Lucas got surprise that his metal covering and his own body can't hold that attack, the only one to break his guards so easily in the same Tier is Penelope, because she had 2 powers that boost her destructive strength.
'This monster have 2 strength powers too?' Lucas looked to the monster astonished.
Having 2 powers isn't so uncommon, but having powers that complement each other is rare.Like if you have speed and wind power, you will be much faster than a guy who had only speed.So Lucas looked happily to the wolf like monster.If there more monsters like that, he will struck gold.
He sensed his fingers and nails getting more powerful, he probably can torn apart a thin stell plate now.
Everyone is surprise seeing injure, even though is light, but they have seen several monsters attack at the same time and make almost nothing, so they are more cautious, if such attack hit them, they will be cutted in two.
A lightning attacked the monster and make it sluggish, and a water laser cutted it in two while Lucas is thinking, they are surprise seeing this.This monster have such high attacking power but died so easily.Lucas is grad of his power, even though his attack, speed or defense aren't the strongest yet, but he don't have any obvious flaw, only battle experience.
Liz caught the core and they continued walking in the forest.The forest is surprisingly quiet, they didn't hear the monsters roar or these things that they imagined.
Suddenly Lucas sensed something in his neck, he immediately patted it.He looked to his hand and his face changed, there is a dead insect there, but it's shell was more defined.When he is getting a little groggy, he heard a voice.
(The host obtained a Tier 9 Neurotoxin meaning, and lacks 5 meanings to upgrade to Tier 7.)
The groggy mood decreased and Lucas shakes his head, even though is just a Tier 9 power, it can affect him a little, if it is Tier 8, he probably will almost sleep and let the monster that passed by kill him.And the insect monster didn't spread it stinging, if not his skin wouldn't be penetrate by a Tier 9 insect, it spread by touching the skin.
"Take care, there is poisonous insects in this forest." Lucas said while looking to his situation.
The Neurotoxin meaning just gives him a higher resistance of this type of poison, probably it will have more functions with higher tier, but Lucas liked it anyway.Poison always come from nowhere, no one is retarded enough to say that will throw a poison on you, so it's good have a passive resistance against it.
'This meaning didn't count as requirements to upgrade to Tier 7, is this because it is only a Tier 9 meaning?' Lucas thought looking to the notification saying that he still needs 5 meanings to upgrade.
"Serious?" Bai's face changed.
He don't have much fear of surprise attacks, his lightning power is the fastest, even though his body isn't fast, but if he reacts he can active the lightning power instantly.And this is why lightning power is so envied, it's the fastest, it's is the 2nd more destructive, behind only of gold, and there is only one point, that is if the host is weak.
"Let's get closer, sometimes might be insects in our body and we didn't even notice." Ryo said.
Everyone nodded and got closer to each other.
After a while, they encountered several insects monsters, but they are attentive now, so they avoided it or killed if it's attack them.
"Let's change direction." Ryo said frowning, there is so much insect monsters here now, in front must be there a lair or something.
"Yeah, let's change direction, if it's normal monsters then it would be easy to deal with, but those insects are difficulty even to see." Bai nodded.
Lucas nodded, he already got the meaning that they can provide to him, so there is no need to suffer, even if there is a upgrade version of the meaning he obtained.
"Yes, they don't even give monsters core, we need just some more." Edward said and Liz nodded too.
"Let's go back by another direction, we are too far from where we started.If we loses the preliminaries because we arrived too late, it is much pathetic." Ryo said and started walking in a direction.
Lucas and the others followed, after a while, they don't see more insects.They are happy and started to searching monsters.Suddenly a snake jumped in Bai's direction, but a lightning immediately struck it, and they continued.Several of such accidents occurred.Sometimes several monsters arrived at the same time, but it is easy to them.
Rooaarrr!!
Suddenly a powerful roar sounded near and a figure come to Edward front.Lucas immediately used his wind meaning plus his own velocity, and ran to Edward's front.
When he arrived, a big green fist came to his direction, Lucas didn't even looked properly to the figure and used heavy body debuff in it, and covered himself with metal covering meaning and put a high guard.In his front a thick ice wall appeared too.
The ice wall crumbled easily with it's punch, but it loose even more velocity, in the beginning a normal person can't even see it's punch, but now it can be seen.The punch proceeded to Lucas and hit his guard directly.
Clack!
After holding for milliseconds, the metal covering cracked like glass.Lucas is thrown out with the hit, and the monster still attacked Edward, but before that, a ice spear covered with lightning penetrate it's shoulder.
"Get out of here!You guys will only trouble me." Lucas screamed landing in the ground, with a soft arm.
Without waiting to them answering, Lucas ran to the monster while deactivating the heavy body debuff, the debuff is good, but the most precious thing about this meaning is his element surprise.If you are slow, you will get used to it even if it's strange, but if you get slower and faster all the time, you won't be able to do anything.
This time Lucas got a good look to the monster, it looks like a globin, but has a height of more than 7 foot.Even though it's looks explosive, but still had a sense of speed, maybe it has all-round power, because there is no notification too.
The monster looked to Lucas who wounded him, and yet has the courage to fight again, and ran to him too.Even though the monster is faster than Lucas, but with the wind and heavy body meaning, he probably can sustain for a while.
When they are near, the monster punched again, Lucas used heavy body debuff in it, and make a ice wall in his front again.The punch got much slower, but when it is near to hit the ice wall, Lucas deactivated the heavy body.
The punch got a sudden acceleration and destroyed the ice wall, but there is no one behind, and the monster give a unstable step forward because of the sudden acceleration.
Lucas appeared behind the monster, and with his good hand made a claw like attack to the nap of the monster.The monster sensed the attack behind and took advantage of the unstable step and give another one, the claw like attack only touched a little in it's skin.
But suddenly it's body got heavy again, and a water jet hit it's back.It don't hurt, but it's body is launched to the front, because the strength of the jet and it's unstable footing.
When it's going to fall in the ground, a ice spike with fire, wind and lightning in it's tip got out of the ground, and it pierced through the monster.
Meanwhile, Ryo, Bai, Edward and Liz didn't listen to Lucas, and got near the monster, when they see it stumbling forward and getting hit by a water jet and flying forward.
They thought about rescuing Lucas tooking advantage of such mistake, but suddenly a ice spear with several powers in it's tip pierced through the monster.They even stooped and looked stunned to such scene.
They even looked around to see if someone super powerful appeared and killed the monster, but seeing the wind and the lightning in the ice spike, they knew that it's Lucas powers.
(Physical meanings)
Tier 8 All-round
Tier 8 Flesh
Tier 8 Claw
Tier 8 Attack speed enhancement
(Elemental meanings)
Tier 8 Wind
Tier 8 Fire
Tier 8 Ice
Tier 8 Gold
Tier 8 Metal covering
Tier 8 Lightning
Tier 8 Water
Tier 8 Intangible
(Debuff and Buff meanings)
Tier 8 Heavy body
Tier 9 Neurotoxin
Looking to his meanings, Lucas got happy, if he uses all of them wisely, he can kill even monsters of a Tier above of himself, and the more meanings he got, this will get easier to do.
He looked to his group and don't know how to explain about all his elementals meanings.