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Shin and Alice explored a large portion of the Stormy Mountain Range and encountered a lot of Mutated Monsters along the way such as Death Trees, Man-Eating Vines, and a lot of plant-type monsters. There were also a couple of beast-type monsters, but most of them carried the properties of nature-related elents such as wood, grass, and others.
Mutated Monsters were slightly different from regular monsters of the sa type or breed. They possessed other abilities that were sowhat different from what the monsters of the sa type had. These new abilities could be from a different type of power or a unification of the original and newly acquired powers.
Most of the ti, Mutated Monsters were born when they t another source of power that triggered their mutation.
These monsters were different from a Variant Monsters which was an evolved monster of the sa type. These monsters possessed their original powers and abilities, but on a different scale and might.
Within «Destiny's Fate», these two categories of monsters were on equal terms, not having that much advantage over the other. They were equally powerful but also had unique advantages and weaknesses. However, most of them overca their weaknesses after their mutation and constant evolution.
So of these Mutated and Variant Monsters were equally strong as Lords, Overlords, and even King-Class or Emperor-Class Monsters, depending on how much mutation or evolution they went through.
Most of the monsters Shin and Alice encountered were only as strong as regular monsters with a couple of Elites and Special Elites in the mix. They had also encountered a few Mutated Monsters that were equally strong as Lords, which gave them a little challenge during the battle due to the terrain and environntal advantages that these monsters had.
Even if Shin and Alice were strong, especially when they had reached the Tier 3 Class, they were still having so trouble dealing with these monsters due to the region's climate, which limited most of their abilities. The environnt was also advantageous to plant-type monsters, so the powers that these monsters had were greatly enhanced.
Alice could take advantage of the storm present in the region. After all, her elental spirits were called 'Storm Brothers' for a reason, so such an environnt greatly enhanced their abilities instead of weakening them.
Her third elental spirit was also not restricted by the storm since she was a water-type elental, so most of her abilities were sowhat strengthened with such a storm hitting the region.
Even though Alice could only limit her Elental Magic to Lightning, Wind, and Water Elents, her firepower and other abilities were not much affected since the environnt greatly enhanced magic with such elents.
Moreover, she could also use her version of Elental Spirit Possession, where her Elven Companions fused with her magic itself when fighting.
On the other hand, Shin was greatly restricted by such an environnt, especially when he could only use the Primordial Lighting and the Chaos Slasher Possession.
Even if the might of these powers was also sowhat enhanced by the storm, his other abilities and elental possession were sowhat limited. Even the 'Dinsional Cutter Possession' was greatly restricted by the strange powers surrounding the entire mountain range.
With the limited powers on their hands, Shin and Alice could not fully showcase their peak potential.
anwhile, the monsters that they were encountering were greatly enhanced by such an environnt, increasing the challenge of each of their battle.
But the two of them were still apex experts of the ga, so they fully welcod these challenges and faced them head-on instead of avoiding them. They were treating this as so sort of obstacle that would greatly help them improve themselves.
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As they were exploring the region, Alice suddenly sensed a strange fluctuation in the mana lingering in the air. They followed it and realized that there was a powerful monster at the end of their destination.
"Based on my estimate, this monster can be as strong as an Overlord," she assessed after focusing her elental sense on the location of the monster.
On regular occasions, any of them could solo an Overlord Monster of this level. Even if it was a Mutated Overlord comparable to a King Class Monster of the sa level, the two of them would not be backing down on a battle and would welco the challenge instead, especially given their current strength.
But with such an environnt advantageous to the Mutated Monster and the restrictions that they had, the two fully understood that this would not be an easy battle.
They had to work together if they wanted to go through this hurdle.
Shin and Alice were discussing their strategy when they fought when both of them noticed so small movents coming from the distance.
Alice was constantly employing her Elental Sense to make sure that they would not encounter any ambush, so she was able to sense any kind of movents in the surroundings so long she heightened her senses.
Shin, on the other hand, was experinting with his new abilities. With the new Elental Skill: Demonic Telekinesis, he could now employ a few more ntalism Techniques that he had in the real world, and one of these abilities was his Spiritual Sense.
By secretly releasing the telekinetic powers that he had and spreading them in all directions, forming an invisible net, he could sense any movents in the surroundings no matter how small it was.
Adding these abilities with his Sensing Circle and Elental Unification Skills, he was able to clearly pinpoint the exact locations of his targets and even see through stealth, which was quite overpowered.
He was even a little better compared to Alice when it ca to this area.
"It seems like we have so company," mumbled Alice as she was about to direct her gaze at the location of their 'stalkers'.
But before she could fully turn, Shin suddenly stopped her actions and said. "There is no rush to expose them this early. I am sure that they still have a few more friends heading in our direction."
"Let's wait until then before taking action. Keeping an eye out for them is more than enough," he added as he resud their exploration, acting as if he had not noticed anything.
Alice looked at his back confusedly for a mont but still decided to follow his instructions.
Seeing that she followed his lead, Shin inwardly nodded his head while saying. "This is also for the better. They may even lead us to more clues related to our quests-… or at least for my quests."
"The number of mutated monsters in this region is too abnormal, so I am guessing that there is a major cause that is leading these monsters to evolve this this direction. It is highly possible that it is done purposely."
"It is not a corrupted or demonic power, but so sort of strange power. But we still can't ignore the possibility that this is related to Corrupted Cult or Demonic Churches, especially the latter since already involved with the Dark Cloud Kingdom."
Shin was making the chat as casual as possible to avoid any suspicion from the people tailing them.
On the other hand, Alice listened silently while focusing her senses on scanning the surroundings. It was at that mont that she noticed the strange formation covering the entire area.
As a Mage and an Enchanter, she was able to recognize instantly that it was so sort of sealing formation based on the fluctuation of mana in the air-… or at least a part of a whole, a much larger and more complicated formation.
She suddenly beca excited as she finally found a clue for her quest. She quickly inford Shin of her discovery. "There is an advanced sealing formation covering this area. It seems to be connected to a more advanced formation-… this can be my lead for my quest."
Shin slightly raised his brows as he fell in deep thought. He then turned to her and asked. "Can you investigate and figure out how to break it?"
Alice slightly knitted her brow before nodding her head. "It will require quite an effort, but it take a few minutes at most if I can focus on it."
"How about if we walk around while you are investigating the formation?" Shin asked again.
Alice was confused as to why Shin was asking this but still replied. "It will not be a problem. All I have to do is spread out my Elental Sense to feel the formation, and I will naturally figure out the way to break it."
"This one of the advantages of an Elven Sage majoring in Elental Magic Perception," she added.
Shin nodded. "Then we will do just that. We will take a full circle of the area while you are trying to figure the formation out. Then you can focus on breaking it down while I deal with those guys spying on us and the other possible distractions."
Alice nodded her head as she quickly got to work, releasing her mana, and spreading it in all directions, employing her special elental techniques along with her Elental Sense.
While she was busy inspecting the formation through her Elental Sense, Shin was keeping his guard up and eliminating all the monsters that they encountered along the way.
At the sa ti, he had also secretly released Blackie, Grimrace, and Hanzo so that they could keep an eye on the people watching them from the dark while also surveying the surroundings to watch out for the other 'guests' that they were expecting.
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It took at least a dozen minutes before Blackie reported to Shin that other people were heading in their direction through telepathy. She also inford Shin that there were at least two people, who were strong enough to threaten him and Alice.
She also added that these two people were emitting a dense Demonic Aura that was comparable, if not stronger, than any demonic players that he had encountered. She even compared him with phistopheles whom he had fought previously or Haowin, who had been defeated before.
Based on her observation, these two were as strong as Shin, or at least slightly weaker.
"If they are at least as strong as those two, then that ans that they are highly likely part of Pandemonium Descendants – belonging to Troupe mbers even," he mumbled after hearing the assessnt of Blackie.
After thinking a mont, Shin quickly instructed. "Take out those scouts observing us in secret, then kill as many of the others heading this way as possible."
When the elentals received the instructions from Shin, the three quickly moved and took down all the scouts in the vicinity without showing any rcy. They only needed a single strike to dispose of these people. Even Grimrace, who liked to cause trouble, did not dare to waste more ti on torturing his victims after hearing the serious tone from his master.
After making sure that they had not missed anyone, the three elentals quickly disappeared as they imdiately headed to their next target.
In the anti, Shin turned to Alice and asked. "Do you still more ti to break the formation? It seems like our 'guests' are a little troubleso this ti."
Alice felt sowhat dejected when converging with Shin since he always talked about business and nothing else. He seed to have put up a wall that prevented her from getting closer to him.
She was not sure why she was feeling this way, making her quite confused and affecting her mood to a certain extent. But after rembering that they were currently in a serious situation, she set her feelings and thoughts aside before responding.
"This sealing formation is quite strange. It is very advanced yet also quite ancient; complicated, but also easy to solve," she paused for a mont while deeply knitting her brows. "We can easily break the formation by killing the Mutated Monster ahead of us."
"It seems like it is the center of formation itself, so it will instantly collapse if it is eliminated," she added before turning ahead of them, looking in the direction where the Mutated Monster was located.
Shin thought for a mont when he heard that. There were two mbers of Pandemonium Troupe heading in their direction, so it could be risky to fight the Mutated Monster, especially when they could be ambushed from behind.
His Reaper's Retainers could buy them so ti, but it would not be long once the opposing side realized that they were only summonsed that could be forcefully unsummoned by the Spirit Awe Skill.
He also felt that the mutation of the monsters here was related to these people, so he could sowhat solve his problems with his quests once he dealt with them.
As for the Mutated Monster that was acting as a center of the sealing formation, it could be their crucial clue for Alice's quests.
Since they had mostly figured out where this was heading, Shin decided to deal with their possible obstacles before proceeding.
"Let's intercept those guys first before dealing with the Mutated Monster. It is our safest choice for now," he suggested.
Alice turned to him before nodding. She also understood that this was their best choice at the mont.
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