Is it Wrong to Copy Abilities in Apocalypse?

The demon froze in its spot, its eyes reflecting the fear it felt; its black eyes going as wide as they could, its mouth agape, revealing its sharp canine teeth, and its body trembled.

The demon's gaze was fixed on Alex, but for a second, instead of Alex, it saw a large, bloodthirsty beast, staring down at it, wanting to eat it alive.

The demon couldn't stop the dread he felt, sending chills down his spine.

But Alex, who had successfully stunned the beast, hurriedly pulled a water bottle out of his inventory; the liquid inside the bottle, however, was anything but water.

It was a mana potion—something Alex created by chance.

Alex's new skill, Alchemical Enchantment, didn't really give him an accurate guess of what he would create.

If he were to make a painkiller and enhance it with that skill, there was no certainty that he would gain a potion that would take his pain away, or something like that.

Maybe it would give him higher pain resistance, or maybe the potion would directly give him a pain resistance skill.

So, when Alex made a stamina recovery medicine by using his basic royal medicine art and added mana to it by using the AE (Alchemical Enchantment), the skill gave him something that he, or any other being in the apocalypse, would be thrilled to have.

[[Mana Recovery Potion (Rare): Lets the user recover 10% of their mana with one use; the effect can be stacked, but after ingesting 10 potions, you need to take a cooldown period of 4 hours or the potion's effectiveness would get lowered exponentially.]]

One potion meant 100 ml, and the bottle Alex had was a one-liter bottle, so he hurriedly chugged it down.

'Ah...'

He could feel his body heating up a bit and his heart relaxing; the mana pool within his body was getting filled up, and he could perceive it.

Alex, with his eyes squinted, got up, ready to at least deliver a grave wound on the demon while it was still stunned, which it had been for around 5 seconds already.

But before Alex could rush forward, the demon's expression, which was a mix of fear and confusion, suddenly changed.

"GRAHHHHHH!!!"

It roared in anger and disbelief as it broke out of Alex's death's command.

If Alex had tried to control the demon, then it wouldn't have worked, but since all he did was freeze it in the spot, the demon didn't realize what was happening until something clicked inside of its mind.

It was in a weak body, and it had its power suppressed, but that didn't mean it wouldn't understand what was happening.

The moment it understood that it was trembling in fear due to a mere illusion created by killing intent and death's command, its anger spiked.

"DIE!!"

It didn't care about torturing Alex; all it wanted now was for Alex to feel pain, right this instant.

So, unlike before, it had its claws out as it rushed toward Alex, only to find the guy running away as well.

'Battle analytics.'

Alex, unlike before, was now ready for the demon, and with his mana pool completely filled, he could now pull the battle for more than 30 seconds while using all of his abilities.

"STOP YOU BASTARD!"

The demon, on the other hand, grew angrier as it saw Alex running away, that too while matching its speed.

'Was that bastard going easy on me until now?!'

Such thought appeared in the demon's mind, pushing his rage up a level, and its speed got elevated.

*Woosh* X2

Alex, unaware of the demon's thought, shot two arrows at the demon, but unlike the ones before, these two had a bright purple fire burning at their heads, causing the demon's body to jerk in shock.

'Hellfire?'

It stopped in its tracks, but then it frowned as it found out the reality of the fire.

'A cheap imitation...'

The Demon growled inwardly, but unlike what it had tried to do with the other arrows, it didn't try to hold them.

The demon was one of the demons with a lot of knowledge, how would it not know the real hellfire's abilities?

It could tell that no matter how cheap of an imitation it was, it was still hellfire, something that is hard to get rid of.

*Step**Step*...

It tried to move away, now cautious of Alex.

'Did he always have this ability?'

Chalitanetra frowned hard, as it couldn't recall Alex ever using such a thing, but the next instant, it growled in annoyance.

"This fucking shit!"

His eyes snapped toward Alex, only to find him controlling the arrows, making them move toward it, and the demon finally made a decision.

There were just 3 seconds left before its ability's cooldown was over; even the demon knew it, so...

*Pierce* X2

It waved its arm, letting the arrow pierce the palm, but before the fire at the tip of the arrow could grow large enough to engulf its whole arm, it gritted its teeth before...

*Snap—Crack—Squelch*

"Arghhhh!"

The demon tore its wrist apart, groaning in pain.

It was not even a second later that the bloodied area from where his fist was ripped away stopped bleeding, and the next instant.

*Pop**Pop*...

With a strange popping sound, a lump of flesh formed right there before five fingers morphed out of it.

Its wrist healed, now back to how it used to be.

It was not something the demon had done when it met Alex before; now, however, its mana pool was large enough to help him have at least three such major healings without a problem.

But that didn't mean the demon would just keep doing it.

"Grr! You are dead now!"

The demon's bloodshot eyes then turned to look back at Alex, who was again focused on the countdown he could hear.

*Woosh*

The demon, however, didn't care about anything else; right now it just wanted Alex dead, especially now that it had judged Alex to be more dangerous than before.

*Woosh*

It rushed toward Alex, gritting its teeth as it saw another pair of arrows already aimed at it.

"Grah!"

So, with an annoyed grunt, it jumped into the bush beside it, taking cover, and Alex, who saw that, sighed in relief, deactivating his battle analytics and moving to an open area so as not to get pulled into a surprise attack by the demon.

Just like Alex from before he had gained the wind's whisper, the demon was weak against ranged attacks, and its speed, which could've played a major role in this fight, was not the highest stats it had.

This fight was not something that would've lasted this long if not for Alex wanting to copy the 'Second Heal' from the demon's demonic healing ability.

But now that the demon had jumped into the bushes, taking cover, and waiting for its moment, Alex got the time to relax.

He would wait out the next 30 seconds; only after that would he move into the forest.

The demon had no idea that its moving into the forest would turn out to be the worst decision against Alex.