Greed before need
As I walked through the forested floor towards the nearest tal ore deposit I finally ca across so monster that were obviously newly spawned. It was a a group of four monsters, two lizardn, a bugbear and a Gun labella. The lizardn and bugbear were on my shopping list but the gun labella was pretty much useless to . The giant sniper dragon fly things wings were the only part of it worth anything as they were used in alchemy but that was it. With that in mind I pointed a finger at it and a beam of erasure extended out of the tip of my finger before piercing the monster from head to tail causing it to burst into smoke as the stone was erased.-
I couldn't separate my erasure from physically touching but I could absolutely extend it outwards so long as at least so part of the construct was touching . It reminded a bit of that scene in terminator two where the liquid tal terminator stabbed a dude to death by extending it's tal finger. In my case though it was a beam of energy rather than a part of that extended so far.-
With the annoying bug taken care of I was left with the two lizardn and bugbear that roared and charged . The lizardn were fastest to reach and the first to perish as I cleaved my weapons erasure edged blade through both their necks in a single smooth stroke. I ignored their bodies that fell flat mid stride and waited calmly for the lumbering form of the massive bear to get near jaws wide in an attempt to devour whole. I simply spartan kicked it's snout with a sickening "CRUNCH!" as it's snout broke due to it's own montum being forcefully stopped suddenly.-
I didn't leave it alive to suffer and with a smooth swipe of my weapon decapitated it. It was admittedly rather boring how easy it was to handle these monsters and I needed minimal effort to do so. It wasn't even just a matter of skill either as after I gained RCT my sheer power was on a whole different level than before even though my stats themselves sat at the sa place they had when I first leveled up to three.-
I had little doubt that if I caught one off guard I could probably even slay a level five in head on combat much less these weak level two and three monsters. All I needed was a single mont to unleash erasure and if the level five didn't escape fast enough that was it, ga over for them. It wasn't all good however as RCT had a rather bad drawback to it, arrogance. Using the technique caused a sense of overinflated pride and confidence that was dangerous to have. It was almost like having a god complex forcefully layered over your existing thoughts that made you think you were invincible since you could just RCT your injuries away.-
For it was SO much fucking worse as I didn't even need RCT to remove injuries so having it on top made my sense of invincibility way worse than it would be for any other person with RCT. I had to constantly remind myself that in front of level five and six entities I was an ant, albeit a much bigger than normal one. Shaking my head to rid myself of these thoughts I refined the hides of the monsters as well as their claws and in the bugbears case, fangs.-
I then removed the magic stones and absorbed the smoke before collecting my loot in my bag. Pulling out my tal compass I sighed when I noticed that the tal deposit I was previously headed towards wasn't being picked up anymore which ant the dungeon either moved it or an adventurer harvested it. Whatever the case it was lost to so I could only head to the next closest deposit. This ti I didn't run into any monsters and arrived at the deposit. It wasn't so grand amount of tal but a small impure mithril ore crystal hidden in the roots of a tree.-
"Hand over the tal and we'll let you walk away unhard!" A irritating scratchy male voice yelled and I looked at the source.
It ca from a greasy haired twig of a man with a greedy look on his face that was accompanied by two other n with no real distinguishing features. All of them had the crest of the Mammon familia on their chest pieces.
"You are on the wrong side of the floor to be making threats, this is the southeastern side rather than the northwestern side your familia claid." I said coldly.
The twig dude's face screwed up into a scowl of anger "I tried to be nice but since you don't want to cooperate then don't bla for what happens next. Get him!" he said and all three of them drew their weapons and ca at .
My gaze told that they were thoroughly stained with sins of greed and even murder making it clear this wasn't a first for them. I judged how fast they moved and easily determined that they were all at most mid level three's and imdiately lost interest in playing with them to hone my skills.-
I will admit that their teamwork was admirable as they were perfectly in sync but numbers and coordination ant nothing to . The air moved violently as hellfire roared to life from all over my body and transford into a massive serpent that coiled around with it's head locked onto the three people.-
"Fuck! It's the real [black mark]! Run!" the greasy fellow yelled recognizing my signature "magic" but it was far too late to escape for them.
With a simple ntal push the fla serpent shot out at them and caught them near instantly as trying to outrun normal magic was a fools errand much less my flas. They didn't even get a chance to beg for rcy before their bodies were reduced to ash while I barely managed to stop the flas from destroying their gear as well. While I doubted that anything good on these guys was obtained in a legal manner beyond maybe their chestpieces, free was free and I'll take what I can either way as paynt for ridding the world of them.
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