Chapter 2: Desperate struggle

"What the hell was that?!" Blade asked no one in particular

What did he just see?

A grade 2 beast comparable to a magnetic manipulator!

This was really dangerous! He didn't have a good combat gear in the first place and was even sneak attacked by a grade 2 beast.

If not for his wealth of experience, he would have been a dead man now.

The grade 2 Black Mamba didn't give Blade more time, but that was enough for him to place the battle on a more favorable side for him.

Instantly, a fierce fight unfolded between man and beast. Blade closed in and struck the snake underneath the belly but just as he expected he heard a loud 'clang' and his Blade was repelled.

He looked at the scales of the snake and observed that it just had tiny scratches, Blade frowned, that wasn't the defense of a grade 2 Black Mamba..

Unless, it was on the cusp of becoming a grade 3 and was looking for energy for its breakthrough. At this moment, Blade grew a bit angry.

"You dare to think of this Blade as food?" Blade asked the snake as he kept harassing it intermittently. Though he was struggling to hold it off, he still persevered as a form of training.

"..."

No one replied.

"Fine! I shall take your silence as a yes" Blade declared then with interweaving strokes, hit some parts of the snake's body slapped an anti magnetic film on its skin and then the snake became paralysed temporarily.

Instantly Blade dashed forward to the snake's den in the car and saw a scene: an egg, surrounded by a wreck of magnetised metal.

"Holy cow!" Blade exclaimed. There was a car that had absorbed magnetic elements and become filled with dense magnetic energy after suffering a wreck from the magnetic storm. It was in this vehicle that the snake made it's den.

Within a split second, he turned around to face the snake and said,

"You stupid creature you actually stole from me!"

If the snake had intelligence, it would definitely had protested the fact that Blade was lying shamelessly.

"Ha! Today, there is no reconciliation between us. It's either you die or I die" Blade said and charged forward as he raised his weapon.

Slither, slither!!? The snake hissed and finally broke free from the anti Magnetic film around it.

The creature then began to gather energy, although it couldn't uderstand why, this human was very annoying to it and it had to deal with him fast.

Immediately the creature started gathering energy, Blade knew that he had to strike now, rather than later or else he might just become another bone on the ground.

The signature move of the grade 2 black Mamba was it's magnetic lock down skill. Although, it was not as strong as the ability of a Grade 3 beast, it was infinitely close to it.

The magnetic lockdown was differeent from the gravity area it unleashed the other time. Then, it used it's primary ability as a Grade 2 beast to control the magnetic field in an area to increase the pressure on other bodies in the area. This was how gravity was performed through magnetism.

Blade closed in on it as the concentration of energy in the body of the snake got denser and denser. All of a sudden, it opened it's mouth.

"It's now or never!" Blade grunted to himself as he pushed his hands forward and threw two metal objects towards it's mouth.

Blade felt a pang of pain in his chest while doing this. Those two objects were level 2 field disablers. They were quite costly to get and had almost drained him of his savings. They actually cost a total of 25 black mags!

With expectancy, Blade waited for the disablers to take effect when he saw an astonishing sight.

The snake broke the disabling field without much effort and kept powering up.

"Son of a b*tch! This thing is upgrading forcefully" Blade almost peed himself at this uncommon sight.

Even if it was a newly promoted Grade 3 beast, he stood no chance against it. Although it would be in a weakened state, after forcefully promoting it was still possible for it to kill him 5 times over.

Blade began considering the possibility of withdrawing before it was too late. After considering it for a bit, he gritted his teeth and moved towards the snake with his hand held blade. His calculations had revealed a 30% probability of success. That was his driving force. As far as he had a chance of success, he would hold on to it.

With all the strength he could muster, he thrust the blade towards it's lower abdomen once more. The snake just looked at him in disdain, then the next moment, a clang was heard and the blade got blocked again.

Blade started to feel despair rising. How was he supposed to tackle this beast?

Before Blade could withdraw, at a speed so fast the snake moved and everything that happened next looked like a blur. By the time he came to his senses, the snake's tail had wrapped around him and began constricting around him.

It was over! Blad felt hopeless, the beast had finished upgrading and he had still forced himself to look for that slim chance of success.

Did he regret it? No, he didn't because he would still do the same thing if he was place I'm such situation again. Was this how he was going to die? Blade questioned himself.

No, he couldn't die now. He was not ready for all of this but then, pain brought him back to reality.

A terrible force that could crush bones was transmitted to Blade's body and then the snake opened it's mouth to bite.

It's fangs were long and black, it's breath had a foul stench to it and then Blade waited for the darkness to engulf him as he prayed for a painless death.