Chapter 158: Unexpected Monster

The duo of James and Ariel were staring at the ape and the goofy ape was staring back at them as seriously as possible.

A wild west aura seemed to permeate the now burnt-out jungle, the duo didn't dare attack the monkey because they were strangely worried that something was wrong and the monkey seemed to be trying to figure out what was happening.

After a few seconds, the monkey suddenly became insulted. It jumped, bypassing all the burnt parts, and set off to the other side of the forest, where it was still alive. Shocked by the monkey's speed, the two suddenly lunged forward, unable to let the monkey getaway.

"You son of a!!!" James suddenly shouted.

"Well...we agree that it's not a monkey, how do we catch it?" questioned Ariel, as the two seemed to be discussing what to do while moving forward.

"I don't know, try to trick it with a banana?" James suddenly asked, not understanding how they could handle a monkey, well the monkey that was now running away from him was many times faster than the gorilla that was Noah's servant.

"Uhhh...maybe time element? What do you reckon?" Ariel asked as she ran, and James, hearing those words, shook his head and said, "Good thinking, Ariel. If we manage to stop him somehow, I can try to attack by stopping time." James said and after these words, the plan was defined.

The two were moving at a fast pace and at the same time they realised something was different.

"The monkey has disappeared, watch out," James said, and with those words, with swords drawn again, the duo began to advance cautiously.

James carried Selene's Throwing Knife in his left hand, just in case Ariel needed protection, which was why he had begun to look carefully, especially around Ariel.

He saw Ariel looking at him and shook her head, and that's when he saw the eyes of the woman in front of him widen:

"DUCK!" Ariel shouted and hearing this, James instantly reflexively activated his time element.

He spun around and saw the monkey coming slowly towards him.

As he threw the knife in his left hand, he realised that he had hit the monkey and at that moment time returned to normal, and when Ariel saw the monkey on the ground, she realised that James had succeeded.

It had been quite easy, though.

James approached the slumped monkey and then bent down a little to check if it was dead, at that moment his whole body shuddered, he suddenly jerked backwards and was very grateful indeed that he had done so because the monkey suddenly turned round and tried to aim its claws at James' throat.

The monkey was trying to run away with a nasty grin on its face when suddenly a large knife, almost a small sword, sliced through its chest.

Ariel looked at James and then said, "You can thank me later," and pulled the knife out of the monkey's chest.

With this, the second stage came to an end, the passages for the next stage immediately started to open and huge bears started to come out of them.

When I say huge, they were quite big.

They were even bigger than the trolls James had encountered before. Two bears, almost ten metres long, had suddenly appeared. It was obvious from everywhere that the two bears were bleeding, but something else had happened.

James opened and closed his eyes, his head ached a little, and when he closed and opened his eyes one last time, he saw two things glowing blackly behind the bears, even beyond the passageways, just like in the card selections and other places.

Whatever those two things were, they must have been Godly tier, and that increased their value enough.

The fact that each stage was coming one after the other was a bit of a challenge, but the duo was lucky that the monsters passing through the gates were not particularly powerful monsters.

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Apart from the monkey from earlier, none of the monsters were that strong, the bugs were disgusting and had been destroyed by Miracle, the monkey was fast and of average intelligence.

The two gigantic bears standing in front of the duo were of average strength.

"I'll take the one on the right," James suddenly said, and Ariel, hearing this, said, "What's the big deal? I'll take the one on the right."

Upon these words, the two were about to change places when the bear's fur started to burn on their right. After Ariel saw what happened, she sniffed once and said, "All right, the one on the right is yours." and started running.

James smilingly started to move forward and quickly approached the bear, which had started to burn a little in front of him.

With a firm grip on Clarent in his right hand, he began to spin the aura around his body, wanting to use the wounding slash. After all, the target in front of him was huge, so there was no way he could miss his attacks.

The bear seemed surprised that James had suddenly stopped, but that didn't mean he had to wait, the bear suddenly charged.

The huge 10-metre-long bear was running on all fours.

James waited where he was, in a proper position, and adjusted everything in the hope that his attack would be successful.

As soon as the bear was within a dozen or two dozen metres of him, he suddenly brought his slashing technique into use, and with it a skill he had not used for a long time:

"PIERCE!" James shouted, now realising how much he had missed it.

The 1% attack power from his ability, when added to such a technique, offered a huge amount of destructiveness.

The resulting image would be perfect.

When James activated his ability and put the art he had learnt into use, six consecutive moves cut the air, and then not one big beam, but six different beams moved towards the bear running towards him.

After a short time, James realised that his move had pierced the bear in front of him and chuckled, "Wounding, eh? More like instant kill." he said with a smile.

Unable to avoid this massive attack, the bear fell to the ground, pierced in six different places.

When James was sure that he had killed the bear, he turned to help Ariel and saw the perfect image.

Ariel's knife glowed with an azure light and sliced through the skin of the huge bear, the huge light on Ariel's knife seemed to show how fluffy and perfect her aura was.

James couldn't help but admire the woman in front of him.

As soon as Ariel knocked the bear to the ground, one after the other, she began to slice the bear with the knives in her hands, and the bear's screams echoed throughout the forest:

"URUAGGHHH!!!"

"KRUUUAGHHH!!!"

The high-decibel sounds coming from the successive screams were ear-splitting. James thought that it would be much better if the bear's pain was over and started to move forward with the sword in his hand to use Clarent, just at that moment he saw that the aura on Ariel's blades became even bigger and sharper.

In just a second, the huge bear in front of her was stabbed almost ten times.

When Ariel killed the bear, she stood up and then looked at James and shook her head.

"Umm...Note to myself, never piss Ariel off." James suddenly said and with that, he looked towards the reopened passageways.

Ariel was busy wiping his bloodied hands when he came up to James. James shook his head at Ariel's actions and watched the gates in disbelief.

After only a short time, a hand grabbed the portal, and after only two or three seconds, a woman with horns stepped out of the portal. This was stage four.

James instantly realised what this woman was and turned to Ariel. When he saw Ariel's face, he knew instantly that what he had thought was true.

"She's beautiful..." Ariel said. James could see that the pupils of the woman next to him were turning into hearts. She was charmed.

The monster in front of the duo was a succubus.

After looking at the duo, the succubus focused her eyes on James and said in an incredibly gentle way, "You are not affected by my magic. How can a man withstand this magic? A succubus' magic?" she asked.

James shook his head, not even a succubus, and then frowned, pointing Selene's Throwing Knife at the woman in front of him disrespectfully, and then said the following words:

"I don't flipping know, maybe it is because I am loyal to my own love Nemesis and her only? Dumb monster."

Hearing these words, the succubus rolled his head in amazement and then said, "I've never seen someone as young as you so resilient, you must be loyal to the one you love. I still have to kill you though, you know, quite the pity."

With those words, James gripped Clarent tightly in his right hand and then used his dark step ability to unleash the time elemental on top of it.

He wished to kill the Succubus quickly. seaʀᴄh thё NovelFire.net* website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.