Chapter 66 The Pinnacle Of The Food Chain

[Author's note:

I just wanted to inform those of you who don't know, that longer chapters cost more coins and us writers do not control how much chapters cost. The only time we have control is in the tiered privileged chapters (not the 2 chapters privileged).

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After piercing the head of the hobgoblin with the earth spike I had created on the ceiling, I quickly dropped to the ground, misstepped, rolled on myself, and slid to a dusty and painful stop.

Letting out a pained grunt, I stood up and quickly dusted myself off, yet I could not help but feel a little weak at the end of it. This was not due to the outcome of the fight but instead, because I had completely drained myself of mana.

I walked over to the corpse with a slight limp that seemed to only last for a couple of seconds before being able to walk semi-properly again.

Touching the body of the hobgoblin, I activated the life-drain rune within me and quickly healed myself up to full health before absorbing the soul core to no avail.

"Seems like I won't get much out of this dungeon after all." A let out a disappointed sigh and walked over to the head of the hobgoblin before stabbing my hand into its hand and using life drain again.

I didn't know why this was the case, but stabbing people and absorbing their life energy from inside was always faster than doing it from the outside, and therefore I complied with this unwritten rule and did as implied by the system to get much faster rewards.

Absorbing the remaining life energy, I used it to refine my blood energy as well as I could and quickly left the area without saying another word.

There was no point in taking the blade that the hobgoblin held since it was too big, and even if I wanted to take it back to Blanca, I doubted that she would give me or tell me anything useful about the runes engraved in it.

When going through the tunnels once again, I went through the same routine as before but instead of directly attacking the creatures with magic attacks, I used my fists and legs instead since I had run out of mana.

The last thing those creatures, that were just hobgoblins with armor, saw was me throwing a fist at them before everything turned black. Not even their armor could protect them from the power of my overwhelming physical ability.

While I could have taken their armor since they were the same size as me, I chose not to due to how weak the armor was. Rather than protect me, I was certain that it would only hinder my movements instead making it an unworthy gamble for a superficial security.

None of them seemed to hold anything but bats either, so I simply chose to not use anything that they had instead of painstakingly trying to learn how to use a new weapon that I wasn't proficient at.

Killing the last one, I left the tunnel and entered a wide room with a red carpet going from the exit of the tunnel to the end of the area where a huge golden throne was placed.

I narrowed my eyes but when I tried to look into it more, I realized that I didn't have enough mana to manually activate blood eyes anymore. This caused my expression to turn slightly ugly, but that was it.

I was confident that I could kill whatever sat on the throne no matter what it was, and even though every monster within this dungeon had a boost of 300% due to the sudden change to hell mode that I still could not fully understand, I still felt like they were no match for me.

A wry smile stretched from the corner of my lips as I slowly walked towards the throne, one step at a time with an aura as a clam as the waters of a lake on a sunny dry day.

This was going to be my first real battle ever since my fight with the T-rex, and even if I was certain that it had no chance against a full power me, I wasn't at my full power right now.

The monster sitting on the throne opened one of its eyes slightly and stared at me for a second. When I saw this, I chose to stare back but at that same moment, I felt an enormous pressure press down on my will and body.

The pressure was nothing like the one that I felt against the T-Rex or Blanca the first time I met her, but it was certainly powerful enough to have made the old me before the beast horde, buckle my legs in fright.

However, now that I saw that it was not taking me seriously, a bigger smile appeared on my face as I walked closer and closer to the throne until finally.

"Rugh." The monster on the throne let out a gurgled grunt and pointed at me, making the two armors that I had believed to be display armors, move in synchronicity, stepping forwards, and drawing their blades.

Excitement shone within my eyes before a glint of greed overtook my senses.

'FINALLY! AT LAST... A weapon!' I almost cried out in joy.

The two armors didn't seem to care about what I was thinking as they immediately dashed forward at the same time as each other the moment I took another step.

Without a hint of hesitation, I released my unfiltered killing intent and caused the air in the room to shift. Little did I know that something much deeper was happening at that moment. Something that would eventually create one of the most powerful abilities in the universe...

The armors seemed to not flinch, as if they didn't have a soul and were only created to serve their master's will no matter what. Their master on the other hand had widened eyes and an almost agape mouth, but they seemed to have realized I was looking at them and quickly regained their composure after a few seconds of breathing in and out rhythmically.

*Swoosh*

*Woosh*

The blades slashed at me at the same time, yet while one seemed to aim to slice me in half horizontally, the other aimed to cut me in half vertically.

My killing intent once again exploded outwards with its full might and within the same second, I disappeared from both of their visions.

In the next second, one of the armored creatures felt something painful enter its body from behind, causing it to look back just to see that my arm had shot through its chest and had appeared on the other side of its body.

Before I could react, however, I felt a powerful attack come my way, one that I could not dodge in time, but one that I could certainly block.

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Activating life drain, I quickly absorbed the remaining life energy and soul core before pointing the body that I was holding towards the incoming attack, causing the attacked to cleave his friend's lower body away from his upper body in a single instant.

I did not waste any more time and quickly threw the body into the air, yet before I could shoot forward and kill the other armored create the same way I had killed its comrade, I felt an intense dread come my way and immediately dashed back.

*Swoosh*

*BOOM*

A spear tore through the air and appeared where I had stood just a few seconds ago before hitting the ground and kicking up a giant dust cloud in the process.

The shockwave made me brace myself even though I was almost 6 meters away, yet the fact that I had to brace myself at all made my blood pump quickly while a rush of adrenaline shot through my veins and energized every fight or flight muscle in my body.

As the dust cloud disappeared, my eyes landed upon a green-skinned man standing menacingly in the middle of a crater he had made with his own attack. Every cell in his body screamed with robust power, while explosive strength and battle intent left his body and made the air blow outwards with enough power to cause my hair to flutter back.

I felt like I was looking at a pinnacle predator. Something that would make the predators his prey, and someone who would stand at the top of the food chain.

It was the exact opponent I needed to become stronger!