Chapter 327 An Immortal Foe
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As everybody fought and I supported them from afar, I’ve been analyzing the entire room by myself, every little thing gave me some clues about the origin of this Flesh Dragon’s powers, and how it could be virtually immortal. The flesh spreading through the entire room was too much, and due to its insane regeneration speed, even setting it all ablaze would not work because it would simply keep regenerating and use magic to turn off the fire eventually. I could shot a Chaotic Dark Meteor, but I am not even sure if it will properly kill the Flesh Dragon either. It had withstood the power of Partner and Lucifer together after all.
However, as I analyzed things and saw through what I couldn’t discern, the System began to aid me. It quickly started to tell me more details about things within the Flesh Dragon and the Dungeon. It seemed that there was a high concentration of energy overflowing from the dungeon itself, below the floor itself there was a large quantity of miasma and mana flowing strongly, like rivers that separated and flew across the walls, ceiling, and floor constantly. Was this the Dungeon Core? It is being protected by dungeon walls that cannot be destroyed by anything we have in our arsenal, so targeting it directly seems impossible.
However, the Flesh Dragon… it really feels like it is being controlled by the Dungeon Core. I continued analyzing it, until I realized the Flesh Dragon was not a normal monster, it was something akin to the Dungeon’s Core Avatar, a monster that was being controlled by the dungeon core, a body that it could use to move around and even outside. Is the Dungeon Core planning to use it to conquer the outside world and explore it? Well, that’s cute, but he’s getting in my way, so I’ll have to deal with him and find a way to ruin his dreams.
- [Now that you’ve grown strong enough, it could be possible to trespass even impenetrable walls such as those of the dungeon, however, the consumption of Mana will be incredibly large. Your ability to Drain Mana has been enhanced each time you evolved, increasing its draining speed and also range. At this stage, by sacrificing System Points, it might be possible to enhance its capabilities to allow you to drain the Mana of the Dungeon itself, alongside its Miasma. This way you can weaken the Dungeon Core and also delve deep underground to deal with it. Breaking it would destroy the dungeon, so I recommend using other method.]
What! So that’s a thing now? How many System Points do I have right now? It is kind of a pain that they don’t show in the Status Page.
[You currently have 73000 System Points after the absorption and conversion of EXP and Skill Proficiency of the latest fight against the Lizards and the Basilisk Boss. The more points you use, the better.]
Isn’t there a new Skill I could get instead to do this?!
[None of them would prove to be exactly useful.]
Ugh.
Well, I had already figured out how the Flesh Dragon worked before the System told me. I am an independent Ghost Woman after all, I don’t need the help of any [Sage] or whatever, that’s for the Slime dude. …However, the System was very helpful nonetheless, I just hate depending on it too much, even though he’s already quite the character, and without him I wouldn’t be as strong as I am. I suppose it is a supporting character I cannot really continue to ignore. There had been many times when he had offered me ways to resolve problems but I resolved them on my own way.
But right now, quite honestly, I am out of options. I will have to obey his words for now and do as he says, as he’s literally a living computer so he can calculate probabilities and all of that. I suppose we’ll go the hard way for now! However, I need to distract the Flesh Dragon. For that, I quickly decided to call Lucifer and the rest, and told them all to go all out against the Flesh Dragon without holding back.
“You guys trust me right? Go all out with everything you’ve got, keep the Flesh Dragon down and if he recovers, crush it again! Don’t think about saving energy, I got a way to get his true body, but I need you guys to hold him tight!” I said, as Lucifer, Emeraldine, Partner, Pyro, and Mercury quickly seemed to understand and all nodded.
“Then we’ll do everything we can!” Said Lucifer.
Lucifer roared loudly and fiercely, as he unleashed a Phantom Breath against the Flesh Dragon, leaving an enormous wound that quickly attempted to recover from the destructive damage. However, Partner came rushing behind.
“I’ll always trust you, Master!” Said Partner, without even doubting for a second.
She swung her two spears masterfully, as her Aura of Blood began to unleash its terrifying vampiric prowess, many illusory roses and thorn vines emerged from her spear attacks, as they began to entangle the Flesh Dragon, stopping it from regenerating as a rain of piercing spear attacks started to tear apart its flesh.
“Alright! Pyro, are you ready?” Asked Emeraldine, as the bright light and the power of her two Spirits gathered within her Yggdrasil Arrow, which she was pointing at the Flesh Dragon using her new Lightning Slime Bow.
“Gryshiiii!” Pyro roared. The large blazing spider readied his most fiery Hellfire, unleashing a spiraling and burning storm of flames together with Emeraldine’s bow.
“Hellfire Lightning Nova!”
Emeraldine and Pyro suddenly combined their powers and created a brand-new technique, as both the flames of Pyro and the lightning of Emeraldine’s bows merged together into an enormous explosion of destructive elements. All of this quickly combined itself with Emeraldine’s light, exploding into a super nova-like explosion that engulfed the entire Flesh Dragon!
BOOOOOOMMM!!!
Meanwhile, Mercury was holding the tentacles all by himself, and the Flesh Dragon quickly started to tear apart and fall into the ground. Thanks to this, it received so much damage that it was taking a while to regenerate.
This was my time to shine!
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