There were Dark Beasts mixed with the Crows, I saw them! I didn't know that monsters would allow Dark Beasts within them, I thought they were still different in some regard? Dark Beasts were born from the miasma of the Demon King of Miasma, while the Monsters were more like natural animals in this world, so they would easily conflict with one another. However, these crows welcomed the Dark Beasts and fought with them… Oh well, that made it easier to get the Black Cores and Darkness Essences we need!
"CRAAA!"
A trio of Crows flew right down to catch us, it was composed of a normal Vengeful Crow and two Dark Beast Crows! The Dark Beast Crows gathered their power within their bodies as darkness started to pour outside, suddenly becoming several spheres of darkness, which flew towards us at fast speed! It was using that one Skill the Dark Beast Mushroom King once used, Dark Bullets!
These bullets were super deadly and could easily reduce our HP quickly! I had to protect everyone before it was too late and the bullets reached us. Almost by instinct, I ended conjuring the "Wood Shield" Spell that I always use to protect myself, but this time I merged it with Plant Manipulation and controlled the nearby trees, combining both spells took a big chunk of my Mana, but the protective shield that emerged was powerful, a whole wall made of super hardened bark that came from the ground!
BOOOOMMM!!!
The shield protected us wonderfully, as the darkness bullets were turned into black smoke and dissipated rather quickly after. I had to quickly move and attack. If I stay in a single spot for too long like I always do, it will only be detrimental for us. I might have new Skills but they all need Mana, and anything big I make always devours most of my MP! Now that I have protected us, my MP was down once more and I had to wait a bit more time to get it back to do something noticeably strong, but that didn't mean that my allies couldn't do anything!
"Take this!"
Acorn quickly grabbed his shiniest Acorn nut from his Item Bag, and threw it with amazing precision and accuracy towards one of the Dark Beast Crows that were in the trio, hitting it in the head and making it fall to the ground!
CLAAAASH!
"C-Craaaa…!"
The Dark Beast Crow felt that one pretty hard, as he fell from the skies and crashed to the ground right after that acorn hit. The Dark Beast was still somewhat alive, trying to get up and struggling to do so. I quickly pointed my index finger to it and converted the finger into a sharp thorn, firing it like a bullet!
CLASH!
The bullet hit the Crow from the distance accurately, and the crow quickly exploded into black smoke and died on the spot, only leaving items and EXP behind.
Ding!
[You defeated the [Dark Beast Crow: Lv6]!]
[You received the [Dark Essence] x1 [Black Core] x1 Items!]
[You gained 100 Gold]
[You gained 600 EXP]
[Your Race and Job Class Level have increased from Level 5 to Level 6!]
[You gained Stat Points and Skill Points]
[All Your Stats have increased]
Nice! I leveled up! Just in time! When you leveled up, your MP and HP refilled automatically, so my MP was back to full for now, how wonderful! This is what I like about games these days!
The other two Crows, which was a normal Vengeful Crow and the other a Dark Beast Crow completely ignored their companion dying, but Loki and Belle didn't ignore them, the two quickly charged forward. The greatest mistake they committed was actually trying to engage us in close-combat using their sharp beaks and claws!
CLAAAASH!
Loki stretched her vines reinforced with her newest skill, and entangled the normal Vengeful Crow, crushing it with the power of her vines, entangling it and making the creature splatter through the entire place. Well, that was gory, but she's so strong now! What the...?
Ding!
[You defeated the [Vengeful Crow: Lv4]!]
[You received the [Black Crow Feathers] x1 [Black Crow Meat] x1 Items!]
[You gained 80 Gold]
[You gained 400 EXP]
"MEEEE!"
Meanwhile, Belle jumped off the ground carrying all of us, and clashed against the Dark Beast Crow who was about to throw another Dark Bullet attack at us, using her sharp horns, she impaled the beast directly, using the enhancement of the Berserk Mode Skill, which had yet to run out!
CLAAASH!
"CRAAHH…!"
Ding!
[You defeated the [Dark Beast Crow: Lv6]!]
[You received the [Dark Essence] x1 [Black Core] x1 Items!]
[You gained 100 Gold]
[You gained 600 EXP]
We defeated the crows, but there was another group of over six moving towards us, no, wait, over six of them! How many are there?! And then there were the Jumping Poisonous Mushrooms lurking around us and slowly beginning to use their poisonous spores to leave clouds of purple-colored poison spores everywhere. Did they really not have any other tactic? Stupid mushrooms, I was tired of mushrooms! I quickly decided to conjure Spirit Magic and bring on the Land Spirits again.
"Land Spirits, please, help me out!"
FLAAAASH!
The Land Spirits quickly heard my plea for help, as they began to surge from the ground one after the other, and they were all ready to smash! The energies from the Dragon Veins easily materialized four new Land Spirits, and this time there were two Boulder Golems and two Land Titans! I got lucky! Was this Spell influenced by the LUK stat? Well, mine is quite high.
"GRUUUOOOHHH!"
The enormous Land Titan, which was this time over five meters tall suddenly moved his enormous and muscular arms made of stone, crushing over four Crows with a single swipe of his enormous arm!
CRAAAASH!!!
Ding!
[You defeated the [Dark Beast Crow: Lv6]!]
[You defeated the [Dark Beast Crow: Lv5]!]
[You defeated the [Dark Beast Crow: Lv7]!]
…
"GRUUUAAAAH!"
The other Land Titan roared angrily, as he looked at the mushrooms around us and suddenly gave a glorious heel sweep, crushing the mushrooms surrounding us en masse! His enormously heavy legs were able to flatten them into the ground like pancakes!
BOOOOMMM!!!
Ding!
[You defeated the [Jumping Poisonous Mushroom: Lv4]!]
[You defeated the [Jumping Poisonous Mushroom: Lv3]!]
[You defeated the [Jumping Poisonous Mushroom: Lv3]!]
…
J-Just how many died there? I think that was over ten… I couldn't even pay attention to the system messages now; things are getting too intense! A large quantity of the monsters died on the spot, but after that, the Land Titans dissipated into the air. It seemed that after doing a big attack, they went away, sadly. I wonder if they could stay more if I level up the Skill, but that would probably cost more MP that I can handle.
"GRUUUOH!"
The other two Boulder Golems were left, and the two began to crush the rest of the jumping mushrooms, flattening them into the ground as if they were mere worms, and crushing them until nothing remained other than sparks of light that made various notifications emerge one after the other…
Ding!
[You defeated the [Jumping Poisonous Mushroom: Lv4]!]
[You defeated the [Jumping Poisonous Mushroom: Lv3]!]
[You defeated the [Jumping Poisonous Mushroom: Lv3]!]
…
"A-Amazing! You cleaned up all those monsters!!!" said Acorn. "Ah, some crows are still left!"
Acorn pointed at the sky, as the last group of ten Crows continued chasing us down as we were already quite far from the garden, they were really not giving up, I could see why they're known for being Vengeful and territorial… My MP was almost zero, and despite how many monsters died, it was still not enough to level up and get my MP back! Acorn didn't have MP Potions, so I decided to take one from my inventory and then… I spammed Land Spirits again!
"Please, help us out in this last little struggle!"
TRUUUUUMMM…!
Suddenly, the Dragon Veins resonated once more, gathering spiritual essence. I even used Spirit Enhancement to make the spirits even stronger, exhausting all the mana that drinking two MP Potions gave to me!
"GRUUUOOOOHHH!!!"
And then we saw it, it was an enormous single Land Spirit, it was as if many Land Spirits fused together, from the smallest one to various Titans, forming a giant the size of half a mountain!
"W-What the heck?!" Acorn cried out in utter disbelief, I couldn't help but open my mouth wide! How was Spirit Magic so strong? Was it because this place has a lot of Dragon Veins and spiritual energy?!
CRAAAAASH!
The Land God, as I called him, spread his arms and that was more than enough to crush the last ten Crows, which also came accompanied by a mysterious giant crow that we didn't see yet. Was he lurking behind them and commanding them? Oh wait, that was a Mini Boss?!
BOOOM!!!
"CRAAAHH…!"
Well, the five-meter big Vengeful Crow was crushed by the enormous fists of the Land God, and ended turning into black smoke- oh, so it was a Dark Beast boss at that! Damn… I-I guess I one-shotted a Boss? Oops?
Ding!
[You defeated the [Dark Beast Crow: Lv6]!]
[You defeated the [Dark Beast Crow: Lv5]!]
[You defeated the [Dark Beast Crow: Lv7]!]
…
Ding!
[You defeated the [Dark Beast Vengeful Crow King: Lv10 (ELITE)]!]
[You received the [Dark Essence] x4 [Black Core] x4, and [Vengeful Crow King Soul] x1 Items!]
[You gained 3000 Gold]
[You gained 2500 EXP]
[Your Race and Job Class Level has increased from Level 6 to Level 7!]
[You gained Stat Points and Skill Points]
[All Your Stats have increased]
[You gained the [Solo Slayer] Title!]
[You gained the [Legendary Warrior] Title!]
[Solo Slayer]
Acquisition Conditions: Defeat a Boss-type Monster by yourself within your Level Range.
Equip Bonus: +40 HP +40 MP +100 All Stats
A Title given to an incredibly strong Player that has managed to defeat a Boss-type monster by himself! Boss-type monsters are incredibly tough, even at low levels! Congratulations!
[Legendary Warrior]
Acquisition Conditions: Defeat a Boss-type Monster within your Level Range with a single hit.
Equip Bonus: +300 HP, +150 MP, +250 to all Stats, +30% Bonus Boss Damage.
A Title given to a Legendary Warrior who has one-shotted a Boss within their Level Range, somehow! Congratulations, you're one of the few (less than 50 Players) that has done such an incredible feat!
W-What are these Titles?! Eeeeeeh?! +30 BOSS DAMAGE?! W-Wait, +300 HP, +150 MP, and… +250 ALL STATS?! Oh my god, save me! I was about to have a stroke! W-What was this? Was this illegal? Was I going to get banned? But I just started playing!
Just what was happening right now? Not even my mind could properly process the insane events that were happening right now, from the giant Land God born by fusing many Land Spirits to the Giant Crow Boss getting one-shotted… I was left completely speechless.
I-I guess I won… Hahah… Ah.
"A-Amazing! That was amazing!!!" said Acorn as he clapped his little hands. "You're really the daughter of the Goddess Gaia, Lady Dryad, you've awakened your divine powers already?!"
"D-Divine powers? What are you talking about… I-I think that was just some weird bug… I might get banned for something I didn't intend…" I sighed.
"Huh? What?" Asked Acorn without understanding what I was saying.
"Don't mind it," I said.
The Guide Spirit suddenly appeared behind me as he looked at the scene, countless dropped items were flying towards my inventory, and I had gained an awful lot of EXP as well, I ended up getting to Level 7 already… T-This was not the way I wanted to play the game.
"I-Incredible… I didn't know that the Land Spirits would like you so much, I guess your hidden Charm Stat is pretty high," he said. "Although the factor of your passive skills enhancing the Spirits was something I didn't know, did the developers really intended this to happen? So the spirits you summon get boosted by your passive skills… This is crazy, you might really get banned."
"Aagh! Don't say it like that!"
"Don't worry I saved the video and uploaded it to the Live Ranker System. The Devs will look it up and see if it's fair or not."
"Y-You did what?!"
"I am merely doing what I was programmed for, don't complain!"
