368 Deeper into Pandora fores (1/2)
Broiling projectiles silently whizzed out, piercing accurately into the armour of a direhorse; causing light yellow bodily fluid to splash out. Under normal circumstances, this timid horse would immediately take off. Yet during matting while it beared the painful torment, it swung its hateful gaze over. Raising its tremendous solid hoofs, it broke into a frenzied charge towards here!
Immersed in copulating, the pack of direhorse was now a chaotic mess. The foul fishy smell pervaded the air and assailed their nostrils. Female direhorses excitedly dug deeper into the soil, awaiting the duelling victor of the incessantly colliding stallions. Thus, such a wildly furious and deserting direhorse behavior went completely unnoticed.
When the direhorse charged into the thicket, it was instantly slowed down by Reef’s raging ‘Shattering Cardiac Roar’. In a split second, the contestants lying in ambush pounced up like wolves and tigers; one-sided assaults came pouring down in torrents, directed towards its legs.
The direhorse had astonishing defence, but after two legs were fractured, its movement speed greatly plunged. Immediately, the squad shifted their assaults to its chest. The direhorses had many vertically arranged operculum* on the chest muscles, which allowed them to increase the amount of air they intake with each breath. Thus, this allowed the direhorses to reach greater speeds and endurance.
(TN: *Nostril-like opening)
But due to that fact, it became an area that lacked protection and was exceptionally weaker; which was most probably the vital spot, frequently resulting in greater damages.
Sheyan took special notice of Lille and Uzel, whose performance had been merely average. Lille’s offence was rapid, biting and sleek, with blood trailing from every blade ray; a melancholic display of blood. As for Uzel, he carefully aimed his pistol and fired, seemingly dishing out pretty decent explosive strike rate; supposedly traversing the path of single-unit high damage output.
In a short span, that direhorse was mercilessly cut down, displaying discolored lifeless eyes as it twitched. Due to the earlier pact - ‘every single battle loot would be monopolized by party Ace during the process of accomplishing the milestones’, Sheyan blatantly picked up the dropped white key. Thus, he successfully acquired a longhorn required by the milestone ‘Penetrate’.
At this moment, Jin Ximin had begun raising his sniper rifle and continued his stealthy seduction. However, this time, his bullet landed inside the eye of a unlucky direhorse, who was in the midst of a duel. That direhorse neighed furiously, abandoning its opponent as it galloped over. As for its male opponent, it wasn’t willing to take things lying down, as it pursued hot on its heels; “You little guy trying to run after kicking and biting me??? No way!” (Horse neighing)
Undoubtedly, Sheyan’s squad simultaneously accepted the two ordinary direhorse. As time trickled by, they slaughtered through the entire pack of direhorses within 1 hour; of which, only a few female horses seemed to have awoken from their dreams and fled hastily. Amongst the dropped loots, apart from rolls of leather, horse bone etc, there were 3 direhorse neural whips (The antenna) that were branded as valuable objects. Those 3 whips should possibly worth much back in Hell’s Gate base of the RDA company.
At present, everyone managed to receive two direhorse longhorn. Delivering them to the realm through the nightmare imprint, Sheyan received the notification:
“You offered two direhorse longhorn.”
“You receive the title ‘Penetrate’.”
“Penetrate: When attacking an enemy, 0.3% - 0.8% chance of neglecting defence and dealing full damage. (Chance corresponds to attack speed, faster will be 0.3%, while slower 0.8%)”
“You can only equip one title at one time, do you wish to equip the title ‘Penetrate’ ?”
“Advance milestone: ‘Pierce’ activated.”
“Pierce milestone requirements: Acquire 5 direhorse crystal longhorn.”
“Details: Direhourse crystal longhorn can only be obtained from elite-tier creatures.”
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After accomplishing the milestone ‘Penetrate’, two contestants had paid a fee in accordance to their contract and left; both uninterested in the remaining two milestones. However, they felt that this tiny party Ace was indeed pretty trustworthy, and thus recommended another contestant who was interested in accomplishing the milestone ‘Plunderer’.