Monster Integration

”Aleigari puzzle,” I whispered as I saw the changing runes; this is a very complicated puzzle of a thousand changes category. This means there are a thousand formations, and one will have to solve all of them to clear the puzzle.

Which would take months and some years; most of the rune specialists are not even capable of solving it.

There is one short way to solve it; it is to find the core formation of all thousand formations and solve it. Which is called the central key, and it is not easy to get.

The puzzle box I have found in the realm has this kind of puzzle; it had taken me quite a lot of time, more than I had to spend before I devised a personal way to solve these formations; still, it takes time.

”That old fox shouldn’t take long to solve this formation,” I said as I looked at only Mid level Grimm Grandmaster standing among the five powerful Grandmaster. It is from the silver-fur Foxman tribe and quite famous among the rune grandmasters.

Many formations created by this bastard have given us quite a pain; it has even killed many of us and is known to be very slippery.

Many of our peak Grandmasters have failed to kill it; it always survives through some strange methods. 

This bastard has the capability to solve the aleigari puzzle, and if that bastard had not been standing next to it, I would have asked Nero to kill it, but with it present, I would not take the risk.

The one I am worried about is Bullman called Dasfr; it is from the regular Bullman tribe but practiced the strange body art which gave it an impeccable defense that it had fought against the Grand Commander a few months ago and live to tell the tale. 

It is a high Grandmaster possessing great defensive but also offensive power; it is not a normal High Grandmaster, but someone coven sends when there is important business. It is said, the leader of a coven trusts it as much as the elders of its tribe. 

I looked through Nero’s eyes, and within a minute, I had a thousand variations of copied and transferred 60% of consciousness power to my avatar, which began to solve it.

This is a complex puzzle, an aleigari puzzle of thousand variations and much harder than the hundred variations and five hundred variations. Still, I am confident I could solve it despite the old Foxman having a lead of day over me.

I do not think my abilities are worse than the old fox, and I have three more times than it. I will beat the old Foxman; the only thing I have to do is reach there in time.

Even at my current speed, I would need at least forty more hours, which is a little more than one and half days. I wish I could go faster, but I could not, this is my fastest speed, and I am taking a huge risk by flying at such speed.

Hun!

I had just thought that when I sensed the danger, I looked toward it when I saw a flesh golem, and it was coming toward me. 

Normally, it is very hard to sense me when I am flying, but I am flying at my top speed. At this speed, I did not even care to activate my stealth ability, as it was just a waste of energy. With speed, I am flying; those with sufficiently high sensory abilities or good ears will hear me.

In just a few seconds, the flesh golem appeared close to me, and I was surprised to see it. It is from another race I have not read about before.

It is a small being, barely a meter tall, and is thin and has green skin; it also has only had a little wider mouth and sharp teeth that could tear through my bone. In its thin hand, it is a golden and needle-like sword.

To be honest, I really don’t want to fight against the peak fleshmancer; I would have been happy to fight against one before, considering they possess precious treasures, but now, I just want to get away.

I would have been able to get away or even kill it within a minute if it had been an initial or Mid Grandmaster class flesh golem, but this one Peak Grandmaster class golem, and seeing the speed it had came at me, I could forget about running away from it.

”Die!”

It shouted in high pitched voice when it had reached a hundred-meter distance from me and suddenly disappeared, only to appear behind me with its needle sword going straight for my head.

’Fuck!’ 

I couldn’t help but curse inside me, and the power of the ‘First Boost+ Second Boost’ boost had filled me, and I whipped my sword back toward the coming needle.

CLANG!

My sword was barely able to clash against it. If my speed had been a little bit slower or my fighting skill had been not at the current stage, the needle sword of this imp would have definitely nailed my head.

That was just a trailer of its power as it disappeared and appeared in front of me with its needle sword coming for my eyes.

’Shit!’ I cursed again and brought my sword in front of me; as it did, the changes began to appear in my sword. It started to become slimmer, and those who are observing it clearly would also sense its weight is also lessening.

Fighting such a fast, programmed enemy who uses such a thin weapon and fights in textbook style; A heavy longsword is not a viable weapon. I need something lighter and faster to match against its quickness and agility, only this way I will be able to survive against it long enough to kill it.