Bai looked behind and got frightened, there are 5 monsters identical to the previous one attacking him.A wind pushed him back, and Lucas walked to the monsters.
"I will help you." Ryo said.
"I can help too." Edward said too.
"Don't need, I was going test my strength a little." Lucas waved the hands and said.
Everyone is stunned, even though that monster lost quite easily to Bai, but still have the strength of a medium Tier 8, and 5 of them difficult even for a top Tier 8.Ryo had the confidence to win them, but he it will be exhausting, and he had 2 powers in the top of the Tier 8.
The monsters attached Lucas, but a wind make them slower.Lucas is surprise seeing that they are still okay, so he added lightning and ice.The monsters stopped immediately, and even started to show signs of ice around the body, and they have spasms because the lightning.Lhcas stopped all of his meanings, he wanted to test his strength, not defeat them.
Lucas let the monsters get closer, but they are much more cautious this time, they each attacked from a side.He activated metal covering and let them attack him, the metal covering look a lot destroyed after a while, but Lucas had all-around meaning so his defense is strong even without the metal covering, so there only scratches in his skin.
Lucas smiled and decided to test the attack power of the all-around meaning, so he dodged one monster and let the others hit him, and he gave a punch in the stomach of that one.
Crack!
The monster only took a few steps back, but some of his scales are cracking.Lucas looked to his fist amazed, it is just a normal punch, if he use the speed enhancement meaning, he can do several of that in a short time.
He wanted to test, so he immediately activated the speed enhancement meaning, and the wind meaning to make the air resistance lesser to him.Lucas sensed that his hands can attack like a snake, but repeatedly.
He dodged again the monsters and attacked the same monster again, but this time he punched 4 times before the monster can take a step back, and with this step it falls dead to the ground.Lucas looked to where he attacked and there is cracks and blood everywhere, but this isn't a fatal blow to a monster, probably it died from the internal organs being destroyed by the impact.
The others monsters screamed seeing one of them dying and started to attack more fiercely, Lucas used heavy body meaning in two of them and blow the others two with wind, he immediately attacked the two with heavy body.They died like the previous one, and he looked to the others two, they are scared and immediately retreated.
Of course Lucas won't let them escape, with his wind and all-around meaning he can catch them easily, but he stooped suddenly.
(The host obtained a Tier 8 flesh meaning, and lacks 7 meanings to upgrade to Tier 7.)
Lucas is stunned and his flesh started to strengthen, even though it already strengthen when he got all-around meaning, but isn't like a human body strengthen, that get more defined the stronger it is, but his body started to inflate.Even though it don't look much different from before, his body have a more dominant strength.
'It is better going balancing the meanings, if I have more dominant meanings, my body would look like a bodybuilding, and probably will affect a little my speed, the middle line is the best.' Lucas thought looking to his body, even though he still almost the same, he is almost certain that he can that monster with just a punch now.
"Hey Lucas, you almost let those guys escape." Lucas come back to the reality hearing Bai's voice.
He looked around and see one of the monsters that escaped cut in the middle, and Ryo is near it, and the other monster drowned in a water bubble, and Edward is near it.
"It is normal, he used so many powers, he must be exhausted." Ryo said, he knows how tiring is to use several powers, he had 2 and have to calculate precisely to don't be exhausted.
"Yeah, is that." Lucas nodded, but he was thinking others things 'My meanings are only one power, even with I use all of them in the same time, it will be the same.'
"So is this, I thought that you are living in the moon in the middle of a fight." Bai said looking suspiciously to Lucas.
"Wow, Lucas is so strong." Edward arrived and said.
"You are too." Lucas said looking to the drowned monster.
"Now we need 4 more monsters core to pass the test." Ryo said.
"It is best to take some more for guarantee." Lucas said.
Before he don't care, just pass and it's alright, but now knowing that the monsters can give him meanings, he wants to search different monsters.
"Yeah, if we are disqualified because of some monsters core, it will be ridiculous, and we can train fighting with them." Bai said too.
Ryo nodded, killing monsters here is helping the army too, even though it is little, but whatever help is help after all.Edward and Liz nodded too.
"How we will get the monster core?" Edward asked.
These monsters are humanoid, so it is hard to cut it in to get the monster core, even normal monsters it is gore to search for a core in its body.
"Let that to me." Liz surprisingly said.
They all looked weirdly to Liz, women tends to be more sensible to these things, but she offered do it herself.But they saw a weird scene, Liz hand passed through the body of the monster and caught the core, after taking back her hand, it is clean, without a droplet of blood.
"My power is useless, so I can only help you guys with this." Liz said helpless.
"What power is this, if everything pass through you, then aren't you invincible?" Bai looked stunned.
"My power only permits me pass through inanimate things, and in Tier 9 only my fingers could do it, now in the Tier 8 only my hand can do it." Liz explained with a bitter expression.
Lucas thought about something and smiled.
"I want to see, try on me to see if your hand pass through." Lucas said with a smile.
Liz hesitate, she already tested it, but it is before upgrading to Tier 8.Now it might have changed, so she nodded and approached Lucas.
She extended her hand to Lucas's chest, her hand don't have nothing magical, just looked a normal hand, and she touched Lucas's chest and don't pass through.Liz looked disappointed and took back the hand.
(The host obtained a Tier 8 intangible meaning, and lacks 6 meanings to upgrade to Tier 7.)
Lucas got happy, this thing looks useless, but can be convenient in several occasions.
"Don't worry, Liz.It might be a strong power in later Tiers." Ryo patted Liz shoulder, and she started to catch the others cores.
The others teams saw they catching monsters core, and got animated that there monsters near, and started searching.Lucas team started searching for more too.
After a while, the immense flat land ended, and a forest can be seen in the distance.
"There might be stronger monsters here, let's take care." Ryo said and looked cautious.
"My body is the strongest so I will stay in the front, for surprise attacks." Lucas got a reason to stay in the front, he can't use the pretext of testing his powers anymore.If he is hit every single time that he fights a monster, they will think something strange.
"Okay, take care, and Liz is best to stay in the middle of us." Ryo nodded and offered another ideia.
Everyone nodded, even though Bai and Ryo bodies are weak too, but their powers can be used to defend themselves, and Edward had a translucent light in the test in the city, even though it isn't a All-round power, but it can be any of speed, strength or defense, and whatever it is, he isn't so easy to die in a surprise attack.
'Each type of monster gave a meaning, or they might give others meanings even being from the same race?' Lucas asked himself, if each species of monsters have the same meaning, he don't need to stay like a idiot and let it attack himself.To prove this he can only try, he never see a monster before, so it is new to him.
When they entered the forest, a claw attacked Lucas, he is thinking so he had only time to active metal covering, but he don't care much.Even if this monster destroy his metal covering, his body will resist easily the rest of the damage.
The claw easily penetrate the metal covering and Lucas jumped back, even them, his chest have red claw marks.
(The host received an attack from a monster with 2 powers, since the host have one of them, obtained the other one, a Tier 8 claw meaning.Lacks 5 meanings to upgrade to Tier 7.)