1320 Cooperate 2 (2/2)
”How loyal. I was planning to devour you initially, but when I look at it now, perhaps you may be slightly useful.” Garen released a tremor in passing and transmitted it to settle the trouble with this female knight by numbing her and causing her to collapse on the ground limply.
The Secret Technique called Quake that he had transferred to himself was simply always successful in countering the close-combat and material-type Warriors here. Extremely fine skills like these could almost be considered as godly techniques to the people here.
Thus, although the effects of Garen's other Secret Techniques could not be used anymore, he was still able to peak among the material Warriors because of this skill and his own powerful characteristics.
”Kill me, then!” The female knight was still strong-willed.
”Who said you could come over, Irene?!” said the male knight furiously. ”Even Rena knew how to escape, yet you returned to save me despite having the chance to flee! Why didn't you escape?”
”If you're going to die, we'll die together!” the female knight answered stubbornly.
The male knight was angered to the point where he was speechless.
Garen flapped his wings and flew in the direction of the female knight who had escaped earlier. Less than a moment had passed before he saw that woman's fleeing shadow.
She had covered her entire body in disgustingly smelly swamp sludge. It was almost impossible to distinguish the style of the armor that she wore on her body. Her actions and movements were also slightly hurried. When she blended in with the scattered humanoid creatures in her surroundings, it was truly difficult to find her.
However, Garen had never judged people based on their appearances, but by detecting their soul's aura instead.
When he pinpointed this woman, he dived downward and transmitted a tremor. He eliminated all of her resistances immediately before carrying her back easily.
Since his strength was already at 80 points, as long as his opponent's vitality was not resilient enough and had yet to achieve 50 points or more, his Quake skill would always be successful and could cause them to fall with a single touch.
When he flew back to his original position, Garen was shocked to discover that there were two Demon-Hags who were actually sneakily collecting the two captive prisoner's souls that had fallen weak on the ground. The souls of those two Blasphemy Knights were being extracted from their bodies quickly as half of them were already drawn out.
”You dare touch my spoils of war? You're really asking to die!” Garen's mind was upset. He discarded the female knight in his claws and rushed directly towards the Demon-Hags instead.
”Block him!” screamed one of the Demon-Hags.
A black, gigantic beetle that was seven to eight meters tall with sharp pincers moved towards Garen, attempting to pinch him.
Garen moved his claws from left to right in a ripping motion before an enormous force that was accompanied by vibrations transferred directly into the beetle's body. This bastard turned weak immediately, making it obvious that his vitality was lower than fifty points.
Its head was instantly smashed by Garen's claw. Its red and green brain matter oozed out at once after the collision, and it lay on the floor, unmoving.
Neither of the two Demon-Hags had expected that the battle would end so soon. They were instantly scared to the point where their souls had almost left their bodies. They turned on their heels and ran while abandoning the souls they were collecting earlier.
However, Garen's 80-point speed allowed him to catch up to them instantly. He caught each of them in one claw as if he was grabbing balloons that punctured immediately. Both of the Demon-Hags flattened out with a whoosh and turned into two pieces of green human skin that fell on the ground. They were collected by Garen before he turned around and went back.
The green poison that leaked out tried to attach itself to Garen's body. However, it was completely ineffective as it could only hold on for two seconds before Garen's powerful vitality became immune to it.
The three Blasphemy Knights were thrown together by Garen. He used a few random vines that he had found on the ground to bind the trio together before grabbing them with one claw. Garen was planning to look for some subordinates to help him gather information because working on his own was truly too slow-paced. As he did not have an Ultimate Transformation Spell yet, his movements in his dragon race physique were too conspicuous. Frankly, it was better for him to find some substitutes.
While clutching these three Blasphemy Knights, Garen flew and briefly asked along the way in passing if the situation that the Fiery Beast was talking about was true. Indeed, he was not lying.
Garen returned to the location of his original cave quickly. If everything that the beast said was true, the matters regarding the forging of his weapons and equipment really rested on his shoulders.
He would probably need to add more than two thousand potential points into his Void Original Opus.
While flying along the way, he began adding his potential points there. It had only increased to 14% after he had added over 140 points previously. This time, he added 500 points in one go before seeing that his Void Original Opus had suddenly surged to a large extent.
It leaped directly to 64% from 14%. He could clearly feel that changes had occurred throughout his body. They were several subtle but extremely thorough changes. However, he did not have the chance to investigate it for now.
He threw the three Blasphemy Knights into his own cave first before Garen went to look for the Fiery Beast whose aura was not far from there. He released a small-scale barrier from Negative Energy Spells. These three fellows were already fully exhausted by him while their muscles and bones were injured from the quakes. Since they were too tired to move, he did not have to worry about them escaping.
”What do you say?”
The enormous beast raised its head and looked at Garen who was flying over while lying on its own building ruins.
”Have you decided to let me help you forge your weapons and equipment?”
”What are your conditions?” Garen knew that nothing ever came for free.
”I want you to provide me with High-quality Souls. Don't reject me frantically because I can sense the special Soul Divine Weapon that you have. I've recently been researching a Matrix that allows me to attempt to condense High-quality Souls. However, I'm lacking a Soul Divine Weapon. If the both of us cooperate, perhaps we can obtain even greater benefits!”
The enormous beast spoke sincerely. He was initially planning to snatch it forcefully, but it was unfortunate that he could not defeat his opponent…
”High-quality Soul…” Garen was aroused. If the quality of a soul was too low, it would be ineffective for him to absorb it as potential points anyway. This was similar to his current situation whereby if he absorbed the soul of a normal person to be used as his potential point aura, it would probably be ineffective. It would be useless even if he tried to absorb it anymore. Only the souls that were Level Three or above and had a certain density to produce qualitative changes were the ones that could provide him with some potential points to be absorbed.