Half an hour later, Almond opened his eyes as they glimmered with a hazy white-green spark that had shining black borders.
‘I got it…’
‘The full concept behind the creation of Spirit.’
Almond stood up, prompting Malin to look at him.
“Are we done, boss?”
Almond nodded as he looked in the direction leading deeper into the oasis, “It’s time to hunt the monster.”
“Let’s go!” Malin said with a grin and conjured a wind bird. “I’ve put a tracker on it, so I know where its location is.”
…
In the northwest of the oasis was a beautiful lake surrounded by ample trees.
A creature glistening with metallic silver fur and four arms was swimming in the lake. It had blood-red patterns on its silver fur and a red crystallized horn on its forehead.
Sanguine Silverite Kong—Special Monster. [1000 points]
“This gorilla is pretty powerful. And the most tricky thing is that he got some space elemental powers,” Malin somberly said. “Boss, it’d be hard to sneak up on this bastard.”
Almond looked at the monster from over two hundred meters away while standing on a tree’s branch and scanned it.
[Sanguine Silverite Kong]
Lifeform Rank: Mortal
-Ability Power: S+
Prana Sea: 112Soul Sea: 104Stats:
— Body Constitution: 121
— Mental Constitution: 94
— Soul Constitution: 104
— Arcane Constitution: 92
“Even if it has space powers, it can’t escape me, nor can it catch me,” Almond said before his eyes flickered and a dreamy thread emerged from his back and flew towards Malin.
“You know your job. Make sure you provide the Prana swiftly.”
The thread was something Almond created several hours ago to transfer Prana from Malin to himself over the long distance.
Malin grabbed the thread and nodded. “Gotcha.”
Almond vanished as he teleported afterward, appearing right above Sanguine Silverite Kong while a humming draconic maw manifested half above water and half below water, intending to bite down on the gorilla with its vibrating penetrative set of fangs.
If Arbitrary Viper: Erasure Edge was most optimized to slice up enemies, then Arbitrary Wyrm: Dismantle Fang was fully optimized to break down enemies and pierce tough defenses.
Alas, the maw snapped shut, but Sanguine Silverite Kong vanished and appeared above Almond, its palms joined together and glowing as the gorilla smacked down on Almond.
Almond’s eyes flickered in an instant.
Spatial Displacement: Swap.
Splash
Kong’s attack hit the waters as it splashed, with Almond swapping his position with it.
At the same time, he swung his hand that held the wooden sword after accelerating to the max with Lumeir Lightning Flow.
Lumeir Lightning Flow was turning a part of his body or his entire body into a unique elemental state utilizing Lightning and Lumeir elements in which he could achieve the maximum speed of 112,340 kilometers per second, but the problem was he couldn’t keep up in this form for long, and pressure on his body also accumulated fast, so he was still optimizing it and could only use it for a few seconds before needing to take a break for half a minute or up to a minute.
His body and mental constitution weren’t powerful enough to keep running that ability.
But it was reliable as his tree branch sword flowed like a snake at blinding speed while enchanted with small-powered Voidblade Catastrophe.
Slash! Slash!
Despite its tough exterior, Sangine Silverite Kong lost its four arms and also took a deep gash into its chest.
The only reason it wasn’t sliced into pieces was that it reacted fast to Almond’s attack to prevent the fatal wounds and also attacked Almond with one of its abilities as Almond suddenly got forcefully pulled towards a black orb with a silvery border fifty meters high.
‘Gravity?’ Almond blinked, and then his eyes shone. ‘This is wonderful. I can learn it properly by seeing this monster’s ability.’
Roar!
The angry gorilla who was wounded roared as its body glowed, and it regenerated its arm. The patterns on its body also glowed as it used its bloodline power.
‘Give me Prana.’
Almond’s eyes flickered as he took the opportunity of this gorilla using its ability and emptied his remaining prana in creating four orbs of obliteration, two at its two legs and the other two at its shoulder.
The attack erased everything covered within the orbs as Kong lost its legs and shoulder before issuing another painful growl.
Madder than ever, it unleashed its ability as four silvery spinning disks with red patterns shot at Almond.
Almond was back to full prana after unleashing his attacks as Malin provided it.
He planned to dodge the sharp spinning disks, but danger bells rang in his mind, and he decided to teleport.
‘Each disk has a gravitational pull? Damn,’ Almond’s eyes glinted as he also scanned this ability.
Those disks were indeed dangerous because they had a type of gravitational pull that would pull the target towards it and also let itself get pulled towards the target!
Dodging them at close proximity would mean doom!
The people watching the fight also realized that Almond was deliberately lengthening the fight.
“Why is he doing that? If that wasn’t a gorilla but a person, he’d have died for pulling shit like holding back.”
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“Yeah, he’s stupid. If he makes a single mistake, he’d die with his weak-ass body.”
“I think he wants to study the monster’s abilities.”
The audience had mixed feelings about Almond due to his antics, but they all knew that he was the dark horse of this event and looked forward to watching him survive more days.
Almond finished off the Sanguine Silverite Kong after exhausting Malin’s last 10,000 Prana.
He saw the monster’s abilities and also learned much. Left with roughly four thousand Mana, both of them were empty.
But it was time for the main thing.
Almond teleported himself and the Kong’s body under a tree a bit away from the lake and pointed his hand at it.
His eyes shone with a hazy white-green spark with black borders as he activated the sequence he created to create a spirit of a recently dead target.
Prana burst out of his hand and entered into the gorilla’s body.
A second later, Almond’s hand turned into a claw as he made a pulling motion.
Swoosh
From the gorilla’s body, a palm-sized wisp pulled up and floated with the avatar of the gorilla visible inside in a sleeping form.
The moment he looked at the structure and information within this first bona fide spirit he created, a new world opened up to him, and he knew it at that time…that it wouldn’t be long before he completely figured out his primary class.
After all, the core power of his class was Spirits. Everything revolved around what to do to the spirits to get the desired products—spirit items, spirit explosions, spirit wraiths, and spirit syringes.
Almond waved his hand and put the Spirit inside the Spirit Pocket.
He had figured out Spirit Pocket, so he unlocked it and recreated a new Spirit Pocket with a 5000 limit.
‘Let’s get this done.’
Almond clenched his fist, his eyes ablaze with thrill as he couldn’t wait to begin meditating.
Teleporting back to Malin, he said, “Secure the area. We are meditating here.”
“What? Again so soon?” Malin was surprised.
“Yeah, it’s time to…evolve,” Almond grinned.
He sat down cross-legged and closed his eyes before diving deep into meditation.