Whoosh!
After darting around the area for quite some time, Valyr eventually stopped on a sturdy branch, taking note of a creature grazing within his field of vision from over a hundred meters away. Making sure that he did not trigger the curse, Valyr pushed his perception to its limit as he identified the creature with [Greater Analysis] while he continued to track its movements.
Ding!
As a notification sound resounded in his mind, Valyr moved the screen that had popped up in his field of vision to the side as he watched the creature for a bit longer, wanting to see if there was a pattern in its movements. While doing so, he took note of its appearance, which was similar to all of the other creatures he had encountered and killed before in the way that its fur had a darker shade due to it being in the Shadow Plane.
However, rather than its size being similar to the Shadow Bears and Shadow Lions in the way that it was the same size as a cat or a dog, the creature the young man was looking at seemed to be as large as a wolf.
"I guess I'm up against one of the lowest level predators of the Shadow Plane." Muttering these words to himself, Valyr finally took his gaze away from the creature and looked at the screen he had brought up, only to take in a deep breath as he focused on the creature's physical attributes.
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[Shadow Tiger (Legendary Elite)] (Level 50)
Class: Shadow Tigris (Uncommon)
HP: 8,592/8,592
MP: 3,240/3,240
Stats: 358 VIT, 513 STR, 506 AGI, 360 DEX, 135 INT, 140 WIS, 259 PER, 113 LUK
Skills: ??? (skills unknown due to disparity in strength and level)
Remarks: Better not get hit by one of those paws.
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'Even if I went all out in buffing my stats, I wouldn't be able to escape its clutches even if I wanted to.' Taking in a few more deep breaths as he thought about how he and the boars would go about gaining their attention and killing them, Valyr wondered what his chances of winning were on a one-on-one fight against one of the Shadow Tigers.
'If I only relied on my spearmanship, I'd definitely die.' Of course, it did not take long for him to answer his question, a wry smile gradually creeping up onto his lips. 'Then again, even if I use magic and summoning to fight against the Shadow Tigers, I'd probably still be at the losing end… but at least I'd have a shot at winning.'
'Either way, with the great disparity in stats, the only way to win against them is to catch them off guard.' With that in mind, Valyr proceeded to make a sharp whistle sound with his mouth, prompting the two Arx'has Boars that were trailing behind the young man all this time to start making a ruckus.
Running through the area with all of the speed they could muster, the Arx'has Boars let out loud squeals to attract the Shadow Tigers' attention… which unsurprisingly worked.
"Grooooaarrr…" Letting out a deep growl at the fact that its territory was being trespassed, the Shadow Tiger Valyr had kept his eye on all this time proceeded to head in the direction of where the Arx'has Boars were making sound.
With that, he turned his head to look at what the boars were doing, inwardly nodding in satisfaction once he saw the two boars head their separate ways to attract even more of the Shadow Tigers to where they were.
As time passed, more and more of the Shadow Tigers congregated in the general direction of where the two Arx'has Boars were causing a ruckus, all of them taking their time to head there since they felt that the strength of the beings making the sound were at a level that gave them the confidence to return everything to silence with one hit.
By the time twenty minutes had passed, the two Arx'has Boars had returned to their original locations, with Valyr perched on a top of a nearby branch as he counted the number of Shadow Tigers that had been attracted by what the two boars were doing.
"107… 108… 111…" Feeling like he had moved enough Shadow Tigers into one spot, Valyr stood up and retrieved his spear from his back, inwardly letting out a faint sigh of relief after sensing that his stats weren't decreasing yet. Then, with a loud stomp, he redirected the attention of the Shadow Tigers from the Arx'has Boars to himself as he soon jumped down from the branch.
"Hey!" Shouting out loud to make sure the attention of the Shadow Tigers were solely on him, Valyr proceeded to go over his buffing skills in his mind as he began to circulate Shadow Energy through his body.
Thud!
"Gork!" As Valyr landed on the ground with a loud thud, the two boars spared a glance at him, prompting the young man to nod back at them for a job well done as they began to distance themselves from what was about to happen.
"Groooaarrr…" Aside from the fact that the young man had invaded their territory, with how the young man had given their initial targets the opportunity to flee the scene, all of the Shadow Tigers had become incensed, letting out a deep growl as their auras started to flare up.
"Heh." In response to the hostility the Shadow Tigers were showing, Valyr flared his aura in retaliation, only for it to grow stronger as he then began to activate some of the buffs he had been saving up for this moment.
"[Intermediate Fire Magic Style: Blazing Vigor]."
"[Limit Break]."
"[Offense Aura+]."
Whoosh!
Within seconds, the feeling Valyr's aura gave off was in no way inferior to the auras the Shadow Tigers were giving off. However, because of this response, the Shadow Tigers became far more hostile than before, flaring their auras to their utmost limits as they wanted to show Valyr who among them was the stronger side.
Though, before any of the Shadow Tigers could even make a move on him…
"[Shadow Serpent Style]…"
"[Tide of the Dark Night]."
