The Ravager twisted, it's body moving as slow a massive whale, but quite fast all the same. The great tube of its body, wormlike in composition, twisted on itself until he could see the many bone spurs forming upon a lower section...now directly beneath him.
The bone spurs launched, flashing upward with impressive strength. Felix hissed, his teeth dripping thick saliva as he spun, rolling out of the way even as he kept his razor sharp claws embedded in the beast. Like cleats, he dug into the Ravager's skin, tearing chunks from it as the bone spurs bombarded him. The Ravager screamed as it impaled itself countless times over, the spurs sinking deep into it.
What Dwells Beneath is level 19!
Bloodline Progression is 52%
Yet Felix couldn't dodge them all. One spur after another slammed toward him, until he was thrown off the beast entirely.
Something is wrong!
Free falling, Felix snarled at the oncoming bone spurs. The Larval Ravager had pulled itself high up, bending itself into the letter 'C' in order to dislodge him. But he wouldn't relent because of this; he couldn't.
Reign of Vellus!
Felix twisted in mid-air, using the kinetic shove of his power to reorient against the passing bone spurs. As another passed by him, dangerously close, Felix latched on with the Skill. He grabbed hold, letting its momentum slingshot up upward, back toward the Ravager's mouth.
Reign of Vellus is level 39!
Felix soared through the air, more free and more alive than he had felt in...in forever. His mind was clear, finally clean of anxiety and worry. In its place he only felt a steady and warm hate, directly solely at the Larval Ravager. With more grace than he'd known he possessed, Felix ducked above a thrashing tentacle, sliding over it's slick surface as he rode his stolen kinetic force. Another tendril rose up, thicker than the rest, and Felix flared Reign of Vellus again. The burst of electricity gave him enough push-back that he reversed his course, though not before altering his angle and hurling himself further into the Ravager's range.
The tentacles writhed all around him. They shifted, fluid-like, consolidating from four dozen to a score of thicker appendages. Each and every one of these mouth-tentacles converged on Felix's course, and the real fun began.
Reign of Vellus is level 40!
Unfettered Volition is level 21!
The mad tempo of the fight continued. Felix ricocheted from one tentacle to another, never stopping longer than it took to reverse his path with an aimed blast of kinetic energy. Unfettered Volition proved more than useful as well, enhancing Felix's talent into a deadly grace. Understanding bloomed within his Mind and Spirit as he pressed the two Skills, leveraging them both for all the power he could grasp. Lightning crackled around his body, slithering up and down his limbs even as it set his nerves alight.
Lightning Resistance is level 26!
The agony of that level was finally enough to cut through the wild bloodlust. Felix blinked his eyes, feeling as if he'd woken from a disturbing dream. But then he was confronted with yet another tentacle, this one attempting to crush him between its limbs. Instead, Felix brandished his deadly talons, tearing deeply into the thicker tentacle so that its rotting blood poured out. It splashed all over him, a torrential downpour of effluvia.
It was so good.
Pain slithered up his back, but shifted to a sense of relief as something suddenly protruded from his spine. A wild glee surged once more in his Spirit, and the pain faded. There was only the pleasure of the hunt.
Of the kill.
What Dwells Beneath is level 20!
Bloodline Progression is 53%
He dipped and dove, altering his approach with precision blasts of Reign of Vellus. The Skill was more than the brute force implement he had made of it, and somewhere in his Mind he knew that. His Perception finally clear, he could utilize his Skill to its utmost.
But then, the Larval Ravager split its limbs up, banished its efforts at sturdier (and slower) attacks. Then it did it again, and again. And again. Until the air before him became an impenetrable net of waving tendrils, each one no thicker than his arm. They swung, en masse for Felix.
He tore into them, pushing at them with Reign of Vellus. But the low intensity he'd been using it on only pushed them back slightly, like a sail on a ship. He hadn't the Mana to spare for greater workings, but his Mind didn't care for resource management. He had other ways to deal with this monster. His claws had proven quite effective.
The tendrils tore easily, his talons making them into little more than ruptured blood containers. The Larval Ravager bellowed in pain and...a surprised sort of rage.
"You didn't know I'd fight back?" Felix screamed. He spun atop the lip of the Maw's open mouth. "You absolute shit head!"
Reign of Vellus!
Felix exploded upward, his ascent followed by the ozone smell of discharged lightning. A net of tendrils tried to grab him, but his talons and teeth shredded them even easier than the larger variations.
Do it, Felix Nevarre!
Without questioning, Felix spun himself, flipping in mid-air as he reached the zenith of his rise. He set off another kinetic push, launching off the writhing mass of a tentacled above him. He shot, like a bullet, into the Larval Ravager's gullet.
The last thing he heard was the painful scream of some sort of bird.
Who is---
Then darkness.