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Bang! Bang!
Shin and Alice were already at the third guardian, fighting against a huge wisp that wielded great psychic powers.
Compared to the first two guardian monsters, the Ancient Treat Protector and the Golden Stag, this humongous wisp was more troublesome to deal with. It was because of the strange powers and elements that it possessed.
If it was just a regular plant-type monster, then Shin and Alice could use fire-type or lightning-type attacks against it even if their elemental powers were greatly restricted due to the environment. At least their lightning-type spells and skills were somewhat enhanced after adjusting themselves to the stormy weather.
Shin could also use the metal element if it was just some monster with a regular monster with a nature-type element.
But since that was not the case, dealing with this wisp became a little tricky, especially when it could combine a plant-type and psychic-type of spells.
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[Monster Name]: Will-O'-Wisp
[Monster Type]: Plant, Spirit
[Monster Index]: High Psychic Mutation
[Monster Rank]: Overlord/ Mutated
Level: 165
Health Points: 1,102,521/ 5,000,000,0000
Skills:
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Looking at the details of the monster, Shin knew that it was barely living. The sliver of health that it had could easily be emptied by a couple of spells or skills from Alice and himself.
It took them quite an effort to take down this monster, but fighting it gave Shin a few insights on how to utilize the Demonic Telekinesis within the game. Up until now, he was only applying most of his mentalism techniques to reinforce the skills and sword techniques that he had along with a few tricks that he was usually using in the real world.
After watching how the wisp utilized its psychic powers, Shin had gotten some inspiration and further strengthened his understanding of the said elemental skill.
This also led to Shin elevating his utilization of the techniques under the Perfected Four Symbol Scripture. He also got some lead on how he would proceed with developing his battle style within the game.
Since he had solidified his unique style and swordsmanship, and integrated them with the elements that he had, he could now focus on improving them – and the Demonic Telekinesis would be his main key.
Bang!
After the final strike, the Will-O'-Wisp was finally killed. It exploded into countless glittering lights, resembling the starry sky, as they slowly fell toward the ground.
Alice was caught off guard by the dreamy scene that was produced by those tiny lights along with Shin standing in the center of everything. She was stunned and unable to take away her eyes from Shin for a dozen seconds before regaining her composure.
She turned to the side while her ears were completely red, resembling a ripe tomato. Fortunately, she was wearing a veil that was hiding her expression.
However, Shin did not have time to look at her as he was already busy collecting the starry dust that the wisp had left behind. It did not drop anything aside from those glittering dust and glowing marble.
The glittering dust was the thing that Shin needed from this guardian monster, the 'Essence of the Will-O'-Wisp', which was also one of the materials required for the completion of his quest.
As for the glowing marble, it was the Elemental Core that was formed within the body of the Will-O'-Wisp after undergoing such an Elemental Mutation.
All the guardian beasts seemed to possess such cores. The Ancient Treat Protector also dropped an Elemental Core with the Nature Element while the Golden Stag left a Beast Core of a similar element, which also contained the element of earth.
Shin turned to Alice and tossed the elemental core to her. As per their agreement, he would take the materials that he needed from the monsters while she would be keeping the Mana Cores.
Alice did not want to accept them at first as Shin was already helping her with her quests. But Shin insisted that her quest was also related to his quest, which made it cooperation rather than assistance.
With a helpless sigh, she could accept. She somewhat knew Shin's temperament after rehearsing with him and the rest of their club in the real world. She knew that it would be hard to change his mind unless she could bring out a strong argument that would convince him.
After keeping the essence, Shin looked at the progress of his quest for another time, making sure that he was on the right track.
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Regardless, it was still much larger than most of the monsters that Shin and Alice had encountered in this place.
If Shin could give a comparison, then this green dragon was only as huge as Arthur's dragon pet, Goldie, when it was in combat form.
Shin and Alice then used their respective observation skills on the dragon to get a rough idea of its overall strength.
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[Monster Name]: Green Dragon (Weakened)
[Monster Type]: Nature Dragon
[Monster Index]: Mutated Dragon
[Monster Rank]: Overlord/ Mutated
Level: 165
Health Points: 2,500,000,000 / 2,500,000,0000
Skills:
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Its entire heath bar was only half of the previous guardian monsters. But given that it was a dragon with thick and sturdy scales to protect itself, Shin already guessed how high its defense was.
Just like what he had expected, it was just a weakened dragon. If it happened to be an adult dragon in its peak form, then Shin and Alice would never have a chance to fight it.
According to the official website of the game and from what Arthur had told him, an adult dragon would be at least level 450, making it at the tier of a full-fledged Enlightened Being.
As for the weaker or younger dragons, they should still be at least as strong as a peak Ascended Being or weaker Enlightened Beings, which was also equivalent to level 300 to level 399 monsters.
Moreover, Dragons counted as Transcendent Beings, so they should be much more powerful than any other race beneath them.
Shin did not know how to distinguish between a monster dragon, a royal-blooded dragon, and another type of dragon, so he was not sure how to categorize this green dragon in front of them. They were all the same in his eyes. Even the description barely helped him identify them from each other.
He did not know if it could be converted into an Elemental Dragon that Arthur could make a contract with.
Nevertheless, their current opponent was someone that they had to deal with regardless of his thoughts.
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After sensing the arrival of the two, the green dragon suddenly opened its eyes, before slowly getting up from its comfortable position.
It then turned toward them before breathing out a thick fog of poison from its mouth, releasing a deafening roar!
Roar!
The entire mountain range shook as an overwhelming presence made itself known in the entire region. The monsters living in the Stormy Mountain Range fled in every direction, running away from the source of the roar as far as possible, while the weaker ones collapsed straight away.
The monsters that had been corrupted by the demonic seed, did not even dare to move despite the strong influence of the seed in them. They trembled in fear as they instantly recognized that the one who just revealed its presence was an apex predator of the Beast World.
Shin and Alice, who were at the forefront of the pressure, were also frozen in their respective spot and unable to move their bodies.
They were trembling hard while the circulation of mana within their bodies was greatly disturbed. If not for their fast reactions, then they would most likely be receiving serious damage from the system due to energy backflow.
With their current state, Shin and Alice already realized what was happening.
"Dragon Fear!"
It was one of the strongest abilities of the Dragon Race along with the 'Dragon Tongue'.
It was a mana-infused roar from the depths of their soul, driving any weaker entities within the surroundings into a state of extreme despair and intense panic.
With paralyzed bodies, Shin and Alice would be in great danger, so they quickly responded and used their respective mind-cleansing skills to free themselves from their current statuses.
Then they quickly retreated, creating as much distance as they could from the green dragon.
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