Chapter 285: 285
The Lithe Stalker looked like a black panther, only that its fur flickered between visible and invisible, meaning that it could camouflage . Apart from that, it had red eyes and teeth on the scale of a saber tooth tiger .
The Killer Boar was a huge boar that looked frenzied . It had sharp and long tusks, a mane of black hair and short but powerful legs . It was slightly frothing at the mouth due to its intense bloodlust .
The Ferocious Charger was a large rhino-like monster with steel-like skin, a long horn for impaling foes and powerful legs that were less stubby than an actual rhino's, showing that its ability to accelerate would not be low .
The Long Snapper was a huge python that was even longer than the King Cobra . It had short wings in its back, and its scales glistened with a myriad of reflective colors . Its fangs were long and sharp, releasing a blackish poison as it hissed . When this poison hit the earth, it corroded it easily .
The Silent Spinner was a large spider that was not like the typical hairy tarantulas . It had a firmer and shinier exoskeleton which was black in color . Its legs were not fat, but slim and sharp, like the claws of a praying mantis .
There were many more that existed in the orchard who didn't join this encirclement because they were too far to care .
Draco's heart became calm, even though he was surrounded by hundreds of Rank 2 entities . Had there been Captain Rank or above, he would be extremely hard pressed to do anything, but the ones facing him were only Specialist Rank . They would be perfect to test out the powers of his Divine Class .
It was their numbers that made things look grim . Draco decided to provide support from the back, since Clarent could take to the sky and should be agile enough to avoid most attacks .
Qiong Qi agreed to act as the tank since they couldn't damage him anyway . He had kept the defense of a Rank 7 entity, so no monster below Rank 7 in the entire treasury could harm him .
The monsters slowly crept closer while the tension rose . The sounds of light breathing from the various beasts as well as their slow, gentle steps colored the atmosphere .
Suddenly, Draco fired the Phoenix Cry arrow and activated its active skill .
「Active 1 – Vermilion Fire: Activate this skill to add a disintegration by immolation effect to the arrowhead . Cooldown: 1 minute . 」
The arrow moved so fast since he used his Star Shot Technique to power it up . While it was still at level 1, the second level was 50% complete after his fight with the Magic Hind .
Now, with his new class' passives, it boosted one of Draco's most integral skills that enhanced his talent .
「Insight – Passive skill
Effect: You are able to acquire new knowledge and techniques three times faster when learning from someone else, and twice as fast when creating it yourself . 」
However, this had nothing to do with the battle breaking out at the moment . The instant the arrow struck one of the Ferocious Chargers, it immediately burst into flame and roared in pain .
This was like the gunshot before a race, as conflict immediately broke out . Clarent quickly took to the sky and began firing out his flame . His targets were the monsters vulnerable to fire, like the Silent Spinners .
He might be a pureblooded Red Dragon, currently at the Medium-Rank, yet it didn't change the fact that combat wise, he was in the same situation as Draco . As a Rank 1, it was still hard to fight so many Rank 2 monsters at once .
The Silent Spinners seemed to have acknowledged him as their target as well, since they were the only monsters of this group with ranged attacks . They skittled around quickly, firing webs and nets from their spinnerets .
Clarent dodged these attacks and burned a few others with his default flame breath . Due to sheer the number of spinners, he was almost immediately trapped in a situation where he found himself unable to do anything but defend himself continuously .
Almost every moment was spent dodging or burning webs being fired at him with irritatingly sharp accuracy, so Clarent was technically out of the fight, but so were the Silent Spinners .
Qiong Qi was having an even tougher time . He had no ranged attacks like Clarent, so he had to rely on his claws and insane strength to fight .
However, since he was never supposed to leave the Flora and Fauna Unique Quest, the system had limited his strength to match Draco's Rank, so his power only increased whenever Draco Ranked up .
Qiong Qi swiped at the Lithe Stalkers, who were also a feline species, and the Killer Boars . The Lithe Stalkers were extremely agile and easily avoided his attack while putting in some of their own .
The damage they dealt Qiong Qi was non-existent, but it was irritating . He especially hated the pain, as they bit at him and scratched his fur . What was worse was that their attacks created openings for the Killer Boars to ram him .
Their sharp tusks failed to even pierce his skin, but the pain from the collision as well as the force of it knocked him back and ruined his stance . The Lithe Stalkers then jumped in to assault him heavily until he roared and smacked them away .
He only dealt 300 damage with a single swipe, and that disheartened him . He was continually suppressed by these monsters, especially the Killer Boars who timed their assaults extremely well .
This left the Long Snappers and the Ferocious Chargers for Draco to handle . He was able to do it with some semblance of steadiness . His shots were aimed at the Ferocious Chargers mostly, and since they were grouped together, the Sonic Wave passive dealt a sound damage to them .
The flat damage was 2,000 with every shot Draco fired . With his rate of fire that was 3 per second, he dealt a flat 6,000 damage to the Ferocious Chargers .
Luckily, Legendary weapons did not have stats and their damage output when using their effects was calculated differently . Otherwise, he would be lucky to deal 200 damage with his Sonic Wave passive .
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