Chapitre 96: Fighting the bear again
Status Jade Lv. 12 sanguine snake
Mp 10+21+70
Strength 3+21+5
Constitution 3+21+3
Speed 6+21+7
Magic ability 5+21+3
Skills:
universal humanoid language, universal monster language, dungeon map, thermal detection
Sanguine bite lv. 3; blood-stealing constriction lv. 2; weak sanguine venom lv. 3; enhanced stamina lv. 5; sanguine boost lv. 3; stealth lv.1; energy fang lv.4; hardened scales lv.2; tail whip lv.2; heat resistance lv.3; blood magic lv.3; group fight tactics lv.1
It really leveled up! The first thing I do after waking up from my well-deserved rest is check my status and enjoy the number three that just quietly sits there next to sanguine boost.
From the looks of it that isn't the only skill that leveled up, though. Heat resistance, energy fangs, and my weak sanguine poison leveled up too. Who knew that fighting that bear could bring such great benefits!
Navi, I need to make some changes to the VR program. The crimson bear's attack pattern needs to be updated to include that rage mode.
<We can do that. Your timing is quite fortunate, Kent has just booked another go at your VR program. He seems to have taken a liking to it.>
I make my way to the lab where my memories are once again scanned and the bear's data is perfected. I would like to gather more data now that I know I can win but I suspect that this dream won't return until I'm about to level my sanguine boost up to level 4.
Navi, can I try the VR program in my real form?
<Oh, you want to see how close it gets to the original?>
That too but I'm more interested in fighting the bear myself. In my dream, I'm not in control of my body so I want to see if I could win the fight myself.
<That sounds like a good idea to me. Hop into one of the VR capsules for employees and I'll get the program started up.>
I hurry to one of the capsules and enter. Then, I spawn into an all too familiar basin that is soaked in blood. The many different monsters are fighting as I remember and at the center of the basin, I can see a hulking mass run around.
"Welcome to the sanguine VR program. This is a trial program that focuses on leveling the sanguine boost skill of the sanguine swordsmen. Your objective is to defeat all the monsters in the bowl- ahem, basin. For optimal effect, you should take on the bear last. While doing this you should attempt to keep sanguine boost active at all times."
A recording of my own voice is played. That's exactly what I told Ken when he did his first run of the program. Hearing the mistake I had made when I wanted to call the basin a bowl makes me want to hide in embarrassment.
Could you not have edited that?
<What do you mean? It adds to the charm of trying a beta program when there are some small flaws.>
Fine...
I activate my sanguine boost and charge into the raging cluster of monsters. Fighting these common monsters feels similar to my dream only that controlling my body to fight them myself makes the thing more mentally racing than I'm used to.
Every monster takes my all to defeat, forcing me to continuously exert myself. Still, I feel like my sanguine boost is changing deep within me. Getting pushed beyond my limits makes my blood burn hotter and my excitement goes through the roof.
I savagely tear into the last monster that separates me from the crimson bear and move to fight the final boss.
I wait for the bear to go onto his hind legs so that I can hit his exposed underside but the bear stays on all fours and keeps swiping at me with one paw. Why is he not fighting as he did in my dream?
<I thought it would be too easy for you that way so I temporarily sealed his instinct to do so. Give it your all, I'm cheering for you!>
Sure you are...
Without the bear revealing its belly this fight will get harder. However, I can totally afford to lose so I'll play it cool and rush in headfirst.
I push forward as fast as I can and launch a blood edge at the bear's face. It breathes fire and the blood edge turns into steam and a few splatters of blood.
Unfortunately, it doesn't hit the bear's eyes so the colossus' sight is still uninhibited. Looks like luck is an essential part of fighting strong enemies.
Unlike before the bear isn't gravely wounded so while it breathed fire it didn't activate that skill where its fur starts to heat up as well. Waiting until it's exhausted isn't possible like this.
Thinking along those lines I keep advancing and slip under the bear's hulking frame. In order to win this, I'll have to take a risk. And as I feared the bear immediately drops his body once I am beneath him in an attempt to crush me.
It's now or never. I launch two blood edges at once and dart to one side hoping to avoid being flattened into a pancake.
Without any room or awareness to dodge the two bloody arcs dig into the unprotected belly and leave two nasty wounds. The pain makes the bear stop falling as it pushes its legs beneath its body again to prevent falling onto the sliced open belly.
Its fur begins to glow and I know that things are about to get ugly. The bear has locked onto me with its beady eyes and its fur starts to light up. I don't dare to get close to the bear anymore but the beast makes it quite hard to keep my distance.
It ignores every attack from my side and charges forth with wild abandon. My energy fangs despite there being four of them now are unable to deal any significant damage and as a melee fighter myself I have no other methods to attack over a distance.
État de l’alimentation hebdomadaire
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Power Stone 
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