Is it Wrong to Copy Abilities in Apocalypse?

Right now, he was standing in the same spot, waiting for the next beast to come forward, as that would be the last one he would want.

It had been around thirty minutes since he started to kill these beasts, and only five of them came without a pair.

Alex did notice that as more time went by, the more alert the beast grew; there was almost no single beast coming here by now.

Each time those beasts crossed him in a pair or a trio, Alex would rush into the shelter and aim at the entrance of the shelter.

By whatever luck he had, none of those beasts noticed any anomaly in the area.

None of them noticed the burnt marks on the ground, as Alex had used debris to cover them, but there was one thing that Alex noticed.

Those beasts couldn't sniff out the scent of their own kind.

If they could, then Alex would've been caught by now; he did sweat buckets after all.

If not for the scent of the blood of the beast in front of him covering the whole shelter, then he would've been found out by now.

But just as he waited for a single beast to come around...

*Flutter* X4

He heard the sound of at least 4 beasts heading toward him, causing his body to tense.

This was the highest number of beasts he heard at the same time, and from the speed they were moving, Alex could tell that they were surveying the area closely.

In 20 seconds, the beasts were still a bit far away from here, and although the beasts were slow compared to him, they still had around 14 or 13 levels in their speed stat.

So, it made no sense for them to be moving this slowly unless they were doing a detailed inspection.

*Drag*

Alex hurriedly dragged the body of the beast inside, the arrows and bow clenched hard in his other palm.

He sat down at the corner of the shelter, waiting for the beasts to go away.

"Kekak!"

"Krek!"

In just a while, he could clearly hear the voices of the beasts, and unlike before, they were talking and not giggling.

The moment Alex heard their words, his eyes sharpened and his brows frowned.

"Kekek!" (You look there!)

"Geig! Kriek! Kak!" (What about the outside of the zone?!)

Alex was now sure that these beasts were searching for him, or the one who was responsible for their brothers.

'You can't copy the ability with just 5 attempts?'

Alex questioned the AI as he felt that his time here was probably over and it was time to leave this area.

The beasts would come looking after a while—Alex knew it from the start.

No matter how strong one is, they would still grow alert if their members kept vanishing one after another.

So now, Alex decided to leave this area.

He didn't have the confidence to face every beast in this area alone, and he knew that if he started a fight with four of them, he would have to fight for a while.

While he did that, more and more would come, and the situation would turn harder and harder.

'All right then, do it.'

Alex nodded his head inwardly, giving the AI the permission it needed to make an ability out of what it had.

"Kiekiek!!" (It's here!)

Its words, however, were cut short by an angry screech from the entrance of the shelter, causing Alex's eyes to widen.

*Woosh*

He hurriedly let go of the arrow he had, aiming for the head of the imp that, instead of flying, was moving on its feet.

Alex gritted his teeth as he noticed the drag mark that he forgot to erase the moment he pulled the body of the beast inside the opening.

"Kriek—!" (Help—!)

The beast, on the other hand, let out a panicked scream as it saw the arrow shot at it, trying to jump away from it, only to find out that its body was too heavy to move.

*Pierce*

It just died with anger and fear—two conflicting elements—burning bright in its eyes.

*Thud*

Its body fell to the ground, followed by a momentary silence, but Alex didn't dilly dally anymore; with the ability construction in progress, he rushed out from under the debris.

His location was exposed already, so it was no use hiding there; it would just mean that he was asking to get killed.

The moment he did that was the moment the other Gigglewraths broke out of their shocks.

"Geiaaaaa!!!" X3

All three of the remaining beasts roared in anger as their bodies started to tremble.

Alex, however, kept running. Stopping to look at their transformation was the last thing on his mind right now.

Yeah, the number of coins he gained from them was double what a normal beast of 16-20 leveled beast could give—which was 120 coins per kill—but it was not worth it.

All he got from this zone within the last 30 minutes was 600 coins—something he could gain by clearing a level 10 zone or maybe higher than that, and a level 10 zone was way easier than this—and the fact that the demon Chalitanetra was catching up to him.

He could see the bodies of the Gigglewraths pulsing as their veins grew visible over their bodies, but soon he jumped out of the zone, rushing away from here.

If there was anything good about their transformation, then it was that it took some time for them to completely transform.

This level 20 zone was in an area filled with lots of debris, and Alex had his body tinged with the scent of the beasts, so all he had to do was stay out of the beasts' sight and keep hiding in one of the gaps between the debris, as for the humans in the surrounding...

A cold glint passed through his eyes as he recalled the most recent world chats of the state.

All of the humans seemed to be 'helping' the demon find Alex, as it would just let them go after they told him about the direction in which Alex was.

No matter who it was, the moment they saw Alex, they would send a chat that he was in that area, so there was just one way to move the demon heading straight at him away from here.

He was sure that he could sit out and wait for the Gigglewraths to go away, but he wasn't sure if he could do the same for the demon.

No matter how fast the Gigglewraths were, they wouldn't be able to exceed level 20, which meant that all they could do was follow behind him while maintaining a uniform distance between them.

That was the reason why he wasn't worried much about them, especially since he knew that the beast would probably take time to even reach him with their clouded minds.

*Step**Step*...

So, without thinking much, he rushed toward the area from where he could see smoke rising.