Hunting

Walking towards the jungle with Ella she turns to Lex, "I may have sort of accepted you as a potential boyfriend, however you will not really be my boyfriend until you are stronger than me and woo me properly and I will ascend soon and am younger by a month than you, so you must chase after me," she states to him as she winked at him.

Hearing this, he smiles and as they reach the outskirts of the jungle, he withdraws a chair from the system inventory.

"Take a seat darling," says Lex charmingly.

[Such a beautiful and talented girl cannot be treated badly] he says to himself.

Seeing this, she was surprised but remembered how the bodies of the giant ants disappeared and found it made sense.

Withdrawing the LVL 8 giant ant in front of her, knowing that she already knew about his inventory ability. Breaking the skull of the giant ant, he withdraws the crystal and gives it to the beautiful young girl sitting in the chair.

"Have this for some energy and a beautiful princess like you shouldn't need to hunt," expresses Lex as he begins to collect firewood.

"Not bad if you continue to woo me like this, I might actually fall for you and become your girlfriend," she remarks as she giggled cutely.

Roasting the giant ant meat, he prepares it with salt and pepper he had within the inventory and gave the skewered roasted meat to Ella.

"Eat up and relax, "he says to her respectfully as he places the skewer in her hand gently as if he was a waiter.

"But Lex I know you are trying to prove yourself but this fire will draw in all beasts in the area," she states worried as she knew the smell of roasted beast meat would draw in all the beasts in the area.

"I don't need your pity or worry and don't need your protection and will instead protect you," he retorts quite angrily as he releases the aura of an LVL 11.

He didn't want to have to rely on anyone and found that the same fault that keeps coming to haunt him was his weakness. He had already decided that this beautiful girl he felt a connection with would be protected with all his strength and he wanted to prove that he was worthy of her.

Seeing this she was surprised, "You were only LVL 5 the day before, even if you had the energy you would need to have been physically and mentally prepared, so if after a day you went up 6 LVLs you really might be worthy of me, " she exclaims in surprise and jokingly.

"I will not be weaker than my future girlfriend for long, I will not claim you as my girlfriend until I am stronger than you and we battle it out," he declares seriously.

As she heard this she just smiled and began to eat her food.

Scouting Eye.

Stretching out his eyes power as far as he could which is much more powerful now because of his LVL increase.

From the west giant black wasp beasts began to swarm in, from the north were the giant centipede beasts and from the east were furious giant ant beasts smelling the roasted meat of their brethren.

Seeing this he smiles releasing battle intent excited for battle.

[Time to test out my new dual eye in battle].

Sensing the beast coming towards the area Ella knew it was almost impossible for him to defeat them in battle, yet was holding herself back and promised she wouldn't get involved unless he was going to die as not to step on his pride, and also knew that he wasn't normal either.

Dual Eye. Lex's left eye became completely white as his right eye shined a deeper blue and had a weird symbol on it. Seeing this Ella was shocked but understood now how he could battle against 34 giant ants, stronger than me without dying.

First to come rushing to their position were the furious giant ants as they saw the body of a village leader ripped apart on the ground. The giant ant at the front releasing the most powerful aura roars as the rest of the giant ant's charge.

ZOOM. He bursts forth with all his body's power, but he was shocked by his own body's power.

[This must be when the system uses the excess energy to strengthen my body].

Feeling his body surging with power he felt absolutely no fear. sending his leg crashing into the closest giant ant, launching him flying and shattering his armour as he crashes into a tree in the distance.

"What a powerful body, now with competition I cannot slack off" she mumbles excitedly.

Although his power was nothing compared to hers, if he continued increasing in strength at this speed he will surpass her in no time, but she was suppressing herself and talent for an unknown reason.

Forming throwing knives as he jumps up, holding his body in the air for an instant and launching a throwing knife into the giant ant leaders head, but what he didn't expect was for the knife to bounce off, not even leaving a scratch.

[What strong armour, a knife with all my power didn't even leave a scratch].

Realising he may have bitten off more than he could chew, attempting to battle three powerful giant insect groups, but he was not willing to have to rely on the girl he likes and would not back down.

Forming two daggers in his hands as he uses his Telekinetic Control Eye to push his body forwards increasing his speed and power and uses his Scouting Eye to dodge the attacks of the giant ants by boosting his senses, perception and reflexes.

"ARGH" he screams in pain as a giant wasp's stinger digs into his shoulder from behind, which he saw with his Scouting Eye, but was too slow to react and was battling a giant ant.

Pulling out the stinger, clenching his teeth to bear the pain as Ella rushes towards him in worry.

But before she could help, "Please take a seat, I will be back with you shortly" he refutes as he turns towards the beasts.

[I have a strong body, but no fighting or defensive skills so I will need to rely on my eyes].

[I am so weak, but I cannot look weak in front of the girl that I like and will never let her down, which is my duty as a man and her pursuer].

Pushing his eye power to the maximum, he forms ten blades around himself as they fly around him at amazing speeds causing an offensive defence.

[The black wasp beasts are the most dangerous as they have poison, can fly and have long distance attacks, so I must take them out first].

Withdrawing his Scouting Eye and boosting his Telekinetic Control Eye, although straining his eyes massively, he lifts himself and zooms towards the flying black wasps with the blades flying around him.

Charging straight in he realises the one who shot their stinger at him is producing another one, however it takes nearly 10 seconds which in a battle between levellers could be the length of the whole battle.

As he rushes in, he charges straight at the wasp recharging, the other wasps began to shoot their stingers at him and surround the wasp protecting him.

The blades flying around him sliced everything in his vicinity as black blood splattered everywhere as unlike the giant ant beasts and the giant centipedes the wasps don't have any armour.

With his dagger in hand and the flying knives slicing anything in his way he slashes at the recharging wasps throat as black blood splattered on his face.

Seeing this the black wasps were afraid and retreated, and although he wanted to give chase, he felt the wasp poison kicking in as his body felt sluggish and heavy.

Only due to his determination and strong body was he able to move, others in his position would be paralysed.

Landing his body as his eyes and body were aching, he hears the sounds of a stampede as if thousands of legs are stamping on the ground as giant centipedes swarm the area.

[Damn it, I cannot look weak like this in front of Ella, I will not give up].

Ella wants to jump in and stop the battle, however knew better than to join in on Lex's battle as it would be stepping on his pride and getting in the way of him pushing past his limits. However, she was on standby ready to protect him at any moment.

Steadying his body and clenching his teeth prepared for the pain he slashes his own shoulder as blood pours out, but with the blood was some black liquid as most of the wasp poison had not yet circulated fully and was flowing out as he howls in pain.

"You crazy idiot you don't have to do this just to prove yourself, I already believe in you, just let me help you" she pleads in worry as she sees te one that she felt similarity with, push himself so hard to prove himself to her.

He turns to her with a brave smile on his face and blood leaking from his mouth, "No need to worry about me and enjoy the gap for now, as I will be the one to protect you just like I pledged before" he declares seriously burning with determination.

Seeing this she sat down without refuting but was also on edge and cautiously prepared to intervene at any given moment.

"Time to kick some ass, " he roars in encouragement for himself.