4 Titan Bear

The horrifying sound of the Titan bear jolted Damien awake, Damien vigorously turned his head from left ro right as he tried to access the situation, hearing the sound of foot steps Damien turned to his front.

With slow but powerful strides the Bear made it's way toward Damien, it had thick black fur riddled with scars, and it's eyes were closed with a large scar running along its eye lids. It released gut wrenching growls, with drool licking out of the cracks between its teeth, it made it's way closer to Damien.

Looking at the bear Damien felt something he had never felt before, 'Fear' not fear of losing his life but rather fear of being powerless before an entity, he stared at the bear as it approached him, and the only thing on his mind was escaping.

"Nyrer, what exactly am I looking at?" Damien with a cool and calm voice said to Nyrer, trying to stay level headed so as to not make a wrong move.

"That is a Titan Bear, A very powerful and intelligent predator with extraordinary regeneration abilities, don't let the scar on its eyes trick you, it can see just fine." Nyrer replied.

'Hold on... regenerational abilities, I have a regeneration ability' Damien thought to himself as he recalled the time he accessed his stats. Before Damien could start to formulate a plan, he heard the familiar sound of the System's notification.

[Emergency Quest]

[Kill the Titan bear– 500 exp]

[Escape the Titan bear– 100 exp]

[Failure: Fate worse than Death]

Damien stared at the notification with angry eyes, feeling like he was being used for entertainment.

"How the fuck do you expect me to kill that thing before it kills me?" Damien cried inwardly

Shaking his head to focus on the situation at hand, Damien closed his eyes as he proceeded to formulate a plan in his mind.

The more time he took the closer the Bear got,

Until he opened his eyes that now lacked emotion.

With out wasting a second, Damien used his Recovery ability, he could feel his Faith leaving his Leviar as it made it's way towards the injured part of his body, and immediately after, the left side of his body that was mortified by the Bear's blow was healing at a visible speed.

The Bear was surprised at the sudden regeneration, even it had to wait a day or two before it healed completely, but this weak human could do it in seconds? Having a bad premonition the bear shot at Damien with a powerful speed looking to end him quickly, but much to its surprise Damien had reacted on time, dodging the bears strike. The bear stared at Damien's eyes that had suddenly changed from fear to cold and indifferent.

The Bear was confused as the look Damien had in his eyes was something only killers had, but it could not smell any blood from the human before him, what Damien did next, puzzled the bear even more.

Damien began to run in circles in a fixed radius. Feeling like it was being mocked, the bear roared as it approached Damien retaining its horrifying speed but alas Damien was quick to react as he dodged the bear's attack.

He then progressed to make 4 large strides that looked like he was jumping and when he was about to make another stride, the Bear attacked once more seemingly annoyed by the human's behaviour.

Once again Damien dodged, as he made another stride and stopped to look at the bear or more accurately the space before the bear.

Damien had been trying to complete his Daily Quest so he could gain the extra stat. points and put it in his agility stat. so he could run away from the bear, hence his silly antics.

Quickly increasing his Agility stats. Damien now had.

Agility– 6

He then reached for the sword on his waist as he decided to use the offensive skill that was given to him by Azrael.

The area around Damien froze for a moment as his body began to exude a black and ominous aura, blood trickled from Damien's hand as his aura suddenly enveloped the area.

The temperature reduced drastically as even the breath of the bear formed fog, feeling an awful premonition the bear shot at Damien wishing to end his life before he could do anything dangerous.

Skiiiaaaaa

But alas it was too late. With a heavy sound of metal clashing against metal a bright light enveloped the surrounding area as Damien uttered a single word.

"DIVINE SLASH!"

His cold voice rang in the bear's ears as its vision went blank. When it opened its eyes again, it was met with dozens of cut trees piled before it, Damien had escaped.

***

Holding onto his mangled hand as he ran on top trees huffing and panting heavily.

"Nyrer... remind me never to use that skill again. It's more like a Death sentence than an actual skill." Damien said to Nyrer as he continued to run towards his camp sight.

Once he arrived, he sat down and laid his back against a tree, he glanced at his mangled hand that had been heavily injured due to the backlash of the skill.

"Nyrer, why do I have a broken hand?" Damien asked

"Cause I don't remember hearing of a skill that could render someone's arm usless..." Damien said with a slightly higher tone.

"It's because you're too weak. It's like having a child lift a horse, your body is nowhere near enough to handle that skill" Nyrer replied

"I honestly don't like this... this whole losing and being weak, I'm not a fan of it." Damien said, much to his own surprise as he had never felt the need to be any stronger.

He once thought that most of the things that happened to him were none of his business due to powerlessness, but once he had a taste of power, and an opportunity to gain more, the ideology he once had, had disappeared.

He now had a whole different mindset, anyone that had the misfortune of fucking with him, would get fucked up as well.

"It's because you now have power, you've had a taste of it, and now you want more." Nyrer said smirking inwardly

"Nah... that's not it" Damien said staring at the night sky.

Nyrer rolled its eyes in respond.

"I could feel it if it wasn't for Darius's minor memories giving me some battle awareness I would have been killed 3 times over." Damien said with a sigh

"I just want to be powerful enough to be able to sleep undisturbed." Damien said with a yawn, as he used his regeneration skill to heal his limbs.

<<<Quest complete>>>

100 exp. has been granted for escaping the bear.

Talent: Swordmanship has increased slightly

<Relationship with Faith in the atmosphere has increased slightly.>

100 exp gained level up in progress

Immediately after the notification appeared, Damien could feel his body getting strengthened as a surge of energy rushed through his body.

Once he had finished leveling up, he proceeded to open up his system to see if there were any changes.

The familiar white and black system menu appeared before him, and he then began to access it.

[ Name: Damien Hunter ]

[ Race: Demi-Divine ]

[ Level: 2 ]

[ HP: 14/15 ]

[ Exp: 50/200]

>>Stats

>>Quest

>>Skills

>>Store

Staring at the menu before him Damien noticed that his health had increased and unfortunately the exp needed to level up had increased as well meaning the higher he leveled up the harder I'll become to gain exp that will be sufficient for a level up, meaning more stress.

Damien closed his eyes as he attempted to slumber slowly he felt his consciousness leave his body.

what he saw next was a mountain of bodies and severed limbs, a horrified look was etched on all the faces of the dead people, their pale skin now devoid of life was filled with cuts inches into their flesh, if not for the clean marks on their bodies one would have thought they were attacked by a beast, but the cuts were to clean and precise.

Looking at all this Damien wasn't afraid instead his face was filled with curiosity as he stared at a familiar figure in the distance.

On top the mountain of bodies a figure with pale skin and long black hair that fell on his shoulders and horns protruding out its head with a warm smile on its face, it looked at Damien with caring eyes before it uttered.

"I did this for you".