"Don't you dare harm her," Will screamed as he dived towards the tentacles heading her way. His sword moved rapidly cutting down the tentacles.
Keeping his sword back in his sheath, he spread his palms. Energy began to gather round his hands and was emitting a fiery glow.
"Flame wave!" He exclaimed as surge of flames burst forth from his hands spreading wide. The feiry flames devoured the tentacles and had hurt the beast. Its once damaged face began to heal once more.
"Are you alright? You look exhausted, I'll take I from here... you don't have to worry anymore." With a pat, he readied his blade as the tentacles had sprouted once more.
Will had been heading towards their meeting point when he heard a large explosion not far from his area. Activating his [ Ehnanced senses] skill he had been able to see the large phoenix bird with flames erupting from afar.
He wasn't so sure if it was her but the phoenix bird he saw had driven all thought out. He ran across the expanse with his [ Dash ] skill activated and was right in time in cutting down the tentacles from tearing her limbs off.
Still have some seconds left before the [ Dash skill ] deactivate.
"Cutting his tentacles won't kill it, you have to aim for the head and with an attack strong enough to kill it." Belle voiced out with concern.
"Don't worry.I've grown stronger... This is just a walk in the park.' He stood confidently his hand on the hilt of his blade. Slowly he drew in short breaths with his eyes closed. :Here it comes!" In a swift movement he did a quick draw slashing at the incoming tentacles.
A large crescent strike made from the mixture of the energies within him sped forward.
[ Heaven defying technique: Fourth form: Crimson crescent strike ]
He had successfully used the last form of the the beginner level of the heaven-defying manual. The energy contained his fire and qi with the edge coated in wind making it more sharp and deadly. This was the combination of the energies within him.
The attack passed through with tentacles falling on the ground. The beast had burrowed its head down to the ground quickly evading the attack. The attack continued onward before disappearing.
"Tsk. An intelligent beast... one that's extremely cunning." The tentacles had began to regrow once more with its head no where to be found.
"It's getting low on energy, the healing of its limbs aren't as fast as before. I'll take care of the tentacles, go on and search for the main body." Belle said getting off the ground, her whips materialized in her fully healed hands.
"Are you sure you'll be fine?" Will asked standing close to her.
"I'll be fine alright, just find the head quickly and kill the fucking beast."
"Alright." Will charged forward cutting down the tentacles, looking round he couldn't find the head. "I'll just have to do it the wild way." His eyes landed on were the tentacles was much and he charged forward.
"Second form of the heaven-defying technique! Raging force!" He leaped towards the sky spinning his body. His sword was covered in qi spreading towards his body. He swung it down fully sending a wave of energy towards the tentacles.
A large explosion occurred as the earth trembled from the attack. The ground shattered as rocks shot up along with wriggling tentacles towards the sky.
"Found you!" With flames erupting from his feet he shot forward and with a swing of his blade he cut down the tentacles trying to protect it and finally he thrust his sword stabbing its mouth.
"Ignite!" The sword shot out a beam of flame blowing up its head.
Ding!
[ You've defeated a low-stage magical tier beast ]
[ First time defeating an octoslime 2500exp ]
"Belle!" He rushed towards her side only to find her cleaning her body from bits of flesh stuck onto her. "This place is dangerous we can't stay here for long."
'For some certain reasons the beasts didn't use its skill and didn't move from that spot making us able to kill it and it wasn't easy.'
"We are still not strong enough to battle a beast on that level of our own."
"Hey! Will, come over here." Belle stood before the beast destroyed head staring at the destroyed ground. Will soon got there and he could finally see what she was looking at.
"A metal door?" The metal had dented a little from his strike but with little effort tore through it.
"Crystals! No, these are energy crystals... a large amount of them. Help me move the body." They both lifted the body farther away revealing the metal door fully.
'Judging by the various colours of these set of crystals, these ones might be ability shard,' Will thought after tearing through the center revealing another set of glittering crystals.
The ground soon began to rumble and it seemed the battle and the beast body had attracted a group of beasts.
"Cmon, let's go." Will quickly stored a bunch of crystals in his spatial ring along with Belle and they ran towards to the opposite direction.
"Although this is a long route, its best we play it safe and meet up with Dren.' They both ran nonstop evading beasts and only engaging with those they were sure to defeat without wasting time.
While running Will had opened his system and was currently going through. I'm almost close to levelling up once again.
[ [ Level 10 ]
[ 26,612/32,000 exp ]
[ Energy: 635/1200 ]
[ Hp: 121/150 ]
[ Strength: 21(25) ]
[ Agility: 24(29) ]
[ Endurance: 23 ]
[ Defense: +150 ]
His stats had increased due the added stats from his beast weapons, and he could feel it... he was stronger than before.
Finally they were close and could see some group of people gathered around the dense foliage of trees and shrubs marked as their meeting point.
Will's eyes scanned through the number of people and finally he spotted the messy mass of purple hair falling over Dren's eye.
"There, Dren is among them," Will said increasing his speed and finally they had reached there.
"Will! Belle! I'm glad you guys made it. Let me introduce you to these guys," he directed them to the leader of the small group.
'Why are these people here,' Will thought with a frown.
"I'm Garrick," the guy stretched forth his hand for an handshake. Looking at his hand he finally held onto his hand in a firm grip.
"I'm Will... Will Sonoma. Thanks for keeping him safe," he said. "C'mon, Dren let's go."
"Huh? Wait," Garrick called out to him. "You see, I had offered Dren a chance of joining us but he decided to wait for you guys first... so do you guys mind joining us?" he asked with a smile.
"No, we're good by ourselves," Will replied, turning back. Suddenly, he halted. 'Forming a large group has its benefits, but it restricts my freedom of movement.'
"Why not give it a shot?" Belle suggested, nudging him. "We don't have to comply with everything he says. We can negotiate or make a deal. They seem eager for us to join."
"Alright," he backtracked and faced Garrick again. "Before we agree to join, we have a proposal."