Chapter 70: Chapter 70: Electric Discharge
’ Absorb trait.’ he issued the command. ( Absorbing trait) he felt electricity run throughout his entire body,the feeling was super uncomfortable but it ended very quickly.
There was no gland or organ to produce the electricity, he could feel it through his entire body, every part of him could generate electricity.
He pointed a claw at an unawakened fish over 50 metres away, he had basic understanding of how the trait work, with a thought he shot a tiny bolt at it.
The bolt was less than a centimetre thick and it was very fast, it reached the fish in a blink of an eye and turned it into dust.
Ved frowned, the power behind that lightning bolt was greater than the eels or even natural lightning in terms of volts but it was slower, much slower.
He couldn’t even track the eels lightning bolts with his eyes but he could follow his, while barely the fact that he could follow it at all with his eyes was worrying.
He couldn’t underwater it, the speed of the lightning bolt seemed to be limited by his will like White’s lightning, but even hers is faster than his.
But his will is stronger than both White’s and the eels so this made absolutely zero sense to him.
He could atleast come up with a reasonable explanation for the eel, it lightning was not an awakened power so it wasn’t limited by will.
While he understood that his trait still need will to work, such a drastic decrease in it speed was depressing.
He sighed, ’ Atleast it’s more powerful.’ he told himself. Night fell and the fish became more active.
He spent the rest of the night testing the limit of his lightning on the poor fish and other than it speed everything else was satisfactory.
Three weeks later.
’Ahhhhhhhh ’ Ved screamed and countless bolts of lightning flew out of his body in every direction electrecuting everything in a hundred metres radius around him.
Over a hundred piranhas each a metre long lay dead around him. Amongst them 8 were over 2 metres long and 2 were over 3 metres long.
These were rank 2 and rank 3 piranhas respectively. These things had been bothering him for the past 3 days, no matter how many he killed more just kept coming.
While they were weak individually they were troublesome to deal with as a group and their teeth were so strong they could actually threaten him.
While the rank 1 couldn’t bite through his scales their bite were painful, almost like a mosquito bite.
The rank 2 made him feel like he was stung by bees and the rank 3 piranhas were actually able to bite through his scales.
While not deep enough to leave a life threatening wound individually, as more wounds accumulated it became a threat.
He couldn’t even understand where they come from, he had killed thousands of them by now yet more still came.
He grabbed the nearest rank 3 and bit it in half, before he could finish it he heard the sound of churning water behind him, he turned back and saw a giant black cloud swimming towards him very fast.
’ oh come on.’ he created a giant poison cloud, this was the last poison in the sack, then he used web strings to grab the rank 3 corpses and swam away as fast as he could.
Like zombies the piranhas jumped through the poison cloud, dozens of them died one after another but they depleted the poison cloud paving way for the others.
He grabbed one of the corpses on his strings and ate it while running away. He was running on fumes now, his poison was depleted and the lightning was running low as well, plus he didn’t have as much stamina left.
His web was not as strong underwater but the piranhas were very easy to kill, the most terrifying thing about them other than their teeth were their numbers and endless stamina.
And the fact that they moved as a single organism. The higher ranked ones can drag the others using some weird connection of essence they had.
And they were fast, ridiculously so. Even with his speed he couldn’t outrun them and before long they reached him.
His strings danced around him killing tens of them every second but they had a harder time cutting through the scales of the rank 3 piranhas.
Not because the piranhas were strong but because his web was very weak underwater compared to it usual strength.
This wave of them was many times more than the last, there were over a dozen rank 3 and tens of rank 2. Their total number was probably thousands he couldn’t tell.
But everywhere he looked around him all he could see were gnashing sharp teeth. He slapped out, the water exploded and dozens of piranhas turned into blood mist.
That move created a large space infront of him. He swam through it but they swarmed him again like a swarm of bees.
Each of their bites sent waves of stinging pain through his body. He swung his tail and hit a rank 3 in the head, it skull shattered then it corpse was grabbed by a string.
Even in this situation he was not wasting a rank 3 corpse. Another rank 3 attacked from his right, he almost swung his right arm but remembered he didn’t have it anymore.
So he angled his body and swung his tail, the river was split apart and his tail cut the piranha in half.
The river had turned as red as blood, the smell of iron assaulted his nose. Corpses floated downstream like debris yet they continued assaulting him relentlessly undeterred by the death of their comrades.
All he could see in their eyes was madness and a savage hunger. This explained why he didn’t see any living creature around their dwelling.
They were like a plague that consumes everything around them. It was fortunate they were reluctant to swim upstream upstream for some reason.
As if they were afraid to leave their territory, unfortunately he realised that a bit too late with no way to swim back up, which is why he was so desperately swimming downstream hoping to leave their territory soon.
He had even tried getting out of the river but he regretted that almost immediately. Around the river was a gigantic forest, filled with poisonous insect.
It might not seem like a big deal but being besieged by thousands of bees and centipedes was not fun, especially since they did that together which was very strange.
But the most terrifying thing was the number of high rank insect there, there were too many, way too many.
He was forced to face a gigantic rank 4 centipede alongside it horde once, it was then that he completely ruled out leaving the river.
He dodged to side and a giant mouth snapped besides him causing the water to explode around it.
He slashed his tail and blood spread through the river like red paint. Then he suddenly heard the sound of crashing waves and excitement bubbled inside him.
’ Finally the sea.’ he sped up and swam even faster.