“W-What the fuck?” Cyrus’ eyes popped out.
“That’s one fucking cool beast!”
“Whose summon is that?”
Almond’s Starlight Beast instantly captivated the platform. The beast’s sleek, muscular body shimmered with a soft, stardust-like glow, and faint constellations pulsed subtly across its silver-blue coat. A flowing mane shifted between indigo and silver while intense, glowing silver eyes seemed to peer into every onlooker’s soul as more and more people focused there and closed in towards this combat ring platform.
Everyone felt as if they felt a mysterious pull from the beast, unaware that it was the Starlight Beast’s inherent trait.
[Starlight Beast]
– Rank: Silver
– Level: 10
– Quirk(s):
—> Starforged Core: This core pulses with starlight, allowing the beast to passively regenerate Mana over time and granting it resistance to physical and magical attacks. When its health drops below 30%, the core activates a Starforce Surge, temporarily increasing its Strength and Mana by 25% and surrounding it with a faint, protective aura of stardust that reduces incoming damage.
– Stats:
— Physical:
↳ [Strength: 70 | Health: 80 | Stamina: 70]
— Mental:
↳ [Mana: 80 | Focus: 70 | Perception: 70]
– Skills:
— Celestial Roar (A)
— Astral Claws (B)
— Starburst Leap (A)
— Moonlit Howl (B)
— Radiant Aura (C)
— Starlit Veil (B)
— Cosmic Pulse (S)
— Twilight Regeneration (B)
— Meteor Rush (A)
— Nebula Shield (B)
Starlight Beast didn’t have a human soul in its creation, but its birth gave it a quirk on its own, like Chimera Viperfiend got, through the process consisting of twenty Spirits that were used as the foundation of their spirit evolution.
But unlike Chimera Viperfiend, Starlight Beast had five big bosses from the major area—Starfall Basin, and two big bosses from the Inner area—Burial Light Forest.
“Do we start now?” Almond asked stunn-looking Cyrus.
“Y-yeah, let’s start,” Cyrus nodded before he breathed out and focused. ‘It’s just big. It can’t be that powerful. I’ll go all out from the start.’
“Alright,” Almond smiled and commanded the Starlight Beast to use its only S-rank—Cosmic Pulse.
In the next second, a disk-themed pulse gently released from the Starlight Beasts’ body, creating an ethereal cosmic disk covering the entire combat ring platform.
*BOOM*
This sound was actually Cyrus’ knees hitting the ground before he released a scream as he felt his whole body breaking.
‘Shit, was this too strong?’ Almond was dumbfounded and told Starlight Beast to tone down on the gravity pressure. ‘But how? It shouldn’t be this powerful.’
Cyrus was barely hanging on to prevent himself from getting unconscious. ‘Gravity? I fucked up… I used half-assed weight increase…f-fuck…’
Ryker arrived on the platform behind Cyrus and pulled him up, “It seems that Cyrus lost this match. Give it up for our GAA friend here!”
Almond was already using Focus Field, thought a bit late, but he captured Cyrus’ activity that suddenly ceased.
‘It seems that he used a kind of skill that made the effect of Cosmic Pulse stronger on him…should be weight or something related to it.’
“Well, anyone else wants to come up?” Almond said as he enhanced his voice with Mana. “If any silver-rank can defeat me, I’ll give up my rare-drop—Stardriver Shard Staff.
Ryker followed up as if he wanted to fuel this, “Everyone, feel free to come up.”
Ryker jumped off the ring while carrying Cyrus and handed it over to his friends. “Take him to the infirmary. He needs to be healed from within his bodily foundation. Tell the healer to check his body properly first.”
Cyrus’ three friends took him away while Ryker turned back to look at the ring.
The second challenger had already arrived.
‘A summon this powerful,’ Ryker narrowed his eyes.
“Ryker, I’m calling Xaviar.”
“You think no one else in Silver rank can defeat him, Sam?” Ryker turned to his friend.
“Yeah,” Sam nodded, his gaze on Almond while he dialed a call to the League of Firefly’s Super Rookie—Xavier Rozerf.
Meanwhile, the second challenger was thrown off the stage one second after a makeshift referee from the crowd arrived and rang the gong to start the fight.
“Repel?” Ryker frowned.
“It seems to be based on attraction and repel,” Sam muttered. “This means that the pulsing ring phenomenon…this is reminding me of some bosses in Starfall Basic.”
“Yeah, that Star Magnet Minotaur, but it also has a visual effect of Starfall Lionking’s Glitter Pulse, meaning there’s more to this skill than just attraction and repel.”
The third challenger arrived.
This time, each step within Cosmic Pulse’s range suddenly formed tiny neon-colorful stones that struck the challenger along with a hard gravity pull toward the ground.
It was over in a jiffy.
“What the hell? How can Mona lose this fast?”
“Yeah, she’s got two A-rank classes and is one of the best among this time’s newbies.”
“She didn’t get the chance to display her arsenal of power. That beast’s crazy skill is overwhelming them.”
This time, the previous month’s newbie arrived, who had ascended to the 2nd Floor and went past Silver level 10.
But the result remained the same.
Instant defeat.
Two more challenged Almond.
And then two more.
But Almond hadn’t moved a single step from his position.
Suddenly, only the uproar and talk ensued while no one else came to challenge him, nor anyone shouted that they would go next.
The one who said he would go after Mona was also silent.
The audience was also increasing in size and the higher-ups were getting informed about the challenge, though it wasn’t anything new, so it was just about relaying information.
However, that changed within the next ten minutes when one of the strongest Silver Level 30 Adventurers lost as well.
This person had reached level 2 in all Mana techniques, and level 6 in Strength Boost.
He managed to hurt Starlight Beast, but that’s all.
Almond had to command Starlight to use three skills, and one fact still hadn’t changed. He still didn’t move from his initial position. Find more to read at M V L
Nobody could get close to Almond nor manage to hit him from long-range.
Starlight Beast was like a ruthless protector, defeating opponents swiftly while protecting Almond on its own with Starlit Veil, a passive skill that works while Starlight Beast is spending its Mana—the effect of creating a mystical transparent silver curtain as a makeshift shield anywhere within its range.