Proceeding with the plan, as the battle tank stopped right at the entrance, Alina locked onto the beast from a 1000ft altitude and launched a hellfire missile.
As soon as the missile was launched, the manticore placed its attention on the vehicle.
"What is that?" It didn't know what the thing that was coming towards it. This was the first time the beast had witnessed such mysterious weapons and their attack.
Savage Baltrow couldn't also sense the power as it doesn't contain Ether energy or natural energy.
Unlike the fierce beasts, this beast king was highly intelligent, probably smarter than an average adventurer. It wasn't also highly proud of its strength because it already tasted the first hand of a human's strength.
Since these puppets managed to kill the subordinates, the beast king didn't underestimate the attack and flapped its wings.
To evade the missile, the manticore swiftly flew to the side but the latter changed the path as soon as is it did.
With the missile's speed hitting 1.3 mach even while changing the directions, the surprised manticore didn't get the time to evade it. But, it did protect itself by erecting a weak barrier around itself.
The missile hit the barrier and detonated. A powerful explosion destroyed the barrier and blasted away the beast king.
However, there were no injuries on the manticore. It stood on its feet and calmly stared at the helicopter.
"So, its power is at the peak stage of the 7-circle realm, huh. Two of them could easily wipe out one of my generals. No wonder, the master behind these puppets is confident in challenging me." Savage Baltrow mumbled before glancing at the battle tank, "I wonder why that thing isn't going to make a move. Well, it doesn't matter, anyway…"
The manticore no longer put its attention on it after seeing another missile was launched from the helicopter.
"It's the same one." The moment the beast king spotted the hellfire missile coming at it once again, it launched a counter-attack.
It spewed out a giant fireball at the incoming missile. But, the missile target locking system didn't let it touch anything other than the target.
To its surprise, the hellfire missile skillfully made a sharp turn and evaded the fireball, and continued to fly towards the beast king.
The manticore also acted quickly by erecting another barrier, the same as the last one.
Once again, it was blasted dozens of meters away, although without any injuries. Meanwhile, Alina controlled the steering to move fly towards the left and dodged the fireball. After traveling for another couple of hundred meters, the fireball disappeared on its own.
Alina didn't fail to spot it.
Mark received a notification.
*Ding! Alina says that the range of the dungeon overlord's fireball is exactly 521.34 meters.
"I see. This beast king can shoot the targets half a kilometer away." Mark nodded in understanding before letting out a smile, "Not as powerful as my modern weapons though. I can shoot the target from kilometers away.
And once I developed my ingenious 'Aryan' missile, which couldn't see the light because of those cowardly higher authorities, I could wipe out anything within 21,000 kilometers range.
But, I'm not earth. I can't be sure of whether it can cover every place on the planet. This planet might even be bigger. In that case, I need to improve its range. I should go to the Information guild to gather the info.
Anyway, that's still far away. Let's not think too much about it and focus on this beast king."
Mark stared at the screen and watched the battle.
After Alina used up all the four hellfire missiles and proceeded to reload them, the beast king finally left the ground and flew towards the helicopter.
Mark slammed the hand rest in excitement, "Yes. The helicopter now had the complete attention of the dungeon overlord."
He then sent a message to Alina.
Upon receiving it, Alina didn't hesitate to launch four hellfire missiles one after the other successively.
Savage Baltrow was taken aback by her move but then, it calmly faced it by erecting another barrier around it, although this time, it was a stronger one.
The first missile struck the barrier and caused a massive explosion but the barrier was intact and the manticore continued to fly before another missile struck it.
By the time it covered one-third of the distance, four consecutive massive explosions were seen in the sky. By the end of the fourth, the barrier was finally destroyed but the uninjured beast king flew out of all those smoke and flew towards the helicopter.
While reloading another four missiles, Alina flew the helicopter to a higher position in the same way she did when facing Song Yun in a battle, on the day of a public trial.
With a speed of 290 km/hr, the attack helicopter was found to be moving in a spiral route but covering a wide area. It was done this way so that Alina could confuse the beast and move at the highest speed without an issue, although it would cost more fuel.
At the same time, Alina was launching mistral missiles, which are air-to-air missiles but only had the power of beginner-7-circle realm and can destroy peak-6-circle realm targets. So, it was nowhere strong to injure the beast king.
But, at the very least, they managed to slow down the beast's speed, helping Alina to increase the distance between them. Despite its small size, the legendary realm beast king's top flying speed was only 254 km/hr. This became an advantage t
Eventually, both of them reached a point where they are only appearing as a dot from the ground.
Mark was watching through the screen, zooming by 40 times. It was a bit blurry but he could at least figure out which one is the helicopter and which one is the beast.
*Ding! Alina says that she had reached 2.2 km altitude. Waiting for further orders.
"Good." Mark let out a smile. He gave an order to play tag with the beast once he locked on to the target.
*Ding! Your current intelligence stat is at 6.2
*Ding! The maximum attack strength of Battle Tank is restricted to 9.0. The attack power is readjusted.
*Ding! The target is locked.
The 120mm cannon, grenade launch, and machine-gun rose higher at 65 degrees while being charged up.
Mark's ether energy was deducted by 50% in one go.
A concentrated beam of energy was released by the three weapons and hit at one spot in the air, forming a huge energy sphere.
"10, 9, 8…."
Mark started the countdown in excitement as the energy sphere started becoming bigger.
The beast noticed within 3 seconds. "This power…"
It didn't hesitate to abandon the helicopter and dived down with its maximum speed.
"5, 4, 3, 2, 1…" *Boom*
The giant energy sphere was shot towards the beast king.
"Sorry but you are too late." Mark let out a pleasant smile and relaxed a bit. He was confident that everything will be over.
But then, a surprise arrived before his eyes.
The beast king used all of its ether energy from the core and unleashed a skill, "Unyielding."
A layer of purple energy appeared over its skin.
