

Unceremoniously dropping her to the ground, I removed the spatial ring off her finger, then emptied out it contents. “Hmmm, only two.” I muttered. At least it was two more than I thought she had.

Stepping over her unconscious body, I went on my way. I could choose to just eliminate her, but the way she would feel when she regained consciousness and realized the eggs in her special storage were gone, would satisfy me more.

Besides, what joy was there in eliminating her? She was only an Eta- ranked. Without glancing back once, I walked deeper into the grotto.

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Fabian stood opposite a human sized salamander like beast that had a slimy body. He adopted a stance, his halberd hanging low by his side.

He moved from his spot at the exact same time the salamander’s tongue launched out and reached the spot Fabian had been. The tongue went through where he had been, and went back to it’s mouth in less than a millisecond.

It was only after the tongue went back into it’s mouth, that the air detonated with a sonic boom. Fabian’s figure that disappeared from his spot, appeared next to the salamander, his halberd hacking towards it’s slimy body.

But alas, when the blade of the halberd came in contact with it’s skin, it slipped, instead of cutting. The slime coating it’s body didn’t give the halberd any traction, or anything to bite into.

The salamander turned it’s massive body at once, it’s tongue lashing at Fabian, the sticky projectile moving at an extremely fast speed. All Fabian could do was bring the shaft of his halberd to block it.

The result? He underestimated the force the tongue carried, which ended up with him being sent back flying several dozens of meters back, crashing through various mushrooms, and vegetation. The salamander meanwhile, didn’t hesitate to follow after him, leaving a trail of slime in it’s wake. Though, unlike it’s tongue, it was quite slow.

Before it could reach him, Fabian had already dragged himself up, and vanished from it’s vision through sheer speed. The salamander stopped, turning it’s head from side to side, trying to catch a glimpse of him.

But Fabian suddenly appeared from it’s back instead, his body having turned purple, with white lines running across his arms and torso. He latched onto the salamander’s tail with his bare hands.

The moment he did however, the salamander took notice of him. However, it was for naught. The slime coating it’s tail that could have stopped him from effectively holding on to it eroded and dissolved like steam. It only took half a second for that to happen.

As soon as his palms came in contact with the actual skin of the tail, the beast let out a high pitched squeak of pain, and in a surprising turn of events, turned it’s head in an almost 180° angle, and launched it’s tongue at Fabian once more, giving him no choice but to let go of the tail, if he didn’t want his head to explode.

Though, even though Fabian had been forced to let go, the damage had already been done. More than half of the beast’s tail had mummified and eroded to ashes. And the effect of Fabian’s touch, was still fraying at the edges of the wound.

The tongue that had missed Fabian detonated the air again, but Fabian had vanished from the beast’s scope of vision once more, then before it could turn it’s head back to the front, Fabian appeared in front of it, this time hugging it’s entire neck.

Fabian’s ability usually didn’t work on his clothes because he always chose not to decay them. Especially since he only need his transformed hand to come in contact with an enemy for just a few seconds. The surface area his hand could cover on an opponent, was usually more than enough. But this time though, he allowed his ability to decay the cloth on his torso.

So, it wasn’t only his hands touching the beast’s neck, but also his entire torso. The beast’s neck turned to dust before it could even let out a scream of protest. In just a second from Fabian holding onto it, it had died, just like that.

“Still consumes a ton of aether.” Fabian muttered, as the beast’s headless body lost all signs of animation.

=====Status=====

Name: Fabian Ashton

Status: Second prince of the Ashton empire.

Rank : Eta+

Strength : Eta+

Agility : Eta+

Stamina : Theta-

Intelligence : Zeta+

Aether capacity : Theta-

Luck : Zeta-

Charm : Alpha

Techniques: Tempest Halberd art (Grandmaster), Ashton movement art (Grandmaster), Aether reinforcement (Grandmaster), Rupture kick (Master),…..

Unique physique: Supreme Erosion Physique (Alpha rank).

–Initial ability: Decay: [You can decay anything that is in contact with your skin].

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Fabian had surely improved much on his techniques since the Spira city incident, but he wasn’t anywhere near breaking through to the Theta- rank.

The focus on his techniques, was because unlike others, Fabian’s ability wasn’t one he liked to use often, especially with the need to have to come in contact with someone to use it. Hence, why he focused on improving his techniques rather than his ability.

He turned away from the corpse, bringing out a new shirt from his spatial storage and putting it on. From the start of the egg challenge phase till now, Fabian had managed to get a total of twenty nine eggs. And it had been almost nine hours since then.

At the start, he didn’t spend more than two hours in the chain of mountains, where he found a total of four eggs, before he entered the freezing artic where Rose had been before. Fabian didn’t even bother looking for eggs there, but instead straight up went full speed ahead and crossed it’s entirety in less than half an hour.

It was after that, that he found himself in this mushroom grotto, where he found most of the eggs he currently had, twenty five to be exact. As Fabian put on his shirt, he wondered how many eggs Alistair would have gotten by now. No matter what, he was going to rank first, while simultaneously proving that Alistair having an omega ranked physique, didn’t make him superior in any way.

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Back with Alistair and Elsa. Elsa had been especially furious that Alistair and Anastasia had let Damon get away with the eggs, even though she ’thought’ they were fully capable of stopping him from doing so.

No matter how much Alistair tried to soothe her mood, he failed to get through her defenses. “You must promise me, during whatever event is next, you’ll crush him.” She said to Alistair at last, after pestering her for long to stop giving him the silent treatment.

“Don’t worry, I won’t even let him get a chance.” Alistair said solemnly, then smiled, finally glad that she was speaking to him.

What Damon did had vexed him too, but he couldn’t have possibly stopped him, when the guy wasn’t even present there in the first place. But no matter how much he tried to explain it to Elsa, she wasn’t hearing it.

“I’ll make sure he regrets what he did.”

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