Chapter 182 Large-scale hunt (3 of 3)
The following four hours passed in the blink of an eye. Everyone was exhausted but bright smiles appeared on the faces of the exhausted Ascenders.
They had leveled up once again, and their stats had increased as well.
Some had already noticed that their leveling speed had slowed down quite a bit and their stats were also not improving as much as before.
However, all of this was not that important because they knew that the next four days would allow them to become even stronger.
Everyone was excited, knowing that they had already killed more than 2000 monsters on the first day.
The Ascenders were slowly honing their fighting tactics, and they were getting to know their comrades, further increasing their prowess by working together as a true team.
Dilan had expected a lot in the following days. He was pretty sure that everyone would improve rapidly, whether it was their levels, stats, combat awareness, combat experience, and proficiency in using their abilities.
Throughout the last few hours, he was surprised at the high combat awareness depicted by some of the Ascenders. Their innate talent to assess the situation on the battlefield was exceptional.
It had allowed them to progress faster than others and to hunt more monsters than the rest.
The most impressive of them all in Dilan’s opinion was Yvonne.
Even if it was already obvious that she would be extremely powerful owing to her Origin ability, the perks of her Legendary graded occupation were clearly displayed today.-.
Her Special Trait [Wings of the Fallen Angel] allowed her to fly in the air with the help of the black-feathered wings which sprouted out of her back.
Shooting bullets of darkness at her opponents while flying in the air allowed her to fight at an unimaginable advantage.
However, adding two corpses to her fleet which she could control with a single thought increased her combat power even further.
She might not be threatening for Dilan because their occupations and fighting styles were too different, but as long as Yvonne fought monsters, who were incapable of fighting in the air, or attacking via long-range attacks, she would be invincible.
But Yvonne was not the only one, who Dilan was quite astonished about. Williams’ fights were extremely pleasing and oddly interesting to look at.
His extraordinary graded occupation was called [Great Mentalist]. It allowed Williams to read the mind of weaker-willed humans, which was quite useful.
This didn’t help him in fighting other monsters but Williams didn’t really need help to fight monsters.
After all, his [Psychokinesis] ability had been upgraded to Tier-1★, while receiving further amplification thanks to the Great Mentalist occupation.
As he could control several weapons with his mind, Williams could fight a dozen monsters at the same time.
He didn’t choose to actively fight other monsters. Rather, he made use of the fact that his weapons could fly through the air the way he wanted them to and supported his people.
On the other hand, Kathrine acted like a Crazed Berserker most of the time. She charged at her opponents and made use of the Gray Slayer’s sharpness to kill them. If necessary, she even used the additional lethality her lightning created to brutally finish them off.
She had received the Gray Slayer from Dilan after he had obtained the Blazing Serpentine Blade. This was why Kathrine had wanted to show Dilan that she was the perfect person to wield such a strong weapon.
However, even then, Kathrine’s achievements weren’t as impressive as the two Ascenders, who had shown remarkable proficiency while wielding ordinary Serpentine Blades.
Even if they were only the ordinary version of the Serpentine Blades, they were extremely difficult to control at first.
Nobody dared to approach any of the few Ascenders, who wielded these items. Thus, they had to fight on their own at first, which made things more difficult as they sometimes faced 10 monsters at once.
Yet, by facing the nearly unbearable pressure of fighting 10 monsters simultaneously, the few Ascenders improved rapidly, and at a much faster rate than anyone else.
Their control of mana improved the most. Dilan felt like a proud father upon seeing the improvements of all Ascenders in his hunting group.
They hadn’t faced many problems while hunting, not a single Ascender died, and even if quite a few members had been injured in his group, nobody had been severely injured, to the extent that they would be deemed crippled.
With a few Ascenders amongst them who possessed healing abilities, it was not that difficult to tend to everybody’s injuries.
And the fact that Sarah had long since begun to concoct the mana replenishment potions further improved their recovery speed.
Their effect might not be exceptional anymore but one could gulp them down one after another so as to rapidly replenish their used up mana.
Dilan didn’t need these potions anymore because he would rather get accustomed to the sensation of his life force being drained.
This was one of the few forms of training Dilan had given himself; getting accustomed to unimaginable pain to prevent his mind from going awry every single time he had to replenish his mana quickly.
It was not as if he would die while bearing some pain, either way. He still owned a powerful Origin ability that could literally heal him from any kind of dying state!
“Powerful monsters spotted on our left!! They’re hunting…Dodos??”
The sudden warning from one of the archers, who had been acting as watchguards of their group attracted Dilan’s attention.
“Dodos? You mean these little chubby birds, who cannot fly… Those birds that went extinct hundreds of years ago?” Instead of bothering about the fact that powerful monsters were spotted nearby, one of the Ascenders was more interested in the fact that the archer found Dodos.
Many exhausted Ascenders were confused but also intrigued, so they took a glance in the direction the archer looked at with his bare eyes.
The archer in question had a passive ability called [Eagle Eyes]. It increased his eyesight to clearly see in a radius of close to 500 meters despite being a Tier-0 ★★★ ability.
After getting up from the ground, Dilan picked up the spyglass from one of the other archers, who had turned to his colleague to take a look at the Dodos.
“These monsters…what the hell are they?!” The young archer, whose spyglass Dilan had taken away mumbled, feeling confused and slightly frightened.
Dilan was confused too before his expression stiffened the moment he saw the batch of three weird mythical beasts hunting a group of more than a hundred dog-sized Dodos.
It looked like the mythical beasts were playing around with the Dodos before tearing them apart whenever one of the poor birds got exhausted.
“What are they?” Dilan repeated while keeping his senses on high alert.
He was currently looking at three mythical monsters, whose lower body was that of a grayish-scaled lizard. However, instead of short legs, they had legs that were several times longer than that of ordinary lizards.
If one considered this a rare trait, Dilan didn’t know what one would call it after figuring out that the neck and head of the ‘lizards’ were that of two Serpents!
Their necks were one-meter-long, and each of the mythical beasts had two of them, two necks and two heads…
Dilan was not even sure what to call such a beast.
“Are those possibly…hydras?!” Oliver exclaimed in excitement after he had gotten his hand on a spyglass.
Dilan could understand Oliver’s excitement. As a former full-time nerd, Oliver had obviously heard of hydras before.
However, Dilan couldn’t help but frown.
‘They’re too small to be Hydras…right? Please don’t let them be hydras…’
Taking a deep breath, Dilan focused his senses on the beasts they presumed to be hydras. Not long after he sensed the powerful presence of the Hydras as well, turning his worst fears into a reality.
”The archer was right, they’re powerful…maybe even stronger than the Blue Tiger!”
That being said, Dilan licked his dry lips, completely forgetting about his earlier worry as he said in a definitive tone,
“I will take care of them, you guys can return…”
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