Fantasy System

Chapter 122: Crimson Scorpion

At one part of the desert, a gigantic worm laid on the sand. Ed finished it off much quicker than he thought. Especially since it was only Earth Establishment level 10. The worm had some interesting attack. It would burrow into the sand and cause some small-scale earthquakes. Ed thought that it used this technique both as a distraction and as a way to pinpoint the location of its prey. Unluckily for the worm, its opponents were too good at pinpointing positions themselves. Ed waited for it to resurface and fed an especially big fireball. As expected, Ed didn't feel like trying worm meat, so he left the body behind and went on his way.

Ed thought about storing and selling it, but he felt it would be too troublesome. The worm was over 100 meters in size.

"Now then, what do we have here?" Ed finally had the chance to check the notification. Much to his surprise, the last killing spree gave him the three Gacha tickets he wanted. As usual, once he gathered ten tickets, he would draw some cards. But, he decided to leave it to a later time, since he wanted to focus on hunting for now. Ed got a decent amount of Exp, but it wasn't close to filling up half of his needed Exp. He needed to kill Heavenly Establishment monsters to make a big difference.

Further inside the desert, Ed found another cluster of monsters. The monsters this time were also familiar. Purple-colored scorpions filled the place, but one of them stood out the most. In the middle of the colony of scorpions, only one was fully crimson red. 'That should be the boss.' Ed was glad to see that it was a Heavenly Establishment level 3. Some of the other scorpions were Heavenly Establishment level 1. The rest were Earth Establishment level 9-10. Ed could barely hold himself at the thought of the amount of Exp he would acquire.n

"Let's go!" Ed and Sieg led the team towards the hive. Raikou disappeared into his own shadow this time. Next, he appeared under a palm tree's shadow near the scorpions. 'He's been showing many new skills lately.' Ed thought to himself. The opponents this time weren't as simple as the camels. Their exoskeletons were tough enough that Gobuta and the others needed to use Nen to injure them. Raikou didn't suffer from such a problem, as he created an electric field that was strong enough to fry them inside and out.

Suika didn't suffer much as well. She used her poison on a large scale and made it like a corrosive acid. Any scorpion that was touched by it had its tough exoskeleton melt like a piece of chocolate on a hot day. With hundreds of scorpions this time, Ed and the rest simply started to bulldoze their way. Any scorpion that wasn't killed would at least be heavenly injured making the one behind's duty to finish it off.

The red scorpion was unlike the ant queen from the last floor. Although it was hundreds of meters away, it turned back as soon as it noticed its kin being killed. The scorpions were all big, reaching a length of over two meters with their tail height being almost four meters. Yet the red one put them all to shame. Its body length was more than five meters, while its head height alone was three meters.

"Sieg, Raikou. You guys handle the Heavenly Establishment ones; I'll take care of that one." Noticing the boss coming their way, Ed gave some orders and went to intercept it. The two of them followed Ed's order without a word, and he teleported in front of the rampaging scorpion. The red scorpion looked at Ed and hissed at him. Ed thought it would be able to speak, but his guess was wrong. 'Maybe it doesn't have vocal cords?' Ed thought to himself.

Both the scorpion and Ed started fighting. Ed was using Ame-No-Murakumo this time due to its wind attribute. The scorpion used its tail like a whip, hitting in an unpredictable way. Unpredictable to most people anyway. Ed used his Rysui Seikken skill which had leveled up to level two. Ed knew that three levels existed in this skill. The first one allowed a person to read their opponent's flow. This gave the ability to successfully dodge most attacks, but it required the need to read their breath.

However, the second level was much better. The second level allowed Ed to combine his movement with the scorpion's. His movements reached a spectacular level of fluidity. Ed himself could feel his Observation Haki getting better as he used this move. His eyes seemed to be unfocused, while in reality, he couldn't be anymore. An aura that was like the calm sea surrounded his body. No matter how many times the scorpion attacked, it couldn't hit Ed. It was even using its pincers along with its tail.

After a while, the red scorpion had a body full of cracks due to Ed's concentrated attacks. Ed also got hit a couple of times due to misreading his opponent. The scorpion seemed mad and was about to release some type of magic. Flames started dancing around its body, and a giant firewall surrounded it. It looked like it was using a skill similar to the Kyuubi's. Ed gripped the Katana in his hand and wind started to form around it. Both of them charged their attacks and released them.

However, the wall of flames never moved from its position. Ed was the one who got the first strike, and it was enough to finish the match. He used an over glorified version of the Wind Blade, which was enough to cut the weakened scorpion in half. Ed turned back and saw that his friends were about finished with the remaining scorpions as well. He didn't store any of them as they were too damaged. He simply walked away while checking his notifications. He actually leveled up by killing the hive of scorpions. He even got some Gacha tickets.

Ed didn't find any suitable monsters to hunt, so he decided to call it a day. He opened the Gacha interface while inside his dimension and decided on what to draw.

Author's Thoughts

Shigun

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