Chapter 323 - New Type of Attack (1/2)
While the disembodied voice had announced the official start of Argentum's first trial, Argentum, on the other hand, was waiting for the snake to make its move, circulating all of the energy inside his body in preparation for his counterattack. Fortunately, with the taunting he had done earlier, it seemed that the Mountain Serpent King was adamant on showing Argentum who's boss.
Hiss!
As if the large snake had legs beneath its underbelly, it madly slithered towards Argentum with a large amount of Earth energy particles surrounding it. It did not take long for the snake to arrive where it wanted to go, stopping at the exact moment there was only a few meters of space between the two. While in the process of stopping, it manipulated all of the Earth energy particles to absorb the momentum it had acc.u.mulated and used that to shoot a large barrage of condensed Earth towards Argentum.
Fwoosh! Swoosh! Psh!
Seeing this, Argentum could not help but snicker a bit as his enhanced senses could feel the trajectory of each condensed piece of Earth that was heading towards his way. Stimulating all of the strength inside his body in tandem with the buffs he had applied, he dodged all of the attacks in a swift yet graceful manner, with the wall behind him becoming the victim of the attacks instead.
After dodging all of the condensed Earth the large snake threw at him, he then went back to his original position before deciding to taunt the snake once more as he shouted with a hint of arrogance, ”For a beast named the Mountain Serpent King, don't you think it's shameful that someone weaker than you has dodged all of your attacks?”
”Hiss!” In response, the large snake became more infuriated as a massive amount of Earth energy particles coalesced around its body one more time. This time around, it manipulated all of these particles to mold itself into sharp spikes large enough for a sizable hole to be opened on Argentum's body if at least one hit. At this moment, Argentum finally felt that the snake was becoming serious, coming to the conclusion that there was no point in taunting it further.
While the snake was charging up its next attack, Argentum focused his attention towards the disembodied voice that announced the start of their fight and asked, ”Since the Desecrated Inheritance is an Earth-based inheritance, I'm only limited to using attacks of the Earth element, right?”
Surprisingly, the disembodied voice replied to his question not even an instant after he had finished, disagreeing with his words as it said, ”You are not limited to the Earth element at all. As mentioned earlier, the thing that the first trial tests from the inheritor is strength. Naturally, being proficient in other elements is also considered your own strength. If you were limited to only the Earth element, then all of the elemental buffs on your body would have been forcefully dispelled at the very instant you tried casting them.”
”Is that so?” Argentum said, thinking that the disembodied voice's words did make a lot of sense. With the disembodied voice's words lingering in his mind, he could not help but let out a light chuckle as he pondered on what element would be the best attack against something like the Mountain Serpent King. Of course, the latter wasn't going to give him time to think, proceeding with its attack as it slithered closer to Argentum with multiple spikes in tow.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
In less than an instant, the large snake had arrived to where Argentum was, circling around him as spikes started to circle around him in a slightly terrifying formation. Seeing this, Argentum decided to allocate a large portion of his attention towards the spikes while the remaining portion would continue thinking up of a counterattack. Without waiting for the spikes to come firing at him, he stimulated all of the buffs applied on his body before dashing farther away from the large snake.
It came without saying that the Mountain Serpent King wouldn't let Argentum have his way, firing one spike after the other at him as more and more spikes were made on the spot. Fortunately, thanks to all of the buffs on his body, Argentum was slightly ahead of the spikes in terms of speed, with his position always being a couple meters away from where the spikes would land, giving him a bit of leeway in terms of maneuverability.
Eventually, after running away from the spikes for a while, Argentum abruptly made a sharp turn towards the snake, making the latter joyous as it then focused its spikes in front of him. Unfortunately for the enraged snake, it seemed that its prey would know when the spike would land, always jumping at the very last moment it could. This, in turn, just made the Mountain Serpent King more enraged than ever before.
When did someone like the Mountain Serpent King become unable to defeat such a weakling, it thought to itself. With that in mind, it became more aggressive in its attacks without thinking about defenses, sending two spikes instead of one after some time. Not long after, this turned into three…then four…then five…until after some more time passed, a large array of spikes were heading towards Argentum.
Of course, Argentum wasn't going to let the snake's attacks land on him. Thinking that it was going to be difficult to escape the large array of earth spikes, he unhesitatingly raised his left hand before channeling a lot of energy towards it as a light green haze enveloped his raised hand. Soon after, this light green haze transformed into a monstrous gust of wind that headed towards the spikes as he shouted, ”[Higher Zephyr Magic]!”
”[Tempest Pulse]!”
Fwoosh!
In an instant, almost all of the spikes that the large snake fired in order to impale Argentum had instead turned the hall's ceiling into swiss cheese, with the remaining few that weren't blown away by Argentum's skill impaling the ground instead. Unsurprisingly, seeing that the entity it considered as a weakling that overestimated itself do something like that, the Mountain Serpent King was left speechless.
Unfortunately for the Mountain Serpent King, it was at this moment that Argentum thought that it was the right time to attack, recasting all of the buffs he had applied on his body in order for a greater boost in speed as he arrived in front of the large snake in a flash. Then again, as a Rank 3 Animate, the Mountain Serpent King had incredibly powerful instincts, regaining its senses as it noticed a change in its field of vision.
Noticing that the weakling it considered as prey was already in front of it, it went ahead and summoned a large mass of Earth energy particles as it hastily slithered backwards, forming a wall between the two after it realized the power behind Argentum's skill. In response, Argentum lightly chuckled as he extended both of his hands towards the wall as he channeled a great portion of his energy towards both of it as a darker green haze appeared on its surface.
Unexpectedly, with Argentum's last second move, the wall that was supposed to separate the snake from Argentum had instead allowed his arms to pass through, forming around it. This, in turn, allowed Argentum to continue with the preparation of his attack as he used a bit of the energy coalescing around his hands to destroy the wall in front of his field of vision.
Crack!
Although the Wind element was not the true counter for the Earth element, it was still an element that was renowned for wreaking havoc alongside the Fire element. It did not take long for the wall hastily made by the Mountain Serpent King to crumble from that small bit of energy while Argentum's actual attack was finally ready. Taking a look at the Mountain Serpent King, who had made a few thick shields of earth around its front to protect from his attack, Argentum could not help but let out a malevolent chuckle as he muttered to himself, ”I should really read the Tome of the Four Elements some more. To think that there was a solution to the problem I had with the Wind element being lacking in terms of destruction.”
Fwoosh!
At the very instant he was finished saying those words, the dark green energy surrounding both of his hands were then shot towards the Mountain Serpent King, hastily transforming into two dragons that circled around each other as the power behind each of the dragons increased. Now knowing how much power Argentum actually had, the large snake knew that the attack he sent had a lot of force, prompting it to conjure more earth shields around it.
”Unfortunately, conjuring more shields wouldn't be enough for this attack,” Argentum muttered as he looked at the Mountain Serpent King's hasty move as two balls of fiery red energy were soon conjured on both of his hands before throwing it towards the dragons made out of wind at high speeds.Find authorized novels in , faster updates, better experience, Please click /book/i-reincarnated-as-a-stick_13361908006612405/new-type-of-attack_50860920141829602 for visiting.
Swoosh!