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I may be making a dumb decision.
Creating an enhanced species just for a good fight.
But, it would be stupider to try for the eighteenth floor and beyond right now. For one, I can't beat the Goliath…yet. And the Loki Familia, hadn't went down for the expedition and killed it yet.
But, there was a method to my madness.
I only fed it a few on the way down to the eleventh floor, which was easy to make my way to. I was just way above the usual strength required to get there and not only had I studied the dungeon maps in advance, my new sonar ability gotten from a Bad Bat magic crystal, made it even easier to find my way.
And while enhanced species, irregulars, are much stronger than usual, there was also something else about them.
Sometimes, in the process of mutating, they gained new abilities.
New abilities I could take from devouring their magic crystals after I killed them…after enhancing them.
Once down there, the area really opened it. It was a bit surreal to be honest, to find myself stepping from a dark cave to a wide open, murky forest covered in a mist, with light white grass and huge dead, gleaming white trees.
'Though, they're landforms from what I've read.' I mused. Natural growths in the village that could be used as weapons by monsters.
I made my way straight to one of the said landform trees and slammed the chittering screeching killer ant, already having grown noticeably into it, pinning it there.
And then let crystal flow from my hand, spewing out over its torso and locking it to the landform.
"Stay there for a bit mate, I'm gonna make you a nice big dinner." I grinned, cracking my neck and turning around, the ominous roars and grunts of monsters hidden within the depths of this floor echoed in my ears, faint shapes visible through the mist. "Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough!" he shouted challengingly.
I'm was right by the stairs, so nothing could come from mist behind me and take me by surprise.
I'm doing a dumb thing, but I'm not entirely stupid.
Besides, in the end, this was only to both see if I could get a decent fight here and to test if there was a possibility of farming new abilities from monsters like this.
As it is, I've already got most of the useful abilities I can get from monsters and there's less than ten monsters left with powers I want and need.
My challenge did not go unanswered.
They rushed through the mist in the dozens, roaring all the ways, pre-spawned in advance for adventurers to be caught unawares by.
Huge white furred gorrilas, titanic and fat green skinned bipedal pig like creatures over eight feet tall. Bats as large as eagles swept down from the ceiling, while ugly little imp-like creatures skittered through the legs of the uge orc's, carrying little stone daggers and swords.
Now this was promising!
With a massive grin, I opened my mouth and roared, a wave of sound erupting from my throat and expanding outwards.
The sound wave stunned most of them, the silverback's, orc's and imp's stopping in their tracks with pained cries, though not the Bad Bats as they swept down towards me with razor sharp fangs and unleashed sharp sound waves of their own.
Too bad, just as they were not damaged by my own, I was not damaged theirs.
"Blaze!" I laughed, fire erupting around my form and I punched out, unleashing a massive wave of fire that swept over them and tore them from the air, dropping their steaming corpses to the ghostly white grass below.
With them taken care of, I bound forward towards the land dwelling monsters. With a flame enhanced leap, I shot through the air towards one of the huge orcs and with a laugh, clasped my gauntlet clad fists together and brought them down in a hammer blow.
The huge leathery skinned beasts skull cratered inwards and it toppled over to land on its back, while I landed on its big fat belly.
As I did, the monsters around me regained their bearings and rushed me. A little imp that was beside the orc launching itself at me with a screech.
Only for me to punt it in the face and send its head flying off its neck off into the distance.
I spun lightly off the beasts belly, dodging a silverback's clawed swipe and lashed out with a counter elbow that crunched its skull and dropped it to the ground dead.
And then I pushed off, wind swirling and mixing with flame around my foot and launching me forward with explosive speed. I tore through the assembled monsters in a flaming, burning blur.
And soon, all that was left was a single unarmed orc, stuck in place, its red, pupilless eyes wide and its body trembling.
It was a monster of pure instinct.
And I instilled the instinct of fear within it.
But I can tell you one thing better than anyone else. The predominant instinct of a monster, is to fight, kill and ascend upwards out of the dungeon.
I know because I get a first hand account of those instincts every time my falna is updated.
Fear of a single being alone is not enough to stop a monster in its tracks.
With a roar, the beast shook off its terror and reached for one of the dead trees. It pulled it up with a single hand, excess bark falling away from the tree to reveal a huge broad sword as long as I am tall and thicker at that.
It raised the blade up high in the air and charged towards me with thundering footsteps.
…This presented a good chance to try something.
As it rushed me, I held my hand out and focused.
Crystal swept out of my palm and elongated, bit by bit into a crude jagged blade a split moment later.
'Yeah, not even close.' I clicked my tongue.
Even from that single use alone, I could tell that was the best I could get it. Shaping the crystal I could make, wasn't possible beyond rough, crude shapes unless I did it over my body.
Which meant I couldn't just spawn weapons into my hands.
I heaved the crude crystal blade up over my shoulder and threw it like a javelin.
It pierced the orc's face and killed it dead just as it got within five feet of me, "I wonder if blacksmith or metal shaping would let me do it?" I wondered aloud.
Not that I'll actually get them, I'm not a smith or anything. And even if I did, I'd rather focus on combat abilities.
With a shrug, I got down to business and began harvesting the magic stones of the monsters I'd just slain.