Chapter 62: Skull Ape Also Have Flashbacks?
The moment Mark’s strength increased beyond the F-rank level, the skull ape immediately noticed it. But even so, this alone was still not enough for the skull ape to feel that Mark was truly dangerous.
It casually ran straight forward and threw a punch directly at Mark. This time, Mark immediately dodged and ran over to pick up the spear.
With the weapon in hand, Mark’s eyes locked onto the skull ape.
"The absolute weak point definitely isn’t the chest. Then where exactly is it..."
Even though his greatly increased strength made Mark a little overconfident, he still knew that from the beginning until now, he hadn’t actually managed to hurt this skull ape.
The skull ape didn’t give Mark much time to think. It jumped straight toward Mark, its movement looking like it was about to throw another punch.
Having already seen how the skull ape threw punches several times, Mark relied on that experience to lean sideways and dodge, but this time everything turned out completely different.
When jumping toward Mark, the skull ape twisted its body and then swung an extremely fast and accurate slap at Mark’s face.
Mark’s face immediately twisted to one side at the moment of impact. Several teeth were knocked out of his mouth, followed by blood flowing out.
"Cough cough..."
Mark vomited blood, but his hand still gripped the spear tightly. He planted the spear against the ground and staggered to his feet.
That slap to the face caused a huge impact on his brain. If his body hadn’t just been strengthened, he would have been slapped to death by that blow.
The skull ape once again stood still after that attack. Mark was also able to take advantage of this time to let his mind regain more clarity.
But the shock was ultimately still too great. Before he could fully recover, the skull ape started moving again.
"Damn it..."
His eyes, which had just gained enhanced vision, were now blurry again like before, making it impossible for him to clearly see the skull ape’s movements even though the two were only about ten meters apart.
Skull ape once again ran straight toward Mark. When it reached the right distance, it threw a straight punch at Mark’s face.
A sense of danger filled his mind. His body’s instincts warned him that if he took that punch head-on, he would definitely die.
At that critical moment, Mark’s senses seemed to undergo some kind of miraculous transformation that even he didn’t know how to explain.
He felt as if the ground had become one with his body. Since it was already a part of his body, Mark could naturally control it.
According to Mark’s will, the ground beneath his feet immediately sank down. Although the affected area was only a tiny bit, the sudden drop in height was enough to dodge the skull ape’s punch.
Mark used the ground as leverage to thrust the spearhead into the skull ape’s chest and then used the momentum to fling it away.
The skull ape flew freely through the air, but it didn’t seem panicked at all. It spun a few times in the air before landing on the ground, then scratched its butt as if what had just happened was nothing more than a harmless joke.
The two stab wounds on its chest showed no signs of healing, but there was no blood or anything else flowing out either. It was as if the skull ape was actually just a puppet. Unless its limbs were torn off or its body was smashed apart, there was no way to disable it.
"That damn monkey..."
Mark really wanted to curse at the skull ape, but now that he was missing teeth, his voice sounded strange whenever he opened his mouth to curse, so he didn’t want to say anything else.
Now that he knew he could affect the ground, even if only to a very small extent, it could still change the situation of the battle by a lot.
Seeing the skull ape preparing to attack again, Mark looked around to choose a suitable position to dodge.
Right now, the only fighting method Mark could think of was to wait for the skull ape to stand still for a few seconds and attack every part of its body to find its weak point. Facing it head-on was impossible even though Mark had become much stronger.
Skull ape burst forward and ran straight toward Mark. Its memory didn’t seem to be very good, so it had completely forgotten that Mark could control the ground.
Mark stomped his foot against the ground. Ripples appeared, making the ground seem like an unstable sea with waves.
The skull ape couldn’t react in time and tripped, causing the punch that was originally aimed at Mark to slam straight into the hard ground instead.
After throwing that punch, the skull ape’s body became motionless once again. It just lay flat on the ground, exposing an opening for Mark to use all his strength to jump into the air and thrust the spear downward.
The spear pierced through the thick skin on the skull ape’s back. With strength several times greater than before, Mark drove the spear straight through, creating a hole in the skull ape’s body.
The skull ape had no blood, so Mark really didn’t know whether this attack had been effective or not, but he didn’t have much time.
Mark’s jawbone had already been cracked earlier. If he got hit one more time, he would really die, no joke. To avoid a surprise attack, Mark immediately pulled out the spear and put some distance between them.
After lying flat on the ground for another ten seconds, the skull ape stood up with a completely different aura.
The purple lights in its eyes lit up fiercely like two high-powered light bulbs. Mark found this scene very familiar. He seemed to have just experienced this before.
Are you kidding me? Can an E-rank monster also use the power of flashbacks to buff its strength?
Looking at the skull ape’s current appearance, Mark’s heart pounded wildly. The feeling of death caused all kinds of absurd thoughts to emerge in his mind.
"So you know how to buff the enemy too?"
Seeing this scene, Nexus shook his head at the system. It had just buffed Mark’s strength, and now it was buffing the enemy’s strength. Was this just putting on a show for itself to watch?