Blink: Awakened

Hugo stared wide-eyed at the two large boulders standing in place of those two monsters; this was the last possible thing one could have expected from Alpha2.

'He teleported two boulders into their stomachs, which exploded them from the inside out.' He summed up the entire situation in his mind and reminded himself not to cross Alpha2 again.

Even Hyena, anyone with good vision, could see his throat bobbing from gulping too hard, and like Hugo, his eyes were also very wide.

'God, Buddha, anyone? If you can hear me, please forgive me of all my sins and preserve my life, I promise I won't mess with this kid anymore.'

Hyena was almost on the verge of kneeling.

'I thought he described his power as being able to blink from one location to another and even then he needs to have the spatial coordinates and the place he's blinking to needs to be visible. How did he gain this extra ability.?'

While Hyena prayed, Hugo was trying to figure out some other things, questions like these were his favourite—it was so fun to figure out some things before they were told to you.

"Hugo, I'm guessing you're thinking right now; how did he learn how to do this and whatnot? Let me just explain a little. You know there was that one time that you invited me out to kill monsters late at night with you, Hyena and Ruki..."

"... That night, I told you I was already hunting monsters. Well, I wasn't really hunting monsters, actually. I was playing video games where I hunted monsters!"

Hugo was speechless. How did that have anything to do with his acquisition of the new skills?

"But apart from that... Ever since you showcased your power during the Skydancer exam, I've been thinking. How can one man who's only three years older than I control the wind with a violin, make wings out of nothing, and create that weird blood-drenched sword just by thinking of it.

So I thought, researched and experimented. What way could I have boosted my attack power using my original power of Blink? And so that brings us to where we are now. As of right now, my ability has evolved; It is now the creation of vortexes to enable transportation in small pockets of space."

Alpha2 flailed his arms madly and his green eyes crept with vines of red.

Hugo ignored Alpha2's deliberate interruption of his thinking and looked back at the huge boulders just sitting there.

'Small pockets? Who the hell are you kidding?'

Hugo scoffed a little and focused his attention on the regenerating mucus monsters, and when they had completely recovered form, they had an additional feature onto them.

*Cough!*

Apart from the new forms, there were now six of them there, and they hadn't reduced in size whatsoever.

The new forms of the creatures were less of humanoid creatures compared to what they were before. Now, they were just like beasts, but with weirder features.

Hugo had memorized the characteristics of most of the creatures and monsters that had emerged after the asteroid hit, and this... this plague monster didn't match any description.

Speaking from a logical perspective after the creatures reformed, they should have been smaller, but these things didn't seem to follow basic logic like that.

The six things that stood before the three were now more like behemoths.

The six creatures were shaped like giant wolves, still with the same signature boils popping on their skin and bone shards jutting out of their skins. They now had visible fangs, gleaming in the sunlight.

"Apologies for the interruption just now. I suppose we didn't get to introduce ourselves properly, hi I'm the First horseman, harbinger of Plague and misfortune; Vector."

Alpha2 cocked his head to the side and smiled a little, obviously quite amused at his greeting and chose to say something quite similar.

"Nice to meet you. I'm Alpha2, but don't call me that. Just refer to me as Hermes, the guy who will kick your ass to next weekend."

The person speaking ignored Alpha2's rudeness and tried his best to coax him.

"Join us. I promise you that we'll be able to satisfy any of your wants. The leader will be pleased to have another of your calibre on our side."

His words were puzzling, but Hugo pieced them together quite quickly and had determined that the information he'd received was enough.

"Alpha2, no need for him to continue speaking."

Hugo's voice was like a saving grace for him and Hyena. They were sick and tired of this imbecile talking so much.

"Alright, time to end this thing, man. Appreciate your offer, but being part of a terrorist group is at the bottom of my bucket list!"

Alpha2 raised his hands up like he did the first time and clapped. One of the two boulders disappeared into thin air, and a split second after, it had appeared over a monster's head.

A loud splat reverberated as soon as the boulder landed.

"Yo, Alpha2, don't bother smashing it. That won't do any good. You need to pulverize these things once and for all."

Alpha2 knew that much. That was to go without saying. And he had the perfect move for bastards like this fellow.

'I still want to test those other moves out though.' Alpha2 laughed to himself and teleported next to one of the wolf-like plague beasts and slammed his leg against its jaw.

The beast flew back a few metres and crashed into the open hole.

Hyena rushed up to that one beast and delivered a follow-up attack.

"Enhanced bite!" He grinned a little, showcasing his pearly and shiny teeth. He sunk his fangs into the head of the monster and bit it clean off. But he immediately spat the chunk out.

"Ew, disgusting!"

Alpha2 giggled for a long second and mocked Hyena's misfortune.

"Dumbass, you saw a monster made of mucus with boils all over its body and the first thing you thought to do was bite it?! Wow, you're not very smart, are you?!"

Hugo also snickered a little at Hyena's poor decision making but nevertheless swished down for a hit in.

His sword chopped down, still screeching from the shame caused by the loss of the first battle. It promised itself that it would not lose to these bastards again.

"Hold on, Hugo. I want to take care of this one."

Alpha2 had appeared mid-air, holding onto his hand, preventing his blade from taking the kill.