“Hey! That one’s mine!” Damien yelled, pointing his makeshift bone sword at his summon, Cerbe.
Gesturing with his hand, he waved at the hound. “Move away. I get to kill it. I need to level up as well and I need to level up fast. You guys are going to leave me behind if I don’t grow stronger.”
The Three-Headed Hound understood its summoner’s warning and leaped to the side without hesitation.
Bang! Bang!
The ground quaked a little from the weight of the hound.
Damien nodded in satisfaction, his eyes staring down at the creature before him. It was a Grade Five Mana beast, a Shadow Lynx.
The Shadow Lynx was a feline beast that could meld with shadows to ambush its prey. Its black matted fur did well to blend with the darkness making its appearance even harder to pinpoint. For a feline beast, its two meters length was outstanding. Its most deadly body part were its claws coated in a mild poison that slowly ate at its target’s inside like acid.
Damien leaned closer to the beast that had already been beaten half dead. It was close to its death after having to face Fenrir for the last ten minutes.
“You see, I need to advance speedily if I want to keep up with these summons of mine.” Damien said, pointing at Cerbe who stood a metre away, awaiting the death of the beast so it could consume the beast to get stronger. He then moved to Fenrir, the creature scratching its neck area with its hind leg.
As for Luton, once again, it had wandered off. If Damine had to worry about a certain summon of his, he’d pick Cerbe over Luton. He’d seen first class how the beast could easily just devour both living and dead mana beasts and demons of the same Grade as itself.
Even higher ranked ones weren’t excluded. However, it avoided such as the backlash it experienced from devouring a Grade Five human and demon on the same day some time ago still lingered in its mind.
After Damien had cancelled and resummoned the creature, he’d found it unable to devour more mana beasts and even move much which increased its vulnerability. Without its broken (Devourer) skill, it was basically a ball of red mass moving around sluggishly.
However, for Grade Six mana beasts, it could devour as many as it wanted without a restriction.
Damien picked up his bone sword, a weapon he’d forged from the bone of a certain Grade Five Mana beast slayed by Cerbe. “Be proud that you’re my first kill. It means a lot as you’ll be the only one I remember to have set me on this journey.” Without a moment of delay, Damien’s sword dug into the heart of the two metre beast in front of him.
Puurrrr…
The Shadow Lynx purred in pain, letting out one final low growl before going limp.
Thud!
Its head dropped to the ground one last time, never to rise again.
Ding!
[You have slain a Grade Five Mana beast! +100Exp!]
Damien sighed in relief as he read through the content of the panel. He’d learned something new today. This was his first personal kill regarding mana beasts of a higher rank than him and he noticed he got 100Exp for it.
For a Grade Six mana beast, he would have received 10Exp and if it was a Grade Seven mana beast, he would’ve only received 1Exp.
Currently, Damien stood at Level 27 which he assumed was the equivalent of a Grade Six mana beast or a silver ranked Demon Hunter, a Dunter.
“So a rank higher gives me ten times what a beast of the same rank as me would give me and a rank lower gives me a tenth of what I would get from a beast of the same rank as me. Not bad.” Despite spending this long with the system, Damien was still discovering new features of it.
Damien pulled out his sword from the heart of the Shadow Lynx and turned to Cerbe. “It’s all yours.” Swinging his white bone sword to get rid of the blood, he walked away from the beast to let Cerbe consume it to get stronger. All he needed was to kill it to gain Exp from the kill.
He didn’t need the Essence core either as he’d amassed over a dozen Grade Five cores that would serve him in the long run.
While they waited for Cerbe to finish its meal before their hunt continued, Damien strolled over to Fenrir’s location.
‘Status.’ Damien thought as he placed his head on the furry back of his wolf.
««««««••••••»»»»»»
Name: Damien Terrace
Race: Human
Level: 27
Exp: 610/1210
Talent: E-Rank Summoner
Life Force: 4000/4700
Magic Essence: 600/700(+3000 from life force and cores)
Strength: 52 Agility: 50
Stamina: 52 Endurance: 52
Intelligence: 47
••••••••••
Skill: SSS-Ranked Summons
Subskills:-
Pact of Summons
Essence Devourer
Sensory Link
««««««••••••»»»»»»
He’d watched his Exp jump from 510 to 610 with just one kill. It was exhilarating.
He turned to Fenrir, “From now, don’t go killing your targets. Leave them in a near death state and then leave the killing to me. After that, you can devour the beasts.” Damien grinned as he informed the Monstrous Wolf.
“As for the others, I’ll tell Cerbe after his meal and Luton can just continue doing what it does best.” Damien said to himself, his eyes focused on Cerbe as it continued to bite and chew the fleshy remains of the feline mana beast
Ding!
«Grade Six mana beast devoured! 210 more for Luton to advance!»
«Grade Six Mana Beast devoured! 209 more for Luton to advance!»
«Grade Six Mana Beast devoured! 208 more for Luton to advance!»
Every few seconds, he’d received notifications regarding Luton, the summon steadily devouring mana beasts without a break.
“At least someone isn’t being idle.” Damien chuckled, sinking his head deeper into Fenrir’s thick white fur. “A nonstop hunt wouldn’t be so bad.”