Is it Wrong to Copy Abilities in Apocalypse?

"ROARR—!"

*Pierce*

"Roar!"

*BAAM*

*Pierce*

The Carabines tried to smash through the gate, unaware of the fact that the ones in the back—their frids and brothers—were getting slayed by Alex's arrow.

Alex could only see the layout of the room, and not the beasts, but he, with his arrow zooming at a very high speed, elevated just that much above the g that it would reach the head of the beasts, kept moving it in an orderly manner.

He would start it from the other d of the room, moving the arrow from one corner to another, making a grid-like path by the arrow, and the arrow, if met by a beast, would directly pass through its head.

It did get knocked away by the beasts' antlers once or twice, but with Alex's masterful control, he brought it back on track, killing the beasts one by one, wanting to lower their numbers.

*Swish*

The arrow zoomed past another beast, who completely ignored it as it was much more focused on breaking the door and consuming the flesh of the human, whom it could still smell.

The arrow, however, made another on the same path, and this time...

*Slikch*

With a sicking sound of flesh being pierced and blood spurting out, the arrow passed through the beast's eyes, leaving the other.

This was the fifth beast Alex had killed, leaving a five more of them alive.

*Pierce*

*Thud*

Another beast fell the next second, making the number of dead beasts go up to 6, and as they were level 0+ beasts, these kills earned Alex 40 coins.

*Tink**Crack*

But the next second, Alex frowned as he heard a sharp sound of metal clashing against another amidst the roars, and his control over the arrow wavered a bit, letting him know that the arrow had crashed into an antler again.

But this time...

The AI commted, causing Alex's eyes to sharp.

'There are still three or four of them left...'

He knew that the arrows wouldn't be able to kill every one of the beasts, as they had a defse skill—the first beast with that type of skill Alex ever countered.

The arrows were Uncommon ranked after all.

All of them were the ones he stole from the traps of the forgott maze during the first scario.

One arrow being able to kill 6 beasts with an uncommon-ranked defse skill was already a stretch, and that too wh the antlers came in the way more than once.

The antlers of a level 0+ beast that is used for attacking would at least be strong ough to break an uncommon weapon.

Just as Alex was thinking about the number of beasts left and how to defeat them, another crisp sound of the arrow snapping made its way into his ears, and his fingers, which were taunted, controlling the arrow, loosed.

Th, with a wave of his hand, the bow wt back into his invtory, his hands now empty as he stared at the door in front of him.

*BAAM*

*BASH*

"ROARR!!"

*CRASH*

"GRAAAA!!"

The muffled booms wt on as the beast had yet to realize that more than half of them were dead.

*Inhale**Exhale*

Alex took a deep breath, th, with a cold look in his eyes, kicked the wood door, which didn't have a single crack, ev though it was being attacked by 3 or 4 level 0+ beasts.

Alex didn't just kick the gate though; he waited for the momtary interval betwe each strike of the beast.

*BAAM*

The momt he heard the booming sound, he thrust his leg forward, and...

*Bash—Crack*

The door cracked, shattering like a piece of glass, and the next second, the beasts that had be trying to shatter the gate paused.

Their bloodshot eyes stared at Alex.

*Drip*

Drools dripped down their mouths, which, although looked like stags, had sharp canine teeth on the inside.

"Grrr!"

But the pause was short-lived, as the next second, one of the beasts growled in anger and hunger, charging straight at Alex.

Alex, however, remained unmoving, wanting to test something.

He was standing just a few inches away from the threshold of the door, and although he seemed calm, he wasn't all that calm; his body was on full alert as he was ready to jump away any instant.

The beast, on the other hand, didn't ev look at Alex's expression; for the Carabine, Alex was nothing but a large piece of meat.

"ROAR!"

It roared as he parted its jaw, revealing the perfectly lined-up, razor-sharp teeth, ready to tear Alex's flesh apart, but just th...

*BAAM—Crack*

It crashed into what seemed to be an invisible barrier, stopping it from reaching Alex, causing a muffled boom followed by a cracking noise to make its way to Alex's ears, who finally relaxed.

The beast, however, with its blood flowing out of its brok nose, still tried to push forward.

*Scratch*

Its hooves scratched the g, as it tried to push forward only to fail.

"ROAR!"

But by th, other beasts also broke out of their shocks, hurrying toward the door, oblivious to the fate that was writt for them.

Alex, who saw all of that, raised his palm, moving it closer to the beast's head, and the beast just glared at Alex.

Alex was outside the room, and he could touch the beast, ev though it couldn't, so the momt his palm crossed the invisible barrier, and touched the beast's head...

*Fwish*

Bright purple flames erupted from his palm, gulfing the beast's head within it, causing the Carabine's eyes to wid in pain.

"GRAAAAAA!!"

It shrieked in pain, flailing its head here and there, only to have its flowing mane catch fire, increasing the beast's suffering.

"GROOWWLLLL!!"

*Baam*

It smashed its head on the barrier, trying to get the flames off its head, to no avail.

The next second, it rushed inside the room, waiting to rub its head somewhere, trying to cope with the pain it felt, only to crash into one of its frids, causing the fire to catch on the other Carabine as well.

"RAAAAAA!!"

The other beast roared in pain as well the momt it felt the burning ssation on its body.

"Graa!"

It tried to bite its own back, wanting to tear the fur away from its body, only to have the hellfire replica latch onto its mouth, burning it from the inside.

So, just like the first beast, it started to crash into this and that, not caring about anything, just wanting to cope with the pain and have the fire extinguished.

Slowly, the remaining four beasts were all shrieking in pain, crashing against the walls, bleeding from differt spots, but no matter what they did, they couldn't make the flames go out.

These beasts used to be wise and calm, but hunger had made them go berserk; if they had ev a bit of their sanity remaining, th they would've already used mana to have the fire go out.

Carabins are known to be wise beasts after all; some of them are strong ough to fight against the mighty dragons.

Soon, the roars turned into groans before stopping altogether, making Alex nod his head.

He could see the beasts' bodies were still twitching, implying that they were still alive.

Alex, however, stepped inside, his dagger held tightly by his fingers as he cautiously moved toward the beast, slitting their throats one by one, and only wh they were all dead did he relax.

'Now the artifact...'

Alex muttered before he started scanning through the room, ready to pick up the relic or artifact in this room and move to the next one.