Chapter 592 Time to address the ‘Lizard in the Room’
The boy revealed his true goal of letting Maude escape, something he planned with Laurene before they left the GWE. His words also spoke of one of the reasons why the Demonic Hand's executives were very important.
Like the Nodes Kethryllia had placed around Lacertilia, the Executives themselves were also Nodes for something on a much larger scale.
[How are you going to find her?]
"My 'Track Down' skill."
He replied towards Kayla's question, before placing a hand on his chin and sinking into his thoughts.
"If I want to kill her the way I want, I'd need your help, Kayla. Body Transformation."
[...okay…?]
The spirit didn't really understand what he needed her for, but she just agreed either way since it was going to end up with a Demonic Hand Executive dying.
"Anyway, I know you have more questions."
*CRACK!
"But they're going to have to wait for later."
**CRACK!!!
Evan turned around, towards the cocoon on the altar as he concluded.
"It's high time we addressed the lizard in the room."
The Lizard Lord who had been unconscious earlier, now had its eyes wide open and its vertical slit pupils were looking right at them.
**BOOM!!!
The Cocoon burst open with a small explosion, sending out shockwaves that pushed them all back towards the Boss Room walls.
The long black spear, about 2.5m in length, hurtled through the air and landed perfectly in its outstretched hand.
As its feet touched down on the ground, the earth seemed to quiver beneath its landing.
A pair of yellow slit eyes scanned the entire room, narrowing in displeasure when the people they saw were not the ones they wanted to see.
[ROAAARRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!]
With a deafening roar, the monster unleashed a burst of dense magic and formidable aura, making the air vibrate with its presence.
Evan tightened his grip on his sword, with a strained look that carried traces of excitement on his face.
"Brace yourself, guys. This one's a 'Raid Boss'."
As he spoke, his Full Appraisal was activated, scanning both the monster and its weapons for any discrepancies between what he knew and what he was seeing.
|Name- Bhak Azut
Race- Elder Lizardman
Gender- Male
Age- 53
Level- 485(583)
Existence Level - Grandmaster [Superior] (Epic)
Titles- Lizard Lord, Final Boss of the 'Lair of the Lizard Lord', Undefeated Boss Monster, Ascendant, Abyssal Spear, Infernal Lizard Ruler.
Class- Scaled Pyro Lord.
Health– SS-
Energy- S+
Strength– SS-
Agility– S+
Durability– S+
Intelligence- S+
Condition- Devolving, Weakened.
Magic Tiers- Fire Tier 4, Poison Tier 4, Earth Tier 4, Darkness Tier 3, Space Tier 1.
Skills- Spear Mastery(E), Venomous Strike, Earthquake Slam, Primal Roar, Summon Household, Tenacity, Scalebound Ward, Inferno Aura, Outburst, Scorched Earth, Pyroclastic Leap, ■■l???????????????????????l????????????????????????????????????????k????????????????s??????????????????????????■■■.
Unique Skills-Serpent's Dominion, Blazing Meteor Strike, ■■■■■????????????????u?????????????????????q????????????????????????i???????????????n?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????. |
The Lizard Lord's title of 'Undefeated Boss Monster' was one of the reasons why the Demonic Hand had chosen it for their plans.
As for how long it had remained 'Undefeated'; the number in the Age tab was enough of an answer.
Ever since it was born, it had never lost a battle with dungeon divers and had always won by any means, a streak it carried on with even after becoming the Dungeon's final boss.
It had also gained a lot of skills in the process, but due to its reduced level, some of them were currently unavailable—a good thing for Evan and his party.
He made sure the Status was visible for his companions so they could also see what they were up against, and most of them, especially Eliza had their expressions darken.
"SS- Health stat and the Tenacity skill?! Seriously?!"
"I didn't call it a 'Raid Boss' for no reason, you know? But besides…"
Evan glanced at the creature's original level and his lips twisted into a wry smile as he spoke.
"Artemisia, you really did this guy dirty. From being as strong as Craitid, to…this."
[The 'goddess Artemisia' questions if you would like to take on the Full Powered Lizard Lord. She states it would only require a few minutes to re-evolve it back to full power.]
"No, thank you."
He swiftly rejected that offer from the depths of hell as Eliza infused her energy into the Radiant Codex and cast buffs on all of them.
She used buffs that had shorter durations, and greater explosive power. This meant she had to recast the buffs every now and then, but it was not something she could not handle.
Evan noticed this as he roused his magic power, rapidly circulating it through his destructive energy circuit.
'I'd put off activating BoD for now…'
Such a thought passed through his mind as he activated his Hero Skill, making his Mystic Eyes light up with a golden glow.
He had just decided to use them on some of the Monster's techniques when the beast's mouth opened up.
[A Human boy…black hair, grey and golden eyes. Also accompanied by a Lightning Spirit.
You're the one they were discussing…the nuisance who liked interfering with their plans.]
Evan's eyebrows lifted in mild surprise as he listened to the words of the Lizard Lord, Bhak.
"You know me?"
But in response, Bhak twirled it's long spear around its clawed fingers and slammed the butt of the weapon on the ground before speaking.
[I'm going to kill you.]
Without hesitation, it infused the spear with dense fiery magic power and threw it like a Javelin straight towards Evan.
"Yeah, nope."
The boy didn't even think about countering or blocking it, quickly jumping out of the way to avoid getting hit, as did his party members as they knew attacks like that were usually accompanied by large 'fireworks'.
**BOOMM!!
A resounding explosion shook the surroundings, the deafening boom echoing through the air like a powerful blast.
Pride and Greed's figures burst out from the smoke, about to dash towards the Lizard Lord, but they saw that the monster was not on the altar where it had been anymore.
A quick aura scan showed it right beside the spear it had thrown, pulling it out from the ground before kicking off the ground and beelining straight for Evan.
Pivoting on its foot, Bhak slashed down with the spear towards the hero, something that made the boy frown as he raised his sword arm and spoke.
"Don't misunderstand Lizard, I didn't dodge your first strike because I could not deal with it"
The Unforged was engulfed in his golden aura, leaving trails of light in the air as it moved faster than the eye could see and clashed with the Bhak's spear, much to the Lizard's shock.
But then again, considering Evan's 32.5% Stat boost, 130% stat effectiveness, and 12.5% increase in everything he did with a Sword, it wasn't too strange he could block the Boss Monster's strike.
As the ground beneath their feet cratered from the shockwaves unleashed by their clash, Evan put more strength into his arms and asked.
"Why so surprised?"
Evan took a step forward and released a burst of aura through his sword, knocking the Lizard's massive frame backwards.
"Didn't you hear them call me a 'Nuisance'?"
The golden aura around his blade transformed, gaining six more hues of various colours, before lighting up with a bright prismatic glow.
"I'd show you exactly why they said that."
Immediately he said that, Evan kicked off the ground and dashed towards the Lizardman from the front, with Pride and Greed coming in from either side with their weapons layered with their auras.
Though initially taken aback, Bhak met the combined assault of the three without much pressure.
The black spear in its hand was encased in aura, extending its length by another metre. Bhak then held out the spear diagonally, angling the bottom end inward.
With this configuration, he managed to intercept Evan's downward-arching slash using the centre of the spear, blocked Pride's upward-arching strike with the lower end, and directed the upper end toward the ceiling to handle Greed's attack.
It was a strategic manoeuvre that effectively parried their combined assault.
But the combined force behind the trio's attacks was great, enough that the Lizard Lord's feet completely sank into the ground as it blocked the attacks.
What's more, Bhak had a hard time fighting Evan's prismatic flames with its own fiery aura, clicking its tongue internally upon noticing the true nature of the boy's flames.
'Esoteric Flames…this is going to be tricky. More often than not, Esoteric type flames are usually stronger than normal ones, even if the user of the normal flames has a higher attunement to the element.'
As it thought that, Bhak rose its right foot and stomped down on the ground, generating a shockwave to push them back a few metres.
Following up in the same breath, it twirled its spear around and retracted part of the energy within it, reducing its length before charging towards Evan and sending out a fierce thrust.
Evan held up his left palm and caught the Lizard Lord's spear when it was merely a few inches away from its face, but the moment he did that, the spear's tip turned an eerie green colour and a mist with a similar hue burst out from it.
Strange liquid with a sizzling sound poured out and drenched his palm, however, the young hero only tightened his grip and pulled the spear towards him, pulling the Lizard Lord's body along as he shouted.
"Poison doesn't work on me, Lizard!"
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