BIOLOGICAL SUPERCOMPUTER SYSTEM

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH," Nathaniel laughed while he killed the thaids, appearing like a maniac intoxicated by the feeling of taking other creatures' life.

The other students watched the man going on a rampage with fear and disgust written all over their faces, not because they thought it was wrong to kill these beasts or that his actions were unjustified but simply because it was not normal to enjoy killing, despite doing so with monsters.

Besides, as the students watched Nathaniel fight, they only saw themselves as weaklings in comparison, and this made them feel vulnerable. Nathaniel's strength did not come from only his brain crystal power; no. It was he who was that powerful. The precise control over his body, the perfect execution of every movement. He could do things that others couldn't even imagine.

However, the students weren't only watching. They, too, were killing thaids left and right, or else they would have made the young man angry, and they didn't want to see that happen.

"DIE!" Nathaniel said as he plunged his trident into the side of a creature. Blood gushed out like a fountain from the wound and stained the ground blood red.

Then His trident impaled another one's throat. He then yanked the beast in the air and tried to shake it off the trident.

The result was that the head detached from the rest of the body and rolled down onto the floor, still twitching slightly. "YOU SONS OF BITCHES HAVE NO RIGHT TO BE IN THIS WORLD! I WILL KILL YOU AND MAKE YOU SUFFER!"

As soon as those words came out of his mouth, there was silence around him once again. For some strange reason, none of the people present dared utter anything more than an occasional grunt when attacking a thaid.

After a while, the five students killed all the monsters in the surroundings. Nathaniel was ecstatic; he killed a bunch of thaids and was sure that he finally caught up with Anderson's and Erik's team.

At that moment, Nathaniel and the others heard a rumble in the distance and got alarmed. Even Nathaniel was vigilant since whatever produced that kind of noise had to be powerful. They didn't know that it was Erik who made it.

"What was that?" Asked one of Nathaniel's team members.

"I don't know... we should move. Whatever did that must be big..." Then they both turned to look at Nathaniel, hoping he didn't have the insane idea to search for whatever made that noise.

However, they found him fiddling with his smartphone when they looked at him. The young man had just picked it up to check the competition ranking, but once he did so, he screamed.

"WHAAAAAAAAAT?!"

Erik's team just gained two-thousand points.

"Is this a joke? IS THIS A MOTHERFUCKING JOKE?! RHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" he then punched a tree while circling mana through his arm. The plant broke at the point of impact and fell to the ground with a resounding thud.

The others remained dumbstruck.

"HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE PLANT HUGGER IS FIRST?! FIIIIRST!"

Nathaniel cursed under his breath. If anyone deserved to win, it was surely him. After all, he'd been fighting against the strongest opponents possible. But despite having killed thousand of thaids, there was still a vast difference between his and their team's score.

Nathaniel then blacked out as if he was suddenly turned off by a switch. After a good amount of time, he turned to look at his comrades and said. "Keep hunting thaids; I need to make a trip alone..."

Like that, the young man went away and dashed through the forest. He had the hunch that the big noise had been made by Anderson using his power.

It was the only possibility, not only because it coincided with his team's sudden increase in points but also because he was fully aware of how mighty his power was.

With unbelievable speed, he quickly reached the source of the noise. After climbing a small cliff, he arrived where Erik and the others had previously fought.

It was then that he saw the scene of carnage; however, contrary to his expectations, there wasn't a crater there. The trees were still standing, and nothing suggested that was Anderson's work.

Now, on the contrary, there were multiple giant trees strewn across the ground, with Noks' bodies under them and blood everywhere. It was at that moment that it clicked. It was all Erik's doing.

"No way..." he said while looking with incredulity.

Then something snapped inside of him, and he decided he had to do something. He couldn't allow the plant hugger, a worm he should have had the right to crush under his foot, to win this competition.

It was there that a plan brewed inside his mind. Nathaniel searched for Anderson's team's tracks, and after a couple of minutes, he found them.

Following the tracks, it didn't take a lot of time for him to find the students; however, he didn't engage or do anything. He simply observed them killing thaid after thaid with incredible efficiency.

His curiosity grew even further, and he stayed a little more to observe them. However, what he saw deeply enraged him, as they went from thaid group to group as if they already knew where they were.

"How can they kill so many thaids without breaking a sweat? No, how can they even find them so easily?" he said to himself. He then noticed that Anderson's team wasn't even following his orders but Erik's and understood that he knew where to find the beasts.

Nathaniel quickly turned around as he decided to play a prank on them. He returned to the site of the Noks' demise and picked up a couple of bodies. He smeared their guts and blood all over him, and he also picked up two corpses and brought them with him as he started running.

Nathaniel then went all over the forest with his power on, increasing his speed a lot. He dashed through the forest like a madman and started searching for thaids left and right. It didn't take much before he found one, but to be honest, he started noticing that more and more thaids started following him, attracted by the scent of blood.

One, two, ten, twenty thaids were on his tail after no more than three minutes. He kept running until he found another one of the cat-like thaid he had fought before, the fire-spitting one.

The truth was that this was the Wiangrine that Erik was trying to avoid. He deemed the beast too dangerous to fight, and only someone as crazy as Nathaniel would have tried to kill it. However, the young man was even strong enough to kill it alone. Speaking volumes about the young man's power.

The Wiangrine, smelling the scent of blood, started following Nathaniel as if taken by a frenzy. In the distance, the other thaids did the same, but weirdly enough, they didn't confront each other. There was something weird in the monster's behavior, it was like they only saw the human, and the other thaids didn't even exist.

Nathaniel kept running, but after a while, he started hearing heavy footsteps in the distance. After five more minutes, he observed a giant beast running in his direction. If Nathaniel had studied a little bit of thaids' ecology, he would have known that this was a Crombo.

"These will do..."

Nathaniel had assembled a small force of thaids, they were at least a thousand, but they were stronger than the Noks or the Lomalins.

For sure, this fight would be hard for Erik and the others. However, this exploit gave him the idea to attract other thaids with the smell of blood.

This way, he and his team could kill more of them and gain points faster. The young man didn't even fear being overwhelmed. He was confident enough to kill all the thaids that attacked him in a matter of moments or to run away easily. As there were enough creatures, Nathaniel suddenly steered from the other side. He started heading toward Erik's and Anderson's last known location while still attracting the thaids.