As soon as Luna arrived, everyone stood up to greet him. Paco then stepped forward and said, "Lord Luna, thank you for coming. We've come to a decision."
"It really does feel a bit awkward when people call me that, I'll admit. Just call me Luna, Paco." Luna knew people called him "Lord" out of respect and reverence, but that honestly wasn't his thing. It felt even more awkward when someone of a Ranger's caliber was saying it.
"As you wish. We wanted to tell you that we're willing to follow you in order to protect the people. On one condition: If the Philippine government still does exist, we will not commit to fighting them." Paco earnestly said. He was after all, a soldier who was trained to listen to orders from the higher ups.
"That won't be an issue. As long as you abide by our rules and do your part, you are welcome here." Luna replied, it didn't matter if they left in the future, the most important thing was that he could make use of their experience to help train his own soldiers.
Just as they were about to finish, Luna suddenly received a voice comm request from one of his men. Accepting it, he received a message from the other end of the line. "Lord Luna! I'm sorry to disturb you, but there's a problem in the Eastern wall. It looks like a giant Crocodile!"
Luna was quite surprised, there shouldn't be any crocodiles naturally living in that area. Unless.. There were two Zoos in the City, one was farther down south, but the one located towards the east was about 3 to 4 miles away. It wasn't a surprise that one of the animals would manage to wander here.
"There seems to be some trouble on the Eastern wall, excuse me, gentlemen." After excusing himself, Luna turned around and dashed towards the eastern side, it was lucky that the walls over there were the Adamantite ones. Elise who was with Boni after finally introducing him to her father, exchanged looks as they excused themselves and went towards the same direction as well.
Seeing them leave so quickly, Leman and the rest followed suit. When they got close to the wall, they already heard banging, the giant crocodile was probably around 30 meters long, weighing several tons the intermediate automated turrets didn't seem to do much, other than piss it off even more.
This was normal, the basic automated turrets were built for regular zombies, and the intermediate ones were built more for AoE blasts and evolved zombies. If it couldn't quite injure the tank variants, it definitely wouldn't affect the mutant crocodile's thick carapace.
While everybody was visibly shaken, Luna couldn't help but be excited. So far, there haven't really been that many challenges he'd faced, even the tank variants quickly became a joke, he couldn't wait for the zombies to evolve. Even with Sura and Max now both going out to massacre zombies, it still didn't allow him to hit level 30.
But now, with these mutant beasts who were naturally powerful, he felt as if he finally got the sparring partner he'd always wanted, with the amount of power they had, it was obvious how much life force these beasts had.
Not long after, Boni and Elise arrived behind him. Looking at the Crocodile whose noise making attracted some zombies, including a tank variant, then just gobbled them up, Boni spoke up and suggested something. "Bro, should we call Apple over to electrocute that thing from up here?"
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Looking at Boni, Luna just smiled. "No need." Leman and the Rangers got there just in time to see Luna jump off of the high walls, something that even they, even being at level 20 would not come out uninjured. They all looked over to see Luna slam his Guandao onto the Mutated Croc's back and actually crushing it's scales, with blood gushing out.
Crying out in pain, it initiated it's signature move, the death roll. In truth, he could have waited till the Croc's more vulnerable belly was exposes and finished it off, but that would defeat his main purpose.
The mutant croc was quite fond of using it's incredibly long and powerful tail, Luna competed with it by deflecting it with his Guandao, trying to gauge his strength. As expected it's strength along with the momentum of swinging it's tail was indeed able to match Luna's, albeit, it did have one flaw, which was the fact that it did full swings, so it's attack speed was not able to match Luna's in the slightest. This was also before he utilized the Draconic armor.
He was pretty satisfied with this test so far, not only was he able to test his strength, it was also a morale booster for the troops to know that their leader could take out such a huge target. The Rangers now felt even moreso that following this man was the correct choice. These men didn't know about the fact that Luna had Apolaki and Mayari's blessing, nor did the fact that his body was renewed by his armor.
Paco along with the rest, had their mouths opened. The sight of a small human going up against such a giant and coming out ahead was beyond their comprehension. "I'm glad nobody overreacted when we saw him slaughtering Buencamino's men."
The rest of the Rangers could only nod in agreement. Boni and Elise tried their best to hold in their excitement as well, pretending as if this was something they would normally expect from their leader.
Right after he finished running his tests, Luna disappeared, only to reappear by the side of the Croc, sending and upward swing, slashing open the side, knocking it halfway to it's back, and with it's belly exposed, stabbed the soft spot closest to the tail and ran all the way up to the head. With it's innards spilling out, Luna noticed a small orb fall out along with 1,000 VIS automatically going into his inventory along with a skill book.
As soon as he received the life force for his kill.
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You have gained 30 stat points to distribute!
You have gained the active skill
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All 30 points were pumped into VIT.
After reaching level 30, Sura finally gained access to her <3-Headed 6-Armed Mode>, the signature skill of the Asuran Race.
Afterwards, Luna examined the small orb he picked up.
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Rank 3 Mutant Beast Core
A rare drop that has a chance of dropping from level 30-39 mutant beasts.
Can be used to Tame mutant beasts below level 40 at a 10% base chance.
Base chance decreases to 1% for beasts at level 40-49
Chance increases the more damage the beast has taken.
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Multiple ideas instantly came into Luna's head. What if he had his soldiers farm mutant beasts as well? Couldn't he potentially have a sizable cavalry unit? He quickly put that thought at the back of his head for now, after all, it was considered a rare drop, it wasn't reliable enough at the moment unless they farmed enough mutant beasts.
Looking towards the others at the top he yelled out. "Get this thing inside the base. We're having Crocodile for dinner tonight!"