Chương 25: Dante's Hand Severed

Looking at Dante, who was lying down after he hit the massive tree and made a big dent in it, the lion immediately charged again as it didn't want to waste this opportunity.

As soon as Dante saw that the lion was charging towards him again, he made every effort to jump to the right in order to avoid the attack.

Unfortunately for him, because he couldn't feel and move his left hand, his left hand was swaying openly and got hit by the lion's attack.

Which caused his left hand to be severed and blood to begin spilling from it.

Dante felt lucky that he reacted fast enough because if he had reacted even 0.1s after, the result would've been disastrous and he would be lucky if he could save his life at that point.

Subsequently, Dante hit his acupoints in his left shoulder to stop the bleeding and immediately prepared to use his trump card, [Chaos Resonance].

[Chaos Resonance] was similar to [Blood Ignition], as the only difference was that it used his demon and elf's blood essence at the same time and combined them, resulting in a significant boost of strength.

However, if he used [Chaos Resonance], his future was basically ruined as he wouldn't be able to progress further since his foundation would be ruined, let alone the fact that he would've also consumed a huge amount of his life force, resulting in his life span nearing his end.

"Go Back!" Lyra shouted to Dante as she immediately raised her other hand and used her talent [Frostfire Elemental Synergy].

A crimson-red magic circle appeared in her hand, and she quickly fused it with the existing one, forming a combined red and blue magic circle that upgraded the previous prison into the [Frostfire Prison].

Feeling that the cage should be able to hold them down for a while, she immediately helped Dante, who had retreated when he heard Lyra's voice.

After another red and blue magic circle appeared above her hand, she made 10 big Frostfire arrows and immediately released them, aiming them at the Lion who tried to chase Dante.

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"He's done with absorbing his energy, huh? I didn't expect that it would be this fast." The fluffy creature mumbled as it looked at Cain, whose body had become normal, and opened his eyes.

"Hufft… I felt that my body had become two times stronger than before." Cain exhaled his breath and felt happy as he had finally done absorbing the energy and didn't feel the pain anymore.

He then checked his stats as he wondered how much stronger he had become by enduring that much pain.

[Personal Information]

[Name: Cain Frostbane]

[Age: 18]

[Race: Human]

[Bloodline: 9-Tailed Heavenly Demon Fox]

[Attribute: Peak-level Dark Element, High-level Ice Element.]

[Beast Master Level: Diamond Rank Beast (Rank 6)]

[Contracted Beast: Ice Dragon (Diamond Rank Beast)]

[Talent: Wind Manipulation (SS Rank)]

[Skills: Dark Slash, Ice Claw, Ice Spike, Ice Breath, Frost Armor]

[Strength]: 68,751 > 137,502

[Agility]: 62,501 > 125,002

[Health]: 75,001 > 150,002

[Sense]: 62,501 > 125,002

[Energy]: 236,253 > 472,506

While he was checking his own stats, he noticed that Elara was running towards him and immediately hugged him while crying.

"Wahhh… Are you okay? I-I thought that there was something wrong with you! T-The others are also fighting their best. A-And woman came out of the portal."

Elara cried while hugging him tightly, as her emotions were still filled with fear because once in a while, she heard loud sounds from the fight that happened in the surroundings.

"Huh? What are you talking about? Can you explain it to-..."

Boom!

Before Cain finished his sentences, he heard a loud explosion sound coming from Nix's direction and immediately asked Elara seriously.

"Elara, what's happening right now? Tell me!"

However, before Elara explained to him, he felt a stream of information enter his mind and immediately knew what was happening here.

"You better go help your subordinates right now. Otherwise, the situation will go out of control." The fluffy creature said while looking down at Cain as he was hovering above him.

Hearing the familiar mechanical voice, Cain immediately tilted his head up and saw that there was a white little fluffy creature who looked similar to a roundball but with little hands and feet.

He tilted his head immediately because he heard the voice in real life instead of through his mind.

That's why he suddenly had a guess but set his thought aside for now because he had something more important to do.

Cain then pushed Elara with both of his hands slowly and stopped her from explaining further.

"Elara, I already know the situation, and I'm sorry, but I really need to go there to help them. Stay here and wait for me, okay?"

Cain helped Elara wipe her tears before immediately running as fast as he could towards Dante and Lyra's location.

"Be careful!" Elara shouted loudly as she looked at Cain, who seemed to be in a hurry since he didn't even bother waiting for her reply and immediately went away.

Elara then clenched her fist tightly so tightly that her nails pierced her skin, causing her blood to dip from his palm.

She just felt helpless that she couldn't help Cain, as she was just a normal elf who hadn't even awakened her talent yet.

On his way to the location, Cain felt extremely angry towards himself, because if he hadn't accepted the blessing at this place filled with strong beasts, these accidents would've never happened in the first place.

However, after thinking carefully, he thought that it was not his fault either since he didn't know that he would attract beasts when he accepted the blessing.

If he knew about it, he would've prepared for the worst-case scenario and found a safer place.

As the place where Dante and Lyra fought was nearby, his quick thought immediately stopped when he had arrived at the scene.

However, when he looked at the scene in front of him, he instantly became enraged as he saw that Dante had lost his left hand and was running away while Lyra helped him with attacking the lion from above.

"HOW DARE YOU!"

Cain shouted and immediately went all out as he unleashed his full combat power by activating his 9-Tailed Heavenly Demon Fox Bloodline, increasing his stats by 10x more than before.

Because he had calculated that his stats was still far less than the beasts, he instantly burned his blood essence a little bit, as he didn't want to have many backlashes and ruin his future.

Subsequently, Cain felt that his strength had soared to the sky as his stats had increased by around 50 times more than the original.

At the same time, when he unleashed his full power, all of the beasts immediately stopped fighting and got on their knees as they felt an enormous invisible pressure that forced them to do so.

Especially the Foxes, who had similar bloodlines that could be said on the same line with 9-Tailed Heavenly Demon Fox Bloodline.

The only difference between them was the difference in rank, because if you compare the rank between them, it was similar to comparing a tiny dust with the massive earth.

Which was why the foxes' bodies were immediately pressed on the ground and they couldn't even move an inch.