Chapter 938: Hunting Monsters
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The swamp that everyone had been abusing for easy EXP quickly shook, as something truly frightening emerged from within, an enormous monster of over fifty meters of height.
It resembled a chimera between the mudskippers, the crabs, and some squids. It had the fish-like body of mudskippers, with giant crab claws, and tentacles with eyes popping out of its back.
Its face was that of a huge catfish, with enormous sharp fangs!
And above all, there was a large purple jewel on its forehead, while the rest of its slime-covered body was armored with a series of black scales.
“GROOOHHHH!”
Ding!
[The Ruler of the Miasmic Swamp: [Tyrannic Miasmic Swamp’s Aberrant King (S Rank)] has emerged!]
[His fury knows no bounds, as he has seen how you and your group have been massacring the living beings within his domain!]
[An army of thousands of swamp-dwelling aberrations are beginning to surge from within the swamps, ready to take down anything.]
[Due to the presence of their King, All Stats have increased by +100% and their Attacks deal +50% more Damage.]
“Looks like we provoked their King.” Catarina laughed as she saw countless beasts surge from the swamps.
“There way too many!” Silva panicked.
“They’re all coming! Watch out!” Fabian said.
He conjured giant walls made of Demonite, which the group of monsters easily broke apart, destroying them into pieces and moving forwards.
The Boss was standing there, menacingly. It was doing nothing other than watching his minions do their job.
For an S Rank Monster, it seemed awfully lazy! Was it just recently evolved into an S Rank Monster, by any chance?
Well, this is the perfect chance to try out Hecate’s powers.
But first…
“Don’t have mercy. Pharaoh, you can join too this time.”
“Hohoho, gladly, my new master.”
The Pharaoh emerged out of my shadows, right in front of the rest of my Undead that rapidly marched against the army of miasmic swamp monsters.
Both armies swiftly clashed against one another, all sorts of zombie monsters, skeletons, and phantasmal creatures started tearing apart the swamp creatures, even after being boosted by the Boss.
I already had so many buffs and modifiers within me that my Undead became tremendously strong by my own existence, and when I added a few buffing spells, they became even deadlier.
The Pharaoh in specific, made completely out of a crystalline skeleton, giggled. The Lich waved his enormous staff as he conjured black sands and black light around his body.
“It is finally my time to show off some of my strength!” Laughed the Pharaoh. “{Abyssal Sand Domain}! {Astral Dark Light Spears}!”
His domain of Abyssal Sand quickly erected around his surroundings, enormous hands and arms made of these black sands punched the monsters away one after another.
Alongside that, his spears pierced them and exploded, blowing them up by the dozen.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
His magic kept being conjured, expanding on a wide range. Fabian and every other trainee we were training was left speechless as my army took care of everything seamlessly.
But that’s not how I wanted it to be.
“Leave space for the trainees to join in, don’t steal all the EXP.” I ordered my Undead. “Don’t kill the monsters incapacitate them or wound them a little! Harden your defenses.”
The zombies and skeletons nodded, quickly taking different postures and changing their tactics swiftly.
They were still as fierce as before but were leaving the monster alive for easy pickings. This was the time where they could gain the most EXP.
“Go on, everyone!” I said. “Make sure to hunt them and get your Experience!”
“Alright!”
Fabian led his little group, while Celes and Nia accompanied Silva and Nyx, who decided to accompany them with Catarina.
As for the rest, we decided to concentrate on the big boss over there, who was looking from a distance.
It seemed somehow wary of us, maybe it knew we were strong and didn’t want a direct confrontation.
Well, too bad!
SPLAAASH!
Suddenly, countless phantasmal hands surged from the depths of the swamp, wrapping themselves around the giant King beast and alerting it of an attack!
My Phantasmal Hands had several new powers too, such as being able to weaken foes they touch, draining their life, and above all, deal some damage too!
Without even being there yet, my phantasmal arms kept surging and attacking it, punching it all across its body.
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
“GRUOOHH!”
The swamp King grew furious, quickly swinging its entire body and spinning at a rapid speed, diving deep into the swamps waters and using it to move faster.
FLAASH! FLAASH! FLAASH!
With its gigantic jaws and crab-like claws, it cut through my phantasmal hands one after another at a rapid pace.
Not bad!
“How about this then? Hecate!”
“…!”
Hecate gave out a cute noise, as the arms of the dress grew tens of times longer, reaching the beast below and smacking it with tremendous force.
BAAAAMM! BAAAAMM!!
“GRUUAAGH…!”
The creature quickly swam underwater, escaping Hecate’s attacks… However, that wasn’t going to be so easy!
FLUOSH!
Black and silver threads emerged out of Hecate almost endlessly, wrapping around the beast’s torso and dragging it back where it was seconds ago.
I just had to put a bit of strength!
“Here we GO!”
SPLAAASH!
I fished the whole thing out of the water, as I equipped both of my weapons and imbued them with my Aura, rushing towards it.
“How about this for a change, big guy? Let me shave out those annoying scales!”
I swung both my giant axe and the sword at once, vertically and horizontally, each slash releasing an explosion of Phantasmal and Darkness energies.
SLAASH! SLAASH! SLAASH! SLAASH! SLAASH!
“GRYYYAAARRGH…!”
The beast’s scales were falling apart one after another, its eyes shining bright red across its tentacles as it fired several miasmic beams against me.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
My simply Darkness Barriers shattered into pieces against such powerful beams, but Hecate shielded me, as her threads turned into a huge veil in front of me.
“Takeshi, Laura! How about you help me fish this guy?” I asked the two so they could get some action themselves.
“Sure!” Both were excited to partake on the hunt.
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