"Why did you eat the monster core?! It's contaminated by a poison." Celine has trembled lips worrying about, after seeing Grim wouldn't hesitate to swallow the red crystal.
"Uh, uh, a poison?" Yumiro mumbled when he heard Celine's honeyed voice not too far away from him. He was dumbfounded at the widescreen that suddenly appeared right before his eyes. "A new notification?" Yumiro eyes widened as he noticed something different in his body.
"There's wrong, why I felt this feeling? No, it seems it's actually right. This is hope." He choked earlier because he just bit the large into two, so the two remaining pieces were enough to block his airways. "My HP... My fatigue... Why they got back to 100%?" He asked himself while reading the notification sent by the system.
[Extra special skill acquired!]
[Skill name
[Core Devourer Lvl.1: you can copy 2 or 3 monster's abilities each day, but if you replace the first monster ability that you receive it will automatically disable, and the new ability acquire will take over the first one.]
[Detection... Skill successfully copy! Skill copy
[New skill
The monster scales were consumed of weight which means his movement speed probably will be affected.
Yumiro mouth was widely opened and has blubbering eyes, seeing there still had a chance to win this fight. He erased that expression, to think the next move he could use to dominate Korbu since he showed that he wouldn't give any kind of sympathy.
He able quickly stood up, thanks to the huge helped of the wooden fences positioned beside him. He stayed on his feet with the exact place. "By using this skill, I can minimize the monster damage."
Korbu had 10 meters gap from Yumiro, but for Korbu, that kind of distance he could reach it just like a blink of an eye.
"There's no turning back, I if really want to survive with this I need to use everything that I know." Yumiro uttered to his mind and bounced a bit, which where the fight stance got started. He smirked "No matter what happens, I'm glad even a short time that I can use again my taekwondo technique again." He placed his arm in the front of his head.
He made up his mind to won't attack first, and just observing the monster what he should do if his anger leads him to this fight.
...
A few seconds had passed Korbu spits some words out of his mouth. "This is the last time I'll say this, but I promise you and the elve race will erase from this world" He charged again with the monster aggression while his claws were screeched to the dried surface. To show how proficient his claws, at the same time, to inform the human that he could easily slash all the things he wanted, and of them was the marble stone, that turned into particles as he figured out it was the main reason why he had a slow movement speed.
Boom!
Even though the stones chunk were dispersed on Korbu's rough face, but it looked like no one could stop him right now. He continued to charge, and when the distance between them was around 5 meters, he hardly swung his claw to kill the human as much as possible.
[Scale armor!]
"My movement isn't the same as before." Yumiro fighting stance was stiff, as the green scales were crawled up all over his body. "It's like an armor?" He asked himself after seeing his reflection on the polished stone. Only his eyes and hair the part of his body that won't get affected.
Korbu's eyes widened as he knew it was the scale of his brother Motariki. "You!" He growled as his intention to annihilate this human increased.
Clang!
The monster claw had the same tough just like the metal, the same as Yumiro's gauntlet even though it had a brown leather appearance outside, but inside there were metal parts that stimulate him to receive damage. So it was enough reason, why it could create a metal collision after Yumiro successfully blocked the monster attack.
He had a malicious smile on his face, "My hp not decrease even one digit." His eyes beamed by the shining scales on his arms.
Although earlier he could control his body perfectly, in a short period little by little he felt the green scales were a real part of his body.
In Korbus's mind, the human defense was certainly tough, but his eagerness to kill him won't fade away since just like now the human use one of the positive strength of the Kobold race. Aside from that, it was coming from his brother Motariki scales.
After Korbu swung his right arm, his body was slightly twisted and his knees bent, so he used that chance to swung again his left arm while using the rapid momentum.
Yumiro placed his both arms on the left side of his head, as he knew that attack had a bolted speed.
Bam!
Ing!
He thought he could receive the monster's force, but he threw him on the surface and rolled many times. When he stopped, he heard a high pitches sound since the monster attack contact near to his ear.
He chuckled as he found out the attack was consumed just 15 HP. "Stabilize my footing and predicting this monster movement, there's a chance, I can win this fight."
Korbu kept charging at him, but Yumiro won't be stood up awaited the monster to come closer to him. A hardly stomped perceived by his ears so he commenced to bit pushed himself then circulate his left foot in 180°, way more looked like a hook.
Thud!
Korbu fell to the ground, with a surprised expression. "You! Stop running fight me face to face!" He saw the glistening night skies even it had a warm feeling still, his intention continued.
He quickly stood up and gazed around, as the human appearance has vanished from his vision.
"Where he did go? If you won't show yourself in 5 seconds, I'll burn all the elves here!" Korbu yelled with premising eyes. "1... 2... 3... 4... 5" The time limit he gave was expired, so he bent his knees while his mouth pointed to the skies.
[Amazon Fire!]
There was a red light glowed under the moonlight, it seemed Korbu's gathered again tremendous fire inside his mouth. The size of it just like a two-average basketball.
"Do you think, I'll let you with that?" Yumiro leaped out of the numerous marble stone in the area, but there was different from him. And it was, he canceled out the [Scale Armor] to increased his movement speed.
While in the mid-air, Yumiro was piercingly pointed left foot to Korbu, and the right foot was positioned next to his left knee.
Bam!
He rapidly kicked the monster's mouth to forcefully closed it, seemingly [Amazon Fire] skill needed a plenty of time before he could release.
Korbu gulped and the fire magic suddenly vanished, he held his neck as his skill knocked back inside his large body.
"Ahk! Ahk! What is happening?! What did you do?!" Korbu screamed with terrified eyes as he knew he hasn't the control of his power inside his body.
Even though he saw the bad condition of Korbu, he won't show any mercy to the monster.
[Physical transmission!]
[Jumping axe kick!]
He used two skills at once to double up the damage that was about to release.
Bam!
He felt some part of Korbu's skull had a crack, but he wasn't about it. So another skill on his mind appeared.
[Dual spinning kick!]
With the effect of [Physical transmission], Yumiro whirled his body into 360° to sent the monster far away from the small village of elves.
Some blood was spilled in the air, and the other kobolds wanted to give him a backup from their leader. But, the elves won't let the monsters surpass them.
Boom!
A few seconds had passed, a strong explosion occurred beside the enormous trees and swayed them by the force. A strong fire spread in the area, but Yumiro won't take it seriously as he knew the leader of the kobolds has died since a new screen appeared before his eyes.
[You've received 1200 exp from killing the kobolds' leader!]
[Level up!]
[+5 free att]
[+1 to all stats]
Swoosh!
Yumiro lifted his head, as there new announcement from the skies for all adventurers inside the VR world.
[Hidden quest completed! Top raider(s) Grim Draigh]
And again, the screen name Grim Draigh was spread all over inside the VR world just like an explosion.
"What Grim Draigh again?! Which guild he belong?!"
"Who really that adventurer!"
"There's something special about him."
The rising adventurer was started to talk about by the strong adventurers and the guilds. Planning to recruit him again as they thought he could help them to clear the legendary dungeon.
After they received the announcement, the other adventurer started to head straight inside the lynx dungeon.
"Ah... I'm so tired I need to rest. Oh, she still not recover." Yumiro said and sauntered closer to Celine.
He saw Celine's was decreased rapidly, and he knew he hadn't any HP to help her to recover. "Tch, why I'm doing this, but I'll claim it back after she becomes stable." Yumiro bestowed his Asarki ring to Celine and he was the one who put it.
Thick!
Someone pointed some soft thing inside his back, so he glimpsed back then seeing an old man holding a scroll.
Elder Caron kneeled while his hands raised a bit along with the scroll. "Thank you for saving our village, this is your reward."