At this point, with all his skills on cooldown, Kent could only rely on normal attacks for damage. However, all of David's skills, except for [Roar], were also on cooldown. In this situation of mutual basic attacks, Kent, with "Vampire Fangs," stood unbeatable!
An inexplicable sense of violence and excitement surged in Kent's heart. He knew this was the influence of the original soul's remnant. This emotion somewhat affected Kent's judgment. Faced with David's roaring claw strikes, he didn't dodge but instead bit towards its neck.
-1581!
David's strength attribute was just too high, and this one hit took off one-sixth of Kent's health.
-664! -61 (bleeding)!...
This slap woke Kent up. The gap in damage between the two was just too high to be compensated by a 20% life steal.
Plan B, activate!
Kent forcefully suppressed the turmoil in his heart and stopped confronting directly, instead starting to maneuver and pull away.
If this were at the beginning of the battle, trying to maneuver would be very difficult because David's agility was higher than his.
Fortunately, Kent had a good habit of fighting monsters. Every time he had bitten before, it was David's hind legs!
One of the special mechanics of "Immortal" was that attacking a monster's limbs used for movement could reduce its agility.
The extent of the reduction depended on the severity of the injury. If all four limbs of a quadrupedal monster were broken or severed, it could reduce its agility by 90%.
Now, David's agility had dropped to 14 points, only two points higher than Kent's, allowing him to maneuver and pull.
Kent observed David's every move. Digging his claws into the ground, retracting his head slightly, and slightly opening his mouth—this was the prelude to a bite!
The next moment, as he expected, David stretched his neck forward to bite. Prepared Kent dodged the bite, then struck its neck with a slap while it was still in its attack animation.
Digging his left claw into the ground, raising his right claw slightly, tightening his core, and lowering his head and spine, he was preparing for a strike with his right claw!
Whoosh!
A flash of cold light, the sharp claws of the giant wasteland dragon lizard missed their mark.
Kent did not counterattack but instead stepped back to create distance. The follow-up animation of a claw strike was short, and it could be followed by many other moves.
To avoid a mishap, he preferred to give up this opportunity.
Kent, who was familiar with the attacking animations of the giant wasteland dragon lizard, dodged David's attacks flexibly. He did not actively attack even when there were slight openings, only seizing the opportunity to bite when he was certain.
As time passed, David's health decreased more and more, and a deep-seated fear began to grow within it.
Anxiously, it became more eager to find an opportunity to turn the tide, but in doing so, it made more mistakes.
In contrast, Kent would rather do nothing than make a mistake. After all, those dozen or so wounds were still bleeding!
Until David's health dropped to below 2000, and his health returned to over 7000, he finally plucked up the courage to rush up.
The two giant lizards fought fiercely, returning to the most primitive state of battle.
Roars and roars resounded through the woods! Dust flew! Blood splattered! Scales flew!
Before long, both sides were exhausted, and David, panting heavily, stared at the young junior, feeling a sense of fear in their heart.
The young giant lizard in front of it seemed to have stronger racial talents and richer combat experience than itself.
If they continued like this, it would die!
"Roar! (You win)"
David used [Iron Mountain Charge] to push away the frenzied Kent, turned around, and limped away, trying to escape.
Kent, who was caught up in the frenzy, finally realized that the battle was over and the outcome was decided. He had won!
The wisdom of the Fourth Catastrophe, plus a little help from an insignificant external program, allowed him to defeat the giant wasteland dragon lizard, David, with an 8-level difference, while enduring at half health!
Just defeating him wasn't enough. Looking at the heavily injured giant wasteland dragon lizard, Kent's eyes sparkled as he caught up and stopped it. As a level 20 red-name elite monster, how much experience would this be worth?
However, a prompt dispelled his thoughts.
[Task "Resentment of the Remnant" completed, +5 Spirit, the remnant of the original soul will completely dissipate in 10 hours (if the giant wasteland dragon lizard "David" is killed, it will not dissipate)]
Forget it, if he killed his childhood friend's father, Tina would hate him. The remnant of the original soul would probably resent him too.
Although he couldn't kill, he couldn't just fight for nothing either.
"Roar! (Hand over the treasures in your spatial storage)"
Hehehe, a red-name elite monster, the lord of such a large area of the Giant Lizard Forest, how many good things should it have in its spatial storage?
Seeing that the other party refused to let it go, David, burning with anger, decided that while a lizard could die, it could not be humiliated!
Just as it was about to roar in anger, it saw Kent licking those eerie Vampire Fangs and immediately calmed down.
Those fangs were too mysterious. It might be better to avoid trouble for now and wait and see!
Ew!
David spat out more than a dozen fist-sized red fruits, then turned and tried to leave.
"Roar! (Is this all? Who are you trying to fool?)"
David's steps faltered, and with a dejected expression, he turned his head and spat out a fruit much larger than the others before leaving with a pained expression.
Kent was taken aback. He had only intended to bluff David, but he didn't expect the old lizard to hide something.
But now, everything should be settled. Kent approached with some disdain, inspecting the fruits covered in David's saliva.
[Dragon Blood Fruit (Rare): Legend has it that when a dragon's blood soaks into the earth and grows a Dragon Blood Tree, the fruit that grows on it has a slight effect of purifying the blood for creatures with dragon bloodlines. It can be used to prepare potions that enhance physique.]
Dragon Blood Fruit was a specialty of the "Giant Lizard Forest." When he was a player, he had done related gathering tasks and had obtained a total of thirteen Dragon Blood Fruits, which was a huge harvest. However, he had no impression of the one that was now much larger.
[Hundred-Year Dragon Blood Fruit (Uncommon): Essence nurtured by the Dragon Blood Tree for a hundred years, it has a significant effect of purifying the blood of creatures with dragon bloodlines.]
I'm rich! It's an Uncommon-grade resource! No wonder in the game, the giant wasteland dragon lizard he encountered in the "Giant Lizard Forest" was level 25. Presumably, it had gained an increase in strength after digesting these elixirs.
Watching the fleeing giant wasteland dragon lizard David, Kent excitedly howled to the sky, put away the Dragon Blood Fruits, and ran back to eat the body of the Rampaging Brown Bear. This couldn't be wasted.
Shortly after, while engrossed in eating, Kent suddenly felt a chill beneath him. His sixth sense as a man-made him dodge in time to avoid an ambush, preventing a tragedy where he would be devoured by hundreds of Lychee.
What's going on? Kent looked up, only to find himself surrounded by dozens of female giant wasteland dragon lizards staring at his crotch.
It was then he remembered that by defeating David, he had become the leader of the clan, so he had to fulfill the leader's duty—procreation!
Looking at the dozens of female wasteland dragon lizards staring fixedly at his crotch, Kent's face turned pale.
Please don't come over!