“What’s going on?” Lux thought as he, and his clones, evaded the corrosive spray that the revived Octopath unleashed in his direction.

A black mist, which reeked of death and decay oozed out from the Octopath’s body, making Lux realize something.

‘It has been revived as an Undead,’ Lux’s expression became solemn after he understood the situation. ‘Either someone revived it, or it just automatically revived due to the special feature of this territory. Maybe there’s another reason, but that’s not important right now.’

Lux and Eiko once again unleashed their Dragon Breaths in order to deal with the revived monster, but something unexpected happened.

The Black Mist that was oozing off the Monster’s body formed a barrier to protect it, preventing their combined attack from breaking past its defenses.

The red-headed teenager then opened his Soul Book to try to see the monster’s information, and what he saw made his face turn grim.

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< Animated Abyssal Octopath Monster >

– Animated Abyssal Creature

– Unholy Beast of Death

Health: 43,250,030 / 45,500,000

Mana: 4,830,000 / 5,200,000

Strength: 5,000

Intelligence: 2,000

Vitality: 4,000

Agility: 4,000

Dexterity: 4,000

Active Skills: Corrosion Spray, Tentacle Whip, Bind, Infestation.

Passive Skills: Unholy Aura [EX]

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< Unholy Aura >

– Grants the Unholy Power of the Dead, greatly raising the monster’s physical, and magical attacks, as well as its defenses by 300%

– Allows the black mist to automatically block physical and magical attacks at the cost of Mana.

– The Monster can also freely control the barrier if it wishes. Prioritizing attacks that threaten it the most.

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‘What a pain,’ Lux cursed internally. ‘Wait… isn’t this an Undead? Maybe I can tame it!”

Lux hadn’t tried taming a strong Undead Monster before, so he decided to give it a try. After giving mental orders to his Undead Army, the Half-Elf flew to the Octopath’s blindspot in order to get in range for his Tame Undead [EX] skill.

“Tame Undead!” Lux shouted as he pointed his finger at the back of the revived Octopath Monster.

A moment later, several rows of text appeared in front of him, which confirmed the Half-Elf’s earlier suspicion.

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< Tame Undead [EX] has failed! >

< This Monster has been revived by someone stronger than the Host. Overwriting their contract is impossible! >

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“Sh*t!” Lux muttered before flying away in order to gain a safe distance from the monster, who had started to use its long tentacles to lash out at the Skeleton Gangbangers, who had tried to use swarm tactics on its body.

“Pazuzu!” Lux ordered. “Do it!”

The Fortress Defender, as well as the other Elite Shield Protectors, formed a defensive formation, placing their shields in front of them.

“Duel [EX]!” Pazuzu pointed at the rampaging monster, forcing the Animated Octopath to head in their direction.

The Octopath then extended one of its long tentacles to smash the Fortress Defender, who had tried to taunt it from a distance.

“Shield Wall!” Pazuzu roared, and a giant blue tower shield appeared in front of him.

The other Elite Shield Protectors also used their Shield Wall ability, creating a wall of blue Tower Shields in front of them.

Lux’s and Eiko’s clones had positioned themselves in the Monster’s blindspot and once again unleashed their Dragon Breaths in an attempt to catch the monster by surprise.

Zagan, Lazarus, Ishtar, the Skeleton Arcane Hunters, and the Liches had also unleashed their long-ranged attacks, targeting different parts of the monster.

However, to their dismay, the black mist once again covered the monster’s body, focusing only on the parts targeted by their Dragon Flames.

This was the first time that Lux had witnessed such an incredible feat, so it caught him by surprise.

The only silver lining was that the mist had focused on his and Eiko’s attacks, which allowed every other attack to land on its body.

However, due to its high Health Points, the attacks that hit its body only did minimal damage.

‘It knows which attacks threaten it the most,’ Lux thought. ‘It seems that I have no choice but to fight it in a battle of attrition. This is going to take a while. I just hope that no other Abyssal Creatures spawn at that time.’

While Lux and his army were doing their best to fight against the Animated Abyssal Creature, Gaap and Asmodeus were busy chatting with each other.

“This Unholy Aura is good,” Asmodeus commented. “If all of his Undead Monsters were to have it, their survivability would also increase.”

“Any decent Necromancer will be able to utilize this if they embrace the true ways of our arts,” Gaap stated. “For that to happen, he needs to be a little ruthless and not stick to morality and all that goody-two-shoes mentality. Just looking at his Undead makes me feel as if one of my teeth is about to fall out. You spoiled him too much.”

Asmodeus shook his head and argued with the old man, telling him that there should be other ways to develop a similar ability to the Unholy Aura without changing one’s principles.

“Are you perhaps living in a rose-colored-dream?” Gaap asked in a teasing tone. “Do you think that this world will allow someone to live happily ever after? Those only happen in fairy tales.”

“Are you talking from experience?” Asmodeus asked. “Why are you so salty? Nothing is black and white. Even though I think that my Master is too nice to be a Necromancer, his growth is phenomenal.

“Do you know? He only started going to Elysium a year ago and he is now a Peak Initiate. He even overtook his peers who started earlier than him. My Master is the real deal, you know?”

Gaap scoffed after hearing Asmodeus’ words. He didn’t believe a single word that the Archlich said.

He had met several Foreigners in the past and understood that it would take them a few years in order to reach the Initiate Rank. Of course, there were other methods like forcefully absorbing Beast Cores in order to raise one’s stats.

However, this method was frowned upon by the Power Houses because even if someone brute-forced their way to reach a certain Rank, they would be inherently weaker than those who had achieved it through the proper channels.

Gaap might not feel impressed by Lux’s performance, but that didn’t mean that he thought that he was bad either.

A blank canvas was a good thing because it meant that it could be used to draw a beautiful painting, and for Gaap, Lux was that blank canvas.

If he were able to teach him how to perform the proper strokes, then without a doubt, the Half-Elf would gain a power that he never thought was possible in the past.