Gribbit, who still held his staff aloft, stopped laughing for a brief second when he saw the white trail left by Lisa’s [Spectral Step], his yellow eyes widening at the speed of this fox.
However, he quickly regained his composure, letting out a dry, confident croak as he watched the colossal slug throb against the tree root where it had collided.
"Impressive, Noble White Lady... your agility matches your power." Gribbit hissed, his voice now laden with a dark authority that he had previously hidden beneath the mask of a frail old man. "But you will have to deal with my scouts alone. Your little blue friend may have isolated the first slug, but their venom isn’t instant... it acts like a slow tide that corrodes the core from the inside out in ten or fifteen minutes, mwahahaha!"
He twirled his staff, pointing it at Lohan with scorn: "By now, the paralysis must be rising through his gelatin, turning him into nothing more than a static mana battery for my children."
What the old toad didn’t know was that Lohan’s [Mythic Devourer] class didn’t follow the common biological rules of Elysium.
Internally, the [Digestive Filter Lv 16] had already identified and isolated each molecular toxin the instant the membrane came into contact with the first slug, turning what should have been deadly poison into pure biomass to sustain his defenses.
Lohan felt the [Magic Core Lv 7] vibrate with renewed vigor, not with the weakness Gribbit had expected.
If he didn’t want to store as much of this poison as possible to sell in Thalendor, he could use it directly as fuel for battle!
Lisa, feeling the fury within her, let the [Spirit Fire] envelop not only her paws, but her entire silhouette, causing the red flashes in her fur to glow with destructive intensity.
Then she shot like a reddish-white blur toward the scouts closing in.
Lohan was not far behind.
Covering his 37 cm diameter mass with black hexagonal plates that reflected the light from Lisa’s flames, using the [Artificial Magic Core Harmonizer Lv 2] to synchronize his Mana, he simultaneously fired three strands of [Magic Weaving] toward the branches above Gribbit, preparing to digest this traitor completely while releasing two small clones to help Lisa deal with the other toads.
Upon feeling the first blow of the bone spears against his armor, the [Hemolymphatic Tissue Lv 7] boosted his digestion rate to 151 Bio/h, making this little Blue Slime even more lethal!
"What?! How can you still move like that?!" Gribbit asked in shock, unable to believe the agility the Slime showed as it rolled and flew towards him.
Seeing the large blue-black mass flying towards him, Gribbit swung his staff and a burst of bright poisonous water flew from the puddle below him towards the Slime, slightly changing its flight path.
The burst of poisoned water hit Lohan’s body with force, but the resulting sound was not that of an impact on soft flesh, but rather that of metal colliding with solid rock.
Thanks to [Non-Newtonian Resilience], Lohan’s membrane instantly hardened at the point of contact, dispersing the kinetic pressure without suffering a single scratch as the [Obsidian Exoskeleton] glowed in an absolute black tone under the light of the swamp.
"Who are you going to call for help now, Gribbit?" Lohan transmitted his mental voice through Lisa’s link, which was still active.
Ignoring the recoil, Lohan used [Selective Viscosity] to anchor himself in the air through the threads of [Magic Weaving] he had fired earlier.
With a violent tug, he propelled himself downward, falling on Gribbit like a black jelly meteor. Before the frog could jump, Lohan fired five Mana-fused biological filaments that dug into the elder’s limbs, initiating the energy drain.
Meanwhile, Lisa turned the scouts’ encirclement into an open-air morgue.
She was a reddish-white blur moving with [Spectral Step], rendering the frogs’ bone spears mere useless obstacles in the air.
Her [Spirit Fire] not only burned flesh, Lohan saw, through his [Thermographic Perception], the heat signatures of the frogs collapse instantly as their souls were incinerated by the legendary flame.
The difference in scale was overwhelming.
The scouts, who were just common low-level monsters, could barely process the fox’s speed before being torn in half or reduced to ashes.
Beside her, Lohan’s two clones acted as mobile anchors.
Using [Selective Viscosity] at maximum adhesion, the clones stuck to the feet of the surviving frogs, immobilizing them so that Lisa could finish them off or dissolve them right there.
Gribbit screamed in pain, but the sound was muffled by the mass of Lohan that now enveloped his right arm.
The elder felt his Mana being sucked away by the blue threads as his green skin was corroded at an alarming rate of 151 Bio/h.
"P-please! Have mercy!" Gribbit begged, watching his scouts being slaughtered like insignificant insects.
"You have already received our mercy, and you refused it," Lohan replied mentally.
Lohan didn’t stop.
He condensed icy Mana and fired an [Ice Spike] point-blank at Gribbit’s knee, just to make sure he wouldn’t escape digestion.
At this point, the battle was not a contest between equals... it was a demonstration of why beings of Mythical and Legendary races had such advantages over races of lower rarities, treating the local "predators" as nothing more than raw biomass waiting to be processed.
If these frogs were at least level 10, or even level 11, they might have had a chance, but being roughly the same level, or even lower as a Common Race against Races at the top of the pyramid, it was an impossible battle from the start.
Honestly, it was a little disappointing to see this small warrior race wiped out by them instead of joining the ranks of the guild they were forming, but at that point, they wouldn’t be stupid enough to trust a group that had already betrayed them to participate in something that depended completely on trust like a guild.
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NunuNote: What did you think of this little arch? This is my first attempt at writing something like this, hehe. If you have any suggestions, leave them in the comments. I hope to keep improving from here on out!