Chapter 484: Fraudulent Battle
Joining the three dragonfish, two more dive down from the sky… I see, I’m starting to understand how they fight. They confuse their opponents with wide-range illusions, while at the same time replenishing their numbers by calling for more B+ monsters. It’s a rather dirty way of fighting.
For now, I'll keep cutting off their fins with [Dimension Claw] to stop them from flying. Moaning, the dragonfish rapidly fall. They have [Autoregeneration], so their fins will probably heal rather quickly, but this should be enough to keep them immobilised for a while. I should keep an eye on each of them to spot good times to hit them again with [Dimension Claw].
It would be hard for Aro and the others to take on this many B+ ranks by themselves. I need to reduce their advantage of three-dimensional movement as much as possible.
If I didn’t have complete resistance to illusions, this fight might have been a bit dangerous. As I am now, I can react and shoot down the dragonfish as needed, but if we had fought them while I was still an ouroboros, it could have easily ended with our annihilation. This is a match that can’t be safely fought without an L rank monster.
Most likely, there’s another monster hiding nearby. Whatever that monster is, it's responsible for this fog, it's creating illusions to help the dragonfish, and it called for more allies. It’s probably an evolved dragonfish. From the sound of the cry, there’s no mistaking that they’re related.
As an evolved B+, it has to be A- at the lowest. I need to be careful. For anyone other than me, a surprise attack from it could easily prove fatal.
I need to keep Aro and the others from being pushed back by the dragonfish, while also being vigilant against a surprise attack and sniffing out the enemies’ boss.
…For now, all I can sense is the dragonfish. It must be rather skilled at hiding. I couldn’t pinpoint the source of the cry from earlier, due to the way it echoed in the fog.
As I move to extract the treant, it uses [Tree Spiritisation] to flutter out of the hole. Flapping its wings in a way reminiscent a chicken, it then returns to tree form midair… That skill really can be used in unexpected ways.