Standing in the middle of the forest where demonic beasts twice or thrice the size of ordinary beasts on earth roamed around everywhere was a humanoid demon with jet black skin and two small wings on his back.
And despite the possible danger that the humanoid demon might encounter with so many demonic beasts around, he was just standing leisurely with a long stick in his hand, seemingly drawing something on the ground.
"If I change this part of the spell and added more darkness tendril rune will it have enough strength to deal a lot of damage?" The humanoid demon muttered out loud.
After pondering for a while, he shook his head left and right, "No, no, no, the problem wasn't the number of darkness tendrils in the first place. I already knew that with enough darkness tendrils, I could destroy a chunk of the forest."
"But with many darkness tendrils, they all couldn't come at the same time and needed time to appear. If my enemy was like the crow, they could sense the nether around them becoming unimaginably denser and they would be able to react to it, my spell wouldn't be able to surprise anyone with that, I need something else."
The humanoid demon scratched his head in frustration as he found no answer to the question that was hovering above his head.
"However, just one darkness tendril is not enough to do any kind of meaningful damage to those creatures that have steel for their skin…"
A single darkness tendril might be able to put a hole easily through the weaker boars that were present all around, especially with his spirit stat that has been ever increasing with each level-up, making his darkness spells have purer and denser darkness elements in them.
But if it was the crow or the komodo dragon, then it would be considered lucky if he could pierce halfway through those creatures' bodies.
"Ah… This is a year-end-physics-exam level of frustrating, maybe even more…"
Blake had spent a few hours outside Vera's isolated space, standing around with a stick to draw demonic runes on the ground, trying to figure out the formula that he needed to create the new spell that he had been thinking about since yesterday.
He could use Vera's basement for the spell testing part, but since he hadn't even thought about what kind of spell he wanted to create, he didn't want to bother Vera with his ramblings and decided to do it outside of the isolated space.
He had also been tempted to ask Vera about what he should do and whether she had something that could solve his problem, but he decided against it for the time being as he wanted to try and come up with his own spell first since there wasn't any urgency in having a powerful single attack spell in his arsenal.
Creating a powerful single-attack spell was seemingly harder than he had expected, but with nothing on his agenda except for his goal of being as strong as possible in the shortest amount of time possible, Blake couldn't give up on creating that spell.
Having that kind of spell in his arsenal was simply too beneficial for him to miss out.
Like ending a fight early without having to play cat and mouse with his opponent was one of the benefits he might get from having such a spell.
However, after testing out this and that, and also thinking about all the possibilities his brain could come up with, Blake was still stuck on figuring out how he could create something very powerful using the darkness elements that weren't related to hundreds of darkness tendrils.
Just like what he said earlier, it was like a physics exam.
With his photographic memory, Blake was able to easily memorize all the formulas, and constants with unusual exact numbers, heck he even memorized the questions in the mock tests.
But when it comes to the actual exam, Blake still found it quite hard to put all the formulas and constants together to find the answers.
Just like his current situation where he memorized all the darkness elements runes that Vera had taught him and how to use them, but still found it hard to get the answer that he was looking for.
The problem with darkness elemental spells so far was that Blake mostly knew about the darkness tendrils.
And the darkness tendrils were definitely a strong rune to be used in all kinds of spells. They were very versatile.
A single of them could help him move from trees to trees with ease and reach greater heights that he couldn't get to using his sole strength, a few of them with certain commands could be used as ropes to hold down his enemies, and another command could be used to make those bendy tendrils into a straight, rigid ones that could pierce through his enemies.
But that versatility was a problem on its own. The darkness tendrils weren't specialized in anything.
Blake had a few encounters with other elements so far, and he could say that each of them had different defining qualities from the other.
He couldn't say what all of them were, but a few that he knew clearly were the earth element and the wind element.
The earth element was as hard and rigid as the earth itself just like the spells that could be created with that element.
Earth walls, earth spikes, and even the base of the dark earth armor were the earth element, the dark part was the complimentary element that enhanced the base earth armor.
An earth spike was several times tougher than a darkness tendril even if Blake commanded the darkness tendril to be rigid. For example, Blake would need tens of darkness tendrils stabbing holes onto a boar's body if he wanted to stop it from being able to move.
But if Blake was able to pierce through the earth spike spell to the boar's body, then two earth spikes would be more than enough to completely nail that boar from moving.
And the case with wind elemental spells, simply speaking, they were fast.
The case with the wind tornado from the crow was a slightly different case since it looks like the wind element was both destructive and fast at the same time.
But it was due to the crow's strength being above the others that it looked that way.
The other birds that Blake met in the forest, the smaller ones, were the ones that gave a correct representation of the wind elemental spells.
Although they also dive down and attack their prey since their 'small' body was still enough to eat half of Blake's face whole, their main source of attacks was the wind blades that they sent out.
Blake was quite fortunate that he could also use the dark earth armor on his own, but without it, he would have several scars on his body due to the wind blades traveling so incredibly fast that his physical strength wasn't capable of dodging all of them correctly.
If not for the fact that there was a greenish hue from the wind elements showing where the winds had gathered and made it possible for Blake to anticipate those wind blade attacks before they were launched, then he was sure that the dark earth armor would receive quite a beating.
And the problem with the darkness elements, was it didn't have any special qualities - or more correctly, versatility was its special quality.
Blake tried to come up with more ways for some time before deciding that he needed more inspiration to be able to do this and went back to the house to cook that chicken wing that he had been wanting to eat after storing the crow's body.
The marination process took some time, so Blake stored the marinated meats inside a cupboard first and let them sit for a whole day before saying his goodbyes to Vera and going out of the house to continue his journey with his gorilla friend.
The forest was vast, and there were still a lot of places that he had never been in, and Blake was hoping that his encounter with different kinds of beasts would give him the inspiration that he needed to create his own spell.
"Shhh… Be still Robus, be still…" Blake half whispered.
"rr-" Robus wanted to reply, but Blake patted his shoulders and hushed him again.
"Don't say anything yet, your voice is way too loud even if you try to whisper." Blake, who was still sitting on top of Robus' shoulders said.
The two of them were currently hiding behind a thick bush and a large tree.
With Robu's huge stature, he was forced to literally crawl on the ground since his body which was half the height of the trees around him were still very noticeable if he didn't put his limbs sprawled on the ground.
The two of them didn't usually hide from anything other than when they spotted a strong creature like the komodo dragon or the huge crow as they welcomed every demonic beast that they met along the way with a fight.
However, despite there weren't any demonic beasts at the komodo dragon's level, they still hid behind a bush for a single reason.
And that was to see the specific beast that had caught Robus' and Blake's interest.
The same with Robus and Blake, the beasts that they were currently eyeing right now also had 2 arms and 2 legs.
And although they still use their arms somewhat to support their body, they still mainly use their legs to stand, and were capable of using solely their feet to keep their balance.
But between Blake and Robus, those creatures were more similar to the latter than the former because of the fur that was covering their whole body except for the front of their faces.
And if not for the noticeably long tail on their backside, they would definitely be mistaken as a smaller version of Robus.
Yes, the creatures that Blake and Robus were currently observing right now were none other than the monkeys.
Or at least, the demonic beast equivalent of monkeys.
Different from the tiny earth monkeys that were usually the size of a human's baby, the monkeys that the two were currently observing were the size of an orangutan, or to put it in human terms, they were the size of the average early teenage years human.
Their furs were relatively brown throughout their whole body and their nails were seemingly longer and stronger than the monkeys that Blake remembered.
But that was it, despite the slightly different appearance, Blake couldn't be mistaken as them being monkeys.
And the reason that Robus and Blake were hiding was none other than because Blake was slightly surprised that monkeys really did exist in the forest.
It wasn't surprising at all, seeing monkeys inside a forest with huge trees filled with fruits and plants, but remembering his totally made-up ramblings back then to make Robus agree to make a covenant with him by insulting him to be a monkey, made Blake thought whether the monkeys in the demon realm were really cowards and weak as he said.
Hence why he decided to spend some time observing them first before, of course, fighting them since Robus was already very eager to fight those monkeys that were supposed to be the inferior version of himself - according to Blake that is.
'There are 4 of them together, which means they also live in groups, the same as the monkeys back on earth…'
'Their elements were unknown, but I'm sure that they've already awakened their bloodline power since they were living this deep inside the forest. I need to watch out for that.'
'Even with their bigger bodies here compared to their earth counterparts, they were still able to move very agilely, even faster than me possibly… But their speed wasn't anything too special, my spells should still be able to hit them.'
'But that wasn't necessarily true since I haven't seen them move at full speed yet… I need to be more -'
"Rrr"
Blake's thought was suddenly cut off as he heard Robus calling out to him.
"Wait a little Robus, I just want to make sure that we can take on four of them at the same time."
"rrrr…"
"No, it's not because I'm afraid, but -"
"Rrr"
"But -"
"rr"
"Alright, alright… Let's do this…"
Blake was always careful when meeting new creatures, especially when the monkeys didn't look as weak as the other creatures that they have met along their journey so far.
And although Blake was confident with his own ability, he still needed to make sure twice that he would be able to successfully pull off whatever he decided to do, or at least he would have a high chance of doing it, just like when he decided to split up with Robus and fought the huge crow alone.
But with some convincing and added with some insults, Robus was finally able to make Blake stop worrying and start doing instead.
It usually takes more than a few insults here and there for Robus to convince Blake, but since Blake didn't feel any danger from the four monkeys, Blake decided to put aside his worry and just fully trust in Robus and his strength this time.
"3… 2… 1… Go!"
After fighting together for quite some time, Robus and Blake already had their own strategy instead of just blindly charging forward.
It wasn't anything fancy since anything complicated would trouble the gorilla, in fact, it was just a common combination that was used in most RPG games back on earth.
Tankers in front, damage dealers at the back. That was the exact strategy that the two of them used every time they fought their enemies.
The stronger ones, that is. If it was only the low-leveled boars or wolves, then Blake alone or Robus alone was enough to solo the whole group.
But since they had traveled quite far away into the forest and the fact that the demonic beasts that the two of them met in the deeper parts of the forest were only getting stronger, Blake decided to go with that basic tanker and damage dealer formation.
However, there's a slight modification in that strategy as Blake wasn't really a glass cannon that couldn't keep himself safe.
Instead of hiding behind Robus' humongous body and throwing spells every once in a while when he got the chance, the moment Robus made his presence clear by jumping straight in front of the monkeys and roared, Blake had already made his way and circled around the side of the monkeys, ready to launch his spells and bombard the monkeys with his hundreds of darkness tendrils.
Blake was ready to help Robus intercept the monkeys' attacks and possibly slip in a couple of marking spells here and there since that was usually the scenario when a group of creatures suddenly saw a towering gorilla appear right in front of them.
But little did Blake expect that instead of throwing their attacks or activating their bloodline power after they heard Robus' roar, the moment they saw the huge gorilla appear in front of them, the monkeys didn't even have a shred of hesitation as they turned their tails and started running away to the complete opposite direction of where Robus had come from.
'...'
'Well, at least it turns out that I wasn't wrong when I say they were cowards…'
Comentário de parágrafo
O comentário de parágrafo agora está disponível na Web! Passe o mouse sobre qualquer parágrafo e clique no ícone para adicionar seu comentário.
Além disso, você sempre pode desativá-lo/ativá-lo em Configurações.
Entendi