Eldritch Creature's Guide

Soon enough, they entered the territory of the first Two-Faced Monkey gang, as Samiel termed these little communities, and were advancing slowly because the enviroment was really against them. The dense forest, filled with countless types of vegetation and trees everywhere, made it very hard to move in any direction, and they needed to be extra careful when taking each step forward.

The two of them walked like this for more than half an hour before they finally arrived at a certain place, as both of them heard the sounds of Two-Faced Monkeys communicating with each other, so they knew that a battle was about to break out soon.

The Two-Faced Monkeys were pretty careful, as they were scanning both Samiel and Yvriane from tip to toe, before deciding to use their numbers to overwhelm them and kill them. As Samiel looked around, he sensed around 120 Two-Faced Monkeys, which was certainly a lot, but not that lot. Most of them were only around the Peak of the Iron-Tier and Steel-Tier, with only fifteen were at the Bronze-Tier.

Because Samiel started hiding his Eldritch's aura, the Two-Faced Monkeys didn't sense any kind of danger from him; thus, they roared in the air, jumping across the trees and rushing directly at both of them. Most of the Magical Beasts at this stage were not exactly the epitome of smartness, and they depended solely on their instincts and nothing else.

Completely unaware that they were rushing directly at their death because this was something that Samiel wanted. His most common strategy of using these kinds of feelings and emotions against them, and as expected, it worked perfectly every time.

Ignorance is bliss and arrogance is the best thing that could happen to your enemy because it leads to carelessness, and carelessness leads to death, usually to a quick death, but sometimes even to a painful death; it really depends on the circumstances.

Samiel outstretched both of his hands, and two blue magic circles appeared on both of them, and in with the combination of Level 3 Ultimate Ability Winter Ruler and the Winter Magic, he started spamming icicles faster than a machine gun, at the incoming swarm of the Two-Faced Monkeys.

Literarily, hundreds of them were spammed in a matter of one minute as the Two-Faced Monkeys, who looked at the incoming barrage of icicles in wonder, not realizing how much in danger they were until the first icicle pierced the head of the leading peak Level 25 Steel-Tier Two Faced Monkey.

And soon enough, the rest followed suit, as with each icicle that hit its target, another Two-Faced Monkey was killed, and within just several minutes, all 120+ Two-Faced Monkeys were slaughtered like cattle. No one survived, as all of them were killed, while Yvraine recorded this so she could progress with the Extermination Missions she took from The Guild.

At the same time, as Samiel was spamming the icicles at the incoming mini-horde of the Two-Faced Monkeys, he heard the notification from the Akashic Records when the familiar translucent message window appeared before his eyes.

[Proficiency with the Level 3 Ultimate Ability Winter Ruler has been increased by 1%.]

[Proficiency with the Level 3 Ultimate Ability Winter Ruler has been increased by 1%.]

[Proficiency with the Lord Class Knight of Niflheim has been increased by 1%.]

[Proficiency with the Winter Magic has been increased by 1%.]

[Proficiency with the Winter Magic has been increased by 1%.]

Right now, his proficiency with the Winter Ruler was 35% which was an astounding rate, considering that he was still only at the Mortal Level. However, Samiel already realized that any further progress was becoming harder and harder. Though such an outcome was understandable, he was still very lucky because he had a tremendous affinity for the concept of Winter, Frost and Ice, and due to that, he was able to quickly increase his proficiency with the Level 3 Ultimate Ability despite being only mortal.

Especially the progress related to his Lord Class Knight of Niflheim, which right now reached 32%, in truth Samiel didn't even know what to do to properly increase his proficiency with the Lord Class Knight of Niflheim he had; hopefully, it would be solved with time because reaching the Legendary Level required mastery of the Class to the 100%.

That seemed to be almost mission impossible for current Samiel, and that was the problem of the people who, when awakened and became Class Bearers, got some very high-ranked and powerful Class. Their progress would be tremendously slow, and many would have a problem reaching the Legendary Level... as one said, there was nothing free in the Cosmos, as everything came with an appropriate price in the end.

After he slaughtered the group of the Two-Faced Monkeys, he collected their departing souls, which would serve as snacks for later and checked that he also killed the Alpha of the colony, which meant that that entire colony was probably here lying dead beneath his feet.

"Come on; we need to move... there are still a lot of the colonies we need to clear before arriving at the northernmost parts of the island, where the fortress of the Human Brotherhood is located."

Yvraine stated as she woke Samiel from his trance of observing countless killed Two-Faced Monkeys whom he killed in one hit before he turned to her, and they departed towards the depths of the forest and, more importantly, the northern parts of the island, where the mission of cleaning the trenches awaited.

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Several hours later, both of them had already crossed through a good part of the island and annihilated another six colonies of the Two-Faced Monkeys that were on the map. Right now, they have already created a somehow safe passage towards the Imp Demon troops that would be launching the siege on the fortress of the Human Brotherhood after they are done with cleaning the trenches and disposing of the Two-Faced Monkeys.

"We are nearing the next one... according to the Nefertari, this would be the biggest we have encountered with over 2,000 Two-Faced Monkeys, with the Alpha Two-Faced Monkey being at the Silver-Tier, meaning this should be one of the strongest colonies on the entire island if I am not wrong."

Samiel said the information he got from the Nefertari, who was flying above them, scouting and providing Samiel with some crucial information. The heroic scouting cat once again proved her species' superiority as she was scouting the area, securing the information that Samiel crucially needed.

In truth, that was because they were advancing that fast; as Nefertari was able to scout the area, Samiel was effectively able to ambush the Two-Faced Monkeys. Samiel then started summoning his Undeads, together with Ashimer, who took command of half of Samiel's Undeads and started encircling the resting space of these precise Two-Faced Monkeys.

'Star advancing towards them... target the bigger monkey and those with the highest Tier as first. We need to take care of the leaders of the group, who have commanding capabilities on their own kind.'

Samiel said to Ashimer through their connection. In each colony of the Two-Faced Monkeys, aside from the Alpha, which was essentially the leader of the entire colony, there were also some other strong monkeys, which were basically the Betas. These ones were some sort of caste among the Two-Faced Monkeys and were something akin to the guard of the Alpha and his retinue.

After Samiel gave an order to Ashimer, he too started advancing towards the place where the colony of the Two-Faced Monkeys was located. It was pretty interesting that this precise colony had even managed to build some sort of housing atop of the huge trees that were across the place.

Samiel looked at the housing as he started blasting them with the 3rd Level Spells Void Strikes, one after another, as not even seconds later, all of the Two-Faced Monkeys started escaping their primitive wooden houses in hundreds.

Each Void Strike that Samiel released took down one of the wooden houses that the Two-Faced Monkeys built atop of the highest trees, as the Two-Faced Monkeys were running out of the houses in panic. Jumping from the tree to tree before they started landing down on the ground, where Ashimer, together with hordes of Undeads, were already waiting for them.

The moment the poor creatures landed down, they were met with sharp blades and axes, as the Undeads knew no mercy and were killing the still disoriented Two-Faced Monkeys, who only now realized that they were being attacked, as their attackers were slaughtering them in hundreds with each passing minute.

Unfortunately for the poor magical creatures, Samiel planned the entire plan in this way. Through the ambush on their houses, because Samiel chose the time period where the Two-Faced Monkeys were resting after lunch, he attacked them with the Void Strikes, which was an extremely destructive spell.

After they were attacked in this way, if they survived, then the first reaction would be to escape, where they would land on the ground. During the entire moment, aside from a few injuries that they would suffer, is the disorientation brought by them from the impact of the Void Strike.

Of course, this brief period of time was exploited by the Undeads, who worked like machines and killed anything that landed down from the trees. Yvraine was helping out the Undeads as she danced in between the Two-Faced Monkeys, chopping off the heads like rollercoasters, be it from Iron-Tier, Steel-Tier or Bronze-Tier ones.

After half an hour, the Undeads under Ashimer's leadership and Yvraine, finished off the last Two-Faced Monkey, as the entire colony was properly exterminated. With this, they were once again closer to completing the Mission from The Guild.

Part one, which was essentially the creation of the path for the Imps, was almost done, and only a few gangs of the Two-Faced Monkeys remained on the list. Fortunately, because this was one of the biggest colonies, the others were significantly smaller compared to this, even though, with Samiel's current firepower, at worst, he could just drop somewhere the 5th Level Spell Void Bomb and them entirely to oblivion.

After passing through three more colonies like this, albeit much smaller ones, Samiel and Yvraine finally arrived at the northernmost area of the Two-Faced Monkey Island, where the fortress of the Human Brotherhood was located, and that, where Samiel's mission from The Guild laid.

Hidden atop of the tree, both of them were having one of the already pre-prepared lunches that Samiel ordered and let packed, stored in his Dimensional Ring, for later usage, just like this one. It came pretty much handy to have something good to eat, and from this place where they were eating, not only could they enjoy a beautiful view of the island, but they also were observing the trench lines of the Human Brotherhood.

The humans built there three lines of trenches that were not interconnected together, meaning if one fell, the other would be safe because there was no route toward the remaining ones. What made the situation worse was clearly they received some help from the Magisterium or the Avalon Kingdom because he sensed some powerful Wards in that place.

Clearly, the entire area of trenches was warded as hell against the aerial enemies, and also probably some other types of defensive wards. The magical defenses were far more problematic than the physical ones because Samiel was not an expert in the warding and didn't really know what those wards were doing and their purpose.

Thus the sole solution to that problem was just to blast them out with the 5th Level Spell Void Bomb and destroy everything. From the power of those wards, they were set by the Silver-Tier Caster, so they should be able to resist even 7th Level Spells. Fortunately for him, the Void Magic was far more powerful and destructive in nature than average Magic, so one or two Void Bombs would take care of the problem for them.

"They devised entire defenses in a way that you need to progress methodically, starting from the outermost trench to the innermost. Of course, the moment the outermost one is attacked, the remaining two would be notified and increase their defenses up to 120%."

Samiel stated as the hundreds of corpses belonging to the Imps that were decaying all around the place were proof of his statement. That was the first thing both of them noticed when they climbed the tree, as there were hundreds of them, if not thousands.

It seemed that the last attempt of the Imps at this place ended in pretty much absolute disaster. Though if not, then they wouldn't be here; that was logical.