A red and silver beast core appeared releasing a thick cloud, It twisted and shaped itself as Damon completely lost consciousness.
[IN ROUTE]
"Taper, how long do we have until we reach underworld planet 0-5 Sactus." Spoke a man wearing a white overcoat with slick back green hair.
"It'll be a few more days. At least four to five sir Cason." The man responded.
"Good, I will update Master Bell."
He walked down a few halls and Into a large break room. A very muscular dark brown woman stood in one corner of the room. Her orange buzzcut hair along with the long scar on her face made her look very rough.
In another corner sitting was a man with yellow long hair that hung to the floor. His head was leaned back with a large black hat covering half his face.
Standing by the door was another man with silver hair and purple eyes wearing all black including a dark purple cloak.
"You three know what we are after, keep in mind that is our primary goal and It will be carried out by Mr. Bell himself.
"Well, are going to have some fun ourselves this time, or is Master Bell going to do the work solo like usual?." Spoke a low and slow churning voice. It was the silver hair man with dark clothing that spoke.
"Depends on his mood and the situation, I wouldn't get my hopes up. You three are here for insurance and to look for the boys if we can't pinpoint the location of the portal they came in once we arrive.
"Well, looks like another mission we won't get to do squat, why do Master Bell send for us, then we end up not doing a damn thing." Spoke the man sitting in the chair briefly lifting the large hat from over his face.
"Come on Loco, you know Master just loves our company, plus it makes him feel better knowing we're around on mission like these. Said the manly woman.
Cason briefed them on their possible mission and the possible outcome before he left the room entering into another where Mr. Bell was sitting on the floor holding a bright blue and pink core. Cason stood there patiently for over thirty minutes as Bell whispered to the core over and over again cradling the core like it was a new born baby.
Opening his eyes and seeing Cason, he got up placing it inside a large glass container that retracted inside a wall.
"I've waited fourteen years for this moment Cason, However something tells me this is all a trick. If so I have a few things in mind if everything goes south, put operation obliterate on standby and have everything prepared."
"Yes Master, according to tapper we should arrive in four or five days. We've jumped multiple galaxies entering into an area that hasn't been explored in a very long time, fortunately we haven't run into any ships or have been contacted by other races."
"Yes, I'm aware, I believe all of these planets lack technology, we will go along with everything as planned."
"What about the boys Master Bell?.
" We will attempt to find them, we should be able to pinpoint the areas they briefly used the space beacon to contact us with."
Mr. Bell turned and looked at Cason with stern eyes. "if I perish, everything goes to you Cason. You finish our work and find another way."
"Of course Master Bell."
[ CLOUD BEAST.]
"Ahhhh "
Jumping up clutching his chest, Damon looked around in confusion as his eyes began adjusting. He groaned in pain as his body ached all over. It took a few seconds for him to gather his thoughts, but once he did, he notice he couldn't feel one of his arms and left leg. Looking, his left arm and leg were shattered, from his ankle to his knee the bone was sticking out with hanging flesh and blood dripping all around him. His arm was broken, and looked worse.
Wincing in unbearable pain, blood seeped from his lips as his breathing was very rough and shallow. A few of his ribs were broken and a unnerving pain constantly shot through his body.
Blinking in red was his health along with a notification.
[ Health - 15/500]
[Warning your health is extremely low. Blood loss has reached critical levels.]
"I'm, I'm not dead." He muttered weakly.
Hearing foot steps near him, He called out to Calvus and fang thinking he was saved by them, but as he tilted his head off the ground a large beast gazed at him with white cloudy eyes.
Its fur was gold and it stood on six legs with six inch claws that dug into the ground with each step. Gold flakes flew up as it shook it's body, with its bear like head it walked over to Damon slowly, carefully nudging him with its nose.
Damon heart skipped multiple times, he thought he was about to surely die, but the second it made contact with him, a notification came to his view.
[Cloud beast of chamber one - A beast manipulated through its soul core by the unique skill core cloud.]
If it wasn't for the notification Damon would have just rolled over and died from fright. It took him a few seconds to come to terms, but he weakly smirked while looking at the beast in awe. He couldn't believe it, luck was on his side yet again. He wisped out a bottle of alleviate elixir and was fully healed within seconds.
Getting up he looked around noticing he was in a burrow of some kind. It wasn't extremely big, large enough for him to stand and walk around a few meters. Turning his attention to his new savior a feeling of gratitude filled his heart.
"You saved me and brought me here didn't you." He asked while slowly touching the beast fur.
It shook its head up and down and walked behind him going to a small dark corner. As it turned around a large black scaled beast was in its jaws, It dragged its long body to his feet and dropped it.
[Great horned snake mid level maturity, partially infected- A beast that can rapidly steal stamina away from its prey by headbutting.]
[Strength - stamina drain and it's strong constricting power.]
[Weakness - cutting off or breaking the horn of the beast makes it vulnerable as it's stamina will drain quickly instead of its prey.]
A burning rage filled Damon's eyes as he tightened his fist and stomped on its head in anger. He then took out both tomahawks and hacked away until its head was separated. He stared at the snake beast for an entire minute, boiling with rage.
"Bastard almost killed me." He said grinding his teeth.
"Thank you for saving my life." He turned to the beast and said.
Ding!
[Cloud beast of chamber one has to be given a name. Retract your beast by closing cloud chamber one.]
Reading the message brought calmness to his mind, he was still very pissed, but thankful he was alive.
He sat down instructing the beast to come to him, rubbing on its body, looking closely it had a slight resemblance of the bull bear beast they killed back at home base.
It made sense because he used its soul core to test his unique skill, he had no clue it did such a thing, but he was beyond happy with the results. The bull bear beast they killed in the cave was a high matured beast.
Seeing his beast had a soul level meant it could get stronger as well, that alone made him more pleased and determined. To think he now had a beast in his control, he smiled looking at the dirt and rooted ceiling of the burrow, thinking how lucky he was to receive the system. It had saved him more times than he could count.
" if it wasn't for its remarkable power, I would have perished a long time ago." he thought looking at the empty bottle of alleviate elixer.
"I can't just give you a random name, It has to mean something, let's hold off the naming stuff for now."
The beast threw its head in his arms nudging him more, in which Damon looked into its cloudy eyes that now had a slight shimmer of gold flakes floating around. It's face was much like a grizzly bear, but instead it had a mane around its neck like a lion and huge horns that came out the side of its head bending straight back. It was much bigger than him, big enough for him to ride on and so Damon slowly hopped on its back.
Now that he had himself a companion. He made up his mind to go after all the craft materials he could. He still felt like it was a dumb choice, but he was already out in the wilderness with no true plan besides getting to home base. He decided to just go for the crafting items he could possibly find on the way there.
He stored the snake and received a message.
[You have a partially infected soul beast core. Attempting to analyze..... Attempt failed.]
[Soul beast core cannot be used due to a soul infection. For more information you must fully awaken the system.]
He noted the message as he had no clue what an infected core was, he didn't even know soul cores could get infected. Damon pulled out some grilled meat he had tucked away in his storage, he wanted to see how real the beast was.
Was it just an intelligent form his clouds could take on, mimicking a beast or was it really a full on rebirth of a beast. He figured it was a fake beast in a sense assuming it probably wouldn't eat, but he was wrong as it swallowed the grilled meat in seconds.
The beast was as real as any other beast and it was born from his power. Thinking back he recalled what the dragon Radix had said. The system was a something that could bring revolution with evolution.
Thinking for a minute his eyes got bright with excitement. Going into his inventory he took out the Grand prime beast core.
[ Warning activating core cloud harvest for beast cores of the prime level involves great time due to core cloud level, recommendation.....save core to turn into a weapon after establishing a soul bond.]
Lookingat the message for a while, he decided to trust the system.
He threw that idea out of his head and while Looking through his inventory. He realized he was almost out of water. Looking at the time there was no use in going anywhere, He was safe for now and needed to complete his daily task.
Over six hours later he was done and it was dark, the beast just laid by the entrance watching outside. He eventually figured out he could give commands by thinking of a command and the beast understood as they established a mind link of some sorts. He could feel the beast emotions somehow making him feel very strange.
He called Calvus thinking about how much time had passed while resting his back against the wall.
"Dude, we've called you a hundred times,we thought you were dead or lost your comms device, where the hell are you. "
Damon explained to them he had run into a bit of trouble and had to hide.
"I didn't answer for the fear of the beasts I was hiding from would hear us. I'm in the clear now and should be until morning." He explained.
It turned out Damon wasn't the only one that had run into trouble. They all did and managed to get away or deal with it, they each explained their encounters and Calvus had run into something he called a rabid beast.
"I'm telling you guys, It's something going on with this planet. I mean you should have seen this thing, it was like some kind of prehistoric raptor bird or something, It couldn't fly, but had wings. "
"Dude, I'm telling you, it's aura was crazy and it looked deformed or something. I made it follow an image of mines leading it one way while I went another. If it wasn't for the cover of the forest I doubt I would have gotten away. " Calvus explained In a serious, but upy tone.
Damon mixed in a bit of the truth with his encounter, but fabricated many lies as well, he also stated he ran into a beast that seemed off its rocker than most beasts.
As they spoke, the thought of the snake beast ignoring the intense pressure of false will made him nervous, especially after learning it was at the mid level.
They talked for a little longer before ending their call. The beast laid near Damon while he mentally looked around through the system planning his next move.
[New Status.]
[Name/Race: Damon Blade/????]
[Health -500/500.]
[Plasma pool- 150/150.]
[Soul level-20]
[Exp-140/3000.]
[Attribute points-0/15]
Strength -28
Speed - 19
Agility -15
Vitality -18
Ability Stamina - 23
Luck-34
Will-0
The new item he chose to craft for the day was another elixer. One that enhanced his senses.
[Sixth sense Elixer - increase natural awareness for 24 hours. Warning side effects can cause lack of sleep and anxiety.]