CHAPTER 61: CHAPTER 61: ABUSE TILL DEATH

Chapter 61 – Abuse Till Death

Kaden started to walk before suddenly stopping. He then slowly turned his head—and there the beast was again, the same way as the first time. Looking at him with murderous eyes.

"Rare rank, huh..." Kaden muttered as Reditha appeared in his hand. The bear immediately let out a thunderous roar that shook the very air around them as it lunged forward, its claws ready to strike.

Kaden acted instantly. After fighting this beast to the death once already, he had figured out some of its weak points. A common weak point for all beasts was to strike where their core is—and the other one was the heart.

But there was one other thing Kaden had noticed while fighting him the last time.

The beast’s other senses beside sight were trash. And what a great shame it was for a bear to only rely on eight, as usually they had very good senses.

But Kaden didn’t care.

Against a beast without great senses, one that relied mostly on sight, messing with its vision was something that could throw it into chaos instantly.

And that was exactly what Kaden wanted.

With one step, Kaden used his Slothful Steps and disappeared from the beast’s sight, reappearing on its back. He dashed and mounted the massive body, reaching the back of its neck in an instant.

The beast’s instincts screamed danger.

"ROOAARR!" An earth-shaking roar echoed through the poisoned domain as it tried to throw Kaden off by moving erratically, thrashing violently.

"You won’t get me off," Kaden muttered as he grabbed tightly onto the black fur of the beast. But instantly, green fog began to pour out of the beast’s body.

Poison.

But instead of feeling danger, Kaden barely reacted as the fog touched him. All because of the new trait he had gained—Poison Resistance.

He smirked, and with a sudden burst of speed, appeared just in front of the beast’s eyes—eyes that glared at him with hatred and deep, primal anger.

Without hesitation, Reditha flashed as Kaden cut deep into his wrist. A fountain of blood gushed out and splashed directly onto the beast’s face.

A roar of agony followed.

The beast’s eyes began to corrode instantly. They were a foggy green before, but now they turned pitch black, melting, rotting under the corrosive blood.

"ROOOAAARRRR!!" the beast screamed as it crashed to the ground, rolling and trashing, mad with pain.

After all, it was its eyes being eaten alive. The pain was unimaginable.

But Kaden didn’t even blink.

This only made his job easier.

"I have a mission to finish," he muttered calmly as he constantly evaded the beast’s random strikes with ease, "and to complete it properly, the corpse has to be as intact as possible."

And to keep the corpse intact—

He had to kill it in one strike.

Kaden stepped back, barely dodging a claw. Then he slid to the right and avoided another.

It was almost funny.

A blinded beast thrashing on the ground, striking wildly, its movements driven by hatred and agony—

—and a young man weaving through it all, evading every blow with minimal steps and zero fear.

At one point—

"This is good training for my senses..." Kaden thought as he closed his eyes and let his perception flow fully, dodging each attack without vision.

But after a few minutes—

Kaden frowned.

"Too easy..." he muttered under his breath.

He opened his eyes and looked at the beast.

The beast was slowing down. Like it was tired. Like it couldn’t move his limbs anymore.

Kaden clicked his tongue.

He cut his wrist again.

"Big guy, get up and keep going. I was starting to feel it." Kaden said, splashing his corrosive blood on the beast’s head and eyes again.

The beast howled louder, trashing harder, madness driving its limbs.

Kaden closed his eyes once more and relied purely on his other senses—the rustle of air before each strike, the foul scent of poison leaking from its body. But that part was hard. Everything around him reeked of poison. The entire domain stank of death.

Still, Kaden focused.

And every time the beast slowed...

He splashed his blood again.

Again.

And again.

And again.

Ten times. Or twenty? Kaden didn’t know anymore.

But after some times...

The beast didn’t respond anymore.

Kaden finally opened his eyes and tilted his head.

Why did it stop?

He had just splashed blood on it a minute ago.

But as he looked closely—

Realization sank in.

The beast was dead.

Not from a killing blow.

Not from a core strike.

But from abuse.

Dead because it couldn’t survive being Kaden’s training partner.

Kaden clicked his tongue, unbothered.

"So much for a rare-type beast," he muttered, not even slightly ashamed to mock something that had once killed him.

But Kaden didn’t know the meaning of shame.

Without a second thought, he walked toward the huge corpse and examined it.

Its body was perfectly intact—except for the head.

The head was ruined. Black. Cracked. Peeling from corrosion. Bone visible. Flesh disfigured. It was a horrific sight.

And that’s when Kaden noticed something.

His corrosive blood had become stronger.

Only one explanation came to his mind.

"I’ve been using it more frequently lately," Kaden muttered. "So that means...the more you use a trait, the stronger it becomes."

Consistency.

Repetition.

Training.

Those were the keys.

He smiled.

"I need to improve my blood manipulation. Corrosive blood is still blood. I should be able to control it. And..."

Kaden frowned slightly.

"It’s starting to become annoying to always cut myself just to use it. I need to learn how to activate it without doing that."

And that all came back to blood manipulation.

Kaden nodded and took the corpse into his space ring.

Now that the mission was done—

"It’s time to complete my quest: Slaughter," he said, his voice cold.

’I still have 750 Death Coins left...’

Meaning—

He could afford to be a little...

Daring.

—End of Chapter 61—