Chapter 431: Knight of Nightmares
“I have no intention of letting this drag on any longer! I’ll clean you up in an instant!”
Having transformed into a bizarre knight, the slime shouts while charging towards me. Its lower body is in the shape of a scorpion with wings, its four arms each clutch a sword or shield, and an owl's face is in embedded in its chest, with eyes that peer around restlessly.
The part that I’m most concerned about is the owl in the chest. The [Enthused Wisdom Owl] activated four stat-boosting magics within an instant. The fuel efficiency of doing full strength buffs like that should be bad, but if it can use attack magic too, then it’s a terrifying monster even by itself. I'm going to have to constantly keep an eye on it.
…The next part that I need to pay most attention to is the arm that is holding the shell shield. If what the slime said is true, then that’s a recreation of the shell of the [Cursed Millennium Turtle]. It almost completely nullified the power of my [Dragon Punch]. Piercing through it with a normal attack is probably impossible.
Both of them were in its title skills. Probably, whenever it takes in a high-ranking monster, it gets reflected in its title skills. If so, then each of its powerful forms has a corresponding title skill. I should be especially cautious of the forms that have title skills.
From that theory, six title skills to correspond to powerful forms: [Cursed Millennium Turtle], [Enthused Wisdom Owl], [Hideous Dragon], [Eight-Legged God of Death], [Giant Insect Mass], and [Fallen Phoenix].
I still have yet to see [Giant Insect Mass] or [Fallen Phoenix]. Ideally I’d like to end it before they’re used, but… Before that is the question of how to deal with this no-holds-barred form.
As the slime charges towards me, I raise my forelegs and push my rear legs out to dodge by jumping backwards.
The slime swings a sword down and cuts deep into the floor. It easily extracts the blade from the ground.