Chapter 58: The Primal King

Chapter 58: The Primal King

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“UNGAAAH!”

Yanisse was startled by the roar of a caveman, the rider of the dinosaur that she had just slain. Because her Mana was low, her Mana Senses couldn’t catch up to his presence before his giant, log-like arms were to move down.

Her Void Magic was unparalleled, but her body was frail, and she knew it. She had dumped all her Stat Points into increasing her Mana and Magic-related Stats so her Void Magic could even destroy S Rank Monsters with ease.

The reason she didn’t care about sacrificing her defenses in exchange for even more magic power was because of her Blink Skill, which allowed her to do short-range teleportation.

However, right now, while restoring her Mana, there is no such option!

“Ah!”

Yanisse panicked as the mana elixir bottle fell from her hands. She tried to evade, but the caveman’s arms were faster, quickly changing their position midair and reaching her head, about to crush her!

FLASH!

However, out of nowhere, a bright golden light emerged from the skies and then descended at lightning speed. The Russian girl opened her eyes wide as she saw someone appear in front of her and the caveman.

A beautiful woman made of pure golden light, with eyes resembling rainbow jewels and long, silvery hair with a long ponytail, waving around as an Aura of rainbow light constantly shifted colors around her body.

Yanisse immediately recognized her.

“Bing Xue...!”

“GRAAH!”

The caveman roared furiously after being almost blinded, his giant arms charging with his strange Primal Power, and rushing down at Bing Xue with tremendous force. Each of his punches was like a meteor.

Her barrier gained cracks again, and Bing Xue could never have enough of how amazingly strong these primitive beings were.

However, she had no time to amuse herself.

She touched the giant caveman’s arms with her own, delicate hands and then lifted him off the ground within a second.

“GUGH?!”

The caveman opened his eyes wide as Bing Xue pushed him down, head-first, into the ground.

BAAAM!

The caveman’s skull gained a few cracks as it slammed into the floor with tremendous strength, but it didn’t die. Its legs swiftly kicked Bing Xue’s shield, trying to break it even as its head was deep into the floor.

“They’re tough...” Yanisse said.

“Incredibly so.” Bing Xue nodded. “You used void to kill them quickly, didn’t you?”

“Yeah, but that's..." Yanisse stopped talking when she saw Bing Xue’s doppelganger hands conjure a dark purple energy.

“Huh?!”

The energy gathered into a sphere, and the sphere pierced the caveman’s head within a millisecond, leaving behind a huge bloody hole in the middle of his forehead. The caveman died on the spot, dropping its giant, lifeless body.

“I knew it. Void is an all-powerful element...” Bing Xue laughed. “Of course, it worked.”

“You conjured the void element!” Yanisse said. “I-I thought I was the only one that could use it...”

“Well, not anymore.” Bing Xue said. “I have also begun my journey as a cultivator of the Dao of Void. But for now...”

Her eyes were set on the corpses of people; there were barely two survivors Yanisse had protected, and the rest were dead.

“{Time Rewind}”

FLASH!

Gray-colored Time Essence flowed out of her body as the river of time encompassed everyone, their time regressing and rewinding as their bodies regenerated back within seconds, even their souls coming back inside their bodies.

“Aaah! W-What...?!”

“I thought I died."

“I-I’m alive...”

As the Hunters celebrated their revival, Yanisse was once again left intrigued. She hated how little time she had to talk with Bing Xue before, as she was dying to act more friendly with her and to learn more about her.

"Incredible. I did see videos about how you revived people, but seeing it in real life is another whole experience,” Yanisse admitted. “H-How does it even work? Are there any limits? Could you...?”

After having explored up to Floor 17, where Monsters of Level 800 roamed everywhere, he realized how small and pathetic he was and returned to Earth, trying to use his strength to better protect his home.

Yet even now, he seemed incapable of doing so.

“That woman...”

He was full of jealousy towards Bing Xue, the woman who had even revived him; he felt tremendous jealousy! A returnee with a power that surpassed the system itself, she didn’t rely on the system; she simply relied on herself!

He wanted that power.

He wished he could have it!

“Was relying on the System our mistake from the very beginning?”

And that thought passed through his mind as John vomited blood and felt his entire body go limp, falling from the skies.

He felt his body paralyzed as he realized his Mana reserves had emptied faster than his equipment could regenerate them, taking tremendous backlash over his entire body.

And the giant jaws of a tyrannosaurus opened right below him, about to swallow him whole.

“No...! No, no, no!”

As he panicked, a sudden flash of bright light emerged from the skies, grabbing him and carrying him like a princess across the skies.

“Wha...?!”

His eyes widened as he saw the woman he had been thinking about for a while now; she had rescued him right before his demise.

“John, right?” A wave of blue flames covered his body as his wounds healed instantly. “You should be alright now.”

“Y-you're Bing Xue!” John muttered, seconds before he was thrown off from the sky. “Eh? Wait... WAIT!”

“You can fly, right?” Bing Xue said a second before she flew towards the Tyrannosaurus and punched its jaws, dislocating them.

CLASH!

“Y-You insane woman!”

John screamed furiously as he flew into the skies after regrowing his wings.

As he was about to assist her, he quickly realized there was no need!

The Tyrannosaurus head was sent flying into the skies and then fell over another dinosaur, pummeling it down into the ground.

Bing Xue’s hands were coated with two blue and gold-colored gauntlets, overflowing with cosmic flames and dark purple void energy.

“S-She punched its head off...?”

John’s eyes twitched in disbelief as he saw once more the true pinnacle he could never reach.

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As Dinosaurs and Cavemen battled against the defenders of this "settlement," the King of the Primal World glanced from the distance, sitting over the incredibly tall head of a brachiosaurus.

Unlike the other Cavemen, his body’s musculature, size, and the Aura of Primal Power he exuded were on another dimension completely.

Wearing the bones of dinosaurs as armor and clothes over his magnificently muscular and perfect body, the caveman giant smiled, showing his sharp fangs.

“Heh...”

Fun!

This world is full of weak little fighters; it was so fun!

“Ogah!”

He pointed at the city; his new goal as a conqueror was to invade this new “settlement” and make it his own property, like he had done countless times.

And he licked his lips as he saw that woman, made of light, fight relentlessly against his troops.

A worthy meal for a king such as him.

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