Swamp Dragon realized what was happening with horror.
Kyle was sacrificing himself!
"Stop!" he transmitted.
"I have a plan! Keep running!" Kyle transmitted to Swamp Dragon. "Trust me!"
Swamp Dragon gritted his teeth.
He couldn't think of any plan Kyle might have.
However, just because he couldn't think of a plan didn't mean that Kyle couldn't.
"I trust you," Swamp Dragon transmitted as he flew further away from Kyle, Manny in tow.
When Kyle saw Swamp Dragon retreat, he sighed as another lightning bolt hit him.
Did Kyle have a plan?
Yes.
His plan was to buy time for Swamp Dragon and Manny to escape.
His plan did not include his own survival.
However, while he didn't have a plan, he had a goal.
Cause as much chaos as possible.
After tanking another four lightning bolts, Kyle reached the first whale.
Almost immediately, the whale beside Kyle used its Yin-Lightning as a shield.
Kyle used his Element Absorption, and he was losing just as much Energy as he was gaining.
This attack was not as focused as the other ones, making it easier to resist.
At the same time, Kyle pulled out his hammer and hit the whale with all of his power.
CRACK!
A humongous hole appeared in the whale, but the humongous hole was still tiny when compared to its much bigger body.
The other whales moved around the whale besides Kyle, trying to get a clear shot.
Meanwhile, Kyle just smirked as he charged into the closing hole.
The whale let out a deep wail of pain as the other whales circled around it.
Inside the whale, Kyle was besieged by unending bolts of Yin-Lightning originating from the whale's Beast Core.
This was only a Level Eight Primal Beast, and Kyle could deal with that.
He gathered all the different pieces of gore and shoved them into his mouth as he focused on repairing his Energy Pathways.
BANG! BANG!
Kyle launched more attacks, digging his way to the whale's Beast Core.
Meanwhile, the other whales were circling around the whale, not sure what to do.
They couldn't hit Kyle.
If Kyle remained inside the whale, he would be able to survive for quite a while.
But that was not his goal.
Kyle reached the Beast Core and tore it out of its surrounding flesh before ramming it down his throat.
The whale's body around him convulsed, and all signs of life left it relatively quickly.
'If I just stay here, the whales will decide to chase after Swamp Dragon,' Kyle thought. 'I have to keep them busy!'
When the other whales saw their comrade die, they immediately launched all of their attacks.
By now, there were over 20 whales.
In an instant, the entire corpse vanished as it was transformed into Energy by the Yin-Lightning.
Kyle charged out of the corpse, and several more bolts of Yin-Lightning hit him.
Luckily, he reached another whale just in time and dug into its body as well.
Yet, beasts were not completely stupid, and when they saw the same thing repeat, they didn't wait.
They immediately launched their attacks, and the whale was turned into nothingness in less than a second.
Kyle's collapsing body managed to recover a little bit, but not a lot.
He quickly charged to the closest whale, but when the whale saw this, it turned around and fled.
These whales were not slow.
Kyle was faster, but not by much.
More Yin-Lightning Bolts hit Kyle, and his body weakened even more.
Yet, he managed to dig into the body of the retreating whale.
He only got two handfuls of meat before this whale turned into Energy as well.
As Kyle saw his surroundings again, he noticed that all the whales had gathered into a group in the distance.
They were too far away.
If he approached them, he would be killed before he got to them.
BANG!
Kyle shot into the distance.
The whales charged after him as they kept firing bolts of Yin-Lightning after him.
Kyle's body started to collapse again, and his Biological Energy was critically low.
Yet, as he gained more distance, their aim worsened, and Kyle managed to absorb some Energy from the passing bolts.
He was constantly dancing on the brink of collapse.
One moment, he was about to die, but the next moment, he was just barely alive.
Two seconds into the chase, another whale appeared in front of Kyle.
A Level Eleven Primal Beast.
It had noticed the chaos and arrived.
When it saw Kyle, it immediately readied its own attack.
At that moment, Kyle's body rapidly grew to a size of several kilometers.
This made him an easier target for the distant whales.
Then, he threw his enlarged hammer towards the powerful whale.
BANG!
The Yin-Lightning bolt hit the hammer.
It was still in one piece, but that didn't say much. Yin-Lightning pulled Energy out of matter.
So, while the hammer was still in one piece, its properties had been weakened significantly.
Usually, Kyle could just reforge his broken hammer, but this was not the case this time. When a hammer broke, it still retained 100% of its mass and matter. It was just that the matter was spread across several pieces.
With Yin-Lightning, it was like someone stole 20% of the hammer's mass, which meant Kyle would need to create the missing material, and that was impossible to do during a fight.
As Kyle reached the whale, he pulled out a second hammer.
Luckily, he had a set of ten hammers.
With the whale's attack dealt with, Kyle stepped beside it.
Two more distant lightning bolts hit him.
"RAAAAH!" Kyle shouted as he hit the side of the whale's body with his hammer.
BANG!
His hammer had a considerable size right now, but the body of the whale was also extremely durable.
With his strike, he managed to cause the whale some internal bleeding and cracked a bone, but that was not a severe injury for Primal Beasts.
But that hadn't been his goal.
As Kyle swung, the whale's body was pushed by the hammer.
BANG!
And it flew towards the distant whales!
BANG! BANG! BANG!
A barrage of Yin-Lightning bolts hit the whale, and its Energy reserves dropped drastically.
It was stronger than all the other whales, but the quantity of attacks was enough to offset their quality.
BANG!
Kyle hit the whale again after he had shrunk his body.
Due to the weakening effects of the Yin-Lightning, Kyle managed to create a big hole in the whale's body.
The other whales had seen this before, and they immediately launched more attacks at the stronger whale.
Yet, the stronger whale was unfamiliar with Kyle's methods.
It was so distracted by the wave of attacks that it hadn't even noticed Kyle entering its body.
The whale launched an attack, killing one of the other whales.
Yet, the ever-increasing avalanche of attacks was quickly pushing it to death's door.
And then…
CRK!
Kyle tore the Beast Core out of the surrounding flesh, shoving it into his mouth.
The whale died, and Kyle was revealed again.
As he saw the group of whales, he took a deep breath.
There were now 26.
They were growing in number.
The Space Energy in Kyle's surroundings was getting more and more unstable.
The Dimensional Collapse was not far away.
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