Tentacle Lord

Chapter 4 : Mortal Combat

Darkness covered the whole land, the forest was tranquil with only sound of wind and insects could be heard, i was still inside the forest slowly making my way to the way i entered the forest while checking my status screen. There listed all new things i got from absorbing the materials, i guessed the [Absorption] skill transform every materials i absorbed to be usable for me, I was curious about the new tentacles and abilities i got and itching to used it on an enemy but, i found no enemy around and so i left with dissatisfied feelings and yelled " i want an enemy ! " in my heart , so for now i thought of going back to the castle. but something fell infront of me instinctively i jumped two meters back, when i looked infront of me, i regretted ever yelling " i want an enemy ! " in my heart.

what i saw infront of me was a crowd of enemies consisted of three giant tarantula, with ten red eyes and muddy brown hairy body, five white eyes bat, like it's name it was a bat with white eyes and red body, and the last one was covered by darkness, too dark for me to saw but i could saw the figure of a lone snake-like thing,

" damn, you got to be kidding me....... " (Kagero)

when the moonlight shone on it revealing it's form, i could felt the color in my face draining to pale white just by the sight of monstrosity infront me, the black snake, it's body was atleast two meter in length with black body and a pair of golden eyes on it's face were looking straight at me, i didn't cared about how big it's body was or it's glowing golden eyes, what scares me the most was it's mouth. it wasn't a snake's mouth it was a lamprey eel's mouth, a jawless mouth that looked like the octopus's suction cups but with a numerous small teeth in it and all kinds of colored poison-like drool was dripping out of it's mouth, the sight of black snake was enough to made the giant tarantulas infront of it looked like a cute stuffed toys.

I wanted to ran from the black snake, just the looked of it's mouth was enough to made me shuddered the thought of got bitten by that mouth, but with my future battle in mind the more tentacle i had the better and i really wanted to saw a terror-filled face of people who dared tried to attacked me when i took out my tentacle after beat them up, with that said i needed a tentacle scary enough to induced terror and i'm sure the tentacle from the black snake would did the trick. With the determination to devoured the black snake in my heart, i brandished my scythe towards the monsters and took all of my tentacle out, the normal tentacle, Eater tentacle and Steel tentacle, two of each.

The Eater tentacle had the same body as the normal tentacle but at the head of the tentacle was a mouth filled with sharp teeth like that of a beast mouth and a long slender tongue reside inside it, anything bitten by this would went to one way trip to the world of pain was what i thought when i looked at the Eater tentacle. While the Eater tentacle was identical with normal tentacle if you ignore the mouth The Steel tentacle was a different tentacle altogether, the body was jagged and completely made out of steel, the head of the tentacle was sharp like a lance but it was still elastic like it was made of rubber, the Steel tentacle was just like a dragon's tail strong, jagged, sharp but could move like a whip.

After sensing the danger from my tentacles the beasts were hesitated to attacked me, all but the black snake, with both me and the black snake eager to devoured each other, the black snake released a roar signaling the start of our fight. The first to moved were the tarantulas, they released webs from their mouths on the ground to restricted my movement, after releasing their webs the tarantulas charged at me following that the white eyed bats dived at me, jumping back now would only made it easier for them to captured me with webs in midair, so i launched an attack of my own.

i threw Eater tentacle towards the bats, the bats caught with my Eater tentacle were eaten there and then, after i ate the bats i heard the sound of new abilities acquired from my status, looked like the effect of [Absorption] became instantly if i ate materials with Eater tentacle, the other one of the bats was cut in two with a swing of my scythe, and the other two was caught with my normal tentacles. With the bats taken care of, i used my Steel tentacle and scythe to guarded the attack of the three tarantulas, who latches themself on my tentacles and scythe desperately trying to bite me.