Chapter 458 - Rank Four: Stone Ape!
In the third trial, David directly met with three rank two beast, David\'s expression didn\'t change by a single bit. He only furrowed his brows slightly as this was only the third stage of ten trial and it was already this difficult.
He soared backwards with speed, avoiding a direct clash wit h the three beast and in just a half a second, the three rank two beast fell to the ground with their bodies chopped into two.
He hadn\'t used too much energy in this three stages since he hadn\'t even utilized any techniques yet. Stepping to the fourth stage of the trial, his expression changed as the darkness engulfing him hadn\'t faded yet, but he void sense that there was an attack that was already aimed at him.
He slammed his foot against the ground, and drifted to the sides, narrowly avoiding a claw directly smashing to his face. As the claw missed, the ground had a gaping hole in it as the claw slammed into it.
Surprised, David was beginning to get excited as he obeserved his opponent. This was a single beast before him. But it was the Thin Crown One-legged Crow, a rank three Demonic beast.
It\'s speed was said to be one of the fastest, surpassing even ordinary rank four beast and it\'s eyesight was the strongest amongst its other grade three counterparts. Its single claw was so strong it could tear apart a mountain side, leaving battle scars in its wake. It was a deadly and a terrifying beast with almost no flaw in its attack pattern and its defenses.
The Thin Crown One-legged beast defenses was it\'s only weakness, making it so that even a Rank two stone ape would be able to seriously injure the beast if it attacked with all its strength. But first, thats under the premises that the rank two aspire is able it catch the first.
Since its speed is so fast, the Thin crown one-legged beast is considered the king amongst rank three beast ordinary rank three beast or even some four beasts wouldn\'t be able to see its shadows. Therefore hitting or killing it seems impossible.
David stayed vigilant. All he could see were after images of the beast as it flew around him in unpredictable circles.
Suddenly, David felt the silent rush of wind surge from behind him. His fingers twitched and the large flying blade before him was like a bullet as it shot behind him with astonishing speed.
"Clang!"
Sparks flew as the flying blade collided with a massive claw, stopping the claw from slamming into his back.
Caw! Caw!
The flying beast immediately flapped its wings and changed directions as its attack had failed. David meticulously observed his surroundings, not particularly bothered by the rising dust entering through his nose like a fog of smoke.
Bang!
The ground suddenly exploded, fragments turning into a massive cloud of smoke, shrouding David\'s figure within.
The flying beast seem to have been stunned as it lost sight of David within the cloud of dust. It remained still in the air for about a second and then it\'s eyes revealed a a brutal gleam as it seem to have spotted David, despite being shrouded by the cloud of smoke.
In an instant, the rank three flying beast dove downward with extreme speed that was further aided by gravity. Its speed was so fast that only its shadow could be perceived, diving into the cloud of dust swiftly with its claws stretched as though it wanted to rip apart the void itself.
There was a deafening silence that lasted for about half a second and then two thumping sound echoed with the field.
Blood sprayed out as deep red internal organs littered around the floor. The Thin Crown One-legged beast had been slaughtered, with a large slice rip in its stomach.
The cut was so smooth and sharp, there wasn\'t a single blood on his blade. The dust settled and David shook his hands, letting the blade fall back within his robes.
The smell of blood and guts rose up in the air, entering into his nostrils, but David wasn\'t to bothered by the smell. He had gotten used to the reek of blood, intestine and decayed flesh a long time ago.
After a few moments, a doorway leading to the fifth floor appeared. David had expected and had gotten used to the darkness as he entered into the sixth floor.
David\'s expression instantly changed. There wasn\'t anytime to activate a skill as a large paw the size of a mini mountain slammed into him.
Boom!
A three meter crater was instantly created and the debris was a shattered into pure dust.
Bam! Bam!! Bam!!!
Roar!!!
The huge beast formed its huge palms that was even bigger than a roof into fists as it slammed them into its own chest, stomping its feet to the ground, creating large pits in the process as it let out a massive roar!
It seems extremely satisfied with its ambush judging by the look in its face. The dust and debris finally settled after a few seconds.
Phew!
As it was celebrating, it suddenly heard a loud whistling sound a few hundred metres from it. The seven meters tall Stone ape turned around to look and surprisingly, it was the puny human it thought it had crushed a few seconds ago.
It had been David who had let out that whistling sound. He was currently holding a stance with a grave expression on his face. The beast before hum was the rank four stone ape. It is known as the god amongst all rank four beasts due to its extremely impenetrable defenses, speed and strength. Its speed far exceed that of the Thin Crown One-legged beast as its body was strong enough to directly break through the sonic barrier using its speed and body strength.
David had avoided the sneak attack earlier owing to the fact that he had practiced the floating wind technique to the highest level therefore he could use the technique without much of an hand seal been used. It was already a part of him.
With the floating wind technique practiced to the highest level, within the sane rank and even two ranks higher than his, he would never be able to find another that could match his speed. Now that he was also facing another being whose speed was also unmatched within its realm, who knows who the fastest was and who was going to survive.
There was an extreme look of unsatisfaction on the Stone Ape\'s face as it turned around and gazed at David evilly and a slight confusion on its face. During its time here, its had figured out a way to deal with its challenges in only one strike and during its thousands of years since it found out that solution it had always worked and none had passed him before not to talk of escaping a single strike from him.
Therefore how could it not be angry and confused. Its feet had not even touched the ground when the ground beneath its feet caved in with an explosive bang.
Suddenly, multiple after images popped up in various locations, but those after images weren\'t even clear enough for the human eyes to see as they were also too fast in phasing. Its not because its speed was slow, it was because its speed was simply too fast.
Rumble!
It was as if there was a mountain rushing towards David, attempting to crush him until there wasn\'t even a particle left of him.
David was shocked. He didn\'t think ten chasm between rank three beasts and rank four beasts would be so wide and powerful. It was as though rank three beasts were ants in the eyes of a rank four beast.
In the blink of an eye, the stone ape had appeared before David. Time seem to stop as it gazed scornfully down at the puny ant.
"Human, die!"
The stone ape slapped its palm downwards as though it was swatting away an annoying insect before him.
RUMBLE!
The wind shook and a loud whirling sound echoed as it broke through sound barrier it was as though that hand was the judgement of a divine judgement as it slapped down from above.
David\'s muscles tensed up. Naturally if he was with his strength and had not be restricted by this domain, matching strength with the ape wouldn\'t be such a bad idea as it has been a long while since he had met a beast almost as strong as he was.
But he had been restricted and his strength severely Limited matching strength with the stone it is no different from courting death.
David\'s fingers were like petals as they struck against each other. In that moment, his body flowed backwards like a like been blown by a raging wind.
Time seem to slow down and an extremely devilish but enticing looking petal appeared in mid air. It was luscious and its petal so red it couldn\'t be anymore crimson.
Suddenly, one of the petals came off and struck against the large palm of the stone ape!
BOOM!
The ground rocked and natured mourned.