-Vol 5: A New Life-

-Battle against a Dragon(4)-

The dragon wreathed on the water surface, rolling and flailing in pain. At the same time, its roars rocked the whole place, creating mini-tsunami waves around them. As the sea became unstable, the yacht also began to row up and down unstably. Fortunately, none of the passengers on this boat were normal. A simple rocking like this won't even make them lose their balance, let alone threaten their life.

Except for Kenshin, everyone else was staring at Dilong, who was mighty and arrogant just a seconds ago being reduced to a simple snake who was beaten by a stick. Gone its mighty power, what left was a whiny snake that couldn’t handle a bit of pain.

Of course, they would look in disdain at the dragon who was behaving like this just from a single puncture wound. They didn’t have a system, how could they know the finer details of what Kenshin did? They only thought that it was behaving a little too much just from a wound.

On the contrary, Kenshin was sweating profusely. That set of moves, the quick actions he just performed had drained him nearly half of stamina. At the same time, due to using more than three types of skills at once, he also felt a kind of mental strain, but it was minuscule. Standing at a corner of the yacht, using the sword as a handrail, he took deep breaths to provide the much-needed oxygen to his body.

‘That last attack was over 200,000+ ATK. Still, this thing isn’t dead? What the hell? Just what’s the level of this beast?’ Kenshin felt cold. Furrowing his brows, he threw a complicated glance at the beast that was still rolling on the sea floor.

“Everyone, attack it during this time. Right now it's extremely weakened. I don’t know how long it will be like this, attack it while you can!” Kenshin shouted at the top of his lungs. Nonetheless, the monster was already at death's door, if these hunters could join hands and attack it all together, there was a chance that it could be killed.

Unfortunately, he had overestimated these hunter’s cooperativeness.

“What are you talking about? Didn’t you see its in an unstable state of mind right now? How can we get near it?”

“Besides, this monster was too strong. I reckon it’s an accended monster. They tend to be crafty, how can we believe in your words?”

“Just because you did it some damage, don’t think highly of yourself!” two hunters including Ozuru shouted out, refuting him. In their mind, just because he did some damage to the monster because of a fluke, he was behaving pretentious and wanted to control them all.

“Wha-?” Kenshin, for a second, became blank at these people's response. He couldn’t believe that these guys would be this troublesome at a time like this? It's understandable if they didn’t believe his words, but, aren’t they powerful hunters themselves? It's not like they would be squashed to death with just a light touch from the beast.

But for them to think of him like this, he couldn’t help but shake his head at their idiocy. At the same time, he threw a worried glance at the beast that had stopped it's rolling and lied motionlessly on the sea floor.

‘Why is it the idiots who occupy higher positions?’ Looking at the three people who were staring at the still snake with trepidation, he sighed once again and shifted his attention to the snake. He didn’t believe that it had died. He had seen many strong and unique at the same time a bunch of accended monsters who had formed an organization themselves. Although he couldn’t be called an expert at recognizing them, he was still better than these damned beginners who only judge the monster from what they read from the internet.

Kenshin firmly believes that there would be a fierce counterattack coming within a few minutes. Unfortunately, he couldn’t use his [Starfall Dominion] right now, especially in front of these self-centered guys. And he was also tired mentally due to consecutive use of more than three skills without a time lapse.

And due to repeated use of [Replication], he had to stop attacking it physically for the time being.

“Kenshin, let me attack it!” Joy shouted from the other side of the deck. He had already recovered enough to fight freely like before. Due to Kenshin’s HP potion, his HP had also filled to the brim, at the same time relieving all his pain and fatigue. Joy owed his life to him, so he didn’t feel it too much to listen to Kenshin’s words.

Smiling at him, Kenshin shook his head before pointing his finger at the snake that was moving slowly on the surface of the water, “leave it. It's already too late. The snake had recovered enough to launch a counter attack. It's better if we think of a way to resist what would come inevitably.”

“What? Is that true?” Sakurai, who was hesitating if he should listen to Kenshin’s words just now shouted in alarm. They had just recovered from that crazy lightning strike, now if this creature uses another set of lightning like that, he wasn’t sure if they could remain unscathed.

“Yeah! I have used my skill to deal some damage to it. It also stunned it for a few seconds. If you have all listened to me, there might be a small chance that it would have died. Now, we have to face a berserk beast who was wounded. Careful!” Kenshin spoke gravely as he threw a glance at the snake that had already entered into water stealthily. He unconsciously gripped his sword tightly. He remembered that accended snake Lyda, she had also behaved strangely when received damage due to Kenshin killing her snake. She went berserk and tried to destroy a 200-meter deep underground facility that she was assigned to guard. If an accended monster with an intelligence level similar to humans could lose themselves when hurt, what would happen to this dragon that might or might not be an ascended?

The answer was a catastrophe.

‘This dragon would most probably use its full power to run wild until it killed everyone present, especially me who had wounded it in the first place. Unfortunately, I couldn’t use my divine skill here, or else I could have ended it long ago.’ Kenshin shook his head again. He had too many secrets and an enemy whose identity he didn’t even know. That enemy might have invested a lot to summon that hand’s owner back at the north. But Kenshin, using the brilliant flash of stars and lasers, had, not only wounded it but also send it flying to where it came from. How couldn’t that enemy hold a grudge?

He was having his hands full just from a measly family of a prefecture, how can he fight against an enemy like that? Hiding was the best option until he grows stronger. Until he confirms that he had enough strength to defeat his enemy, he wouldn’t reveal his identity to anyone. If worst comes to worst, he would just die and revive.

He had more than 5 lives stored in his system. It was far better than throwing his family into the mouth of the tiger. Unlike him, they couldn’t revive repeatedly.