The First Legendary Beast Master -
Chapter 1317: Harvesting Frogs
Karl didn’t have time to follow up on the situation, as the two heavily wounded Cephalopods opened another portal, and called for reinforcements.
What they got was their seven armed and irate Immortal Ranked boss.
{Welcome back. I am going to eat you this time. Deep-fried for sure.} Karl greeted Oobleck.
{You stole my slaves.} The Immortal raged.
{You weren’t even using them, so I’m not paying damages. Aren’t they cute? I taught them to fight, and now they’re harvesting frogs for me.}
The creature turned an enraged purple, and Karl laughed as Kenichi and the other drake riders carefully backed away.
The Monster Man was insane, taunting an Immortal.
But When Karl lashed out with Immortal Ranked [Dark Fire] the three octopus creatures howled in pain, and immediately tried to flee from the charging dragon.
Karl didn’t go straight for the Immortal, he banked at the last second and drove all four sets of claws into the most wounded, then fired [Void Blast] at it from the inside.
Black lines spread down all the creature’s tentacles as its nervous system disintegrated, and it fell limp in Karl’s embrace.
{That’s one more down. Better think fast, or I’ll be finished before you fight back.}
Karl tossed the body into his mouth, then transferred it into Cara’s space so that it looked like he swallowed the creature whole.
A barrage of water element blasts shattered Karl’s scales, sending flakes of gold and splatters of black blood everywhere. The wounds began to heal instantly, but the barrage continued as Karl raced through the sky toward the Immortal.
The remaining Mythic Octopus saw that as its opportunity, but it hadn’t realized that Karl was not the only threat.
From above, Hawk dive bombed the target, using [Rend] as an impact shield, before tearing into it with flaming claws in his full Dark Flame Phoenix glory.
{Damn you, Dragon. How did you get the Phoenix Clan on your side?} Oobleck raged.
{We’re old friends. Known him all his life. Are you going to run away again? Maybe go tell your mommy that the mean dragon is picking on you?}
Karl saw the octopus look toward an open portal, and quickly [Nullified] it, closing the most direct route back home for the Immortal.
{Oh, we can’t make it that easy for you. I’m on to your tricks, cowardly octopus.}
Karl lashed out with an Immortal Rank [Void Blast] as a bubble of water formed around him, then continued his barrage of Dark Fire.
[Rampage] was cutting down on the benefits of Oobleck’s damage reduction, and Karl saw the moment that the Octopus realized what was going on.
{Oh, you’re a smart one, aren’t you? Yes. The more that my friends kill, the more damage you take. Brilliant, isn’t it? But you can’t touch them until you finish with me.}
From not far away, where Kenichi was helping Hawk tear apart the Mythic octopus, the Drake Rider’s Guild Messages were going insane.
[Why is the dragon taunting the Immortal?]
[That’s beyond psychological warfare.]
[If he starts to lose, we need to be ready to open portals and flee.]
Kenichi smiled at the horrified messages. [Relax, trash talk is part of his combat strategy. If it’s focused on him, he doesn’t need to burn energy stopping it from bombarding us. If it only held him off and focused on us, it would destroy the city in minutes.]
It really wasn’t all that deep. Karl had just inherited Cara’s love of trolling her enemies. The look of absolute rage on Oobleck’s skin was worth the extra effort it took to hurl insults.
Unfortunately, as Karl was going all in on offence, using Immortal Rank attack skills, his barriers shattered with every hit, and there was nearly as much dragon blood as octopus blood raining down on the Dragon Riders’ homeland.
{You can’t keep this up forever, dragon.}
{Oh? I really can. I am eternal, I will never tire. I will never sleep. Today is your doom.}
Rae mentally cheered for Karl. He was finally learning the proper application of a dramatic speech. And, he didn’t stop fighting to monologue.
A for effort.
[I have defeated the Dark Elven Kings three battles in a row. Do you have faster killers?] Rae taunted Karl, wondering if he was holding back on her.
Karl smirked, and swapped the Dark Elven Kings for a pair of Oathbreaker demons. The Epic Grade Obsession Demons dealt area damage with every strike, and they were insanely fast, with Shadow Step as part of their basic skills.
Perfectly suited to a battle of this nature.
The frogs began to explode from the secondary damage all around the Demons, which made the recruits scream in horror until they realized that these new Demons were also on their team.
Dana sighed as she realized what Karl had done, but continued to give orders and combat hints to keep the group alive and fighting.
She didn’t know where Karl had managed to find dozens of completely clueless Myths, or if he had some sort of mind control ability that made them forget
how to fight. But they definitely needed a babysitter.
The battle between Karl and Oobleck had turned into an epic slugfest, with the two mighty combatants completely giving up on tactics and simply hurling attacks at each other as fast as they could channel mana.
It was a brilliant learning experience for Karl, as the Immortal had far superior mana control to him, despite his own progression on the Fundamental Rule of
Mana Manipulation.
So far, he had mostly learned the different ways that it could be used to create effects, but today Karl was learning how to more efficiently use mana in combat, and how to form skills faster, with less wasted energy.
Oobleck knew that there was something very wrong with this fight.
Even with the Mana Pylon active, the World Dragon should not have this much
mana. It was as if he was drawing on an inexhaustible well, and his body was
barely fluctuating with the energy usage.
But what he couldn’t know was that it was the effect of the [Amulet of Destruction] that was upgrading the skill to Immortal Rank, so Karl was only actually activating Mythic attacks, which cost much less mana.
{Skill Master Activation} [Void Blast] → [Chaos Blast]
[Chaos Blast] Immortal Rank, Epic Grade skill. The Fundamental Rule of Chaos
destabilizes a region in space.
Karl smirked at the frustrated Cephalopod as Cara went insane in his mind, celebrating the activation of a new and improved skill that she could use.
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