Chapter7: The poisonous sergeant king II
Arden proceeded deeper into the dark passage, as he walked further, it got gloomier and darker but he also sensed that the narrow passage was becoming wider and wider.
"just where the hell is this passage leading to?" Arden mumbled as he progressed forth, his heart still pounding heavily and his eyes scanned around wearily.
Though he just killed a couple of snakes which made him have more courage to face what lies ahead, his innate fear for snakes couldn't let him be at peace.
"shhhhh!"
Following a strange sound, a cluster of green gas appeared ahead as Arden continued trudging.
"Ahh!" Arden exclaimed softly as he started at the region of the passage in front of him which was complete cliuded by the cluster of green gases.
"what the hell, is this a poison miasma, looks like I have hit a dead end" Arden blurted as he halted his advance. A chill ran down his spine as he hastily turned around to retreat.
However, just when he took one step, the clustered gas ahead suddenly surged violently and engulfed all of his surrounding.
"Ahhhhhhh!" Arden shouted out histerically as he was being enveloped by the poisonous green gas however soon his shout died down as he exclaimed.
"what?, am not hurt? Looks like the gas isn't corrosive"
As things turned out, Arden didn't get burned or infected by the poisonous gas like he though he would.
A sigh of relief escaped from Arden as he continued moving forth. This time he was even more cautious, looking left and right, front and back before taking a step at a time.
Arden didn't go far in the sea of poisonous gas when numerous hissing sounds plunged his ears, along with that was a loud war cry emanating from a familiar voice.
"it's sir Micro's voice, just who is he fighting!" Arden quickly dashed forth but as he did so, he didn't forget to be careful.
After a short run, Arden exited the passage, the first view which entered his sight was that of Evnor and sir Micrio who were currently surrounded by a swarm of poison strip snakes.
"Oh my god!" Arden exclaimed at the New sight of the malevolent looking snakes. Unlike the ones he encountered previously, there snakes looked much larger and dangerous.
Currently, Sir Micrio was covered in corrosive green blood as he fended of the attacks of more than twenty of such snakes while protecting the princess. His golden armour was wrecked beyond recognition.
A powerful might belonging to rank two of Astral Servant exuded out of Sir Micrio as he battled the poison strip snakes, swinging his axe at every attacking snake to fend of against their attack, he had prevailed against seven snakes who's corpses laid cold on the ground of the cave.
However, despite, his fierce counter, some snake attacks managed to bypass his defences and injure him. Evnor, did her best to support him from behind by unleashing bursts of radiant energy which struck the snakes from time to time but it did little as the snakes were equipped with strong defences.
Arden nearly trembled in fright from the sinister aura emanation from the poison stripped snakes, their life force suggested that they where all in level five and above.
Above level five of rank A is rank B which is equivalent to the the rank of Astral Servant which Sir Micrio was currently in, it was no wonder the powerful guard was forced into such a state.
"I have to lend a helping hand, however, those things are too powerful for me to handle alone, how should I even help" Arden thought, he wasn't going to ignore Micrio and the princesses plight because of how they've been of help to him but then again, he didn't wish to court death by acting like a foolish hero."Luckily the snakes haven't noticed me yet, I can just think of a plan fast, I can deal with those snakes in level five of rank A however, those of rank B are way beyond my league"
"Wait a second I have something here that can be of help" as soon as he came to this sudden realisation, Arden waved his hand and a long black pole suddenly materialised into his grip.
"The Serpent suppression pole, let see what you're made of" Arden muttered as he slowly approached the battlefield.
On his way to the battlefield, Arden meticulously, exermined the snakes one after the other and analyzed that of the twenty snakes, twelve were in level 5 of rank A, five were in level 1 of rank B, while 3 were in level 2 of Rank B.
As the fierce battle, carried on, Arden suddenly swoof out from behind a snake and attacked it.
Arden target the closest snake to him which was in level 5 of Rank A, the pitiful snake didn't even get to squeal as its head was instantly smashed to pieces and it's poisonous blood spilling everywhere.
[10 points obtained]
[10 coins obtained]
"Lad its you!" Micrio exclaimed in between his fight against the snakes"Arden!" Evnor Exclaimed, her beautiful eyes fixed on his person in shock, his simple action had caused great waves in her heart, just how did he suddenly get so strong to squash the powerful snake which she had a hard time dealing with so easily?
Arden's sudden entrance into the battlefield, didn't only alarm the princess and her guard but also the poisonous strip serpents who hissed and gazed viciously at him.
However, Arden didn't cower from their vicious gazes, the only thing in his mind at this moment was to kill as much as possible to reduced their numbers.
With a fierce hawl, Arden lunged at a nearby snake which was also attacking him, to his greatest surprise, just when the pole got close to the snake, it froze as if all life had been lost from it's being and the pole pulvorised it soon after.
"Wow!, This thing is so amazing!" Arden blurted as he mounted another attack, the realization of how effective the serpent suppression pole was against snakes made Arden excited as well as made him regret that he hadn't used it sooner.
"Die by my pole you slithering bastards!" with a grawl, Arden smashed to death, one snake after the other, with only one swing of the serpent suppression pole.Notifications exploading in his head one after the other sounding like heavenly music.
"How is this possible!" both Evnor and Micro where shocked beyond belief, Arden's pace and ease in his attacks looked to illogical to them.
Despite his successive kills though, Arden made sure to avoid all the snakes in rank B as he wasn't sure how effective the pole was against them.Seeing Arden's unending killing spree, Micrio heaved a released sigh as the pressure on him was greatly reduced.
Ahhh! With loud howl, Arden finished off the last poison strip serpent in rank A but he didn't stop at that, he lunged unto a rank B serpent, wishing to test the waters.
To Arden's delight, the rank B poisonous strip serpent was immediately squashed just like those in rank A, the realization made Arden shout in delight as he pounced on the remaining snakes, killing them swiftly one after the other with only one swing of the serpent suppression pole.
[Requirements for level up achieved]
[Level up initiated]
Arden beemed with joy as he successfully, levelled up into level 1 of rank B equivalent to the first grade of Astral Servant.
"cough!" "cough!"
"Sir Micrio!" while Arden was reeling from joy after his level up, Evnor's voice entered his ears, urging him to turn.
Just as he turned, he saw that the mighty and powerful sir Micro who bravely fought against so many snakes to defend the princess, was now coughing violently and appeared to be in his last leg.
"Are you ok?" Azraf asked after rushing over.
"it's probably the end for me, to fend of against those snakes and defend the princess, not only are my vitals gravely injured, I had to exhaust my life essence to activate powerful attacks"
"don't say that sir, we can still save you, as long as you take my life nursing early, you should be fine" Evnor blurted in all anxiousness and sorrow, her beautiful face now looked quite pitiful with guilt.
Tears streamed down her face. She was well aware that Micrio ended up in such a way only because he strived to protect her who became his burden in a moment of danger.
"Don't waste such a precious pill on me princess, this guard knows well of his body condition, even if I take it, with my current damages, it will only prolong my life for an hour at most"
"Even hour will amount to something, why don't you…"
"Please stop!" the princess was about to persuade micro further but he cut her off and turned to Arden.
"Young lad, am leaving the princess in your care, please promise me that you'll keep her safe and get her out of here"
"I'll do my best to protect the princess" Arden remarked straightforwardly, he wasn't absolutely sure he could keep the princess safe with his measly strength but he'll surely do his best to protect her.
"Alright I'll take your words for it" After saying this, Micrio suddenly collapsed and lost all signs of life.
"No!, Sir Micro!" Evnor wailed pitifully and tears streamed down her swollen eyes, Arden felt sorry for her and was also saddened by Micrio's passing but just as he was about to offer words of comfort, the whole underground borehole trembled and Arden and Evanor were suddenly engulfed by a powerful suction force.The suction force pulled them into the deepest part of the cave which turned into a cavern.
Arden and Evnor emerged on a platform located in a chamber.
The chamber was vast and dimly lit, the walls lined with glowing crystals. In the center of the room was a massive snake, its scales glistening in the dim light.
The Snake King hissed, its eyes fixed on Arden coldly. It was massive, the size of a small house, with fangs as long as Arden's arms. Arden felt a surge of fear in his chest upon laying eyes on it.
Chapter8: Contract Arden shivered in fright at the sight of the gigantic snake but at the same time, he wondered if it was the same snake he saw in the mural previously because the giant snake was golden in color and also had a horn in the center of it's head which made it resemble a dragon. Very much like the one in the murals. "Get back" Arden said to Evnor as he pulled her behind him while pointing the serpent suppression pole at it, he had a terrible feeling that this very snake was the poisonous serpent king which the system had warned him about. "sssssss!" The giant serpent's eye condescendingly glared at Arden, it suddenly hissed, a powerful presence which shook the whole underground system surged out of it's body. The mere sight of it's presence nearly made Arden and Evnor into a kneeling position. Both of them gritted their teeth and exerted all the strength and energy in their body to remain standing. Upon seeing that the two ants dared to resist its might, the pois
Chapter9: New World [Poison Stake Mission completed] [Host is rewarded 200xp to level up into the next level] Arden beemed at this news, and immediately, a tremendous amount of Astro energy suddenly surged from within him, clustering and huddling till it condensed into a pure and vibrant yellow Astro energy which was considered to be of a higher grade. Arden shivered in excitement as he felt the newly initiated powerful form of energy withing him. According to what he had heard from Evnor, In the rank of Astral servant, astral energy is always being condensed into a purer form whenever the Astral mage upgrade his or her strength. It seems that despite the fact that he was using a system, the same effects also happens in his body when he levels up. At this moment, Arden was no weaker than Sir Micrio. Suddenly a systems notification in which Arden was familiar with rang in his head. [by completing four missions consecutively, host has unlocked a system ability, Copy] Status
Chapter10: Bad News Fresh rays of the sun which was rising from the west brightened up the whole surrounding. The surrounding was formed by a cluster of a uniform breed of trees which had hibiscus coloured leaves. A long and narrow path stretched forth along those trees on which Arden and the others walked on, as they strode, sounds of chirping birds entered their ears from time to time. "Are we there yet?" Arden asked curiously as he surveyed his surrounding excitedly. He had asked this question for almost a dozen times on the way to the new world, Arden was just too anxious and excited to enter the so called new world which he had heard a lot about from Evnor. "No we aren't there yet, why can't you be patient, we've only reached the periphery of the jungle of carnage" Evnor remarked dispassionately. "Ok" Arden clamored but his blood was still boiling in excitement, just how many of those mystical races out there was he going to see, just how do they look compared to the moon
Chapter11: Rescue i "the situation is far worse than that, the moon Elf clan has been exterminated by the Urc clan!" "impossible!, those bastard Urcs and our Elf clan have been enemies for so many years but the overall strength of the two clan have always remain the same how can they ever be able to exterminate our Elf clan" Althev yelled hysterically, he couldn't bring himself to believe what he just heard, likewise Evnor and Noiter. Evnor and Noiter was currently shaking all over after hearing the news but couldn't utter a single word. Arden fixed a puzzled gaze at Noden trying to determine whether he was lying or not, the revelation was also a shock to him. A short moment later, Evnor cameback to her senses and stoped shaking, she suddenly asked, "How did it happen?" "As you very well know, our Moon Elf clan had formed an alliance with the Radiant Fairy Clan overseas, the clan head suddenly got a distress signal from the fairy clan that it was being attacked by a powerful
"This secret tunnel was revealed to me in the past by the prince himself, we can use this tunnel navigate around all corners of the Millenium city, the plan is to blend into the crowd and and strike unawares, kill all the guards and save them." "I agree with your plan but there's one thing I'll like to point out" Althev said solemnly. "We all know that the strength of the urc clan guards ranges from between the third stage of celestial novice to the fifth sage however, we both know that Wolder is in the third stage of Astral servant and would be two much for any of us to handle, how do we handle him" "I'll volunteer to distract him with Sir Noden" Arden suddenly said. Althev and everyone nodded except Noden who found Arden's statement suspicious. "kid do you think you have what it takes to fight an entity like Wolder?" "brother Nothen, you can rest assured Arden is strong enough to do that, he's in the second stage of Astral Servant just like you" Althev blurted. "wh
"you bastard, you finally remember this king after you ignored this king and almost got him killed, hmph this king will be kind enough to enlighten you with the truth so that you don't keep on courting death you reckless fool" Evshelf said pitifully. "What that brat Wolder used to block your sudden attack and even tried to blast at you just now was his pure condensation of Astro energy outside his body" "When an Astro Mage reaches the second rank of Astral servant, their Astral energy condensed to a very concentrated state where they can project it outside their body and manipulate them to create attack and defences of all forms depending on the Astral Servant's mastery of Astro energy" "You obviously haven't been an Astral Servant for long so despite the fact that you can, you haven't mastered how to control your Astro Energy to the point of projecting it out of your body" "The Sky piercing flame arrows Attack the other kid used just now is another form of attack called
"Evnor, you need to leave now, Wolder is to terrifying, without enough strength, you can save us save yourself now before it is too late!" Across Evnor and Althev who had subdued the guards, A beautiful Elf young man who almost looks like a girl said these words to Evnor. The beautiful male young Elf's appearance bore fifty percent resemblance to Evnor, apparently he was prince Galva and also Evnor's older brother. "No brother I will never leave you in the hands of those bastard, even if it means death, then we'll all die here trying to save you" Evnor remarked stubbornly. "you idiot, do you intend for the Elf's to be completely exterminated, you need to escape now and live on till you grow strong enough to avenge our deaths" Galva was on the verge of exploding in rage as he profusely tried persuade Evnor to escape only for Evnor to refuse obstinately, very adamant to die here if she fails. Ignoring her brother's rage, she directed her sight towards the ongoing
At that moment, Arden was feeling as if all the Astro energy within his body was completely drained out as most of it had been absorbed into the serpent suppression pole. When he saw the incoming destructive attack coming towards him, Arden witnessed first hand just how destructive it was as the smooth platform below it in it's wake was eroded into a deep and narrow pit Instantly, Arden absorbed the miniature wind hurricane into the spent suppression pole making it as heavy as a giant bolder. "Ahhhhh!" with a loud roar, Arden exerted all of his physical strength to swing the pole in the direction of the incoming attack, releasing his own attack of equivalent power. A loud explosion ensued as the two destructive wind waves clashed into one another like colliding celestial bodies and created a powerful explosion of Astro energy and wind alike which expanded rapidly and enveloped both Arden and Wolder. Noticing the might of the explosion, Noden quickly constructed an Ast
Chapter271: Return Of Crui Rughk In the the central continent of the Astro world, the blood lands which is located in the very center of the continent that is home to the Vatican demon clan, the strongest force in the central continent which rules with an iron fist. All of the original patriarchs of the Vatican deom clan gathered up in excitement as they awaited the return of their emperor, Crui Rughk.Few days ago, the mighty patriarchs of the Vatican demon clan resived a massage from their emperor telling them that he will be retuning on this very day and ever since then, the five patriarchs have assembled here to resove him personally.the five patriarchs of the Vatician demon clan all"ROAR!"A resounding roar suddenly reverberated in the from behind the five patriarchs of the Victorian deman clan as they waited.The five of them quicpy turner their gazes behind them only to see a massive black cat which had was striding forth from behind them.The black cat was known as Vamp
Chapter270 The cyclone hydra The T Rex had its wide mew wide opene as it gazed at Arden in front of it who had walked passed it and reached the depth of the lightning field with lightning bolts so intensely dangerous and poweful that both it and him couldn't bare to go into. As he walked into the dangerous depth of the lightning field where he had retreated before, Arden didn't even frown or feel any pain. This was all because the dangerous lightning bolts couldn't touch his body at all as they were all absorbed by the large vortex surrounding his body before they could land on his body. After entering the vortex, they will then be absorbed into Arden's heart into the energy pearl which cobtenoued to emit a suction force throughout of Arden's body. As the lightning bolt and lighting pool continued to be absorbed by the vortex around him, Arden no longer cared about any danger and walked ahead steadfast going deepee and deeper until he reached the very core of the lightn
Chapter 269: Fusion ii "ROAR!" A loud roar filled with intense energy and force resonated in the lightning field, causing the lightning bolts and lightning pool to ripple intensely. Arden roared out with all his might, releasing his pent-up feeling of satisfaction. With the power cursing through him now, Arden felt that with his physical strength alone, he would be as strong as the pro level Stellar Vanguard. This means that he will be able to fight the T Rex on equal footing using nothing but his physical strength. After his analysis, Arden deactivated the Serpent King Evolution Art, causing his transformation to revert back to his normal self. After doing this, Arden stepped deeper into the lightning pool, this time not absorbing anything but he created an Astro energy warding barrier around his body to protect him from the lightning bolts in the depth of the lightning pool however, despite Arden's efforts, he was still injured by the intense lightning bolts which
Chapter268: Fusion iThe lightning bolts inside the lightning pool is incredibly more intense and dangerous than the lightning outside the lightning pool, the instant in which Arden's leg stepped into theclightning pool, several bolts of lightning immediately struck his body violently. The lightning bolts penetrated his skin defens and burnt his skin while at thesame time causing an intense jolt to run through his whole body. When this happened, Arden frown and nearly cursed out from the pain throughout his skin but he didn't retreat from the lightning pool because although the lightning bolts were very painfully, they couldn't injure his faitally and even more, he gain a very pure and dense lightning element Astro energy from the lightning bolts. Although he did my retreat, Arden didn't advance either, it wasn't that he didn't dare to but he knew that it would be more advantageous for him to remain his his position for the time being and contenou absorbing lightning eleme
Chapter267 Five meters to the location of Arden and the four king beasts was a rear place of natural phenomenon that was very hard to come by. It was a region of space that was crammed with numerous red coloured lightning bolts which flashed around blasting into the ground and even the air. As he stared at this region of space filled with lightning, Arden couldt help but opene his mouth and exclaimed in joy "Lightning elemental astro energy field!" Arden had learned about the lightning elemental astro energy field from a book he had obtained from the treasures of the Drake kingdom he had plundered. The book described meany things related to natural lightning field that occurr randomly in some areas due to some special occasions. In the book, it was described that lightning field is formed when there Is a dense amount of lightning elemental Astro energy in a location which caused a reaction that give birth numerous lightning blots that forms a lightning sea.
Chapter266 lightning elemental Astro energy field The female king beast attempted to get up from her position and regain her stance but Arden moved too quickly. Before she could get up, the inscription pen appeared in his hand as his quickly inscribed words Tame on her forehead. With that completed, the King beast suddenly trembled and silently knelt in front of him. [ Taming Crystal Lurocyton successful ][ Congratulations, Host has completed 80% of mission conquer the dark forest and host will be rewarded with 10000xp as well as 10000 nexus coins] The system notification rang out in his head causing Arden to smile broadly, he couldn't get enough of the system's reward for this hidden mission. As he reviled in the joy of obtaining the system's reward, Arden squatted down and turned on the system's Copy ability to scan through the body of the Chrystal Lurocyton. The result of his scan was just as he had envisioned however, he was little bit disappointed towards the
Chapter265: Analysis "What the hell!" Arden exclaimed as he uncontrollably flew away with an unstoppable momentum. "Roar!" The three king beasts all suddenly turned their attention towards the female king beast, and each of them quickly directed their attacks towards her. In a shot moment, a dangerous red lightning strike, blazing orange flames and thorny plant vins all attacked the female king beasts from different angles. In the face of this attack, the female king beast suddenly screeched causing great waves to disturb the three king beasts rendering their attacked weakened to a great extent. After this happened, the blue sphere of Stellar Light Astro energy covering her body suddenly explode as and propagetared in all directions sending away all the other three king beasts. The three colossal king beasts all got sent flying and smashed into the hard crystal wall, meanwhile the female king beast instantly conjured up another blue sphere before dashing toward Felix at an
Chapter264: Astonishing Power As Arden and the king beasts entered into the giant hole under the red crystal mountain, they followed a passage and ended up in a very wide underground Cavern. In this place, Arden and the king beasts were instantly attacked the moment they came in. "Vrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!" Suddenly powerful sonic sound waves coming from all their surroundings plunged into their ears, numbing their ear drums while at the same time, making them feel immense pain all over their bodies. "What the fuck!" Arden exclaimed as he did his vest to channel out his stellar light Astro energy to block off the effects of the around waves. At the same time, Arden turned his gaze in front of him to look at his surrounding but he couldn't even see the figure of the enemy who was well hidden "Roar!" The king beasts standing below Arden all let out painfully roars as they all channeled their energies to block off the effects of the sound but this had little effect. Rea
Chapter263: the most powerful king beast in the dark forest Arden couldn't help but smile in delight as he heard the system notifications, he couldn't help but look forward to the final reward when he completes the whole mission. Fine let's go to the next king beast, Arden ordered and the two king beasts led him to the direction of the mountain which didn't surprise him. This was because when he ventured into the mountains in the past under the mission survival search, he came across a monstrously large creature that was emanating a powerful presence equal to the T Rex and the Thorny Kraken. At that time, Arden was lucky enough to find another route that safely led him to his destination otherwise, he would have been forced to sneak past it which was undoubtedly more dangerous. When Arden and the two king beasts came out of the carnivorous forest and into the hard rocky ground, the entire mountain started to tremble as a colossal creature rose slowly from the ground.