Blade Slash versus Poison Splash

Looking at the den of Lunar Serpents, Aeon unconsciously felt fear in his heart and thought he was done for.

'There is no way I am going to survive tonight.'

If it was 10 or 20 or even 30, Aeon would have not been afraid and have done his best to kill them.

However, currently, he was surrounded by an entire bed of Lunar Serpents and as for the exact number of Lunar Serpents in that bed…Aeon was not sure.

Nevertheless, he would be at least 200 Lunar Serpents.

So, how could Aeon not feel hopeless in the current situation?

'Splash'

'Splash'

In that moment of doubt, more than five Lunar Serpents spit their signature skill, the [Poison Splash] on Aeon and since Aeon was not focusing, he was unable to dodge them.

With that, Aeon [Poison Index] has increased by another 30 points and reached a value of 80 points.

In short, if Aeon's Poison Index increased by another 20 points, then he would be affected by the poison.

'It's over…over for me.'

Even though Aeon was not looking at the Grimoire of Life and Death to check his Poison Index, he was keeping an eye on it.

He knew each time he got splashed by the poison, he would be poisoned by five points and he was keeping track of his poison index.

For a moment, he forgot about all the preparations he had made and all the trump cards he was planning to use.

'Hiss~'

'Hiss~'

Seeing the fearful look in Aeon's eyes and face, the Lunar Serpents hissed in excitement and no longer attacked Aeon because if they splashed more poison on him, their prey would be dead.

They wanted to enjoy their prey being afraid and thus, they patiently waited while enjoying seeing Aeon losing his hopes in getting away from his current situation.

'Swoosh'

[Communication Page]

[The temporary owner has offered eight corpses of the Lunar Serpents. Gifts are being prepared. Please Wait]

[By feeding the corpses, the second blessing, [Devouring Effect] has been triggered]

[The temporary owner's poison index has been temporarily increased by 40 points for the eight Lunar Serpents' Corpses]

Maybe it sensed Aeon's thoughts and hurriedly flew to him and opened the [Communication Page] to show him the effect he received from offering the Lunar Serpents' Corpses.

Because he was no longer getting attacked, Aeon got enough time to check everything on the [Communication Page] and when he saw the effect from his [Devouring Effect], he saw hope.

'For every Lunar Serpent I kill and offer the Grimoire of Life and Death, the capacity of my Poison Index will increase by 5 points…if it is like that, as long as I maintain my killing spree, I can no longer be poisoned, right?'

Of course, it was easier said than done because the moment he could not keep up with his killing, it would be poisoned to death.

'Since I am going to die anyway, I will give it a try.'

Compared to the earlier moment where he would be definitely poisoned to death, the current situation where he won't be poisoned as long as he keeps killing the Lunar Serpents.

Hence, Aeon was no longer afraid of the Lunar Serpents or he was hopeless; instead, he eyed hundreds of Lunar Serpents with excitement.

'I might have failed to kill 100 Quaggoth Servants; however, it is not going to happen with the Lunar Serpents.'

Maybe Aeon needed some kind of mini goal to get out of his current situation and finally, when he thought about the trial progress, Aeon got all the motivation and courage that he needed.

"Goblin, kill as many Lunar Serpents as possible before your time's up."

For the summoned Goblin Soldier, there were only 10 minutes he could stay alongside Aeon. It's been already two minutes and thus, Aeon ordered the Goblin Soldier to kill as many Lunar Serpents as possible before going back.

"Yes, Master."

The Summoned Goblin Soldier nodded his head and eyed the Lunar Serpents close to him.

'Hiss~'

On the other hand, the Lunar Serpents hissed in anger when they saw the change in Aeon's facial expression and the confident look in his eyes.

"Stop hissing at me, you serpents."

Aeon used his both hands to hold the Quaggoth Black Blade and tightened the grip on his blade.

'Swoosh'

'Swoosh'

'Splash'

'Slash'

Soon, the second round of Poison Splash versus Blade Slash began.

Aeon was very careful and thanks to the Goblinstep Boots, he was able to dodge half of the [Poison Splashes].

Once a Lunar Serpent uses a [Poison Splash], it can't use the same attack for some time and Aeon used this time to close in the distance between them to slash them into pieces.

With this method of dodging half of the attacks but killing all the Lunar Serpents that used [Poison Splash], Aeon was steadily increasing the capacity of his Poison Index.

Of course, it was only temporary; however, it was enough for Aeon to get out of the situation alive.

Soon, the trial progress steadily increased, making Aeon excited; however, he controlled his excitement and fully focused on his attacking method.

'Even in my current situation, other than the 5 points of increase in the capacity of the Poison Index, the other good thing was, there seems to be no Sergeant Grade Lunar Serpent in this den of Lunar Serpents.'

Suddenly, Aeon thought of some of the good things that happened to him even in this situation.

'I am getting close to completing my 100 monster kills for one race.'

Even though Aeon was not checking the Grimoire of Life and Death, he was roughly counting the number of Lunar Serpents he was killing and he knew he was getting closer to 100.

[Communication Page]

[The temporary owner has killed 12 Lunar Serpents (Soldier Grade) along with his Summoned Being]

[Trial Progress has been updated]

[Overall Kill Count: 188 / 1000]

[1) Goblins: 20 /100]

[2) Quaggoths: 62 / 100]

[3) Komodoans: 6 / 100]

[4) Lunar Serpents: 100 / 100]

Time continued to pass and in less than 10 minutes, the thing Aeon was waiting for had finally happened.

[For completing 100 killings for one monster race, the temporary owner will be rewarded with a gift]

'A gift?'