Super Gene Ascension Chapter 36 (Patreon)

While increased intelligence was innately highly dangerous as creatures could thus plan out things and were often far more social with more of their kind living together.

But those 'simple' social gatherings also had a very common weakness. Their leader was very much their pillar, and lynchpin of survival.

Silently, I climbed through the thick tree cover above the large centaur clan. Until I was over the giant-sized Centaur Matriarch. 'Wait... This giant centaur relies on an upper human body for it's survival and coordination.' I mused as I hefted the Sonic Saber as I looked down at the tribe leader.

The Centaur Matriarch was laid out on her side on a raised hill, allowing her to look out upon her tribe. She watched the younger ones, especially while a couple of the smaller female centaurs ran their human hands through her long silver hair.

I looked past the extremely thick leaves and, after double-checking my angle of dropping. I smiled coldly before I closed my eyes and used my full breadth of Observation Haki. I gently, silently fell out of the tree.

My form fell silently down towards the centaur matriarch. And keeping track of my falling speed, I could feel the beast closing in all to quickly. And as I reached it, my sonic saber crackled with black haki as my eye's snapped open with a fiery light within them.

That very instant I unveiled my fangs, the matriarch's head snapped upwards towards me as it sensed my killing intent.

But it was too late for her conjured bow of lunar light to block my sword.

A visceral sound rang out as my sword missed her head; she pulled back, but it still hit her shoulder and carved halfway through her body before cracking through her spine and getting caught on the lower half of her ribs.

'A fifty-foot drop, all my strength, my haki enhancing my arm strength, blade sharpness, as well as the Jade Skin Sutra also enhancing my strength... I still couldn't even kill her in a single blow. Tsk, super creatures truly are a broken variable.' I thought coldly.

The Matriarch's human form floundered. Her still-working right arm held half of her body fucking together as blood spilled in loud splatters on the forest ground as her horse half rose up.

The Matriarch screamed at me in a fury, that was filled with choking, as her upper human half was still choking on the blood in her lungs from the horrible wound she had.

The smaller hand maidens true to my previous thoughts of being the most submissive and intelligent of the tribe, scampered away at the terrible wound caused to their tribal leader.

And as the rest of the tribe was focused on me as I circled around to take out the massive centaur's legs out from under her to put her back on the dirt.

A high-speed Sacred Blood arrow Beast Soul. Not an explosive or otherwise consumable one, it slammed home into the Centaur Matriarch's flank, in the meat of her leg.

Then I could see the arrow flicker with lightning, and I realized the arrow came from the mutant-tier Lightning Dart Locust we killed earlier a few days ago.

And while it was only a mutant-tier beast soul. This Super-tier beast in front of us was still very much made of flesh and blood. So her muscles locked up after being tased.

This allowed me to close in and her conjured spear-sized giant arrow of light was shattered as I came in and carved through and cut off her right front leg with a sweeping slash.

The beast came down onto one knee as it couldn't hold its wounded form on just one leg, even as it was being tased all the while.

And just as I was about to disembowel the human half of the beast as her stomach and lower chest was just above me. I was bowled over and dragged across the ground as a large stupid male centaur smashed into me.

But with super-tier armor, my other enhancements, and my raw stats. A physical attack like this was nothing to me!

I roared furiously as I grabbed the arm that was dragging me across the ground at high speed. And using it as leverage, I kicked off the ground to throw myself up at the male centaur, and with my armored gauntlet covered in black Haki, I roared out.

"Reverb Fist!" And I punched the Centaur with my own self-created technique I had been practicing while on this trip. I first hit the centaur with the yin force of the Jade Skin Sutra, which partially froze the insides of the target, and then the blink force brutal Haki shattered that frozen flesh!

[Sacred Blood Tier, Male Centaur Killed- Consume to gain 1-10 Sacred Blood Geno Points] rang out through my mind as the shattered, frozen brain matter of the centaur made it's form just spaz out and fall to the ground.

Its death grip around the collar of my armor was cut off with my resummoned saber as I got back up, and with a laugh I pointed my saber at the matriach and roared. "Come on, you dying thing! Can you still give me a challenge!?"

The first thing I noticed as I took in the situation again... Was that those hand maidens had ran back to the matriarch with how I got dragged off, and my face twitched as their hands were glowing with lunar light as they hovered over the terrible wounds on the matriarch.

Terrible wounds whose flesh level was very fucking visibly healing to the naked eye under that light.

Then I threw myself to the ground as at least two dozen massive 'arrows' that were just spears in disguise were shot at me from the other females of the tribe.

"This is fucking cheating! How the hell can you guys heal!? You shoudn't belong in the First Sanctuary, dammit!" I cried out as this was bullshit!

This was the kind of nonsense the Spirits in the next level would do when they led an army of controlled beasts to attack humans, our shelters or other Shelters to take control of their rival spirits ruled shelters.

With a slight curse, I whipped out the new, upgraded Sacred Blood tier water arrow launchers.

And those small hand crossbows sent fast-flying, sharp beams of water that hit one of those hand maidens. Punching a series of vicious holes through their torso before the beast soul ran out of energy.

I then called out. "Try to pick off the other archers! I need to deal with the matriach!"

Well, more than anything. I was worried about that other handmaiden who still could heal the matriarch and the other others.

And I wasn't interested in being hit by some magical arrow made of condensed lunar light. I had no idea how my armor would react to that, honestly.

But there was nothing else to do for it at this point. The forest's massive trees were too widespread for us to flee on the ground. And the noise we made passing through the thick forest top also would make us a target if we fled.

So I just sprinted forward with a Soru to enhance my speed and blur my image, as several of the females tried to shoot me down with their lunar arrows. And as I closed in on the matriarch again who formed a club of lunar energy with her one good movable arm...

The moment I got close, I didn't go for her, I didn't go for the handmaiden either. I just went 'nah' and spun around the swirling solid light weapon and shot towards a male centaur who bleated with fury as he tried to smash me upside the head with a stone-headed axe.

I punched... Through the stone axe and my sword cut the smaller male centaur down with a single heavy slash, and then I entered the slaughter.

I made as much noise as I could to draw all their attention from Mio, who was attacking very well from a distance in crippling or lethal spots with her surprisingly scary talent with that bow.

And while Soru was the Six Powers of the One Piece's Navy I was best at currently, and could actually use it stably in combat. Using the speed enhancement of Soru, I could now use Rankyaku!

As I launched myself through the air with the Soru, I would spin through the air. Sending a spiral-shaped wind blade with Rankyaku that would cause grievous wounds to the centaurs that tried to crowd and trample me.

But. Being brutally honest. My Rankyaku wasn't that strong, it wasn't... That 'sharp'. Maybe it was because I still hadn't gotten as strong as a true One Piece denizen.

Or maybe it was just my lack of skill and the fact I still wasn't good enough to do the Geppo technique, where I could kick the air hard enough to change directions and give myself lift.

Still, my sword and fists were very much lethal enough to put down these Sacred Blood creatures that were starting to panic and flee, as their matriarch was going to require at least fifteen minutes to be healed of her lethal wound and be of truly combat-ready.

That, and Mio's long-reaching ranged attacks were also dropping some Centaurs. And seeing their kin just... Drop with a large throwing axe covered in slick poison was also destroying their cohesion.

And that heightened intelligence, social gathering skills, and the very matriarch's screams for 'order' went fully out the door as more and more centaurs realized that THEY couldn't stop me, and that other's were just dropping dead or getting wounded out of nowhere.

So... They fled. Their hooves beat heavily on the thick, loamy forest ground covered in old dead leaves. Their cries and whoops filled the air as they charged away from me and into the distant forest.

The Matriarch failed in their one task. Protecting said tribe and these Centaurs; even the dumber males knew if they survived this, they could, in time, integrate with another wandering tribe.

Another Soru brought me back to the Matriarch. The still-standing and very much not drowning in the blood filling her lungs, handmaiden tried to stab me with a dagger made of lunar light.

But her stab was weak, untrained, and clearly made from living a life of 'decadence' in feeding their matriarch and healing her wounds.

I grabbed her human wrist and pulled her towards me. Into a powerful overhead downward slash that cut through her neck and through her chest cavity, with the sanctuary system ringing out as I ripped my sword out of her stomach.

[Super Tier Centaur Matriarch killed- Super tier Beast Soul, Lunar Headdress gained. Consume Geno Core to gain 1-10 Super Geno points.]

A whistle of shrieking air hit my senses, and my observation haki likewise screamed at me in warning. I snapped up to take a powerful blow of a massive club of lunar light hitting my blocking sword and sending me skidding away.

'Damn! Even still cut partly in half. This fucking centaur hits harder then a literal truck!' I cursed as I could feel the sprain in my wrists.

But a death battle didn't allow you to go sit down and put some ice on a sprained limb.

So I just got back into it. The weakened Matriarch still forced onto the ground due to the missing limb and grievous injuries, tried to smash me with her conjured-up club. 

But instead of meeting and blocking her club fully, I realized that her lunar light club... Didn't have any kind of crossguard in the slightest. 

So, as our weapons met again. I blocked the blow, then pressed in further. My sword screamed as its edge grated across magically conjured light until it met the flesh of her hand and wrist.

The rage filled Matriarch's face went slack as she realized, while her wrist stump shot out a stream of blood; she had lost everything. And in that moment of slackened realization, I kicked off her good leg and, with a powerful swipe of my sword.

This time, she wasn't able to dodge my sword's edge across her neck. And her head, which was larger than my entire chest, hit the ground with a loud, audible thump as my system ringed out again.

[Super Tier Centaur Matriarch killed- Super tier Beast Soul, Centaur Matriarch Pet gained. Consume Geno Core to gain 1-10 Super Geno points.]