The area was covered by a black lightning as sparks were still releasing from the ground . It was like a pool of black lightning which annihilated everything in his path . In the center of this pool stood a tall man with an extremely handsome face .
This person was Aries . He had been killing monsters for the last 2 hours . The quest he received from the system in this Trial of Ascension is to kill every single monster in the trail and eliminate the boss monster . Aries had to admit that he had overestimated himself a bit .
The beasts in the beginning were weaker than him by many times but as he started to enter near the core area , the strength of the demons started to rise . The demons he currently is facing is either at the same level as him or slightly stronger .
He had been killing from 2 hours and still didn't reach the boss room . According to the system's observation , he had killed over 1000 demons within two hours and thus , all the demons in the trail except the boss has been eliminated .
He forwarded his feet towards furthur within . As he was walking , the space seemed to slow down as a crack formed on its surface and a huge door summoned before him . Aries was sensitive to spatial cracks because he himself is a space element awakener .
He saw the door before him and entered without furthur ado . The room which he reached was dark but it wasn't empty . Something lived inside as his movements and disturbance in spatial fluctuations caught Aries's attention . This was the boss monster .
The boss monster looked towards him . His eyes were like burning coal . They were dark but released a glow which was ethereal . Aries understood at first glance that this monster was much stronger than he imagined .
"System , appraise him"
[Sure]
[Minotaur]
[Rank : Rank 2 (Middle)]
The information was short but Aries gained a rough idea . The monster before him was in a different league of his own . The basic attributes of a Rank 1 (Lower) psychic is 100 points whereas the attributes of a Rank 2 (Middle) expert is 500 points . It wasn't a huge gap but it wasn't small either .
Aries understood that he can't win against this monster if he fights it head-on . Moreover , the monster has noticed his presence almost instantly after he entered . It wasn't like this monster noticed it but the monster is made in a way that it can sense the presence of anyone who enters into the room .
Aries started running towards the demon . The minotaur also started rushing towards him with a club on it's hand . The height of the Minotaur was almost 3 meters and the club was almost as the size of Aries , i.e. slightly less than 2 meters . He swinged the club towards Aries but he dodged it .
Aries black thunder suddenly spread out as a heavy bolt of lightning crashed on the demon . It swayed back but didn't lose balance . The club rushed towards Aries in a speed which was unable to be observed by him as he got hit . Aries flew away as he crashed on one end of the hall and spat out blood .
Even though Aries is an awakener but his body is just at the lower level of Rank 1 and thus his physical defense is actually not very high and he was at a slight disadvantage when compared to this demon . Aries regained his senses as he saw that the minotaur had raised his club and was about to strike him .
Aries slid and moved from it direction . He was thinking of a way to directly kill the beast . The idea which came to his mind was a heavy beam of lightning like a canon but there is a little problem . The attack can only be used in a straight line and if the target moves from his location he cannot be hit .
Aries has infinite energy and thus his energy won't exhaust no matter how much he uses . He planned to use something to bind the demon and the first thought was about his space element . Although , each element requires a certain level of understanding before it can be used but his space talent came with some basic manuals and methods integrated in his mind . He doesn't even know that whether this is a characteristics of X-Rank talents .
Aries raised his hand as four spatial cracks formed around the demon . From within those cracks came chains which tightly wrapped around the demon's hands and feet making him unable to move . Aries didn't stop . He started to concentrate as much energy possible for the current him .
Soon , a ball of the size of a football formed but Aries felt it wasn't enough . He started to compress the ball instead of expanding while keeping the amount of energy within it same . It took 5 seconds for the football sized energy ball turned into the size of a pool ball as he threw it towards the demon .
As soon as it came in contact , the black lightning surged out from within and engulfed the demon directly killing it without even the chance to breathe .
[Congratulations , you have passed the Trial of Ascension]
[Your stat cap has been increased]
[You are rewarded with an SS-level technique 'Thunder Punishment' technique]