Chapter 163 - Killing The Basking Shark, But An Intruder.

[You have activated skill: Rejuvenation.]

Instantly after activating this vital skill, Sebastian's body was covered with a greenish-white magic glow that was filled with immense vitality.

As his injuries started healing with speed, all the depressions formed by the Basking Shark's powerful jaw attack rapidly reconstructed themselves.

Seeing this, the Basking Shark immediately realized that he was fooled. 

From his vast battle experience as an old purple tier monster, the Basking Shark knew that most lesser tiered predators would opt to use a skill like rejuvenation immediately due to panic when they were trapped in a situation like Sebastian was a few seconds ago.

Not only the extreme damage dealt by his crushing jaws, but the suffocating feeling from the force and the pain was also enough to make any normal predator go berserk from panic and make stupid decisions.

What he didn't expect this time was that he was up against a Megalodon with an ingenious human soul. He met a sturdy roadblock this time.

For the first time in his life, after evolving to the purple tier, he lost in a game of wits and intelligence against an opponent predator, the humiliation only increased when this was a lesser ranked opponent.

Instantly, the Basking Shark felt a feeling of extreme rage dominating its mind as it decisively charged towards Sebastian.

Having predicted and expected this, Sebastian reacted impeccably to it.

Without even needing to think, he willed it in his mind, activating his unique skill again as the tower shield magic manifestation appeared before him again.

This time was unlike the first time, Sebastian was not going against the Basking Shark alone. Dozens of Great White Sharks surrounded the Basking Shark this time, and they all attacked as soon as it moved.

Seeing him materialize his tower shield magic manifestation, the defense unit sharks instinctively reacted and set up support defense magic shields to help him. While they did this, the attack unit sharks threw out their skills.

Loud sounds accompanied it as the skills landed on the Basking Shark's enormous body, dealing shock damage to it that penetrated through the defense of its enhanced magic shield.

The shield was not breached yet, but the stacked shock damage was significant. The Basking Shark wavered in his charge but seeing Sebastian hovering before him, he snorted in rage and increased his speed.

Sebastian smiled on seeing this, this was what he wanted. He didn't know the life-saving trump cards that this predator had, but with it charging towards him so blatantly, he was now confident that this fellow was dead.

[You have activated skill: Advanced Dash!]

The Basking Shark was a little surprised as Sebastian suddenly dashed towards him instead of retreating, but this did not last long. 

He even felt appreciative of seeing this as his wide-open mouth started glowing a yellowish-green color.

Sebastian instantly recognized the skill that this fellow was about to use. Yes, it was the ring-shaped sonic blast again.

He did not retreat on seeing this, with his tower shield magic manifestation taking the lead, he continued the charge towards the Basking Shark.

With a loud boom, both enormous sharks collided.

Instantly after the collision, Sebastian felt like a million-ton heavy hammer was slammed at his head. He felt dizzy but his relatively high constitution allowed him to recover, even faster than the Basking Shark who was still dizzy.

Bam! Bam!

Skills from the other sharks with Verni and Tosh as the lead still fell on the Basking Shark's body, with some even spilling towards Sebastian's body but the Basking Shark could no longer see this, he was temporarily disoriented.

With immobilization complete, killing intent flashed through Sebastian's eyes like ripples in a calm lake. He mostly fought personally to train his skills, but when a purple-tier opponent was on the line, he could go unrestrained.

[You have activated unique skill: Water Transmutation!]

And so, the mass magic manifestation spamming began!

With his outrageously high mana points stat for an orange tier predator, Sebastian could afford to be unrestrained. The flaming sword, war hammer, and almost all the magic manifestations were used on the Basking Shark.

Boom!

Before the astonished gaze of most of the team members of the Ultimate Dissectors hunting team except Tosh and Verni who already saw it before, the magic manifestations wreaked havoc across the Basking Shark's body.

The booming sound was like rippling thunder while the painful wails of the Basking Shark were the music playing in the background, highlighting this scene.

At the last moment, when the Basking Shark was just one step away from death, Sebastian suddenly stopped. He stopped because of 2 reasons, 1 because his experience was already full, and 2 because there was an intruder.

Sebastian already suspected it since, making him alert. There was no way that the lowest possible realm for his luck would only bring one purple tier predator, it looked too good to be true.

Whoosh!

What seemed like a menacing purple whip suddenly lashed out from afar, elongating till infinity like an immortal whip that had no limits until it arrived close to the dying Basking Shark's body. 

It struck intending to finish off the shark, clearly to reap all the benefits with minimal effort but Sebastian having detected it and being on guard against it beforehand was prepared.

The sound that reverberated was not of the strange purple whip making contact with juicy flesh, but of it hitting against a metallic object. 

Clang!

For the first time since Sebastian started using his unique skill, apart from the battle against Octumpedam, his tower shield magic manifestation suffered damage that tore a straight line hole through its sturdy metallic hide.

Seeing this, he felt imaginary cold sweat flowing down his shark face but this did not make him slow, but rather he reacted even faster.

With adrenaline now coursing through his body, his brain flowed at the speed of a supercomputer, creating another magic manifestation in less than a fraction of a second and quickly following with another. 

A flaming sword appeared and slashed down before the whip could be retrieved by its owner, cutting a part of it away with one smooth slash. The red tip of the flaming sword made sizzling sounds as blood flowed through its sides.

This whip was actually living, or a living organ or body part.

Sebastian's brain did not slow down despite this discovery. The second magic manifestation that he formed already came down, covering the dying Basking Shark before any other movements could be made by this strange opponent.

Almost instantly after that, Verni rushed towards the prison. Having given Verni instructions through his sound control skill stealthily, Verni rushed in through an opening in the tower prison as soon as the Basking Shark was captured.

While rushing towards the enormous Basking Shark, he opened his mouth wide, activating his fire magic domain in the process as he bit down with force.

Crunch!

The kinetic biting force and the raging fire magic finished off the Basking Shark who was already dying, ending its life for good.

All these from the arrival of the new predator commenced in just a little more than a second, and it seems the owner of the whip adaptation finally reacted to a part of its body being cut off and the sound was not pleasant.

"CROAKKKK!!!"

Every member of the Ultimate Dissectors hunting team turned their head to the direction of the sound where this new opponent was.

The battle was not over.