Chapter 111 Innate Divine Ability

After about an hour and a half, Gune, who had been sitting cross-legged on the ground, stood up.

In fact, within the first hour or so,

Gune had already adapted to the special trajectory of source power flow in this world.

If one failed to adapt to this peculiar trajectory of source power and rashly applied the methods of the real world, it would easily cause oscillations in one's source pool.

For a spellcaster, source pool oscillations would directly take half their life.

Apart from adapting to the source pool,

Gune also adapted to the release of spells.

Through the continuous release of small-scale arcs of minor amplitude, Gune roughly made a judgment.

That was, after his promotion to the second rank of the extraordinary, his soul reaction speed had increased significantly again.

Gune clearly remembered that after a regular spellcaster's promotion, the increase in soul reaction speed would not be too great; at most, improving the overlapping efficiency of one spell per second was already good.

However, this promotion of Gune's

directly increased the overlapping efficiency of three spells per second.

That is to say, currently, Gune's ultimate casting frequency had reached the height of twenty-one spells per second.

Twenty-one spells per second—calling it a 'humanoid Gatling gun' is not an exaggeration.

In addition, Gune also meticulously familiarized himself with the operation of blood in the blood pool and the release of blood curse techniques.

Of course, he had also more or less mastered the explosive control of physical strength.

The explosive release of physical strength was not for combat, but for evasion, and—escape.

Running fast is never a bad thing.

As he pondered, Gune glanced lightly at George.

'I should be faster than him... I think!'

Seeing Gune stand up, George walked over.

'How is it? How's the adaptation?'

'It's fine. I can fully exert my combat power without issue.'

'Mm.' George's expression also turned serious.

Since he had adapted, the next step was to enter the pre-battle preparation phase.

At this moment, Gune also entered a cautious state.

From George's explanation, Gune could roughly infer that the Death Beast was at least a top-tier king-level, that is, 'chieftain-level' creature.

A top-tier 'chieftain-level' creature was already very close to a 'lord-level' creature.

Even, it was possible that the Death Beast might actually be a powerful 'lord-level' creature.

Dealing with a powerful creature of this level, the consequence of not being cautious was only a disastrous defeat, or even death.

'First, you need to know that in the deep hunting layer of the Shadow World,'

'the light there is much thinner than here, much dimmer, probably only about one-fifth or one-sixth of here. The field of vision, what you can see clearly, is only about a hundred meters.'

'There is a very simple way to judge the depth of the deep layers of the Shadow World.'

'That is, the darker the layer, the deeper its position within the world framework.'

'And the hunting layer is almost the deepest layer among the several layers I can access.'

'Second, the Death Beast is terrifyingly powerful in attack power, speed, and defense.'

"More importantly, this Death Beast can fly, so we need to take out one of its wings first."

"Can it fly in a vacuum?" Gune asked, slightly surprised.

"It seems the Death Beast uses its wings to harness source power for flight. Cutting off one wing should indeed ground it."

"Also, we've chosen our timing well. If we delay a few more hours,"

"the third-tier Death Beast will enter its dormant phase. I'll go ahead and build a thick, dry nullification barrier outside its cave."

"That way, our fight won't attract the third-tier Death Beast right from the start."

"Of course, I can't guarantee the nullification barrier will completely block the leakage of battle aftershocks. If the third-tier Death Beast senses us and charges out,"

"we'll have to flee immediately. No lingering."

"Yes, I understand." Gune nodded.

"Once everything is ready, I'll form a nullification barrier outside the second-tier Death Beast's cave. When it breaks through at night, we strike."

Gune mentally reviewed George's plan for any omissions and then nodded slightly.

The plan was indeed highly feasible.

"Now, the main issues are..."

"the combat capability of the second-tier ascending Death Beast itself, and the threat level of our attacks."

"I won't go into other aspects of the second-tier Death Beast; you'll understand its terror when you see it."

"The key point is that the Death Beast has a very powerful 'innate divine ability.'"

"Innate divine ability?" Gune was slightly startled.

"Having such an ability means it's already close to a lord-level existence," Gune thought to himself.

"Yes," George nodded slightly.

"I almost died to this Death Beast's innate divine ability back then."

"Normally, the Death Beast doesn't unleash its innate divine ability."

"Only when it's in critical danger does it release this formidable ability."

"Several scales on its head core will emit terrifying black light, then it locks its gaze on you, and the light transforms into a fearsome arrow that instantly pierces hundreds of meters to impale you."

"I've named this peculiar arrow the 'Black Annihilation Arrow.'"

"This 'Black Annihilation Arrow' is almost a one-hit kill for you and me."

"If it hits, there's virtually no chance of survival."

"So when it uses this innate divine ability to counterattack, we must dodge. If it locks its gaze on you, you're as good as dead."

"Mm." Gune nodded solemnly.

"Also, once the Death Beast uses the Black Annihilation Arrow, large scales on its head will fall off, and it will enter a weakened state. You can consider the 'Black Annihilation Arrow' its trump card."

"I don't know if fifth- or sixth-tier Death Beasts weaken after using the Black Annihilation Arrow, but this second-tier one definitely will."

"That's our best chance to join forces and kill it."

"But first, we need to cut off or at least break one of its wings. Otherwise, the weakened Death Beast will just fly into the sky, and we'll have no way to deal with it."

"Being able to fly... that's really troublesome." Gune nodded.

Against flying enemies, spellcasters have an attack range of hundreds of meters.

But for a 'time hunter' like George, while he might have some ranged attacks, they are far weaker than a spellcaster's. Most of the time, he can only watch helplessly.

Even if the enemy has ranged attacks from the air, he can only passively take the hits.

"Now that I've covered the Death Beast's abilities, it's time for us to get to know each other's capabilities and attack methods so we can coordinate." George looked at Gune.