New Skill

"GRRRRRR!"

The leopard growled more frequently as it was hit by more and more attacks from the adventurers, its body flinching due to the pain and lacking the leeway to move as it wanted.

And following the words of the random person who spoke, the adventurers all aimed their ranged attacks at its wounded eye.

In the midst of this, Laurene struck once more, unleashing a ball of lightning that charred across the battlefield and crashed right into the leopard's face.

From the position on its face the ball had hit, it was glaringly obvious the girl had been aiming for its other eye but missed.

The spell was one she had conjured up after combing her predecessor's knowledge and what she learned under the Chief Court Mage Jenson.

"Electro Salvo!"

Another tier 2 spell activated, and a rapid barrage of lightning bolts struck the leopard's body all over, each one containing intense electrifying power.

"KUAAAAAAAA!!!!!"

Once again, the creature let out another intelligible roar while Evan who was on the ground was busy trying to avoid the creature's sight as he pulled out a poison bomb from his magic bag.

But even though it was growling in weird pronunciations after being hit with Laurene's barrage, its gaze still didn't leave Evan's body.

It kicked off the ground, and at the same time Ralphie sensed a skill activation coming from the creature.

Its 'Shadow Pounce' a skill as common as could be, was activated and it planned to crash onto Evan at full speed.

The boy noticed this and pulled back his blade, before dashing towards the creature.

He wrapped his magic power in a spiral current around his sword, making the weapon's tip tremble lightly by this weapon control skill enabled him to hold it back.

The distance of about 50 metres between him and the leopard reduced to half that in the blink of an eye and soon turned to zero.

The creature leapt up into the air and swung its paw that was coated in its magic power and held the damage buff from its skill.

Evan held kicked off the ground and leapt into the air, circulating his magic power through his armour to activate the enchantment effect while he free arm went towards his waist.

Since he jumped towards the creature that had already leapt towards him, he naturally slammed into its face, along with a puff of green smoke.

"Evan?!"

Laurene's worried voice felt distant as the boy was currently disoriented from the shock and was feeling numb all over.

But the expected death by being crushed by the leopard didn't happen.

Evan had muttered one word right before he had hit the leopard, a second before he activated the poison bomb.

"Paladin."

His thrust his sword that had magic power spiralling around it at the leopard's face, inflicting more damage towards it as the spiralling magic power shredded its flesh.

As for the poison, his paladin skill granted him increased resistance to stuff like that so he was not affected much.

But for the Leopard, it was a lot better for it to have its face washed with a bucket of poison than what it was going through right now. The poison entered through its facial injuries and seeped deeper into its body, making it howl in pain.

This time, Evan pulled out the blades from his gloves and boots and fixed himself on the leopard's face as if striking a nail into a cliff in order to not fall off from its body, when it was swaying its head so much.

And then, he nimbly avoided the front paw that nearly swatted him off the creature's face whilst moving around, continuously damaging the leopard with the blades as he dragged it around the creature's body.

He spiralled magic power around his sword once more and thrusted it consecutively, shredding more and more of the creature's flesh.

Both his armour and the clothes he wore underneath were all doused in leopard blood, but the boy kept on with his attack.

No matter how much the creature thrashed around, Evan didn't sway and struck the same place with machine like accuracy and repetition.

His arm muscles, containing all the power of his strength stat that was boosted by 10% and had 120% effectiveness, pierced the creature's hide and pulled out even more blood.

"KuuurrraaAAaaa!"

Of course, our resident Fourth Hero wasn't just standing there and watching the show, tossing an enormous fireball that blasted the leopard in the face

She didn't use fire magic as much as she did lightning, but this didn't mean she wasn't good at it.

Her spell pulled the attention of the adventurers towards her, wondering who the mage who had been supporting Evan was.

She fired more at it, alternating between fire, lightning and wind. Her three best affinities.

Eventually, the leopard who had become dizzy due to the blood loss from Evan and Laurene's continuous attakcs stopped trying to trash around and swayed unsteadily.

This provided an opportunity that the adventurers were looking forward to.

"It's slowing down!"

"Corner it more, more!"

All the adventurers present started an all-out attack, mages launching their best Tier 1 spells, close combat attackers approached it from the other side of the line of fire and slashed at its leg.

The individual attacks of people within the range of levels 10-25 with 'F' rank stats were not much to a Level 55 monster.

But when stacked ten, hundred, or possibly even a thousand times, the current result of its hide being pierced and its muscles being injured was produced.

Human wave tactics weren't scary for nothing.

The poor Leopard keeled in front of the adventurers' will that agglomerated on defeating it.

It was then that a message suddenly appeared right in front of Evan who was resting his arms that had gotten tired from stabbing like crazy.

[The goddess 'Artemisia' urges you to kill that monster quickly.]

Evan's body shook slightly. Though the did not know why, the fact that she urged him to kill it quickly meant something bad was about to happen.

He jumped off the monster's back, right in time to dodge the wave of magic power that spread from its body.

The wave pushed back all the close combat attackers who were trying to get hits in, Evan was also slightly affected.

He landed on the ground and stabilized himself, before pulling out a health potion and appraising the monster to see if there were any changes to its stats.

|Name- None

Race- Shadow Leopard

Level- 57

Existence Level - Silver

Titles- None

Class - Leopard

Health – E+

Energy – D-

Strength – D-

Agility – D-

Durability – E+

Intelligence- F+

Condition- Angered, Weakened.

Magic Tiers- Non-Attribute Tier 1

Skills- Body Enhancement, Shadow Pounce, Energy Blast.

Unique Skills- None. |

Looking at the status, he instantly noticed the difference.

'Its existence level increased and it gained a new skill.'

He looked at the skill's description immediately while locking eyes with the leopard's remaining eye.

|Energy Blast;

Type: Rare Skill

Effect;

Condenses energy on a suitable body part and fires it out as a blast. |

He immediately activated his Mystic Eye of Mimicry, since he maintained eye contact for more than 10 seconds, knew the name and effect of the skill, all the conditions to mimic it were met.

|Skill Acquired: Energy Blast|

He was about to do a guts pose upon mimicking his first skill when he noticed something—the leopard's mouth was open.

"Shit!! Everyone duck!!!"

The adventurers would not normally listen to a kid who was young enough to be some of their sons, however, after seeing the power he displayed, they chose to trust him rather than keep their pride.

Unfortunately, some refused to listen. But that was expected, they were in a dungeon with the 'Arrogance' status effect, after all.

The reason why none of them ran away even though they could not defeat this monster was because of that effect.

Those who did not listen to Evan's words, did not live to hear what he said next.

"Fuck!"

**BOOOOMMMM!!!!!