[Two options, escape or death.(closed, Hard, NDE, R) ❷✗

[Wycliff]

As beast started to go deeper into the forest following the flowing river he would notice something about the forest. For all the lush life that seemed to be everywhere the forest was silent, there was no sounds of animals or wildlife around, the river while clear as can be and freshwater held no life, not even the smallest fish would be seen swimming in the calm moving water. It wasn’t as if the forest was barren with food. Trees that held ripe fruit and nuts were aplenty all over, all of them seemed to be untouched. If he went to try anything he would find that the fruit was exceptionally sweet and juicy, more so than anything he had in his own lifetime.

The deeper he went the older and larger the trees would become, at the start of the forest the trees were typical in height yet they would quickly start to grow in both how tall they were and how wide. After about ten minutes of walking following the river Beast would see trees rivaling the largest redwoods found in the world all around him and densely packed. Yet these trees still held all sorts of fruit and nuts that could be eaten. The ground under him felt soft and there was grass all around. From where he could see there wasn’t a clearing or an exit.

The river by this time had widened a great deal and was heading upwards as the ground was slightly slanted. It was at this time that Beast would hear something rustling some of the small bushes that had grown around the trees. It wouldn’t be hard to see what was there, a humanoid being was standing with a dazed look in it’s eye. It had the same prisoner uniform that beast would have had. It wandered around aimlessly as it seemed to have no direction in where it wanted to go or do. Beast would also see that on the back of it’s head it had a massive plant growth that seemed to be the very same trees that was all around him.

The moment he looked away from the river it would vanish and even the sound of it was gone. Looking back Beast would see that there was nothing left of what was once the river. Even the ground around him was now dry. The forest was strange and the humanoid if still alive would start to walk off with the growth on it’s back somewhat directing it towards the little sunlight that seemed to be trickling down from the canopies. A strong gust of wind came blowing a smell of rotting something towards beast, it seemed to be coming from deeper into the forest.

[Beast]

There was no wildlife anywhere to be seen, which was odd. The flora was abundant, bursting with life and fruits and edibles. Beast didn't touch any of them. Food didn't satisfy his hunger, only the life force of a living squirming victim could do that for him. He continued to walk into the forest as the trees grew taller and taller and wider and wider. They soon rivalled anything he'd ever seen in size. When he heard the rustling in the growth, he quickly turned to look at the prisoner with the tree sticking out of its head. How strange. How... pitiful. How... disgusting. It reminded Beast of Grodd and his love of trees and nature. Sickening. Moving with speed he didn't know he had, Beast grabbed at the humanoid's neck and began to squeeze the life out of it, attempting to snap its neck with his superhuman strength that had been restored. Whether or not the prisoner was killed or maimed or whatever, Beast would soon notice that the river was gone and there was only dry ground around him.

"What the &#*@?"

Looking around, and only seeing trees and only smelling death on the wind, Beast had a feeling he had walked directly into a vicious trap. Well, no matter, he'd kill whatever he could to get where he needed to be. He continued on his way, leaving the tree growth prisoner dead on the ground. It wasn't worth feeding off of this pathetic creature if he depleted his reserves more than he gained from this weakling. At least, what Beast perceived to be a weakling. How the prisoner fared was something he'd soon find out...

[Wycliff]

When Beast grabbed the back of the neck of the humanoid and tried to drain the life force of the humanoid he would feel only a small drip of it enter into his body. The humanoid’s neck snapped and it’s body fell limp to the ground. The tree on it’s neck started to wilt and die as the body of the humanoid was started to be sucked into the ground vanishing from Beast’s sight. Nothing was left of the body and beast would have only felt a small sliver of his reiatsu being restored. Something else had drained the humanoid before Beast got to him.

The forest around him started to change slightly, the small fragments of light that had been coming down from the canopy started to be blocked out by the trees moving their leaves. The bright shining forest was starting to turn dark. In a matter of moments the forest fell totally dark, not like the floor below, there were some traces of light in the forest allowing for beast to see the outlines of the trees albeit with some difficulty. In the darkness he would see a pair of red eyes start to glow from a distance, from one set of eyes to four sets soon multiplying to too many to count.

All of them started to rush towards beast, it wouldn’t be long before he would find himself surrounded by humanoids from all sides, while they weren’t strong they would all end up overwhelming Beast eventually if he tried to fight them all at the same time. The humanoids when coming into sight were all in different forms of having trees growing out of them. They only had lurching motions as they moved towards him.

[Beast]

Beast hadn't tried to drain the plantman, just attempted to crush his windpipe and neck, which he accomplished with relative ease it seemed. The plantman just crumpled to the ground and was absorbed by the underbrush until he couldn't be seen any more. Just sucked into the ground. How creepy, and odd. As it fell dark in the forest suddenly, with movement in the trees and red eyes starting to glow menacingly around, Beast began to grow wary of the environment. Something was definitely trying to eat him on this floor of the Nest. As the multiple plantmen started to shamble towards him like Zombies, he just laughed. "Are you all as weak as that last pathetic excuse for a man?"

As they began to swarm him, Beast summoned up what little of his spiritual pressure he could muster and jumped. He jumped as high as possible with Shunpo Eichi, the exploding Shunpo. Everything within a meter would feel his superhuman strength force them away. Jumping up as high as he could with the step technique, he attempted to clear the immediate surroundings as well as get into the trees. Past the trees would be ideal, but he wasn't very quick. He could only go so far with one step push, and he didn't dare push himself to jump a second time so quickly with his energy being contained so significantly. Even as is, the one jump took a bit out of him. He wouldn't want to push himself that much very often until he had scaled the Nest a bit more.

Reiatsu 730/880 (-150 Shunpo Eichi)

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{Beast's (max)/-current-stats}

Strength - [300 x1.5 (450)] -188- Points

Speed - [150 x1.25 (188)] -122- Points

Spiritual Pressure - [400 x.5 (200)] -88- Points

Reiatsu Strength - [200 x.5 (100)] -63- Points

Light Aura - [0] Points

Dark Aura - [100] Points

Instinct - [200] -88- Points

Senses - [100] -63- Points

Energy sensory - [50] -50- Points

Healing Expertise - [0] -0- Points


Total SP: [1400] Points

[Wycliff]

The impact from beast’s shumpo Eichi pushed down many of the countless hoard of lumbering masses down to the ground killing them. Those that still were alive continued to lumber towards where beast was now hiding in the tree. Beast would see that the shambling masses of the hoard were just thrusting their body against the tree, not using their arms or limbs to attempt to climb up but rather as a way to push forward as if they don’t understand the concept of a third dimensional space. The hoard would continue to smash themselves against the tree and eventually it would fall. Not due to them wanting it to fall, but just the sheer mass of weight pushing against it.

Beast would have plenty of time to plan his next action however as the falling of the tree would take a minute or two in that time he would have been able to climb upwards or to another tree than upwards. If he did move up he would get a bit clearer view of the floor. Everything around for what seemed like miles was an unchanging lush green forest. This would be the same for everything except for what seemed to be the center of the forest. He could see that eventually the treeline faded and a black rotting material started to appear. The ground in that area was grey and nothing was growing in that zone, nothing say for the largest tree in the area.

The massive tree towered over everything the leaves and the branches of the tree seemed to touch what was the sky of this zone. While the upper half of this massive tree was healthy and alive the bottom half appeared to be rotting away and was an ashen grey. The last notable thing was there was a green glow coming from the base of the tree. Other than the dead zone and the massive tree beast wouldn’t see much else before the trees around him would be toppled over. Getting to that area would take a bit of time, but it wouldn’t be impossible if he kept a view of it.

[Beast]

The horde was weak and pathetic. They turned to mush at Beast's Shunpo Eichi, leaving him high in the tree and safe for now. But they just kept coming, slamming their bodies against the tree as if pushing forwards would get them higher. The tree did start to quiver and shake, though, and would soon fall down at this rate. Beast wasn't worried, though, as he had more than enough time to judge the distance to the next tree. It would be a stretch at this level of physical strength to jump to it, but not too far for two jumps. He waited for the tree to start to tip towards the ground, then gave a great big jump towards the next tree. He was aiming for the rotted area at the center, but was content to just get to the next tree for now.

When he was getting close to the next tree, he pushed reiatsu through his feet to form a small platform of Advanced Air Ground to double jump towards the next tree. Now that he had a little distance between himself and the horde, he slid down the tree he had jumped to and began to book it towards the rotted area with the funny green glow. If it was anything like the glow of the chameleon jail keeper, it was probably a secret entrance to an elevator or something, especially if this tree at the center went up so high. That was probably where Beast needed to be to get off this floor.

Reiatsu 705/880 (-25 Advanced Air Ground)

[Wycliff]

The closer beast got to the massive growing tree the stench of death got stronger. It would be impossible for him to keep the putrid smell from assaulting his senses. The closer he got the worse it would be, causing most who would approach to gag and vomit from it. All around the ground there was dead bodies, rotting flesh, detritus and bones. The ground was so heavily covered with the dead that beast’s feet would only be able to touch the dead and not the soil that seemed to be buried under the countless death that surrounded the massive tree.

There seemed to be three different rivers all rushing towards the massive tree, each river seemed to carry water that would be contaminated with the dead, bodies floating in the water would wash up onto the shore adding to the countless decay that surrounded the massive tree. None of the water that rushed towards the tree was safe to drink nor did it look like water. One was a grey muck that seemed aken to sludge, the closest to Beast was red and had the smell of copper coming up from it. The final seemed to be a dark green sludge.

When beast was about fifty feet away from the base of the massive tree bark from the upper half of the living tree would split open and from it would come out a green skin woman with no clothing on. Her body would slowly come from the tree as if it was giving birth to her. Her eyes would open up and down from her position her ruby eyes would stare at beast standing on the dead. Her face would have a cruel smile on it as she started to speak. “Oh my, another lost wandering soul? Come let me embrace you~” Her tone held a lustful hint to it as her body started to lower from the tree her back connected to the tree by a long branch growing from the back of her neck. She would hover over the death covered ground with her arms open waiting for beast to come to her. From her body came a sickly sweet odor.

[Beast]

The scent of death, while usually pleasant for Beast, became overpowering quickly. This was the bad kind of death, in that it was the kind of death that couldn't be absorbed and consumed. The rotten corpses flowed down into the large tree at the center of the death forest where a naked green lady was forced out of the tree like it was giving birth to her. Disgusting. She opened her arms to greet Beast like she wanted him to embrace her, but Beast was only attracted to power and murder. He didn't care for her feminine wiles. Knowing that he would probably be wasting energy needlessly, he aimed his hand at her and uttered a paltry incantation.

"Hado Number Fifty Four: Haien."

He spoke so plainly and with no enthusiasm. He was tired of this floor and its randomly disappearing fields and its death rivers. Aiming for her head, he attempted to turn it into ash with his spell.

Remaining Reiatsu: 555/880 (-150 Haien)

[Wycliff]

The female dryad held her arms open as the bast of purple flames engulfed her head. Her screams of pain could be heard her head melted into nothing but ash. The body that remained behind limped downwards, yet remained standing upright as it was still connected to the tree via large vines from her back. The smell of burning flesh and wood would come from where beast had fired off the kido, the woman wasn’t just a simple being of flesh and blood. A few moments later from the stump of her neck the head of the woman bursted forth, a green liquid went everywhere as her newly grown head looked down at beast after the action he took.

Her silky smooth voice spoke out with a bit of malice towards beast. “Oh you naughty boy~ you can’t just hit a lady like that. I’ll have to punish you now.” As she said these words long black and green vines sprouted from the semi dead tree, each vine went towards beast attempting to restrain him. If one of them got to him they would wrap around and crush his limbs. It seemed that just attacking the body in front of him wasn’t the answer to kill this warden of the floor.

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{Hint}She is a dryad

[Beast]

The blasted tree lady had her head blasted clean off but grew it back in a gross green gush of goo. She responded in kind, sending vines towards Beast to restrain and crush him. That wouldn't do, now would it? Beast tried to counter the vines with a few rapid mastered uses of the Hakuda technique Mushi. He slapped at the vines, attempting to redirect them and crush them with their own force. If he was stronger than they were, they would be pushed aside and hopefully broken by the combined force of Beast's strike and their own directed momentum. If successful, he'd Shunpo forwards towards the tree lady. He'd strike her in the side, using a Mastered Denden to send her thirty meters to the left. "Curse your stupid tree, lady."

Planting his foot on the tree, Beast used what little reiatsu he had left to push off of it in a Shunpo Eichi. A meter in radius shockwave would burst out of Beast's foot as he kicked off and travelled towards the side of the clearing. With superhuman strength behind it, the tree most likely stood no chance. Beast looked at his hands as he watched the results of his actions. "Grodd, your precious Kidou is useless. Why waste your time on such drivel?" Grodd didn't respond, of course, but Beast could sense the Shinigami's displeasure at the comment. Who cares? Beast didn't, that's for sure.

Remaining Reiatsu: 355/880 (-50 Shunpo, -150 Shunpo Eichi)

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{Techs used}


Shunpo Eichi
Technique Name: [Shunpo Eichi]

Class: [4]

Technique Type: [Kido]

Technique Element: [None]

Technique Description and Effects:

The "exploding shunpo" technique, this allows the user, for three times the normal shunpo cost, to initiate a shunpo. This shunpo releases far more power, and therefore anywhere within a meter of the user will be hit with an explosive shockwave equivalent to the user's physical strength when the shunpo is used.

How to use technique:

Stated above.

Drawback:

Stamina drain. Reiatsu cost. Can only be used twice per post.

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Hakuda: Mushi
Technique Name: [Mushi]

Class: [4]

Technique Type: [Hakuda]

Technique Element: [None]

Technique Description and Effects:

A basic Hakuda technique that is used to attack and defend. This technique is a basic guarding mechanism. When an opponent's physical strike is incoming, the user uses this technique to deflect it by jabbing their hand upwards, smacking the side of the opponent's attacking limb. The force causes the enemy limb to shoot upwards, and force equivalent to their own strike to reverberate through the arm and cause damage.

How to use technique:

Requires superior physical strength to the enemy.

Drawback:

None.

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Hakuda: Denden

Technique Name: [Denden]

Class: [4]

Technique Type: [Hakuda]

Technique Element: [None]

Technique Description and Effects:

This basic Hakuda technique requires an open palm to the enemy's chest. This technique causes reiatsu and raw force to jet from the user's attacking arm when it hits. This blasts the enemy back exactly thirty meters. Momentum suddenly stops after 30 meters, forcing the enemy to an awkward, jetting stop. This results in their being offbalance.

How to use technique:

Stated above.

Drawback:

None. Enemy can resist technique if physical strength is double or more the user's.

Made by: [Admin]

[Wycliff]

The vines would be met by Beast’s superior strength and technique. They stood no chance as each strike he did crushed the vines. Wooden splinters and sticky sap would spew from the crushed vines with each strike slowly coating Beast’s hands, while not a danger it would certainly be an inconvenience. His sticky fist would then come into contact with the female, the strike that he did would send her flying as well as destroy part of her body from where the impact happened. What was strange would be that instead of showing a face of pain or anger at the attack she would remain calm and collected, beast would only have a moment to see this as his next action would change everything.

The moment Beast put his foot against the rotten wood of the tree it started to cave in and break apart, the wood stood no chance from withstanding the impact of the shumpo eichi. Instead of the normal meter hole that it would have created a much larger chunk of the tree went flying everywhere. Wood chips flew everywhere as the technique ripped apart a hole easily three meters wide. The moment that Beast did this the pained screams from the dryad came out followed with anger in her voice. “GET AWAY FROM THAT.” She screamed out as her body moved towards Beast.

Inside of the tree Beast could see that the insides were rotting away and that the bark of the tree was really a hollow shell covering up the truth. Inside he could dive in and see the three rivers flowing inside one central area and vines working inside of the tree draining any sort of body parts of their fluids, tossing the husks of bodies out. Each vine that drained a body seemed to grow healthier and stronger. These body draining vines all seemed to stem from one solid trunk that was thicker the higher up it went and thinner the closer it got to the ground. This trunk inside of the tree was healthy and seemed to be the anchor point of the entire tree.

[Beast]

Beast looked into the hollow shell of a tree that he had just kersploded as the dryad lady screamed and moved towards him. That got a rise out of her. Smirking, Beast started running full force back towards the tree that he had Shunpo Eichi'd away from. Watching the vines drain the corpses that floated through the rivers, Beast didn't want to get too close to that, so he'd need a ranged attack of some sort. He had a few options for that, though at the moment he was on a stubborn streak and was refusing to use Grodd's Kidou. Haien or Byakurai could have struck the narrow part of the tree and probably taken it down in one go, but where was the fun in that?

If he successfully managed to out run the dryad, he'd scoop up a body from the rivers and separate its arms from its torso. He'd then take the arms and fling them with all his 188 strength at the tree where it connected to the ground, the thin part. Then, just for fun, he'd throw the rest of the body he'd separated as well at the same target. He'd continue to pull up bodies and chuck them at the tree until he managed to either be caught by the dryad or knock the tree over at its base.

If he noticed that he was running too slowly and wouldn't make it into the tree in time to outpace the dryad, he'd just Shunpo in there instead and continue his previous plan.

Remaining Reiatsu: 355 or 305/880 (-50 Shunpo if needed)

[Wycliff]

The Dryad had thought that the prisoner was actually backing off, yet as the bodies started to fly towards the anchor point the Dryad’s ire grew. Vines would continue to catch and throw away the bodies and parts of the body as fast as they could. Each time they barely caught the parts being thrown the vines ripped slightly. It wouldn’t take long for what beast was trying to do actually happen. One of the bodies that had been caught by the vines had enough force behind it to snap and break the vine sending the body right towards the anchor point snapping it in half.

The Dyrad let out a horrid scream of pain and terror as the massive tree that she had been connected to started to rapidly rot away. The healthy bark of the tree quickly turned to a dull grey. The Dryad looked at beast and screamed at him. “WHAT HAVE YOU DOOONE.” Leaves from the top of the tree continued to fall off of the tree as it started to rot away to nothing. If beast looked around the forest that had been around him he would see it rot away as well. The trees wither and fall just like the massive one in the center was.

There was nothing the Dryad could do as everything it had built over the years rotted away to nothing but dust. Beast would see the last desperate attempt of the Dryad come after him as it’s body shot right towards Beast an arm stretched out to stab at Beast. However it would stop just inches away from his body as the once green flesh of the Dryad would finish turning to a pale grey before becoming dust. A bright gem like object could be seen in the dust holding a key, a new key that would allow beast to move forward once all the dust settled Beast would see a doorway where the center of the tree had been, a door with two keyholes.

[Beast]

The tree broke, and Beast just laughed as the Dryad's hard work turned to dust. She too turned to dust, but embarrassingly enough Beast was not expecting that so when she rushed him he lashed out with a masterful boxing punch at where he thought she'd be coming from. But her body failed to make it there and he whiffed and hit nothing but air. Good thing nobody was around to see that. Smugly, Beast took the gem-like object with the key and examined it. Whatever it was, it had a key. He looked around and saw a doorway where the tree had been and he headed that way once the dust settled, placing both keys he owned into the locks and hoping that he wasn't missing a key on this floor somewhere. He'd been on this floor long enough.

Remaining Reiatsu: 355/880

[Wycliff]

As Beast placed both keys into the door it would slowly start to move and open up. Just as before in the last door he would see a massive stairway go upwards. The spiral staircase would be lightened up by torches, unlike the rest of this floor the stairway didn’t have artificial sunlight illuminating it. The stonework of inside the stairway was cold to the touch and grey, unlike the rest of the floor that beast was standing on. It would be up to him if he would go up, but knowing that this was the way out he would have to keep moving. If Beast tried to remove the keys from the door he would find they would fall out with ease and the door would close after a few moments of delay, enough time to step into the stairway safely however.

Climbing up the stairs to reach the next floor would take about five minutes. As Beast climbed he would find himself slowly getting stronger and stronger. Eventually the stairway would lead into a dimly lit hallway with two different paths, one path leading to the right, the other leading to the left. If Beast looked down both ways he would see that each path would wind around a corner and have several openings leading down more paths. Beast would find himself inside of a labyrinth.