Sudden Crisis Between Life and Death (3)

Dante finally saw his prey after hiding in a big tree's shadow for a few seconds, waiting for the Fire Python's arrival. 

100 meters ahead of him, there was a massive python with a body circumference of about 3 meters and around 75 meters in length.

Looking at the massive python ahead of him, Dante concealed himself more and hid his murderous intention as he went to the top of the tree, waiting for the python to bypass him and attack it at that moment.

When the Python was about to pass underneath him, he silently used [Blood Ignition] on his demon's blood essence.

Blood Ignition involved burning his demonic blood essence to release a surge of power, enhancing his overall strength for a short time.

However, there were significant drawbacks by doing so, as it could make him lose his lifespan, causing permanent damage to his body, such as in his foundation, which could affect his future accomplishments, etc.

Unfortunately, Dante's situation at the moment forced him to make a hard choice, as he wasn't even sure that using only [Blood Ignition] was enough to stop the other beasts.

Subsequently, Dante jumped from the tree silently as he already calculated the timing between his fall and that his fall would definitely be at the point where it would hit the snake's head as it passed by right beneath him.

Fortunately for Dante, the position of where he fell was still covered in the tree's shadow, which made his [Shadowmeld] skill still on, resulting in the snake not noticing him at all.

When his position was 3 meters away from the snake, the snake instinctively felt the danger as Dante used his [Silent Reaper] skill, aiming to stab at its head.

The snake felt that it couldn't dodge in time and immediately reacted by using its [Fire Armor] skill, and a visible armor formed of fire enveloped all of its scales.

Unfortunately, its effort was futile as Dante's sword pierced through the scales, and the accumulated dark energy that Dante had gathered immediately erupted from the tip, blowing away its entire head and killing the snake on the spot.

After Dante made a commotion and killed the snakes, he took the opportunity to release his murderous intent and power once again, warning other beasts that he would kill them like he killed the snake if they were still adamant on heading towards Cain's location.

Fortunately for him, this method worked on chasing away a few Peak-level Lord Rank Beasts, as they were terrified when they felt Dante's power and the disappearance of Mid-level GrandLord Rank Beast.

However, the other three Peak-level GrandLord Rank Beasts kept heading towards Cain's location even though they felt Dante's power and noticed that he managed to kill Mid-level GrandLord Rank Beast in a single blow.

The reason they kept heading towards Cain was because they felt that even though Dante's power was indeed strong, it wasn't enough to stop them if they ever fought seriously.

Subsequently, Dante asked the system about the situation after he killed the snake.

When he heard that the three Peak-level GrandLord Beasts were still heading towards Cain, he instantly vanished from the spot and headed towards the west as he wanted to hinder the GrandLord Rank Beasts halfway.

A few seconds later,

Dante had arrived at the place where the other two beasts' sides would meet, which was around 300 meters away from Cain's location.

He then immediately used his brain to its fullest potential as he thought about various possibilities that could happen while waiting for the arrival of the beasts.

Around a minute later…

Dante could feel the arrival of the beasts, on one side, from the northeast, he sensed the arrival of the Fire Foxes, while from the northwest, he sensed the arrival of the Fire Lion.

He then immediately became fully prepared, as he was ready to even sacrifice his life to stall the time, waiting for Anya to come to the rescue.

Fortunately for him, after they arrived at the scene, they didn't make a move as they stopped at a distance, watching Dante standing unwaveringly with a full determination to stop them.

The reason why they didn't want to make a move was because they knew that Dante was using his lifeforce in exchange for temporary strength.

That's why they only stood there, watching Dante as they also didn't want to take unnecessary risks and just waited for the perfect opportunity to strike.

Which surely will come sooner or later, as Dante will be at his weakened stage after he has done using his [Blood Ignition].

The Fire Foxes, who were naturally cunning beasts, knew that their prey was still there, and there were no other stronger beasts noteworthy around here except the Fire Lion and some Peak-level Lord Rank Beasts.

This was the main reason that they didn't make a move right away, because if they made a move and one of them got entangled by Dante, the other one would surely get blocked by the Fire Lion.

Resulting in the Peak-level Lord Rank Beasts who would become the real winner as their opponent was a mere dragon at Diamond Rank.

…

"It seems that I still need to help more." The fluffy creature watched the scene from afar and sighed.

The fluffy creature thought that Dante's action would have a better result than scaring away some Peak-level Lord Rank Beasts.

'The backup will still need more time, and I couldn't make another mistake here.' 

The fluffy creature looked in the direction where there was a half-transformed, beautiful woman with three tails running at her full speed towards this location.

The fluffy creature then snapped its small finger and said with a sigh. "I hope that lady luck comes to your door at this moment. Otherwise, there is a possibility of your downfall here."

[Ding! Combining two from randomly selecting the entire Summoning Pool chances.]

[Ding! Selecting randomly…]

[Ding! 2x High-level Summon Pool Chances have been selected.]

"Hufft… Even though it's not the best result, at least a Random-level Summoning Pool wasn't chosen." 

The fluffy creature exhaled its deep breath that it had been holding while waiting for the result.

[Ding! Congratulations! You have summoned a Dominator Ranks Magician (Rank 9). Lyra Ashenwave, Mistress of the Scorching Seas.]