Checking his status, Erian's nuclear energy points started to increase with every second that passed, weakening the beast bit by bit. The sharp edges of the steel-like horn made his hands bleed.
But the rate of absorption is very slow and would probably take more than three minutes to fully absorb all of its energy. It could be because it was still alive and was struggling against the absorption.
The beast kept shoving Erian backwards making Erian wonder whether his system made a mistake and this beast was actually not a Twin-horned crocodile but a raging bull in disguise.
Several seconds passed and the beast was actually showing signs of weakening! Its pushing force was slowing down and it appears to be panting quite heavily.
Suddenly, the beast seem to have noticed something was wrong and wiggled its horn that was stuck within the metal sheet.
This action was abrupt. Originally, Erian didn't have as much grip on the metal sheet as the Twin-Horned Crocodile but he held the steel horn of the beast tightly, not daring to let go. The beast struggled even more violently against Erian.
A sudden crack sound reverberated and the metal-like horn broke into two from the two massive opposing forces.
"ROAR!" The Twin-Horned Crocodile roared furious, seeing one of its horns had been broken, it shook even more violently making Erian completely exposed. The metal sheet flung sideways from the force.
Erian's eyes widened, he didn't mean to break its horn, making it angrier. In fact, he was hoping to pacify it.
The seven inches long horn couldn't even count as a sword and he had only absorbed a quarter of the beast's nuclear energy when it made its abrupt action.
A tail swished through the air, slapping towards Erian the moment he was revealed. As though expecting it, Erian was quick to roll sideways, evading the attack of the beast.
With his current strength, he knew there was no way he would be able to kill the beast barehanded. Its body was literally as hard as metal. But with the sharp horn in his hands, he was a bit confident.
Utilising all of his strength, warm streaks of energy gathered beneath his feet. Erian stomped down heavily, and the ground compressed downwards against his feet.
Erian's body shot forwards like an arrow, his speed seem to have increased by two folds.
The Twin-horned crocodile slapped its sharp claws towards Erian's chest, but its action was a bit too slow.
Erian arrived at the side of the beast in the blink of an eye.
"Puchi!"
The sharp horn broke through the beast's armour skin and stabbed deeply into the neck of the Twin-horned crocodile.
Blood splattered on Erian's face and the beast roared in extreme panic and fear. Erian's gritted his teeth, feeling his hands being slashed by the sharp edges of the horn, he pushed even deeper.
The horn stabbed five inches deep, but seem to be stuck in the neck bones of the Twin-horned Crocodile.
Erian took his hands back as though he had given up. Jumping upwards, Erian's body was now parallel to the ground. Stream of energies flowed into his legs and he kicked against the horn.
"Crack!"
A massive force exploded from Erian's feet, pushing abruptly against the horn as it crushed through the bone, puncturing deeply into the neck of the Twin-horned crocodile.
Seeing this Erian instantly felt relieved but his hair stood on end as he saw an enormous tail reflexively whacked towards him.
In mid-air, Erian could do nothing but curl his body in the air to shield himself.
"Bang!"
He was blasted into the ground like a cannonball! Erian felt his internal organ shake and he vomited a mouth full of blood, rolling and landing on the ground with a thud.
Erian lay on the ground panting heavily. His eyes glanced towards the Twin-horned beast who laid unmoving three meters away.
Pain stabbed through his entire body and he felt like a wrecked doll. He couldn't even feel his left arm anymore.
Erian smiled bitterly. A Level Eight beast wasn't that simple to deal with after all. Since he had easily dealt with the Iron-skin Dwarve Rattus, Erian had thought that he might be able to deal with the Twin-horned crocodile but it appears that the Twin-horned crocodile is even more aggressive and the Iron-skin Dwarve Rattus was very very docile.
They couldn't possibly be able to compare to each other. While the Twin-horned crocodile excelled in strength and defence, the Iron-skin Dwarve Rattus excelled in speed.
Erian struggled up, holding his arm while limping towards the unmoving beast. He didn't directly move close to the beast and instead checked its status.
[Name: Twin-Horned Crocodile]
[Status: Dead]
[Level: Eight]
[Quality: Normal]
[nuclear Energy: 920 points]
[Effect: Skin as though as metal. Meat can increase one's strength when eaten over a long period of time.]
[Extractable: Two sharp horns which can be forged into weapons. It's skin can be used for soft iron. It's tongue for pharmaceutical purposes.]
[Too weak to form Extractable DNA particles ]
[Absorbable]
Erian breathed out a sigh of relief and rested on the body of the dead beast. The absorption of energy this time was very fast and in less than three seconds, the entire nuclear energy had been sucked into Erian's body.
"Hmph!" Erian groaned in pain, his face looking extremely pale with sweat dripping from his face. Finally, he clenched his hand, forming a fist. He managed to reset his dislocated arm.
Erian cautiously peeked at his surroundings. The Syringes in this part of the Waste station appears untouched, unlike the ones at the periphery of the waste dump which appeared to have been searched thoroughly for serum residuals.
But here, Erian was stunned. With the assistance of the system, every syringe here seem to contain serum residue. In fact, he had spotted three syringes half-filled with serums within, making him gasp in excitement!
"I'm going to be rich! Very rich!" Erian mumbled dazedly. As he checked the numerous serums, his eyes inadvertently glanced towards the inner part of the waste dump and then he frowned slightly.
There were greenish and yellowish grasses before him and then even further were large grasses and even trees.
'Is that a forest!?'