'Let's see. Your regeneration and my rot, which is superior.' Victor said, as he got off the minotaur, landing a couple metres off. And for a brief moment there, a faint smirk appeared on his face before disappearing under seconds.
Almost immediately, the minotaur's skin began to rot, and at a rapid rate. Following just a little behind it, the healing factor of the minotaur also kicked in, and began fighting against the rot trying to counter it.
Sure enough, this whole process was painful, and the minotaur possessed no pain reduction skill nor was it a masochist, so it couldn't move for a while there. At this moment, Victor had the perfect opportunity to finish business with the monster, but his curiosity had peaked. The fact that his rot bite was powerful was quite obvious, but just how much strength it had in such a situation was unknown.
Victor stood a few metres away watching the minotaur, seeing the seemingly infinite process of rotting and regeneration of its skin. Victor could imagine the process was extremely painful, but the minotaur was doing a good job of shutting its mouth and bearing the pain.
Even in such predicament, the minotaur still had the strength to lunch itself at Victor, threatening to punch him into the ground, but Victor was able to avoid its attack quite easily. Due to the pain, the minotaur's attack was plenty uncoordinated. After Victor dodged the minotaur's attack, it immediately tried to follow up its attack, but that too proved to be impossible.
Looking at the spot at its back, Victor could see that the rot area had increased, and the regeneration, for some moment there was overpowered. From this, Victor could see that the it took a lot from the minotaur to keep this regenerative process active, and if it was a passive skill, then it was even worse for it as it wouldn't be able to control how much the skill takes. Not like it had a choice in this sort of situation.
Victor could also see the Minotaur's muscles collapsing in on itself. It wasn't too dramatic, but it looked sort of weird to say the least.
After some minutes passed, it was clear which between Victor's rot and the minotaur's regenerative ability which was on the losing end, but just after the rot had gone halfway, something else happened. The minotaur finally succeeded in fighting off the rot and stopped it from spreading, but that was when it had already eaten through halfway of its body, and even after stopping the rot, it couldn't heal the part that had been affected.
"So that's the limit, huh? Not bad." Victor said, as he moved closer to the minotaur.
The minotaur had used all of its energy fighting off the rot, so at that moment, saying it was at its weakest state would be an understatement. All Victor had to do was land a perfect strike to the head once, and that was it for the minotaur.
Victor hastily retrieved the axe he used earlier, and with it severed the monster's body in half, separating the side with the most rot from the rest. He was unsure if the rot would continue after some time, so he just had to be careful.
With that, it was time to feast on the monster's flesh. After some time had passed, Victor was done eating the monster's flesh, and had gained a lot of evolution material from doing so, but it still wasn't enough.
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-Minotuar – 600,000 > 850,000
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Victor needed just a little more, and he would be able to create a body for his second form.
After that fight with the brawler minotaur (just referencing that it uses fists), Victor would roam the dungeon floor without finding anything significant. For the most part, he couldn't send out his legion like he had done before since he didn't have the time to deal with a similar situation like the one from before, or something similar.
Victor was starting to think that he would find no other minotaur on this floor unless he waited for the others to respawn, and running into a minotaur on the lower floors wasn't guaranteed. Such strong monsters don't usually inhabit two floors, and can mostly be found only on one floor.
'Maybe I should start heading back now.' Victor thought to himself, but then something caught his attention.
Victor slowed down for a bit, then stopped moving all together. He could hear something, a creature he was yet to encounter, he thought. The sound he was hearing wasn't something he had heard before, so the only conclusion was that it was a monster he hadn't seen before. This thought was enough to stimulate his body forward, if it could.
He immediately changed his course and headed towards the direction of the creature he was hearing. After a minute or two, Victor finally arrived at the place where the creature he had been sensing was, and what he would see there wasn't what he was expecting, not in the least.
[High rank Fire-Imp Level 60]
"A fire imp." Victor said calmly.
Immediately, he hid himself and tried to conceal his presence not letting the monster sense him. The fire-imp was like a large or overgrown crocodile, but instead of hard scales, it was covered in a skin like surface. Its colour was faded red, as it looked like its skin was ash mixed with a bright shade of red, numbing it down.
Such a monster would be a piece of cake for Victor, the only problem was that it was a creature with a very high affinity towards fire, which so happened to be one of Victor's weaknesses. Due to his ability [Undead Body], he would suffer a +20% damage from fire type attacks, be it physical or magical attack. Plain and simple, this fire-imp was something of a natural enemy to Victor.
Regardless of the danger and disadvantages, the fact remained. When danger presents itself, there is always something to gain from it for most times, and this was one of those times. This was also an opportunity.