Most of the time, awakened battles were very intense, where even a moment’s hesitation could result in life and death. As such, the sudden appearance of the Blue-Horned Deer caught Jackson completely off guard.
However, Jackson had been a top student for a reason. The next moment, he ignored the status window and put his mind back into the battle. Still, no matter how fast or excellent his response was, the damage was already done. There was no way to change it now.
The Blue-Horned Deer let out another furious roar. Its lone horn pointed toward the sky like a spear, its eyes filled with naked killing intent and madness as it charged toward Jackson, trying to rip the stomach of the poor awakened to shreds.
Jackson had barely blinked when the Blue-Horned Deer’s sharp horn was below him, its pointed tip ready to make contact with his body.
In this situation, if Jackson paused to think, he would die.
As such, almost completely on instinct, Jackson managed to sidestep at the very last moment.
Whoosh!
A faint sound of flesh being torn open and blood splattering on the ground echoed through the surroundings.
Jackson’s expression contorted in pain. Although he had been fast, he was not fast enough. The Blue-Horned Deer’s horn managed to brush past his skin, carving a thin line of blood across his stomach. The protective body armor he wore failed to absorb even a single ounce of the damage.
It was as if he were wearing nothing.
Once its attack failed, the Blue-Horned Deer jerked its head back in Jackson’s direction with a ruthless look in its eyes.
It hurts so much...
The opened wound burned as if something had poured acid directly onto it. Even though he was in pain, Jackson was having a hard time controlling it.
At this point, countless thoughts popped into his head. Unconsciously, his thoughts drifted back to his talent.
No wonder it’s only a five-sequence talent. If I had a six-sequence talent like Lightning Strike, I could have called a lightning strike from the heavens to burn this arrogant pest to crisps.
No matter how groundbreaking the golden brush was, in a situation like this it could not save him.
As the Blue-Horned Deer approached closer, Jackson’s thoughts turned more chaotic, his mood becoming even more depressed.
Before his thoughts could spiral completely out of control, he hurriedly shook his head and took a deep breath.
No, no. I can’t let the situation get the better of me... there has to be some way.
Just as he was thinking this, the status window that he had ignored all this time appeared in front of him once again, as if the golden brush was trying to communicate something.
What now...?
Jackson felt it very clearly this time. The sudden appearance of the Blue-Horned Deer’s status window out of nowhere was no coincidence.
The talent he had copied from the computer was still active. Because of it, in one-thousandth of a second, countless thoughts popped into his head until only a single thought remained.
Yeah... I could try that.
As soon as this thought appeared in his mind, he brought the golden brush over the Blue-Horned Deer’s status window and gently brushed the area above its mana, wiping the 5.9 mana from the Blue-Horned Deer’s status window and replacing it with something else.
Although Jackson was incredibly fast, his body was simply unable to keep up with his thoughts. He had barely written six before the Blue-Horned Deer was upon him once again, this time ready to create a hole through his chest.
However, this time, instead of moving, Jackson gritted his teeth and chose to trust his instincts.
Just as the Blue-Horned Deer was about to make contact with Jackson’s body, an unexpected and unbelievable change took place in its status window. Its mana, which had once been 5.9, jumped up to 6.9 for an extremely short moment.
This sudden surge of mana was so overwhelming that the monster’s spiritual force was unable to control it. One thing led to another, and in a fraction of a second, a chain reaction started from within the Blue-Horned Deer’s body.
Jackson’s mind was still in the process of comprehending what he had just done when, for a very brief moment, the world froze. Then an intense headache assaulted his head, as if he had been struck by a hammer. The earth beneath his feet started to spin, and his vision grew completely blurry.
The next moment, the Blue-Horned Deer’s body exploded from within, sending hot blood, flesh, and bones flying in every direction. Someone standing very close to Jackson had to bear the brunt of it, and hit by the shockwave, his body was thrown off his feet and sent flying into a tree.
"Argh! My back..."
Jackson groaned as he tried to stand up. It felt as if most of the bones in his body had been broken. To make matters worse, his head was hurting like hell.
While trying to alter the Blue-Horned Deer’s status window, he had overexerted his spiritual force completely.
Even though he was not using it directly, as an awakened, the talent Highly Intelligent Machine was still active, doing work in the background. Every moment it continued functioning, it consumed a mix of spiritual force and mana. But at this time, Jackson had none of the spiritual force left, so continuing to fuse it was eating away at his sanity, not in a metaphorical sense but in a literal one. As awakened humans, their brains were never filled with spiritual force by regular meditation. That was also the reason Jackson was feeling this throbbing headache, as the last bit of spiritual force was also being drained away.
At this point, Jackson did not realize it, but his situation was both scary and impossible to believe. In the history of humanity, there had been no one who was able to drain their spiritual force to this level. Any awakened would have long fainted if they had tried something like this. The awakened instinct would have intervened, as their bodies would never allow them to go this far.
Before the situation could deteriorate further, an idea popped up in his mind.
Clutching his head, Jackson called out the golden brush again.
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