I stopped counting the days we’d been traveling through the Eserian at so point. It honestly didn’t matter how many days, weeks, or maybe even months we were in the forest. Then again, it shouldn’t have been more than a month since we left. If it was more than that, I’d be worried.
The Zetrian Empire couldn’t be allowed too much of a head start in the conquest of the Eserian, after all.
One way or another, Fern and Clove prepared a gift for . After days of experinting and hunting, they figured out what I had to do to acquire my first – second, actually – Tier-2 Shift.
Clove riled up a 2nd Tier monster–a Gale Wolf–and brought it to the makeshift camp. He punctured the Gale Wolf in the side, clipping its organs. Fern didn’t wait long and restrained the Gale Wolf montarily before breaking one of its hind legs.
Then she released the monster – it was not a monstrosity – upon .
"Don’t worry too much about upsetting the Eserian. The Gale Wolf is very aggressive and likes to destroy entire families of weaker monsters. It may not be considered a pest but in my books it is one." Fern shouted before retreating from the battlefield. Clove was nowhere to be seen either, leaving alone with the wounded Gale Wolf.
It limped and bled from the side enough to make wonder how long the monster would survive even if I wouldn’t do anything.
Air gathered around the monster. It gathered and gained a faint semi-translucent green hue as it twisted and distorted into a crescent-shaped blade. The blade made of compressed wind swirled slowly around the Gale Wolf. It severed the roots restraining its movents before changing trajectory.
One mont it cut through roots, and in the next it barreled toward .
I dove to the side while triggering Shift to transform into an Onyx Panther.
Our days in the Eserian had been fruitful. I’d gained more than enough new Accessible Shifts to stand up to a challenge.
Another wind blade coalesced around the Gale Wolf and shot toward . I twisted my body and escaped. Then the Gale Wolf moved. It was not nearly as fast as it would have been if it had been unscathed, but it was fast. Winds gathered around the monster, accelerating its movents considerably.
The Gale Wolf was still as fast as the Onyx Panther when it closed the distance in a few heartbeats. It was upon , coalescing yet another wind blade which it released point-blank. Shift triggered, and I transford into yet another new-ish form.
An Armorous Ankylosaur. As difficult as it had been to kill that nasty bugger, it was tougher than the Netherworld burning hot. Even if it only had a Tier-1 Core, it easily blocked the wind blade.
Even better, the Gale Wolf’s claws whipped across my back just as the transformation concluded. Its claws scraped across my back, carving through the shell-like protection on my back. It cut deep enough to hurt, sending burning whips of pain down my back, but that also ant the Gale Wolf was close enough to rip it a new one.
My Ankylo tail, adorned with spikes that were longer than most dagger blades, struck out without hesitation. The tail whip ca through, spikes digging deep into the Gale Wolf’s face.
It yelped and clawed again but failed to hit . For I turned into a Blue Sli. And as soon as the deadly claws swept past , I transford into a Bloodfist Gorilla. While it didn’t have the most saturated Core, the Bloodfist Gorilla had a racial trait as well. In the presence of blood, the Bloodfist Gorilla turned berserker.
The more blood there was in my surroundings, the less I could sense my surroundings, and the stronger I grew. With the amount of blood the Gale Wolf lost, my form gained enough strength to use the opportunity to punch the Gale Wolf in the face.
Once. Twice. By the ti the third bloodied fist impacted, a crack rang in my ears.
It wasn’t enough to kill the monster, but I made it angry. Angry enough to make it lose its reasoning. So of it, at least.
I transford into a Terror Sparrow and burst to the side before the Gale Wolf could catch . Then, as the Gale Wolf’s presence descended upon , I transford once more.
But as I shifted, my body split up. One Terror Sparrow transford into two Airborne Archaeopteryxes, each flew in a different direction. As for the Gale Wolf, it only paid attention to the Archaeopteryx to its left. It didn’t even glance at the other one, even if that was the monster’s true foe. It just didn’t know yet. Or it didn’t realize – didn’t see.
How did I know that? How did it not realize anything?
The answer to that was fairly simple. It wasn’t sothing. Instead, the answer was ’soone’. My Bond, to be precise.
The Trickster Demon ca into play. Rather than watching the battles around unfurl for weeks, the young demon decided to join. Mostly out of boredom but also because it was interested in fighting – in growing alongside .
It wanted more power, so it used its demonic magic to form a mirage of myself when I used Shift. The mirage was lifelike and traveled left, whereas the real was shrouded in yet another mind trick.
I was invisible to the Gale Wolf and given the ti needed to do all I needed to finish it off. In the anti, the Gale Wolf struck the mirage and tore it apart.
A mont later, three shockwaves of Sonic Boom struck its skull in quick succession. Then I was upon the monster in Loverboy Two’s form, Blade of Astor raised high above my head.
The blade shimred brightly as it grew rapidly, transforming into a two-ter-long, heavy broadsword, yet it rested smoothly in my hands as I cleaved down.
The Gale Wolf yelped and spun around but it overextended and went too far, the aftereffect of three Sonic Booms thrashing its mind.
Blade of Astor ca down, cleanly cutting through fur and flesh. Unlike the steel swords, Loverboy’s Power hit true.
A wind blade materialized in a mont. It was a desperate asure rather than a rational choice, yet even a half-baked wind blade would be enough to kill . If it hit, which it would have if I hadn’t accessed Captain Anthea’s spatial bracelet to retrieve a carcass. It absorbed the impact at the last instant, all while the Gale Wolf’s head slid from its neck.
Gale Wolf has been defeated. Shift has been updated.
The influx of Essence that followed was heavenly.
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