Cosmic Peak

*Roarrrrrr....*

Aren looked at the roaring Minotaur that started dashing towards him, but Aren simply flew up.

However, the Minotaur's eyes sparked as two laser beams shot from its eyes.

"Slow...," Aren muttered as he easily dodged the lasers since its eyes said it all.

'I can't use my mutant magic energy since I already spent 350 previously, and its recovery speed is 18 merely per minute,' Aren thought as he manipulated his chakram and started attacking the Minotaur with it.

Aren wanted to recover his mutant magic energy completely, and since this stage 2 seemed easy, he decided to shave away Minotour's 60,000 HP using normal attacks. After all, there was no time limit in this stage as well.

While attacking with the chakram, Aren manipulated the hammer as well and released kinetic energy attacks with it.

*BOOOOOOOOM...*

[-23,004]

*ROARRRRRRR.....*

Aren aimed the hammer at the head, but the monster sensed the threat and blocked it using his hand, which caused its arm to blast apart cause of the power of kinetic energy shockwaves.

"You won't last long," Aren muttered as he looked at the angry Minotaur that was annoying them by constantly flying chakram and heavy sword around its head.

It couldn't even sweep those weapons away cause of their fast speed.

Just like that, Aren easily killed the Minotaur with one more hammer attack and other damage that chakrams dealt each second by sharply spinning and attacking.

[Giant Minotaur killed. 4000 Exp gained.]

[Stage 2 cleared. Stage 3 will start in 10 minutes.]

Aren sat down crossed-legged mid-air and entered meditation.

...

Ten minutes later, 3rd stage started.

[Kill 100 Dark Crawlers in 10 minutes.]

Suddenly, the entire world around him changed into that a night with a blood-red moon in the sky.

Aren was slammed down from the sky but stopped right before he hit the ground by a mystical force.

[You can not go higher than 3 meters off the ground.]

[The dark crawlers will start attacking after 3 seconds.]

Aren was surprised and turned serious.

"Kill 100 in ten minutes...," Aren muttered as he took a deep breath and entered into battle focus mode since this stage seemed hard.

*crack...*

Suddenly, Aren dodged before he manipulated the hammer and hit the dark creature with spikes on its body and red eyes, which suddenly came out from the ground.

*crack...**crack...**crack...**crack...**crack...**crack...**crack...**crack...**crack...**crack...**crack...**crack...**crack...**crack...**crack...**crack...**crack...**crack...**crack...*...

Aren face changed as he hurriedly started flying around without pausing.

While flying around, Aren didn't hold back and started attacking with everything he had.

He continuously released <Wind slash> through chakram while the chakram also shredded the beasts. Used <Heavy Strike> using his heavy broad sword while releasing the <Demonic Grasp> skill's seed through the gauntlet.

'This stage was definitely about testing one's defense and fortitude....humph, but I am going to clear it without letting any of those beasts touch me,' Aren thought as he was in full focus mode and continued flying while the dark creatures chased him while getting killed by him.

[27/100]

[28/100]

Aren was killing one to two dark crawlers every second since these creatures had no defense, which also caused the energy barrier of Armalist Cloak's buff to activate.

Despite the low defense, the dark crawlers' speed was relatively high and seemed to have a powerful attack power as well from their large sharp claws, not that Aren had received any damage yet for him to know how powerful they were.

Speed was Aren's forte, and he was dishing out damage through that speed.

Aren got an idea as he manipulated his hammer to create a five hundred-meter distance between it and him.

<Hyper Charge>

<Demonic Flame: Zharkhel>

Aren used those two powers on the hammer while continuing to dodge and run away from dark crawlers.

After flying for ten seconds in a way that gathered a considerable amount of Dark crawlers behind him, Aren manipulated his hammer to attack the bunch.

*BOOOOOOOOM....*

Suddenly, a dark crawling appeared right in front of him as Aren failed to notice it.

Its sharp three claws hit the energy barrier that was activated due to Armalist Cloak's buff of Weimbus and dealt 1396 damage to it.

Energy Barrier: [604/2000]

It barely held, but Aren didn't give it another chance to attack as he kicked it hard by manipulating his legs gear section with his thoughts while flying.

Afterward, he waved his hand and released <Wind Slash> to finish it off.

[67/100]

The large attack of his hammer killed quite a lot since Aren had grouped them up.

He decided to kite them again and kill with one more large attack.

*BOOOOOOOOM...*

[84/100]

After another minute of kiting, Aren gathered many dark crawlers again. From their numbers, it didn't like this stage had limited the numbers of dark crawlers to just 100.

*BOOOOOOOOM...*

[114/100]

Suddenly, all other dark crawlers disappeared, and the bell rang loudly as the same old man's voice resounded.

[Stage 3 completed. 34,200 exp gained. Stage 4 will start in ten minutes.]

Aren hurriedly sat down crossed-legged and started recovering his spirit energy.

He spent a lot of spirit energy in this stage, but he can bring it back to 9145 in ten minutes with meditation.

As for mutant magic energy, he didn't use any. He used his Armalist force, but the recovery of his Armalist force was fastest, and it would easily reach from 400 to 800 max in ten minutes. He noticed that his Armalist force could recover faster than regular by simply doing meditation of spirit energy recovering.

With so much exp, the exp bar of Aren's path also reached halfway to the next level.

[Path- Emporio Armalist]

-Level: 8 [72,904/128,000 Exp]

Ten minutes soon passed as Aren heard the tolling sound of the giant bell and the voice of the old man.

[Stage 4 will start in 3 seconds.]

[Kill ten Hazard Quill Birds in five minutes.]

The world of this trial domain changed again as wind currents started to produce from the ground and a bright day descended.

The entire ground was releasing powerful wind currents that could let someone float even if one didn't have the ability to fly.

*Screeeeeeeeeee...**Screeeeeeeeeee...**Screeeeeeeeeee...*...

Ten portals appeared at different locations in the sky from which ten two meters long birds with four-meter-long wingspan came out.

Aren floated amidst the wind currents as the ten birds surrounded him from all directions.

"Come on!"