Chapter 84: Requirements For Evolving Wind Monarch Skill (Part 1)

Woosh! Woosh! — — — —

"Damn it, these guys are really troublesome..." Evan muttered as he dodged sharp, needle-like spikes flying at him from every direction.

Suddenly, he stopped and stretched out his hand at lightning speed, grabbing a nearly fifty-centimeter-long bone spike that was about to hit his face.

A cold look flashed in Evan’s eyes as he waved his hand, shooting the spike back in the direction it had come from.

Woosh!

The spike disappeared behind the bushes, and a split second later—

Shriek!

A painful shriek reached Evan’s ears, followed by a notification.

[You have killed Unranked Spike Rat Level 24.]

Behind the bushes, a plump rat covered in bone armor, with spikes protruding from all over its body, had a hole in its head.

Evan didn’t even look at it and continued moving as more sharp spikes came at him from every direction.

"To think I would enter a rat den..." He muttered under his breath, his eyes filled with irritation.

After encountering the strange grass field yesterday, Evan had planned to increase his strength a bit more before going there so that he could handle any unexpected situation.

That’s why he didn’t fly there using Wings of Wind and was traveling on foot instead, so that he could kill some magical beasts along the way and increase his strength.

While walking, he accidentally came across these Spike Rats, which lived in large groups and were best at sneak attacks.

Because of their large numbers, although Evan had already killed over thirty of them, there was still no sign of them stopping their attacks.

If he wanted, he could have used Wings of Wind to immediately escape and avoid these rats.

But the Dream Forest was a special place.

Inside this forest, there wasn’t a single magical beast that could fly.

It was because as long as someone flew inside or above the Dream Forest, their mind would be affected by a strange power, making them fall into a nightmare.

No one knew the reason behind this strange power that covered the entire Dream Forest.

This was also the reason Evan dared to enter the Dream Forest despite knowing that there were Rank Two magical beasts here.

Because there were no flying-type magical beasts here, he could escape from any danger using Wings of Wind.

Although there was a power that affected people’s minds when they flew, it took effect very slowly, and as long as he didn’t fly for long, it wouldn’t put him in danger.

Even though he wouldn’t be in immediate danger after flying, Evan wanted to avoid using his wings if possible. That’s why he didn’t fly away instantly after encountering this horde of rats that was attacking him.

Evan killed a few more rats, but they were also unranked, and he didn’t gain anything by killing them.

Moreover, the other rats didn’t stop their assault and continued attacking him from all directions.

’These bastards are just wasting my time...’

Evan took a deep breath, and a cold gleam flashed in his eyes.

Suddenly, he stopped dodging the bone spikes that were coming at him from all directions.

Shriek! Shriek! — — — —

The instant he stopped, hundreds of shrieks from Spike Rats echoed from behind the different bushes, and bone spikes flew at him from every direction.

But suddenly, strong gusts of wind appeared in the surroundings out of nowhere, and the spikes coming at him were swept away by them.

Not only that, the gusts of wind slowly began to rotate around Evan, turning into a rotating cyclone.

As the bone spikes came toward him, all of them were caught inside the rotating cyclone and began spinning around Evan along with the wind.

At first, the Spike Rats didn’t think too much of it and continued to attack.

But after a minute, the spikes coming at Evan slowly stopped, and all the rats hidden in different places looked in his direction with horror-filled eyes.

Around Evan, a wind tornado with a diameter of about twenty meters and a height of about ten meters was rapidly spinning, filled with sharp bone spikes.

The over three hundred mana points on Evan’s status window rapidly decreased, and as his mana decreased, the height and power of the tornado continued to increase.

By the time the rats stopped sending sharp bone spikes at him, he only had fifty-two mana points left on his status window, and his face was somewhat pale.

But although his face was pale, a wide grin was spread across his face.

"It’s too late to realize something is wrong..."

Evan muttered when he noticed that the rats were no longer attacking him, and a cold gleam flashed in his eyes.

"Explode."

His soft yet icy voice echoed throughout the forest, and his remaining fifty points of mana also disappeared.

The rapidly spinning tornado suddenly contracted sharply, and the next instant—

BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

It expanded outward and exploded, sending out extremely powerful shockwaves along with sharp bone spikes in every direction.

Woosh! Woosh! Woosh! — — — —

The bone spikes pierced through everything that came into their path, while the shockwaves turned everything into dust.

Bang! Bang! Bang! — — — —

All the trees within an area of two hundred meters exploded into wooden splinters under the shockwaves, and all the rats exploded into blood mist.

Their bodies were first pierced by bone spikes before being blown away by the shockwaves.

Ground, trees, stones...Everything within a diameter of 200 meters around Evan completely disappeared.

At the same time—

[You have killed Unranked Spike Rat Level 25.]

[You have killed Rank One Spike Rat Level 43. You have acquired +23 Health, +15 Mana, +18 Stamina.]

[You have killed Unranked Spike Rat Level 22.]

[You have killed Unranked Spike Rat Level 22.]

[You have killed Unranked Earth Lizard Level 15.]

[You have killed Rank One Spike Rat Level 39. You have acquired +21 Strength, +24 Agility, +17 Magic.]

[You have killed Unranked Metal Ant Level 9.]

[You have killed — — — —.]

[You have killed — — — —.]

A flood of notifications appeared on Evan’s status window as all the magical beasts and monsters in the area were killed by him.