Cosmic Peak

[Ancient Creature, Huyon]

-Lifeform: Special

-Health: [90,000/90,000]

-Attack: Phy. [10,900], Crystal Earth[8,450]

-Defense: Phy. [4000], Energy [2540], Soul [500]

-Skills: <Cust Rain>, <Sancrtum O'bell>, <Power Punch>

-Abilities: <Crystal Bios>, [Crysite Fort].

Seeing the creature's stats, Aren became serious, 'It's big, which I usually have an advantage against. However, I need to see the speed of its attacks.'

Aren also saw the target of his second objective, the floating crystal on the pedestal. He has to destroy it as well.

The crystalized giant with dark green and bright orange patterns on its body roared and opened his mouth towards Aren as several small crystalized beam shards released from its mouth.

Seeing their speed, Aren's expression changed as he hurriedly tried to dodge and barely succeeded.

'That was fast!' Aren thought in surprise, and he couldn't afford to fly chaotically this time because the area of this attack was very wide.

He had to dodge that attack skill of the giant with precision. Otherwise, he could get hit by one of the crystallized shard beams.

<Demonic Flame: Zarkhel> activated.

<Icy Enchant> also activated.

Aren's gears were already around him, so without further ado, he manipulated his [Lech] and [Pyrin] to attack the giant and distract it. He most used fireball towards its eyes to block its vision.

As for [Destructo], he started preparing for its powerful attack by buffing it.

He consumed 300 mutant magic energy 200 soul energy and activated <Impact Bust> and <Hyper Charge> both as the hammer seethed with power.

*Shaa..shaa...*

Aren dodged the incoming shard beam rain towards him as he was focused on it.

-1890 (fireball)

-3840 (sound slash)

Aren was surprised at the low damage caused by his weapon attacks, and he could only guess that it was related to its <Crystal Bios> ability.

*TONG...TONG...*

Before Aren could unleash his hammer attack, the giant clapped his hand as a loud bell-like sound reverberated everywhere. A strange energy wave shot towards Aren that was undodgeable.

Aren hurridly used [Hexira] in front of him as he hid by the shield while also activating Wolven Sun Barrier.

As the waves hit the wolven sun barrier first, it broke. After that, the wave hit the Hexhira shield, and it started to get pushed back. However, Aren felt dizzy as the strange wave went into his ears when those waves first hit the Wolven Sun barrier and broke it.

[Aura of Resistance triggers.]

Aren was snapped out of the daze as he started sweating, 'damn!'

Without wasting any time, he manipulated his hammer and attacked.

The hammer went straight for the giant's crystal head.

However, the giant seemed to have sensed threat as it roared, and a crystalized wall appeared around it right before the hammer hit it.

*BOOOOOOOOOM....*

The crystal shards flew everywhere as the giant's defense was broken, and the hammer hit the giant's head with lower intensity as the crystalized wall did its job.

-43,780

*Roarrrrr!!!....*

The giant roared and dashed towards Aren as both its giant crystal fists glowed with intense energy.

Aren flew higher and higher as he went 900 meters high in the sky. He didn't want to take any risk going close to that giant.

Seeing Aren escaping in the sky, the giant roared in anger while Aren prepared another powerful Hammer attack with the same amount of energies spent as previously.

After roaring in anger, the giant punched in the sky using both fists towards Athan.

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOM...*

Two ten meters wide and thirty meters long giant punch projection filled with intense offensive power shot towards Aren at a breakneck speed.

However, Aren quickly positioned himself between those two punches and dodged the attack before manipulating his hammer to attack the giant's head again.

The giant didn't conjure another crystal wall around it, or rather, it couldn't as the hammer hit its head even faster than a bullet and...

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM....*

[An ancient creature Hyron killed, 10,000 exp gained.]

The crystalized giant broke into pieces, but as Aren was looking at it, he caught something shining brightly with his eyes and descended.

A fist-sized dark green crystal with bright orange patterns.

[Huyon Gemstone]

-Rank: rare.

-Effect: Use it in the process of forging a gold-tier or higher-grade item to grant additional effects related to Huyon.

Aren put it inside the inventory, 'guess I'll use it when I craft my next gear.'

Afterward, he flew towards the giant crystal and started attacking it.

[Power Nucleus]

-Durability: [100,000/100,000]

Aren started attacking with basic attacks of his [Destruco] and [Lech] to save his spirit energy.

After a few seconds, Aren produced an idea, 'It would be good if I could make a gear with artificial intelligence in it, and it should also be able to use my gears. Then I would just need to command it, and it would attack using my gears.'

'Or...,' Aren suddenly narrowed his eyes as he thought of the concept that was clear in this world, 'A soul...hmmm, a soul becomes an AI.'

But he then shook his head, 'however, I don't know how I can incorporate it in my gear crafting. I would need more knowledge on gear crafting for that.'

Aren couldn't do it now, but he believed that something like that was definitely possible. Actually, after arriving in this world and experiencing such magical phenomenons, Aren felt that anything, literally anything imagined, was possible.

After a while, Aren destroyed the crystal and then started meditating to recover the energies that he spent.

He consumed a lot of energy this time, so it took him a bit than half an hour to get into his peak condition.

Afterward, he left through the same way he arrived here and returned to the vast hall.

This time, he went to the west-direction door.

However, he was surprised that the scene here was the same. There was the same ancient creature, Huyon, with the same scenery.

Since he was familiar with it now, Aren defeated it the same way as before and came out after 40 minutes in his peak condition.

Next, he went to the north door, and this time, he encountered a vastly different scenery.

'Not big space, limited height, and...that powerful-ass creature,' Aren thought as an unprecedented, serious look surfaced on his face.

*Screeeeeeeeeeee!!!!*

Without wasting a single second, Aren activated 2nd effect of his most powerful skill <Demonic Overlord>.