Up close we felt its innate pressure as I examined it closely, briefing Sagi and Virgo of the creature's hidden skills.
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Monster: Legendary Demonic Sea Star Wildebeest
HP: 5400/10,000
DMG: 5500/10,000
DEF: 5000/10,000
SPD: 4200/10,000
Skill: Sea Star Physiology - Unlimited regrowth
Calcified Skin - reflects 10% damage dealt.
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Reflection damage... most likely physical damage but what about being struck with a ranged damage?
Sagi and Virgo sprung into defensive postures, Sagi summons her familiar while drawing her Hilt of the war goddess.
Virgo laughs in the danger posed in front of her, "Legendary ranks are child's play as long as I can summon an equivalent monster in the area..." sweating beads as she knows that Legendary monster are few and sporadic, known to roam freely undictated to spawn at fixed locations.
Swallowing hard in builds her confidence singing mind focusing her magicubes to sift and find a legendary carcass, "Undead Idol Magic! Heavy Enrapture..." heavy metal music played in the background with heavy hitting drums and rifting.
Hearing the heavy metal background music, she smiles... "Success."
Her focus had allowed her undead magic to sift through thousands of bodies in the sea and because of that sheer focus she managed to summon only 1.
It emerges from the depths it massive body breaking the surface tension of the sea creating a waterspout and a large amount of steam.
What Virgo managed to reanimate and call forth was A rare Legendary Volcanic Ashen Crab.
Its body a titan, 30 meters in height, almost equivalent to the Legendary Demonic Sea Star Wildebeest.
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Monster: Legendary Volcanic Ashen Crab
HP: 5800/10,000
DMG: 5800/10,000
DEF: 5800/10,000
SPD: 4000/10,000
Skill: Mountain Carapace - Defense is doubled against physical attacks
Volcanic Crusher Claw - Constant grip pressure doubles its attacks every 10 seconds.
Ultra resistant against damage at high temperature, unaffected by corrosive attacks
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Watching these titans from afar I placed my hand on Sagi's shoulder holding her back from summoning...smiling at her to give Virgo some space and confidence to take it on herself, "Let them fight."
Watching a glorious display of colossal wreckage as the ashen crab makes its move, ramming its massive claw like a right hook straight into the demonic sea star's face. The impact shattered the calcified skin like a jack hammer on concrete, creating a crater in its face as it bleeds. Hit -800 damage!
*Legendary Demonic Sea Star Wildebeest*
HP: 5000/10,000 (-800)
"Ping! Updated, enemy skill activated - Calcified Skin, 10% reflect damage received!"
Ally summoning: *Legendary Volcanic Ashen Crab*
HP: 5220/10,000 (-580)
The Sea Star Wildebeest pushes back hard, staggering the Ashen crab releasing its claw from the indent made on its face.
The Sea star begins to relax its tentacles, making them soft and nimbler than expected, and lashed each arm out like a whip. Hitting between its eyes, at its legs and near its belly, in an attempt to find a weak spot.
Hit! 8 times... Damage... 0. With the mountain carapace skill, the physical damage from the Sea Star Wildebeest can only max at 5000, while the Ashen crab's buffed defense is at 11,600.
At this point, it has become a battle of attrition, the sea star can't do enough damage, and when the ashen crab does do damage, its power gets reflected onto itself.
Yet, the barrage of whip lashes continues, harmlessly bouncing off its hard shell. Using its cutting claw, it snips off several tentacles and instinctively gripped the wriggling arm and ate it, while blocking its face with its massive crusher claw. Hit 3 times! Each 800 damage...reflected damage 1740!
Ally Summoning: HP 3480/10,000 (-1740)
Despite the loss of limbs and health the demonic Sea Star Wildebeest, seems unaffected maximizing its skill unlimited regrowth which takes only a few seconds and easily sprouts off a new limb.
Virgo analyses with care and thought, before proceeding again this time, rushing in and catching it by the neck with its crusher claw, holding in place.
"Yuujiro, does it recover its health? After all its limbs have grown back."
Calmly watching for changes before answering..."No, it's regrowth just means propagation of cells consolidating and forming back into limbs, but it does not refer to unlimited healing."
Smiling to herself, confident in her analysis, "Good, I've been watching gaping hole made earlier and its yet to mend itself."
"If I can just decapitate it, perhaps I can immobilize it completely, I assume the skill is related to the demonic sea star, it would just become a headless wildebeest."
Using its utmost to squeeze and snap its neck, however the Demonic Sea Star had managed to squeeze in a few tentacles as buffers to prevent decapitating it completely.
"Almost there Virgo! 10 seconds! NOW!... The Volcanic ashen crab entire body envelops with magma seeping out from its joints and orifices, doubling in strength!
The sounds of multiple massive bones snapping as Virgo mimics a yanking separating motion. The Ashen crabs with its vice grip rip its entire neck off its body. HIT! 11,600.... Damage -6600...
Reflect damage... -1160...
Ally Summoning: HP 2320/10,000 (-1160)
The head crashes into the shallow ocean, while its body still stands on fours unaware of its death.
"Wait Virgo don't let your guard down yet... Somethings not right..."
Where's the damn notification that its slain?
Suddenly Virgo shakes uncontrollably, it feels like my body is getting taken over. Releasing the tensioned control over the Volcanic Ashen Crab, falling backwards into the soft sand.
Watching as the Sea star latch on the underbelly of the Volcanic Ashen crab, possessing it completely. Acting like a parasite, taking over hosts of dead bodies accelerating its growth using the resurrected dead's stats as a decoy.
There is no slain notification because the hosts which this parasite embodies had already died prior.
And now.... it possesses the body of a legendary class monster, adding to its own.
A curse filled aura envelops it seeping into the newly transformed body, its power akin to the underworld. An overwhelming sensation of power I've felt before... with the Draconic Serpent.
Its body further tainted with hell magic, burning with magmas of hell secreted all over its carapace.
A shockwave of terror spread from its body an end to its transformation.
Its body now twice of what it was, reaching 60 meters high.
With its ascension into the Legendary Class, the cursed magical energy revitalized the entire body creating new shells and innards jet black with veins of cursed magma spewing out while its underbelly is protected by the enhanced Calcified skin of the Demonic Sea Star.
Although the battle had long since ensued, and the nearby villagers had already ran to safety. The overwhelming power contaminated the air around the entire east coast.
Sagi and Virgo resisted the pressure as hard as they could with their battle worn hearts and unwavering souls. However, the effects still collide into their bodies unexpectedly.
The unavoidable feelings of waves of nausea and irritable bowels, which induced slight vomiting, something they managed to quickly overcome shortly after exposure.
The rest of the villagers, excluding the Siren Sisters who are unconscious were feeling the full brunt of its effects. Muffled hearing and blurry vision began, followed by intense throbbing migraines that squeezes the brain so hard that the body reacts to the pressure and begins to self-destruct.
The body in an overreaction begins compressing their own brain cells into the side of a peanut to reduce the surface area of the pummeling pressure on it.
Their blood also significantly thins and stops supplying oxygen from their lungs to the rest of the body due to the enhanced gravitational pressure which pulls and creates blood pooling in the feet.
Allowing necrosis to take form in the rest of the body.
All untrained and weak, dying with the same symptoms of necrosis, engorged elephant feet, blood vomiting and liquified brain matter leaking from their ears from the compression.
In reality it was fate of endless torture, infinitely worse than what Eri had speculated from rumors when encountering a God Class Monster.
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Monster: God of Molten Magma, Ashen Star Crab
HP: 7500/10,000
DMG: 6800/10,000
DEF: 7999/10,000
SPD: 6500/10,000
Skill: Cursed Mountain Carapace - Defense is tripled against all attacks (+)
Magma Crusher Claw - Constant grip pressure doubles its attacks every 5 seconds.
Sea Star Physiology - Unlimited regrowth
Calcified Skin - reflects 30% damage dealt.
Immune to high temperature, Corrosion, Piercing Damage.
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