Born Op
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Chapter 53: Arnold
Arnold walked with confidence as he appeared in what seems to be an endless plane of rice field as what he saw looked like rice plants that reached all the way up to his knees.
Everywhere was glowing green as anything could be under those plants but Arnold walked unbothered and confident in his own strength.
The wind in the field blew all plants further creating sounds to mask any movement sound that may arise from anywhere.
“Aren’t monsters these days too focused on sneak attacks, or have they become afraid” said Arnold as he walked across the field.
“Have they become lazy or what, they should attack already ... should I just destroy everything here, I’m sure they would come out eventually when that happens” Arnold said with a smile.
Then he raised his spear about to send an attack across the field so these monsters would stop hiding or planning sneak attacks.
As he was about to attack, his posture abruptly shifted as he changed forms from attack to a defensive stance.
As soon he blocked with his spear, he heard a sound of two metals clashing.
The weight on his spear was suddenly lifted and disappeared without a trace like it wasn’t there in the first place.
Arnold didn’t know what happened or what monster attacked him.
He simply felt something coming from that direction and blocked simply by following his instinct and senses.
He waited for a while, his senses tingled about something coming from multiple directions.
He swirled his spear in those direction to block whatever was coming.
The same processes repeated for sometime before Arnold decided to simply destroy the field.
He slammed the butt of his spear on the ground and everything started shaking within a three kilometres radius and splitting apart.
The beasts that has been hiding started surfacing one by one.
Arnold saw what looked like a giant praying mantis.
He didn’t know exactly what it was, but they looked like that with sharp scythe like blade as their hands while standing like they bipedal.
They were many of them, but they won’t pose a challenge to him at all.
Well only their invisibility skill could at least do something at all, but Arnold was sure he can react to it like he already did twice.
The monsters immediately started attacking, they literally came in a wave for Arnold’s life.
Arnold smiled, waved his spear, before the monsters could even blink as they moved, Arnold wasn’t in his position anymore.
Arnold arrived at another side of the field and started waving his spear, wherever he moved to a head must be taken, if any head wasn’t taken, that particular monster would be split in half.
As Arnold moved as he like was dancing and harvesting souls, he ducked as he felt something coming from behind, he slammed the body of the spear in the praying mantis head, which exploded splashing blood on Arnold’s face who didn’t even flinch and happily bathed in the blood.
As Arnold moved, the monster wave started dwindling at a fast rate.
The monsters changed tactics and immediately used their innate invincibility skill
Everywhere became quite again and only the sound of the wind and plant moving as they colliding against each other could be heard.
Arnold just stood still and didn’t move, he knew this wasn’t over and he didn’t have to wait long for them to make a move again.
He didn’t need to close his eyes or concentrate to heighten his other senses, his physique had already transcended such mortal things.
The first monster made a move by striking for his shoulder.
Arnold blocked, using the weight on his spear, he changed his motion, redirecting the monsters movement and slashing at the supposed place the monster was supposed to be.
Arnold felt his spear tears through meat with ridiculous ease.
As the praying mantis died, it immediately became visible.
As if on cue, the rest followed and struck without hesitation of any sort.
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