Chapter 213: Pursuing the Defeated
Chapter 213: Pursuing the Defeated
"This guy's eyes are yellow?"
"Isn't it a Black Scaled Lizard Dragon?"
As the earthen wall collapsed, the smoke and dust filled the tunnel, and Lindsey couldn't get a clear view of the creature's appearance yet.
But those yellow eyes piercing through the smoke were clearly different from the green irises of the Black Scaled Lizard Dragons in his memory.
"Hiss—"
As Lindsey furrowed his brows, the magical beast charged out from the cloud of smoke.
It was massive, measuring over five meters, and as expected, it had the form of a lizard.
However, compared to the Black Scaled Lizard Dragon...
Its scales were much lighter in color, and its limbs were shorter and more robust. The scales near its mouth were especially thick.
At the very least, in terms of physical attributes, it was definitely different from the Black Scaled Lizard Dragon.
At this moment, the beast was in a ferocious rage, its heavy and powerful body charging out like a battle tank. Its forked red tongue darted in and out, tasting the air.
"Well, it's time to fight."
Lindsey waved his long whip and lashed out at the beast.
Snap! The vine whip, primarily made of vines, had the ability to freely extend and retract.
When Lindsey swung the whip, it was only two meters long.
But as it danced through the air, the whip suddenly extended to its maximum length of five meters!
Before the charging beast could react, the whip lashed down heavily on its body.
"Roar!"
The lizard-like beast wailed in agony.
Its tough skin and scales could withstand the whip's strike, but the Ice and Fire Emblem's ice and fire powers were beyond its reach.
The intense heat and freezing forces struck simultaneously.
The beast's resilient scales immediately cracked under the torment of the two forces, even peeling off its skin.
Boom!
The next second, a blob of ink-green liquid sprayed out from the lizard's mouth.
The liquid quickly evaporated into a gas, forming a dense cloud of poison fog that obscured vision and blocked the passageway, lingering in the air for an extended period.
Taking advantage of this opportunity,
The beast, which had dared to attack through the wall, turned and fled back into the tunnel, its shed scales and pain preventing it from daring to attack!
"..."
"It's running away?"
Lindsey blinked but had no reason to let a nearby enemy escape.
With the poison resistance of the Forest Brooch, Lindsey charged into the poison fog, pursuing the fleeing lizard.
The figures of man and beast soon vanished into the darkness.
As Lindsey pursued, he analyzed the beast's information.
"This big lizard should be around the fifth stage. Its primary combat style relies on physical attributes, supplemented by poison."
"As long as we don't make any mistakes, defeating it won't be a problem!"
With this thought, Lindsey's speed increased.
The sudden encounter left him no time to prepare agility-boosting food, but his attributes were already far superior to before.
Relying solely on his attributes and equipment,
Lindsey's agility reached 34 points.
Running at full speed, he was like a gust of wind, visibly closing the distance with the fleeing lizard ahead!
In less than half a minute, the lizard's thick, fat tail was within reach.
"Stay right there!"
Lindsey picked up the whip and lashed it.
The vine whip extended instantly in the air, emitting a loud crack, then coiled around the lizard's tail.
Due to the vine whip's properties,
Lindsey controlled the whip to tightly wrap around the lizard's tail while activating the Ice and Fire Emblem's effect, crushing a full circle of scales and embedding the whip firmly in its flesh.
"Hiss—Roar!"
The running lizard immediately wailed in pain.
Lindsey, behind it, nodded in satisfaction:
"Good, it's securely tied!"
He stopped running, taking a stance with one foot forward and one back, ready to engage in a test of strength.
The next second, Lindsey tightened his grip on the vine whip with confidence.
He was about to use his own strength to try and slow down, or even stop, this running lizard!
Snap!
The vine whip tensed suddenly.
Lindsey exerted all his strength onto his hands and feet, and then, with a bang, he fell backward.
"Huh?"
Lindsey was utterly perplexed.
His body felt subtly off-balance.
Despite pulling with all his might, the lizard in front of him seemed as light as a feather, not giving him any chance to resist.
Just as he was about to fall, Lindsey's body turned slightly to the left.
He quickly half-turned, supporting himself on the ground, preventing an immediate fall.
At the same time, the vine whip retracted.
The lizard's tail was still firmly wrapped around it, but only one tail remained.
[Tail: Lizard Tail]
[When facing a strong enemy, beasts will often sever their tails as a survival tactic, sacrificing this body part as a decoy.]
[Can only be used for roasting meat. Has very low value.]
Instinctively, Lindsey glanced at the product information, and it was just as he thought.
After being whipped twice, this beast was so terrified that it even resorted to severing its tail to escape!
"Are you a gecko or a lizard?" Lindsey cursed in frustration.
Although using this move was embarrassing, its effectiveness was undeniable!
Lindsey looked forward again.
Just as his body leaned back to regain balance and examine the tail in his hand, the lizard in front, instead of slowing down, was running even faster!
His vision pierced through the dark cave.
Lindsey could even see the wound on its rear end contracting, and in the blink of an eye, it had put several dozen meters between them.
"You're not getting away today!"
As a fifth-stage beast, Lindsey guessed that it would most likely use beast language.
If he could capture it, more information would be within reach.
Lindsey, of course, wouldn't let go of this rare opportunity. With a fierce look in his eyes, he sped up his pursuit.
"Hisssss—"
"Stop right there! Behave, and I might spare your life!"
The chase between man and beast continued underground.
The beast, having gained some distance by severing its tail, made this pursuit longer than the initial one.
They were delving deeper underground.
The color of the cave walls around them changed from earthy yellow to a darker hue, almost turning black.
The hard, smooth rocks above, beside, and under their feet became more prominent.
By now, the darkness ahead was absolute, pitch-black.
Although Lindsey had excellent perception, he couldn't see in pure darkness and had to continue the chase with a torch in hand.
Snap—
The beasts living here were intimately familiar with the underground structure.
After a few minutes, just as Lindsey was about to catch it again, the beast suddenly turned and darted into a hidden passage beside it.
Lindsey didn't hesitate to continue the pursuit.
As his feet touched down on a ground shaped like a fragment of stone, the torch in his hand illuminated the cave.
Right across from him in this gray-black cave, Lindsey saw a giant lizard over ten meters long.
Its gray-black scales were identical to the black-scaled lizard dragon, but its color and texture were deeper and more robust.
At this moment, it lay on the ground, seemingly asleep.
And the tail-severed lizard that Lindsey had been chasing was also approaching this massive lizard.
Having dealt with the young, the old one appeared. And such a large beast...
In that instant, Lindsey realized he was in deep trouble.
—It was probably a sixth-stage beast.
While it might not possess the strength of the Tree Mother, who had cultivated for tens of thousands of years,
the gap in strength between it and Lindsey was undoubtedly a wide and long chasm!
(End of Chapter)
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