Cosmic Peak

When Aren reached 6 hours mark, his mind suddenly felt intense fatigue, and it increased each second. He had a difficult time manipulating his gears to attack the monsters.

As such, he leveled up one time and recovered himself fully.

But he didn't add stat points. He still had 12 stat points that he didn't spend and saved the 5 stat points he got from reaching level 27 as well.

Time passed as Aren continued fighting with full focus, killing monsters efficiently and with calculations.

He could kite monsters and be in full focus mode to dodge their various attacks. He was injured many times as well, but as his pain resistance had gone up, his performance didn't drop due to injuries, and he gradually healed them with his potions.

[...1550 path exp gained.]

[...1550 path exp gained.]

[...1550 path exp gained.]

[...1550 path exp gained.]

[...1550 path exp gained.]

...

Only 10 minutes were left, and Aren was not seeing any more monsters spawn in the last five minutes.

He quickly kited the remaining 12 monsters on the battlefield and finished them off with a powerful attack from [Destructo] hammer.

[...1550 path exp gained.]

[...1550 path exp gained.]

[...1550 path exp gained.]

[...1550 path exp gained.]

[...1550 path exp gained.]

...

After he killed all monsters, all portals disappeared before a single portal remained.

The thing to note was that all of this path exp was stored in another window that was beside the countdown of 10 hours.

[Path exp accumulated: 547,480]

*Roarrrrrrrr*

Suddenly, A loud roar resounded from a giant monster that came out from a single portal that remained in this place.

It had two lizard legs, two frog-like hands, two pairs of giant bat-like wings, and a lizard mouth with sharp teeth. Its whole body was layered with thick-rocky skin and dark green, dreamy blue, and red patterns.

[Eiber Wound Beast]

-Health: [250,000/250,000]

-Phy. Def: 5000, -Energy Def: 5000, Soul Def: 1000

-Physical Attack: 15,000, Energy Attack: 15,000

Seeing the giant beast, Aren smiled, "come on!"

*RRRRRROARRR*

The beast roared and released a barrage of colorful fireballs from its mouth at sonic speed.

Aren's eyes turned focused, and his expression somber as he entered his battle mode.

From that moment when he desperately fought Reto, he faintly felt that he had a kind of knack for fighting.

More situations like that occurred later, and when he focused, his brain would go into overdrive mode as he calculated all possibilities to make the best attack patterns, dodging probabilities and blocking chances.

Naturally, fighting in this way would drain his mind power, and he would get exhausted faster.

*BOOOOOOOOM...*

The beast released circulating slashes towards Aren at a face speed along with tiny condensed orbs filled with potent destructive power by waving its tail.

Aren flew forward unhesitatingly as he manipulated all of his gear with absolute focus.

The [Hexhisra] shield worked to block attacks, [Destruco] hammer was used to prepare a big attack while he manipulated the five rings and [Lech] the chain whip to attack the monster, more specifically, its eyes so as to block its vision.

The <Icy Enchant> ability was also working superbly since it slowed down the monster a bit. A bit of movement and action speed decreasing in a fight was impactful since the enemy needs to adjust to its slowed speed.

He blocked some attacks with the shield, but he dodged the majority of attacks with perfect precision that he captured with his eyes.

*Roarrrrrrr!!*

The monster dashed towards Aren, its speed not as fast as Aren but still very fast.

Aren stopped in the air seeing the monster coming towards him. The monster wiped its froggy hand-claws towards Aren when it was five meters away from Aren.

But Aren dodged it narrowly before using <Heavy Impact> with his dragon tail, which was right now the most powerful and solid body part of his body in terms of raw strength.

He hit the dragon tail towards the monster's one-side wings, making it unstable before releasing 30 <Demonic Grasp> seeds rapidly and snaring the monster.

*Swooooooooooosh...*

At this moment, the [Destructo] hammer arrived.

He invoked the most potent mutant magic energy he could invoke by consuming 1000 soul energy and then used 700 mutant magic energy to use the hammer's <Impact Burst> skill.

He also used <Hyper Chage> skill to enhance the effect of <Impact Burst> even further by consuming whooping 1000 Armalist force, and the effect of <Demonic Flame: Zarkhel> also enhanced the damage as the hammer was wreathed in aember and demonic blue flames both.

With these buffs, the hammer directly hit the head of this abomination monster that had 74% of its HP left. It wanted to dodge, but it was slowed, and those vines completely entangled it.

It burst with its power and destroyed all vines, but it couldn't dodge since the destructive hammer hit it right after that.

Although it missed its head a by bit, half of its head was still hit by the hammer.

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM....*

[-169,810]

*EAKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK*

The monster let out a strange cry as it was seriously injured.

Aren's eyes were focused as he continued raining down normal attacks using his gears towards the monster. He didn't hold back anything anymore since this was the last monster according to the countdown, which only had a minute left.

He didn't use any bloodline skills but decided to one to finish off the monster, who was now incapacitated and was just waiting for Aren to kill it.

Aren's eyes gleamed with aember flame before his entire body burned with the same <Outrious Aember Flame> that invoked from his mutated bloodline. He couldn't control it specifically, but since he used his blood essence and executed the skill <Crimson Aember Sun Disks>, the flame invoked from his bloodline power.

Countless Tendrils appeared in Aren's body before powerful energy started gathering over both of his hands in a unique formation.

After a second, the gathered energy in unique formation turned into spinning disks. He consumed a total of 4600 blood essence to execute this skill.

Those disks possed overwhelming power with a potent, destructive aura as Aren threw those two disks towards the monster by wavings his hands.

*SWOOOOOOOOOSH...SWOOOOOOOOOOSH....*

The disks clashed with the monster's head and belly since Aren aimed there. After a brief clash, they suddenly glowed intensely, cutting the monster before exploding with a loud blast.

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM...*

[-22,474]

[-22,474]

[Eiber Wound Beast killed. 20,000 path exp gained.]

[Congratulations! You have successfully passed the first test. The stored path essence will be given to you after the whole path trial is over.]

Aren arrived in the dark space once again. After that, a mysterious power rapidly entered his body, recovering his health, spirit energy, soul energy, Armalist force, mutant magic energy, and stamina to full.

[The second test will start after five minutes.]