Dustin stood his ground, though he wasn't completely confident if the clothes he was wearing would hold up against the heat from the fire.
The drake continued pouring out the fire until thirty seconds were up, before it stopped. As the fire ceased, the drake couldn't help but react in a slightly fearful and more agitated way. Before it's eyes and out of the fire, ca a humongous snake that was bigger than the drake.
Dustin had never seen a dragon with his own eyes or really knew what it was really like, so he didn't want to take chances. If the creature he was battling with was of lower rank than A, then he might have considered it, but the drake was A rank, and there was a possibility of the skill not being very effective.
The drake growled at the snake which had mysteriously appeared before it instead of the one it was just fighting so monts back, and just when it was about to attack, it felt a little pressure co over it as an imnse bloodlust was directed towards it. That split second of hesitation was what Dustin needed as he pulled out his new weapon he bought just before leaving for the journey.
Dustin jumped from where he stood with as much power as he could towards the drake's throat, and while the drake was still affected by the bloodlust and sothing else that kept it from breaking out of the shock, Dustin's weapon dug into the drake's throat and sliced clean through it.
The drake tried to move, but it quickly collapsed to the ground, and the huge snake that stood before it gradually disappeared like it was never there, just like an illusion.
Over by the side, Dustin had landed on the ground, and was moving towards the drake with his new sabre resting on his shoulder, held by his right hand.
The drake seed strong, and Dustin would have loved to ta it, but the experience points it offered was enticing enough.
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(A/N: To make it easy and simple enough to follow, and also easy for to write, each rank of beast will give a certain amount of experience point when they killed. It might be different from the previous ones, but don't think about it too much and lets follow this one from now.
Rank F: 10 exp
Pseudo Rank E: 25 exp
Rank E: 50 exp
Pseudo Rank D: 65 exp
Rank D: 100 exp
Pseudo Rank C: 150 exp
Rank C: 300 exp
Pseudo Rank B: 500 exp
Rank B: 1000 exp
Pseudo Rank A: 2000 exp
Rank A: 5000 exp
Pseudo Rank S: 7,500 exp
Rank S: 15,000 exp
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With each rank he passes, the amount of exp he gets from killing the imdiate lower rank becos reduced by 10%. Past the imdiate rank below him, the amount of exp he gets from two to three ranks below his becos reduced by 50%. Beyond that he gets nothing.)
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[You have killed a drake]
5000 exp
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Dustin looked at the experience points he got from it, and certainly, it was worth not running away. His greater speed helped him well against the drake that was much slower, and his title of 'Slaughterer' added the needed cheery on the cake.
He moved towards the dead drake, and after so seconds of inspection, it was quite clear to him that the knowledge of what were the important parts of the monster were not with him. Of course there were the obvious teeth and skin, and the rest, but apart from that he knew nothing else. In order not to waste ti there, Dustin placed the body of the drake in his inventory and moved on. He couldn't place a live body in the inventory, but a corpse was different.
Ultimately, Dustin just counted himself lucky this ti. The drake wasn't one that had much of its strength based on magic, so it was weak to magic oriented attacks or effects, so Dustin used that to his advantage.
After taking the drake's body, Dustin continued forward deeper through the gate looking stones. After about thirty minutes of walking, Dustin erged on the opposite side of where he ca from, and the mist had also cleared now. Before him, there really wasn't anything different from what he had been seeing up until that point. The entire region before him was still the sa lava field, the only difference being the change in the structure of the environnt.
The entire place as far as his eyes could see looked like so kind of underground city made of giant rocks and so on. Definitely not for humans, but for large creatures that were definitely intelligent.
At this point, Dustin wasn't sure anymore if he was going the right direction. He ca to find so people, then got temporarily distracted by so murder, and now he's here. He was definitely deep into the volcanic region, and sothing in him was telling him that those he ca to save might not have made it this far.
He had already gotten to such a place that might even be considered a historical place, so he decides it wouldn't hurt to explore a little bit.
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After roaming the place for a bit, Dustin was sure that this was a waste of his ti, and just started walking back towards the two touring rocks. If anything, the city was completely dead and probably of so ancient civilization. Nothing was left in it except the buildings carved out of rocks, or carved into rocks, and the sizes were also probably for giant creatures.
Dustin didn't spend anymore ti there and left through the sa way he got there, through the mist filled path. When he saw the mist and all, he thought the place was hiding so kind of secret or sothing interesting, but it turned out to be so old defence chanism or formation left behind by whatever...
'I still haven't found the creature that murdered the bodies I found, but I can't read mories, so it would be useless even though I find it. Whatever...' Dustin just continued on, this ti running through since he now knew there were no traps or anything he needed to be afraid of.
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