-Vol 4: To The North Pole!-

-Exploding APES!!-

To the side, Vera couldn’t help but stare Kenshin weirdly. The way Kenshin dodging the strikes looks awfully familiar to her style, but she didn’t think much of it as it was not some secret skill. Maybe it was a coincidence!

Kenshin didn’t bother with the kneeling one and instead set his sights on the other one that was attacking him vigorously. It was waving around that mace like it weighed nothing while trying to hit Kenshin. But like an agile fox, Kenshin dodged every single one of the strikes. Angered, the beast suddenly roared loudly. The veins in its body began expanding, and its muscle mass increased even further.

Throwing its mace to the side, it started punchin Kenshin with bare hands.

But Kenshin didn’t dare to receive it directly. Even with his high defence and the stone skin skill, the damage he would receive by no means low. At this time, the other ape recovered and started joining in the fight. Now two muscular apes began attacking Kenshin.

Although it became a little hard, on the contrary, it made Kenshin very happy. Since he had that massive upgrade, he didn’t have such nerve-wracking battle. During Dungeon Break, due to his title bonus, his ATK was increased with every kill, making him temporarily OP. But now, against such an opponent, he could fully explore his abilities and limits.

A cold light flashed in his eyes as the warrior spirit awakened within him. His recently awakened Intent began to emerge and form an invisible layer around him. It was an advanced version of what he was doing with his WIL before. The transparent purple layer increased Kenshin’s attacking power by a considerable margin.

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Not long after that, two huge damage values floated above both apes. This time he hadn't even used fire or destruction ability. The Intents genuinely lived up to its name, a manifestation of one’s desires. Just as he was about strike an injured ape, suddenly his danger sense tingled, and he jumped forward before making a roll to break his speed.

Boom! Crack!!

The floor of the place where he stood before cracked into several fragments. A massive mace was laying near the cracked floor. He was attacked by another ape while busy with two! He couldn’t down his guard after all. At the same time, the ape that attacked him ran towards the downed two and crouched beside them.

Another ape chooses that time to attack Kenshin. But as if having unlimited stamina, Kenshin easily evaded its attacks and instead injured it lightly. The ape became agitated, and like the earlier two, its body became muscular, and it attacked him with erratic movements.

“How the hell did these apes gain sudden growth spurts?” Kenshin couldn’t help but shout in anger. It was very annoying to face these buffed up apes. Finally, he made a mistake in his movements and allowed one fo the apes erratic strikes to land on his right cheek. Like an arrow that left the bow, he barreled across the room and landed heavily in the metallic wall behind him.

Boom!!!

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[Skill Stone Skin gained 3000 EXP]

[Stone Skin becomes Level 3]

The strike was so heavy that it instantly increased Stone Skin’s level by two. On the contrary, Kenshin discovered that his DEF increasing somewhat, now after his Stoen Skin becoming level 3, his base DEF must have increased by 3%.

He instantly stood up as if nothing happened and ran towards the four apes. His sword started to burn like before as he pointed it towards them. After testing the sword twice, the apes became a little wary of it, especially the fire in it. They seemed to have an innate fear of this kind of intense fires. But even if they are wary of fire, the fire wasn’t afraid of going towards them. Kenshin used his new, and improved Flaming Slash flying towards the three gathered apes. It was so fast that they didn’t have the time to evade and took the brunt of the attack.

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Three damage values floated above the three apes with one of them having only 42 HP remaining. But before he could take advantage of it and kill it, he was attacked by two new apes.

To cope with them, he made a fire dragon and sent it towards the already injured apes and concentrated on dealing with two new apes. He discovered that the can now easily keep up with eight level 79 apes. But he hadn't reached his limit yet.

With the addition of two new apes, the other three apes also joined in the fight, excluding the one that was heavily injured. Its whole body had charred black with the burnt smell coming off it. From the looks of it, if it didn’t treat immediately, it would die.

Seeing this the apes fought even more angrily. They no longer held themselves back. Using every skill at their disposal, they attacked Kenshin. This time all the nine apes joined in the fight.

Very soon Kenshin’s luck ran out, and he suffered one after another attack from these apes and was sent flying. But at the same time, his stone skin was also improving at a very rapid pace. His innate DEF had increased quite a lot after the contract, now with the percentile increase in it, he was gradually heading towards the path of becoming invincible.

Seeing his astronomical increase in DEF, Kenshin deliberately didn’t use his magic skill. He even put away his new sword and instead fought with them barehanded. At first, he felt like he was punched rock walls, these apes skins were that tough. But gradually, as his DEF increased, he slowly stopped feeling pain from it and instead able to damage them.

[Ding* Skill Stone Skin had reached Level 10]

Kenshin smiled at the notification. Finally, the thing he was waiting for had arrived. His Stone Skin had finally reached level 10. By now the strikes of these apes no longer hurt him, their attacks no longer gave him any EXPs.

“You all can die now!” since he no longer had any use for them, the only way left was to kill them all.

A transparent dome formed around him before expanding all the way so that it could cover all the apes who were busy showering him with punches.

“Go to Hell!!!” with a shout, Kenshin initiated a chain explosion. Inside his Exploding Domain, anything can explode according to his wises. This time, he made the hairs in their skins explode. When millions of hairs explode at the same time, the resulting blast could kill even a creature at a size double of these apes.

All the nine apes went off at the same time, creating stunning fireworks in the process.

[Ding* You have completed the quest.]