BXBX NOVEL Chapter 31 31: Living Dread
"I feel it, too. No wonder why those monsters desperately ran for their money."
Using the Level 1 Space-Time Magic: Foothold, we sit atop of it and flew freely in the air. Travel in air is faster and easier than on the land. There are no obstacles and less monster encounters. Running in the dense forest was exhausting.
For comfortability, I laid a rectangular carpet on it and made a Magic Carpet ride. To withstand the inertia, I grip my hands and hold the edges of the carpet. I am coaching the carpet while my sister is sitting at the back. With nothing to hold on so she just wrapped her arms around my waist.
(So soft. I hope Sophia will grow like this.)
"I can detect the entity now. It's even more powerful than every monsters that I encountered."
Sister already sensed the monster and distinguished its strength. Same as her, this is the strongest monster I encountered so far.
We've been flying in the sky for only several minutes at the speed of 300 kph and we immediately pinpoint the location of the cause of the stampede. The closer we got, the more intense the aura is.
A couple of seconds and we can now take a glimpse of the entity, no, the monster. I stopped the carpet and gaze at afar.
"Do you know what it is, Sis?"
"I haven't seen that kind of monster before. It is definitely the most powerful monster that I ever encountered."
"Me, too. It is entirely different from the monsters that I encountered so far, in terms of appearance and strength."
"You're right. The one is really ominous and creepy."
From afar, the monster was surrounded by thick condensation of miasma and make it hard to see. But when used with vision-enhancement skills, we can clearly witness its frightening appearance.
The monster is a quadrupedal reptile of fifteen meters length. It had ash gray skin covered with black hairs. A row of bony spikes were erected along is spine. I don't know what monster it is so I used Analysis on it.
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Race: Indestructible Lizard
Title: Dragon Slayer, Fearbringer
Condition: Starved
LV: 682
MP: 12860
STR: 8096
DEF: 4052
MAG: 14744
MDEF: 15558
AGI: 10162
Unique Skill: Fear Incarnation
Racial Skill: Infinite Regeneration, Cursed Body
Skill: Magic Sense, Danger Detection, Detection, Heat Detection, Enhanced Senses, Claw Attack, Bite, Nocturnal, Spine Bullet, Resistance Boost
Magic Skill: [Elemental: Dark: 5, Fire: 4, Earth: 3, Water: 2] [Non-Elemental: Acid: 6, Poison: 4]
Resistance: Pain Nullification, Exhaustion Nullification, Asphyxiation Nullification, Physical Attack Nullification, Fear Nullification, Corrosion Nullification, Poison Nullification, Natural Effect Nullification, Temperature Nullification, Magic Attack Resistance, Mental Attack Resistance, Hunger Resistance, Impact Resistance, Blast Resistance
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(What the hell!)
I can't help but screamed in my head. It had a Unique Skill. Let's check it out a bit.
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Fear Incarnation - a skill that makes the wielder the definition of dread. It consists of subskills:
Dread Fascination - a gaze that immobilized the target by inflicting fear.
Fearscape - creates an atmosphere filled with fear.
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"What the heck with this skills and resistances?! Not just that, but also nullifications!"
"Is it really that bad?"
"It is! It even had a Unique Skill that inflict fear and Infinite Regeneration which heals faster than Regeneration."
"In that case, then—?!"
"?!"
As we are having a conversation, a great chill run in my veins. Not just me, but also my fearless sister. We desperately and slowly turned our heads to find out that the monster was glaring at us with its hair-covered eyes.
Engulfed in fear, I reflexively stopped the flow of my mana and accidentally released the Foothold midair. Me and my sister fell several hundreds of meters from the surface
"Ack…! Telekinesis!"
Being dropped from five hundred meters might hurt us. To save ourselves, I desperately resist the fear and casted a Level 3 Force Magic on the carpet. Wrapped it around us and make descend slowly to the ground.
We dropped lightly in the air and landed on the ground safely. Even though we had Fear Resistance , the monster's Dread Fascination was so powerful that we got immobilized.
"This is greater than Mother's Intimidation… Orped Field!"
Upon the activation of a Level 4 Light Magic spell, the area within a kilometer radius shone a pale white luminance. Afterwards, Sister began to move her muscles and stood up.
"Are you okay?" I inquired.
"Yeah. That's a lot of help, Raphael. The fear had lessened down and I can now move like normal." Sister responded while stretching her body.
"Good. I just set up a field within a kilometer radius so don't stepped out of that area."
"Okay. Looks like it's coming here."
"You're right."
Just as Sister said, sounds of falling and snapping of trees vibrated in the forest hundred of meters away.
"From its pace, it will reach us within seconds."
"It might just woke up from hibernation. It's looking for food. Because we didn't run away from it unlike the others, we are its first meal."
"Let's get ready and subjugate it before it gets closer to the entrance." she said as we unsheathe our katana from the scabbard.
A few seconds later, the lizard finally snapped the last tree between and displayed its dreadful appearance to us.
(It's the embodiment of fear itself!)
My sister and I charge ourselves, and so the lizard. We immediately clad ourselves with yellow streaks of lightning from Attribute Armor skill to increase our raw speed and reflexes.
"Blue Lightning! Lightning Blade!"
"Blue Flame! Thermal Blade!"
Reciting the spells of Lightning and Fire Magic respectively, our katana were enveloped with attribute and transformed to magic sword. With a skill that we inherited from Mother, the Weapon Enchantment, we can apply attributes and cast magic spells on our swords.
My sister's Attribute Armor turned its hue from yellow to sky blue, which made her faster and more reflexive. The deep blue blade of her katana was wrapped with flickering blue lightning which sliced the right torso of the lizard.
Physical attacks won't work on the lizard. Even though it had low defense stat and as soft as butter for us, it will instantly heal and restore. Magic is effective against the lizard but it tolerate it. That's why we get serious from the start and casted high-leveled spells.
Lightning Blade was a Level 7 Lightning Magic spell in a form of a blade. It's weightless and inflicts paralysis and burn upon contact. Level 8 Blue Lightning spells makes the next Lightning spells turn its color to blue and increase its temperature and voltage drastically.
As for me, the lightning around my body remained yellow. But my sword was now wrapped with blue flames and it blows like a blow torch. I slash my sword and slice the left torso of the lizard after my sister.
Same with Blue Lightning, Level 8 Blue Flame changed the hue of the flames to blue with waxing temperature. Level 7 Thermal Blade was actually my original spell, same as the Lightning Blade.
It was inspired from the thermal lances from my previous world. I imitate its concept and successfully created a 7000° C Thermal Blade. With Blue Flame, it reached the whopping temperature of 10000° Centigrade.
The heat produce by the Thermal Blade can only travel via conduction. So others cannot feel its burning temperature unless they touch it directly.
We were fine despite holding a sword with scorching heat because the caster cannot be harmed by their own spell, unless it's intentional.
The lizard remains undaunted after our first attacks. The burnt flesh caused by Sister's lightning sword and my flaming blade instantly heals and closed up.
The lizard take a turn for it to face us. It opens its acidic mouth and fire and fires Level 5 Black Spear. We avoided the spell with minimal effort attack the lizard again.
"Take this! Hundred Slice!"
"Burn in flames! Cremation!"
Sister charged at the lizard and minced it to hundred chunks. Before it heal from the lightning burns, I casted a Level 8 Fire Magic spell and locked the lizard inside a blazing sphere of blue flames.
"…"
The lizard had Pain Nullification and don't feel any pain. It doesn't produce a cry of agony or even a sound. But we know that our attacks deals damage to it.
"Did we kill it? This combination could even kill a physical and magic resistant Gargoyle, you know." Sister asked with weight on her breathe from using a high-leveled sword technique.
"Let's wait until the flames subdue."
After a minute of incineration, the sphere of blue flames finally flickered and subsides. Crispy burned chunks of flesh unfolded in front of our purple eyes after the smoke vanished in the air.
"Looks like it's still alive."
"Yeah. But our attacks are effective. It heals a lot slower than before."
Seconds after, the burned chunks begun to move slowly over the scorched earth. The chunks merge with the each other and take form of a reptile. The burned skin gradually turned to its former gray tone and black hairs grew at fast rate.
"Grrrrr…"
The lizard growled in a low volume as it stared at us. It just standing menacingly, increasing its awareness of us. Will we able to kill it?