CHAPTER 94: SWEAR FEALTY

"Looks like it works fairly well..." seeing that the massive flora on top of the Island Orca’s body is starting to collapse as if the air around them is compressing them into a small sphere, Azrael smiles as he realizes that despite coexisting, there’s no way for the giant monster to reign over the things living on its back, hence why the purging that is happening right now.

As much as the Island Orca wants to remove these plants damaging it in an instant, it needs to be careful with how it uses its power especially since some of the floras are already attached to its back, and one wrong move will make it so that even its own flesh will be torn apart by its attack and compressed into a spherical amalgamation of everything that was caught in the radius of said attack.

This also gives the young man an opportunity to take a breather as he starts thinking of ways to deal with the Island Orca now, feeling like he shouldn’t rely on the luck of those two previous skills fusing, fearing that his lucky streak might end in an unexpected moment, and he just couldn’t allow that unexpected moment to be now.

’Given how hard it is to search for this bastard previously, it will be even harder now if I or it escape...’ Azrael thought to himself, knowing that this is the only chance for him to subjugate this monster and complete the main quest of the second floor, or else, he might really spend months, if not years searching for this monster once again.

’This looks like a good option... partnered with this...’ looking at his arsenal of active and passive skills trying to think of the best combinations that he can use to deal damage against the Island Orca, Azrael’s eyes land on one active and one passive skill, hoping that this can introduce a change and possibly weaken the boss monster somehow.

[Poison-Absorbing Blood (Passive)]

[Grants the skill owner the ability to constantly absorb poison that comes into contact with their body, refining it into the blood and absorbing the poison’s property. The property doesn’t affect the skill owner; however, their blood will contain all the properties of all the poisons they absorbed.]

[Effects: Absorb the traits of all the poison that will ever come into contact with the skill owner’s body into their blood, turning their blood into a highly dangerous weapon if this passive skill is developed properly.]

’Good thing I have the Absolute Poison Immunity as well, if not, how could I even improve this skill?’ as he recalls the past weeks of exploration on the path to the ocean, to the Island Orca, Azrael remembers just how much poisonous flora and fauna he had consumed just to increase the level of toxicity of his blood, a weapon that he still hopes to work against this boss monster despite the fact that it never worked on the four Epic-class monsters that he faced before fighting against the guardian of this floor.

Slashing the night black sword on his hand and creating a large gash that oozes his blood constantly from it, Azrael smiles as he just let it happen, the improvement of his control over his Absolute Regeneration ability being shown as the wound refuses to close up even after moments passed already, and yet despite that, he is still going strong and not showing any signs of dizziness from the blood loss, as his body is still consistently producing blood to maintain proper function.

[Transmutation (Active)]

[Directly interferes with a target’s molecular structure so that the skill caster can turn the target into different kinds of things, changing the physical and even chemical makeup of the target as long as the skill caster has enough mastery. However, this can only be done in one of the two scenarios, either the target is willing to be transmutated by the skill caster, or they are far weaker to resist the transmutation.]

After letting himself bleed for some long while, he waves one of his hands, changing the composition of the blood as it turns into throwing spears all aimed towards the Island Orca once again, the smile on his face apparent as he starts showing more and more of the results of his travels, along with his training on how to use the skills and techniques in his arsenal more effectively.

"Human... blood... your blood is dangerous... but how can it even reach this great one from such distance?"

Snapping out of his battle trance as he heard a loud, deep voice coming from down below him, Azrael felt a bit surprised as it dawns on his mind that this monster just spoke, just like each and every single Epic-class monster that he had encountered, it seemingly possesses sentience as well.

"Surrender... swear fealty to this great one and live within the islands... this great one will... grant you riches and power that no mere human can dream of..."

The Island Orca tempted as it continues to swim around, finally getting rid of all the trees and plants attacking its back, and yet still refusing to land another attack on the young man, as if it is truly offering its previous opponent with a way out.

"Hahaha... ridiculous..." intending to speak once again, the massive monster was cut short as Azrael’s laughter starts resounding all across the now tempestuous ocean, said laughter baffling the Island Orca as it begins to wonder what is it that made the young man act like so, its curiosity being sated as it heard the young man’s next words.

"You’re just a failed monster who can’t survive in the world meant for it; a failed product let’s say... I wouldn’t even consider taking you in as a subordinate, what makes you think that your worthy of having me serve you?"

With an entertained look yet a clearly serious tone to his voice, Azrael replies as he points his sword towards the monster before he continues.

"Don’t worry about how I will use these things to attack you, worry about how you will avoid it"

And with that, another wave of crimson flashes of light starts descending down from the skies.