Is it Wrong to Copy Abilities in Apocalypse?

In a dense forest filled with large trees, broken, cracked, and burned, there was a guy lying on the ground with his lips and fists stained with blood marks.

He had blood-red hair, disheveled, covering his eyes, and his body, which kept lying there, frozen still as if he were dead, trembled from time to time.

It was Alex, and his body was still spasming due to pain, or maybe because of some side effect of the new leg that he had now.

The leg didn't look any different from a normal leg; it was as if his leg had grown back, but only Alex would be able to tell if that was true or not.

The ground around him was cracked, but the center of the crack wasn't Alex, but a large beast with a length of 4 meters and a height of 2 meters.

The beast was lying dead on the ground with a spear piercing its head and its blood pooled up below it.

It was the classed beast that Alex had killed a while ago.

But wasn't he supposed to just make the beast admit defeat?

Yes, he had to do that, and he had just done it just before he killed it.

A while ago, when the beast was choking on water that Alex had pushed inside its throat, almost dead, Alex went ahead and picked up his spear and smashed the beast's stomach.

*Baam*

"Gahhh!"

That strick was the reason for the beast surviving, as along with the air its lungs pushed out came the water blocking his windpipe.

The beast was left lying on the ground, its eyes watery as it kept staring at Alex with fear, and that was just what Alex needed.

"Submit to me."

That was all Alex had said to make the beast bow its head to him.

The beasts are way simpler than humans; they just need a stronger beast to follow—whoever is stronger is the leader.

The moment Alex defeated the beast, it was clear that the beast was now under Alex. The fact that Alex stopped its death was just a plus point.

The beast wasn't capable of speaking in human language or being able to communicate with humans—but understanding was a different thing. That was why, the moment it heard Alex's words, it knew what Alex had asked of it.

It was the moment the beast bowed its head that Alex had received the copy-complete notification.

He finally had another ability in his arsenal.

That was when a cold light flashed in his eyes and the next second...

*Squelch*

The beast's head, which was cracked in many places, was easy to get pierced, and the beast, unaware of why it was even killed, died with its head stuck to the ground.

Right now, however, Alex wasn't even conscious—he was out cold. Even the beasts in this area were dead, so how was Alex still alive? Why did no beast attack him yet?

The answer to that quest was the Emberclaw as well. The blood of a beast that strong, instead of attracting other predators, would push them away.

Why would someone want to attack someone who could kill a beast stronger than them? That was simply suicide.

The scent of the beast's blood worked as a repellent.

It had been around 20 minutes since the process had started, with Alex falling unconscious just when it was about to end—around 3 minutes.

Since then, he had been lying on the ground, breathing rhythmically as his body tried to adjust to the new body part. The blood, muscles, and bones were trying to modify Alex's body bit by bit; that was what was taking so long.

But if Alex keeps taking so much time to get up, then even the Emberclaw's corpse wouldn't be able to save him.

It was nearing the reset time of the zone.

Alex had cleared the zone, which triggers a reset, and that rest happens in an hour or two.

As the reset goes on, new beasts, the same as the dead ones, keep spawning randomly.

They would most of the time spawn where they were killed, but it could be random as well.

So, there was a chance that the new Emberclaw could spawn where it had died, which was right next to Alex's body.

Now, no one would like to see the corpse of someone who looked just like them—especially when they seemed to have been killed by trickery.

Yes, if one looked at the beast's dead body, all they would see is a beast that had bowed its head in defeat and acceptance but was killed from the back of its head.

But that was in case the Emberclaw spawned right there; what if it were a random Pyrovoltus?

Well, the Pyrovoltuses are the subordinates of the Emberclaw, so if they saw their boss dead and the perpetrator lying right behind their leader's body, then of course they would be furious.

So, no matter what happened, Alex's situation looked dire.

If he didn't wake up soon, then he was going to be killed by one of the beasts that would spawn—

*Pop*

Just then, a strange popping sound was heard, and a Pyrovoltus appeared about 10 meters away from Alex and the Emberclaw's body.

It seemed confused at first, as it titled its head left and right.

It was a lizard-type beast, just like the Emberclaw; the difference was its size and its scales.

It was as small as a street dog one would see around the streets, and its scales were red in color, clearly showing its affinity for fire.

There were two types of Pyrovoltus in this zone—fire and thunder.

This one was fire Pyrovoltus. It was confused as this was its first time getting respawned, but soon, its nose scrunched up as it got the scent of blood—the blood that had a sense of familiarity in it.

It was then that its eyes fell on the dead body of their leader, causing its eyes to go wide in horror. It rushed toward the corpse, licking it as if trying to wake the Emberclaw up to no avail.

No matter what it did, it couldn't get the Emberclaw up.

Its eyes then finally moved toward Alex, and as soon as it saw him, the image of its death flashed in front of its eyes.

"Grrr!"

It growled as its body jerked. It could still remember the face of this human, as it was the last this it had seen before its world went black.

As it saw the scene in front of its eyes, it could easily deduce what could've happened, causing its eyes to burn with fury.

"Graaaaaaaaaa!!"

It roared in anger before it rushed toward Alex, who was still lying on the ground defenseless. Its claws started to glow with a fiery light.

It just wanted to kill Alex right then and there, as it lunged at Alex, aiming right for his throat.

*Baam*

The next second, it was right above Alex, with its claw tearing apart Alex's neck—

Wait.

"Grrr?"

The beast frowned as it found nothing but bright blue sparks under its claw.