piratefiction Chapter 2 Talent Plunder
Chapter 2 Talent Plunder
Whoosh!!
The abyss dragon released the rhinoceros monster, its blood-stained mouth slightly open as it gasped for breath.
It was only then that Chen Zheng, who was experiencing a life-or-death battle for the first time, felt nervous and fearful. His heart was pounding and his limbs felt weak.
Once its emotions had calmed down a bit, the Abyss Dragon looked around.
By this time, the other primal monsters had already killed their opponents and were devouring and tearing at them with voracious appetites. The entire cave was filled with the guttural sounds of swallowing, which were chilling.
Want some?
If it eats or not, it will be the next to die after those monsters become stronger by feeding.
Chen Zheng acted decisively, and with the devouring instinct from the abyss dragon, he took a bite out of the rhinoceros monster and found that it tasted pretty good.
The blood is sweet, and the meat is chewy and delicious.
Of course, Chen Zheng thought it tasted good because the taste buds of the Abyss Dragon were different from those of humans.
The abyssal earth dragon tore off chunks of flesh and blood, swallowing them whole and digesting them in the blink of an eye—a unique devouring ability of the primal abyssal monsters.
All the life energy contained in flesh and blood was absorbed.
Chen Zheng could clearly feel a surge of heat flowing into the limbs and bones of the abyss dragon, its muscle fibers thickening and becoming denser at an imperceptible speed, and its bones humming slightly.
Crack! In the blink of an eye, the Abyss Dragon's size increased by a whole size.
With its rapid devouring, the rhinoceros monster's flesh and blood were completely consumed by the abyssal earth dragon in no time, an astonishing efficiency. Through energy conversion, its size increased from 1.5 meters to 1.6 meters.
"Devoured the flesh and blood of extraordinary creatures, Life Essence +2"
"Plunderable talent detected: Charge: A short-range charge that slams into the target, dealing multiple times the damage and knocking them back."
"What a terrible talent, I don't want it." Chen Zheng mentally chose no when faced with the option of whether to plunder it.
Due to the bloodline level, the Abyss Earth Dragon can only plunder one talent at a time. Since there aren't enough slots, careful selection is essential.
Feeling the increased power within its body, the abyss dragon raised its head.
By this time, most of the monsters in the Blood Lake had almost finished eating, and like the Abyss Dragon, they raised their heads to look for the next suitable prey to attack.
There are currently twenty monsters still alive.
The abyss dragon's gaze swept across the entire area before settling on a monster a dozen meters away.
It was a slender monster, resembling a mutated lizard, less than 1.2 meters long, covered in dark gray scales.
The most striking feature is the monster's tail.
It is long and narrow, sharp, and more than half the length of its body. Its end is like a poisoned bone spike, gleaming coldly in the blood-red glow of the lake.
The monster's prey was a carapace-covered monster over half a meter long, its body covered in bone plates, making its defense top-notch among the newly hatched monsters.
Ordinary monsters' bites can't break through your defenses at all.
But the lizard monster's tail pierced precisely through the gap in its shell, penetrating the shelled monster's head.
At this moment, the tail stinger was still inside the prey, and the red lines on its surface were flashing brightly and dimly, continuously drawing out the essence of the prey's flesh and blood.
Under the watchful gaze of the abyssal earth dragon, the shelled monster's body shrank at a visible rate.
Meanwhile, the lizard monster's body was slowly expanding, and in just a short while, its length grew to over 1.4 meters, its fine scales shimmering, making it look increasingly ferocious.
It devours with its tail, and its devouring efficiency is faster and its absorption rate is higher than that of the Abyssal Earth Dragon's fangs.
The abyss dragon's gaze fell on the tail: "This monster's abilities seem quite good, but I wonder if its talent and tail are linked."
"Never mind, let's just kill them first."
call!
The abyssal dragon exhaled hot air from its nostrils, lowered its body, and used the remains of several monsters as cover to bypass the lizard monster from the side and rear.
Hoho! !
In the blood-red lake, the remaining abyssal monsters also launched a second round of fighting.
A toad-like monster and a six-legged worm-like monster collided, their roars deafening, blood and flesh splattering everywhere—this was the selection process from the abyss.
Only those that survive are the true monsters of the abyss.
At this moment, the lizard monster finished devouring, and its tail spike was pulled out of its shriveled carapace.
Its body length was almost that of an abyssal earth dragon, and the edges of its dark gray scales shimmered with a faint red light, a sign that the life essence it had just absorbed had not yet been fully digested.
Right now.
Boom! Water splashed out as the Abyss Earth Dragon burst forth from behind the skeleton of a demon, its four claws stomping the ground, its 1.6-meter-tall body stretching into a black shadow over a short distance.
The Abyss Dragon's target wasn't the lizard monster's head or body, but its tail.
Its strongest weapon must be destroyed before it can use its tail spike.
However, the lizard monster reacted much faster than the rhinoceros monster. Before it could even turn its body, its tail had already lashed out, its tail spikes stabbing towards the abyss dragon like swords.
There was no anticipation, no aiming, it was purely instinctive reflex, but the reflex was ridiculously fast.
With a stomp of its hind claw, the abyssal dragon shifted its weight from its four limbs to one leg, rotating its body thirty degrees around its waist, just barely grazing its tail spike that pierced the air.
Before the lizard monster could retract its tail, the abyssal earth dragon's right claw had already fallen from the side.
It wasn't a demon's attack, but the first move of the Thirteen Forms of Viper Tendons: Viper Probes the Way.
The right claw is clenched like a human fist, and the power spirals out from the waist. The waist and hips twist in sync, and the power travels from the hind claw over the leg, waist, and shoulder.
Crack! The claw's back joint, gathering all the power of the body, slammed into the base of the lizard monster's tailbone, shattering the vertebrae.
hiss!
The lizard monster opened its mouth and let out a sharp screech, but there was no anger, only a limp tail and the instinctive panic of losing its strongest attack ability.
The abyssal earth dragon gave the lizard monster no chance to react.
In the instant it destroyed its spiked tail, its left claw slammed down like a bull's stomp, delivering a powerful downward strike to the lizard monster's head.
Splash! Water exploded as the lizard monster's head was shoved into the water by that claw.
Roar! A low growl exploded.
The abyss dragon opened its massive jaws and bit down hard on the lizard monster's nape. Its sharp fangs, under the powerful bite force, slowly pierced through the scales and tore through the flesh.
With its head submerged in water, its neck bitten, and its tail out of control, the lizard monster struggled with its limbs, splashing water everywhere.
The lizard monster, which was only a little over 1.4 meters long with its tail taking up half of its length and its body only a little over 70 centimeters long, was suppressed by the Abyss Earth Dragon in both size and strength.
It lasted less than two minutes before the lizard monster abruptly stopped struggling as its cervical vertebrae were snapped off by the abyssal dragon.
"This tail is mine now." Chen Zheng's lips curled up into a ferocious smile. Without hesitation, he lowered his head and began to devour it.
With a soft splatter, chunks of flesh were torn off and devoured by the abyssal earth dragon, its energy and life essence being rapidly absorbed and transformed.
Instantly, a heat even more intense than that of the rhinoceros monster spread throughout the abyss dragon's body, causing its muscle fibers to tremble slightly and its bones to emit a fine hum.
Click click!
Scales stretched out, bones developed, and soon the lizard monster's flesh and blood were devoured by the abyssal earth dragon, and its body length increased from 1.6 meters to 1.8 meters.
With its increased size, muscle and bone density, and thicker scales, the Abyssal Earth Dragon's overall strength has also been greatly enhanced.
"Devoured the flesh and blood of extraordinary creatures, Life Essence +4"
"Detected plunderable talent: Bloodthirsty Tail Sting, a body mutation talent that can pierce into the target's body and rapidly devour its flesh and blood essence."
[Was it looting?]
"plunder!"
"Plunder successful. Gained the physical mutation talent [Bloodthirsty Tail Sting]."
"Effect: When the tail spike devours, the efficiency of flesh and blood energy absorption is increased by 15%"
As a series of prompts appeared, an unusual heat emanated from the base of the abyssal dragon's tail.
Originally, the tail of the Abyssal Earth Dragon only accounted for one-third of its body length, with a rounded end, mainly serving a balancing function.
At this moment, with the burst of genetic talent energy, the tail cells of the Abyss Dragon split wildly, and segment after segment of tail vertebrae broke through the scales from the tip of the tail and extended outward.
Muscle fibers are torn, reassembled, torn again, and reassembled again, with each tear accompanied by the sound of fine bone growth.
In just a few minutes, the Abyssal Earth Dragon's tail extended from one-third of its body length to nearly one-half, and its overall body length surged to 2.4 meters.
After the mutation, the middle and rear sections of the tail became slender, and the scales at the end fell off, replaced by a bare black bone spur, sharp and flat, like a miniature dagger.
There is a tiny hole in the middle of the bone spur, which is the channel for absorbing energy.