RB Chapter 16 Victory And Terror Itself!

If you looked closely, you could see that Leah's legs from her waist had merged and turned into a snake tail. The wide waist had somehow gotten smaller in favor of a long tail.

Her heart skipped a beat while she had been poised to strike.

This time she trusted her instincts and unwound herself from the body of the beast, instantaneously launching herself above it.

She looked under and saw the parts where her snake body had been coiled around had the black fur standing up straight like needles!

If she had been any slower, her body would have been skewered!

The beast landed on the ground and so did she!

'What great control of its cells!' She praised in her mind.

Only the places in contact with her body had spiked fur.

'This beast is troublesome! But I can't lose!'

They circled each other vigilantly. She was slithering now as she was still in her snake form.

The greatness of this virtual world came in the form of not needing ATP shots to transform...in other words, you didn't have to worry about energy.

That had been a probing attack for both her and the beast. What was next, was going to be the actual battle!

This time, the beast didn't wait long before it struck!

It turned into a blur aiming for her! This time, it opened its massive mouth! It was heading in for a bite!

'I need to take some risks!' Leah thought to herself!

She tapped her tail on the ground and leaped up to meet the beast in midair.

The moment she was mere inches away from the mouth, she contorted her body, bypassing it, and coiling herself around the neck.

This time she acted faster! Her fangs sunk in before its fur reacted! The fangs drilled into the skin and deadly venom was pumped into the beast.

The moment it landed, the fur around its neck sprang up and Leah felt her symor(symbiotic armor) being pierced through!

She tried to shift her organs away from near the beast's skin but the needles elongated this time and passed through her body.

"Aaaaaaaah!" She let lose a scream of pain but she still didnt let up! Her fangs sank in deeper even though some needle like fur had also penetrated deep into her mouth.

Voluminous amounts of venom passed through the hollow fangs and into the beast's body.

It wasn't idle! Seeing that Leah wasn't letting go even thought the needles had pierced her, it ran around and rammed into trees, specifically the part of the neck Leah was coiled around.

The impacts caused her to spit out blood but she didn't let up!

'I must win! If I want to surpass that woman I must have an iron will!'

She started feeling her eyes becoming blurry and was in the verge of losing consciousness but she held on by sheer will!

She didn't know how long the beast went on its rampage but she started gaining awareness of her surrounding after sometime.

Her body was regenerating her injuries and she felt the spike like fur was no longer inside her body.

She unwound herself from the neck of the beast and resumed her human form. Except for the internal organs which hadn't completely healed and her pale countenance, outside, she looked like she had fully recovered from her injuries.

She was covered in blood, red in color, most of it was hers.

She was panting heavily as she stared at the collapsed beast but joy could be seen concealed deep in her eyes.

'My first hunt!' Feelings of excitement and exhilaration were gushing through her! She felt like screaming but she rationally chose to ignore that train of thought.

The beast's carcass was giving off a raced smell as it shrunk! Her venom had acidic and corrosion properties like the rest of her clan members.

Normal venom didn't work on the creatures of this generation, so they had tweaked their DNA abit, not as much as Eric.

This venom, even if it wasnt injected into the beast's system, and had landed on its fur, it could have corroded and dissolved it!

'I wish I had the spit mechanism, but that means gene editing! And I will have to wait until the holidays!' [Some creatures like the spitting cobra can eject venom by contracting their muscles in a certain way! She could either learn it or just add the genetic information and instantaneously get it.]

"Wha-Blood!!!"

She saw red gushing from her right arm...where her arm had been! A blur had passed by and poof!...it simply vanished!

'What happened!' She tried to come up with a plausible explanation but failed.

The gushing blood stopped in a matter of seconds as her cells automatically sealed off the blood vessels. And that's when she heard it!

A munching sound from the front! She had been so caught up in the missing arm that she had failed to register anything in her surrounding!

White fur! So beautiful it glistened in the beam of light that she was entranced momentarily!

then she looked at the eyes! And then...utter terror!

Those emotionless red eyes were gazing at her as sharp pointed teeth crushed a finger and devoured it in an instant!

Its tiny arms were pushing more of the arm into its cavernous looking mouth simply too large to be linked to this small creature!

It was at ease, like anything Leah tried to do wouldn't faze it in the least!

It was like a rabbit but each if its eye sockets had two red pupils and its mouth almost reached all the way to the back of its head! It only reached up to her knees even when standing on its hind legs like now.

The beast and the girl stared at each other...the girl was simply frozen in terror while the beast was calmly munching on her right arm.

Leah could feel it! The chill in her bones! This creature wasn't at the same level as the beast she had just killed!

Its stealth, speed and deadliness were simply on another level!

She noticed that part of its body which was covered by the shadow of the canopy wasn't white, but black! So dark it almost seemed to absorb all light!

'Its fur is white in light, but dark in shadows!?'

It proceeded to lick its fingers when the last of her hand entered its belly.

'I need to run! Legs! Move!'

But it all failed!

A white blur was all she saw before the creature vanished from her eyes!

Blood spurted from her left! Once again an arm had been taken!

It was playing, toying with her!

This time, the munching was coming from her back, but she didn't have the courage to turn around!

The pain from her torn off arms was too unbearable but, she was too terrified to even scream! Beads of sweat were rolling down her face from holding in the pain and the terror!

'Save me! Someone please!' She prayed desperately

Logging out of this virtual world could only be initiated upon your death or back in the city.

Her symor was like a piece of paper to the beast which didn't seem to have any problem on devouring the armor covered arm!

"Eric! You have to protect me!"

She heard a familier voice coming from the front.

She was elated but she still didn't dare to let out any voice invade the beast killed her! She didn't want to die because she had heard that it was painful! Though she was currently wondering whether it was as painful as her current pain!

"Hmm!?" A sound of surprise leaked out if the boy who had just walked out of the foliage! His deep blue eyes locked with hers before they took in the entire scene!

"Ohhh!" Someone screamed! It seemed he had bumped into the person in front!

"Hey! Why did you stop..." His words stopped there.

"Leah!" He called out and ran towards her.

She was too terrified to even issue a warning!

Eric, the one with the deep blue eyes yanked Elec back.

"Why did you stop me! Can't you see her state! We have to save her!" He shouted with his spittle flying everywhere.

"Something dangerous is behind her!" He said in a lowered voice.

The rabbit, had just finished eating and vanished to stand atop Leah's head!

It looked at the new comers with it'd emotionless eyes.

Elec froze! Even Eric had his hair standing on end! Electric arcs raced in their eyes and hair...an instinctive reaction to a powerful enemy!

Eric moved his right hand to the hilt of the sword at his hip. He had somehow put the trembling Elec behind himself.

'This rabbit is dangerous! We might not get out of this alive!' Eric rationally calculated the chances of survival.

The scabbard, started flashing with arcs of electricity. He was preparing an attack.

This blade, had been gotten from a store in the virtual city! It worked on the principle of electromagnetic repulsion by making the inside of the scabbard repel the blade such that it achieved an unimaginable velocity! It was a weapon tailored for the Masanyalaze clansmen.

SYMOR>symbiotic armor which can only be made by using the genetic material of the user as the core, only the ten clans have the technology to produce it for now.