Chapter 384 Reaping benefits
384 Reaping benefits
The fight of the fire engulfed Spinosaurus and the four Berserk Sea Serpents was more than just a little bit interesting.
Dilan watched it in shock, clearly understanding that his victory against the Sea Serpent was something that could be considered to be a great stroke of luck.
Even the two severely injured Sea Serpents were still powerful enough to bite the Spinosaurus once before they succumbed to their ill fate not long afterward.
Their bites caused various bones in the Spinosaurus' body to get crushed and their enhanced poison had begun to affect the Tier-4 Overlord of the abandoned island almost immediately.
However, instead of growing slower or weaker, the Spinosaurus' strength seemed to increase after its bone had been crushed and its body poisoned.
"Is that monster like me? Getting stronger the lower the Health stats becomes?" Dilan had wondered at that time before he had shot forward to reach the two Sea Serpents that had been severely injured at that point.
The Spinosaurus had wildly thrashed them around after they had sunk their fangs into its flesh to get rid of the serpents while injuring them in the process, and Dilan was trying to reap benefits from that.
He had rushed in their direction to deliver the final blow using the Cursed Dagger to pierce their eyes and dig deeper.
Dilan was the one who killed the Tier-4 Sea Serpents without having done anything special. His contribution was almost non-existent in the battle but he was still proud of himself.
He had been the reason for the four Sea Serpents to fight each other, and that the Spinosaurus had crawled out of the mountain to fight the four Sea Serpents.
And as of now, everything was going according to his plan…and to his amazement, even better than that!
The corpses of the two Sea Serpents were stored in his storage ring that had been enlarged once again, fitting the humongous monster corpses easily.
The lightly injured Sea Serpent was coiling around the Spinosaurus, crushing dozens of bones while the transformed and unscathed red-scaled Sea Serpent had finished preparing a searing hot blast of water.
The Red-scaled Sea Serpent released the water blast without hesitation and it impacted on the Spinosaurus' head.
The Spinosaurus responded to this by manifesting flames around its head so as to reduce the water jet into harmless hot steam.
Unfortunately, this didn't work as it hoped for and the Spinosaurus ended up getting its face scorched due to the scalding water that melted its flesh and reached its skull while its body was crushed.
Simultaneously, the Sea Serpent that had coiled around its body sustained more and more injuries. The monster's entire body was burning and it was roasted by the powerful flames that revolved around the body of the Spinosaurus.
But that seemed like a sacrifice the Sea Serpent was willing to make.
Dilan was quite astonished by this. After all, the four Berserk Sea Serpents had been fighting against each other due to his usage of the [Berserk Fog] treasures.
'Are these Sea Serpents one giant family? If not, why is that Sea Serpent willing to sacrifice itself needlessly if the Spinosaurus is on the verge of death?' Dilan wondered, clearly seeing that its blue scales were melting.
The Sea Serpent must be in tremendous pain, yet, it didn't even think about loosening its grasp around the Spinosaurus. On the contrary, it coiled even tighter around the Spinosaurus' body, forcing the monster to change its approach of attack.
The vast majority of the Spinosaurus' skull was exposed, and one of its eyes had been destroyed. There was a gaping hole in its eye socket, and Dilan could clearly see the huge Essence crystal that was embedded deep inside the monster's rather small brain.
"Only a Gold Tier-4 monster?" Dilan wondered, shocked that the Spinosaurus didn't have an Essence crystal of a higher quality. It's stats were certainly at or around 1200 Units and it had been strong enough to pose a threat to four powerful Berserk Tier-4 monsters, whose stats weren't too low than itself.
Two of them had been severely injured but it was a great achievement, nonetheless.
The Spinosaurus changed its tactic. It moved its head downward, and a huge head created out of compressed flames emerged around the Spinosaurus' upper body.
The head looked just like a ginormous crocodile head that closed its massive maw around the tail of the Sea Serpent.
It was a bloody sight and awfully stinky as the humongous blazing crocodile head tore out huge chunks of the Sea Serpent's body.
Blood spurted through the surrounding, the smell of burning and charred flesh wafted through the air and the painful hiss of the Sea Serpent reverberated in everyone's ears.
The painful hiss could be heard all over the abandoned island and all the monsters halted in their tracks.
They didn't dare to approach the center of the abandoned island anymore, and their instincts told them to run away as fast as possible to avoid facing the same fate as the third Sea Serpent.
It was a torturous death, one they wanted to avoid at all costs.
Even Dilan felt a bit sorry for the Sea Serpent, whose body was being torn apart, slowly killing it.
However, he didn't even think of missing this opportunity. He saw that the transformed Sea Serpent with red scales shot forward in an attempt to save its brethren.
Its eyes turned crimson red and the monster's strength increased momentarily.
"It has both a special trait that allows it to metamorph when turning Berserk, and it has an actual transformation ability as well? Is that Sea Serpent a cosplayer, or what?!" Dilan wondered. He shook his head and felt a bit weirded out but the situation was certainly to his advantage.
He could tell that the stats of the transformed Sea Serpent were about the same as the Spinosaurus.
This was pretty great, especially when the huge blazing crocodile head bit off the head of the third Sea Serpent before the head was thrown several hundred meters away into the air.
What was left on the ground was only a twitching body and the head of the Sea Serpent that would die in the following seconds or minutes.
And Dilan rushed to exactly that twitching head, and he pierced through the backside of the cut head. The Cursed Dagger dug deep inside the flesh until he reached the monster's brain which he pierced through easily.
The monster died at his hands and he stored the head, including the Essence Crystal inside his storage ring.
"This is really a huge gain…now little Spino…kill the red snake and die in the process. That way, everything will be a lot easier for me," Dilan spoke in amusement.
Even if the Spinosaurus wouldn't die while killing the metamorphosed Sea Serpent, it was already severely injured and would face even worse injuries during the fight. Dilan would be given the opportunity to launch a secret attack, and to kill the monster.
He may not be in possession of extremely high stats that exceeded 1000 Units but Dilan was ready to use up some Essence Points if that was necessary to kill the Spinosaurus.
After all, he would make more gains by becoming the actual Overlord of the abandoned island after all the other powerful existences had been killed.
'There might be a few more Tier-4 existences on the abandoned island, but none of them is as powerful as the Spinosaurus, that is for sure!' Dilan thought before he smiled lightly upon seeing what was going on in front of him.
'Fighting!'