Chapter 871: Victory and Reward
Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
Without restraints to stop them from moving, the ten training puppet beats growled towards Leon. They came towards them like lightning. Ruin was quite strong in his recovery, actually. It didn’t take long for him to wake up and drink a treatment potion. There was still some time before it would work. Given his heavy injuries, the most expected for him was not to die instantly. No, he couldn’t fight again.
On the other side, Abel and Johnson had already started cooperating to initiate an attack. Abel decided to stop using his “lightning” spell. As far as he was concerned, as long as he could hit the puppet beast’s eyes, he would want to do it with as minimal physical contact as possible. The best way to do that was with the “telekinesis” spell, obviously. The spell was supposed to work in very specific locations. While it did not have much attack power at all, the fact that it was a lightning spell just meant that the object it was targeting would also possess a lightning element.
Under the white light flash of the “telekinesis” spell, one of the training puppet beasts’ vision was disrupted. Johnson had the war jet ready by this point. After having done so many drills already, it did not hesitate to strike towards the eye of this training puppet beast. The sound produced was quite crisp, if any word could be used to describe it. It made the training puppet beast’s eyes burst, stopping and immobilizing them. As it turned out, it wasn’t so hard to beat them using the right method.
Of course, there was something else that Abel had noticed. Ruin’s attack made him shake his head in disappointment. Even without a spell’s bonus effect, Ruin’s power was not enough to be matched with Johnson’s. Pure power was born naturally. As powerful as Ruin was, there was no way that he was going to be matched to a ten-meter tall stone giant made of fine steel. Stone giants were meant to be giant forces. It’s the basis on which they had to rely on to survive. The difference in the types of stones they were using was more of a bonus.
Take Johnson at the start, for instance. It was using ordinary stones. Apart from the power out of that, it had no other power or other sorts of buff. Meanwhile, Jason’s entire body was made of Redstone ore. This was so that he could not only use its durability and the power that corresponded to it but also use the fire elemental power that was inside of it.
Right now, Johnson’s body was made entirely out of the multi-surfaced fine steel spheres. There were all sorts of elemental resistance runes on them. This way, it could now use power that corresponded with the power of the fine steel. That, and the elemental resistance that came out of the runes. This way, as powerful as Ruin’s. .h.i.t was, it was actually nowhere close to that of Johnson’s.
“Drink this potion, Ruin!”
After just forming his relations.h.i.+p with Ruin, Abel didn’t want him to die so quickly. Thus, he took out a golden “healing potion” from his portal bag, then threw it right over. He called out very loudly and having heard this call. Ruin grabbed the potion over with a flash of grat.i.tude in his eyes. he didn’t have so much time to be polite about it, so he took out the potion and drank it straight down.
After just ten-something seconds, a sharp light flashed from within Abel’s eyes.
“Give me ten something seconds!” he cried, “Big Horn! Leon! Buy me two minutes, won’t you?”
Having heard Ruin’s cry, Priest Big Horn couldn’t help but look at Abel in the eyes. He was more focused on the portal bag Abel was holding, actually. Greed flashed from his eyes. He hid it very quickly, though, and cast out a “disarray,” This time, however, he didn’t get all of the training beast beasts because the ones after them were already dispersed completely. Instead, the curse stopped the four training puppet beasts and have them attack Aeach other.
Priest Big Horn had a very grim look on his face now. Beside him, skeletons rose in a way that was unbefitting of their undead nature, and they all frantically rushed towards the six training puppet beasts. These skeletons couldn’t last very long after two or three hits, but it was enough for Leon to cast out one “volcano” spell. Soon, the phantom of the “volcano” spell appeared. Magmatic fireb.a.l.l.s started flying out, and the ten training puppet beats were blocked once more. When the volcano disappeared, and the ten training puppet beats tried to rush towards them again, Priest Big Horn began to use another one of his “disarray.” At the same time, he activated another “bone wall” to block behind his back.
Still, the high-intensity explosion of the spell was quite something to take. Priest Big Horn wasn’t really capable of pretending that it didn’t do anything to him, so he took out an intermediate skeleton gemstone, had it absorb the death qi that was inside, and tried to replenish his body with the qi that was absorbed.
On the other hand, Leon summoned out all five of his crows. The five crows weren’t quite enough to attack, but he just wanted them to be of some distraction. It was the only method he could think of to stall the training puppet beasts. One thing surprised him, actually. One of the crows fell right onto the training puppet beast’s heads. As it did so, it started pecking wildly towards its eyes. The training puppet beasts tried to shake off its head to get the crow away, but it just couldn’t do so despite how many times it tried. Just like that, after pecking the beasts several times, the training puppet beasts became blind right there and then. It showed how strong crows could be. They were the lowliest of the summon creatures that the druids could manifest, but their immortality and the power of the Rule were “absolute,” in a sense. If they could get in range, they could peck endlessly until the blinding effect occurred, even if the rate of that blinding effect was to rise.
Actually, even Leon never expected that the tiny crow would stay so long on top of the training puppet beast’s heads. The easy way to explain this would be that it was too weak to be treated as the main target. The training puppet beasts could always try to hit them, but the fact that they wouldn’t really die made ignoring them the best way to counter them.
Since Priest Big Horn and Leon went all out, two minutes managed to pa.s.s by. Ruin screamed once again after that. They then went back to taking turns, stalling the battleground with their control spells. Abel and Johnson had stopped nine training puppet beasts by now. When his “telekinesis” flashed at the eyes of the last one, the lightning long spear in Johnson’s hands was struck towards its eyes. It quickly stopped moving after that. That made Abel quite relaxed.
To clean up the battleground, he picked up something that couldn’t move into his portal bag. These training puppet beasts might have their eyes injured, but they weren’t all that injured, to begin with. If he happened to see dwarves specializing in tinkering with them, he might try to do some maintenance. By the way, from his previous fight with them, he was really starting to understand how scary these training puppet beasts were. It wasn’t like he couldn’t take each one of them out with one hit, given that Johnson’s with him to help, but it was really Johnson’s force and its lightning long spear that did most of the work. It wasn’t all that easy to target their eyes.
When Priest Big Horn saw Abel taking the training puppet beast into his own portal bag, he couldn’t help but have an awkward look on his face. What Abel just did was direct proof that he had a very large portal bag. There was also something else that was very shocking. Given how large Abel’s portal bag would be, he’d have enough s.p.a.ce to carry a heap of valuable energy sources that these training puppet beasts contained. By that, it was the gemstones that they carried. It was also very like that they were all top-tier gemstones. If not, there really wasn’t a way to explain that the six-meter tall training puppet beast’s body could last so long.
So, ten training puppet beasts in total. He probably had ten top-level gemstones, one inside each of them. Given how extraordinarily valuable they were, large organizations would probably pay a lot of them. They’d probably give him a lot of training materials he was after, and that kind of made Priest Big Horn jealous.
Priest Big Horn cried out loudly, “Come help us, Wizard Abel! We can’t hold on for any longer!”
Abel scanned across the battleground. He was almost certain that Priest Big Horn didn’t go out, given how the man’s never used any life-saving item even at this point. Still, he tapped Johnston, and Johnson ran very fast towards the last ten of the training puppet beast. The attack was the same as ever. It was simple and effective. It was Abel’s “telekinesis” combined with Johnson’s powerful hit, and the training puppet beasts were immobilized one after another. Very shortly, the training puppet beasts s.h.i.+fted their target and went straight for Johnson, which was a much greater threat than the rest of the crew.
Priest Big Horn, Ruin the Barbarian, and Leon the half-elf all stopped to watch this fight between Abel, Johnson, and the training puppet beasts. The fight ended quite quickly because the training puppet beasts had no emotions like fear. Yes, that was the case, even if Abel and Johnson could literally destroy them with one hit. Eventually, after just a few minutes, all the training puppet beasts were knocked down. The entire battleground became very silent.
“We won!” Ruin shouted excitedly.
According to the heritage map that led them to this ancient ruin, if they could defeat these training puppet beasts together, then the victors would all get their own share of rewards.
“Yes, we did it!” Leon the half-elf laughed out loudly.
Priest Big Horn bowed and said to Abel, “You’re the ones that beat off these puppets. There’s no need to share them with me.”
“Yes, exactly what Big Horn said,” Ruin said as well, then gave the crystal bottle back in a somewhat embarra.s.sed way, “It’s all thanks to you that we’re freed from these puppets. Keep the puppets to yourself. As for the potion, it’s uh… a little too much for me. I can only give the reward back to you once I go back to my clan.”
Abel laughed as he took the empty crystal bottle over, “Ruin, what are you talking about? Potions are leftovers! You don’t need a reward to get them!”
For Leon, he just thought that it was weird that Priest Big Horn would be this generous. Priest Big Horn was notorious for his stinginess most of the time. It was quite rare for him to pa.s.s on a chance like this, given how valuable these training puppet beasts were.
“I stand by my words,” he said as well.
Whatever the case was, Abel took down these training puppet beasts. They didn’t do much themselves. Rather, if they didn’t happen to attract some of the training puppet beasts, perhaps Abel might just be faster at beating them off.
Abel didn’t hesitate to take all ten, “Thanks. I’m sure these puppets will work quite well for me. I’m sure that they will.”
“At least twenty square meters, right? Maybe even bigger,” Priest Big Horn murmured to himself, suppressing the greed inside of him.
Then, strange energy rose in the air. Working in a similar way to the power of the WIll, it sent the same message to the nearby four people.
“The training is successful. You’ll all get one minute to collect each of your rewards. After that, you’ll be sent outside the beast fighting pit. The beast fighting pit needs to be shut down to recharge energy. Remember, the next time that it will open is ten years later.”
“After you, Wizard Abel,” Priest Big Horn made an inviting gesture to Abel. that there wasn’t much time to wait. He immediately came forward and took the box that was at the left end. He took it, then put it into his portal bag. Priest Big Horn went after him. He didn’t choose as quickly, though. There really wasn’t the time, and he didn’t want to affect the decision-making of those after him. Anyways, all of them had gone. With Leon as the last one, the one-minute limit was reached.
Abel tapped his chest. A giant black hole appeared right in front of him. Johnson bowed to him.
“What powerful summoned creatures you have,” Ruin said with admiration. He was a Barbarian that didn’t rely much on the help of summoned creatures, but he knew it was much less dangerous if there was someone like Johnson with him.
“Summoned creatures?” Abel laughed and replied, “He’s my pal. What’re you talking about?”
At this time, he felt a strange dimensional force that was appearing right next to him. He knew that it was time for him to leave the ancient ruins. His body was already disappearing from the beast fighting pit.