[Experimental Chimera gem holder lvl 145]
Akira stared at the creature sitting still in the middle of the graveyard for a long time. He was having a hard time trying to figure out what he should do.
The white fog that had been swept away from the two wyverns’ battles, was once again gathering at the bottom of the mountain pass and was now covering a large portion of the creature's lower body.
“Nox, Fluffball, do you think we can get past him by staying in the fog on the edges?” asked Akira.
Fluffball sniffed the air testing the scent of the creature at the center of the ancient graveyard, a moment later he shook his head no.
Nox, who was the best at moving around underacted, split up, having Nox 1 go to the right while Nox 2 went to the left.
The two silently slipped through the edges of the foggy graveyard. When they had both reached the halfway point they looked to the creature and then back to Akira.
'I don't sense any type of monitoring aura coming from it,' said Nox.
Akira looked at the green light swirling around the upper body of the creature. There had been no sign of movement the entire time he had watched it, not even the rise and fall of its chest to show it was breathing.
“Fluffball, follow me,” said Akira in a whisper.
The two of them followed the path that Nox 1 had taken and silently walked through the graveyard.
As they made their way past the tens of thousands of hastily created gravestones, Akira had his attention split between looking at the creature and the ground to make sure he did not trip over any ancient weapons stuck in the ground or a random body that was not fully buried.
'What is this place?'
Ding!
Akira's Bad gut feeling +1
Akira's head looked up from the ground and over to the creature. The green light surrounding it was slowly fading as it seemed to be sucked into the body of the chimera.
'Faster!' said Nox 1 as he looked at the chimera and back to Akira and Fluffball who were now 2/3 of the way through the graveyard.
Akira started to move even quicker, giving up on his slow stealthy movement as he watched the green light disappear completely.
[Experimental Chimera gem holder lvl 146]
“$%^*,” Akira cursed under his breath as he saw the chimera level up.
Fluffball's hackles raised as he grew fully alert to the dangerous aura that he felt sweep out from the body of the creature.
Sensing the Aura sweeping over them, Nox 2 decided to draw the [Gem holder's] attention to itself so that Akira and Fluffball could reach the end of the graveyard.
Nox 2 silently left the edge of the graveyard and started racing towards the center.
The eyes of the [Gem holder] slowly opened. A fiery red glow emitted out from its eyes lighting up the dark area around it as it turned its head to look at Nox 2.
The [Gem holder] stood up and turned its back to Nox 2. Its attention was all on Akira and Fluffball who were trying to escape.
“RAAAA!” the bull head with its two sharp black horns, tilted back as it let out a challenge to the escaping Akira.
Nox 2 launched himself off the ground towards the chimera to take a bite out of its neck...
Fwoosh!
Two sturdy red wings unfurled from its lower back and with great power, the wings flapped once launching the chimera into the air revealing its full body.
The white fog in the graveyard along with Nox 2 was swept away by the force of the flapping wings.
Akira looked over his shoulder as he continued running towards the edge of the graveyard and saw the [Gem Holder's] full body.
The head was that of a red bull head, its upper torso was that of a molten onyx infected human.
For its stomach and lower back, there were fading yellow feathers and wings of a giant gold eagle that was somehow not corrupted yet.
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Its legs were covered in silver fur and had the sharp claws of a silver snow lion as well as its silver tail that extended out of its rear end.[giggity]
On its forehead, chest, stomach, and two knees were glowing green [crystals] similar to the [Bryers].
“What the...?” said Akira.
BOOM!
The [Gem Holder] slammed into the ground creating a small crater destroying the graves where it landed and sending frozen snow and dirt into the air.
Its wings were strong, but they were not large enough to allow it to fly for more than a few seconds continuously.
Thus the [Gem Holder] used them to either glide or launch itself through the air to reach its target quickly.
The chimera flapped its wings and again shot into the air where it glided through the air looking at the escaping Akira.
“Power...Stone...Take!” shouted the raspy voice of the [Gem Holder] as it pointed to Akira.
With that, the [Gem Holder] angled down into a sharp dive towards Akira.
Akira threw a hard blue candy to Fluffball and ate one himself as well.
The two had been fighting on and off since they had entered the cavern and were continuously running on fumes since there were no safe places to take a nap longer than a few minutes.
A dark black mist covered Akira as he transformed into his werewolf form.
Akira raised his shield above his head and activated both his [Harden] and [Reflection] skills.
BOOM! The [Gem Holder] slammed into the sturdy Akira head first. Even with his skills activated Akira felt the jarring impact all the way to his bones.
“Graaaaa!” the [Gem Holder] let out a grunt of pain as it bounced off Akira's shield and slammed into the ground taking a small amount of reflection damage.
The [Gem Holder] quickly rolled back onto its feet and unfurled its wings to shoot back up into the air.
Before it could leave the snowy ground a fully transformed Ice armored Fluffball bit into the silver furred right leg trying to keep the [Gem Holder] on the ground. Nox 1 and Nox 2 joined Fluffball by biting into the left leg.
Although the [Gem Holder] felt immense pain from the holy attribute ice armor it ignored the three biting its legs and launched itself into the air carrying them into the air with it.
When it had reached its desired height it flipped over and once again dived down towards Akira who was still immobile from the [Harden] skill.
BAM!
The impact once again sent the [Gem Holder] bouncing back with a small amount of damage. The force of the impact had also been enough to send Fluffball and Nox 1 & 2 flying in different directions crashing into the several gravestones which were smashed to pieces until their forward momentum was halted.
The [Gem Holder] repeatedly dive-bombed Akira trying to pulverize him but only ended up hurting itself.
After its tenth crash, the flustered [Gem Holder] tried to grab Akira and pull him up into the air.
But no matter how much it strained its wings to the max, or how deep its claws pierced, Akira did not budge. He stood there like a small stone mountain.
As the [Harden] skill effect was nearing its end, Akira activated the skill [Shadow chains].
The four wolf head chains shot out from the shadows and bit into the silver fur legs and the molten onyx arms, immobilizing the [Gem Holder] for a short time.
Fluffball and Nox launched themselves at the [Gem Holder's] wings trying to tear them off its lower back. It was no easy challenge as they were forced to constantly dodge the tail that acted as a whip the shot out and slammed into them if they got too close.
Using this chance while it was busy dealing with Nox and Fluffball, Akira escaped the claws of the [Gem Holder] and attacked the closest crystals with his warhammer, which were on its knees.
CRACK! After a few well-placed swings the crystals were cracked open.
“Raaaa! Power... Stone... GIVE!” roared the chimera as it broke the shadow chains and launched itself into the air using its tattered wings.
Akira shoved his war hammer back into his bag, took out his sword, and activated the skill [Cross attack].
A large blue X flew through the air slamming into the hovering chimera who blocked it with his molten onyx arms causing deep cuts into the black stone.
The [Gem Holder] in its pain had lost all sense of rationality and once again dived down towards Akira not caring about defense and only wanting to tear apart that which had caused it pain.
Akira agilely dodged to the side and slashed out with his sword targeting the area between the legs and the golden feathers.
Ding!
You have learned a new passive skill [Bisect].
Bisect: when the enemy's health is under 30% you have a small chance to sever a body part.
If their health is under 10% and you land a Critical hit there is a 50% chance that the enemy will be cut in half instantly killing them.
Akira looked at the chimera and saw it was still alive.
But... it no longer had legs.
“RAAAA!!”
Fluffball and Nox 1&2 pounced onto the back of the [Gem Holder] and tore into the wings biting and clawing them into sheds.
Akira slashed his sword towards each of the different sections of the [Gem Holder] and was lucky enough to activate the Bisect passive each time!
Even with its body severed the different parts were still moving only the legs were immobile.
Akira once again replaced his sword with his warhammer and smashed the crystals on the head and belly. But when he tried to smash the Green gemstone on the chest, there was not even a scratch.
Fluffball stood next to Akira sniffing the bisected parts to make sure they were of no threat anymore.
Akira was forced to take out his pickaxe and dig out the gem from the stone chest.
Ding!
Un-special Gem received.
Clap! Clap! Clap!
A chill went down Akira's back and Fluffball's hackles raised in full alert!
They both swirled around to see who was behind them!