The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1253: The Elves Approve

Karl swiped at the boss, and rivers of blood poured down the Ape’s chest as it turned to face Karl, and away from the others.

It was the standard tactic for fighting bosses with ranged attacks, and was normally very effective, but this one still had its area stone spikes. That was the difficult part to deal with, but having the boss in the corner of the available space gave the team as much time as possible to react.

Then, the Blood Golems arrived, and Karl realized that he had greatly underestimated the effective damage of Rae’s ruthlessness.

They didn’t raise their fists to attack the boss, they simply leapt onto its back and self-destructed, dealing a portion of their life as damage to the boss.

Wave after wave of undead crashed into the boss, chunking away at its health until they were all gone, and the Golems could join the fight, led by the laughing form of the Dark Elven Kings.

{Lord Karl, you are a wonderful friend. Look at this most magnificent daughter of the Spider Goddess.} They joked as they danced in and out of combat, aiming for the shoulder and elbow tendons of the boss.

Karl had forgotten that both Rae and the Dark Elves served the Spider Goddess.

[Skill Master Activation]

[Skill: Chaos Beast Constitution] has advanced.

[Chaos Beast Constitution] ⇒ [Chaos Dragon Constitution]

Karl felt power surge through his body as the skill adapted, then felt the ground tremble beneath him as his next strike caused an explosive release of Chaos Element energy on contact.

The power output of his skills began to resonate with the power matrix that Karl had built in his mind, patterned after Matilda’s dragon form.

Before Karl could analyze the changes to his power level, chaotic energy was flowing through the Dungeon, and Cara was cheering as her body began to crackle with black and white lightning sparks.

They weren’t actual lightning, Karl realized. Just unstable chaotic energy.

The advancement of the shared constitution skill had forced Cara to evolve, and now she was reaching the Mythic Rank, simply because her new form was incompatible with anything as weak as a Totem Ranked beast.

[How is that even fair?] Hawk complained.

This was the second time in a row that she had simply cheated to advance.

Someone needed to have a serious talk with his sister about the proper way to do things. Why wasn’t he first to advance? He was the oldest brother.

Plus, he had fire. FIRE. What could be better than that?

Tian laughed at Hawk’s complaints. The bird was very certain that it was the element that determined advancement, but Tian knew that wasn’t it. Most of the difference between Totem and Mythic was the body’s compatibility with the increased energy quality.

And while Hawk had an excellent understanding of fire, and the Fundamental Rule of Fire, his body had gone through many evolutions to get to where he was, and it would likely take another triggered evolution to let him reach Mythic Rank.

He was already the strongest Windspeed Hawk in the world, and possibly ever. He had come so far from the Common Rank egg he had been, when he had only hoped to make it to reach Ascended Rank so that he wouldn’t be weaker than the instructor who made him work, but didn’t bring snacks.

Hawk squawked happily. He had long since surpassed the evil woman. Now, he just needed to find a way to advance again so that he could stay ahead of his water loving sister.

Karl tuned out their nonsense as the boss sent out another wave of stone spikes, forcing everyone to dodge. Its health was falling fast, and they still had nine minutes left on the timer.

That should be plenty, if they could find a way to take down the final boss in good time. That Immortal Rank advancement was going to be the worst part of it.

The first boss fell, and the team was released from the boss platform, allowing Rae to rush off and make more Blood Golems.

“Same routine as last time, let her build up her Blood Golems, and we can use them to bomb the final boss. It’s going to be Immortal Rank, and even with the stacked skills that I have increasing our damage, it’s a nasty fight.” Karl explained.

The first wave of apes exploded, and the group charged forward to join Rae’s team.

With the practice from the first half, everyone knew to focus on the enraged mobs while the Totems charged forward. However, the durability of the mobs had greatly increased already, and Rae was actually losing Blood Golems, even with Thor mostly focused on keeping [Eternal Lightning] active over the group.

It wasn’t easy with so many people, and he was still Totem Ranked.

However, the Karl was busy attacking, and didn’t have time to keep track of every golem that was losing its barrier.

Karl was also back in cat demon form so that he could fight without blocking the whole path, and that limited his line of sight much more than Thor’s as he was still in Behemoth form, though minimized a little so that he didn’t run into the same issue.

The loss of the Blood Golems would reduce their boss damage, but it was also slowing down their advance, as the fight was dragging on and clogging up the pathway.

The area damage was quickly clearing them, and Rae was using Blood Destruction to regain as many Golems as she could, but by her [Predation] math, these enemies were Immortal Rank in everything but the defensive damage reduction.

They were far beyond what anyone would call Mythic Rank.

So, half-step Immortal?

Unascended Immortal?

Slightly more tasty Mythic?

The Common language needed a better word for what these things were.

Finally, the boss’s Enrage Timer ended as the last few apes fell, and he turned jet black as he reached the Immortal Rank.

“Well gentlemen. Here is the fun part. Give it everything that you’ve got. If it does holy damage, even better. They’re weak to it.” Karl reminded the blue dragons.