Chapter 21: Battling the Chimera
The Chimera before them had the head of a tiger and a lion, the body of an eagle, the feet of wolves, and a scorpion's tail.
It ferociously attacked, with each strike sending party members flying. Even with both parties combined, they were at a heavy disadvantage.
Silva looked at this Chimera, and an irresistible urge to fight filled him. He could tell it was strong.
He used dragon eyes on it to see its stats, and just as he assumed, it was strong.
[Chimera lvl 50]
Strength: 150
Defense: 160
Speed: 180
Agility: 180
Intelligence: 140
The lowest stat of this Chimera was its intelligence, and it was still a staggering number.
Silva felt his blood boil; he wanted to fight it so badly, he needed to. This would be his first opponent that was around his strength for a long time.
He took out his sword and stared at the fight. Quin saw this, shook his head, and spoke.
"Can you take it down?" Quin asked.
"Definitely," Silva responded, not breaking his gaze.
"Alright, then do what you want to," Quin said. He didn't finish his sentence, but Silva had already disappeared.
Silva used flash step from the get-go and arrived at the Chimera in less than half a second.
The Chimera noticed the new threat quickly and recognized that it would be in trouble if that person hit him. It retreated, barely escaping Silva's blade.
"Whoa, to think you have your own flash step and that crazy reaction time," Silva said with a pleased expression.
The parties that had been fighting were shocked to see Silva. Where did he come from? Did he teleport?
Silva looked at them and spoke, "You guys are heavily beaten up. You should rest; I'll take up the fight from here."
"Who the hell do you think you are? You want to steal our kill?" one of the party captains yelled at Silva.
"What did you just say?" Silva looked over, his eyes glowing. A pressure poured out from his body, so much that even his party felt it and were having issues.
The captain who had spoken took the full brunt of it. He fell to the ground with terror in his eyes.
Silva faced forward, looking at the Chimera. "Alright, now it's you and me. We can dance to our hearts' content.
You will be the foe I use to enter the new level, so come at me with all you have, or you'll die," Silva said.
The Chimera didn't know why, but for some reason, it felt compelled to move first. If it didn't move, it felt as though it would die.
Roarrrrrrrrrrrr!
The Chimera charged like a rushing bull. It came in for a two-directional bite, one for the arm and one for the head—the benefit of two heads.
The scorpion tail also came from above, locking in three directions that the attack would land from.
Silva smiled. He calculated the trajectory of all three attacks in his head. He stepped to the side slightly to dodge the stinger while placing his sword at his back to parry the lion's head.
He raised one leg and kicked the tiger's head, escaping all attacks at the same time. He pushed the heads back and took a few steps back.
"Your strength is on par with mine. Still, I don't want to use any skills; I want to fight this out," Silva said and charged at the Chimera.
The Chimera swung its paw, and Silva parried to the side. He spun around and slashed the back of the leg, sending the Chimera into a world of pain.
The Chimera tried to back away, but Silva was already charging at him. It quickly used its stinger, coming at full speed. Silva used his sword to block the full strength of that stinger.
BAM.
The sword cracked on impact. It didn't break, but that spider-like crack spread all over it.
"I knew I should have bought a better blade; this one is shitty," Silva complained.
This was his current best sword, and the other ones inside his inventory were all worse than this one.
He normally overwhelmed his opponents, so he never saw the need for another sword.
The Chimera saw the situation with the sword and wanted to attack again.
"Corrode." Silva cast a darkness spell. A dark orb shot from his palm to the face of the lion head and started burning the face.
The Chimera fell back in pain as it roared and shook its head like crazy.
"You thought you could use the opportunity to finish me off? Think again." Silva charged at the Chimera. He leaped into the air and was about to slash down.
Unexpectedly, the stinger attacked once again with more force. The stinger shattered the sword as he blocked with it, but it couldn't get to Silva.
Silva landed on the ground. He took a look at his sword that had been shattered down to the handle.
"Here, take this." The second captain threw his sword at Silva. Silva caught it and looked at the blade.
This sword was the best he had held. It was light, sturdy, and extremely sharp. He felt like he could slice through steel easily with this.
He looked up at the Chimera that had finally regained composure.
"Alright, let's try this again," Silva said. He ran towards the Chimera, going head-on for it. The Chimera saw this and attacked with its stinger.
Silva could easily handle all this situation with the arsenal of crazy skills and spells he had, but he wanted the thrill of battle, so he refused to use any.
He used the sword to parry the stinger, and it worked well. He was amazed by how much his flow increased by just switching his weapon.
The stinger dug into the ground beside him. Silva made a quick spin and slashed the stinger, cutting it off.
The Chimera roared in pain as blood spilled from its tail, but it had to steady itself because Silva was already charging for the closest limb.
Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone