CHAPTER 23: CHAPTER 23: WEB CAGE

’ Son of a b*** that mine’ he growled and the large black panther turned it head to look at him then tried to bite off the horn. He felt rage rise up inside him.

The disregard this lowly creature was showing him was infuriating. Before it could bite off the horn he jumped at it with his claws brandished like daggers.

His body moved so fast he appeared above it in a split second then slashed his claw. The claw moved at blinding speed, he could already imagine ripping out it back and shattering it spine.

Just as the claw was about to land a small gust of wind blew around them and the next moment it was gone. His claw shattered the ground and sent stone fragments flying like bullets.

This greatly shook him, he thought he was very fast but compared to this panther he felt his confidence waning, all he saw was a blur and it was gone.

He looked around and saw it standing a hundred metres behind him, licking it paw like nothing happened, it was obviously mocking him, just as he was about to attack again wind flowed around it and the next thing he knew he was flying through the air.

He didn’t even see it move, before he could hit the ground something rammed into him again. His body broke through dozens of trees before rolling on the ground and coming to a stop.

He looked around and did not see it, cold winds blew increasingly strong in the surrounding hundreds of metres. It was creating an environment suitable for it, sort of like a domain.

’ Two can play at that game’ he spew out a cloud of poison in every direction. Although the poison cloud was technically gas it was still very dense.

Wind of this level was not enough to blow it away, it helped spread it faster instead. He waited and a few minutes passed, the poison cloud was starting to thin out then he realised his mistake.

He forgot he was never the panthers target in the first place. He ran out of the poison cloud and found it still struggling to break off the horn, fortunately the horn was much harder than he thought but a bit of it had already been consumed.

This infuriated him, he felt like he was having his meat stolen by a street dog right from his hands, it was humiliating. He shot a ball of web from his mouth which turned into a large net.

The panther dodged but the net covered the goat, if it tried to steal his meal again it would get trapped by the web. He continued shooting balls of webs, sometimes he spew it out like a jet covering dozens of metres.

But no matter how many times he shot at it he missed, the speed of this creature was ridiculous. Even if he used his top speed which was around Mach 2 by his estimate he would still not be as fast.

The only upside was that it was weak, fast as it was, it attacks were pitifully soft, even White had more force than this. He felt the wind stir behind him.

Without even looking back he slashed with his tail and felt it connect with something. A sound like two metals colliding followed and the next thing he saw was it body flying back like a cannon.

It spun mid air and landed on it feet, he had to admit, it cat reflexes were impressive. He thought it did not suffer any wounds but when he looked closely it claws were cracked.

He grinned then followed by shooting more web balls at it which it easily dodged. Then his body moved, for the first time in this fight he used his flash trait though not at full capacity as that would drain too much stamina very quickly.

He felt a wall of air block him and with a little push it broke, the air exploded and his body zipped forward like a black shadow. The panther dodged.

’ I can see it’ that was another feature of the flash trait, it did not only increase his physical speed but perception and reaction speed as well.

So while the panther was still fast he could atleast see it shadow now. He flung his tail in it direction and from it tip a ball of web shot out.

This was the advantage of being able to shoot out the web from any part of his body. The panther was forced to change direction and dodge.

His confidence grew, it speed was nolonger too much to handle, if he used flash at full capacity he bet he would be able to press it even more but it was not time for that yet.

However before he could react, crescent wind slashes hit him on the side ’ By Thor’s hammer that hurt’ he cursed in his mind, unlike it previous attacks the wind slashes actually hurt.

Although they still could not cut through his scales they were able to somewhat direct force into his insides. He should mention that his scales were very resistant to force, they could not only redirect and reflect but could also nullify it to an extent.

So for it to be able to direct force directly into his insides was an impressive feat. He slashed his tail and shattered the next wave of the wind slashes.

Then flew towards it like an arrow, they continued running around playing a game of cat and mouse except they could move beyond the speed of sound itself.

Everytime he missed,his claws would shatter the ground so the surrounding dozens of metres was littered with craters. He would occasionally shoot out balls of webs but he was starting to run out of the web fluid.

But it did not matter because he was close to achieving his goal. He gathered the remaining web fluid and shot it out in different directions.

Then he stopped and grinned, showing his terrifying razor sharp teeth. The surroundings were fully covered by his web, they were inclosed in a web cage with thick web lines intersecting inside.

’ Let see you running around now b***.’