As soon as Ery's right foot stepped out of the portal, he was imdiately greeted by sight of hundreds of goblins and orcs turning their heads in his direction. It didn't even take a second? for the horde to start swarming over him with bloodthirsty intent that was very palpable.
The elite orcs and trolls might still be far from reaching Ery at the mont, but the sa couldn't be said to the pack of wyverns in the air. They had proceeded to follow the aggression led by the orcs and were currently plunging toward him at breakneck speed.
Savagery was evident in their crazed eyes as their bodies continued to descend. Their sharp claws had opened wide, ready to tear Ery's body into shreds.
There were three minutes remaining, but Ery only had a small amount of spirit energy in his body. Moreover, the difficult situation he was currently in clearly did not allow him to rest and recover his condition.
However, what concerned him the most was not those things. It was the heavily wounded Chumo.
The Asian Prince was struggling to open his already closed eyes. He subconsciously gritted his teeth due to the excruciating pain wreaking havoc in his body. Looking at the serious look on his friend's face, he whispered what he wanted to say. "Ery.. Just.. leave …"
Ery was silent when he heard that. A second later, he shook his head gently.
While it was true that he might be able to last three minutes under the flood of monsters by himself and that it would certainly not be easy if Chumo was still on his shoulder, Ery would rather not pass the level at all than to leave his last remaining friend to the monster's jaws.
Looking at the monster hordes that were quickly approaching, Ery decided to use the last bit of his spirit energy to cast [Granite Wall]. A wall quickly erged from the ground and surrounded the two people as he grabbed Chumo off his shoulder and put the latter down.
Chumo's reaction to this was unexpected, to say the least.
"What?!! ..I don't expect you are really going to leave here!!" cried the Asian Prince pitifully as if Ery's action quickly brought his energy back. "Ery, I have misjudged you!"
Ery couldn't hold himself from rolling his eyes at his friend's exaggerated reaction.
Unfortunately, he was mistaken as Ery didn't plan to give up just yet.
He proceeded to use his last resort, a card of his that had no need of spirit force.
[Fey Transformation]
[Second Stage]
Ery induced the power of the bloodline dwelling within his being. His appearance rapidly changed under its strong influence, transforming him into an embodint of savage beast.
His body grew and beca four tis its initial size, silver furs began to surface on his skin, while his nails and teeth turned into sharp claws and fangs. After the transformation was completed, he released a loud, ear-deafening howl.
HOOOOWWWWWLLLLLLLL!!!
[Battle power increased 30 points]
[Battle power increased 10 points]
[Battle power 180]
The howl he unleashed shook the cover the two currently in, manifesting cracks all over its surface. Thanks to that, the goblins and orcs didn't have to do much to break the wall down. However, they quickly stopped in their tracks when they saw the figure in front of them.
Ery's current appearance looked extrely nacing. As a matter of fact, he seed so dangerous that the orcs were hesitating whether to continue their attack or not.
It was not just the hordes, actually, the Asian young man who was currently sitting on the ground was also as terrified as soon as he saw Ery changes to this from
"NOoo..! No! Man.. You should have just let die back there!!"
Colors drained from Chumo's face as he imagined how his friend would go on a rampage and he would die under his hands. He threw himself to the ground, the expression on his face clearly showing resignation to his destiny.
However, to his surprise, the uncontrollable monster that couldn't differentiate between ally and enemy he imagined never appeared.
Ery only stood there and fixed his gaze on the sea of creatures before him. Even though he lost his ability to speak, he still maintained his clear consciousness. This was only possible thanks to the necklace he received, the [Beast Pendant].
Ery grabbed his terrified Asian friend with his furry hand and placed him on his back, carrying him like a sack of potatoes.
"...What the? Ery..?" said Chumo in a doubtful voice. A mont later, he finally connected the dots when he saw Ery didn't do anything to him. "Ohh! You can control your ability!!"
The revelation brought an untold amount of excitent to the usually calm youth.
"Hell yeah!! Go wolf- I an, Ery!! Kill them all!!" Chumo said while laughing energetically.
HOWWLLL!
Losing his ability to utter words, Ery responded with a similarly energetic howl as he glared at the horde with his glistening eyes.
With his newfound 180 battle power, no troll nor ogres could stop Ery as he charged forward and crashed into the horde. The figure of the silver fur wolf flickered across the sea of monsters, making a scene of destruction in its wake.
Many corpses began to be seen lying on the ground. Weak goblins died with wounds that looked like footprints, while Orcs could be seen flying in all directions as they were kicked around like one would to trash. Ery decimated these creatures like slaying rats.
A wyvern tried to attack from behind, taking advantage of the fact that he was busy killing. Unfortunately for it, Ery was more than ready to welco it.
The wyvern extended its sharp talons that could easily tear flesh as it swooped down, but Ery dodged the attack without looking back. He then turned around and grabbed the wyvern's leg, causing it to flap its wings frantically.
Unfortunately, it was too late to try to escape. Ery tightened his grip and slamd the wyvern onto the ground before proceeding to tear its wings off and smash its head into an unrecognizable mush.
It was a killing spree. A grueso massacre.
Ery continued killing and killing the creatures in front of him until he discovered that he had beco numb to it. Eventually, the notification the duo had been waiting for ca, stopping the forr from its spree.
[Congratulation on clearing level five]
[You are awarded 100.000 contribution points]
[Total number of acolytes: 19/692]
"Yeahhhh!!! Ery!!" shouted Chumo excitedly, his body was still on the wolf's back. The two of them watched as the tens of thousands of creatures around them began to disappear into specks of light. The scene was morable, to say the least.
"We did it, Ery!" Chumo said while patting his back passionately. "We did it!!"
Ery's appearance had begun to return to his human form, but the Asian Prince seed to refuse to get off his back.
"Hahaha, I am sorry," said Chumo. "You know, piggyback is really a thing to my people."
Ery decided to sensibly ignore such a remark and instead said, "Is this over?"
He wondered if they had reached the end already, as he honestly could not imagine having another level with their current condition. However, right as he finished speaking those words, his eyes caught sothing. In the far corner of his eyes, he saw a door had appeared and was slowly opening.
[Proceed to the door in 5 minutes]
Chumo seed to also notice the door's existence as his expression turned serious. The two best friends looked at each other, unsure whether they should be thrilled or not. Even so, they did not imdiately reject the challenge.
However, that also did not an that they would enter right away. Instead, the two took their ti to catch their breath back as they made their way toward the now fully open door.
When they passed through it, Ery could see that they were now in a huge, cave-like chamber.
Chumo, who had beco talkative now that there were only two of them, started saying jinx-like things like the place looked like a dragon's cave.
Upon hearing that, Ery gave his best to suppress the urge to smack this friend of his in the head. There was no way they could win against a dragon, not with just the two of them.
Then suddenly, Ery noticed a figure approaching their location. He imdiately took out his tier 4 sword, his body was tense as it was now ready to move whenever needed. However, he was taken aback when he heard his na being called.
"Ery!! Is that you?! You have made it too!"
The figure got closer, allowing the two to get a closer look. In addition to his extrely familiar and friendly voice, Ery finally put his sword aside because he knew who it was.
"Gerri!!"
"Just the two of you?! Where is your beautiful girlfriend?" asked Gerri
From the reaction, Gerri quickly understand that the other doesn't make it
"Yeah… my girls also didnt make it… well at least I still have this one big buddy of mine with "
Ery realize that Igor the half-blood was there behind him, but this ti Ivar was not. It seems Aiko the jade flash and Okoye also didnt make it past level 5.
He then quickly used his [Spirit Reading] and what he sensed surprised him for a mont. There were a total of nineteen people in this dark cave!
At the sa ti, he could feel sothing gathering in the middle of the cave.
When a person or a creature died in this virtual arena, they would turn into motes of light and disappear. However, what Ery was perceiving right now was the other way around.
A cloud of specks of light swirled in the center of the cave before spreading everywhere, allowing Ery to see the seventeen other people scattered throughout the room.
Most were familiar faces; the privileged acolytes and a few of the elites he recognized.
All of them, however, focused their attention on the gathering of light specks that gradually coalesce and form into a huge figure. At first, its rough build, then scales began to appear, followed by claws and bones.
Finally, a notification ca to Ery's mind.
[Bonus level]
[Bone Dragon - Mythical Beast - level 50]
[Battle power - undefined]
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