The monster Rakka was facing looked odd even by majimonster standards. It looked a lot like an oversized frog with horns that reminded me of an ox, a nose ring through its nose and covered head to toe in spiky little hairs. As Rakka kept locking horns with it, I used my Dragon's Lens to determine if this monster actually does have a name that silly and obvious.
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Name: Budo
Species name: BullFrog
Affinity: Water/Fury
Grade: Silver
Traits: Bullrush, Oil Skin
Description: Unknown.
Voxea's Notes: ...Early majimonster making was rather...uncreative. When we weren't pumping mundane animals with elemental aether to see what would happen, we would try mixing them together to see what would happened. Evidently, this was what lead to the SpiderMonkey, the TigerShark, the BuckRabbit and the GoldFish. Yes it's as painfully obvious as it sounds.
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As the Dragon's Eye explained to me what exactly I was looking at, I couldn't help but mentally groan at the name and at the additional monsters mentioned within Voxea's notes.
(Please note that about two minutes of Silvia going "Gaaaaaah" was cut from the printing of this chapter).
After the initial shock, I proceeded to allow the battle bond to take me, but not before having a quick conversation with Voxea.
[Voxea].
[Yeah]?
[Why....]?
[Like I said, we maji are a creatively uncreative bunch. The literal named dragons were...early experiments. I am honestly surprised they managed to live this long and leave descendants. I now shudder at the possibility of the other literal named ones being spread out...or evolving, it has been eight hundred or so years], she replied to me. I had no idea what a monkey even was, but the idea of a SpiderMonkey made me shudder for some reason.
After the initial clash between Rakka and Budo, the two horned giants bounced off of one another as the battle bond fully sank in. The two monsters began to circle each other, keeping their horns in front of each other like duelists with their swords.
Rakka let out a deep snort after breaking the horn-lock with Budo, and a feeling of disgust, annoyance and excitement came loud and clear through the bond. Rakka was thrilled to fight, but he was not happy with this particular monster. If I had to guess, he didn't like that this weird frog monster had somehow matched him in a contest of strength despite being the same grade as him.
[Rakka, Freezing H-]!
But before Rakka could fire off his technique, the BullFrog had suddenly launched forward, its horns wreathed in water aether
[Not good! Dodge it]!
Rakka narrowly managed to avoid the full brunt of the attack by leaping to the right of the charging frogs' path, the razor sharp horns still managing to leave a long scratch against his hide. I felt a sharp pain at my side as the water aether in the BullFrogs' horns wormed its way into the growing scratch on Rakka's hide. Evidently, water aether and Rakka didn't mix all too well...then again, neither does Lightning aether and Water monsters.
While Budos' horn kept scraping against Rakkas' hide,the [Electrify] technique activated. Lightning aether began to build up underneath his skin and was getting ready to burst. The moment Budo finished passing by Rakka, a bolt of lighting struck it directly at its back. The oversized amphibian let out a loud croaking moo of pain as the lightning coursed through its body.
[Now, Freezing horn! Fire Stride]!
"Grooa"!
In a second, Rakka stopped his momentum from dodging by fiercely stomping into the ground. In the next moment, his hooves bursted into flames. Making use of the sudden burst of energy, Rakka propelled himself forward at the BullFrog with his antlers glowing with ice aether.
The BullFrog was directly in Rakkas' line of sight and adding on that fact that the lightning coursing throughout was momentarily stunning it, this meant that it was going to be in a world of hurt!
As Rakka got into close combat range with the BullFrog, he swung his head upward in order to slash across its back. However, instead of feeling flesh on Rakkas' and a hearing a loud croak of pain, there was a schlicking sound and the BullFrog had jumped away in that same instance.
What the aether?