Level 65 draconic monsters were really sothing else.
All this ti, Soren didn’t really face them head-on; he wasn’t much affected by their sole aura, unlike Elise.
But the mont one monster locked onto him, Soren lost his trump card instantly. It was so fast that he was really caught off guard.
Even his passive, King’s Grace, was a bit late to react, causing him to freeze montarily.
To be honest, Soren admitted that he got a bit carried away by greed, trying to get as many cores as possible before the monsters arrived.
Fortunately, although injured slightly, he did manage to gather 8 monster cores, all above level 60.
’System, use the GAP stat and increase the rank of my class.’
Now that he had suddenly lost his trump card, Soren felt far more insecure.
So, the mont he gathered himself, he imdiately distanced himself and flew above the sky, before landing right on top of a huge tree.
*Roar!*
Then he imdiately released his skill, Spirit of Zephyr, all the while ignoring the roaring monsters below, and gave the next order to his system.
He hoped that the monster core he just absorbed using his Unique Skill: Core Infusion was enough to sustain his next evolution, because he clearly got only 2 seconds of ti when he tentatively checked before.
Of course, he didn’t really evolve his class since he was always wary of doing so under the academy’s influence.
While he could make them believe that he sohow increased his class ranking from B to A-rank archer, he definitely couldn’t show them he was already an S-rank archer, however brief and temporary it might be.
But with his situation now, he had no choice.
He was just fortunate that this Thornscale Drake didn’t give him a stat reduction debuff, and only pressured him with Draconic aura.
Now, with no choice left, Soren hoped that his next evolution would help him in this predicant.
To be honest, considering his previous experience, Soren was a bit confident, foolishly so.
---
Ding!
[You have chosen to apply your new stat: GAP to your A-rank Class: Tempest Strider.]
[You have 1 GAP point.]
[Congratulations! Your class, Archer (A-rank), has evolved to Artemis’s Radiance (S-rank)!]
[Warning: Your mana core is too weak. You can maintain this state for only 2 seconds.]
[Multiple mana cores have been detected. You can use them to extend your current state by 5 minutes.]
[Using an affinity-attributed attack may reduce the remaining ti limit.]
---
And Soren was damn right.
The mont the system gave its prompt, he felt his muscles tightening and refining once more, his body becoming lean and precise, just like that of an archer, exactly as he had experienced before.
Only this ti, the change wasn’t limited to his body.
Sure, he felt his strength visibly increasing, and his eyes sharpening more than anything he had ever felt before.
Hell, Soren even felt his reflexes surge countless tis over.
But none of that grabbed his attention as much as the golden halo that slowly began emanating from his entire body.
"W-what is this?"
In fact, the halo was so pronounced that, for a mont, it almost overshadowed the one emanating from the World Tree in front of him.
Fortunately, it dimd quickly, letting Soren breathe a sigh of relief.
Still, he noticed that the light was strangely familiar, almost like the one he saw when using the skill, Artemis Grace.
’Co to think of it, even the class na is Artemis’s Radiance. Maybe it is connected sohow?’
*Roar!*
Soren didn’t have much ti to think, though, as after seeing his transformation, Thornscale Drake got visibly irritated and once again shot another tallic spike right at him with extre speed.
Once again, Soren felt the presence of the Razor-Sharp Shard right in front of his face, aiming to directly pierce through his head.
*Swoosh!*
But this ti, Soren wasn’t as helpless as before.
Every ti he increased his class rank using the GAP stat, his state was in the highest tier in that ranking.
Though he would be heavily nerfed due to his low mana and base physique and level, he would still be countless tis stronger than his usual state.
That’s why, although his A-rank class was nad Tempest Strider, it didn’t have the sa effect as when he beca that class from B-rank Archer using GAP before.
*Spirit of Zephyr!*
Once again, Soren used his movent-type passive skill, only to suddenly warp himself and Elise in a thin veil of wind, before disappearing from his position instantly.
*Boom!*
He was so fast that it almost looked as if he had teleported, appearing at a distance, watching the tallic spike directly pierce the tree he had been in, reducing it violently into tiny fragnts.
If Soren were even a second late, no doubt this would be his state right now.
And yet, despite such heavy danger surrounding them, ending in a life-and-death situation, Elise didn’t show even a bit of fear.
Rather, she was still hugging Soren’s neck, her breathing growing heavier and heavier all of a sudden. It was as if she had been affected by sothing after Soren increased his class to S-rank.
Unfortunately, Soren didn’t have ti to pay attention to her at all.
After all, the monster in front of him was level 65, almost double his level.
And it seed his continuous dodging had irked its nerves, as its eyes were practically glued to him, its thick, murderous, vertical eyes growing more and more bloodthirsty.
A re level 36 weakling, and that too a lower race, dared to save himself from two of its fatal attacks continuously.
How could it not be enraged?
However faint it may be, it definitely had a trace of Dragon Bloodline in its body.
And with that ca the pride that nobody should ever dare to trample on.
*Swoosh!*
In an instant, Soren felt sothing in the surroundings change as countless spikes around the body of the Thornscale Drake began to hum in extre resonance.
Simultaneously, a strange invisible field suddenly sprang from the body of the huge Drake, instantly engulfing the entire area, including the sky Soren was floating in, swallowing them both.
---
[Thornscale Drake has used its domain: Gravity Well!]
[You have been affected by the domain effect ’Crushing Gravity’. Your movent speed and agility have been reduced by 50% due to your low level.]
[All flying-type artifacts below C-rank have been forcibly suppressed.]
[You cannot fly using a normal attributed skill or artifact anymore.]
[Please note that you are now in a combat state and cannot leave the dungeon unless you leave its domain.]
---
Soren didn’t need the ’Voice of the World’ to tell him its effect, as the mont the field surrounded him, he felt his body getting countless tis heavier than ever before.
Not to ntion the artifact, the Crimson Wyvern Sigil directly stopped working.
Just as Soren felt a bit of dread due to the stat reduction, he suddenly felt his body glowing softly, slipping through the field lightly.
Simultaneously, he felt the cloud of heaviness dissipating, getting lighter all of a sudden.
"Hmm?"
For a mont, Soren was a bit shocked to find that he actually got out of the domain instantly.
’What happened?’
Soren was a bit confused when, once again, he heard the prompt from the ’Voice of the World’,
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[Your SS-rank passive, King’s Will, has nullified the domain: Gravity Well!]
[All stats have been completely restored. You are no longer affected by the domain’s effects.]
---
"Ah..."
Soren finally realized what had happened.
With his class ascension, all his skills also ascended by one rank, including his S-rank passive, King’s Grace.
Although Soren wanted to look at this new skill’s effect, he didn’t have ti for it after all.
*Roar!*
Not when he was still inside the domain.
Although Soren quickly adjusted himself in the sky with the help of his passive skill, it took him a mont to stabilize his body, losing his balance and falling slightly.
Unfortunately, the Drake seed to be waiting for him to lose his cool.
The mont he fell even slightly, it roared nacingly, displacing the air around it, and suddenly ran from its position, heading straight for Soren.
The most incredible part was that it was actually running in the sky, using its tallic spikes as steps, rising higher and higher.
Clearly, the Drake was not incapable of fighting in the sky at all. It just didn’t care to do so before.
*Boom!*
For such a large body, it showed incredible agility.
The ground it left directly caved in from the strong pressure, while Soren saw a literal huge boulder flying right in front, as if fired from a trebuchet.
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