Chapter 20: The Master Part 4

Labak grew shock at the lump of flesh in my hand. He took a look at his body and noticed that the right side of his stomach is missing a good chunk of flesh. He quickly starts to regenerate his wound and soon, it was good as new. He stared at me in mild curiosity.

"How? You shouldn't have enough strength to pierce my skin, let alone rip it out of me", He asked.

"Now that would be telling..." I replied.

To be honest, I was really lucky. When I was getting beat up earlier, I realized that I cannot beat him at this current level. He is too strong, too fast, and too cunning to beat. However, like any other beings that has power given to them...they tend to get arrogant. They think that they are unbeatable, that they think that they are devine beings themselves. I saw those things on TV shows and in real life. Even at the course of history, a men with power will always think themselves to be above from others. Just like kings and emperors of the early times. And that is what I will capitalize on.

He will look down on me and due to that, he will lower his guard. The moment I find his weak spot, he's over but knowing this is not enough. I have to level up the playing field. If this continues on, he will surely kill me. I need to consume an undead flesh.

Easier said than done.

We are surrounded by nothing but wreckage. There is no undead carcass in sight. Which means Labak is the only thing I can consume. Both good and bad. Good because consuming his flesh would surely skyrocket my strength and bad because taking his flesh is quite difficult in on itself.

Son of an emerald mother.

But I calmed myself. There is still a way to get a good chunk of his flesh. My retractable blade on my wrist can pierce his skin. I just have to find an opening...and I did.

Right before he punched me to the ground, I was able to pierce my blade in his stomach then ripped his flesh out of his stomach. Labak didn't even notice it. He only smiled at me before punching me right in the face. He's currently high that's for sure.

And here we are.

...

I put the flesh in my mouth but I quickly ducked from an attack. My head just barely avoided a kick before I rolled to the ground. This guy is one cautious S.O.B.

"Did you really think I will let you get advantage of me? I won't let you! Die!"

He dashed towards me but I smirked. He should have continued his assault. His little dialog is enough for me to devour his flesh. He raised his hand that's coated with bright yellowish electricity. I move to the side and delivered an uppercut to his face and hit him with a right hook. He rolled like a ragdoll before punching the ground to stop his momentum. He looked at me with gritted teeth and narrowed eyes.

Me? Ho ho. I feel fantastic. I can feel it. My body...is slowly changing. Black miasma are coming out of me. Cracking sounds echoed to the air. I looked at my arms during my transformation. My skin is loosing its pale appearance and my forearms is slowly gaining some muscles.

Crack.

Squish

"Gaaah. Aahhh!"

The process is surprisingly painful. Looks like I can feel pain now as well. Labak tried to attack me but when he came close to the black miasma, his arm is starting to rapidly decay. He had no choice but to cut it off before growing a new arm. He could only stare and wait in frustration as I undergo my transformation.

Meanwhile, the damage I sustained was all healed. My figure is getting a little bigger in size. I endure the pain as much as I can. Besides, after this is over...it will be worth it.

Now...it's finished.

The miasma around me is starting to dissapear and what stood at the center is my newly formed body. I stared my self and noticed that all the signs of being Undead are barely visible now. My figure is now muscular like a professional swimmer. My exposed abdomen showed me my 8 pack abs. Damn. I could grind cheese with these. The ladies back home would surely love it. Back to the matter at hand, nothing is out of the ordinary except my clear human appearance. Does this mean my face got transformed too. Yes! I can't wait to look myself in the mirror and see how I look. Alright, alright, focus Jerome. There are times for that later on.

I feel weird...it's like I feel different....alive. No matter, what's more important right now is that I feel powerful. This strength...it's nothing compared to when I ate the monster inside the bloody hallway. So this is what it's like when I ate a sentient...well a small part that is. His flesh is miles above from a normal zombie or a crawler.

My face let out a grin as I stare at him. He noticed this and scoffed.

"Don't think that now you have evolved it can change anything. You are still w-weak compared to me!"

"Oh really? Seems I notice a little stutter there. Is that fear I'm sensing?"

"Grr...that's it!"

He jumped and inhaled a large amount of air before letting out a breath of lightning. I fired a black breath of my own and noticed that I don't feel it consuming too much of my strength like before. Instead of black, now it's dark violet. Our breath attack clashed and caused an explosion of a wide magnitude. Observing the measurement of the blast, I concluded that it's at least 40 feet at most. Labak dropped to the ground with a surprise look.

"Impossible", He muttered in disbelief. Can't blame him. I'm surprised at the power of my black breath too. Just how much stronger am I now?

"This cannot be. It doesn't make any sense. You only took a little flesh from me but you are already this strong? It's just impossible."

I stare at him with a calm expression. My mind is processing a lot of emotions right now. Excitement, elation, arrogance, pride, happiness, fear but the one feeling that stood above the rest is vendictiveness.

Earlier, he toyed with me. Beat me up like a dog. I felt so hopeless that time. Suffice to say, I'm incredibly pissed right now. Add to the fact that I still need to find Whity among the rubble. I hope he's still alive.

Now I will finish this wannabe super villain. I appeared right in front of him with a speed that's invisible to the naked eye. I kicked his stomach that made him vomit a lot of blood. I followed with a backflip kick to his chin, launching him uphigh. I appeared right above him and him with an elbow to his back. He screamed in agony as he falls to the ground with a loud thud. Huh...the more powerful we became, the more we turn more human huh or hanni in his case. A normal undead wouldn't even feel anything from that.

He stood up and directed his left hand at me. His hand quickly gathered a huge amount of electricity before firing at me. Seeing this, I clinched my right hand and gathered a large amount of black miasma. Once it's finished, I punched the lightning attack with my black coated hand. The lightning attack dispersed upon contact.

Laback grew frustrated and fired multiple lightning attacks at me as I descended. All of them were dispersed as I parried.

Once my feet touched the ground, I dashed towards him and make him pay all the beatings I took. He tried to block and counter attack but I was faster. Labak was folded like an omelet. I was raining blows on the guy like he owed me money.

Bam. Bam. Bam. Bam. Bam. Bam. Bam. Bam. Bam.....

"Well? Fight back, bitch! Fight back!"

Bam

"Gaah!"

Yeah, this isn't a fight anymore. It's now a one sided ass-whooping. He couldn't even defend himself. I broke both of his arms when he tried to punch me. He healed them but I broke them again. Once he's exhausted enough, he could no longer heal himself so his body is now littered with multiple bruises.

I finished my assault with a headbutt to the face that shattered his nose. He was sent to a nearby tree and hit it with an awkward angle. Oof, I don't think he can walk after that.

I slowly approach him. My steps crushed the scattered debris I walk on. The fires surrounding the wreckage are all gone now. I saw him laying face first on the floor. He looked at me with eyes full of hate.

"Damn you, I should have finished you when I had the chance."

"You didn't. Now you are the one laying on the ground."

"...grrrr."

I shook my head in dissapointment. There is no point in prolonging this any longer. I hit him with my black breath at point blank range. His body melted in seconds.

I sighed in relief as I stare at the puddle of Labak's remains.

It's finally over....