It immediately lunged at her, swinging five of its arms in her direction.
Maya barely managed to twist out of the way. All the trees within a 200-meter radius from where Maya was previously standing, were destroyed by that one attack. The tree stumps still left in the ground were the only thing left of the trees.
One hit from that thing will definitely kill me, thankfully it doesn't seem to possess intelligence
Another swipe—faster this time. She dropped to the ground, rolling through the dirt as the beast's claws tore through the trees behind her like wet paper.
Now!
She immediately aimed at the creatures' head and fired three shots with the gun, luckily one of them hit but it didn't seem to have any effect on the creature. Another attack came while she was still in a daze
It's too fast, I can't dodge.
She instinctively put up her arms to block the attack, The moment the attack landed, she heard a crack and then everything went black. She lay on the floor, vision blurry, the world seemed to be a disjointed haze of green and pain.
Maya quickly scanned her surroundings; she could hear the creature coming at her slowly from the forest. Apparently that attack had sent her flying a few hundred meters. An intense pain assaulted her lungs and arms.
My ribs and arms are broken. I still have a few seconds before it gets here, it seems to be toying with me seeing as it's taking its time.
She resets the time it would take for her injuries to completely heal from infinity to zero. Her body is instantly healed and even a bit stronger.
"It actually worked, even the after gains are there too"
Maya reset the time taken for the injuries to heal, instead of directly resetting the damage. This way she would get a bit stronger, the same way muscles get stronger from intense workout.
Does this mean I can use this as a chance to rapidly enhance my physical capabilities?
Even though it didn't have much impact on her strength and speed, it greatly improved her durability.
Wait a second? Is this what that bastard Avaris had in mind when he gave me that useless weapon?
A faint crunch reached her ears, leaves rustles right in front of her. It was once again right in front of her, just about 5 meters away. Strangely, the creature didn't seem capable of producing any sounds, it probably lacked the organs to do so.
It swiped at her again, she intentionally blocked with her arms, dulling her own instincts so she doesn't dodge instinctively. As she's sent flying through the air, she immediately accelerates the time needed to heal by resetting it to zero. She repeated this sequence of taking attacks and healing them tens of times
Nice, I can now take a few attacks from it head on. Although the moments of pain aren't a problem getting flung around is really annoying. What if I reset the force caused by the impact to zero? That should work
Seeing as she was not dying, the creature was starting to get serious, Numerous hands, more than 30 of them immediately lunged at Maya creating sonic booms as they cut through the air. Maya didn't dodge; she let it hit. The shockwaves from that attack destroyed everything within a 2-kilometer radius, thankfully they were very far from the river currently.
Maya's laughter resounded through the entire area. As the dust cleared off, Maya hadn't moved an inch from where she was, and she didn't seem the least bit injured.
It really worked
The creature seeing that Maya didn't seem to be affected by the attack, became very agitated, it attacked relentlessly, unleashing hundreds of attacks per second. Maya didn't move an inch; by compounding the two resets on the force and on her injuries, she achieved an absolute defense against its attacks
Great, at this rate it won't ever be able to harm me again, if I attack it, my attacks probably can't do much to it. I could just reflect the effects of its own attacks on it but that won't help me kill it. I could add in a reset where I –
Just then the gates of heaven seemed to open, as a bright light descended eviscerating the creature completely.
A hoarse voice resounded through the area "a slave that can battle a medium grade beast, I must be in luck"
A man with wings about 5 meters long appeared, Maya's expression paled, that's a high-grade dragon, it has to be otherwise how could it effortlessly kill that thing. Shit I don't think I have a chance here. I need to defend myself
The dragon couldn't care less about what she was thinking, he simply appeared behind her and lightly tapped her at the back of her neck, Maya's body completely slumped. She was instantly knocked unconscious.
"This is such a good find, initially I was planning to get a medium grade beast and absorb its life essence but now I also got a medium grade slave. The dragon licked his lips, greed and lust flickered in his eyes "I wonder how much she would sell to those higher-grade bastards or rather I could just keep her as a personal slave."
Maya never bothered repairing her clothes during the fight so they were completely gone and she was currently completely naked.
The dragon ogled her for a few seconds, before stepping reaching out to pick up her body.
"I'd advise you not to lay a hand on that girl, you are before a god, if you kneel, I might spare your life"
The dragons' gaze whipped in the direction of the voice
There, standing atop absolutely nothing—above open sky—was a man, arms folded like he hadn't a care in the world. A mocking grin that seemed to look down on everything was plastered on his face.
Avaris
He looked entirely unbothered by the entire situation almost like he didn't care
He calmly said "you know what you don't even have to prostrate, just leave and I promise to let you go"
"Let me go?" The dragon repeated angrily, voice thick with disdain. "Why the hell is a slave with a flying ability calling itself a god"
Without waiting for a reply, it instantly closed the distance to Avaris, claws outstretched to tear him apart.
Avaris smiled and spoke "I wasn't actually planning on sparing you anyway, you were always meant to be life essence for little Maya here, that is why you were created, it's your destiny."
The dragon was in a daze, it was clearly still moving at him but his movements were now extremely slow, while this slave like man was talking nonsense. He was still trying to comprehend the situation when he heard
"Okay you can die now"
The high-grade dragon was instantly missing his head almost like it was never there.
Avaris slowly walks to were Maya lay, he smiled and said "What were you planning to do if I didn't come? I know you are awake, Maya."