TOMWDET Chapter 183.2

Mortal Chapter (5.2)

This crude fighting style that looked childish to the Raven, and seemed almost suicidal to other members of the Winged Tribe, produced an incredibly miraculous effect.

Matilda wasn’t sure who the suddenly appearing human was, but she knew clearly that there was only one human who had recently stirred up such turmoil.

——They needed to coordinate their attacks.

As soon as this thought appeared, Matilda’s entire monster beast form looked like a small ball being played with by God’s hand to tease a cat.

Except that tiger was a monstrous existence over a hundred meters tall.

And Matilda was also a bird of prey known for her fierceness.

——Crush her, crush this little flying insect that always flew back and forth in front of his eyes…

Clemens’ attitude toward attacking the Winged Tribe was quite casual.

For this tiger, the two tribes that couldn’t unite posed no pressure at all. If Matilda chose to surrender, he would win this battle without losing a single soldier, which would naturally be perfect.

And if Matilda chose to resist, Clemens wouldn’t be stingy about crushing those weak mosquitoes.

His attention diverted and his attitude of ignoring the weak meant that Clemens failed to notice that the human who initially, like other monster beasts, had no way to break through his basic defenses, had already drilled through gaps in the elemental belt together with the pitch-black raven.

Su Li drew closer and closer to Clemens’ fur.

What kind of skill in games could be called unsolvable?

Control? Immunity? Defense reduction?

These were all annoying, but what could truly be called unsolvable was continuous slow effects—reducing movement speed and attack speed.

This would make all existing power difficult to unleash.

And for Su Li, this was also the most element-conserving approach.

A body of single elements would naturally repel elemental forces that didn’t belong to the body’s elemental inclination. And as a transfer station, Su Li had no elemental inclination at all.

Those light elements that became entangled with dark elements the moment they appeared, making them inseparable; fire elements that were clearly more lively than the calm water elements; and wind elements that stirred up trouble.

These things instantly enveloped Clemens’ body.

Those elemental light bands that had previously been avoided completely lost the power to continue flowing.

In other words, Clemens’ automatic defense was directly dissolved under Su Li’s single deceleration skill.

But to the naked eye, there wasn’t any significant change in Clemens’ attack speed. At most, it dropped from 300% attack speed to 150%? And for Matilda, who only had 80% attack speed, this was still an existence that could beat her thoroughly.

A look of surprise crossed the tiger’s face, and the next second, he ignored Matilda, who still raised her weapon and charged at him.

Compared to someone who couldn’t even break his defense, another human who could dispel his automatic defense and even influence his attack speed was obviously much more interesting than Matilda.

But for the Winged Tribe Queen who already wanted to die, this obviously became contempt that was omnipresent even without being explicitly stated.

What should she do? What action should she take? Protect that human?

——But there was no reason why Clemens, who had taken over from the dragon, wouldn’t have heard of the human’s special constitution.

And if he knew, he obviously wouldn’t kill that human.

Matilda fell into confusion, but the next second, a new enemy directly took over her offensive, and this monster beast not only didn’t fall into disadvantage, but even faintly held the upper hand.

And this new enemy was a figure that had never appeared on past battlefields…

Beside them, Su Li, who had been targeted by Clemens, only felt his back turn cold.

The natural fear humans had of giant creatures was forcibly suppressed. Knowing that no matter how he died, his death would be within imaginable limits, Su Li became bold enough to tell the Raven directly: “It’s about time to choose hit-and-run tactics.”

Clemens’ attention had already been transferred to them. No matter how much Adison the butterfly spirit wanted the Queen to suffer misfortune, he didn’t want her to die.

As for Asgari, the latter wanted all transformed monster beasts to die, so he wouldn’t be so narrow-minded as to let Matilda die right now.

A queen who had already revealed her death wish being alive would instead greatly stimulate the Winged Tribe’s spirit of resistance. And being unable to win meant a large number of transformed monster beasts would die… Asgari would eventually abandon Matilda, but obviously not now.

Feeling the monster’s gaze cast upon himself, the Raven unconsciously accelerated even further in his already rapid speed. Adrenaline surged, blood circulated frantically, rushing straight to his skull.

For a moment, what arose in his consciousness was no longer fear, but a single-minded focus that only paid attention to what was before him.

He could do it! He could dodge! He could succeed!!

The multi-elemental field that Su Li released didn’t affect the Raven, and Clemens, who had filled almost the entire sky and earth with dark elements, instead indirectly created flying speeds that allowed the Raven to break through his limits.

The Raven didn’t rise high to leave the battlefield, but instead used all his strength to dodge attack after attack from Clemens.

The probing battle wasn’t over yet.

If he left now, either Clemens would transform into human form and catch up, or the option of stopping the battle simply didn’t exist.

Su Li wouldn’t miss the opportunity to try attacking when the enemy’s attack speed and movement speed were both reduced.

He had to see whether those powers that could even affect the great sea could actually restrain this tiger.

——But the result was only an enhanced version of methods that limited Clemens’ movement speed and attack speed.

The elemental reserves in his ring had reached the red line. At most one more use of this level of ultimate attack, and Su Li would be completely exhausted.

“Raven…” The Raven heard Su Li calling his name.

“Can I trust you?”

The Raven, flying at extreme speed, didn’t hear this question clearly.

But Su Li didn’t care.

From head to toe, armed to the teeth with alchemy protective items, barely keeping Su Li from being blown away while on the Raven’s back.

Su Li gave up maintaining this posture. He braced his hands against the pure black raven feathers, supporting himself to slowly stand upright during this high-speed flight.

The fierce wind blew Su Li’s platinum-colored hair back. Under the protection of his elemental vision goggles, his green eyes that would normally be difficult to keep open reflected that giant creature that the Raven had to desperately struggle to barely dodge.

One experiment had already made Su Li understand that compared to gently stopping action, Clemens needed more violent attacks.

The idea of the intense offensive that had previously stopped the battle between the Water and Beast Tribes appeared, and the ring turned all the way counterclockwise made clicking sounds like a clock turning.

Su Li knew this was the effect on the ring caused by elemental compression inside the space ring.

Once those elements could be delivered into his body in one go, Su Li could complete the attack he wanted.

“30 seconds! Just 30 seconds, Raven, I believe you can do it! You must also believe that I, who rashly joined this battle, am definitely not truly brainless!”

A strange burning smell lingered at his nostrils. The Raven’s body had already begun spontaneous combustion during the high-speed flight. From a distance, he looked like an increasingly bright black fireball.

For speed, and also because the monster beast’s true form was most powerful, the only protective item on the Raven was actually Su Li himself.

Su Li, who couldn’t precisely control his power, had no way to stop these flames. Moreover, even if he used water elements to turn into water and extinguish the flames on the Raven, the suddenly heavier feathers wouldn’t allow him to maintain this speed or even continue breaking through…

The Raven, who hadn’t heard the young man’s words clearly at all, accelerated again, constantly accelerating to dodge attack after attack from Clemens that others would find impossible to avoid.

The Raven wasn’t like Matilda.

No matter what reason the Winged Tribe Queen had for sitting on the throne, she wouldn’t be so fragile as to die at a touch…

But the Raven…

If he was hit by any attack, he would never have a second chance to fight for his life.

His feathers burned, his body weight became lighter and lighter. In 30 seconds, the originally beautiful raven that looked like a work of art became like fireworks that would explode in the sky during festivals, presenting only a moment of beauty.

And afterward, only mottled remains.

But as the one he protected, Su Li had no wounds on his body.

The thirty seconds passed in an instant. The power in the ring had been compressed to an extremely terrifying degree. And Su Li, using his entire body as a transfer station and output channel, looked determinedly at Clemens and extended his hand.

Behind him, those elemental forces that would normally be naturally consumed formed one high-density elemental sphere after another, mixing different elements.

At this moment, the enormous Clemens became Su Li’s chosen target that would definitely not miss even if he shot ten rings.

Massive power rushed straight toward Clemens. The strange beast’s black fur was ignited by flames. The hastily gathered dark elemental defenses, even if they could block the explosive attacks of ten elemental spheres, couldn’t block a hundred.

“Boom boom boom boom boom——“

With the help of technology, Su Li, who had become the pinnacle of magic users in this world in a short time, truly demonstrated the attack power he could achieve at this moment.

The flames on Clemens were barely extinguished by dark elements, but what truly caused damage wasn’t the flames, but the explosions of elemental spheres mixed with multiple elements.

When blood mixed with chunks of flesh fell from the giant strange beast, it was comparable to a scene from hell.

Clemens let out a roar from his throat. The air shook, countless monster beasts of low strength screamed and knelt down, and even Su Li’s glasses on one side had already shattered.

To prevent being injured by the glasses that could also be used as bombs, Su Li decisively discarded them.

In his vision, the sky was clear and bright. The various changes on Clemens, stripped of various elemental special effects, converged into the most primitive violence and gore.

As if torn by invisible large hands, one side of Clemens’ head had lost a large amount of fur.

Blood flowed down his skull, staining red the eye that hadn’t gone blind only because Clemens had hastily defended himself after discovering the offensive.

“Human! Human!!”

A roar that seemed to come from ancient times.

Dark elemental power so vast it seemed to drown the entire world emanated from within Clemens’ body.

The [Tiger], who until now had finally decided to use his true power, was already prepared to let his own tribesmen die together.

It didn’t matter. There were plenty of humans who would become the Beast Tribe’s power, who would become his subjects…

Killing an enemy who could bring him crisis, even if he had to sacrifice companions in the process, they would be willing, wouldn’t they?

Compared to the hundreds of elemental spheres that Su Li had compressed, which were only the size of human heads, the [Tiger]’s mouth directly condensed a super-large elemental sphere with a diameter of about five meters!

Despair enveloped countless monster beasts’ hearts.

No monster beast felt they could survive this kind of intuitively visible, obviously destructive strike.

Those who could still fight became increasingly frenzied, while those who were already exhausted chose to accept their fate.

Su Li coughed once. Not knowing which part of the necklace hanging on his chest he had adjusted, all the monster beasts on this battlefield could hear his voice.

“I don’t want to be simply defined by the general term for an entire race.”

“As you can see, I am human.” Su Li smiled.

Looking at those bloody scenes that once would have made him vomit continuously, with an adult soul in a young body, his face showed an extremely captivating brilliance.

“Utterly ordinary, treated as a tool, my biggest problem is what to eat for lunch, my lifelong wish is to be able to raise a cat, and to retire peacefully.”

He spoke about topics completely unrelated to this scene.

In the eyes of many monster beasts, that elemental sphere destined to destroy everything was aimed at Su Li.

The wind brought by the compression and concentration of power once again blew Su Li’s hair into disarray. He simply smoothed it back with his hand, and when he looked straight ahead again, though the light in his eyes wasn’t dazzling, it was enough to illuminate the world filled with dark elements in all the monster beasts’ vision.

“I think regarding these things, I will never change. After all, so-called life goals are these strange existences that seem easy to achieve but actually require lifelong action.”

He spoke very quickly, as if knowing that attack was about to hit him.

“And if it’s not life goals, like this PVE competitive game that determines the winner through competition, my thinking has always been…”

Su Li suddenly burst into laughter, tears appearing at the corners of his eyes.

“It’s just a game boss written by fellow developers that will eventually be defeated by players!”

The sky remained clear and bright.

In the elemental vision, in a way no one had ever imagined…

The [Tiger]’s attack dissipated just like that.

…

“After this battle and that battle, the Beast King transformed into human form, but compared to the strange human’s damage to the Beast King’s original form, what the monster beasts paid more attention to was actually the Beast King’s human form performance. Why?” Julius pointed to a passage on the parchment scroll and asked.

“Monster beasts’ bodies have extremely powerful recovery abilities. This kind of wound where you can see internal organs, though terrifying, with the Beast King’s strength, the recovery speed would also be considerable,” Joel proactively raised his hand to participate in the topic.

He was afraid that if he continued to let his friend talk with these two young men, he would be completely forgotten.

So what if he was stupid? Couldn’t stupid people live?

Joel ignored the thoughts in his heart and said with a righteous expression. “And once a monster beast transforms into human form, that can only mean the battlefield at that time was more suitable for the Beast King to perform in human form.”

After Cyril and Julius looked at each other, they said in unison: “The Beast King’s judgment was influenced by Su Li!”

“Large size equals being easily attacked. The kind of long-distance elemental combat mode written on the parchment scroll is most suitable for Su Li, who can’t even run half a lap around Sadina City,” Cyril said rapidly.

Julius followed up: “In other words, Su Li used the power of pure elemental attacks in exchange for the Beast King’s wariness toward him.”

“Nothing else to say, whether monster beast or human, when discovering that an intelligent life possesses vast elemental power, no human or monster beast would think the opponent only possessed pure elemental power.”

The improvement of elemental power was accompanied by physical strengthening. If someone could use elemental power so skillfully, what level would that human’s physical strength reach?

Clemens doubted his own eyes.

Even though he could see at a glance that Su Li had no explosive muscles on his body at all.

But in that situation, he also couldn’t trust himself…

It wasn’t exactly fear, but if he had chosen to continue fighting with this human, Clemens wasn’t sure whether he could still complete the conquest of the Winged Tribe within the predicted time.

After all, that human didn’t take the power he displayed seriously at all. This even ignited the hearts of the Winged Tribe, who were completely unrelated to the human.

Facing death with courage, the [Tiger] didn’t fear the human youth, but was afraid that the rule or regulation he had set for himself to destroy the Winged Tribe today would be broken.

They faced each other with hostility from afar, but neither took further action.

Su Li, who was about exhausted at the time, asked the Raven to carry him and fly up, and casually picked up Matilda, who was near the frontal battlefield and only had one breath left, and ran away together.

This battle full of changes finally ended with the Queen’s palace being trampled down, as stated on the parchment scroll.

“The monster beast that came to deliver information has been healed.” Joel, who had previously given the bandaging task to the innkeeper, walked over again with a pattering sound, carrying that bird whose original form was unknown but still had bird feathers stuck in its head.

Cyril immediately asked, “Do you know where the human youth mentioned in that scroll went afterward?”

Waiting for Su Li could bring him to them, but rather than eight days later, when Su Li would come to Rota County again filled with worry to prevent other humans from being taken away and transformed into monster beasts, Cyril would rather go find Su Li himself.