Chapter 53: Growth
The summoning options available in a vacuum were sadly limited. No, that wasn’t right … but there were a hell of a lot of monsters that would be killed by the vacuum in short order, resulting in the [System] withholding rewards, and making increasingly snide remarks if it happened repeatedly.
But various elemental monsters didn’t need to breathe, except for the fire ones, and even of those, a surprising portion retained sufficient combat capability to provide XP in a vacuum.
For now, he was finishing working his way through the water elementals, in this case, a Tier 5 Living Tide, the creature having started out as an immense mass of frothing water that quickly deflated in the emptiness of outer space as the air was all but sucked out by the pressure differential, something the monster itself seemed to take no notice off but drew a small giggle from Derek as he raised his hands to cast.
[Freeze] at the lower body of the creature, freezing a small portion of it solid, too small to really stop it, easily something the monster could draw into its body and carry with it … had it not been for the fact that that was the water that had already seeped into the rock underneath, anchoring the beast even as it lunged at him, stretching instead of managing to hurl the entirety of its body forward, so when Derek used his other hand to cast [Gravity Field], the ice block turned into the pivot point around which the elemental swung down into the moon’s surface.
But it was just a mass of water, being banged around a little wasn’t going to hurt it, and Derek was busy just pinnning it down, maintaining two spells putting him near the maximum of his mental abilities … and then he triggered a third spell, guided by a shadowly arm that manifested over his shoulder, his mind expanding to allow him to control it just as he did his flesh and blood limbs, though he used that mental enhancement to cast [Earth Spike] to catch the falling monster, spearing its core before the monster could shift its only vulnerable spot away.
Derek grinned as his opponent came apart, and dismissed the XP notification.
Yep, that particular [Skill] worked nicely.
Phantom Limb (legendary)
As a Chimera, you hold a multitude of monsters within yourself. Why not learn to unleash your inner beast in an entirely different way?