My Slayer System: Rise to Supremacy

The little exploration team were still underground uncovering secrets and potential betrayals in the academy. They managed to make their way through dangerous places, with deadly encounters.

And now, they got to a stone bridge and that was when they tried to cross it. Halfway through crossing the bridge, they heard resounding footsteps echoing from the entrance they were heading to.

Then coming out of the cave, was a beast that was walking with calculated steps as If it didn't have a care in the world. The way the beast walked, it felt more human than beast.

Seeing the beast, after searching through his memory banks for long, it finally clicked in Alex's head where he had seen the beast from.

The beast was what was known as a minotaur.

The Minotaur stood around 7feet tall, its muscular build rippling beneath bronzed skin. Its broad shoulders sloped downward, meeting powerful arms ending in sharp, cloven hooves. Curved horns protruded from its bull-like head, accompanied by piercing yellow eyes and sharp teeth.

Its physique was a blend of human and bovine anatomy with muscular torso, strong legs and sharp claws. Black hair framed its face, complementing its rugged features.

The beast looked part human and part beast. With its upper features almost human like. And in its hands, it was holding onto something which the others couldn't see properly.

Seeing the beast, a quest was triggered in Jake's head.

{Alert: User is not strong enough to defeat this beast}

{Quest Alert: Escape.}

'Escape?' Jake thought worriedly. 'The system has never given me this type of quest before. Has it already analyzed that I'm unable to win this?'

Dropping what was in its hands, the minotaur pointed at them and then from its hands, sparks were starting to show. Seeing the sparks, Jake was shocked as he had seen this type of thing before.

And it was from his sword. It was lightning that was starting to form and the casting time was much faster than his sword.

Shooting out of its hands, four lightning bolts shot out at them rapidly in quick succession at the group.

Jake dove one side avoiding so did the rest. Looking at the beast, Jake was now confused about how and why it had elemental abilities.

Turning to what he thought could help, Jake cast his inspect skill.

{Inspect}

{Minotaur beast}

{Class: King tier}

{Abilities: Lightning}

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{The minotaurs are known for their strong and incredible strength making them formidable as nothing can best their strengths.}

The information wasn't of Jake's concern as he had seen something else that was more worrying to him.

"A freaking king tier beast?" Jake shouted panicking. "Now I know why the system asked me to run away."

"No matter how strong I am or how versatile my skill pool is, there's no way I am strong enough to defeat a King tier beast." Jake said trying to come up with solutions in his head.

Seeing that its strike didn't work, the beast kept on shooting out lightning after lightning at the group and they kept on dodging while being on the defense unable to attack.

Tired of this, Jake activated his sword's active skill and shot out his own lightning bolt at the beast causing it to flinch a little. Then it turned its head towards where the strike had come from.

Rather than shooting out bolts, the beast charged right at Jake. Even with the beast's body weight, it was still fast enough as it got to Jake's position and swung its claws lightning fast at Jake's head.

Jake narrowly avoided it as he ducked down and threw his own punch at the beast's stomach causing it skid just an inch which greatly surprised the beast.

"Yeah. I'm not so weak." Jake said as he pushed off from the ground towards the beast with his gauntlets in his hand.

Jake knew that in this situation, his sword was useless since it was only at the advanced tier while the beast in front of him was a king tier beast.

Pouncing off, Jake swung his hand quickly at the beast but it just used its hand to block Jake's strike without flinching or anything making it feel like it was a fly that landed on its hand.

Then it swung its claws at Jake's stomach but before it could connect, Alex came in with his giant advanced tier sword that was now in front of the beast's claws blocking it from hitting Jake.

But the force of the beast's great strength managed to send Alex flying away. Alex's intervention gave Jake enough time to escape back as he moved away from the beast's grip.

Immediately Jake moved away, strikes and strikes of wind was now heading towards the beast hitting it on its body but not doing any damage only causing the beast to get angrier by the second.

Immediately the strike stopped, Geo could be send behind the beast with his hand outwardly striking the beast on its back sending it skidding an inch forward.

Then Jake cast {Step shift} causing him to cross a space of three metres in a second then Jake gave the beast an uppercut therefore lifting the beast off its feet from the ground a bit.

Before it kicked Jake away while coming down. Then looking around, the beast saw Peter charging at it. It lifted its claws and bolts and bolts of lightning hit Peter causing him to be electrocuted and unable to move.

The strikes had a paralysis effect so Peter was experiencing that currently as he was unable to move making him experience pains shooting in his body.

Quickly, Jake had kicked Peter away making him crash to the ground and he was no longer shaking but he was now on the floor.

After saving Peter, Jake dashed forward again towards the beast then he cast two skills from his system at once.

{Step shift} and {Strength surge}

Giving him a ten percent boost in strength. Immediately step shift activated, Jake was already in front of the beast with a punch that sent the beast skidding more than a few inches as it went back to where it stood earlier even beyond.

Jake wanted to give chase but he stumbled on something. Checking it, Jake could see that it was what the beast had been holding onto earlier.

Quickly looking closely, Jake could see it was a dead body of a soldier of the academy and in its hand, was a letter. Knowing there wasn't much time to check the letter, Jake just snatched it off the corpse hand and tucked it in his trousers as he prepared to chase the beast down.

Jake looked up and could see the beast had already gotten to his position and swung its claws out therefore hitting Jake and sending him go crashing into Geo and then, they were back in the middle of the bridge.

Alex had managed to stand up and looked at his friends too. Even Jake managed to stand up but albeit with pains shooting around his body from the impact of that hit.

They looked up worriedly at the beast and that was when they heard footsteps echoing from where the beast had come out from. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

"No no no. This is the worst time for another beast to appear." Jake mumbled as the footsteps grew louder which caused the beast to also look back at what was coming out.

And finally, the thing that was coming finally came in view.