Is it Wrong to Copy Abilities in Apocalypse?

"Stop."

A single word, cold enough to send shivers down their spines, was enough to make them realize that it was already too late.

"ROOOAAARRR!!!"

"GRAAAA!!!"

The beasts, however, weren\'t in the mood to listen to those words; they just wanted to devour the puny humans in front of them. Some of them were more enraged when they saw the owner of the voice, Alex, who was standing right behind Ragha with Tidebreaker ready to slit his throat.

"We need to fight or we will die!"

It was then that Karan shouted, warning everyone that they might really die if they didn\'t fight. The beasts were nearing, and with them not fighting back, they were just sitting ducks waiting to get slaughtered.

"Do you want him to die?" Alex\'s question, however, made them grit their teeth again.

All of them grew deep frowns in struggle. What were they supposed to do?! Their eyes turned to Karan—the guy with the Megamind ability.

Karan was a guy with blonde hair and deep blue eyes, his face sharp, but right now, only conflict could be seen on his face as he hurriedly activated his ability.

\'If we moved, Ragha would die; if we didn\'t, we would all die, except maybe Ragha because he\'s held by Alex—\'

Time slowed down for him as his brain started to function at a speed so fast that even Alex wouldn\'t be able to catch up. Veins popped up on his forehead as it took a lot of strain whenever he tried to read Alex\'s actions, but soon his thoughts came to a halt, and his frown relaxed.

He didn\'t move; he just smiled at the others who were staring at him in the hope that he might have some kind of solution, only to get nothing in answer.

All of them tensed the moment they saw this. What the hell?! What to do?! They couldn\'t think of anything. The beasts arrived right in front of them, but just then, they saw Karan\'s lips moving.

They didn\'t understand anything—not a single bit of what he said. But their attention was shifted to him, which was their biggest mistake.

\'FUCK!!\'

They roared in alarm as they saw the beasts lunging at them with a fierce expression, ready to tear them apart, but just before they thought they were dead...

*Dun*

A pressure descended upon the area, making their eyes go wide and their knees bend.

*Gasp*

They gasped for air as even breathing was getting hard, but before they could even realize what was happening, one of their eyes turned toward Alex, only to find the silhouette of a bloodthirsty monstrosity behind him, staring down at them.

"A-AHHHHHHH!!!!"

Still frozen in fear, Pappu screamed as he was the only one who could look at Alex; even Karan was unable to do so as he was being crushed to the ground without being able to struggle, but the smile on his face didn\'t leave.

He knew this was going to happen.

His Megamind was so good that it made him calculate Alex\'s next course of action for the first time. It had never been able to do it, but maybe today, Alex wasn\'t in the mood to just kill them outright, and that\'s why his mind could think of a way out of this.

"ROOAAARRR!!" X2

The next second, two loud roars were heard, strong enough to make the floor tremble, and the horde of beasts, who were frozen in their spots due to Alex\'s killing intent, could see it all in slow motion as two large serpents that looked more like eastern dragons, flying up into the air before their watery eyes turned toward them.

"Grrr..."

"Uuuu..."

The beasts were low-ranked; they didn\'t have much power to resist Alex\'s killing intent, let alone those two large serpents that seemed to be wanting to devour them as a whole, and the next second, ignoring their whimpers, those two serpents shot toward them.

*BOOM*

The ground quaked again as the water serpents\' bodies crashed into the ground, moving toward the beasts frozen in their spots. As the serpents passed through them, the beasts, having their skin and bones peeling from the water pressure, died in just a while.

The humans, on the other hand, could just feel the tremors and the splashes of water that fell over them, but the pained, muffled roars of the beasts were enough to make them realize the disparity of power between them and Alex.

The level difference might not be much, but it was enough to make them realize that level difference was not the only thing that mattered.

Alex, however, had yet to realize the difference between him and a normal level 40. He really needed someone challenging—someone who was on the same level as him but stronger than others—and there was just one being that came to his mind.

\'The boss of those Ents.\'

Yes, those demonic trees. Alex didn\'t know before, but as he went deeper, he realized that those trees ranged from level 20 to level 40, which meant that their boss was a level 40 demonic tree, and since it was a boss, it must be challenging.

The only problem was that Alex wasn\'t even able to reach the safe zone, much less make it so that he could fight that Ent boss alone.

*Splash*

By the time the humans found themselves able to move again, all they could see was a huge wave of water falling toward the skinned corpses of the beast that had tried to attack them before.

\'What... the... hell...\'

They, who were struggling against the number and having a hard time fighting against those beasts while conserving their power, couldn\'t believe how fast Alex finished all of them.

They were just staring at the scene of carnage with the beasts\' bloodied bodies lying on the ground, still twitching as the pain of having their cells torn away from their bodies while they were alive was not a way anyone would want to die.

Those beasts were for sure going to have PSTD. Unlike before, these beasts probably won\'t even want to fight if they see Alex standing against them.

"What are you guys planning?" Alex, however, wooshed toward Karan, lifting him up, his palm clutching the guy\'s neck, making it hard for the guy to breathe—something Alex didn\'t really care about.

He knew better than anyone else that this wave was just the start and not before long, another one would be moving toward them, and he, who had expended a lot of mana in the last attack, wasn\'t going to do it again.

As for why he picked up Karan? Well, the reason was simple. Alex had seen this guy\'s status window, and he knew very well who could\'ve planned all of whatever they had planned.

The fact that everyone had turned to look at Karan when the beasts were nearing was also noticed by him before, making him more convinced that even with those lousy stats, this guy was the leader, at least for now.

But soon he frowned, looking at the smile on the guy\'s face.

*Grip* Your journey continues with mvl

His fingers clenched the guy\'s neck harder, almost breaking it.

*Cough!*

Karan, unable to breathe, coughed, wheezing as he finally realized that he was still smiling, making him grit his teeth as he spoke while holding Alex\'s palm that was clamped on his neck.

"I-I... have a... deal... for you."