The only reason the porcupine was confident in defeating Shin was because of his new skill [Poison Spikes].
Just the touch of these needles was enough to poison the target. If pierced, and came in contact with their blood - the target would be severely poisoned. They would start hallucinating five seconds after being poisoned and would die after the next 5 five minutes as their hearts would stop beating.
The unique thing about this skill was - it could even poison the target without actually coming in contact with their blood. Of course, the effect would be only 3/4th times the original, but it was still a thing to be careful of!
In any case, the porcupine knew that even if all the five of them would battle Shin they would only lose and perhaps die, despite that, he agreed to come and that was only because of the new skill which was even effective against the great Earthworm!
However, his slime crumbled soon when he saw Shin just casually glaring at the porcupine.
He thought that Shin was hallucinating, however, when he rechecked, he found that Shin was calm and collected, his eyes filled with confidence.
"Wha-"
Before he could say anything, Shin spoke.
"Well well, that surely was a good skill, but if that was the basis of your confidence, I'm afraid you have to stop overestimating yourself and start running with your tail between your legs."
The porcupine had no words. His mind was blank and his heart was beating way faster than usual.
"H-how…?", he asked, confused.
"How are you unaffected with a poison that can even kill an Lv.70 Earth-type beast with ease?", the porcupine asked, completely nervous and stuttering.
"Ha…"
"And why should I tell you?"
"Haha.", Shin laughed.
The fact that his poison resistance was so high that low-level poisons like that of the porcupine's wouldn't cause any damage was info that only three individuals other than Shin knew - Raka, Terran, and Aella.
No one else was aware of this and Shin made no effort to make them aware of this.
It was meant to be secret after all.
Who would display their trump cards just on demand? Only the showy people perhaps, but Shin wasn't one of them.
In any case, Shin had something in his mind regarding the situation, hence he ended up revealing the reason - Deoras, the shadow wolves, and all the five great beasts became aware of it.
"Such low-level poisons have no effect on me."
A single sentence was more than enough to make them understand that the poison that the porcupine used, was nothing more than a useless toy to Shin.
The moment the porcupine heard this, he turned back and stared at the eagle and the bee.
The eagle beast was just like any normal eagle but was three times the size and had brown feathers with a light golden beak. The bee or to be precise, the bee queen present here was of a hybrid type. Its lower half, from the thighs, resembled that of a human's legs as for the upper portion, it was like any normal bee having twin needles in its arm.
The pangolin was just larger than the normal ones with a stronger defense and the Stag had beautiful pointy horns with stronger and sturdier legs.
Other than that, nothing was too eye-catching among them.
The porcupine turned back, definitely not to find something attractive features from his friends, instead, it turned back to make a weird expression and murmur a few words to them.
"Ahem. Looks like I will be completely useless here."
"So…"
"I am out of this mess. Peace.", the porcupine said this, forming a peace symbol by lifting his two fingers up and showcasing it to others moments after which he started to dash backward to escape.
"Ugh, seriously…"
"Are you trying to escape?"
Suddenly he heard a bone-chilling voice beside him.
Shin, who spotted the porcupine escaping, immediately used his skill to cover the entire distance of separation created by the Porcupine.
In a matter of seconds, he was already beside the porcupine, staring at him with a dead serious face.
The porcupine paused right away, bowing in front of Shin immediately.
"Oh Great Heavenly King, Lord Shin, please forgive this pest who dared to act arrogant in front of you.", the porcupine said dramatically, bowing in front of Shin.
The porcupine who had a majestic aura around him, crumbled in seconds as he kept on begging for his life.
Shin was speechless. Within a few seconds, the porcupine's attitude changed - this was not the first time it had happened.
Shin, who was already a victim of this act, by the porcupine itself during the previous encounters, just stared at him in silence, waiting to hear more of his exaggerated and playful words.
The four other beasts, who saw this happening, recalled all their pasts where they all had to grovel in front of Shin, begging for their lives.
This pricked them quite hard therefore, they ended up moving forward to attack Shin.
Taking advantage of the movement all the four beasts dashed towards Shin and used their deadliest attack.
[Rapid Lance stab]
[Land Spikes]
[Carnahe Of Wind]
[Stone Blast]
The Stag, the eagle, the pangolin, and the Sting Fairy (Bee) simultaneously attacked Shin but before those attacks could even cover half the distance between them, Shin vanished.
Not even a second passed before which he appeared behind the Pangolin.
Even though Shin just used his [Speed Run], for onlookers it felt as if he teleported from one place to another - it felt the same earlier too when Shin disappeared and reappeared beside the Porcupine.
[Aero slash] x 3
All it took was three Aero slashes to break through the pangolin's strong armor and injure it.
The Stinging fairy dashed towards Shin and used its attack [Rapid Lance Stab].
The bee was swinging from one side to the other while pushing its twin needles towards Shin, however, he dodged it with ease.
As mentioned earlier, the bee's arms had blades instead of wrists which were one of the deadliest natural weapons and with the help of it the Stinging fairy killed thousands of its enemies but now those blades were useless against the Shin.
Other beasts also seemed useless against him and it took only a minute for Shin to dominate them.
"…"
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