Chapter 57: Reptilian Showdown!

Chapter 57: Reptilian Showdown!

Leading Panguana's Status board

Profile:

Name: *

Level: 23

Race: Panguana

Age: 13 Years

Status:

Health: 5456/5456) Mana: 845/845 Strength: 2345 Intelligence: 330 Vitality: 2352 Wisdom: 1098 Agility: 4078) Stamina: 2989/3120 Effects: None Skill: Physical skills and related

[Enhanced Claws Lv. 9]

[Enhanced Fangs Lv. 9]

[Stamina Strike Lv. 5]

[Mana Strike Lv. 3]

[Sundering Enhancement Lv. 6]

[Piercing Enhancement Lv. 6]

[Crushing Enhancement Lv. 5]

Senses and movement skills

[Stealth Lv. 7]

[Accuracy Correction Lv. 2]

[Concentration Lv. 1]

[Prediction Lv. 8]

[Danger Perception Lv. 6]

[Probability Correction Lv. 6]

[Enhanced Auditory Sense Lv. 5]

[Enhanced Olfactory Sense Lv. 5]

[Enhanced Vision Lv. 2]

[Enhanced Enemy Sense Lv. 9]

[Tracking Lv. 6]

[Night Vision Lv. 10]

[Presence Killer Lv. 9]

[Evasion Lv. 7]

[Acrobatic Lv. 7]

[Terrain Maneuvering Lv. 7]

[Swimming Lv. 7]

[Aquatic Fighter Lv. 6]

Resistances

[Physical Resistance Lv. 8]

[Pain Resistance Lv. 6]

[Fear Resistance Lv. 3]

[Disease Resistance Lv. 6]

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[Poison Resistance Lv. 8]

[Paralyze Resistance Lv. 8]

[Torpor Resistance Lv. 6]

[Ice Resistance Lv. 1]

[Earth Resistance Lv. 5]

[Wind Resistance Lv. 5]

[Water Resistance Lv. 8]

Stat growths and related

[Health Recovery Lv. 5]

[Stamina Recovery Lv. 5]

[Enhanced Health Growth Lv. 4]

[Enhanced Health Capacity Lv. 3]

[Enhanced Strength Growth Lv. 5]

[Enhanced Strength Enforcement Lv. 4]

[Enhanced Vitality Growth Lv. 5]

[Enhanced Vitality Enforcement Lv. 3]

[Enhanced Wisdom Growth Lv. 1]

[Enhanced Agility Growth Lv. 6]

[Enhanced Agility Enforcement Lv. 4]

[Enhanced Stamina Growth Lv. 5]

[Enhanced Stamina Capacity Lv. 3]

Others

[Starvation Lv. 5]

[Molting Lv. 7]

Ha, my dragonewt form can handle this! I thought optimistically as I thought that my magic could handle this if that is the status board of the strongest one.

However, my overconfidence caught me out of surprise here, as the panguana trio weren't willing to give me any time to think of a strategy as they just dived into battle, leaping onto me with their powerful hind legs.

I was only able to react to this sudden attack purely cause of my skills and buff spells. If [Prediction] and [Danger Perception] hadnt warned me or if I hadnt cast [Haste] and [Swift Winds] onto myself, then I would have lost over half my mana, and maybe also my Health, due to my negligence.

Narrowly ducking under the combined triple attack, I couldnt help but finally acknowledge that going into this with my dragonewt form wasnt the greatest idea. It worked with the trolls as my agility surpassed theirs but trying to avoid the attacks of these monsters was too much of a strain on my Stamina.

It also doesn't help that the area that we were fighting in had water on the ground, high enough that they reached my legs. It only slowed me down by a bit, but any extra effort will sap my Stamina even further.

I need some distance! Terra Wall! Flame Explosion! The rest, shoot Inferno Blasts at them!

Turning my head around, I threw away caution for the forest and dedicated myself to winning this battle. Still moving through the air, I constructed a wall made of earth behind them, blocking their direct line of sight to me.

Knowing that they could easily sense me using [Enhanced Enemy Sense Lv. 9], I immediately readied multiple [Inferno Blast]s and [Flame Explosion], finishing my preparations.

[Tasianna!] I called out to the fairy clutching my horns.

[Y-Yes, Im ready, Lady Hestia!] she answered slightly anxious.

[Good! Rajah, grab onto my shoulders, like your life is hanging on it!] I shouted, making sure that my virigress pet understood my order.

M-Mreow, knowing that I was correct, he made himself smaller and sat on my back like a backpack.

I planned to give Rajah some bombs so he could drop them onto an enemys head, while their attention was directed at me. Verdammt, if Saori were here then she could throw them or even use my venom to coat her claws with poison.

These panguanas wouldnt be affected by any minor or moderate grade toxins. Rajah had [Poison Resistance] but he couldn't use any of them, due to its low level. It was too dangerous to give him anything at major grade.

Verdammt nochmal, why did I half-ass this plan. Dummkopf, Rajah isnt Saori! Ahhh, why didnt I expect something like this will happen!

While I was warning my companions, the three panguanas jumped out of the cover of my [Terra Wall], prompting me to activate my barrage of spells. Predicting that something was about to happen, instead of dodging it, two of them simply shoved the one close to all the attacks. Even more surprising, he didnt resist and embraced all the attacks.

The [Inferno Blast]s melted through his hardy scales, searing the flesh that was behind it. Taking all of these attacks, the panguanas health melted until it reached 60%, that was when my [Flame Explosion] activated and sent the burning iguana-tiger chimera flying away.

The sheer heat of these fire spells caused the surrounding water to evaporate, creating a smokescreen to hide the other panguanas from plain sight.

No level up? Scheie, did it survive?!

Without a System notification, if I gained experience or not, I was unsure if my attacks killed it or not, but I couldn't afford to pay attention to the heavily wounded one when the other two are still on their feet.

Using the sacrifice of their comrade, the two remaining monsters escaped my attacks with singed hairs and slightly cracked scales. Due to [Humanized (Moderate)] reducing my original Agility to 2851, [Swift Winds] wasnt enough to significantly close in the difference. The stat contrast showed as their combined assault sent me into the defense, relying on my max leveled [Evasion] and [Acrobatic] to stay alive.

[Frozen Shield!]

Unveiling the ice-white magic circle, Tasianna materialized a shield in front of me to block the next attack, stopping it but the panguanas claw attack pushed the shield into my arm.

Urghi, instantly feeling numb, I couldnt help but moan as my wet scales stuck onto the freezing shield. [[Cryokinesis]! Use it and help me push!]

Enduring through the cold pain, I gripped the shield with my other hand and with the help of Tasianna controlling her spell, were able to move the shield in the direction of the other panguana. As the one that attacked the shield also had wet forelegs, sharing my fate, he was dragged with the shield.

Wind Blast!

Activating the wind spell behind the shield, it tore off my scales as it launched itself like a cannon forward. The one we aimed at deftly dodged this attack and continued advancing towards me, not even glancing at his unfortunate teammate who unwillingly crashed into a tree due to his stuck arm.

Stay away! Spark Flame!

Gnashing my fangs to cause a fire, I spewed out intense dragon fire to defend myself. The powerful fire easily transformed anything liquid into a white mist. As the stream of fire showed no sign of disappearing, the panguana understood that it couldnt attack while I kept using my dragon breath.

[Lady Hestia, I didnt mean to,] Tasianna wanted to say something, sweat covering her forehead from being close to my [Spark Flame].

[Talk later! Ready the next spell, Tasianna!] I interrupted my companion, who still wasnt completely used to fighting.

Using this opportunity, I warmed up my shivering arms and healed them with [Moderate Heal] to regrow my scales. At the same time, I activated [Humanize], finally having enough time to transform into a more suitable form to close into the stat difference.

While the mana mist surrounded my body, I had to stop using my dragon fire, allowing the panguana to attack again. Like anybody else, he understood that I was up to something, so he didnt waste this chance to end me.

Lunging forward, the panguana used his massive arms to swipe down at me, knowing one hit could severely injure me.

[Humanized (Minor)] inflicted on [Young Spark Inferno Dragon, Hestia Atsuko]

However, it was too late.

Kriiiiiaarrgghhhh!

Screaming a roar, I jumped and twisted my body around, dodging the panguanas attack at the very last second.

Take this, slither tail!

As my body continued twirling in the air like a rotating screw, an opportunity showed up where I could wrap my tail around the neck of the panguana, constricting it like a snake.

Now on the monsters back, I put more pressure on my tail to choke every single breath out of my opponent.

Kraaaaaaaaahhh!

Roaring once again, I allowed the monster side of me rip through the monsters throat with [Spark Fang], tearing out cooked pieces of meat with my sickle-like claws.

Technically, I could have gone back into my dragon form and overwhelmed them with my higher stats, but I thought that this was a chance to continue training with a humanoid body. Going back to a [Humanized Lv. 5] appearance, I reduced the transforming penalty back to only 1/3rd of my stats while keeping the slim frame of my dragonewt form.

With my active buff spells, my current body had enough Agility to surpass them, while also being a smaller target to hit for any incoming attacksjust like now.

Obeying [Prediction], I ducked.

[Ice Spike!]

Realizing something was up, I jumped down and dash to his side, after releasing the two corpses of panguana that I was still holding on to, [Tasianna freeze his wound, now.]

After hearing her say, You will, Lady Hestia., I pulled Caszcurs arm away from his body. He was angrily shouting at me to run away and that I was risking my life to help him, saying that it was too late to help him.

Thinking that he was an even more of a drama queen than I was, I yanked the bombs away from him and then began sucking in the gas from the two bombs. As my bombs could only activate when the gas reaches a certain concentration, you only needed to remove the toxic gas and it'll become unusable as no more of my mana could activate it anymore.

You know, the original concept of my bombs only being able to activate with my mana was a pretty flexible rule. I mean, this toxic gas was made with [Toxin Secretion] using my mana, after all, hie hie.

Wha? Caszcur looked confused at what I just did.

["Can't recognize me or is it something else, Caszcur? These are my bombs, of course, I know how to diffuse them,"] I said confidently.

Turning my head around, I was able to confirm that the other lizardmen guards were also alive, albeit they probably broke a bone or so. I was also able to see that our rescue team was able to successfully rescue the lost lizardmen group, as I could see a large group of ragged looking ones mumbling to themselves.

I walked over to the spot where Cazscur's arm was and told Tasianna to freeze the stump. I don't know if I can re-attach Caszcur's arm but this was a good time to test the limits of my magic. If I can regenerate lost flesh, then I should be able to reattach it.

[Well, there were some complications, but it seems this was a successful rescue attempt,] I said while kneeling beside Caszcur to heal all his wounds besides his right arm.

"He he, you truly are a girl of a lot of secrets, little Lady. First, you can't speak and now you look like any other lizardkinwell besides your wings. Still, you came at the right time and saved my life. My debt to you is increasing by the second," Cascur said with a merry laugh.

[I would have come earlier but there were some problems,] I said with a wry smile.

As I was taking care of Caszcur, Tasianna went around to tell the lizardmen guards to group up to me so I can heal them, she also was responsible to talk with the lost lizardmen group, soothing and informing them about the situation.

While she was doing that, I retold Casczur about our little accident. You see, when I was about to launch myself into the air, Rajah smacked my head from behind, making me flinch from that startling action. I was about to scold him for that but that when I noticed that the panguanas were planning to throw something at me, and Rajah was simply warning me about it.

Annoyed at their persistence, I killed them as fast as I could and just [Air Walk] and [Wind Blast] my way to the others.

I was pretty surprised that Rajah was able to figure out the panguanas plan before my [Prediction] activated but I guess he was keeping an eye on my back.

Huh?

Hmm? Is everything alright, lass? Caszcur asked me.

["Huh? Oh no, it's justI dunno, I kinda have a feeling that we're being watched,"] I admitted. [Maybe Im being too cautious but who knows.]

Well, if you say think thats the case then I guess we should move away. Tasianna seems to have calmed them down so Ill get them to move as soon as possible. We need to get to a safer place anyways, Caszcur stood up once I was done with him.

[I know the ice is uncomfortable but hold onto it until I can figure out a way to save your arm, ok?] I said.

Youre gonna save my arm? Ha ha, I dont know how youre gonna do something like that, but Im already prepared to be indebted to you again,

Standing up, suddenly the ground beneath me shook wildly, destabilizing my balance. That was when my skills finally activated and told me to jump away and as far as possible, ASAP! Before I could cast [Wind Blast] to blast me away, Rajah bit my arm, surprising me.

That was when my surprise turned into bewilderment as four long, dark snakes started to erupt out of Rajahs feet and launched themselves as a nearby trees branch, pulling Rajah and me towards it.

Wha-? Is that [Shadow Snake]?

I was reminded of the spells name as I had to deal against it when Tasianna and Saori nearly beat me using that spell.

Before I could ask any questions, the ground that I stood on burst open to reveal an actual giant white snake. From the size of its mouth, If I stood any longer in that area, then I would have been turned into that snakes snack.

Identify!

Vellestra Leviathan

A giant monster with a giant predators head as a body and multiple snake heads that are used to move the massive monster through the water. Each individual tentacles have their own brain and consciousness, allowing it to act independently from each other. However, when their main body is in danger, this monster will use both poison and water magic to rain torrential punishment on any foolish challengers. Rank A

Holy fucking crap!

Tasianna's Status board update

Profile:

Name: Tasianna Marina Silverpond

Level: 48

Race: Fairy

Age: 87 Years

Job: Mage

Status:

Health: 697/697 (+145) Mana: 3265/3265 (+1087) Strength: 151 (+86) Intelligence: 1296 (+423) Vitality: 176 (+101) Wisdom: 875 (+316) Agility: 932 (+324) Stamina: 719/719 (+305) Effects: None Skill Points: 6050 (+6050) Skill: Magic skills and related

[Fairy Magic]

[Arcane Mind Lv. 7] (+1)

[Ice Magic Lv. 2]

[Water Magic Lv. 7] (+1)

[Water Amp] (New) [Wind Magic Lv. 3] (+1)

[Chant Revocation Lv. 5] (+1)

[Silent Casting Lv. 1]

[Mental Stability Lv. 1] (New)

[Mental Warfare Lv. 2]

Senses and movement skills

[Stealth Lv. 3] (+1)

[Accuracy Correction Lv. 1] (New)

[Enhanced Enemy Sense Lv. 3] (+1)

[Prediction Lv. 2] (+1)

[Danger Perception Lv. 1]

[Enhanced Vision Lv. 1]

[Night Vision Lv. 3] (+1)

[Presence Killer Lv. 1] (New)

[Evasion Lv. 3]

[Acrobatic Lv. 3]

[Flight Acceleration Lv. 2] (+1)

[Mid-Air Maneuvering Lv. 1]

[Concentration Lv. 4]

Resistances

[Physical Resistance Lv. 3]

[Pain Resistance Lv. 3]

[Poison Resistance Lv. 1]

[Paralyzation Resistance Lv. 1]

[Torpor Resistance Lv. 1]

[Mana Leak Resistance Lv. 1]

[Holy Resistance Lv. 1]

[Fire Resistance Lv. 1]

[Water Resistance Lv. 4]

[Earth Resistance Lv. 2]

[Wind Resistance Lv. 2]

[Dark Resistance Lv. 1]

Stat growths and related

[Stamina Recovery Lv. 1] (New)

[Enhanced Health Capacity Lv. 1]

[Enhanced Mana Growth Lv.5] (+1)

[Enhanced Mana Capacity Lv. 3] (+1)

[Enhanced Intelligence Growth Lv. 5] (+1)

[Enhanced Intelligence Enforcement Lv. 3] (+1)

[Enhanced Vitality Enforcement Lv. 1]

[Enhanced Wisdom Growth Lv. 4]

[Enhanced Wisdom Enforcement Lv. 2] (+1)

[Enhanced Agility Growth Lv. 5] (+1)

[Enhanced Agility Enforcement Lv. 3] (+1)

[Enhanced Stamina Growth Lv. 2] (+1)

[Enhanced Stamina Enforcement Lv. 1]

Others

[Singing Lv. 2] (New)

[Dancing Lv. 1] (+1)

[Identify Blocker Lv. 1] (New)

[Identify Lv. 3] (+1)

[Cooking Lv. 3] (+2)

[Herbalist Lv. 1] (New)

[Royal Etiquette Lv. 5] (+1)

[Cryokinesis] [Telepathy]

Spell List: Custom spells

[Create Water]

[Greater Create Water]

Ice spells

[Ice Spike]

[Frozen Shield]

Water spells

[Water Ball]

[Water Wall]

[Water Bolt]

[Cleanse]

[Protective Water]

[Droplet Torrent]

Wind spells

[Wind Bullet]

[Wind Cutter]

[Air Shield]

Titles:

[Hestias Retainer]