Monster Integration

Thud!

I landed on the other side of the river and continued with my journey.

It had been two days since I had left the abode and journeyed toward the exit. I am making a good time and even killed four Grimms, of which one had a bloodline.

I got out of the three-energy forest yesterday morning, but the people are still searching. Not only for me, but also for the others.

They have information about nearly all the people who have entered the final challenge. Native and Grimms and hunting for them; they are even hunting for those who have entered the temple.

There are over seven thousand who have entered the temple and, according to what I had heard, less than a third of which had been able to return.

It had become open season to hunt them; nearly everyone was doing that.

Hun!

A few minutes passed when I sensed the presence coming toward me. It seemed to have noticed me when I jumped up from the river.

He had been watching the river using the abilities and the artifacts. I had also loosened the power of the stealth to let it discover me.

Forty-seven seconds later; a Sheepman appeared in front of me, blocking my path ahead. It is a huge Sheepman; all that metallic black wool, making it look even bigger and lightning sparking on it, dangerous.

It is a Metal-Lightning Sheepman; a Peak-Earth Sovereign.

"You have been a temple of irudin; give me everything you have, and I will give you a clean death," it said. 

"First, it is you who have gone to the temple of irudin, and second, fuck off," I replied with a smile and immediately burning rage appeared in its eyes and more sparks of blue lightning flared across its wool.

If that wasn't enough, I brought out the crystal and projected Lightning-Metal Sheepman.

Seeing that, a spark of fear appeared in its eyes, but it had hidden it quickly and laughed.

"It seemed like your eyes aren't working properly native; there is a mountainous difference between that tribesman and me," it said laughing, but there was no smile on my face.

"Appearances can be changed," I said simply.

Of course, what I had said isn't based on appearance alone. I had collected samples of auras, thousands of them, from the camp, and its matches with one.

Though the method it is using is good enough to cloak it to a certain extent, I could see it. This one had entered the temple meaning it had at least completed three challenges before coming out.

"It can, but I am not the person, you are showing, but I am sure, you are the one who has entered inside the temple." It said and lightning flashed around it and it moved at incredible speed.

It took it all but a moment for it to appear in front of me and it swung its ax. 

Its ax is simple looking, with a long wooden handle and grey metallic blade, but not for a moment, did I doubt the power it possessed. 

Burst 90%.

I harnessed the 90% from the burst and it filled me, while at the same time. A spear appeared in my hand, with a bone shaft and black crystal blade, with the sharpness to cut through anything.

There was no aura burst, but my spear moved, and it moved with the speed of lightning.

CLANNG!

Our weapons clashed and shock appeared in the eyes of Grimms. As it shook from head to toe; it was not the only one, who shook.

I shook too and even nearly took a step back, before stopping myself. I looked at Grimms, whose lightning was still flickering across my body to drill itself, which my armor, happily letting it do.

"It seemed like, you have some strength," it harrumphed before its aura blazed and it attacked, drawing a huge arc of lightning and bringing it with its attack.

My inheritance energy flared across my spear, as I moved to defend against the attack.

CLANNNG!

The attacks clashed against and that completely enveloped my sword before coming at me and enveloping me whole.

'It hit it well,' I thought, focusing on the tiny lightning bolts. There are only a few hundred of them, but each one packs massive energy, more than the bolts that are as big as me.

The Sheepman didn't wait; its aura flared, and it attacked again, with an ax covered so densely in lightning, that it became buried in it.

I moved my spear and with it, my armor shone lightly and sucked away all the lightning that covered me. Shocking the Grimm and even destabilizing its attack for a fraction of a second, before it got control over it.

"You will pay," It said and the change occurred in lightning.

Instead of growing, it begins to shrink. Those massive bolts of lightning turned finger and more small arcs of lightning began to add to it; turning it into an attack, that finally made me feel a little excited.

I have fought four battles since I left the forest, but three ended in less than three seconds.

The one lasted for a minute, but it wasn't interesting.

This Grimm is powerful and hope, it will continue giving me the excitement, that I had started feeling or I will be very disappointed.

CLANNNG!

I once again defended against its attack and a swarm of lightning bolts came at me. These bolts are as small as my finger, but each one of them possesses destructive power to wipe away any normal Earth Sovereign.

Unfortunately for it. I am not a normal Earth Sovereign; I am not even an Earth Sovereign.

My whole armor opened and began to swallow the lightning bolts in wild abandon.

Inside thousands of crushing formations lit and they begin to crush the lightning. The bolts are powerful and struggle, but in front of the crushing formation; they get crushed to dusk.

These crushing formations weren't normal; a small part of them is made of the ancient runes, making them quite powerful.

It might seem like a long time, but it took less than a second for me to swallow the whole barrage of lightning bolts, it had thrown at me.

I looked at its face, and it looked back. It is looking at me, with hate, that for a moment, I felt like I should get the hell out of there.

Only for a moment, before that thought had disappeared on its own.

"This is not enough; show me the power, that helped you survive the first three levels of the temple," I said to it.

It didn't say anything, but a crushing aura blasted out of its body. A vast and suppressive.

Seeing, that my expressions became serious, my heart, started to beat wildly. This is the power, I wanted to see, and it had revealed.

"I will smite you so hard, that not even your ashes will remain," it said slowly, and the next moment, I saw its ax right in front of me.

CLANNNNG!

It moved at insanely fast speed, but my spear is not much slower either. It appeared in front of the ax and clashed against it.