Blood Assimilation

Noticing that his opponent's ability was rendered almost useless by his Blood Authority Skill, Randy was filled with joy and exhilaration because he could retaliate properly against the chimera monster now that he knows the source of the chimera monster's unknown ability.

'This seems to be a paralysis-type ability, I just have to look out for it from now on and I should be fine…' He thought in conclusion.

A moment later, Randy revealed a cruel smile and then muttered: "Now, let's see how long you will last against my stabbing. I want you to experience the pain and agony you were inflicting on me a while ago with that look in your eyes.'

Earlier when the chimera monster was slashing and impaling his body with its claws, despite this chimera monster's face full of green scales while looking like some humanoid lizard just from its head, it had an unusual, exhilarating expression on its face, the more blood gushed out of his battered body at that time. 

Randy found that situation a bit strange, he had no idea what this creature was exactly, but he could clearly tell that if it could show such an expression despite looking like a monster, then it was most likely a human before it was turned into this vile creature form by whoever was sick enough to do so. 

He recalled this, but he showed no concern or pity as he did not really care if this monster in front of him was once human or simply just a monster.

After all, it ruthlessly attacked him for no particular reason, and that was all that mattered to him.

And besides, it was only right for him to retaliate against an enemy that aimed to kill him, even if they were human or a true monster.

Puk! Puk! Puk! Puk! Puk! Puk! Puk!

With that, he resumed with his relentless piercing on the chimera monster's chest, causing it to squirm and scream in pain.

Guooh——

And at some point, he started using his Blood Authority Skill to prevent any blood from entering the chimera monster's chest, where its heart was most likely located since there was a chance that the other party could die if no blood was circulating through its heart.

But it was useless as it seems like this creature does not really depend on its heart to move, and that perhaps, the only way to defeat it was piercing the center of its chest like he had been doing since a while ago.

A few minutes later, while he was still immersed in tormenting the chimera monster, he failed to notice that the chimera monster had broken through his Blood Authority Skill's influence once again.

Swoosh!

"What the—" 

BANG!

"Ugh!" Randy groaned from the heavy impact on his arm.

Although he noticed the changes in the other party slightly too late, he was still able to block the attack from the chimera monster, but he was pushed back a few meters helplessly. 

Luckily, the chimera monster was still slightly under his skill's influence and thus, he was able to react to its attack.

Otherwise, his bones would have been smashed into pieces, or worse, died from its attack just now.

"What the fuck is this thing's body made out of? It can still move despite all these injuries and even while still under my blood authority skill's influence." 

Randy complained loudly when he was suddenly attacked by the chimera monster. Right now, he could feel his arm tingling with a sharp pain from the impact of its attack.

'Fuck! It almost broke my bones just now.' 

At this moment, the chimera monster seemed to have fallen into a berserk state as it was now exuding some dark sinister energy around its body.

'What is that black energy? I noticed it before using my infrared vision while in my assimilated state. But at the time, I thought it was just some new—'

Boom!

Before he could finish his thought, he suddenly felt some ethereal pressure on his body at this moment.

"Nrghhh! What's with this sudden pressure on my body?!" Randy gritted as he struggled to speak when a sudden pressure caused him to remain rooted on the spot.

"Arghhhh!!"

Randy even tried to move his body forcefully at this time. But no matter what he did, he could not move his body from his current position.

Even his Blood Authority Skill, which was working to move his body before, could not aid him in this case.

Right now, he could only stand there as the chimera monster that was still exuding the menacing and sinister dark energy approached him slowly.

'Shit! What is going on? Where did this pressure come from? If only I could use my assimilated state, then I could easily move my body under this pressure. Damn it, what should I do? Should I forcefully activate the assimilated state? But that would only exacerbate the external and internal injuries on my body. Not to mention, the fatigue accumulated could cause me to collapse on the spot if I choose to enter the assimilate state. But if I don't do anything then I will die…' Randy thought in frustration.

Grrrr——

The chimera monster, on the other hand, did not give him the chance to think of other alternative methods and glared at him for a moment in the distance before abruptly slashing forward with its claws that were now encased in the sinister dark energy.

Slash!

"Fuck!" Randy cursed out loud and began sweating on his back when he saw the slowly approaching attack from the chimera monster. 

But he could not move or do anything physical at this time due to the pressure on his body and could only try manifesting his magical energy into an armor of some kind. 

But he failed to produce anything without the proper understanding of what he was trying to manifest.

He had never worn armor before, not even in the virtual world, so how could he suddenly create one in this dire situation without proper knowledge about armors.

He only barely created some thin layer of energy over his body, but he knew that it would not be enough to stop the chimera monster's attack.

Very soon, the sinister dark energy reached him and then passed through his body effortlessly while ignoring his seemingly useless armor, shocking him greatly.

"Ahhhhhh!!'

Randy screamed in desperation as he thought that he was going to die just like that. 

But after a moment, he soon found out that nothing had happened to him.

'What? Did nothing happen? I thought the attack was somehow slow, but even so, to not cause any damage... Then what was that attack for? Was that just a bluff? No, that can't be right. This monster can't be that smart, right?'

Sure enough, his assumptions were correct because at this moment, out of nowhere, he started bleeding from all of his orifices. 

The next moment, a notification suddenly resounded from his system in an audible tone this time with a series of blood-red text displayed in front of his vision.

This situation was completely unlike the previous times where all he received was a blink in his vision whenever something very significant was discovered or detected. But this just meant that the current situation was very urgent. 

[[Attention!]]

[[Attention!]]

[[Attention!]]

[[The host has been inflicted with a sinister and baleful dark energy of an unknown source. The dark energy has caused an abnormality to take place in your body, leading to an internal bleeding. Furthermore, your body is on the verge of destruction due to the corrosive property of the unknown dark energy.]]

[[The only possible way to stop the internal bleeding and corrosive damage caused by the effects of the unknown dark energy was to quickly kill the chimera creature, which seemed to be the source of the inflicted damage caused by the unknown dark energy, within the next 10 minutes.. Otherwise, the host will bleed to death without any salvation.]]