Following Ash's kill on the member lagging behind the rest, he received a notification.
*DING*
[+982 EXP]
[Confirmed Kill(s): 1]
[Total EXP: 1001]
Ash, having his existence compromised had begun to fall back. Only after taking his first step backwards did threads made of Nen burst forward at him.
'Copying me?'
Before this fight, Ash had never given too much time towards learning the advanced applications of Nen.
See, before coming to this new world, Adam had already given him the exact method to utilize every application of Nen. That surge of information included every single application of Nen from basic to advanced.
Though even with this information and starting training since birth armed with the exact method of applying this information, Ash had lagged behind others.
He may have seemed talented to others and especially so since he had seemed to learn Nen and develop his own techniques so quickly.
But in truth, Ash was lacking talent but he feared not. The creation of {LIMITLESS} was the sole push from this lack of talent.
Back to the present, the strings had seemingly came out of nowhere.
Able to partially use Gyo, Ash had seen where the attack came from.
In the distance, there was a short pink-haired girl presumed to be a Kunoichi by Ash.
Encircling Ash, the other 11 members had boxed off Ash. Allowing the pink-haired kunoichi to attack alone, they had stood in their respective positions.
Not seeming bothered by the death of their comrade, they simply watched as this girl fought the killer.
[ Unidentified Group's POV]
"You think Machi can handle that guy? He took out Omokage pretty quickly." Stated a petite girl wearing a Saint Peter's cross.
"HAHAHAHAA! Omokage can't be compared to Machi, he wasn't even all that useful." Voiced a man among them seeming to be a swordsman/samurai.
The swordsman continued to speak and then upon being looked at by the man with a cross shaped, he shut his mouth and then man began to speak.
"No, she might actually have a challenge. That guy is pretty strong, I can't discern how strong because he's tricky. I haven't seen him use an ability yet."
[ General POV ]
Kicking off the ground multiple times in an instant, Ash had flashed backwards repositioning himself.
In the background, the other members of the unidentified group were watching the fight all whilst watching the remaining members of the village they were currently in.
The villagers, having no source of hope. Only waiting to be slaughtered after those monsters kill that man.
Back to the fight, Ash had materialized strings of his own. Attaching them to the huts and trees in the surroundings, he continued to try and reposition himself to get the best geographical advantage.
Stepping in the forest, the girl had chased him and was running into a trap set by Ash.
There it was, she had ran clean into a trap set. Her body being sliced from the middle down, into the multiple sections as he had set a multi-directional cutter.
Only to realize, he didn't receive a notification and there was no blood from this "death".
He had always been on the defensive, he was outmatched in this fight.
Yet, that didn't deter Ash from fighting. He was never scared of a fight, even if it meant dying again.
He would always live his life to the fullest, always adhering to his meaning of life.
His senses weren't able to keep up with this girl, although training for such an extensive period of time... he just wasn't that strong compared to these individuals.
She seemed to be the leader, everyone was just watching while she fought alone. They had confidence in her strength, from Ash's analysis.. she was definitely the leader of these individuals.
Activating Gyo, Ash had looked around.. not finding his opponent, he had instead closed his eyes and willed the gene(s) {Enhanced Sense of Smell} & {Increased Lung Capacity}.
This may have seemed foolish, but actually by using this increased Sense of Smell and Increasing his Lung Capacity was genius.
Ash had vastly increased his blow flow enabling himself to better react to unforeseen circumstances. Also, this created the opportunity to smell his opponent instead of needing his sight to visually see them.
After all, you may be able to hide yourself visually but your scent won't disappear.
In the next moments, Ash had begun to stand perfectly still... his world only being seen mentally distinguishing everything by it's smell.
Then it clicked, he had to use his echolocation gene!
'Echoloca-' He thought before being struck repeatedly by his opponent who had momentarily lost focus of.
Launching strings on the trees, catching himself mid-air and stabilizing himself. He had taken damage, but he'd been put in a better position strategically.
'Echolocation'
Then everything went black, upon closing his eyes, Ash had begun to see everything mentally.
The sound waves bouncing off the trees in the forest, the insects on the ground, and most importantly.. his enemy!
Hopping off of his created Nen strings, his body felt abnormal.
Ash, then looking down had noticed his rib cage was deformed and his shoulder blade was crooked.
His already insane levels of Pain Resistance coupled with the gene {Increased Pain Resistance} had diverted him from the fact that he was getting destroyed in this battle.
Using his musculature control, he had tensed his muscles in a very odd way.
This caused his out of place bones, to pop back in place and with his {Low-Tier Regeneration} the muscles began stitching themselves back together.
These blows between the two had been happening over the span of seconds, the level of battle was unprecedented to the current Ash.
He knew that these guys weren't on the level of the strongest but they were absolute units to him with his current strength.
Launching himself towards his opponent, Ash had materialized an abundance of oscillating needles high above their heads.
These needles of Nen were spinning at high levels, able to drill into steel if their target is hit with precision.
Creating a spinning shield of strings, Ash had threw it infront of the girl, blocking her field of view and creating a rope of string he threw it at her feet, hoping to entangle her and getting the easy kill.
With his echolocation, he had seen waves of sound echoing off her left calve.
This muscle twitch indicating she was going to shift to the right, and with this information, Ash had launched the needles hovering above them onto the predicted location.
*FWUSH*
That's the only sound heard once Ash had launched these needles spinning at a high speed, invisible to the average human retinas.
As the needles fell, time seemed to slow down in Ash's eyes...
In the same moment the needles were falling, without Ash noticing.. a black flash had appeared right next to him..
In this seemingly slowed down perspective of time, he had seen the shadow to be a man...
A sword in his hand, gazing at Ash as if he was nothing but a dead animal.. he swung clean towards Ash's neck..
*SHING*
The man had appeared right behind Ash, time resuming to normal.
He had sheathed his sword, beheading Ash....
Or so he thought... in that very moment of imminent death, Ash had awoken once again.. not partially but truly this time!
Amped even further by his new world's energy, the Nen inside his body had fueled it's effects even further!
When the blade was inches away from his neck, Ash had simply moved to the side and then resumed his previous position.
Allowing the onlookers to believe as though his head was sliced clean through.
He then though in the same moment, [Gene Creation: (Overdrive) - Required EXP: 500 EXP]
Overdrive: The user will go into a bloodlust, adrenaline filled state, boosting his power up to 2.5x depending on the need for the boost.
Prerequisites: The user has to urgently need the boost of this power, and as a side effect, after the body's completely exhausted the user will be put into a state of immediate paralysis for 24hrs.
[Gene Creation: Overdrive]
Create Gene? (Y/N)
'Yes'
[Total EXP: 501]
[LIMITLESS]
'Increase my Nen talent in all aspects.'
[Categorizing Talent Level...]
[Talent Level: 1]
[TL 1 - Able to unlock Nen, average hunter]
[TL 2 - Able to become proficient with Nen, above-average hunter]
[TL 3 - ???]
[TL 4 - ???]
[TL 5 - ???]
[TL 6 - ???]
[TL 7 - ???]
[User needs to find strong opponents/species to unlock more classifications!]
[Upgrade TL: 2, Proceed with Upgrade? (Y/N)]
[Required EXP: 325]
'Yes'
[Total EXP: 176]
*BOOM*
Ash's aura exploded out of his aura pores, flowing uncontrollably. The upgrade from talent level 1 to 2 was exponential in regards to aura control, and his aura pool.
The members of that group sensing his change felt as though he had became a threat but not too much of a threat as to all fight at once.
"Feitan, I didn't need your help.. tsk." Exclaimed the pink-haired girl.
"You were gonna get hurt." Unapologetically said "Feitan".
Still in his awakened state, Ash's speed, reaction speed, power and though processing was heightened to unimaginable degrees for the him of a few moments ago.
'Overdrive' Called out Ash mentally.
Within that same instant, Ash's feet dug into the ground, an overpowering aura had burst out of him.
His bloodlust was so immense, the trained killers had gotten cold sweats alongst their necks.
Within the village, throughout the forest, it seemed that this aura was encompassing atleast 200m of area around him.
The seemingly weak aura, out of absolutely nowhere, had increased to unimaginable degrees.
This caused the group of 12 to be on edge, and within a fraction of a second Ash's figure flickered.
Afterimages following him, he began using Rythm Echo to its fullest degrees currently possible by his current physicality.
And right when the group of 12 thought they were about to be attacked ruthlessly, he instead darted right past them and into the village at breakneck speeds.
Machi barely even noticing his movement's was in a state of slight fear, this bloodlust state had caused an irrational fear to invade their bodies...
It had seemed as though, if they merely blinked... they would miss Ash's movement...
Being flustered, Machi exclaimed "I-I could barely see his figure, it has to be his ability..." assuming Ash's current state to be attributed to his Hatsu.
Ash moving on an entirely plane of time in his eyes, their movements were slow.. and his current state allowed his thoughts to flow at lightning speed!
Remembering back to the start of this fiasco, Ash thought back to when the group was discussing the villagers special nature.
'Eyes that make you stronger speed wise and physically, also allowing you to become a specialist? I'll add that to my collection!' Ash thought grinning menacingly.
Not bothering to waste too much of his energy, Ash had sent out strings in every direction sound echoed off what seemed to be a human.
Opening his eyes and using Gyo noticed something special about a select number of the villagers.
Their aura flowed in a distinct pattern and also, their eyes were concentrated with the most of their aura.
The flow of their aura coming mainly from their eyes, seemingly strengthening the rest of their body.
*CRUNCH*
*CRACK*
What ensued this discovery was the crunching and cracking of bones being crushed by the sheer power being emitted from Ash's strings.
[New Gene: ??? Bloodline]
[Acquire Gene: (Y/N)
In the midst of being ready to accept this unknown bloodline, Ash was itching to go and kill that entire group who had almost cut his new life short.
'Ye-'
[WARNING!]
[USER NEEDS TO RELOCATE WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR! THE NEWLY ACQUIRED GENE WILL CHANGE YOUR ENTIRE GENETIC STRUCTURE AND WILL CAUSE YOU TO BE IN A COMA FOR AN ENTIRE WEEK!]
[Acquire Gene? (Y/N)
'Yes' Ash thought staying resolute, accepting the fact that he won't be able to kill them today and get that well deserved exp.
The unknown assailants had tensed up ready for battle but what surprised them was that in the next moment, instead of engaging in combat with them...
The man had instead flashed away, constantly reappearing further and further.
Not even wanting to chase the man they were just confused... even in that state, he didn't want to fight them?
Not being bothered by this they continued to pick the eyes of the now deceased villagers, at least glad that the man didn't pluck them in their stead.
[Location: Unknown Cave, 1 Hour Later]
Ash had carved a large whole and grabbed a huge boulder and covered the entrance, allowing oxygen to flow through so as to not suffocate himself.
The moment after covering the entrance to this cave, Ash had collapsed, assaulted by soul-tearing pain...
He then blacked out, falling unconscious....