Douluo Continent
Shrek City
Spirit Soul Tower. Spirit Pagoda.
(90th floor challenge)
The 90th floor boss monster was the Erosion Mammoth King. An ice type soul beast with heavy physique and the tendency to easily get rageful. A soul beast renowned for their fearsome wrath and the fact that they travel in packs.
That was the current opponent of Fan Lin. Except this Erosion Mammoth King seemed to have something wrong with his brain.
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He dearly looked at the Erosion Mammoth King. His eyes filled with emotions and grief and guilt.
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He apathetically looked at the Erosion Mammoth King, as if the being in front of him has no value.
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The emotions retuned to him again, the Erosion Mammoth King also came with it. He did nothing.
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A quick attack to the shin of the Erosion Mammoth King as two energy spear pierced towards it from the ground, as if slanted Bamboos piercing through the light soil. It was quick and precise.
The spears tore through it's knees, all for of them, rooting it in place, leaving it alone in suffering the pain that it brought.
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He slowly moved from the area. The Erosion Mammoth King howled in pain, looking furiously at Fan Lin actions. It was quite obvious just how much Fan Lin cared about the fight. His actions once again infuriated the Erosion Mammoth King. An unbridled rage that rose with the pain.
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The Erosion Mammoth King harrumphed forward, gaining strength and speed with some special skill of its own. The energy projectiles got destroyed through its sheer force, its legs gaining their previous mobility.
'Should have used it sooner.'
And just as it had gotten free, 20 more energy projectiles skewered it from the side, each stronger than the first.
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He stopped in place. The Erosion Mammoth King madly dashed towards him, unfazed by the attack... mentally unfazed by the attack as its body was like a waterfall, dripping with blood and exposing the inner organs as the Energy Spears ruthless carved its flesh and blood.
He still did nothing as the Erosion Mammoth King gobbled him up with a charge. He was surprised. Surprised that he wasn't flattened into meatpaste.
The Erosion Mammoth King, on the other hand, just decided to eat the target as it was afraid the target would just immobilize it again and slowly walk away, just like the previous 15 times... 15 times!
So the moment it reached Fan Lin, big bite and Fan Lin in the Erosion Mammoth King... 's stomach.
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'Fan Lin' apathetically wiped the saliva from his face. He gently raised his foot forward.
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And did nothing. Still nothing. One foot still in mid-air.
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He calmly set his foot on the tongue of the Erosion Mammoth King and a green crystal shot out of it slowly turning in a +(plus) and then immediately expanding and,
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Nothing.
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Stretching the insides of the Erosion Mammoth King. He gently placed his hand of the crystal and absorbed all the energy of the surroundings, including the Erosion Mammoth King's and the energy storm outside.
His crystals were the perfect catalyst for energy, granting him complete control of the energy inside it, coupling it with Energy manipulation, Energy body and Crystallokinesis, he is basically the best energy controller in the world.
The best(ONLY applies for pure energy)!
He raised his hand towards the ceiling and a slightly pinkish energy condensation began to occur while the Erosion Mammoth King's body withered away like sand, along with the crystal cross.
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It happened in a instant, a cat and mouse fight that was going on for nearly two minutes, ended in a moment.
Elder Yang didn't understand what happened but the Erosion Mammoth King had died and disappeared. The energy storm had disappeared as well. While Fan Lin was calmy standing with one hand in the air and above him was a really powerful Energy Spear.
There was nothing else except that. The body of the Erosion Mammoth King had completely disappeared and so did the cause of his death.
What happened to the Erosion Mammoth King?
The data that they got from its bodily activities only showed that it suffered incalculable damage in a really short span of a moment and died but what could be the cause of the damage was ascertain due to the rapid energy surge towards it.
"It could be that the energy surge destroyed it from the inside... or Fan Lin must have damaged the beast from the inside and used the energy storm as a weapon to destroy the feeble outer shell, a detailed study is still required to ascertain the actual method he used to defeat the Erosion Mammoth King."
"Continuing on, an attack that could take down the 90th floor Power-Defence type Soul Beast in a breath... Is it a spirit bone skill? If so, that's a powerful spirit bone."
Elder Yang quietly noted down, knowing full well that truth needed proof not assumptions.
"98th floor preparation complete, should we start Sir?"
"Do it. From his Battle data till now, this will be the best counte soul beast to him." [Yang]
The researchers began to set the next stage as Elder Yang quietly waited with anticipation for the final battle.
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"So what do you think Rational felt on that day?"
A bright golden door appeared in the room, directly opposite to Fan Lin, and from it, slowly emerged a claw.
The claw was dark and exquisite, shining with a lusture of maroon glass, you could even see your face in it, it was that shiny.
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The beast must have taken great care of its body, thought Fan Lin as he saw the entire body of the soul beast; dark, dim and ravishingly majestic.
[Intentions are weird.]
It was a dragon and not just any, it was Dark Dragon King, same as the Earth Dragon King or Light Dragon king, although a step down on the ladder than the Golden Dragon king.
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Anyways, talking about the history of the dragon ancentry later, for now, we will talk about the dull and boring battle between a strong and majestic beast and an emotionally unstable pathetic idiot(Fan Lin) that could have been so much more if written prop- I mean, if Fan Lin was sane.
The Dark Dragon King harrumphed at the sight of the man(?) in front of him. Another human had come to defeat it... another one who would enter the line of failures.
The Dark Dragon King was haughty.
It patiently waited for the human to attack, but after sometime, it realised that the human seem to be waiting for the same. Waiting for it to deliver the first strike. Unconfident foes like this irritated it a lot.
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How would the battle continue forward that way?
⟨⟨Dark spikes⟩⟩
Rows of spikes immediately appeared at the place where Fan Lin was.
As it was obvious from the previous statement, 'Fan Lin' dodged the spikes by backing away a little bit and waiting for the cooldown of his 2...
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The Dark Dragon King also went into silence, analysing each of Fan Lin's moves, or the lack of it.
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The next moment, Fan Lin unleashed the final version of his Blue Silver Energy Spear.
[Tri Fusion skill - Boosted version]
The spear dropped down at the Dark Dragon King at breakneck speed and at that time, Fan Lin fate was sealed.
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The final Blue Silver Spear of Fan Lin had pierced his chest becoming a part of him; with him currently standing at the place where the Dark Dragon King was, or should have been(?).
He calmly looked at the Dark Dragon King who was returning his gaze from Fan Lin's previous position.
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Dis-
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Place
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Ment. Displacement. Spacial.
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I mean spatial.
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"Interesting."
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I hate myself.
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I know.
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So at the last moment, just before the attack landed on the Dark Dragon King, it changed its place with me.
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That would also explain why it was waiting for me to make move on it.
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But is that it...?
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Who knows.
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It baited me into attacking. Even now it is waiting for me to attack.
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Anger overcomes fear. Pride overcomes anger.
(Personal experience. Could vary depending on the source.)
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Let's not use intent at all.
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Yeah. I don't care.
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I don't want to kill. There's no need to.
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Indeed.
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The Dark Dragon King is smart.
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Shining Meteor.
(Official name for the previous final attack - Tri Fusion skill - Boosted version.)
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Lame.
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Pathetic.
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I know.
Like what could you even narrate about a battle between a tiger and idiot. Not the fault of the narrator okay~
Like even the readers might not want to listen to the grudy details and such filler paragraphs because they already know the outcome.
And it wasn't like the Dark Dragon King was a final villain or something, it was just a cannon fodder at the end, a part of the big story; forgotten after 7 chapters, might be 2 for people with bad memory.
So what can you even narrate about it. Its strength? Thinking? Figure? Or the cliche mental struggle that I have been repeatedly having. What can you narrate about it?
Indeed.
Fan Lin calmly looked at the Dark Dragon King, his eyes hiding his state of mind.
His Shining Meteor did nothing to him as it was his own skill and they don't damage him because they are a part of the energy that he is, basically a flame of a bonfire, even if you took out a part of the flame(how?) and throw it back to the bonfire, it would not damage the bonfire. Common sense😌.
[...?]
The energy spear returned to him and now he can use it again.
⟨⟨Shining Meteor⟩⟩
'I should change the name.'
A quick thought that came after the quick launch of the Shining Meteor towards the target, Dark Dragon King.
The Dark Dragon King once again changed its position with Fan Lin, showing its cheapness.
Fan Lin just casually waved his hand and sent the Energy Spear curving backwards towards the Dark Dragon King again, with ease at that. Casually~
It was his skill and he was the one who had the full control over it, or he would not be able to aim it at the Dark Dragon King at the first place.
Along with the fact that despite the Energy Spear appearing like straight spear of condensed mass, it was actually more like water in nature, since it was pure energy and lacked a physical form, thus making it really easier to control and also the reason why it be easily taken in and out of Fan Lin.
(This statement feels problematic)
The Dark Dragon King dodged the Shining Meteor attack by changing his position with Fan Lin again but the attack just rebounded towards it.
Now the Dark Dragon King had no other choice but to become serious. It immediately launched air blades from his wings, dark spikes from the ground and dark tornados from somewhere, all hurling towards Fan Lin because it knew that attacking the user will obviously disable the attack.
As for getting near Fan Lin and doing something physical, that was a thought that it wanted to avoid. The human seemed far more weird now.
Fan Lin gave it the feeling of a deranged being and getting near one was always a bad choice. What if they bite?
The second reason being the sheer calmness that was emanating from Fan Lin despite the being acting as if he was possessed by the two contrasting emotional spectrums of beggars.
Such a drastic change heavily confused the Dark Dragon King on whether it was a feint that Fan Lin was doing to fool the beast, or something was seriously wrong with the person that had climbed that high on the rankings, and was facing itself now.
It wasn't a tough choice for the Dark Dragon King, it obviously chose the first scenario where Fan Lin was just feigning weakness and waiting for an opportunity to strike. This became the reason why the Dark Dragon King was still continued to be on the defensive for a long while.
It had not seen most of Fan Lin's tactics, neither did it had any idea of an atrack that could one shot it.
The Shining Meteor (Energy Spear) was indeed a dangerous attack but only if it landed a direct hit on the Dark Dragon King, which it would obviously avoid and was still avoiding as of the now.
But all that wouldn't matter from this moment, the Dark Dragon King had decided to leave the defensive position and opt for the offence. A suitable approach to end the stalemate that were having.
Being in a stalemate with a crafty human wasn't something his pride as as Dragon would allow and it was also the distinctive fear of the unknown: what if the human was in fact charging some big attack that takes a lot of time and the Dark Dragon King was just helping him in it?
Isn't that akin to digging it's own grave?
So as the Dark Dragon King once again dodged the Shining Meteor Spear and looked at the battered up figure of Fan Lin who just bore the brunt of his attacks as all this thinking happened in the split second after it had attacked. It realised that it was the right choice to avoid getting in the close proximity of the human.
To the expected but unknown surprise of the Dark Dragon King, the Battered up figure of Fan Lin healed up completely in the same moment he was damaged, with half of the attacks even failing to scratch his skin.
He even re-equiped the Three Word Battle Armour that he had deactivated to avoid damaging them due to the attack. That just felt humiliating to the Dark Dragon King who exactly knew what looking down of others meant.
"It's boring."
(I know)
See there is not much that you can narrate about a situation like this.
People didn't even realise that it was me self talking all this time, explaining the thinking and thoughts of the Dark Dragon King and you chose to believe it as his. What stupidity!
Like you all didn't even realise that my mind had returned to his stable state. I am finally free now.
Fan Lin mumbled, his mental unstablility vanishing up to nothing had made him unclear for a few moments. A few moments of trance and now that he looked at the situation, the 10x13x18 metres Draconian lizard in front of him seemed to quite small.
(HBL)
"At least it ended."
Deciding to think about the weirdity of the situation he was in for later, he immediately decided to end the match.
The Dark Dragon King viciously growled at Fan Lin as thousands of Energy Spear began condensing in the circular arena, all of them Shining Meteor. It was such a sight that the 300m metre wide arena seemed to be shining in a lustures light, dying the surroundings white.
He did think that he would think about the situation later but that doesn't mean he couldn't take some heat off for now.
[Dead Calm state]
The eyes of apathy returned as Fan Lin just used the most simple solution to deal with someone who teleported; leave no safe place for teleportation!
{Deep void} (Dark Dragon King)
{Heaven's Twilight} (Dark Dragon King)
{Abyss deflection} (Dark Dragon King)
{Dark spikes} (Dark Dragon King)
{Tornado of Darkness} (Dark Dragon King)
{Winged blades} (Dark Dragon King)
The Dark Dragon King put a barrier around itself, enchanted a part of the attack and deflected it towards Fan Lin and added a few of his attacks as well.
And then the holy battle between light and darkness happened and light won due to its sheer quantity and quality, leaving a sorry looking Dark Dragon King with nearly half of its body missing and a Fan Lin who was quietly sitting on the ground, with a third of his face missing and a really slow regeneration. The attacks of the Dark Dragon King had erosion and rotting effect to them, slowing down his passive healing.
'I quit.'
Fan Lin thought as he plopped down on the ground, devoid of his Three Word Battle Armour and spirit rings. He had had enough of the Spirit Soul Tower for a long while, maybe forever.
He just didn't care now, this much should have been enough of a show off to the Spirit Pagoda and should suffice for his demands.
He still didn't know.
The Dark Dragon King quietly rewarded his giving up with a full body needle therapy through his already damaged body.
The familiar chime occurred as the Dark Dragon King vanished. The floor was a failure but none who saw it thought so because this was the same kid that had no future in the combat department in President
Qiangu Dongfeng's 'envisioned future'.
The same kid with a weak Blue Silver Grass and no fighting skills(?), although it was going to be highly debatable on whether he actually had any fighting skills, or whether he was just hiding it for personal profit of some kind.
They didn't know about itbut they would do their all to know it. At least Elder Yang thought so.
Fan Lin's performance on the Spirit Soul Tower was going to create many ripples in the entirety of the Spirit Pagoda but the person in question cared for nothing.
His needled body was the only thing that remained in the arena where he fought his mental struggle and increased the difficulty of his battles.
"Pathetic."
He quietly murmured while casually turning around and standing up, ignoring the spikes pierced through his body, they were going to be either crushed or pushed out anyways.
He equiped his Battle Armour, his Boundless Ring rose from his feet. Few seconds later, he was teleported out of the Spirit Soul Tower with full health and not naked.
The next few minutes after that was the time where he truly debated on whether he could stealthy kill Hyper Douluo in front of him.
'I... just hate this world.'