CHAPTER 85: FIGHTING AN EPIC-CLASS MONSTER

"Tsk tsk tsk, now you think you can run away huh? Too bad for you I guess" seeing the White Tiger escaping away from their fight without even a single bit of hesitation, Azrael mutters to himself as he feels all the more annoyed, after all, even with all the increase in his current stats, he is still significantly pales in comparison to the speed of this monster.

"No other way about it then huh... I thought I didn’t need to use it, but, oh well, it is what it is..." he said as he thought that he is saying these words more and more these days, pushing away these mundane thoughts as he focuses on hunting the prey at hand.

While it is true that he pales in comparison to this monster’s speed especially since this is an Epic-class Monster, monsters who had clearly broken through the limits of the floor they are in, just like him, it’s not like he is not capable of catching up to it, as what he lacks in terms of stats, he can compensate with either skills or technique.

And what he just picked might be the best option to him right now, allowing him to explosively increase his dash as well as allow him to practically ignore the sometimes-changing level of this plane, as instead of running on the ground, he is dashing through the air.

[Endless Path Movement Art (A-Grade Technique)]

[Use the entire surroundings, no matter how complicated it is to one’s own advantage, create a path where there’s none, remove the path that once was, use the technique to dominate the flow of the battle and tilt it to one’s favor.]

[Effects: Grants the ability to improve control over the body, particularly the lower body to improve a practitioner’s footwork. Drastically improves explosive speed when using this technique.]

[Mastery: Intermediate-level (Allows the practitioner to walk on any surface with ease, except for air. Allows the user to generate a platform in the air made with Immortal Energy; this method consumes Immortal Energy ten times the normal consumption when creating a single platform.]

[Requirement/s to reach the next level of mastery: Step into the air by condensing Immortal Energy platform five hundred times (274/500)]

[Consumption: 5 Immortal Energy per minute]

[Note: The rate of consumption will decrease with the increase of the technique’s mastery.]

Looking at the reason why he is capable of such feat, as well as checking on how long before the mastery of this technique increases once again, Azrael thought that he should be able to reach the next mastery level by the end of this long trip that he is currently in, which is, based on his current progress, is still nowhere near completion.

[Immortal Energy: 10,250/10,800]

As he takes more and more steps in the air, he can notice his Immortal Energy consistently decreasing as time goes by, but fortunately for him, his reserves already increase far more than what he initially had when he first acquired such wondrous energy.

’Tsk, I never thought about it, but of course, there would be a limit imposed by the tower for the Immortal Energy as well... I should’ve been smart and thought about it, maybe I could’ve increased it even more if I asked Miss Qingyue beforehand’ he thought to himself as despite his overwhelming amount of Immortal Energy, it will still be expended quite quickly given the rate of consumption these platforms are using.

If it were to be completely expended though, it would be any other time but now as finally, he is already on the tail of the White Tiger, which is currently shocked as it watches the bipedal creature soar through the air without wings or anything that might keep him afloat.

Before it can even try to increase its speed more, it was shocked once again as the bipedal creature disappears from its sight, only for it to realize that it was completely deceived as it felt a sharp sensation plunging into its own neck, forcing it to struggle as much as it can to get away.

And get away it did as the sword in its enemy’s hand suddenly phased through its body, not only was the sword that phased through but even its owner as well, the young man wielding the jet-black sword feeling like he is about to get hit by something, but he just doesn’t expect that this monster will hit him with his body.

And in the weirdest way at that, as while he is phasing through the body of this monster, it returns into a completely solid state once again, his upper torso, still within what is supposed to be the insides of this White Tiger, is completely crushed as he was sandwiched between its organs and bones, as well as its tough hide.

Seeing that there’s only three limbs, to be exact two legs and the forearm and hand wielding the sword plopping into the ground, the White Tiger roars proudly once again as it allows the squashed flesh to phase through its body once again, plopping along with the rest of the remains being meat paste, powdered bones and a pool of still warm blood.

Looking at the bipedal creature who was trying to hunt it previously, the White Tiger lets out a mix of a victorious and mocking tone, stepping on the blood pool repeatedly as if to vent its anger before it roars on it, the powerful voice not only scattering, but completely obliterating the remains all across the place as it kept the thing it found the most interesting as a bounty, the forearm and hand wielding the jet black sword.

As it picks the hands off the ground, it couldn’t help but jump away like a scared little cat as it felt the hand move once more, but seeing that it was just twitching and nothing more, it picked it up once again while revealing a prideful face like it wasn’t just got scared off by a ’corpse’.