Upon reaching the Behemoth's body, Vicente's sword faced some initial difficulty upon impact, but it quickly overcame the creature's tough skin with its blade of darkness.
It entered the creature's head, slicing through the Behemoth's massive skull until it reached the monster's brain.
The huge Behemoth stopped moving, unable to move its body to react against Vicente as the darkness of the sword corroded the monster's soul and mental structures.
Unlike Vicente's first magical form, his Throne of Darkness was extremely efficient at destroying souls. Once it reached the Behemoth's essence, his darkness did its work, destroying everything in its path.
The Behemoth, overwhelmed by the abrupt decrease in compatible elements in the area and the increase in darkness, could not defend itself against its opponent's deadly onslaught. Seconds after Vicente's giant weapon pierced its head and part of its torso, it felt its vision dim as its body fell to the ground.
As it hit the ground, already dead, the surrounding ground shook violently, signaling the Behemoth's death to magical creatures dozens of miles away.
Torne was not slow as he saw it. He left his master's body and saw the surrounding situation, where Onyx was badly injured but still awake, and all their other companions were unconscious. They were all badly injured.
He already knew the greatest danger for his master and acted together with Onyx.
"Onyx, let's get the Behemoth's body away from the pentagram!" he shouted.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64ce79d606107d003c23ea27", id: "pf-5140-1"})The pentagram of a creature emerged from its body. The place where it usually was absorbed was near the corpse. But there was a problem with absorbing this pentagram near the Behemoth.
Dozens of creatures in the vicinity would take advantage of devouring parts of the Behemoth, so it wasn't interesting to have the corpse nearby.
Some creatures were already moving, but the ghost and the dark bird moved to push the massive body away from their master.
Although they weren't strong enough to defeat someone like the Behemoth, they could move the body a few hundred meters away from the group before the 'vultures' arrived.
Amid these two's actions, Vicente didn't hesitate to sit cross-legged under the cyan pentagram and began absorbing his fourth pentagram.
He had advanced one level in the middle of a fight, but he had also broken through to the 5th stage with only 3 pentagrams in his first Magic Gem. The only reason he hadn't exploded yet was because of the solidity of his foundation, which came from the quality of his pentagrams and the Throne of Darkness pentagram.
But if he continued without a fourth pentagram for his first magical form, Vicente was sure he would explode in a few minutes!
Before Torne and Onyx had even finished moving the 6th stage corpse away from him, Vicente was already meditating, trying to connect his first magical form and the cyan essence.
He felt its extraordinary power, which in itself made his three essences of magnetic power tremble.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64cc9e79c7059f003e4ad4b0", id: "pf-5109-1"})It was as if a higher being was meeting its servants!
But Vicente was no longer a Sovereign. Having become a Paragon, the ocean of mana that had been concentrated into a single point at the end of the 4th stage had given rise to the Soul Avatar.
Now, in Vicente's space of consciousness, a small Vice made of mana and the elements lightning and earth floated next to his pentagrams and his Magic Gem.
As soon as the cyan pentagram entered that space, the little avatar, who looked like a newborn baby, moved and reached out his hands to the cyan essence, making it feel the power of a Paragon.
Although the cyan essence came from an Archmage, it was not the Archmage who had formed it. It would have been very difficult for Vicente to absorb this essence if he were still a Sovereign. But it was very receptive to the Soul Avatar, which made it much easier to absorb.
At the same time, Vicente had conquered the pentagram by taking many risks, facing a being much stronger than himself, and even advancing in level amid battle. The Behemoth itself recognized the young man's talents and knew before it died, it had underestimated its opponent.
By recognizing Vicente as someone capable of killing it, the creature had allowed its essence to come into the world in a way more favorable to Vice.
It would obviously prefer that its killer was killed or dominated by its magical essence. But if one gained the respect of an animal before killing it, one's pentagram always gained an extra trace of affinity with the killer. That affinity didn't make things harder. It made them easier.
One could interpret the situation as if the pentagram was owned by the magical being, and when the magician vanquished the beast, the ownership of the pentagram transferred from the beast to the magician.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "663633fa8ebf7442f0652b33", id: "pf-8817-1"})The more honest the fight, the more the pentagram "felt" it no longer belonged to the beast, but to the killer!
So Vicente soon guided his new essence to the position of the fourth pentagram, gradually feeling his magical foundation become stable again.
Torne and Onyx had finished moving the Behemoth's body away, and had also brought the unconscious bodies of the group's magicians closer to them and Vicente.
The two activated 5th stage defensive magical tools they had gained on their journey here, while they waited for Vicente's meditation to end.
By this time, the middle and top 5th stage magical creatures were already devouring the Behemoth's body, some fighting for the right to devour the most valuable parts of the creature.
None of them were interested in the magical essence left behind by the Behemoth, as pentagrams only gave power to a few beings capable of absorbing them.
There was no one in this area who could become stronger by absorbing pentagrams, so most of the creatures ignored Vicente's group for the time being.
But in the middle of Vicente's meditation, a monster with a humanoid body, razor-sharp claws instead of nails, hair covering all its skin, and a wolf's head approached Onyx and Torne, signaling it only wanted to talk.
"What do you want?" Torne asked.
"I have a helpful proposition for your master, ghost," the High-
level Paragon creature said, its voice shimmering with power but also a trace of satisfaction. "If you can convince him to help me get rid of a certain someone, I can help he with two new cyan pentagrams!"
