The wolf stayed in it’s shroud of darkness as Lun stood a distance away observing the thing carefully. He wanted to take this opportunity to improve his combat abilities against wolves that could utilise the darkness elent as he had only ever faced one such wolf before and that was the Elite.
He could visualise how so scenarios could play out in his head, but imaginary combat was nothing when the opportunity for live combat against such a beast arose.
The only thing Lun was thankful for was the fact that the beast didn’t seem to have any attack skills involving the elent like that Elite did. If it did have such a thing, he would be having a much harder ti against the thing.
The issue of the darkness shroud still stood for Lun as he currently had no clue how he could overco such a spell, if it was one.
Eventually, he decided that his best strategy was just to attack the wolf from a distance. There was no currently possible way for him to know when the wolf was going to attack.
If he closed in and tried to attack the beast from close range with his spear again, yes he would be able to preserve so of his mana from not having to use any of his spells, but the wolf could catch him off guard with an attack at any ti due to him not being able to see where it’s paws or mouth were.
He increase the range between him and the beast to over 30 tres as he started conjuring a spell he had long beco accustod to.
[Fire Bolt]
The familiar ball of fire appeared above his left hand as he held his magically charged spear in his right hand.
Before the wolf could make out what he was doing, he tossed the small but mighty fire bolt towards the shroud of darkness the wolf was caped in.
’If I can’t single out any vital points to attack with my spear, I will simple attack them all at once!’
His idea was simple, use an area of effect attack to draw the wolf out of it’s shroud or at least force it to expend even more mana and stamina trying to defend against the attack.
Just as he had predicted, as soon as the explosion of fiery mana was set off, the shroud of darkness was imdiately dispersed into motes of black dust before disappearing completely. But he didn’t stop there as he imdiately used his other arm to launch three of the illusory spears made from mana.
They pierced through the air and reached the wolf in less than a second, causing quite a hefty amount of damage to it’s chest and hind leg while the third spear missed.
Lun also noticed that the fire bolt spell seed to have dealt even more damage than it usually did, and it didn’t take him long to notice why.
[Skill - Fire Bolt levelled up! Lv.1 -> Lv.2]
He hadn’t been keeping track of any of his skill’s proficiency recently but he was pretty sure that he wasn’t even in the 80% range in his Fire Bolt skill before he had launched that one.
’Perhaps this has sothing to do with the fact that I used the skill to directly counter a spell of another elent?’
He didn’t dwell on the reasons behind his skill’s level up longer than he had to as his focus never left the now revealed wolf.
The beast seed to be in a disoriented state at first as it struggled to maintain it’s balance but it quickly collected itself, not wanting to remain weak right before it’s enemy. Instead of giving Lun the upper hand again, the wolf led the charge towards him this ti with it’s eyes displaying it’s ferocity.
Minutes passed as Lun dodged, weaved, and probed the wolf with his spear, all while it furiously tried it’s best to deal as much damage back to it’s attacker. The damage to the wolf kept increasing over ti, and so did it’s bloodlust as Lun could literally feel the tense atmosphere between them getting hotter and hotter.
With little warning, the beast’s eyes suddenly turned blood red as veins started bursting around the seams of the wolf’s eyes. It’s entire body soon gave off a deathly aura as Lun felt significant danger from whatever the beast was planning.
He imdiately raised his spear in front of him to block as a howl even more terrifying than before penetrated the walls of the cave and even made Lun’s ears ring reverberated through the area.
But it was far from done as it was only just getting started, and imdiately took hold of Lun’s spear with a dominating biting force. Neither side refused to let go of the spear, prompting the wolf to lift it’s huge head and consequently taking Lun and the spear with it.
His legs dangled in the air and he was unable to summon the spear back to his inventory, as apparently he was hearing for the first ti from the system that only he could be in contact with the spear if he wanted to move it back.
The rule made sense to Lun but he was still deeply annoyed by it. With no other choice, he let go of his spear and dropped to the ground. The wolf was put off balance with the sudden shift in weight and balance from the spear and Lun took this opportunity to summon a Fire bolt right underneath it’s stomach.
The shockwave sent them both flying but Lun wasn’t in as desperate a state as the wolf due to him managing to propel himself backwards as soon as he unleashed the spell.
The aftermath was even more devastating than the first ti he used it on the wolf as it was a direct, point blank range explosion to the it’s stomach.
The upgraded skill had proved to be even more effective than he had expected as it’s power had now surpassed his Arcane Spear’s attached skill!
His own arsenal of skills were starting to catch up to the power of his Epic ranked spear! This was truly good news for Lun as he didn’t want his spear to be a crutch for him in the case he ever lost it.
As the smoke cleared, a now dismbered wolf was revealed with the latter half of it’s body gone.
The satisfaction from coming out on top of the challenge ca to Lun all at once as he walked over to the barely alive wolf and put it out of it’s misery.
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