The Mysterious Black Magician

Everyone was staring at it with wide mouth open.

"Oh, my — Gawd..." Such words escaped unnoticed from Bob's mouth.

From the idiot expressions that were showing on their faces, it was clear that this was the first time they had witnessed something like this.

Even the smiling guy had a mouth that shaped like '0'. But still, his eyes were in a closed state. This was the biggest question that Yman wanted to know. If how this guy able to see while his eyes like this.

Besides the monster, Kiko was watching at the monster's red bar in disbelief. This red bar was the monster's health points.

Almina, Chloe, and Mai wore the same reactions on their faces. Even the audience far behind had uniformed expressions. Most of them gawked in disbelief. All of them had already expected the monster to die fast and easily. But it didn't happen.

Tsk!

The blonde beauty clicked her tongue. Not far from her, Yman narrowed his eyes while staring at the monster. He noticed the crystal on its forehead briefly gleamed and shined after it healed itself.

A while ago, its body had already been bathed with its own blood of muddy black color from all the wounds it took. Yet now, it completely returned to its original color, like nothing happened in the first place.

Feeling suspicious, Yman knitted his brows. Although he was not sure, he could still remember some of his teacher's teachings.

He said that the monster with '+' on their rank tend to have a crazy mode that will be triggered when the monster's health points dropped at a certain percentage.

But...

A monster in crazy mode usually changed its skin color different from its original color. Then bloodlust and killing intent would burst out from its inner core to the outside. This inner core was where its weird energy was circulating. And an eerie feeling will be felt by all the people around it.

Yet...

This monster's body went back to its original color. No bloodlust, and no killing intent. No eerie feelings either. It was just scary by how huge it originally looks. And the squirming 16 legs looks so bizarre just like before.

After it successfully healed itself, the monster took the initiative in attacking and successfully hit the still in a daze Kiko when it charged towards him.

Its massive body bumped him.

But good thing that his reflexes were able to save him. He managed to negate the bump power by blocking his sword, although he was sent flying towards the tree not too far from his back. Blood spurted from his mouth and -70 health points were visibly taken from his green bar when he collided at the tree branch. It causes the tree with a 1-meter radius thickness to bend and shake. Leaves and branches fell on the ground and a bird's nest with scraps of eggshells landed on Kiko's head like a cap.

"....."

Yman was speechless seeing the sorry situation that Kiko had.

The damage was not too high but still, it's painful. He did not feel the need to use his Mana Membrane ability awhile ago since he had never thought that the situation would come up like this. If he was a little late in blocking the attack, perhaps the damage would be much higher.

Kiko had a total of 500 health points, and right now he had 430 health points left. Still fairly high.

The audience, especially girls, cried out when they saw Kiko bumped into the tree branch. They grieved for him. And feel sorry at his current state. But he quickly stood up. He could not let himself be embarrassed in front of Almina. Almina sent a quick glance at him. Then focus her attention on the monster again.

But when he noticed a slight grin on Yman's face, a pulse in a cross shape surface on his face. While sending a piercing glance at him.

Yman wanted to laugh at Kiko but he chose not. Because the situation was unfavorable for them. Well, he warned them to retreat, but this idiot did not follow his command. So, he only had himself to blame for what happened to him. Although, he secretly said 'good job' to the monster.

|Hehe, I wish to add-friend this monster on my facepalm.com account. But unfortunately, we have to defeat it.|

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Yman did not notice that the blonde sighed at him when she noticed a grin in his mouth. "Such an arrogant weakling who loves seeing his comrade hurt. Hump!" She muttered with a cold gaze. She really doesn't want to fight along with this fool. But she also wanted to arrive at the academy sooner. This travel was already long enough! She was so sick of this! She aimed her arrow and fired three shots.

The monster was able to dodge it though.

Tsk! She was annoyed. For some reason, she could not focus herself. She was annoyed looking at this weak guy!

The sudden attack from the monster alerted each of them. They looked at Yman with questions in their eyes. Which he understood.

Yman was having two conjectures of this monster's ability to heal. First, this monster crazy mode was different from usual. Second, his ability to heal was because of the Magic Cryst that on its forehead.

Among these two conjectures. He more felt that the second one was more valid than the first one. Anyways, in order to confirm his conjectures, there is only one solution. To test it.

"Listen, everyone, that crystal-like object embedded on its forehead is something called Magic Cryst!"

He said.

"Magic ..... Cryst?" Bob and Chloe repeated.

Mai had an 'aha' expression on her face. "Do you mean...the the magic cryst that cost lots of gold points? That it could be fused to any type of weapons or armor? With additional ability or skill?" Mai fired question after question after hearing the familiar name of such an item.

"That's it, Miss Mai. I think that crystal on its forehead was the reason why its health points went back to full again! If we able to ex—!"

"So that's it huh! Then I will destroy iiiit!" Yman was not able to finish his words when Kiko suddenly shouted and was dashing towards the monster, wielding his sword in both hands.

The monster fired the web on its mouth at the approaching Kiko. But he dodged it by leaping side to side. When he arrived near the monster, he jumped about 5 meters high above the ground which was at the level of the monster's head. He wielded his weapon by both hands and lifted it above his head.

"Idiot stop!" Yman cried out. But Kiko seemed did not hear him. No, he chose to disregard him.

Earth Crushing Technique - Meteor Blast!