‘It is a surprisingly worthwhile skill to grow!’
“Soul Extortion! Soul Extortion!”
Ark looked around with an excited expression as the soul of the wendigoes was eaten. The wendigoes instinctively felt fear and hurried away but with Lock on, Soul Extortion had a 70% chance of hitting! Besides, the area was only 50 metres in diameter. Since the range of Ark’s Soul Extortion was 30~40 metres, it was a great space for him. The transparent hand grabbed the neck of a wendigo and tore a piece of its soul.
Kiiiiik, kiiiiik!
After he grabbed it a few times, the wendigo became the size of an eyeball. When seeing such a shape, it was slightly pitiful. But Ark had no pity in these circumstances.
“Don’t pretend to be cute! Soul Extortion!”
Ark transferred the hand to the wendigo and picked it up. After the small eyeball was taken care of, he looked for other prey. The remaining four were flocking towards him. Four against 1 was slightly burdensome on Ark. But Ark had already taken counter measures for the problem.
“Not a chance. Dark Dance!”
Ark’s feet moved quickly and he disappeared like a ghost.
-Dark Dance’s percentage of completion: 60%!
As soon as he used Dark Dance, his degree of completion reached 60%. Fortunately his evasion rate rose sharply but Ark shook his head.
‘No, it’s not enough. I’m in trouble even if the degree of completion increases even more!’
Dark Scale was triggered when his percentage of completion on Dark Dance surpassed 70%. And Dark Scale decreased his evasion while increasing his defense by 30%. It was good up to that point. The problem with Dark Scale was it had a low probability of reflecting attacks. That was unacceptable if Ark wanted to eat 100% of the wendigo’s soul. So Ark deliberately made mistakes and maintained his completion rate at 65%. He was about to start eating as much as possible when Ark had a horrible thought.
“I can’t waste even 1 point of Spiritual Power on Razak’s Shield Stroke!”
Already the wendigoes weren’t monsters in Ark’s mind anymore. They were just energy to increase Ark’s Spiritual Power.
“Huhuhu, your actions are futile! I have to eat your souls before your health decreases more! Soul Extortion, Soul Extortion!”
Ark went around like a ghost without resting and swallowed the souls of the wendigoes. And the fist continued chasing after them when the wendigoes ran away. He didn’t care which monster it targeted. Ark took care of the surrounding wendigoes after 5 minutes but he had lost 30% of his health. In the meantime, Razak also received 60% damage from fending off the wendigoes. But that wasn’t a problem at all. In fact, the most dangerous part of dealing with the wendigoes was up to now. Racard and his alter egos had lured most of the wendigoes. But now it was simple to handle them.
“Racard, take care of all of them!”
“I understand. Alter ego no. 1, attack everything!”
This was a command of Moonlight Illusion to fight with the enemy. When Racard gave the commands, the alter egos immediately chased after the wendigoes. However, they disappeared with one hit from the wendigo’s tongue.
“Ohh, it is my alter ego but why do I feel slightly ill for some reason?”
Racard rubbed his cheek and murmured.When the alter ego disappeared, Ark and Razak looked at the wendigoes with sparkling eyes. Yes, when an alter ego disappeared then Ark would take care of the 5 wendigoes that it lured.
“Once again. Be prepared Razak!”
Clack clack clack clack! Clack clack clack clack!
It was obviously much easier to care for 5 opponents than 10. Razak easily blocked their charge and Ark started to eat again. After eating those 5, he made another alter ego disappear and took care of the next 5……. So Ark managed to wipe out the pitiful wendigoes after 30 minutes.
“Huhuhu, it’s pretty salty?”
Ark clicked his tongue and murmured. His experience had hardly changed after taking care of 30 wendigoes. And his Spiritual Power had only increased by 4 after 30 minutes. It had been around one week since he first learnt the skill and came to Hwaryong Mountain. During that time Soul Extortion only increased it by 7. It really was a reckless growth rate. However, there was no compensation in return.
“Master, I’ve already used all the Moonlight Illusion…..”
Racard approached Ark and murmured with a voice full of hunger. Ark’s satisfied face instantly turned pale. All the skills obtained by Blood-sucking had been used. In other words, he needed to suck blood to obtain new skills. Yes, that was the only fear Ark had about hunting for Spiritual Power. Racard’s use of Moonlight Illusion was essential for hunting the wendigoes. And Racard had to suck blood from Ark in order to obtain the Moonlight Illusion. The problem was that the skill absorbed was random. He didn’t know what skill would be absorbed. Previously Racard had to suck his blood thirteen times before his slots were filled. It would have to be repeated many times if he wanted to hunt the wendigoes. Thanks to that, it was like Ark had been caught by Karakul again. Ark frowned as he looked at the approaching Racard.
What do you mean? No skills? Didn’t you fill two slots?”
“Eh? Didn’t you know? One of the alter egos died when Master was fighting against them. So I quickly renewed the skill for Master. Didn’t I do well?”
‘This guy……’
Ark had wanted to diligently save Moonlight Illusion. However, Racard had tasted his Master’s blood and ended up using the Moonlight Illusion in both slots during the battle. Now he was free to request blood. Ark could clearly see through Racard. Perhaps he even let his alter ego die on purpose. However, he had no evidence to prove it.
“You…..aren’t you afraid for your future?”
“What do you mean? I used it because it looked dangerous. I am a loyal summon.”
Racard retorted with shining eyes. On the other hand, Ark’s eyes were filled with bitterness and a desire for revenge.
“Dammit, I understand. Let me just quickly do this.”
Ark sighed and made a meal. He needed to resupply his herbal decoction which would prevent him from getting anaemia. After eating the herbal medicine, Ark stretched his neck for Racard who muttered with dissatisfaction.
“Eew, you have a herbal medicine smell after eating those pills that is making me uncomfortable……”
“…..Do you want to die?”
“U-understood! Okay. I’ll just start eating. I’ll eat well. Aang!”
Suck, suck, suck, suck!
Ark sighed as he started to feel dizzy. This time it took twenty times before Moonlight Illusion was absorbed. Radun and Razak looked at him with regretful eyes as Ark turned pale. But Ark clenched his teeth tightly and raised his body.
“Uhh, there’s no time to be resting. Spiritual Power. I have to quickly fill my Spiritual Power!”
“Hihi, okay. Let’s hunt quickly Master. I want to hunt!”
Racard wiped his mouth and smirked.
Ark had goose bumps. It was the first time he was frightened of his summon.
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