Chapter 16: A NAMED BOSS!

As he neared 100 meters by flying slowly, he landed on the branch of one of the trees to which he hid himself and began checking the information about the two.

[Harik the Jungle Master - Twin-headed Swordtail Boa <Legendary>

State: Normal condition, slumbering

Level: Sky Immortal (Peak) - 999/1000

Physical Strength: Sky Immortal (Peak Stage)

Mental Strength: Sky Immortal (Peak Stage)

Divinity: ?

Bloodline Skills: (4)

<Blazing Breath (Active)>

- Emits a poisonous wave of essence through the mouth from it's right head. Instantly kills creatures with strength less than it. Creatures with the same or have above strength will be inflicted with burn, reducing essence circulation speed by 20%. Has 2 second channeling time and uses 30% of total essence reserves of the user.

Cooldown: 60 seconds

<Freezing Breath (Active)>

- Emits an icy wave of essence through the mouth from it's left head. Instantly kills creatures with strength less than it. Creatures with the same or have above strength will be inflicted with frostbite, reducing execution speed by 20%. Has 2 second channeling time and uses 30% of total essence reserves of the user.

Cooldown: 60 seconds

<Swordtail Slash>

- Attacks an enemy through its tail. Wounds received by the skill will inflict bleed to the wounded target, greatly reducing regenerative effects.

Cooldown: 0 seconds

<Hardened Scales (Passive)>

- Increases defense by 1 stage higher than the user's physical strength.]

[Pear of Enlightenment (Orange) - Incomplete (formerly Red)

- A fruit that bestows epiphany when consumed, directly bypasses bottlenecks and lightning tribulation. Only effective for consumers having strength at the peak stages of Sky Immortal up to Immortal Emperors.

- In the state of recovering through it's peak.]

'Fuck, it's a NAMED BOSS! I've played games like this and usually monsters like this are insanely strong. But if managed to kill/defeat, the rewards will be sumptuous!'

'And that reward, what the overpowered fuck is that fucking fruit!? Directly entering the next level without tribulation!?'

From reading the books in the library, he acquired information about how dangerous a lightning tribulation is.

Going from Peak Sky Immortal to breakthrough into an Immortal King required 3 lightnings of tribulation for the cultivator to withstand, same as with beasts.

Peak Immortal Kings require 6 lightnings to breakthrough into Immortal Emperors and Peak Immortal Emperors require 9 lightnings to breakthrough into Immortal Sovereigns!

To breakthrough into Half-Deity from Immortal Sovereign does not require lightning tribulation, but understanding of deific essence and initial formation of deific force. The higher percentage of deific force formed, the stronger the human cultivator is.

But for beasts, all they have to do is, eat deific essence-containing items, and creatures including human deities or half deities. If accumulated enough until it forms a bestial image(equivalent to human initial deific force), that's the time a beast sovereign will become a demibeast.

They will also acquire half-human form, same as human half-deities acquiring half-beast form from their bloodlines (refer to Aslan's and Belphegor's half-beast form).

It was also the main reason of the 'War of the Ancients', as the dwindling population of ancient humans caused them to go all out from the constant oppression from the archaic beasts. Thoughout the war, the remaining survivors with Supreme Ruler strength and below only have diluted or incomplete bloodlines, cutting off the path to become deities.

Going back to the situation of Alex, he began to think carefully about his next moves. Suddenly, he heared booming noises that came above directly the place where the beast was. What he saw, was 4 person of young ages that wore the same type and color of robes.

They each emit aura even stronger than the beast! Alex cautiously hid and did his very best to conceal himself and not to leak any sound. From the system interface, he cancelled his buff <Breath of the Primals> which still have a remaining 25 or so minutes of time.

Through the action, like someone being robbed of their soul, his body began to deflate like a balloon as he felt his strength leaving his body. He saw his interface and saw a 35 minutes debuff, with his human immortal mid stage strength to Mortal Saint (Peak).

'What power level is this? I haven't read this in the books.. I better ask Icy about this after this.'

The sudden intrusion of the squad of 4 woke the slumbering beast as it roared loudly, a piercing sound blasting throughout the forest. Alex was affected directly since he is near from the impact, as he felt his insides churn and mind spin.

His eardrum bled as he began to cover his ears and bit his tongue to avoid passing out from the impact of the roar.

'Fuck! It hurts!' he thought as he endured the pain coming from his head. 'This debuff really scares me, the weakness.. just a roar and I already felt like dying.' He gathered himself as he looked at the two opposing sides.

The subjects of the soundwave attack, however, other than flapping clothes, no other change was done as they still stood in mid-air calmly like watching a show.

"Senior brother Jun, is that the fruit that the master told us to pick?" ignoring the beast, a young girl looked at the older man in front with questioning gaze as she asked.

"Yes, junior sister Xixi, that is the Enlightenment Pear that our master instructed us to get. The master told me he will use it to breakthrough to Sovereign realm, so that he can become a Great Elder on our sect. This way, our statuses and also the resources given to us will be increased."

They began to talk to each other as they gradually approached the beast and the tree with the fruit of their mission. The beast also felt their aura, but due to it's unyielding instinct and desire for survivability and power, it began to charge the 2 bloodline skills in its arsenal.

Sensing the dreadful aura from the skill of the beast, the squad began to take the things seriously as they also began activating their skill almost at the same time the beast began to charge it's skill.

Looking at them, Alex then thought 'This is it!' as he slowly slid down the tree silently and stealthily traversed around the scene.