95. A raging humanoid beast

Even Robert was surprised at how easily he was able to counterattack the beast. Robert needed to constantly remind himself that as a ghoul his overall stats were dependent on his creator. And as he had one of the strongest creators; Abraham, Robert was extremely strong. He was not on par with Abraham in terms of stats that he could easily kill a humanoid beast but Robert had the ability to win.

However, as Robert had finished that thought, the roots in the Likmorn's legs contracted, then pushed off the ground, propelling it forward like some type of spring. It was now directly in Robert's face in a matter of seconds.

It swung its arm out and Robert could see the blade. With his reaction speed, he was able to react to the attack and evade the attack. As the beast continued to swing its arms about causing a flurry of swipes, Robert had to continuously defend to avoid being cut.

But Robert was not just defending. While evading each attack, he was analyzing the pattern that the beast was fighting and how much time interval each attack took. As he found the perfect moment, an uppercut fist that was encased in Qi, was aiming toward the beast's belly. It was an attack Robert had never done before.

"You damn tree fall!" He shouted as he plunged his fist right into the center of its belly. Vibrations and pressure of wind came out from the attack, and the beast had been moved a foot back as it slightly hurled and arched its back forward. Black blood was now pouring out from the wound. Robert dashed by its side and gave a horizontal kick aiming for the head.

Reacting quickly, the humanoid beast lifted one of its blade hands to protect its head. The strength from the attack was so intense that the bladed hand got separated from the beast's body and its whole body again got thrown some distance from the fight location.

The Likmorn was laying flat on the ground while Robert was still standing with any wound. The group was never expecting such a massacre to happen as they had never seen Robert in full action. The rest were already celebrating victory but Abraham knew that the beast was not yet done.

Suddenly, the beast's wound started to bleed less. It looked like some vine-like structures were starting to cover the wound. Next, from the wound, a little stump was starting to grow. As the stump started to grow it looked like it was forming another hand, at the same time, the beast was getting smaller in size. As if he was taking his mass from one area and placing it in another.

When it was all done. The beast once again had two-bladed limbs that shined like Jade. Only now, it was roughly the same height as a regular human. It was ready for round two.

Using the same spring-like motion from its legs, the beast was once again in front of Robert and began to swing its blade with a vigorous motion.

But it felt like the beast was doing a useless attempt as Robert was able to evade all of them. Robert was doing the usual and stepping to the side to get in the blind spot of the beast that was until he found himself stuck in place.

Looking down, he found vines coming out from the Likmorn's legs wrapping around his own. A humanoid was considered dangerous for this reason. Unlike other beasts, it had intelligence and was able to adapt in fights.

Instead of making a down motion with its blade hand, the beast thrust forwards. The blade pierced through him easily, and now Robert was attached to the beast via its extended root arm.

"ROBERT" As soon as Gwen saw the blade impaled Robert, she cried out his name.

But the Liknorm was not done. The beast stood upright and lifted its arm that was attached to Robert. The two were lifted up high a few meters up in the air before it used a strong force slamming him down into one of the buildings off to the side. The building crumbled down on top of Robert's body as he was thrown down. The beast retracted its arm from the fallen building and now was focused on the group.

But as it took a few steps coming closer to the group, the beast heard noises coming from the destroyed building.

From the crumbled building off to the side. One of the larger slabs of walls was pushed to the side. The dust started to settle and Robert could be seen underneath it, covered in wounds and blood. Most of his bones had been broken, and it was painful to even lift his body up. But at the same time, being a ghoul, Robert's regenerative ability was working extremely rapidly.

Seeing this, the beast started to feel rage. After all that was done, it was still not able to eliminate its opponent.

Soon the Liknorm's appearance started to change. The green roots that covered, and formed the muscle structure of the beast, were now glowing slightly red.

Abraham could tell what had happened to the beast. It was now in Rage Mode. Something only beasts at a higher tier could do. When they felt in danger, or their life was jeopardized, a beast could go into a rage mode.

With this, the maximum amount of energy from the crystal inside them would pump around their body. Beasts rarely went into this mode, due to the fact they could only go into it once. If all the energy from the crystal was used up while in rage mode. They would die and no longer exist.

It was a move only used in desperate times. The other problem was if a beast was killed while it was in rage mode, the crystal obtained from it would be useless. Travelers would often try their best to defeat the beast before it ever entered rage mode.

It was clear though, a beast in rage mode was a lot stronger.

As both Robert and the humanoid beast were preparing to face off again, they and the group were overwhelmed by a huge pressure.