The Arcadia System

'You got to be kidding me,' thought Reve.

He wondered for a second if he was just imagining things.

However, the information he got from the second look at the magical creature remained the same.

[Terror Lizard(Lv.44)]

Yeah, he wasn't imagining things!

The lizard was terrifyingly horrendous. With glowing red scales and bone spikes on all parts of it's body. It's claws boasting feats of tearing apart trees.

On the edge of its long tail were multiple bone spikes that formed around it like a ball. Reve decided to never get it by the tail.

As he stood grounded firmly on the earth, Reve's instinct shouted at him to run. To run far away, never turn back, just keep on running till his body fails him.

However, Reve's mind was preoccupied. His line of sight could be traced to the eyes of the lizard.

They seemed strange and peculiar. Occasionally, they would twinkle and be overflowed with colour, a gesture he was familiar with.

The eyes were curious….thrilled to see something strange. Perhaps, as strange as it is.

It didn't resemble the eyes of a beast that lived it's life killing.

No. No. No. It was the eyes of a king interested in one of it's subjects.

Realizing this, Reve couldn't help but chuckle.

Since when was his godly self reduced to a lowly subject?

*Ptui!*

The lizard opened his mouth and promptly released a blast of fire that scorched the earth.

Reve was lucky to have sensed it before it got to him.

He distanced himself from the lizard as his thoughts went rampant.

"What is this?" muttered Reve with such thick intensity.

As soon as he activated his [Magic Eyes], he saw an incomprehensible sight.

The beast….the lizard was overflowing with violent energy that wasn't like mana. He could tell that just from the nature of the energy.

The blast of fire he sent at Reve was also powered by this strange energy.

However, what stunned Reve was the lizard's abundance of energy. It filled him up like a balloon while some circulated outside due to the lizard not being able to contain everything.

Worst of all, there was a red glow that spread outwards like a mother's embrace. This was what terrified Reve.

The moment he caught sight of it, it was like voices began whispering into his ear. They told him of all the savage acts the beast had committed.

Without a doubt, this was Mr.Killer, the infamous killer of the forest. The one Reve vowed to never encounter!

He didn't need confirmation. He was sure.

Every tiny detail pointed at the obvious!

...…..

*Boom!* *Booom!*

The lizard kept throwing around concentrated fire blasts. It seemed he wasn't taking the fight seriously as he didn't move an inch from his spot.

All the while, Reve ran frantically, dodging with his fastest speed.

He was burning himself out. Every fire blasts aimed at him was potentially the one that was going to kill him.

All of a sudden, he took in a sharp breath of air, "I got it. He is an Auras. He is manipulating aura and ki. This is---"

His thoughts cut short when he felt another fireblast coming at him.

This time, he reacted with an Ice Bullet which offset the attack.

Reve took advantage of the reaction between the two opposite, the steamy mist, and distanced himself further.

His goal was to escape. Hence, he walked down the river path.

While he was thinking wildly, Reve's senses tingled and he ducked without much thought.

A huge fire burned the tree in front of him as he served hard to the right.

His realization about the lizard's path was of no use to him. He hadn't reached the level where he could counteract the attacks of Auras.

Right now, he had to focus on the pure level dominance that suffocated him.

*Ding!*

A sharp and loud sound covered his ears as he found himself soon surrounded by what he thought to be an army of flaming lizards.

He activated his magic eyes and understood what was going on, "These are clones made from fire. They still pose a threat. But this also means the real body of the lizard is close by."

Instantly, Reve expanded his senses and fired an ice bullet behind him.

*Bang!*

He then looked back with a smile to see the real lizard.

However, his smile didn't last long as he noticed that his attack didn't do anything to the lizard.

Nothing. Not even a scratch. The scales of the lizard appeared to only have intensified colour-wise.

"Is this [Magic Resistance]?" Reve deciphered.

He knew of some scaly creatures that possessed this abnormal skill but none of them were as bizarre as the creature in front of him.

It's eyes patiently stared back at Reve showing he still looked down on the cat.

Yet, Reve wasn't upset. He was thinking of how to use that to his advantage.

He parried another fire blast with his ice bullets and moved back an inch.

However, he stopped when his lenses picked up on the lizard clones that were behind him.

"So, this is what it wants?" sighed Reve.

With the clones patiently waiting to receive Reve, the real lizard would push Reve into the net.

That was probably why he wasn't as aggressive as it could be. It wasn't willing to break it's newfound toy!

This was getting scarier....

To confirm Reve's suspicion, the lizard opened its mouth and released a large fire blast that Reve could block.

It chased him all the way back to the center of the clones which stayed in a strange formation.

Reve could have sworn he saw a smirk on the lizard's face when he entered the foreseen trap.

"Patience….observe for openings..."

Front, left, back, right. They could be considered openings but he would have to pay a considerable amount to actually escape.

"Damn! Think.....think....think!"

The pressure piled up on Reve as he saw the clones becoming hotter. They burned red in an instant and we're about to do something nasty.

Reve gave up on thinking and prepared multiple ice bullets for them. It was better to cut them short before their attack.

*Boom!* *Boom!* *Boom!* *Boom!*

As it turned out, Reve's interference only pushed the clone's attack further.

They quickly released lines of flames that connected with each clone. The clones were the pillars of this enclosed space!

Reve could sense lines of fire extend towards him from each pillar. 

It formed a pattern that was clearly bad, which urged Reve to escape.

Against the hot temperature of the enclosed space, Reve finally sighed, "At the end of the day, I still resort to it."