Chapter 199: Real Might And A Deity - 3
So beasts possessed hidden traits—traits not classified by the system simply because they were obvious to the naked eye.
One such trait was Giant Body. Or in the Colossus’s case, a Colossal Body once it reached the later stages.
This trait granted a beast extraordinary vitality and multiplied its raw strength by several coefficients, while also reducing agility(sharp, jerk-like movents). Another trait that any giant-type beast automatically acquired was known as Domineering Presence. Due to its sheer size alone, its existence imposed pressure upon all surrounding beings. Even if its rank was lower, it could still threaten higher-ranked creatures of smaller stature.
Size itself beca a weapon.
HOOOOOONNNGGGGGGG!
Howl roared once more, but this ti the sound carried a different power.
Its skill [Scream] activated.
The shockwave rippled through the air, rattling leaves and splitting the ground beneath. The Magic Scorpion froze mid-motion, its movents turning sluggish as its consciousness plunged into a dazed state.
Lily did not waste the opening.
She swiftly summoned thick chunks of vines, layering them one after another until the scorpion was completely bound. Already heavily injured, it struggled briefly before going still—officially taken out of the battle.
The Lion, on the other hand, remained comparatively unbothered. It continued fighting Shyra and Nyxa with steady dominance. It was obvious that, given enough ti, the Lion would win.
But—
"Singham, stop," Leon commanded.
The Lion halted instantly, retreating a few steps and creating distance. Almost at the sa mont, Shyra and Nyxa also stopped, having received Leo’s intent.
The battlefield fell silent.
Leo, however, was no longer paying attention to the fight. For him, it was already over.
His gaze was fixed entirely on Howl.
"There’s—" Leo exclaid, staring upward. "Its body length increased by almost two hundred ters!"
His eyes then shifted to the massive structure growing along Howl’s back.
"And what happened to the Titanbreath Lotus?" he muttered. "Damn... it looks like a whole tree."
The Titanbreath Lotus was the treasure Leo had acquired from the Tree Behemoth. Since the treasure generated an enormous amount of energy—and Howl was always starving for it—Leo had given it to him without hesitation.
But the mont the treasure acknowledged Howl as its new guardian, a structural transformation had begun.
The Lotus started growing, reshaping itself to accommodate Howl’s imnse energy consumption.
Now, it stood nearly twenty ters tall. Its vitality-rich bark was over three ters thick, and the number of sockets used to recharge heartstones had increased dramatically—from six to nearly thirty.
Even the heartstones it periodically produced had undergone a massive boost.
[Heartstone Generation Period]
Mid Blue-tier – 5 days → 1 → 5 (2 days charge ti)
High Blue-tier – 10 days → 1 → 5 (3 days charge ti)
Peak Blue-tier – 20 days → 1 → 5 (4 days charge ti)
Low Purple-tier – 40 days → 1 → 5 (5 days charge ti)
The charge ti itself remained unchanged.
However, at the mont, heartstone production had slowed—most of the energy was being diverted to feed the Colossus.
And it was feeding well.
That much was obvious from its terrifying growth.
Howl now spanned nearly 400 to 450 ters in length, 200 to 250 ters in width, and stood 200 ters tall.
That was almost nine hectares.
Or roughly thirteen soccer fields.
"Whoa..." Leo muttered in awe. "This bastard is becoming a more and more suitable place to build a house on."
Then—an idea struck him.
"Wait!" His eyes lit up. "Why don’t I build my territory over it?"
He paused, then nodded repeatedly, increasingly convinced.
"That way, when I leave the academy, I can just take my entire territory with ."
A genius plan.
Leo was still lost in his daydream when he noticed Leon unsummoning his beasts and walking away, bitterness etched clearly across his face.
"Ay—wait! Where are you going?" Leo shouted.
Leon turned back, irritation flickering in his eyes.
"What?" he snapped. "You think I can fight that Colossus? I don’t even know how you managed to ta it."
Even my mana is running Low...
His gaze lingered on Howl before he muttered the rest under his breath.
"For a beast that large, you’d need a spiritual space vast enough to accommodate it... You must have so ridiculous technique to enhance it."
"Great techniques?" Leo echoed.
Leon scoffed.
"Don’t act dumb. Or are you saying your soul rank is so absurdly high that your spiritual space naturally turned out to be so large?"
He paused, then frowned.
"That would an you’d even surpass the bas—Emperor."
Leo felt as if his Mythical Soul had almost been exposed.
He laughed awkwardly and waved it off.
"Oh, haha... I guess that old man back in the city really taught so good stuff."
Then Leo grinned and extended his hand.
"Anyway, since you can’t fight anymore, why don’t you join ? I promise—I treat my subordinates very nicely."
Leon stared at the offered hand for a mont.
Then he shook his head.
"No. I like solitude."
With that, he turned to leave again.
Leo noticed the blood still seeping through Leon’s bandages.
"At least let my beast heal that wound," Leo said seriously. "I saw it, your beasts weren’t trying to kill us. Otherwise, Nyxa or Shyra would’ve been sent back to the temple countless tis."
Leon glanced at his arm and muttered, "It won’t heal..."
Leo heard him.
"What?"
Leon clicked his tongue. "No thanks. I can manage."
Leo stared at him, baffled.
Is he a masochist?
Only then did Leo notice the countless scar marks covering Leon’s body.
"...Or does he just like scars?"
There were many strange people in the world. Leon was probably one of them.
Leo sighed, then raised his voice again.
"At least get your beasts healed. Shyra’s scratches aren’t easy to deal with."
Leon paused. Slowly, he turned back, eyes narrowing.
After a mont, he summoned both his beasts again. This ti, they showed no hostility.
Leon approached Singham and carefully examined the wounds, running his hand through them.
"...Poison. And spatial distortion," he murmured. "Yeah... healing this would cost a fortune."
He turned to Leo.
"Fine. Heal them. But I won’t pay."
"I didn’t even ask," Leo replied calmly, signaling Shyra and Niri forward.
Niri and Lily had already finished healing Shyra and Nyxa. Though Shyra and Singham clearly disliked one another—being the sa species with drastically different fighting styles—they obeyed their masters’ commands.
Leo saw that Singham could actually reduce its size to just over three ters, much like the druid, and concluded Shyra might also receive such size alteration skill later on.
Shyra removed the lingering spatial distortions caused by [Umbral Rift Pounce], after which Niri repeatedly cast [Nature’s Heal] on both beasts.
Within minutes, Singham and Grivak were restored to peak condition.
Niri, however, collapsed from exhaustion, falling asleep atop Shyra’s back.
"You really don’t want healing for yourself?" Leo asked one last ti.
"No. I’m leaving," Leon replied flatly.
He climbed onto Singham’s back, and the beast sprinted off at terrifying speed. It seed Singham possessed a Feline Agility trait similar to Shyra’s.
Once Leon disappeared from sight, Leo finally turned back—
And froze.
The Druid was bowing to Howl...?
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