Plundering in the Apocalypse

Shin eyed the monster in front of him. Tarantula. Body of a giant spider covered with Black fur. It's menacing white eyes. The sharp pointy blade-like legs. It was making clattering noises like it was excited to tear anything apart.

'It's terrifying.' Shin thought as he shivered at the sight of that disgusting monster.

'Okay calm down. I can deal with it. I will face much more disgusting monsters from now on. It's nothing.' Shin thought to himself calming his nerves and soon an excited grin plastered on his face.

'What is this feeling? I am getting excited at the thought of facing it.'

'Whatever it doesn't matter let's deal with it.'

Shin thought as he dashed at the monster. With his high agility, he covered the distance in a blink of an eye. Shin slashed his long sword at the Tarantula's front leg.

*Ting*

A loud sound of metal clashing echoed.

'Damn, it's so tough. Like I am cutting metal. Even if my strength is high. My sword can't handle it. I have been using my sword and defeating enemies with brute force. I don't think that's a good option now.' Shin gritted his teeth. His sword won't hold on.

'I should increase my Dex.' Thought Shin as he tried to make some distance fast.

But unfortunately, he wasn't able to. He saw some webs sticking to his arms. Rendering him from retreating.

'Ughh, what's this? Are these spider webs? Well, it's obvious what can I expect from a spider.' Shin tried cutting the webs with his sword.

But he wasn't able to. The webs were strong like steel. 'How is it possible? It's weird. This monster is not normal.'

Shin wasn't able to break those webs. His escape was difficult. The monster was pretty delighted to catch its prey.

He activated his skill and soon the knives from his pockets started levitating. Soon it shot up coursing through the air stabbing the Tarantula in one of his eyes.

That moment of distraction was enough for Shin to escape the bounds of webs.

'Weird. When the monster was distracted I was able to cut through those steel-like webs easily. How does this work?' Shin was confused and curious at the same time.

[DEX - 60 ] [ Bonus stats - 41]

The feeling of his Dex increasing had a grin crept on his face. He started using nearby things as projectiles. With his gravity manipulation, he controlled them as they started shooting at the monster.

The damage wasn't much a first but with each impact. The monster started scowling and feeling pain. This made it angry. How dare this puny human hurt it.

With a jump, it managed to reach Shin. It was ready to pounce at him with his heavy and sharp legs.

Shin took out his Sword trying to parry the attack. Due to his increased dexterity, he felt very familiar with the sword, and his movements were also sharp.

But the monster shot Mana web at Shin in mid-air.

He didn't have much time to think. As he was already using gravity manipulation. Shin increased the gravity pull at the right side of him. He used his extreme speed and narrowly dodged the attack. It would have been a problem if he got entangled again.

'That was close.'

Shin jumped back and continued the attack on the monster. Trying to keep the distance between them.

Although the monster was suffering a little Shin mana was emptying at an alarming rate. If this keeps up his mana will run out before the monster dies.

The monster continued shooting webs and started moving at a crazy speed. It soon closed the distance and reached Shin.

The monster used his hard legs to slash like a weapon. Shin with his fine control of the sword and improved dex handled it very well and parried it.

The sounds of metal clashing echoed throughout the area. Shin dodged all the Mana webs aimed at him. It was a difficult monster to deal with.

The monster looked at Shin with his menacing white eyes and bloodlust. It was disgusting.

Shin activated his Predator's eyes. His eyes turned red and emitted killing intent. Now Shin's sword moves and every attack turned deadly. Every attack was aimed at the vital parts.

Shin decided to disable the monster and then finish it.

He slashed at the monster trying to cut one of his legs. He managed to succeed but in return, the monster did a body slam on Shin. Which was enough to send him flying a few meters.

Shin coughed up blood. Why was he having trouble dealing with a measly normal-rank monster even with his high stats? The monsters were different from humans. Their stats are different and so do their attributes.

Without proper knowledge about the monster and the skills needed to finish them. It was difficult to defeat them.

Like Tarantula's weakness was the fire attribute which Shin didn't have.

That's why he was having a little trouble dealing with it. Even though Shin's attacks were effective. It's just that the monster was resilient and had high health.

Shin tried standing up. He took out his Wakizashi and let it float in the air.

'Should I just increase my stats more?'

'No, there's no need for that. This is a normal rank monster. I should be more than enough to kill it. I have other cards up my arsenal too.'

He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.

Shin used Gravity Manipulation skills to make his body light. He activated extreme speed and voila. His speed was awesome. He dashed at the Tarantula as his figure looked like a blur.

He started slashing intensely. The monster let out a deep cry trying to defend itself from Shin's attacks.

His sword cuts were accumulating damage. He also kept on stabbing the monsters with projectiles using his skill.

Soon he managed to cut off 4 of the monster's legs. It was unable to keep its balance.

Shin felt his sword was about to break. His sword's durability was not enough to cut all the thick steel-like legs.

As he slashed once again his sword broke. The monster saw this as a chance and shot out as many Mana webs as it can to capture Shin. He tried to dodge them.

"Shit!!" Shin cursed.

Unfortunately, Shin was caught by one of them. The monster felt this is it. Now it will finish this annoying human. This human cut off his legs. He will chew that human in pleasure and kill it.

Shin tried resisting but wasn't able to break through those webs. The monsters enjoyed seeing the human struggle. The human is already heavily injured. It's not a threat anymore.

He dragged Shin towards him. The monster wanted Shin to feel despair as he slowly eat it alive. The monster was happy.

Shin was being dragged towards the monster. As Shin reached near him the monster was ready to chew him out. This human had troubled him a lot.

But suddenly it felt weird. It felt like killing intent coming from the captured human who had been disarmed already. The human is already injured and will die soon. Shouldn't he feel despair? Why is there killing intent coming from him?

​ Shin had a smirk on his face.

'It's time to finish it.'

As soon as Shin reached the monster. He touched it and said.

"Devourer's touch."

Soon black fog swirled around his hands. The monster started screaming and making cackling noises from the pain. It felt like it lost something very important. His entire body felt weakened.

On the other hand, Shin recovered from his injuries as he felt good and healthy as ever.

Shin did some stretches and smiled at the terrified monster.

"It feels nice. I am glad that it worked. Or else I would have needed to use bonus stats now."

Shin raised his hand and the Wakizashi flew towards him.

The monster looked at Shin with shocked and terrified eyes.

Shin just smiled at him. But as usual, it was his devilish smile

He started slashing the weakened monster.

*Slash*

*Creak*

...

"It's over. Hah," Shin thought as he smiled.

[You have killed a Tarantula]

[You have gained a lot of experience]

[You have leveled up.]

[ +10 Bonus stats for leveling up.]

[Plunder activated]

[You have absorbed a new skill 'Mana Web(D)']

[You have absorbed 15 stat points.]

*Klink!*

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Shin's status:-

[ Name- Shin Wolner ]

[Age - 20]

[ Title - 1st awakened, Maniac ]

[ Level - 13 ]

[-Stats-]

[STR - 72]

[AGI - 90]

[DEX - 60 ]

[Stamina - 55]

[Mana - 50]

[ Bonus stats - 66]

[Special ability - Plunder[Advanced 1]]

[Special Skill - Devourer's Touch]

[Skills - Predator's eyes (D), Extreme speed (E), Appraisal, Pain tolerance(E), Gravity Manipulation(E), Clairvoyance(Locked)]

[Skills Collected - Mana Web(D)]

[Skill Points - 134]

[Items]

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[Devourer's touch:- I will take your everything. Even your blood.

Effects:- Upon activating user can recover health by absorbing the opponent's life force. Alive or dead. The portion of recovered health may depend on the state of the enemy.]

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[Predator's Eyes (D) - Vision of a predator searching for its prey. This skill helps users to gain special vision helping to see red outlines of their enemies nearby without obstruction. Range may depend on the user's focus and skill rank.

-Strong enemies or some skills may cancel the skill effect.

-Extra effect - Can apply for fear status on the prey.

-For more detailed information higher level is required.]

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[Extreme speed (E) - Upon use, The user can increase his speed up to 1.75x times the normal speed. Skill usage time is dependent on stamina. The more stamina user has the longer the skill lasts.]

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[Appraisal - Helps in appearing items, skills, or living beings. Higher the user level more information can be obtained.]

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[Pain Tolerance(E) - Helps the users to negate some amount of pain. During the battle, endurance is increased.]

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[Gravity Manipulation(E):- You can bend the laws of gravity to your will.]

Usage requirement - 'Mana stat'

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[Clairvoyance(Locked) - This Skill is locked.]

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[Mana Web(D) - Users' mana can be converted into webs. These Webs can get as hard as steel with great flexibility. The User can control the length, strength, and usage of these webs.]

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