Chapter 213 - "Me wait"

Timothy surfed down towards the spot where that old man's corpse was supposed to be, and inhaled the numerous powers that the said corpse had left behind. Initially he expected to absorb two or three powers, considering that each essence of these powers was pitch black, and therefore looked identical to one another, but that was not the case. He absorbed seventeen new powers, or, fractions of those seventeen powers at least!

“Hell yeah!” He shouted, as he saw the system list out the numerous powers. “That geezer was fucking amped! Too bad he didn't have anything that would help him resist my thunder bolts, hehe.”

Timothy celebrated even though he was in the middle of a battle, and worst of all, this battle just kept escalating! Other dark mages had heard the commotion, or the thunderbolts, so he was quickly surrounded by fifty men and women!

“How many of you bastards are down here?” He grunted, and then he tried to pave an escape route for himself.

Timothy was successful with his plans so far, but blowing his cover was still one of the worst moves he made! It was a blunderous move! Each of these dark mages had a power to throw against him, and they did exactly that.

Timothy knew that he was in trouble when he felt his chest tightening, and his body moving towards directions that were against his own desire. If he gave these dark mages another few seconds to attack, he would get torn into pieces without a doubt, much like the geezer he exploded!

“Ah!” He yelled, as he felt his heart tightening.

Despite the panic, pain made him very agile, so he quickly scoped the area, and managed to locate the enemy who was toying with his organs. In response, Timothy then shot the Electro Nerve Splitter against this specific enemy, fried the nerves around the target’s brain, and then fried its brain entirely, all within a blink! This shot was so amped, that he accidentally exploded the heads of two more Hunched Humans that were close to the prior attacker!

Timothy felt free now, he felt liberated, but at this point his enemies had him surrounded, and they didn't bother approaching any further, so his freedom was short lasting. His enemies summoned whatever dark ability they had, and shot it against him!

Thankfully, his skin was recently upgraded to withstand magical attacks, so a quarter of the attacks ricocheted off of his skin, like a mere bullet would if it hit a tank! He was tough.

However, he resisted more than half of the attacks using the Extingus Breath ability, which was recently upgraded to withstand dark attacks specifically! He had the upper hand in terms of defense, but he was eventually overwhelmed nonetheless, solely by the few powers that did pierce through his defenses! He couldn’t deflect all of them.

Someone tried to make his organs collapse, but he fought this by converting his mana points into health points, thus surviving what could've been a brutal death. He couldn't figure out who was messing with his organs, so he had to continue to feed his organs with mana in order to avoid such a collapse!

Furthermore, he felt that someone was messing with his bones now as well, and considering how adept he was with that kind of ability, he was terrified of the idea of someone touching his bones. He didn’t want to be turned into a surfboard, not today, or ever!

As a desperate response, he shot numerous fireballs against the crowd, without actually knowing who to hit. He burned five men alive, and although he didn't burn the man who was toying with his bones, he did create a distraction!

Afterwards, since he couldn’t move much, he just fell to the ground and acted dead. Timothy admitted defeat, in a way, but that didn’t mean that he wanted to be captured! He fell to the ground, and started shapeshifting.

Although he needed at least half a minute to shape shift, what he did here was still beyond clever! Throughout a shapeshifting episode, his body liquidized, so during this bracket of time, it didn’t matter if anyone attacked him, because he wouldn't feel it. He was in a sub-liquid form.

Timothy was shapeshifting into a smaller creature now, but whenever he would choose to shift into a goblin, his organs and bones would be in the right place. He'll be fine, and healthy, because shapeshifting was also another way of getting freshly new bodies! For example, if he was a young boy as a stingray, he'd be a young boy as a goblin, but if he shifted into a goblin twice, there would always be molecular differences between the two bodies, and the second one would always be the better one! In this case, he’d reverse liver damage when he turned into a goblin again, and fixing a liver was very significant, but overall he'll be fine.

Anyway, the Hunched Humans celebrated their victory, but a bit later, they discovered that the goblin that they just overwhelmed a moment ago, was gone, they just found his armor and his surfboard, which were made out of the bones of their comrades! They didn't understand how he disappeared, because no one admitted to disintegrating his body, they were very confused, and while they argued, Timothy successfully carried out his new, little plan! He shapeshifted into a mere, tiny plankton that was virtually invisible to the naked eye!

Better yet, he also landed between one of the cracks of the ruined city’s stonework, so it was impossible for him to be stepped on. Now even though he had an IQ of three points in this form, he still remembered the last part of his plan!

“Me wait for two minutes, me then turn into Pig. Slow walk, yada yada, I escape.” He plotted, and these were about most of the words that his current IQ allowed.

The plan was good enough, though now the biggest challenge was being a plankton. Being only a tenth of an inch long had some benefits, he could hide easily for example, but he also faced a lot of disadvantages with this body. Almost the entirety of his abilities were limited now, extremely even, so he necessarily crippled himself voluntarily here.

[I hope you can understand me,] The system beeped, [99.9998% of your abilities have been bracketed, you can barely use them, but their use doesn't matter right now. It's important to remember that you need to shapeshift after a while, you must not remain a plankton!]

“Oke,” He nodded.

Although most of Timothy's powers were bracketed, they were not gone, thankfully. His powers would expand as soon as he shapeshifted, and this was their charm so he didn’t worry about them. For now, he had to deal with the challenges of being a plankton!

Right in front of him, he saw a bunch of blue planktons approaching, and considering that he was red himself, he guessed that these blue planktons just wanted trouble! They were bigger than him, and in order to avoid getting killed by them, he had to use whatever remained of his powers! This was his only choice.

“Me, your god!” He shouted, and then he flung microscopic fireballs against the planktons!