Saiki was frighteningly calm even in a life-or-death situation.
The man... Or rather, the Stray Devil in front of him, until then, had been watching him as if looking at a piece of meat, still deciding how he should prepare it.
Boil or fry?
Lv.28.
Obviously he was confident. To have that level, it must grant him a certain level of power.
Saiki, on the other hand, must seem to be just a little stronger than an ordinary human.
If he was right, the noise he made while training must have attracted the attention of this Stray Devil, which is why he didn't see him attack with more force.
'If that's the case, it works better for me...'
Involuntarily, he tightened his grip around the baseball bat.
"W-Who are you?"
Saiki's voice was convincingly fearful. Like anyone seeing an unknown man with a frightening appearance.
Just as predicted, the Stray Devil's smile widened.
"Kekeke."
A laugh full of amusement echoes.
The Stray Devil "falls" forward, spinning in the air and lands on the ground perfectly.
It was also in the middle of the spin that he changed even more, gaining an even more bizarre form.
His hands and legs became longer, especially the hands that almost touched the ground. The fingers of his hands had sharp black nails, the veins in his arms stood out in dark green, and his mouth tore at the sides, opening wide enough to be able to bite half of Saiki's head.
'Scary!!'
Again, before he could panic, Saiki found himself calming down thanks to the skill <Gamer's Mind>.
However, after analyzing calmly once he had calmed down, he decided it was better to pretend to be scared.
"Ahhhh!"
He screamed, a convincing scream while taking steps back, waving the baseball bat with his left hand: "D-Don't come closer?!!"
The creature closed its mouth, but soon opened it a little, letting out a perverse little laugh: "Kekeke. You smell so good. I'm really going to love savoring you~" The source of this chapter is novelping(.)com.
A lizard tail extended behind him. It was dark green and scaly.
His feet became more curved like those of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
His eyes also changed, becoming large, round, and bulging.
'Damn, am I in a goddamn horror movie!?'
Again, he felt fear because of the terrifying appearance of this Stray Devil.
The urge to turn and run was strong, but doing that now would be the same as throwing himself into the arms of Lady Death.
With one hand behind his back, he hid it while the other was still pretending to use the baseball bat to protect himself.
That pitiful appearance of his seemed to please the monster, which extended its forked tongue outward.
With his life on the line, Saiki doesn't dare be careless. After all, he wasn't in PhD.
On his back, the skill <Energy Bolt> was accumulating MP.
With every step of the creature, he calculated the ideal moment to attack.
Luckily, this Stray Devil seemed to be the type that likes to see the fear of its prey.
"What are you hiding?" The creature seems to have noticed something.
However, his lack of intelligence and caution did not make him stop, but rather, advance faster upon seeing something shining behind Saiki.
Meanwhile, all of Saiki's farce was gone. His expression changed to indifference. The hidden hand gradually reveals itself.
When the creature saw the sphere that now was almost the size of a soccer ball, it felt threatened.
"Bastard, you lured me into a trap?" The Stray Devil's expression twisted, veins pulsing on his enormous forehead: "I'm going to-"
"Die!"
Saiki shouted, interrupting him.
Whoosh!
At less than 10 meters away, the creature couldn't escape. Therefore, it crossed its arms in front of its body in a protective stance. A blue crest is created, with letters spinning.
SHATTER
"Ahhhhh!"
The Stray Devil screamed at the top of its lungs, whether to have more strength, or even from pain.
Crack
Crack
Crack
A crack of bones breaking, then two, then three, until the creature's arms hung at its sides, limp, and the attack continued, crashing against the creature's chest that had already been dragged backward, but this time, instead of being dragged, it was more like a truck at 100 KM/h hitting a person head-on.
Booom!
When the Stray Devil slammed its back against a tree, the mass of energy exploded both the creature and the tree.
Saiki, who had used all of his MP in this attack, was breathing with difficulty with a pale face.
[Critical Damage!]
[You inflicted 3.777 damage]
[The level of <Energy Bolt> increased.]
[You obtained 12.885 EXP.]
[Level Up!]
With the notification of him leveling up, all of his MP was restored, just as the color of his face returned.
"Phew. That was close..."
If it had been against a more intelligent creature with better instincts, he would be in deep trouble...
Storing the baseball bat in the inventory, he begins to move away from that place first.
The last thing he wanted right now was to end up running into even more problems.
This time he got lucky, but he couldn't expect to be lucky always.
'In the end, it was a terrible choice to come train in such an isolated place... And, that creature said I have a delicious smell. I need to be careful...'
Saiki imagined that this was due to the pure energy he obtained thanks to the orbs of light.
Just as the rabbits inside the PhD seem delicious to him, the same must apply to other predators that have a good sense of smell upon seeing him.