Universal Power System

A beast going berserk was quite rare as even though all of them had the option to do so many never resorted to it. This decision was the beast’s alone to make; however, there were ways to exploit that method and manipulate the beast to forcefully go berserk.

The Beetle King of a colony had complete control over all those that were part of its colony and it used its control to order them around and do work or forcefully make them go berserk and rush Iris so that it could save its own skin.

The Terra Beetles were mindless soldiers ready to obey the will of their king by any means necessary. Due to being weakened by the team’s strongest attacks from the very beginning, the Beetle King was already fighting Iris and Bill while being injured and weak, plus it was stuck in its Earth ability mode which was only level 5 and much weaker than its Level 7 Lightning ability because of Iris’ continuous strong water attacks.

Even though beasts had a virtually infinite aura as they drew their power from the crystal within them, they were still limited by their stamina, strength, and other stats as well as the skills they developed. The cooldown for skills was also a problem for beasts and wasn’t a condition only humans had to deal with.

The Beetle King had used a skill called “Terravelocity” which allowed it to manipulate the earth around it extremely fast by only using its will. This was how it was able to dodge Leon’s attack which was already coming at it very fast, but still was slow enough for it to order the earth underneath it to open up and swallow it before reforming the surface, effectively saving itself from a very strong and harmful strike.

This skill had a big cooldown, and the Beetle King could only use it for around 2 minutes. If it wanted to dig itself underground when Iris was attacking, it would have been too slow and Iris could deal some major damage to its body with those penetrating water stream attacks so the only way was to block it using another skill that raised those glowing walls. 𝒃𝒆𝒐𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝙘𝙤𝒎

The glowing wall was a skill called “Reinforced Wall” which was a simple earth wall that was coated by the earth aura itself, raising its toughness and durability by 100%. If it wasn’t for Iris’ insane power buff that she received from Mutant Gene, she would have never been able to cut through the reinforced wall.

With no other choice, the Terra Beetle king choose to sacrifice its own crystal just so it wouldn’t die a shameful and humiliating death at the hands of a child that was crying and out of hope minutes ago.

However, even this last resort plan failed as Iris outsmarted the Berserk King and cut off more of its limbs making it unable to move and at Iris’ mercy which there wasn’t any. Seeing as it was about to get killed by the girl with glowing blue eyes, the King Beetle did something that a good king would never do.

Since the Beetle King had complete control over the actions of the Terra Beetle that belonged to its colony, he let out an ultrasound wave, calling all of them towards him, but that wasn’t the only command it gave them.

It commanded all of the regular Terra Beetles under its control to also go berserk and attack the girl with glowing blue eyes with unrelenting strong attacks.

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Iris now watched as 50 or so High-level Terra Beetles were now running at their max speed over toward her with that same crazed look that the King Beetle had when he was chasing after Iris who was launched into the air by its loud shockwave it released as a sign of going berserk.

Iris was already exhausted and close to giving out herself after using all those complex and super strong moves that she didn’t even know she could do. Even though the mutant genes gave the user a bigger energy pool, it was still limited and Iris had unfortunately exhausted a good chunk of it on those moves to take down the Beetle King.

There was no way for Iris to now take on 50 or so berserk High-Tier beasts on her own with the amount of energy she had left.

So as time ticked away and the crazed Terra Beetles came closer, Iris was quickly calculating in her mind about what would be the best optimal way to handle this current situation.

In the end, there was no more time to think as the Terra Beetles in Lightning mode were already charging their attacks to electrocute Iris and she had only come up with one solution that might just work and save her from this predicament.

Since they had moved further away from where the fighting initially began, they were a lot closer to the lake than before, and so Iris let the Beetle King go using her enhanced speed from the mutant gene and made a run for the lake.

However, she didn’t run to the lake just to dive down and hope the Beetles would stop chasing her, because that wasn’t going to happen. Iris was really fascinated with animals and researched many of them as a hobby. If these Terra Beetles were anything like the swimmers that regular beetles are, she would also be in trouble because she would now have to deal with 50 of them in the water which might give her a light advantage as it is kind of like her own turf but not enough to overpower all of those beasts.

The real reason for Iris running toward the Lake at full speed was because the water she had on hand wasn’t going to be enough for what she wanted to do.

Even with her stats increase because of her mutant gene, Iris wasn’t as fast as the Terra Beetles and they were slowly gaining on her. She didn’t know any non-ability skills that boosted speed and she was out of luck as she just hoped for her to reach the lake before she became beast food.

The Terra Beetles on Lightning mode were already shooting bolts of energy at Iris and some of them were hitting her which was slowing her down even more. She was almost at the lake, but the Terra Beetles were right on her tail, and she knew she wouldn’t be able to make it close enough to influence the large body of water using her improved water ability.

However, physical and ability improvement wasn’t the only thing the mutant gene had provided her as it also gave her increased intellect and brain function which she had used to think of all the unique ways to use her ability and overpower the Terra Beetle King.

As she was about to be caught by the claw of the nearest Terra Beetle King, she suddenly jumped and turned around. Using all the water she had on hand she blasted the Terra Beetles behind her while also simultaneously thrusting herself backward closer to the lake.

The water blast pushed away the closest crazed Terra Beetles and create more distance between her and them which was enough for her to run the remaining distance and reach the lake.

Once she was at the lake, she used almost all of her remaining energy and aura to control as much water as possible. Due to the Mutant Gene that was almost out of juice, Iris had a much higher leveled water ability and it was powerful enough for her to exert her will over a large quantity of water.

The Terra Beetles that were chasing after Iris stopped and looked to be stunned by what they saw as Iris was able to conjure a big wall of water from the lake. It was quite massive and it easily towered over everything.

Once she had raised as much water as she could, Iris turned back and smiled at the Terra Beetles that were shaking at this point because even though they were crazed, they still had some intellect and were able to perceive what Iris had done.

Without wasting a single second more, Iris pushed her hands forward directing the water flow toward the beetles, effectively creating a tidal wave that would wash over all of the Terra beasts.

The massive wave traveled fast and quickly enveloped Iris as it kept moving forward, slowly consuming the Terra Beetles that were now running the opposite way for their lives.

As the wave continued to move forward and eat more Terra Beetles; within the water, Iris swam freely as she moved toward the top of the 12-foot tidal wave and aimed to jump off at the right time while the wave dealt with the Terra Beetles.

“Hang on, Bill! I am coming!” Iris said to herself as she aimed to jump off the wave near the forest where Bill was launched into by the Beetle King.