Chapter 1087 - 518: Medusa

"Extraordinary Demon Two-headed Hill Giant killed: 1."

When the dust settled, the kill notification popped up before Gauss’s eyes. At the same time, through his Eye of the Raven, the spot where the Giant originally stood had completely transformed into a spreading cloud of dense black gas. In the air, the rain was vaporized into a fine mist by the ultra-high voltage electrical current.

"Reward obtained: 10 Extraordinary Points."

He had previously gained fifty Extraordinary Points from killing the Goblin General. With these ten new points, his total had reached sixty.

"Current Extraordinary Points: 60."

Unfortunately, when Gauss immediately tried to upgrade several of his other purple-tier Talents, there was no special reaction. The points were likely still not enough to meet the upgrade requirements.

He swiftly dismantled the eggshell-like layers of Rock Shields the Hill Giant left behind, rushing as fast as he could to the Giant’s largely corroded body. Even though it was dead, it still stood in place like a small mountain. Fortunately, the Storage Space within the Storage Bracelet [Echoes of Yesterday] was large enough. He held the bracelet close to it and, without any intention of inspecting the corpse, directly stowed the Giant’s body into the Storage Space.

The surrounding servants that had previously followed the Giant’s every footstep were all dead. Even though Gauss hadn’t targeted them, they had all perished in the aftermath of the previous attack. Further away, the survivors fell into an uncontrollable panic upon detecting their leader’s death. Gauss cast a passing glance at them before withdrawing his gaze. He had no intention of wasting his precious time on these terrified, delectable "snacks."

With a flash of white light, his body disappeared from the spot. Thanks to his Giant Slayer title, the process of finding its weakness and killing the Giant went rather smoothly. More importantly, it took very little time and the energy consumed was within an acceptable range; at the very least, his Spiritual Power remained abundant.

In the distance, an Earth Dragon had been intercepted about a kilometer away from the town’s south gate. It snapped wildly at the empty air in its spot, as if it had gone mad. However, in Gauss’s eyes, a blue figure was moving rapidly through the air. It continuously spat out some sort of breath energy. Whenever the attack landed on the Earth Dragon’s tough shell, it would dent the localized area and cause tearing damage. Most of the Earth Dragon’s attacks were dodged by the nimble Slime, which only drove the Earth Dragon even crazier. It seemed Slime Eden was handling the situation with ease. Therefore, Gauss now needed to deal with another target.

West of Warren Castle, amid the pouring rain.

From a height of a hundred meters, Hephaestus spat a straight line of fire downward. This slender thread of flame only abruptly expanded upon reaching the ground, transforming into a massive mushroom cloud that engulfed the humanoid Demon below. Countless raindrops were vaporized into scalding steam by the blazing flames.

The humanoid creature beneath the fire was about the same size as a normal human, appearing exceptionally minuscule by contrast. She stood barefoot on the earth, her skin a lead-gray hue, and her graceful figure faintly discernible beneath a sheer garment. This was astonishingly a Medusa at the Extraordinary Level.

Facing the flames pouring down from above, this Extraordinary Medusa merely tilted her head up slightly. The serpentine hair beneath her crown writhed wildly, and a look of contempt surfaced on her exquisite human face. A pale-cyan beam of materialized petrifying gaze energy burst forth from her crimson eyes. The slender, cyan petrifying light clashed against the massive volume of crimson flames.

The two entirely disproportionate energies determined a victor in an instant. In merely a split second, Hephaestus’s Dragon Flame breath was overwhelmed by the petrifying energy. Flames exceeding a thousand degrees exploded in the air. After crushing the Dragon Flame, the petrifying energy did not die down; instead, it shot straight into the clouds, tracing the line of fire all the way up toward the Red Dragon in the sky.

Hephaestus sensed the danger and twisted its body just before the beam arrived. However, the beam’s speed was simply too fast; even with its reaction time, it couldn’t evade completely. The beam ultimately pierced through its right wing. A gaping hole formed on the crimson membrane of the wing, and the ring of muscle tissue and bone surrounding the void was corroded by the petrifying energy.

CRACK CRACK CRACK!

Flesh and blood were continuously transmuted into lifeless, dull-gray stone. Finally, after spreading outward for about a meter, the petrification was impeded and worn down by the abundant Magic Power gathered within the dragon’s body, bringing the phenomenon to a gradual halt.

Still, the degree of petrification was quite severe. After being turned to stone, Hephaestus’s flight trajectory grew noticeably unbalanced. It flailed and stumbled in the air a few times before regaining its equilibrium. It turned its head to look at the massive, stone-corroded wound on its right wing, surprise and fury flashing across its dragon face.

It was, of course, well aware of the terrifying power possessed by the minuscule Demon below, but it hadn’t expected that, as a noble dragon, it would be left in such a wretched state after enduring just one of her attacks. Especially when it thought about the many people in the nearby castle who were watching this unfold, a deep sense of humiliation at making a fool of itself welled up instantly.

Although it rarely interacted with other humans on an ordinary basis, that did not mean it was entirely ignorant of its surroundings. Ever since it gained sentience, it had also been silently observing everything around Gauss. Naturally, this included the Red Dragon Banner bearing its image. Since its banner was flying, it was only reasonable for it to consider itself half an owner of the place, wasn’t it?