Instinctively, I jolted my head back, revealing a six legged beast armed with a hairy mane coupled with human arms.
The thing was ten feet tall, towering over me as I quickly made my way off the ground.
Its arms as burly as the strongman of the world, it held within it an exuberance--its power just barely contained in its physique.
If one were to judge its strength solely off of its bulk, it surely would have been ranked among the top living creatures.
However, the beast didn't wait for my continued astonishment to dissipate, instead instantly bringing its two front legs forward to kick me, striking me in the chest as a powerful crackle could be heard from my ribcage, bruising made apparent as I was violently propelled dozens of feet back.
As I was tumbling in the air, the creature wasted no time in chasing me, dashing towards where I was going to land before I'd even gotten halfway through to my destination.
This thing is ridiculously fast!
[Warning: Opponent is strong]
No shit, system.
Regaining control of my body, I spin around and reform my body's axis as I brace for the creature's incoming attack.
Bringing both arms to my chest, I take a two-legged strike from the creature as my body convulses back, the force so strong that my arms fly behind my torso with my entire body entering a phase of uncontrollable backwards flipping.
As I make contact with the ground, the force continues to propel me back as my shoulder makes the first point of contact, bouncing back up into the air as I begin a sideways roll that enacted a series of touching the ground and being propelled back up into the air, convulsing my entire body and forcing my arms to hang by my sides.
As the force finally dissipated, I look towards the creature to see it sitting still, eyeing me with great caution; probably confused at me not getting dismembered instantly from its blows.
From a glace, one could easily tell this creature was probably D rank, but I was by no means going to sit idly by and let it kill me as I just regained some control over my life.
Putting my hand on the ground to get back up, I feel a sharp jolt of pain, rising from my forearm and making its way up to my shoulder.
Looking down at my arm, I see a big purple blotch of discoloration where I'd been struck, prevalent on both arms.
It seems the creature was able to fracture both of my arms with a single strike.
The creature, taking quick note of this, charged at me once again, wasting no time in continuing its assault.
I was, of course, helpless, and had to hop off my feet to get up instead of using my arms.
"I can't get hit by you, is all."
As I say this, the creature comes to a grinding halt and launches a fist towards me at full speed, trying to take me out in one swift motion.
However, my agility is the one thing I've always prided myself in, and I wasn't going to bow out in front of this beast.
Easily sidestepping the fist, I make mental note of the creature's tendencies for attacks and move towards his blind spot, spinning around to his side and dodging another of his legs as he attempted to swipe my head off in a horizontal motion.
Did I get faster?
"Energy Allocation!"
Imagining a dagger, I let it materialize in my mouth as I quickly swipe away at the still hanging leg as it missed its kick, nearly severing it with a single blow.
Woah, I definitely got stronger!
"Grrraaaggghhh!"
It was then that the creature reeled back in pain, unleashing its deathly howls as it eyed me even more cautiously than before.
Instead of its single-minded fighting from before of chasing me and attacking from the front, it took the approach of using its rear as it chased me down again and swiftly bent its rear in a manner of which to stagger me, however I was able to dodge it rather easily by performing a front flip right over the creature's head, lowering my own to stick my dagger straight into the brain of the thing.
As I came flying down, I tilted my head with my full strength to unleash a full power blow, so powerful that for a second, the slash was visible through its distortion of air.
Rending the thing's head vertically down into two, I collapse onto the floor as the pain from my fractured arms and ribs catch up to me.
"I... won..." I say cautiously, waiting for movement from the beast to betray my expectation of victory, but as the body went limp and fell on to the ground, my best dreams finally came to fruition.
"I won!"
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[User has obtained Secondary Status Window]