Chapter 410 Repulse (2/2)

”You always say that you're making a tactical retreat whenever things get violent. I just picked that up from you,” added Da Zi.

”Brat!” said Gao Peng, striking Da Zi in the head. ”I never taught you to say these things!”

As Gao Peng was arguing with Da Zi, he was also keeping an eye on what was going on between Stripey and the Desert Pillar Monster. In terms of their special characteristics, both of them had the same level of mastery over their respective elements.

However, they were now in the middle of a desert. Gao Peng feared that Stripey might be out of its depth. In the chaos of the sandstorm, the Desert Pillar Monster's harsh sand elemental energy collided against Stripey's massive form.

Thankfully, Stripey's body was covered with a layer of rock. This layer of rock was the result of it concentrating its earth elemental energy into an earthen armor over itself.

The sand rattled noisily against Stripey's earthen armor. The rustling sound of sand flowing down from Stripey's body echoed across the dunes. Stripey remain unmoved, like a mountain. The Desert Pillar Monster couldn't even put a dent on its earthen armor with its sandstorm attack.

Even though they were in the middle of a desert, they were still essentially on land. The desert, hills, mountains, and plains all belonged to the land. The land held all of them on its surface, just as it held all life living on it.

Seeing that its sandstorm attack had absolutely no effect on the black mountainous creature, the Desert Pillar Monster's eyes glinted with a fierce light. Without warning, it pounced on Stripey and began driving its fists into Stripey's back.

Boom!

Its arms went numb from the impact. A dull thud reverberated across the desert.

The Desert Pillar Monster looked up, sensing that something had gone wrong. Then, it felt itself soaring through the air… The ground was sinking further and further away from it.

Sprawled across Stripey's mountainous back, the Desert Pillar Monster looked around in confusion. It began to sense its connection with the desert weakening as the desert gradually fell away beneath it.

What is this? What's going on?

...

Boom!

The sand dunes swayed as an explosion shook the desert a few hundred miles away. What appeared to be a living mountain shook itself as the yellow light around its body slowly faded away. The swirling sand in the air began to slow down.

The Desert Pillar Monster lay defeated on the sand. Slowly, its body began to disintegrate, letting the sand that made up its body trickle back into the desert.

The sky was now filled with the sulfurous clouds that were coming out of Stripey's head. Huge comets rained down from it, covering the desert in lava for miles. In an instant, the place was transformed into a hellish, lava-filled landscape.

Stripey, who now towered over Gao Peng and the others like a mountain, rumbled, ”Gao Pen, I don't think it's dead. I think it escaped.”

”Hmm.” Gao Peng nodded. The Desert Pillar Monster's attack had managed to dispel the Guise Fruit's size-altering effects. As a result, Stripey was brought back to its normal size, allowing it to use its full power against the Desert Pillar Monster.

Gao Peng hadn't seen this coming. The fight between a Disaster Mountain Spider and a Desert Pillar Monster had been completely one-sided.

Throughout the fight, the Desert Pillar Monster thought that its high endurance would allow it to whittle down the Disaster Mountain Spider's defenses. However, Stripey had simply expanded outward at the right moment and sent its opponent flying away. Knowing that it was severely outmatched, the vanquished Desert Pillar Monster had disintegrated its body and slipped away into the depths of the desert before the spider could finish it off.

Gao Peng noticed that in a desert environment, the sulfurous clouds above Stripey's head seemed more active than usual, probably due to the heat stored beneath the desert's surface.

”Yeah, it must have escaped,” said Gao Peng. He didn't see the Desert Pillar Monster's corpse anywhere. However, he wasn't worried. It couldn't hide from him for long.

Unlike other types of monsters, the Desert Pillar Monster could only bring out its full potential in a desert environment. There was no way it would abandon its home.

Its weakness was ice. However, Gao Peng didn't let the Desolate Frost Lion take on the Desert Pillar Monster. Only when the lion cub reached King-tier would he let it help him capture the Desert Pillar Monster.

”It must be seriously injured. It will need at least a few months to recuperate and heal its injuries. It should consider itself lucky if it still has access to its full power at the end of its recuperation period,” said the Desolate Frost Lion solemnly. ”By then, I'll be able to kick its butt with my eyes closed!”