Chapter 274 - 268 : Fighting [Blood King Varg] 2

'[Inspect].'

[[ System interface :

Blood King [Varg] (Weakened Avatar's projection) (Elite)

Race : Demon-kin

Bloodline : ???

Level : 10

HP : 1567/2000

Physical Attack Power : 120 (+60)

Magical attack power : 30

Physical Defense : 30 (+25)

Magical Defense : 17 (+25)

Attack Speed : 34 (-5)

Movement Speed : 25 (-5)

Attributes

Strength : 30

Endurance : 30

Vitality : 200

Agility : 15

Dexterity : 13

Intelligence : 15

Willpower : 17

System Description : Attributes in () are equipment effects.

Skills :

Demon Bloodline : Passive Skill : Stronger regenerative abilities, endurance, health and greater attack power.

Mana Circulation : Passive Skill : 10% increase in defense against magic attacks.

Blood Aura : Passive Skill : Being a king of the battlefield, user exudes an aura of carnage and slaughter, drowning it's opponent in its bloodlust. When used to the fullest, a domain is formed.

Duration of domain : 1 minute.

Cool-down for domain use : 1 hour.

Blood Slash : Active Skill : Releases a slash that contains a bloody aura, which affects the mind, and destructive abilities, which affects the body. Attack power increased by 40%. If successfully blocked, the attack explodes upon contact with the object. Explosion wields 140% of User's attack power as force and contains a push-back effect.

Cool-down : 3 seconds.

Twister Slash : Active Skill : Slash out an attack that envelopes the target and form a whirlpool, trapping them within. Damage is received over time and damage value is at 120% of user's Attack power.

Cool-down : 5 seconds.

Blood Glare : Active Skill : One glance to send the target to a world of slaughter, carnage and torment. Basic damage calculated with Magical Attack Power as base. Damage dealt is dependent on difference between user's and target's [Willpower]. the greater the difference, the greater the damage.

Cool-down : 7 seconds.

Blood Wave : Active Skill : With user as centre, unleash a blood wave that spreads out to a radius of 10 metres with a push-back effect and hallucinatory effect. Attack power at 140% of Magical Attack Power.

Cool-down : 7 seconds.

]]

As Sato glanced at the stats, he was surprised by what he had seen. Unlike the usual attributes of most monsters, the Blood king's was different, if not special.

First was the fact that there were two new features in the results, one of which was its Race and the other its bloodline. The [Inspect] skill usually didn't display the race or bloodline of most monsters. This wasn't to say that they didn't have any but instead, the information was unusable and didn't count as basic by the system.

To put it in another way, the [Inspect] skill was a skill that could identify and quantify the strength of an opponent upon activation. In a way, this skill could be said to be a godly feature as knowing one's opponent would help one to win a battle so the System applied limitations to the skill. First was the fact that players would have to injure the target first before they could use the skill. Second was that only basic information would be revealed. Regarding this, bloodline and race weren't generally revealed and if one wanted to discover this, they would have to get the subclass, [Appraiser] that helped in identifying things and would increase the ability of the [Inspect] skill.

In summary, the [Inspect] skill only offered basic information about one's opponent in regards to a battle. So apart from battle-related attributes, skills, level, tier and monster name, nothing else was usually revealed. So, Sato was surprised to see the two information of Race and Bloodline in the skill's result.

What even caught his attention further was the fact that the Bloodline section only contained question marks. This meant that even with the [Inspect] skill, Sato couldn't see through it. For him to do so, he either had to get the [Appraiser] subclass and boost his [Inspect] skill or find a similar but high level skill. However,none of these options were available at the minute.

Another thing that surprised Sato was the fact that the Blood king possessed equipment that could boost its ability. This was really shocking as this was the first ever monster Sato had encountered to have such.

While it was true that other monsters did indeed possess weapons and equipment, for example the kobolds, those weapons and equipment couldn't make it to the official classification of weapons and equipment. In other words, they were failed goods in the eyes of blacksmiths. Those were usually products of metal-smiths and they barely made it to the low tier Mortal rank, which a majority of the works being Common.

Common rank weapons and equipment was an unofficial rank given to weapons or equipment that couldn't make it to the Low tier Mortal rank. Stuffs like average kitchen knives, a farmer's rake and so on where counted as Common. They couldn't directly increase one's attributes and only maintained their basic features. For instance, while a regular kitchen knife couldn't boost one's stats, it still possessed the ability to slash and cut, and so, could still cause damage.

Most monsters so far, used Common rank weapons. This was why Sato was surprised at the fact that the Blood king wielded a true blue Mortal rank equipment.

'And looking at the boost in attributes, it should be a Mid tier Mortal rank at the least or even an Upper tier.'

"Roar!!!"

Varg gripped its sword as it glanced at the retreating figure.

With a step, it propelled its body forward, chasing after Sato with the buster sword still held in its hands. Interestingly enough,its speed seemed to be similar to Sato.

'No. It's a bit faster.' Sato frowned.

Luckily though, he had retreated just before the Blood king could make its move so there was still some distance between them.

"Die!" Varg suddenly roared, its voice like the proclamation of a demon from the depths of hell.

'It can talk?!'

Sato was shocked but wasn't overly surprised. Most of the boss monsters he had faced so far all seemed to have the capability to engage in a conversation with players.

Just as it spoke, the Blood king slashed its 5 metres long sword at Sato. As it did so, a red gleam formed on the sword which eventually separated from it and arced its way towards Sato.

It looked a lot like Sato's [Astral Blade] and was roughly as fast as it too, the difference being that the attack's length was much longer and it also contained a ferocious bloody aura that reeked of death and destruction.

[Blood Slash]

'Shit.'

Glancing behind him, Sato saw the speeding red beam filled with killing intent, rushing towards him. A second hadn't gone by and the beam was just a few metres away from Sato. With the length and speed of the attack, unless Sato had a teleportation spell or skill, dodging it was impossible.

'[Parry]!'

Sato swung his sword at the beam, intent on blocking it with his sword.

*Boom*

-32 (118/150 Sato's HP)

The red arc exploded upon contact and force behind the explosion passed through Sato's armour not only injuring him but also tossing him into the air.

*Thud*

-3 (115/150 Sato's HP)

Sato sucked in cold air as he tried to withstand the pain from the hard fall. Luckily, his body's defense was strong so he didn't lose much HP from that. The same also went for the explosion. Since it had to go through the armour, the damage of the force was much weaker than it was supposed to be so.

'Just some spillage caused this much damage even with my armour.' Sato frowned.

The attack just then, wielded the force of both the Blood king's Physical and Magical Attack power. As a result, despite the explosion containing only 60% of this, the damage wasn't something that average players could handle so easily. Even with the combined effects of Sato's Physical and Magical defense adding up to contend against the explosion, he still lost a sizeable amount of HP.

One should recall that this was with Sato having blocked the attack. If it were a direct hit, even with the armour, the damage would have been on another level.

'Too strong.'

Sato believed that if he were to pick between facing the Kobold chief once again or the Blood king, he would undoubtedly choose the former. He even had this feeling that if the two were to go head-to-head, the Blood king would run over the Kobold chief.

Maybe it was his imagination or something else but Sato felt that most monsters in here were much stronger than their main world counterparts. He suspected that it had to do with the fact that this world was possibly different from the one 'outside'.

Sato referred to the world where all the other players were as the outside world because he ever since he stepped into the [Bloodfall Lands], Sato felt that he had entered a whole new world. Starting from the just before the Entry trials begun at Versuchsgründe till here at [The Labyrinth of Helios], Sato had this instinctual feeling that all these locations were not part of the world 'outside'. And actually, there was a bit of sense to it. Versuchsgründe, according to Saimon, was created by Lord Worrus; a being who wielded the power of space better than any mortal and only beneath the gods. For such a legendary individual, making a separate realm that was independent of the main universe shouldn't be impossible. Even if it was, cutting a piece of land and separating it from the main universe would be.

'I need to find a way to take it down fast.'

Even after Sato had landed hard on the floor, he didn't remain lying. He had picked himself up a while ago and began running once more.

In other for Sato to win, he had to avoid close combat with the Blood king and try and whittle down his HP. But as a close combatant, if he couldn't get within reach of the Blood king, it would be extremely difficult if nor impossible for him to cause any damage. But Sato had already made plans.

'Almost there..' Sato's eyes glinted with mischief.