Kaijin Fighter: So I Have to Make Monsters, So What? – Chapter 494

=Uh huh…=

<...alright, what's up with you?,> Pathos finally asked their logical counterpart,

=Yeah…,=Logos began to answer, =I was just checking the records we had on the guy…did you know that the lord who created him also infused the kaijin with a touch of Dragon Essence? More specifically, a Furious Thunderscale Dragon?=

=Try about a thousand times more unstable. I was trying to figure out how the heck a kaijin lost to a Ravager Otter of all things. Those little bastards may be vicious, but need I remind you that the average kaijin we have tended ranged from finding it funny to jump into active volcanoes to spitting demon gods in the face? I thought something about that particular death record was weird and I was right. That Ravager Otter had help in the form of an enemy on the inside.=

=Not the point, Pathos. What I’m trying to point out is that we made an error in regards to Thundermaw’s death.=

=Dragon Essence can be transferred host to host via consuming the owner’s blood, and it tends to be a bit more potent if the owner and the receiver both have some level of dragon blood inside them.=

<...oh fuck.>

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“Alright, Tiny. Go have fun!”

“Grunt!”

As soon as Zhen Liu undid the last harness, Tiny shot off like a bolt in the direction of the impetuous Geyser Hippo that got her and her friends in this increasingly dangerous situation in the first place. As she ran off, Zhen Liu, Jin Fang and Rianna made sure to hop onto a nearby raft before there was a possibility of them accidentally falling into the water.

Tiny didn’t really care for most of the carvaners and Zhen Clan members, but she liked Zhen Liu, his girlfriend(s?), and his grandfather, and knew they would get sad if the other people died. As such, it made a conscious effort to go after the other hippo and punish it in a way that didn’t damage the surrounding area.

Or at the very least, wouldn’t bring anymore unnecessary damage to any of the squishier people.

“Well Tiny can handle whatever fights she picks…no we have to handle the one that we didn’t.”

Zhen Liu, Jin Fang and Rianna watched as Tiny left the scene for only a brief moment, until refocusing on the pack of Ravager Otters that were still swarming the other rafts and wagons behind them.

Evidently, the sheer amount of attacking otters was so great that when Zhen Liu let Tiny loose to do her thing, there were no other witnesses to this “mistake”. This also meant that if people asked, “why did you let loose our most powerful combat asset,” Zhen Liu could easily answer, “The Otters slashed open the harness and I just fixed it,” and everyone would just have to believe him as they had no means of contradicting him.

“Alright, so we still have a dozen or so otters attacking us right now, and the kaijin are still sitting back, awaiting my orders,” Zhen Liu told Him Fang and Rianna, “meaning now is probably an excellent time for me to blast one of my uncles in the back with a little kaijin boost.”

Emphasizing his point, Zhen Liu summoned the Possesstol.

“All we need to do now though is figure out who is compatible with which kaijin and…why did my ears just pop like there was suddenly a massive drop in air pressure?”

“Uh…Zhen Liu, what the fuck is that?,” Rianna asked as she turned back towards the front of the river.

“Oh I have a bad feeling about this…,”Jin Fang commented as she turned towards the front before Zhen Liu did. 

Compelled by both her words and sensing the danger himself, Zhen Liu brought his attention back forwards to see what exactly caused Rianna and Jin Fang to exclaim as such.

“What the fuck?”

Once he did, he saw that coming towards the caravan was what appeared to be a singular storm cloud coming towards them, literally.

On an otherwise sunny and blue sky, there was a thick, localized storm cloud coming towards them like some kind of monstrous beast.

“Wait a minute…”

Correction, the storm cloud in question was a monstrous beast that looked significantly similar to the attacking pack of Ravager Otters minus some strange deviances in the form of a longer snout, patchy scalely skin, the presence of a singular sharp horn

The type of features that got Zhen Liu thinking he needs to talk to some people and maybe fake the existence of a certian sect again…probably.

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‘Logos, Pathos, what the fuck am I staring at?’

‘Oh. Okay, cool.’

=The bad news is that what you’re dealing with is something we are tentatively calling a Thunderscale Dragon Otter, because that encroaching storm cloud is actually a dragon-blooded aether beast that has managed to access dragon force.=

‘Fucking, what?!’

=Also, it may not have been directly our fault, but one of your predecessors was at fault this time because they didn’t do proper quality control on their fucking materials. Future warning milord, make sure whatever material you use in the future doesn’t have the ability to carry an ego beyond the limits of life and death. Otherwise you end up with a situation like this.=

‘I…that’s a lot of information in a very short amount of time.’

<=We know, milord. That's why we're just download the information directly into your brain...now!=>

‘Oh no, wait a minute, gah!’

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Dragon Force.

A unique ability to those who carry the dragons blood, it gives them the ability to manipulate natural phenomena.

Out of all of the powers in the entirety of Valresta to cultivate, it is arguably the easiest to access but also the most dangerous.

The reason being is that dragon force just requires someone to have dragon blood inside of them in order to cultivate, kind of like a bloodliner ability, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be blood produced by the user, naturally. Just consuming some dragon blood will work too.

However, the amount and type of dragon force someone can make use of is highly dependent on the purity and quality of the dragon blood the user has access to, which is where the dangerous part comes in.

Not only is it incredibly difficult to get blood from a high ranking dragon, but dragons tend to have rather powerful egos that live on in their remains regardless of time.

Meaning, it is very very possible for someone to consume the blood of an incredibly powerful dragon, only to become either a pawn or an extension of the originator dragon.

Weirdly enough, this did not apply to their offsprings.

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“Zhen Liu?! Are you okay?!,” Rianna cried in alarm as she saw Zhen Liu’s eyes roll into the back of his head and began convulsing. (Un) surprisingly, Jin Fang was the voice of reason and calm in this moment.

“Oh wait this is the first time you’ve seen him do this, he’s fine, it’s just Logos and Pathos forcefully installing knowledge into his brain again,” she explained, “I think I recall you saying you had similar experience to this?”

“What do you-ooooohh…,” Rianna sounded in realization, “that…that explains why he had no compunction about blasting me in the face when we first met…”

“…with the Possesstol thing?”

“Yeah.”

“Ah.”

“Gasp!”

Zhen Liu made a sharp inhalation of breath as he finished digesting the information given to him about what the fuck was about to attack the caravan, and how they needed to get the fuck out of the water ASAP.

“OKAY, SUBTLEY IS OUT THE FUCKING WINDOW! BOYS!”

*Boom! Boom! Boom!*

“Whoa! What the fuck?!”

“Where’d this guy come from?”

“Wait, you weren’t kidding in that remote summoning thing?!”

As soon as Zhen Liu shouted, several bursts of energy occurred around the caravan.