The Dark Rebirth of Pandora: Revenge of the Abyss-Chapter 138: Passive

The Orc raises his hand and slams down, the entire area trembles as everything cracks and crumbles, the surrounding trees come crashing down, destroying the mobility advantage I had.

"Tsk...!!!" The Orc grabs a log and strikes super fast and hard, I position my hands in an X formation in front of me to defend since there’s no time to dodge, the impact is so strong that I am thrown flying away.

’It’s hard to use abilities even though they don’t consume mana...’ is what I think as I’m being thrown, the damage I’ve taken hinders the use of most of my skills.

Soon I plummet from the sky, falling on my back on the ground, all the trees in the path have been knocked down while the spot I fell in is now a small crater, I get up from the ground feeling a lot of pain.

Soon I see that Orc has already arrived, his speed and strength have increased greatly after he turned red, I hold my right arm which seems to have been broken by the force of the blow.

"You’ll pay dearly for devouring my arm, you little thing," the Orc says angrily.

’I need more...more strength...more speed...more endurance’ not magic, but rather general attributes, I need much more without the use of any magic or mana to strengthen myself.

I tear off my broken arm and start devouring it, following my instincts, the Orc looks surprised by my abnormal act, I’m not even sure what I’m doing myself.

I just feel that I need this to become stronger, my teeth tear and grind the flesh of my arm which has a somewhat strange taste to me, but it’s still delicious.

[System Alert.

Autocannibalism is not recommended]

I ignore the system alert as I start swallowing the flesh of my arm.

[System Alert.

The system strongly recommends that you do not eat that]

I ignore the system, I don’t need to obey something I don’t even know what it is, I’d rather trust my instincts, I take another bite of the arm and chew, the Orc doesn’t do anything, just observes without understanding.

"Have you gone completely insane, you little thing?" the Orc says as he watches me devour my own arm, he doesn’t understand why I’m doing this and his mistake is not attacking me now that he has the chance.

[System Alert.

The system warns that the individual known as Pandora should stop immediately]

I completely ignore this message as I finish eating what was left of the arm.

[System Notification.

The individual known as Pandora Aegis Oblivion has just undergone an evolution process, the understanding acquired about herself will lead her to new levels, in compensation her violence and brutality will become greater.

Certain Passives have just evolved, evolved Passives will still be maintained, so you will keep the old Passive while acquiring its evolution.

Passive = 9=Bloodthirsty Assassin - When covered in blood, your stats receive a slight increase.

Bloodthirsty Assassin has evolved, obtained as evolution = Blood Beast - When seeing the slightest amount of blood, your abilities evolve by 20% in exchange, your thirst for blood and deaths increases by 50% in case of sexual relations, your lust increases by 70% when seeing blood.

5=Carnage - When causing a large number of deaths in sequence, you gain the effect of Carnage, thus your physical abilities will increase based on how many you have killed.

The Carnage Passive has evolved, obtained as evolution = Extermination - When causing a large number of deaths in sequence, you gain the effect of Extermination, thus your physical and magical abilities will increase by 50% temporarily while your presence causes intimidation on the battlefield.

The combination of Extermination and Blood Beast completes the conditions for obtaining a new Passive.

New Passive = Holocaust - The Beast that brings the end of all life, when this Passive is active, the user becomes capable of ignoring immortality, affecting both the body and the soul. Main effects include, [Wounds that do not regenerate until the Passive deactivates, Soul damage in almost all attacks while the Passive is active, Defense break while the Passive is active]

The system says the individual Pandora should be careful not to lose herself in her own essence]

I look at the messages and then at my missing arm, a black liquid drips along with the blood, just seeing my own blood already makes me want to kill.

My arm soon starts to regenerate, I look up at the sky and then at the Orc, who seems to have noticed how much stronger I’ve just become, and my mana has also recovered quite a bit.

With this, I realize why my instincts were guiding me to commit autocannibalism, my Devourer Passive works by giving me more restoration based on the value of what I ate.

My body, which has high concentrations of mana, considerable strength, and a high value as a monster, made me a nutritious target for this Passive.

"Ah...this is so good..." A sigh of satisfaction escapes my mouth, I feel fulfilled, as if I’ve connected with a deeper part of myself.

By consuming a part of my own body, I noticed how its functioning works even better.

The Orc takes a fighting stance, noticing the differences that, although not physically visible, are still perceptible.

"I thank you...and to show my gratitude, I’ll show you what I can achieve at this new level." I use my new knowledge about my body, using Shadow Sculpting to form an extension of my claws.

I advance directly towards him, a simple movement like a wild beast.

However, instead of blocking, the Orc evaded as far as he could, which was the right choice, when I swung my hand in a horizontal cut with the claws, a mark of about 4 meters was formed on the ground where he had been.

It’s as if a huge monster with claws of at least 1 meter had missed an attack and cut the ground, 3 of these marks are visible on the ground while the tree falls as if it had been cut by something sharp, even though my claws didn’t even touch anything.

’My body is a sword...I am my own sword...’ Swordsmen make their sword an extension of their body, but I will make my own body the blade, using the concept of Spatial Fencing, my claws have shredded the space in a radius of 3 to 4 meters, it’s not the same as Spatial Fencing, only similar.

I quickly cover the distance between us, the speed granted by the new Passives will allow me to become much more powerful, in compensation, I feel that my rationality has declined in exchange for increasing my desire to kill.

I want so much to kill and shred something. I grab his remaining arm and tear it off with pure brute force, the Orc who was once so strong has now decayed so much, all I see in him now is a meal and I’m hungry.

The Orc tries to flee, but I mold my tail with much more ease now, my tail divides into two and pierces his neck and heart, one should never turn their back on an enemy like me.

The Orc’s body falls to the ground, I go to it and start to shred and devour, the meat is not very tasty, but hunger speaks louder, the more blood I see, the more my desire to kill increases.

The sound of bones being crushed echoes through the empty forest as I feel the satisfaction of the hunt, I eat only the parts that interest me and discard the rest, the corpse is now so deformed and in such a grotesque state that many would be disgusted to look at it.

A brutal way of eating that makes it clear that a monster attacked, I start walking, covered in blood, looking for my next meal.

"I want to kill...I want to kill..." I murmur as I walk through the forest, the new Passives working very well.

"I know what to do..." This place is the law of the strong, meaning that different areas of the forest have different owners, I have 20 days to kill and devour everything in my path, I will hunt the owners of each region and claim this entire forest as my domain.

I walk excitedly through the forest, I no longer need to hide, I want to be found and for the cowards to hide in fear, and for the strong to come and try to challenge me to be crushed.

My mana has recovered considerably now, I can use magic and skills again, and I’ve also learned more about my own body, allowing me to evolve my fighting abilities and even modify my own fighting styles.

My tail returns to normal as I look for something to hunt, the area is quite silent, but now that I’ve recovered, I can feel that it’s not really that empty, there are monsters all around, but most are hiding.

Whether they are waiting for prey or hiding from something dangerous, so the only monsters that roam the area like me are those who are strong.

’Holocaust...how do I activate this Passive?’ It seems powerful, but I have no idea how to activate it, so I decide to ignore it.

’The system warned me about committing autocannibalism...but why? Didn’t it want me to evolve...or didn’t it want me to become more violent? In the first place, what is the system, really?’

I couldn’t find any books about what the system really is, and the academy didn’t teach anything about it.

The system just exists, but there are no explanations of why it exists and who controls the system currently, after all, obviously it was the primordial goddess who created the system, but the question is why she did it, and is it currently her who has control over the system?

’I’ll think about that later, I’ve found a prey.’