14 ch 7 the phantom mountain

it has been many days since I have been able to establish my super memory . now that I think about it , I never talked to you about my photographic memory .

calling it photographic memory was wrong because I could not remember stuff perfectly , just thoughts like the one I am having now . but I had put my complete focus on the whatever I was doing , a harder thing than it seemed .

it was pretty weird , though I never really understand how it works , what I memorise and what I don't . sometimes it comes easily , sometimes even trying many times , I don't enter the state of that memory .

that part of the reason that I do not maintain a diary anymore is exactly due to this reason .

anyways , I was presently in the phantom mountain , a green zone .

as for what I was doing here , it was to acquire a lot of life force. the totem of mine has boosted my power a lot. every totem , as I have said before grants a person a pseudo ability .

the same was true for my totem , though in my case , it would be more accurate calling it a ability , since I don't have an inherent ability .

I am not sure what my ability is but it has something to do with blood and life-force . my ability gives me the ability to manipulate , blood . it was a more advanced ability of what my armours ability . I can also harden blood into a metal like substance , which can absorb life force .

my totems seemed to have formed some kind of bond with my armour , funneling most of the life force it gets into the armour , leaving me with almost nothing to form my blood energy with .

the armour which was absorbing all that life force was showing almost no changes unless you count the patterns that have begun to form on it .

where these blood red patterns were shown , there my armour showed the ability to regenerate , repairing whatever damage that was inflicted on it . it was actually pretty useful , I won't need to keep repairing it . the only problem in all of this was the fact that this armour was taking up too much blood energy .

i had started a slaughter in the colourless region , continously hunting any beast that came my way , putting my life in risk a couple of times , but still I could not create any blood energy and the the blood patterns reached only till my left palm .

that's when I decided that staying in a colourless region was of no use for me . that's why I am going to the phantom mountain , full of phantom beasts . phantom beasts ,though they were pretty tough to deal with and were capable of ignoring defences , the amount of life force they had was a step above that of normal beasts . also they had pretty flimsy defences, so fighting them was somewhat easier for me .

(after a while )

in front of me was a phantom wolf , with atleast three other beasts of some kind , waiting for us to exhaust each other . there were claw marks all over my over my body . the phantom wolf was also in a sorry state . my sword had pierced it in its body and with my ability to convert blood into a solid , the beast's blood was slowly but steadily solidifying , once it is completely solidified I would break of a small part and have it pierce the beasts heart .

but for that to happen I would have to wait , after all the beast was still coagulating. to be honest if I got serious this beast would be dead very quickly , but I had to put on a show , so that the three beasts behind me would not leave .

if I could just get the three beasts to attack , I would have no need to maintain a charade like this .

now that I think about this , I there is a better method for me to make them attack me . but it is kind of suicidal . then again, most actions in this forest are .

there was a large tube on my back , made from some kind of a bamboo like plant. I use it store my blood , not my blood but the blood that I have weaponised .

this blood could take any shape freely and become any weapon that I desire it to be , most importantly I can dissolve my totem in it , making it many more time durable .

release the blood I stored in my armour I create three whips , with most of its mass concentrated in its two end , creating something like a bala , meanwhile the phantom wolf which was momentarily taken aback by my sudden actions and then it charged .

since I was focused in all of this , I naturally couldn't dodge . cracks appeared on my armour . a phantoms wolves bite was most deadly because it could easily pass through most defences ,even more then their claws . it claws just made scratches on my armour and did not touch me , but its bite had made holes in my body , which I am sure would make me regret this entire thing later .to be honest any strike could fatal , after all they could pass through my armour .

while all of this happening blood was gathering around my sword , dissolving it and making it into a blob of blood . after a few seconds the sword had dissolved completely . willing the blob to change shape , I swing it upwards .

as it moves upwards it changes it shape into a spear , string the phantom wolf biting right in the head , with sharp edge slicing of it head .

yes thats how sharp my spear is , though my armour has taken quite the few hits .but it was still sturdy .

the three phantom beasts that had been hiding had already reached this place since my killing of the phantom wolf . naturally my opponent was not weak ,if anything it was actually the strongest phantom wolf I fought .the only thing was that , first I injure him and then make him bleed . I drag out our fight , coagulating blood inside him . while I could not solidify his blood , I slowed his blood down .

this made his sluggish , slow to react and basically weakened him a lot . so the fact that he still managed to bite of my armour was an impressive show of its power . though to be honest , I could have killed him much earlier after all , I wanted the others to baited into attacking me . once they did , it would be much more easier to kill them .

if I did not , these guy would stalk me , knowing I was injured . and it was a lot messier to deal with attacks that came from nowhere . once I was ambushed by some kind of a spider when I was taking a shit . that day would have been my last , if I didn't not have an habit of keeping my sword with me at all times .

thats why I liked to eliminate all witnesses when a battle happened . also to be honest I had no chance . most beasts had no patience and usually attacked me almost immediately . many times the situation ended up becoming a free for all , which was very easy to escape from .

the same thing did not happen here . not matter how long I fought . the beasts did not attack . they are more careful , I must say. though my attack did manage enrage them enough to come and attack me .

the three phantoms beast were making their way towards me , one was some kind of tiger , another a bull and the last a frog , almost as large as me .

they were not attacking each other and were showing a lot of restraint . it was almost like they had United to fight against me . normally once they were attacked they would become like crazy monsters , attacking any living beings like crazy . to be honest this is the only reason that I have survived in the forest . whenever my opponent proves too strong , I attack one of the spectators of the battle . the end result is a chaotic fight where nobody knows who fights whom .

such kind of fights are pretty easy to escape from . sadly it seems this trick of mine mostly won't work on todays fight and I managed to invite an even bigger trouble.

anyways , the tiger which was lurking about, suddenly struck . for a second the world seemed to become a mosaic of colours , and my body weightless . at least until I hit a tree and cracked a couple of bones

it was not the tiger , I had dodged it's attack . as I got up with my chest feeling as if somebody had dropped hot iron over it , I saw that it was due to the frog .

it was retracting it's tongue back into its body , though I am not exactly sure how he is storing that gigantic tongue in its body .

I jumped to the side , feeling a strong wind pass by me . I was beginning to get up as the tiger struck again . this time my enemies strike drew blood and a lot at that . my right arm was hurting like shit . all of them had the ability of phantom so they could pass my defences .

they were a well organised team , even more then any other group I fought before. well i could only think of one way to break a machine , that was to break it's components .

right now the only weakness of this team was the toad , which was storing it's absurdly long tongue into its mouth . it has been quite a while since my fighting with the three of them .

well I could think only of one way to kill it instantly , but it would leave me in a dangerous situation with the remaining two . whatever , I don't really have much of a chance to survive in the normal way anyways .

steeling myself I hold the spear in my uninjured hand , in a throwing position and with all my strength throwing , at the same time kicking myself behind . the tiger which figured what I was about to do , tried to get a hold of my spear and failed miserably at that .

the spear whizzed through the air , but I could not get to see if it hit its target or not as the bull made another move .

now was my time to escape . I got to the nearest tree and climb it up . the bull can't really do anything about that except knock of tree and I would be on another before he can do so . the tiger is too far away , trying to save it's more unlucky comrade , which seemed to have been injured by my strike .luckily my blood control was much more stronger . I held out my hand and the spear which was embedded in the mouth of the frog came out with a jerk and began to fly towards me . as soon as I caught it , I bolted and ran jumping from tree to tree with a speed I never could achieve . now that I think about why did I never think about escaping .

it looks the beasts in the forest have rubbed of on me . I am actually becoming as suicidal as them .

(right now I interject to tell one thing I forgot to tell . theses logs of mine weren't something I had real control over , atleast then . to be honest I used to think that it was something unique to me .

but the thing was that whenever i did have these cases of super memories , I could modify them and change them .as long as I did not change too much from the core thoughts I recorded , like in this case my fight . so I used to cram it with whatever I felt was important. otherwise there was no way that I could think so much In middle of a fight and there was definitely no way that I could describe my fight in a third man's perspective . I modify the raw data to analyse and see where I made mistakes in a fight and the same time modify these records of mine to be more readable . )