Chapter 116: Broken-Winged Death Beast

Compared to Gunie's speed, which relied on his Mithril Boots,

George, in his 'Time Burst' state, was clearly superior to Gunie in both speed and agility.

When facing the fierce pursuit of the Death Beast, George could still maneuver against it,

unlike Gunie, who could only flee desperately and risk being caught.

Maneuvering was possible, but trying to damage the Death Beast in this state proved difficult.

Fortunately, he wasn't alone.

The howling, sky-filling sharp spells proved that Gunie wasn't idly watching from afar but was unleashing his power.

While carefully evading the Death Beast,

George could also feel a barrage of magic blades exploding behind the creature.

'Such powerful spells, and he can cast them instantly, with such a high frequency of single-second overlaps. Among all the spellcasters I've seen, Gunie ranks among the top for that.'

'What a freak,' George muttered to himself.

This visibly hindered the Death Beast's pursuit of George, and many of its attacks became less natural and fluid, showing that Gunie's spells posed a great threat to the second-tier Death Beast.

The Death Beast, drawn by George, chased him while flapping its wings to increase its speed and agility.

At this moment, Gunie, bombarding from afar with spells, vaguely noticed something amiss.

The Death Beast had wings but didn't take flight, not because it couldn't fly.

Rather, in this hunting layer, its ability to use wings to propel source energy for flight wasn't as good as imagined.

Given its current state of energy dissipation, flying would make it unstable, a sitting duck in the air.

On the ground, however, flapping its wings gave it greater speed, making it easier to chase George.

While observing, Gunie didn't let up on his output.

A torrent of Soul-Fixing Divine Ring Spells, amplified by the Silver Feather Staff, rained down like a storm, relentlessly striking the Death Beast.

At the same time, the source energy in Gunie's Source Pool visibly depleted.

Instant spells were satisfying, but the source energy consumption was too fast.

Under the continuous, frenzied assault,

the Death Beast ultimately underestimated the powerful pulling effect of Gunie's tier-three high-level spell, 'Soul-Fixing Divine Ring Spell.'

Despite the spells scattering, many still landed on the Death Beast's right wing bones.

After a dozen sharp magic blade strikes, the Death Beast, focused entirely on chasing George, failed to notice that its right wing bone had already snapped.

'Whoosh!'

As another sharp magic blade struck the main bone of the Death Beast's right wing,

'Crack!'

the massive right wing of the Death Beast broke off with a sound.

At that moment, the Death Beast, flapping its fleshy wings in a mad chase after George, suddenly had its right wing snap.

In its high-speed motion, it lost balance, crashed heavily to the ground, and rolled away rapidly.

George seized the chance to widen the distance.

Glancing back, George naturally saw the Death Beast's miserable state.

One fleshy wing was broken off, lying seven or eight meters away.

The Death Beast itself was rolling wildly on the ground, black energy emanating and bursting from its body with each roll.

Seeing this, George felt both tense and excited.

The time to kill the Death Beast had finally come.

As Gunie had anticipated, his 'time' was indeed running low.

He needed to hunt in this layer, kill powerful creatures, and extract their time to replenish his own.

Only then could his 'time' become abundant again, allowing him to advance to tier four and grow stronger.

This was the core reason he risked seeking help from the lower-tier powerhouse Gunie.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have easily revealed some of his secrets.

Everyone knew that was risky; he was well aware of it too.

Now, the rich reward for the risk was finally coming.

Killing that powerful tier-two peak leader-level Death Beast would replenish a large amount of 'time' and further enhance his strength.

But...

the Death Beast's death throes would be ferocious, sparing no cost, and he had to be very careful.

During the earlier fight, George had been heading toward the entrance of the canyon ahead.

Now, both were not far from the canyon entrance.

After breaking one of the Death Beast's wings, the two cautiously retreated together.

While retreating, Gunie cast a few more ring spells to bombard the rolling Death Beast.

This could at least hinder and obstruct the creature's pursuit.

After all, it couldn't fly anymore.

'This Death Beast is fairly intelligent, but ultimately lacks experience,'

Gunie thought to himself as he quickly moved toward the canyon.

'No... it's not just lack of experience; the key is that this tier-two Death Beast isn't strong enough to take either of us down. Combined with its inexperience in combat, it ended up being pulled between two targets and beaten.'

Meanwhile,

the Death Beast, having stopped rolling, burned with surging rage.

Its breakthrough had been interrupted, its nest destroyed, the series of explosions had stirred up its internal energy, and it had been severely wounded by that despicable thief's blade.

Now, its not-so-robust fleshy wing had been severed.

Though it could regrow,

the humiliation of being invaded and repeatedly struck had pushed the Death Beast's fury to the brink of frenzy.

Its savage bestial nature began to dominate, and its killing intent surged overwhelmingly.

Though cunning and intelligent, the Death Beast was ultimately more driven by its ferocious bestial instincts as a leader-level creature.

Even though its internal energy was churning and a sense of fatigue and weakness had set in,

it could still crush those two fleeing little worms the moment it caught them.

Boom... boom... boom...

At that moment, a series of ring spells rolled in, striking the Death Beast and exploding.

The source energy shockwaves further inflamed the Death Beast's uncontrollable rage.

Roar... roar... roar... roar...

Hysterical, frenzied roars erupted from the Death Beast's throat.

The roars reverberated through the source energy layer, echoing for miles around in the hunting layer.

These roars were both a vent for its fury and a call for the more powerful Death Beast.

Unfortunately, this inexperienced Death Beast hadn't anticipated

that these two well-prepared 'little worms'

had made thorough preparations before coming.

Even if it screamed its throat out now, no Death Beast would answer its call.

After a bout of furious roaring, the Death Beast once again chased after the two fleeing worms.

'Kill... kill... kill... kill them all!'

By now, killing intent had completely consumed the severely wounded Death Beast's reason,

turning it into a savage beast whose bestial nature had fully erupted.