Strongest Superhuman System - Chapter 407

Chapter 407: Enhanced Healing
Luna dodged out of the way as the anima suddenly charged at her again in anger and she started to run to try to get some distance between them.

Meanwhile, the octopus-based anima used the distraction provided by the other anima to extend its tentacles to the side and grab hold of the severed tentacles that Luna had previously cut off. It brought them up to its mouth, opened wide, and swallowed the tentacles whole. Immediately after, its injuries slowly started to heal. Naturally, all octopi have a very high healing factor that allows them to regrow body parts and severed tentacles easily with time. This ability developed as a survival tactic that they used to escape from predators by severing their own tentacles and regrowing them later.

But after mutation, the anima had gained an even higher rate of regeneration that allowed it to regenerate body parts as long as it had the stamina for it. It didn’t need to consume the tentacles that had been cut off to grow them back, but consuming the tentacles allowed it to regain some of its lost stamina, thereby increasing its already absurd rate of regeneration. The anima’s severed tentacles started to grow back at a visibly noticeable rate, the wound Makr inflicted with that iceblade began to close up and its punctured eye also began to regenerate!

It turned its attention to where Luna was being attacked by the giant shark-based anima, and it only watched for a few seconds before shifting its focus back to Mark. Mark was its mission, not Luna. The only reason the anima was struggling before was because Luna was there to support Mark. Now that Luna was out of the way, it could finally focus on Mark properly and finish him off!

Through the haze of monsters flying around him, Mark noticed what was happening with the octopus-based anima. He saw how it was regrowing its limbs and healing its injuries, and Mark knew that the Eldritch had planned this all out from the very start!

The Eldritch knew that it couldn’t handle both Mark and Luna together, so it called on reinforcements from the ocean to support it. And once the reinforcements arrived, the Eldritch sent all of the small anima after Mark while making Luna fight against the other Eldritch. The Eldritch must’ve noticed that all the bladed weapons that hurt it were created by Luna. That meant the octopus would have a harder time fighting against Luna than it would against Mark!

If it wasn’t for the fact that it was a monster doing all this, Mark would’ve been fucking impressed! Most humans couldn’t even think this well!

‘So this is the difference between an Elder Eldritch and a regular anima. These things have very high intelligence.’

Mark thought this while punching a hole through the shell of a giant snapping turtle that charged at him recklessly!

[Critical Hit]!

BOOM!

The blow immediately killed the snapping turtle, and Mark jumped back, putting his hand forward while activating his full-body constitution. Mark had managed to touch almost all the monsters in front of him during the fight, so once he activated the Void Slash skill, all the anima he touched were sliced perfectly in two!

[Void Slash]!

SHINK!!

[User has killed 12 Low-Level Calamities +600 Stat points +600 Skill points.]

[User has killed 7 High-Level Calamities +1050 Stat points +1050 Skill points.]

Blood splashed across the ground and all over the containers beside Mark as the body parts of many of the anima were thrown around like trash!

Mark didn’t waste any time and immediately activated his system once he saw that he got some rewards for killing the monsters.

[Does the user wish to send Stat points to the selected stats? Yes/No]

Mark immediately picked yes, and the system sent him another message confirming that the points had been sent to the selected stats.

…

[The User has sent 1000 stat points to Durability]

[The User has sent 650 stat points to Stamina]

…

Stamina: 2750 [+275] [+550] [+38]

Durability: 2860 [+286] [+572] [+36]

…

Mark saw the durability and stamina stats increase, and he felt his energy being rejuvenated back to what it was when he had just started fighting. Now that those two stats were higher, Mark was sure that he would have an easier time using the Achilles Heel skill, but Mark knew that this would not be enough to allow him to use this skill on the Eldritch. The system said that Mark had to have about five thousand stamina points and four thousand durability points before he could use the Achilles Heel skill without causing damage to his body. But that does not mean that he had to have that exact amount of points before he could activate it. It only meant that the system recommended he have those amounts of points.

If Mark activated the skill with a lower number of durability and stamina points, then he would only suffer some damage to his body that would heal later on. Mark was trying his best right now to get the minimum number of points that would allow him to not lose his eyesight. If he could do that, then he didn’t care if he bled from the eyes or anything! Mark turned to the Eldritch and activated the skill!

[Achelies Heel] had been activated

[Achelies Heel] has been forcefully deactivated

[The User does not possess sufficient Stamina and Durability to withstand this skill.]

[Recommended Stat points for Activation: Stamina > 5000 Durability > 4000]

[If the skill is activated forcefully, upon activation, the user will lose eyesight for [4] seconds. Does the user still wish to activate this skill?]

Alright, there’s progress! Mark grinned as he saw the number of seconds change on the system tab. Now the number of seconds had gone down to four from the ten that it was before. That meant that just adding in a sufficient number of points would be enough to activate the skill without him losing his sight at all. Even if the number wasn’t up to the recommended amount, it would still work.

It was the same as a game that had a recommended requirement as well as the minimum requirements before it could be played on a system. The recommended requirements just meant that the game would work without any issues at all. The minimum requirements would still carry out the operation, but it might have some issues along the way! For Mark, that issue might include some splitting headache and bleeding, but that was fine! A true gamer didn’t care about stuff like that! As long as you met the minimum requirements, who cared about a little bleeding!?

Mark turned to the horde of anima that were chasing after him and prepared to kill a few more so that he could get points for his system! When Mark used the Void Slash before, the anima that wasn’t affected by the Void Slash were stunned as they saw their brethren getting slashed by an invisible force! They started to wonder what that was, and many of them even began to feel some fear in their hearts as they looked at Mark and saw him in a new light. Mark used this moment of uncertainty that they had to activate a new skill.