The glittering blue arrow was an inch away from Roy's right shoulder and about to piece into it when he made his move, sidestepping it and then smiling tauntingly, his eyes reflecting victory.
The rank-3 spirit has fallen right where Roy wanted him!
The scene of the blue arrow missing Roy by an inch or two and piercing the air while going downwards before stabbing deep into the floor was reflected in Roy's and the rank-3 spirit's eyes.
"Say goodbye to the living realm!" The very next moment, Roy, without even looking at the hunched rank-3 spirit, swung his sword weighing a 15 fucking tone towards it, his arms surging with indomitable strength.
When hunched, its waist was parallel to Roy's face.
"This isn't the end of me!" The rank-3 spirit was about to roll like a donkey to dodge Ghost Chaser, but in the split of a second, an enormous amount of aura burst out of Roy and smashed into it, suppressing it so much that it was immediately immobilized, stiffened to a state similar to a statue.
With Roy's aura pressing down on it, it felt as if a mountain was pressing it down!
"It is!" Yelling that out, Roy coated Ghost Chaser in Arrow Force as it was moving in a horizontal sweep.
A black aura streamed out of the hands he was using to hold its hilt and immediately covered Ghost Chaser's entire surface.
Coated in Roy's Arrow Force, Ghost Chaser became completely black from purplish red. But that wasn't the only change it experienced. Its sharpness has increased by a few hundred times. It became sharp enough to pierce divine steel just as it connected with the left side of the rank-3 spirit's body.
"Schloook!"
An ear-arching noise was produced as Roy chopped the rank-3 spirit's waist with his sword, slicing its 4-meter tall body into two equal halves.
Thud! Thud!
In the next second, the two parts of its body thudded to the ground, spasming.
They looked like they were, but in actuality, they were crawling toward each other.
It was still not dead!
And... its upper half was trying to reconnect with its lower half.
How could Roy give it the time to recover?
Roy looked at its semi-destroyed life source. The intent to eradicate it was plenty in his eyes. But the only thing that could wipe it away was black aura lightning, and his body was empty of that, and thus he created a lot of it on the spot.
The system's notification rang in his ears.
『Ding! You have used the Limiter Breaker Method to instantly generate 400 streaks of Black Aura Lightning!』
Several hundred electric lights crackled their way out of Roy's body, all gathering in spots nearby him, condensing into black thundering bolts.
Clap! Bam!
His eyes narrowed, and they thundered down on the upper half of the rank-3 spirit's boy, blasting and licking clean the magic circle on its back in seconds!
However, the rank-3 spirit was still not dead; Roy came to this conclusion because the system didn't notify him of its death.
"You must have two life sources. I destroyed one, but where is the other?" Roy's scrutinizing gaze landed on the two halves of the rank-3 spirit. He was searching for its second life source.
"You may have defeated me, but the sons of our God, much stronger than I, are waiting for you deep inside this land." Having its main life source destroyed, it stopped struggling to survive and mockingly smiled at Roy, "They will sniff you out and then… and then you will meet an end worse than mine!"
Roy scoffed at him, "If they come after me, it won't be too long before you are reunited with them… in hell! I will be waiting for Voss and its dogs with my back straight and head held high!"
So what if it was a God and its son stronger than the rank-3 spirit?! He would kill them all the same!
"Found it."
Roy's eyes widened in pleasant surprise after he turned to hold the spirit's raised face in his eyes.
He realized where its second life source was.
A small magic circle was on the back of its head.
It was the thing that was keeping it alive even in that half-broken state.
Before the glow in its ruby eyes could diminish, it stated, "Your arrogance will be your downfall, Baldwin."
"Maybe that's true. Maybe I might fall one day because of being arrogant, but… you won't be around to see it!" Roy struck the back of its head with the butt of his sword that was crackling with electric current and reinforced with Arrow Force.
Its head shattered, crumbling into pieces.
The final blow was dealt.
The battle came to an end!
『Ding! Congratulation. You have killed the leaders of the Armored Spirit Archers. You have gained 20 shards of the Sword Manifestation skill. You have collected hundreds of True Dragon's fire essences from its body.』
『You have completed another task of your ongoing quest.』
『2/3 Tasks of the Quest "Ascending to the ranks of Dragon's Disciples has been completed!』
'I am only one task away from getting the Lord-Grade Physique!' Roy's eyes were glazed over with excitement. 'But first, let's get my physique to the sky-grade.'
Roy focused his attention on the system, talking to it in his head, 'Use all the excessive True Dragon's fire essence to refine my physique.'
He had more than 600 of them. He only needed 600 to complete his quest. The rest were used to refine his physique.
『Ding! 320 True Dragon's fire essences are being used to refine your Physique!』
Instantly, immense pain filled him as they entered his body, refining his physique cruelly.
They destroyed and strengthened it while his self-healing skill kept on restoring his body to peak performance, not allowing him to die.
He was destroyed and restored several times before his body was tempered to another stage!
『Ding! Congratulation. You have successfully tempered your level-10 innate energy refining body to the level-1 Energy Swallowing Whale Sky-Grade Physique!』
『Your energy bar has increased to 10000 points』
『You can release and absorb 5000 wisps of mana and 50000 units of aura instantly.』
『In terms of energy absorption and emission, you have exceeded aura masters with five Aura Meridians opened!』
