Arcane Journey

Chapter 185 Astral Marauder

With the departure of the Pudding King and Hellist, the ooze hanging from the ceiling and forming a curtain on the wall fell to the ground like rain, turning into a raging black wave, towards Brian Pounced on.

The disgusting stench of the slime monsters rushed towards them.

Brian suppressed the tumbling in his stomach and recited a spell very calmly. A fireball the size of a washbasin was guided by his staff and crashed into the wave of ooze monsters.

"Boom!"

The scorching flames exploded in the dark palace, and the already slightly humid environment was instantly filled with a dry and burnt smell. Mud splashed everywhere.

Brian calmly propped up a protective barrier for himself, blocking the sticky ooze two meters away from him.

Through the light of the protective barrier, he saw the splashed ooze fall to the ground, grow and grow rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye while gently wriggling.

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of slime creatures appeared in front of his eyes.

In addition to dozens of black puddings, plaster monsters, ocher monsters and some translucent gelatinous blocks, there are two slime monsters that stand out from the crowd.

The danger perception ability attached to the purple dragon seal ring even allowed him to sense an inexplicable danger from these two mud monsters.

Among these two terrifying ooze monsters, one of them, which resembles a black pudding, is composed of a mass of thick, viscous black mud the size of a hill. There are two arms and hollow and deep mouths and eyes on the mud. It looks like the smelly mud in Pokémon.

Another mass of ooze, the size of a normal human, looked like a gray bloated brain, discarded carelessly on the ground.

The main reason why it is different is that its body surface exudes a foul smell mixed with sulfur.

This made Brian instantly realize that these two slime monsters were the two most powerful slime monsters tamed by King Pudding, and they were also called "Princess Erbomir" and "Prince Levid" by him.

Thinking of this, he didn't dare to waste time, and immediately started casting spells.

After all, there were too many of these mud monsters, and he had to clean them up before they approached him.

——"Six-ring spell: Domain of Thunder!"

—— "Metamagic Specialty: Spell Empowerment!"

The moment Brian quickly finished chanting the last syllable of the spell, the air around him began to emit indistinct thunder.

Immediately afterwards, a dome made of translucent golden energy shrouded the place pointed by his staff, where a group of at least 30 black slime monsters concentrated.

Accompanied by the slight vibration of the shrouded dome, and a crisp sound, in an instant, the hazy crackling sound suddenly reverberated within the range.

"boom!!!"

The deafening strong blasting sound was like the cracking sound of a bomb thrown into a fully sealed bell, instantly transforming the surrounding air into an energy area full of frantic sound waves.

The black mud monsters made of black mud were shattered by the violent sonic bombardment, and their shattered corpses turned into a swamp-like mud pit in the entire area. With the sound of sound waves, Continuously splashing out circles of ripples like water waves.

"Target is dead!"

"Extracting soul energy..."

"Acquired experience points: 1000 points!"

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Glancing at the experience points of crazy jumps, Brian's fierce attacks did not stop.

——"Level [-] ability: Astral Predator!"

He concentrated, and with a thought, a trace of gleaming celestial energy permeated the distant void, and under his control like a creator, it turned into a shining nebula, automatically floating in the ooze monsters without wind above, constantly absorbing their life energy.

In just a moment, the ooze monsters shrank and died at a speed visible to the naked eye amidst the gurgles, turning into pieces of ordinary mud.

At the same time, as the "star quality predator" continued to absorb the energy of the ooze monster, its nebula, which was originally only five meters long, also began to grow little by little.

Looking at the power erupted by the "Star Plunderer", Brian smiled slightly, and gave it an order to attack freely through a mind link.

"Astral Predator" is a power that can only be mastered by psions in the field of creation, and it was researched by Helisite herself, so it is a unique power.

The most powerful part of this ability is that it can continuously absorb the energy of weak creatures to strengthen itself.

When its area exceeds its own load, it will directly explode, and its power is comparable to that of a ninth-level ability. It is the most effective attack power for massacring low-level creatures in a large area.

Of course, it is obviously impossible for the "Star Marauder" to exceed the bottom line of paying with nearly a hundred slime monsters alone.

The only flaw is that the speed of killing enemies is too slow, and there will be a process of absorbing energy.

However, it is very effective to face these slime monsters which are not too many at this moment.

In the gap between a spell and a psychic energy, the black mud monster prince and the mud monster princess also rushed to Brian's attack range.

The black mud monster prince raised his arms made of mud, opened his mouth enough to swallow a full-grown ogre, and threw himself at Brian.

A puff of stench rushed towards him.

Brian felt that he was as small as an ant in front of the black mud monster prince, and the pungent stench made his stomach twitch violently.

Suddenly, he took advantage of the opponent's arms and mouth to cover himself, and activated the second-ring spell "Dimensional Jump" without any hesitation.

Accompanied by dim light particles surging and rotating around him, his body disappeared in a cloud-like halo in the blink of an eye, and the black mud monster prince roared again and again in anger.

The moment Bryan appeared, a fireball the size of a washbasin was skillfully released by him, like a small jelly bean, and got out of the big mouth of the black mud monster prince.

"boom!"

A bright flame flickered in the mouth of the black slime monster prince, and there was a dull loud noise, and thick smoke billowed from the gap in its mouth.

Brian was about to prepare for the next move, and his brain felt a stabbing pain. There was no wound, but his head seemed to be crushed by something terrible.

He woke up instantly and realized who was attacking him through psionic spells.

After all, plaster monsters that live for a long time will be able to evolve and gain higher intelligence, and even develop limited psychic abilities.

This phenomenon is common among individuals living nearby with psionic beings (such as mind flayers), exhibiting the ooze's ability to sense and mimic the psychic abilities of their neighbors.

With the low intelligence attributes of the plaster monsters, they can at most learn a spiritual ability similar to "mind crushing".

——"Level [-] ability: Steel Tower of Will!"

Faced with this kind of damage similar to the shock of the mind, he did not hesitate to activate the defensive spiritual power he had learned recently, creating a solid spiritual fortress for himself.

Immediately, the next mental shock seemed to have hit an iron wall and was all bounced back.

At this moment, Brian felt a sticky feeling under his feet again.

The magic-like magic of the black slime prince turned the place where he was standing into a putrid quagmire, and at the same time five slimy arms made of mud broke through the ground, trying to bind him tightly.

——"Advanced Flame Explosion Technique!"

He calmly activated the spell attached to the staff, and with his body as the center, the berserk energy spewed out scorching flames like a volcanic eruption.

The scorching high temperature instantly solidified the entwined arms and the soil, allowing him to escape from the shackles of the black mud monster prince.

Then, Brian used a teleportation spell to distance himself from the black slime prince, and locked his eyes on the plaster princess who had been trying to break his "steel tower of will" through psionic spells.

——"Mayoufu Micro Meteor!"

The moment the target was locked, eleven fist-sized bolides galloped away, hitting the soft body of the mud monster princess at a dizzying speed, and burst out gorgeous magical flames.

Although this attack severely injured the plaster princess, the opponent opened his mouth without showing any weakness, and sprayed out more than a dozen spells similar to strong acid arrows, and returned the favor to Brian.

Smelling the pungent strong acid in the air, Brian didn't dare to be careless, and quickly set up an elemental shield specially immune to strong acid for himself.

Then, with a thought, he cast "Dimensional Leap" ahead of time, and successfully avoided the magic-like pursuit of the black mud monster prince.

——"Silver Starlight!"

——"Spell-like ability: Avandor Star!"

The moment he appeared, Brian once again resisted the rain of acid arrows from the plaster monster princess, and activated the spells on the ancient ring and his own spell-like spells in seconds when the elemental shield was broken.

Five silver force field magic bullets that looked like meteors and eleven shining meteors dragged a slender band of light in the dim palace, submerging the mud monster princess in the brilliant starlight.

"Target is dead!"

"Extracting soul energy..."

"Acquired experience points: 12000 points!"

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Seeing that the most threatening enemy had been resolved, Brian quickly used the teleportation spell to distance himself from the cumbersome black slime prince again.

Then, he took out a tiny crystal wand, and quickly chanted a powerful mantra.

With the arcane runes intertwined in his palm, his spell-casting materials melted rapidly, bursting out with intense energy.

——"Five-ring spell: Cone of Frost!"

—— "Metamagic Specialty: Spell Empowerment!"

—— "Metamagic Specialty: Extreme Spell Effect!"

A gust of cold air centered on Brian's palm and spread outward quickly, instantly bursting into a cone-shaped field of extreme cold, covering the black mud monster prince who just pounced on him.

Immediately, the hill-like mud body of the black mud monster prince was frozen in place at a speed visible to the naked eye, and his waving arms froze in mid-air.

Seeing this, Bryan commanded the "Star Plunderer", which had nearly doubled in size, through a mind link, and turned it into a shining nebula, submerged into the black slime prince's body, which was big enough to swallow a full-grown ogre. big mouth.

"boom!"

There was a deafening bang in the dim palace.

What followed was the stiff muddy body of the black mud monster prince, with cracks that shone with starlight.

Although the size of the "Star Plunderer" has not reached the state of overload, the self-destruct power produced cannot be underestimated.

Bryan smiled slightly, activated spiritual spellcasting, and used the feature of "Arcane Twins" to condense two large fireballs at the fastest speed, and threw them into the mouth of the black slime monster prince.

In the crackling sound, the violent energy erupting from the intertwined arcane and psionic energy suddenly blasted the stiff body of the black slime prince into mud fragments that scattered all over the sky.

(End of this chapter)