novelShadow Howl—Pitiful Bear
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Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The Lizard Bandit had seen the scene of Qin Ruo folding his Angelic Wings after being hit by Galbis' Gravity Field. At that moment, this Tier 5 Bandit was startled from what he had. Permanent Lock did not think that Qin Ruo would still have the mood of performing air trick in such a tight situation. The only thing he could understand was that after Galbis entered within a hundred-meter range of Qin Ruo, the Ultimate Boss cast an AoE spell which affected its surrounding.
Fortunately, Qin Ruo suddenly disappeared from the sky without a second after falling from the sky. This was just like the post from the official forum that stated that Qin Ruo was attacked by Tier 5 AoE offensive spell. His Angelic Wings were deactivated and he had disappeared unexpectedly.
Permanent Lock felt relieved at the moment...
If the Ultimate Boss defeated Qin Ruo, the next one who would die would definitely be the Lizard Bandit. When Galbis was chasing Qin Ruo just now, Lizard Bandit realized that he had entered combat status and he had a feeling that he was already being targeted.
All hail the Ultimate! Even when Elemental Camouflage was activated, it was still unable to escape Galbis' eye. Permanent Lock felt nervous again and started to think whether he needed to flee from the area and get rid of his combat status. A Bandit class like him could not even manage a Tier 5 Miniboss, what's more an Ultimate like Galbis.
However, the battle between Qin Ruo the Winter Demon and Ultimate Galbis had made the Lizard Bandit unwilling to take his steps to leave that area. This was because there was not much chance to be able to look at such an exciting battle. Additionally, his inner thoughts still had hope for Qin Ruo to win the battle. He hoped that Qin Ruo was able to create a miracle during the battle between Galbis, just like how he did that in the Snow Domain.
After all, Qin Ruo's skill, pet, and combat capabilities were still able to support him for some time...
The Permanent Lock took a deep breath and focused his vision to lock-on Galbis's movements. At this moment, Galbis strangely disappeared from Permanent Lock's sight. All this was thanks to Galbis' aerial skill of Galbis, which was able to fly at a tremendous speed.
Teleportation?!
"..."
It was indeed that Galbis's speed was too fast. When Qin Ruo's Divinity was sealed, Galbis was able to rush into the range of sixty meters of Qin Ruo just within two seconds. Fortunately, Gravity Field just affected Divinity power. It had no effect on Aqua Wingsand it did not destroy Qin Ruo's Elemental Perception: Water. Hence, even if Qin Ruo was sealed from activating Angelic Wings, he still able to keep his mind calm very quickly and headed to the ground.
Galbis was not only the most aggressive Ultimate that Qin Ruo had met but also the strongest and most intelligent. Right now, Qin Ruo was worrying that if he continued to glide away with his Aqua Wings with no protection from defensive spells, he might still attract Galbis to attack him again with the Tier 5 AoE offensive spell.
Hence, Qin Ruo must make sure he was in a height where he would not fall to his death before Galbis attacked him again with the Tier 5 AoE offensive spell. He did not want himself to die with such an absurd way.
As the success rate of escaping had dropped tremendously, it was impossible for Qin Ruo to escape Galbis alone. He had to borrow the power from Poochie, which were Shadow Razors and Shadow Strike. Furthermore, he had to use the two skills from Poochie which had never been shown to the public before. Qin Ruo must be on the ground in order to let Poochie fight with full power.
Just at the moment Qin Ruo made his decision, his Elemental Perception sensed that there was a dimensional distortion thirty meters behind him.
"Teleportation!"
Qin Ruo trembled and Galbis, which was flying toward him from fifty meters away at incredible speed, had already reached within thirty meters of Qin Ruo. When Qin Ruo was in the attacking range of the Cyclops, he had felt that pressing and irresistible presence. Just like the thing that was targeting him was not a Tier 4 Ultimate but a grim reaper who was going to rip a soul.
Galbis attacked in a striking moment. The Cyclops Commander Galbis did not show a slight delay in its attack. It seemed that Galbis did not want to let Qin Ruo have any chance of escaping. Galbis followed closely behind Qin Ruo and locked on its target that was in its attack range. Three yellowish light balls appeared at that moment and without a second, they were being blasted out toward Qin Ruo's direction, who had no magical defenses at all and was unable to revert his Aquamorph form.
Given the current situation, Poochie stepped on Qin Ruo's water elemental body and rushed to the direction of the three yellowish light balls. Poochie then pulled out its golden yellow big tail...
Shadow Break!
A golden light flashed! Puff, puff, puff! All the yellowish light balls disappeared in the air immediately. Galbis's first offensive was deflected just that easily. While grabbing the opportunity, Qin Ruo successfully glided down to just thirty meters above the ground. Felling from this height should not result in death.
Galbis looked at the Shadowfox and a yellowish ray flashed in its visible eye. Once again, Galbis spoke in human language.
"Shadowfox?"
Galbis groaned then said disdainfully, "For generations, you Shadowfoxes are still unable to escape from the fate of being bred by humans! Hmph! What a disgrace to monsters."
When the word "disgrace" was uttered, another strong magic power fluctuated again. On the land that Qin Ruo had glided over just now, were several six to seven-meter-tall giant statues that rose from the ground. Two rows of giant statues were formed abruptly!
Before Qin Ruo landed on the ground, the six summoned giant statues shattered, revealing emerging monsters with giant arms.
It was too late for Qin Ruo before he realized the secret of the giant statues. Before Qin Ruo was able to pass through above those monsters, there was a strong gravity force from the sky, forcing the defenseless Qin Ruo to be dragged into a sudden swamp below him.
'Shit!
'Gravity!
'These damned Galbis summoned monsters are all Tier 6?!'
At the same time, there were other four offensive spells cast toward Qin Ruo from different directions. All the spells were strong single target attacking magics such as Explosive Rock, Star Strike, Rock Barrels Burst...
The attacks were heading toward Qin Ruo from four different directions. Qin Ruo did not have much time to think more about it. He had to release the spell that he charged for some time on his hand...
"Frozen Realm!"
Without a second, there were powdered-form ice crystal particles generated in the air and the temperature dropped suddenly!
At the same time, Poochie who stood on the shoulder of Qin Ruo swiftly grabbed Qin Ruo's shoulder. While ignoring those six summoned monsters that surrounded the swamp, Poochie immediately faced up to the sky and released an extremely sharp howl!
!!!
The sharp and unusual howl had a very strong penetrating power, as if the howl was a sharp knife that could forcefully tear the sky apart.
Shadow Howl!
The new Tier 5 skill of the Shadowfox.
Shadow Howl had a certain sonic wave attack. Not only could the skill cause Magic Damage to the affected area, but the speed of Elemental Magic Attacks within the range was greatly reduced as well.
The sharp howl distorted the elements within the affected range. Explosive Rock, Star Strike, and Rock Barrels Burst which released earlier were slowed for half of a second. At this moment, there was a short timeframe created for Qin Ruo, who was targeted by the six summoned monsters which were rushing toward Qin Ruo.
The howl even affected Galbis who was flying toward Qin Ruo as well. Galbis' body was slowed down for a while. In addition, the giant stone dragon that was just summoned by Galbis was also delayed for half a second.
This was a rare opportunity with Qin Ruo's Frozen Realm's Chill in effect. Qin Ruo dodged the several Tier 4 Magic Attacks and stepped on the surface of the frozen swamp. He then escaped from the ambush of the six summoned monsters. Qin Ruo did not back down after his escape. Instead, he rushed to the sky and faced Galbis.
"Die!"
After the howl ended, Poochie jumped from Qin Ruo's shoulder and landed on a Frostrampart that was just created by Qin Ruo. Poochie transformed into a golden streak of lightning that shot toward Galbis which had shown an opening.
"You seek death!"
Galbis' visible one-eye flashed with killing intent. The half-summoned stone dragon earlier was now completely out of the ground. The twenty-meter-long stone dragon raised its snake-like head and gnashed at Poochie with its mouth of full sharp teeth...
As Shadow Break was just cast previously to nullify Galbis' attack, it was still on cooldown. When Poochie was going to be bitten by the stone dragon, Poochie flashily jumped and dodged the bite of the stone dragon.
Puff! The stone dragon bit the Frostrampart that was created not long ago.
The stone dragon missed but it did not disappear immediately. It turned back and attacked Poochie again. Obviously, this was a continuous type of magic attack.
"It can't be like that anymore..."
When Qin Ruo was already powerless against the six summoned-monsters and the Ultimate, he commanded Poochie to dodge the attack once again and at the same time, he activated the skill attached to his Mystic Frost Robe—Frost Monster Summon.
Roar!!!
On this extreme battlefield, while the six summoned monsters were still under the effect of Chill, a huge Frost Bear appeared from a hexagram, together with a loud roar and murderous presence.
Dong! Dong!
It was like the Frost Bear was showing off its strong body. While walking out the hexagram, it intentionally caused a slight quake to the ground. This huge Frost Bear was releasing a strong and fierce presence to its surroundings.
Unfortunately...
It seemed that this big guy was showing off in the wrong area. After appeared on the battlefield, the enormous Level 50 Frost Bear sensed that something was not right...
The Frost Bear felt that there was a terrible overbearing presence above it and glared at it disdainfully. The Frost Bear suddenly toned down from its fierce stance just now and behaved like a little bear.
Hmph! Which guy summoned it out, seeking death?
Facing an Ultimate? Shit!
The Frost Bear turned back to the other side. This time, it saw six summoned monsters that were not weaker than itself released from their Chilled status. All the summoned monsters walked toward the Frost Bear and glared at it fiercely!
Clack! Clack! Clack!
The poor Frost Bear was startled, its teeth chattering. The pathetic eyes of the Frost Bear seemed to say, 'This... this is not my fault! Please... please let me back!'
"Growl growl!" (Sob.... Sob... )
The Frost Bear's roar of anguish could be heard beyond Galbis' Lair.
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