Reawakening: SSS-Rank Villain's POV-Chapter 143: Discovery!

As Lucian neared the entrance, he felt like puking his guts out. The smell coming out of the cave was absolutely disgusting.

A few meters away, Lucian spotted a few droppings that he could guess was from the Land Sharks, at first, he didn't know what they were as the pile of mud like things didn't stand out.

But when he got closer, it got darker but then his eyes started to get used to the darkness and after a while, he was actually able to see in the dark.

With slow but steady steps, Lucian walked along the path of the cave.

Although the smell still disturbed him, he had gotten used to it.

After he had walked a few meters forwards, Lucian squinted as he saw a broken piece of steel board laying in one corner of the floor.

Covered in sand and was already in ruins. Rust covered the steel board.

Picking it up, Lucian picked it up, dusting the steel board.

It was only then he could make make out a little of what was written on it.

"Stonevoid." That was the only word he could make out, he couldn't make out the other words as they had been rusted beyond his comprehensive ability.

Blinking his eyes, Lucian threw aside the steel and he continued forwards.

After a few steps, a large clearing immediately came into view.

The place was very large and three was a large building hall that was built at the center of the cave.

Lucian could guess that it had been a dwelling place for a small organisation of some sort.

He could feel his heart pumping as he knew he had definitely stumbled into something good.

Lucian observed his surroundings and saw that there were other paths in the cave which led to unknown places.

Three were at least 20 of those paths.

Lucian didn't wait, he rushed inside the large buildings with excitement visible on his face, intending to see what was inside but he was immediately disappointed.

The instant he set foot into the building, he realised that everything had been thoroughly searched through.

Still not believing he couldn't find anything useful, he searched the entire building for more than an hour.

There wasn't a single hint to show that anything of value still remained in the building.

He had even ignored the smell the Land Sharjs and other beast that had ever lived in here gave off to search the place for a whole hour.

He was depressed. But very soon, he regained his vigor.

There were still places he hadn't checked yet.

It took Lucian almost three hours to rampage through the entire underground cave but he found nothing of note.

It was to be expected though. They weren't the first batch of students that had used this specific location as their competition ground.

He would be extremely lucky if he could even find a drop of serum in the entire underground cave.

The only things he could find are the dwellings of different Land Sharks, the details of those dwellings, Lucian didn't wish to remember.

Then, there was a sudden flash of inspiration that fleeted through his mind but he couldn't get a clear hold of it.

Rubbing his head, he tried recalling what it was. The dwellings of the Land Sharks.

His eyes instantly lit up, every cave dwelling he had searched were of the roughly of the same size which means the low level land sharks and the mid level land sharks had probably been staying there.

But he wasn't able to find anything related to the high level Land Shark beast dwelling.

His eyes glinted with a sharp glow and he was visibly excited.

Since he couldn't find the High level land shark's dwelling, which means it had probably used its ability to dig a layer for itself underground.

The main reason he had tracked down the land sharks dwelling was because of the high level land shark.

It was practically impossible for a high level beast to develop an ability without a catalyst.

There had to be something here that had triggered the reaction.

He just had to find it.

But, Lucian then frowned soon after. He couldn't possibly dig out the whole ground jaut because he was searching for a single layer.

He would only tire himself out of he did that.

That optioned as automatically removed which remained only one option left.

To use the ability he had gained.

Earth Swim: Utilizes the muscles in the body to release a unique undulation that momentarily soften the structure of sands and rocks that comes into contact with the body.

Although Lucian still didn't know the full extent of the ability yet, as he hadn't tried it on other things. He was sure it doesn't work on woods.

He had tried it in the few trees he had encountered on the way and it was basically just a waste of time.

Every time he activated the ability and was near anything apart from sands or rocks, there would be a weird feedback he would always receive that makes his body uncomfortable every time he was near anything other than sand or rocks.

A soft hum was heard and his whole muscles shook from underneath the vest and immediately, the earth beneath his feet gave out.

Lucian didn't panic this time as he had experienced it before, controlling the intensity of the undulations, his descending speed dropped and he finally stablized his body to the ground.

Before the ground could solidify back, Lucian resumed the undulations but this time, he limited them to his upper body left out the muscles below his ankles.

Normally, it was impossible to limit abilities or to fully control them.

That why they are called abilities not techniques.

You can only direct an ability to do as you wish, and in a few case scenario, reduce its output but it was practically impossible to limit or control an ability without a few years of training.

But this was absolutely no problem for Lucian.. With his absolute body control, it was an extremely simple matter, to limit which part of his body would use the ability and which part shouldn't.

A few feet underneath the soil, Lucian couldn't see a thing as it was completely dark with no lights coming through but he wasn't hoping for that anyways.

Even the illumination coming from his holographic image was of little to no help at all.

Oscillating every part of his muscles except those at his feet, the surrounding soil disintegrated into dust.

Lucian had only 8 seconds left before his stamina drains.

Stomping his foot against the ground, his figure was like a phantom as he dash through the ground like a fish swimming in the river.

There was little resistance on his way and as soon as the rocks came into contact with his skin, they disintegrate to dust, the resistance they provided was just a little bit greater than the air resistance.

Which meant his speed underneath the ground was only a bit slower than on land.

Using this opportunity, Lucian dashed through the ground like a soil.

In the large hall, Lucian had previously noticed that a few mountain rock were different from the others in the surrounding area.

Which made Lucian suspect that the rocks and sand in that position had disintegrated countless number of times and then had reformed back to their original structure.

Using his motion technique, Lucian was like a spectra as he rushed through the ground like a phantom.

The ground continued to release muffled booms as Lucian tried to search the entire area under the large building.

Just a few seconds after, as sudden sound startled him.

Dong!

It seems his leg had hit something metallic.

'Found it!' Lucian's eyes lit up in glee.

Dispersing the undulations emanating from his body, Lucian bent his body down.

Turning on the emergency lights, he knelt down and used his hands to sweep off the remaining sand covering the metallic surface he saw.

Using his fingers, he flicked at the metal, trying to figure the thickness and the hardness of the metal.

Soon, his head furrowed into a frown. It was going to be very difficult to get through the steel wall.

His head was also getting a bit lighter since the oxygen in the atmosphere was extremely thin.

As a Ranker, he needed more oxygen than an average human. Unless he learnt a technique to store and hold in more oxygen into his body, it was practically impossible to hold his breath more than an average human being.

After a while, his eyes hardened and determination shone in them.

The muscles in his right hand suddenly expanded and the veins on his hands throbbed madly. freewebnσvel.cѳm

His hands currently, doesn't look one bit human. It was as if he had a monster in his body which it's hands had been revealed.

Clenching his fist, a crackle exploded in between his hands.

And without any formalities, he punched down at the metallic surface in a lightning quick manner.

Boom!