Chapter 79: Chapter 79: Red Lobster
His body sailed through the air, dozens of metres above the sea. Lightning arcs danced around his body like snakes and gathered into a lightning ball in his mouth.
He opened his mouth wide and shot a bolt of lightning as thick as a grown man’s arm. The lightning bolt cut through the water like a spear and hit a giant red lobster, blue lightning arc spread through the water, electrocuting everything hundreds around it.
How did he get to this situation you wonder? well let go back a few months ago. After retrieving the spear Ved swam around hunting and eating anything he came across as long as it was a rank 2 or higher.
After a few months he had increased his points substantially and coincidentally it was also his 14nth birthday since he reincarnated and he was in a mood to celebrate, the joys of being a teenager.
So he was planning to have a solo party by hunting a powerful rank 3, it took a while but eventually he did. He found a red lobster the size of a car.
It didn’t take much effort to kill it, only two bolts of lightning to the face and it brain was electrocuted to charcoal but then a problem arose. As he was swimming away with it carcass he felt something hit his stomach like a punch and sent him flying out of the water.
Which brings us to the present, turned out his assailant was a much stronger, much larger lobster.
This thing was twice as big as he was and mind you he was almost as large as a small bus and probably weighed as much if not more.
His body crashed to the water and created giant waves. Before he could react a white ball of condensed air reached him.
This was the same attack it used to hit him. It pincers clapped and shot more air cannons at him.
His body cut through the water like a torpedo dodging the air cannons, while doing so he was also trying to get close to it to fight it in close combat.
When he was 50 metres away, his body blurred and turned into a black shadow, the water exploded behind him and he appeared above the lobster in a blink of an eye.
On it back was a black spot where the lightning bolt had landed. He slashed his claws at the same spot.
His arm moved so fast it became nothing but a black blur but when the claw met it carapace it bounced back, sparks flew and the water boiled.
A sound of clashing steel echoed below the sea followed by a giant shockwave that exploded the water like a bomb.
The lobsters gigantic body sank and the ocean floor cracked and shattered. A gigantic crater hundreds of metres wide and tens of metres deep appeared below it.
Ved retreated, there was a small crack on it back but he frowned. The lobsters defences were higher than he had expected but it made sense.
It was a defence type rank 4 beast. Him even being able to damage it at all was impressive but he knew brute force would not work here as the crack was starting to close at a visible speed.
And so he implement the only strategy he thought might be the most effective. He created strings, thousands upon thousands of them.
Then started swimming around it, his body moving so fast the water starting twisting and turning, he created an underwater vortex around the lobster.
Fortunately the lobster was very slow, atleast compared to him but it was still fast enough to break the sound barrier. No matter how hard it tried it couldn’t leave the boundaries of the vortex not that it mattered.
The lobster shot it air cannons at him but he was too fast and easily dodged them no matter how many it shot.
His strings took longer to solidify, since he needed them to be stronger than they normally are underwater, if he was on land this process would’ve take only a moment.
Then he shot them out, they danced around the lobster like tiny snakes and binded it pincers and legs, the spinning vortex helped entangle them even faster.
The lobster struggled, twisted and turned. The strings stretched and strained, they were under a lot of pressure and it looked like they were going to snap at any moment.
He grabbed them with his hand and mouth and pulled but balancing himself with only his hind legs and tail was hard, especially since the lobster was able to contest with him in terms of pure physical strength, infact it was slightly stronger.
Which was impressive considering in terms of strength with his herculean strength in play he was stronger than an avarage rank 4 and this lobster was merely a low earth grade rank 4, which was exactly what an avarage rank 4 was.
However he tied strings in such a way that it couldn’t point it pincers at him him so it ended shooting it air cannons in other directions.
Then he released a cloud of poison which drowned both of them and then he waited. He could feel it body and will instinctively fight against the poison.
Unlike the anesthesia which can even hide from the detection of will this lethal poison cloud was easily detectable, however it advantage was that it was more potent and worked faster.
Even using it will and strong body to resist the poison he estimated the poison will only take a few seconds, however that’s because his body and will could rival it own even though he was an entire rank below.
And this was not solely because he had a higher grade bloodline, he was just an anomaly through and through.
His will grew multiple times stronger after healing from soul demage and his body became significantly stronger after consuming the vermins crystal cores.
Which is why he was as strong as rank 4 even while he was merely a rank 3. His poison seeped through it cerapace and into it bloodstream.
He felt it course through the lobsters body, it was struggling but it still had an advantage. His poison regardless of which type had the special ability of permeating through solid matter.
This made it very hard to defend against, it took the lobster’s entire body’s immune system just to slow it down but it still failed to stop the poison completely.
He felt the lobster grow weaker with each passing second, in a few more seconds the poison will reach the lobsters heart and then everything will be over. Just as he was about to rejoice, a change happened.
He felt a breeze brush against his scales even though he was underwater. The lobsters aura grew stronger and stronger.
It body was suddenly covered in a light greenish light that made the surroundings feel like a summer breeze.
’ Haki, I almost forgot about that.’