Arpious of the Planes

Chapter 25 Berserk

The meat was practically cooked already so started to feast, not like I would have gotten sick from the raw meat due to my [Disease Immunity].

As soon as we finished we got up and started to search for more prey. I told Kumo that she could take her time since we don't have a deadline to get back, but she refused and said she wanted to evolve tonight.

As we walked more we found more prey such as the slugs and wolves, of the burnt variant of course. They were not much of a challenge once you knew how to kill them but as we slaughtered more prey the temperature started to rise. We looked ahead behind the trees and saw an orange glow being emitted in the distance.

[1200 XP gained]

[You leveled up]

[Servant Kumo gained 1800 XP]

[Servant Kumo leveled up (x2)]

As we dashed forward weaving in between the trees to get to the attractive glowing orange light a massive cliff face sprouted out from the ground towering hundreds of feet up. We looked around and found a giant fissure that broke straight into the cliffside. As we walked towards it the heat had started to increase to the point where it felt like [Fire Resistance] could level up at any time.

[Fire Resistance has leveled up]

Speak of the devil...

We finally arrived at the entrance of the fissure but it wasn't a fissure, the gap in the cliff quickly widened until 10 feet out it suddenly became a 100 feet wide canyon filled with volcanos from top to bottom. The volcanos were anywhere from the ground to just randomly sprouting out the ground. The bottom of the canyon also had a small lava river that was an accumulation of all the lava erupting from the surrounding volcanoes.

"Kumo did you get [Fire Resistance]?"

"Not yet, I feel... like... I'm going to pass out," she said while trembling.

I shifted my eyes towards Kumo and saw her struggling to stay conscious so we made a tactical retreat... tactical...

"You feel any better?"

"Kind of," she replied.

"... I think we should try and get you [Fire Resistance] before we enter, otherwise you'll just end up dying or getting severely injured," I suggested.

All she gave me was a slight nod which we then retreated not far into the forest. Kumo quickly recovered and we started to hunt the same monsters from before.

Fighting in the dark was much harder compared to fighting while being able to see your surroundings. Kumo was struggling the most not because of the previous incident but because Crawlers naturally have bad eyesight. She was sort of able to get around this by using [Moonlight Control] though.

After hunting for a while I realized the slugs weren't really a problem since it was very careless but the wolves were a different story.

[1800 XP gained]

[You leveled up]

[Servant Kumo gained 600 XP]

...

When we found some Burnt Berserker Wolves they were in a pack. At day time we only found ones that were by themselves but now we were spotted by a pack of ten.

As we started to back up slowly hoping that they just coincidentally looked in our direction they charged towards us. Half of them started hopping on tree branches while the others were just savagely running towards us on the ground.

We knew we couldn't fight them so we ran as fast as we could in the opposite direction. When we thought we lost them they appear right behind us. Not only were they fast but they silent as well making a deadly combo at night.

FUCK! How are we supposed to escape these guys, are we really going to have to fight them... Ah, am I really still scared... I still haven't even used my scythe... the more I think about fighting them... the more adrenaline starts pumping... I'm going to kill these bastards.

"HAHAHA, Kumo we are killing these bastards," I say with a firm tone.

I receive a nod as we turn around towards the wolves. Their bloodshot eyes seemed to give off a slight red glow in the night. I took out the scythe that I stuffed into my wing since I didn't have anything to carry it with and started to swing it around in front of me. The wolves didn't hesitate and still charged towards me. One jumped at me trying to bite my head but I parried it with the rocky handle of my scythe. After parrying it I slashed at him with my scythe cutting him in half.

This scythe is really sharp I probably should've tested it out on an actual physical thing before we went hunting. Also, why did the wolf not go up in flames, maybe it has to be alive and been touched physically for it to set on fire.

Keeping the question in my mind I used the momentum of the slash to follow up on 2 other wolves slicing them in half. After seeing it happen again I decided to go with the guess I thought of before.

After seeing their movement I realized that even though they have numbers, they don't have any teamwork like the Blood Crawlers.

...

On Kumo's side, she was slightly struggling even though she had 3 of the wolves on her. As she jumped from tree to tree she tried to weaken the wolves by cutting them so they will eventually slow down and bleed out. Even though the wolves were bleeding all over their natural [Berserk] state kept them from slowing down. Whenever they lunged at her they scratched her all over. She was probably bleeding as much as the wolves chasing her down. After realizing this she activated [Moonlight Control] forming spears but as soon as she did this her body dropped to the ground in exhaustion because she was using [Shadow Control] at the same time to still cut the wolves. Using the last of the remaining concentration she formed spears out of the shadows and sent both types of spears skewering the 3 wolves.

While Kumo finished off the 3 wolves chasing her I saw her close her eyes, probably passing out. I had 4 more wolves on me 2 of them turned their head towards Kumo, starting to drool.

*tsk*

I focus my attention on the 2 wolves going after the passed out Kumo, but the remaining wolves didn't let me. This ticked me off and out of rage I started to fire off [Thunderbolt] many times towards the 2 wolves trying to devour Kumo. None of them hit and just made small burn marks on the ground.

"ARRGGGGHHHH," I screamed.

I tried to fire off another [Thunderbolt] but nothing worked. I had a sudden flashback from a fight when I first got to this world and I quickly opened my status.

?Status?

[Name: Arpious]

[Race: Dark Siren]

[Status: None]

[Servants: 3]

[Subordinates: 6]

[Level: 5/50]

[HP: 68/110 MP: 0/80 SP: 4/30]

[Strength: 15]

[Defense: 10]

[Magic: 25]

[Speed: 15]

[Luck: 1]

[Charisma: 10]

[Skills: [******] [Thunderbolt (2/3)] [Boost (2/5)] [Scratch (3/10)] [Mind Magic] [Shadow Magic (2/10)] [Berserk] [Swipe (2/10)] [Posion Immunity] [Poison Secretion (4/5)] [Disease Immunity] [Virus] [Commanders Presence] [Army Control] [Fire Control] [Forbidden Magic: Medusa] [Fire Resistance (3/5)] [Lightning Resistance] [Water Control] [Flying Sense] [Enhanced Senses] [Enhanced Regeneration] [Horse Beetles Extreme Senses] [Liquid Fire Secretion]

[Body Modification: [Fangs] [Cursed Eyes] [Aquatic Lungs] [Metal Bones]

[Mastered Weapons: [Scythe (Partial)]

[Titles: [Blessed by ********* Spirit of *************] [Savage Assassin] [Heartless]

...

"I'm out of MP, SHIT!"

After looking at my MP I scroll my eyes down to my skills to see if anything could help me and found just one that might work.

"If this skill uses MP I'm so dead,"

[Berserk]

?Status?

[Name: Arpious]

[Race: Dark Siren]

[Status: None]

[Servants: 3]

[Subordinates: 6]

[Level: 5/50]

[HP: 68/100 (-10 MAX HP) MP: 0/80 SP: 1/30]

[Strength: 15 (+10)]

[Defense: 10 (+10)]

[Magic: 25]

[Speed: 15 (+10)]

[Luck: 1]

[Charisma: 10]

[Skills: [******] [Thunderbolt (2/3)] [Boost (2/5)] [Scratch (3/10)] [Mind Magic] [Shadow Magic (2/10)] [Berserk] [Swipe (2/10)] [Posion Immunity] [Poison Secretion (4/5)] [Disease Immunity] [Virus] [Commanders Presence] [Army Control] [Fire Control] [Forbidden Magic: Medusa] [Fire Resistance (3/5)] [Lightning Resistance] [Water Control] [Flying Sense] [Enhanced Senses] [Enhanced Regeneration] [Horse Beetles Extreme Senses] [Liquid Fire Secretion]

[Body Modification: [Fangs] [Cursed Eyes] [Aquatic Lungs] [Metal Bones]

[Mastered Weapons: [Scythe (Partial)]

[Titles: [Blessed by ********* Spirit of *************] [Savage Assassin] [Heartless]

...

My eyes turn black while the X and Diamond on my left and right eye become a deep red. As soon as I used the skill the wolves felt a chill go down their spine and started to back away from me. The wolves that were going after Kumo's body, flinched and quickly turned around. The wolves started to growl at me while they all slowly close in.

Ah, my head feels all cloudy. It's so hard to think straight right now. Wait, aren't those the wolves I and Kumo were just fighting. I don't know why but my own bloodlust is telling me to murder these guys in the cruelest way possible.

Feeling as if my scythe weighed as much as a feather, I ducked down and spun in a 360 cutting their legs off. Their fur set on fire seems to cause more pain to them but the fire had spread to their legs causing cauterization. The bleeding stopped and a sadistic smile had taken over my face. It was as if my own bloodlust was manipulating me like I was a puppet.

My arms moved up slowly and in a blur, I took their tails in 2 swings. They all tiled their heads up but before they could call for their friends, I cut the vocal cords in their throat causing them to let out small groans in pain. My body started to feel heavier and heavier so I finished them off with 1 clean-cut, cutting them straight in half.

[Berserk] had ended and I felt my eyelids getting heavy. I dropped my scythe while limping towards Kumo.

THUMP

I passed out hitting the ground right next to Kumo.