Chapter 38: Outburst: The Mysterious Dice

Facing the earth element's assault, Fang Shi stepped on loose gravel and leaped into the air.

He had already seen that these earth elements, after their companions died, had gone completely mad.

Regardless of the consequences, they had to strike down the enemy.

"Bang!"

Three earth elements crashed into the pile of gravel, sending up a sky-high cloud of dust.

Fang Shi had long since stepped onto the head of one of those earth elements.

He had evaded this impact.

Due to this collision, the earth element's body crumbled like rain, even struggling to maintain its form.

Fang Shi stood immovable as a mountain, his feet rooted like an old tree, swaying not an inch.

He kept stabbing the earth element's head with his long sword.

The earth element naturally would not allow Fang Shi such audacity.

It swung both arms, left and right, smashing down toward its own head.

The other earth elements also surrounded and attacked, their strikes coming in sequence, like a relentless succession of slaps.

Doing their utmost to lock down Fang Shi's escape routes.

Little did they know that this time Fang Shi did not jump; at the last critical moment before the slaps arrived, he simply rolled like a lazy donkey.

He slightly inserted his sword into the earth element's head and slid down from behind it.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

The earth element was heavy, its inertia great, unable to withdraw much force in time.

This earth element's entire head was smashed into four pieces.

Gravel rolled down, and it instantly became a headless earth element.

Earth elements are elemental lifeforms; as long as their energy core remains undamaged, they do not die completely.

But they still need eyes to see; a headless earth element becomes a headless fly.

Its limbs flailed wildly in the air, and with hearing lost, it could no longer rely on the other earth elements' commands to act.

The remaining two earth elements paid no heed to their companion's wretched state.

For elemental lifeforms, such injuries would make them fine again once they returned to the Earth Element Plane.

They charged madly at Fang Shi, regardless of the consequences, determined to kill him.

In fact, for Fang Shi, mad earth elements were far easier to deal with than normal ones.

Elemental lifeforms generally possess low intelligence; only at the Elder level do they reach ordinary human intellect.

A large earth element has merely six points of intelligence; being able to follow Turs's commands was already good.

In battle, they rely entirely on instinct.

Once enraged, their fighting lacks all order; their reckless, casualty-ignoring assaults were all exploited by Fang Shi.

"Whoosh!"

I've been waiting for you!

Fang Shi twisted his foot, spun around, and shattered the stone block hurtling through the air.

Then he stepped backward repeatedly, dodging the other stone blocks.

This was Turs's rock attack; each stone block was equivalent to a warrior of equal rank attacking with full force.

Regarding Turs's arrival, Fang Shi had long been prepared.

He had been waiting for Turs all along.

If Turs never took the initiative to attack, relying on the mobility of its wings...

Fang Shi truly had no confidence in killing Turs.

Such is the advantage of being able to fly.

Although Fang Shi did not know why Turs, this stone dragon, possessed wings.

But considering the complexity within the dragon clan, birthing some freakish oddity was nothing surprising.

【Weakness Insight】

【Multiple Force - Double Force (Hands)】

【Multiple Force - Double Force (Legs)】

Fang Shi's muscles in both arms and legs rippled like waves, veins bulging, and his entire body seemed to expand by a full size.

"Whoosh!"

The fine steel sword left his hand, shooting toward Turs like lightning.

The sword's speed was very high, already reaching fifty meters per second.

Turs's agility was only fourteen points, and the distance to Fang Shi was merely six meters.

By the time it reacted, the long sword was already close before its eyes.

Turs could only barely dodge vital parts of its body; any extra maneuvers were impossible.

"Swish!"

The long sword pierced through Turs's chest,

and stabbed into its wing.

"Pierce attack activated."

"You have dealt fourteen points of damage to the target."

This was not over; after Fang Shi threw the long sword,

he pushed off with his foot, shattering the floor, and shot upward, leaping toward Turs.

"Bang!"

Both fists smashed into Turs's head, knocking it to the ground.

"Unarmed attack activated."

"You dealt 4 points of damage to the target."

"Unarmed attack activated."

"You dealt 4 points of damage to the target."

Throughout the entire process, aside from launching a rock spray at the start, Turs...

... had absolutely no ability to fight back the whole time.

Under Fang Shi's barrage of strikes, it suffered severe injuries.

63 points of health were thus reduced by one-third.

Especially Fang Shi's final two heavy punches, which directly left Turs dizzy and disoriented.

However, the two earth elementals behind had already closed in.

Without a second thought, Fang Shi drew his refined steel sword and darted aside.

Turs had just regained a sliver of clarity.

When it saw the massive body of the earth elemental crashing toward it.

"Bang!"

Turs was knocked flying like a sack of potatoes, blood staining its body red.

Darkness fell before its eyes, and it sank into complete unconsciousness.

The enraged earth elemental had gone berserk.

Feeling no guilt for harming its master, it turned around and searched everywhere for Fang Shi.

Little did it know Fang Shi had already fled, reaching the corridor exit of the great hall.

The underground palace corridor was high, fully three meters tall.

But for the earth elementals, it was simply not enough.

Their five-meter height restricted them; they could only watch helplessly as Fang Shi ducked into the corridor and strode away.

"Hah!"

Fang Shi clenched his teeth and exhaled the turbid air from his chest.

At this moment, his entire body's muscles burned with pain; the slightest movement felt like monsters tearing at his whole body.

This was the aftereffect of his final burst.

To completely finish off Turs, Fang Shi unleashed the true Multiple Force.

Due to the lack of Life Sublimation...

... the consequence of forcing its use was exactly as it is now.

Multiple muscles throughout his body had ruptured; even moving was incredibly difficult.

Had it been an ordinary person, he would have fainted from the pain long ago.

Only Fang Shi's astonishing willpower and extremely high pain threshold kept him from falling into a coma.

This was also Fang Shi's helplessness; under the circumstances back then, he had no choice but to do so.

Turs possessed ranged attack methods and had absolutely no need to engage Fang Shi in close combat.

Fang Shi, under the pincer attack of the earth elementals, was already walking a tightrope.

Every single moment consumed vast amounts of stamina.

If Turs kept firing arrows from afar, he might capsize in a gutter.

It also avoided the situation where, after Fang Shi defeated the earth elemental, Turs would see the unfavorable turn and flee immediately.

Therefore, Fang Shi launched a direct burst, taking down Turs first.

Even if he couldn't kill it, he would inflict severe injuries to prevent it from interfering with the battle.

In terms of results, it was naturally very successful.

Now the earth elemental is trapped inside the great hall, and Turs is severely injured, likely near death.

He only needs to recover slightly before he can go reap the benefits.

Thus, Fang Shi fished out the energy core and began absorbing the primal force within to repair his body's damage.

"Damn it!"

After an unknown amount of time, Turs finally woke up.

The constitution of the giant dragon played its expected role at this moment.

However, immediately after, despair began to fill Turs's heart.

Massive internal and external bleeding, all organs shattered.

At this moment, it was severely injured; if not for the giant dragon's body structure being different from ordinary species...

... any other creature with such injuries would have had its soul sent to the River of Styx.

Such injuries also left Turs completely helpless.

Turs possessed no spatial items or other such wondrous artifacts.

Nor did it know any magic for storing items.

Naturally, it carried no healing potions on its person.

Moreover, with such severe injuries, ordinary healing potions would have very little effect.

Besides, Turs simply did not possess healing potions.

Due to some special reasons, aside from the Summoning Ring and the gold mines tribute from the kobolds,

he had no other collections, let alone any Magical Items.

Turs felt a bit of regret; if only he had found a god to worship and switched classes to a Priest.

He would not have fallen into such an awkward situation.

Wait, Turs suddenly remembered, if his brain hadn't been smashed,

it seemed he had been beaten into this state by someone.

That detestable human appeared to have come to slay a dragon.

But now, with him severely injured, where did that person go?

Why didn't he finish him off?

Could it be the Earth Elemental succeeded, killing that person after he fell unconscious?

For a moment, the joy of revenge surfaced in Turs's heart.

But feeling his life force drain away, that joy instantly vanished, turning into sorrow.

"Could it be I really must use that thing?"

Turs was somewhat reluctant; using that thing was gambling with his life.

If his luck was bad, he would die immediately in the next moment.

Heh, if he didn't use it now, wouldn't he still die? Might as well gamble one more time.

He barely propped his body up, endured the pain, and retched violently.

He spat out a die wrapped in gastric fluid.

Generally, a dragon's stomach cannot store things.

A dragon's digestive fluid is incredibly powerful, capable of digesting even plastic and steel.

It is a creature that can survive by eating dirt.

Even the ring used to summon the Earth Elemental earlier was held in the mouth, not swallowed.

Otherwise, even if the ring's shape remained intact, the summoning magic inscribed upon it would be corroded away.

Only some special materials are immune to a dragon's gastric fluid.

And can guarantee their unique effects even after being swallowed.

Turs carefully picked up the die, sensing the primal force contained within.

He sighed in his heart; besides cherishing his life, he also felt a bit of reluctance.

This die suddenly appeared before him, and then he obtained it.

At the same time, a stream of information arrived, allowing Turs to learn the die's method of use.

Thus, he, who had been staying safely in the dragon's lair, used this die for the first time.

Then, he arrived within this underground palace.

In panic, Turs began to use it a second time.

The result was that he, who should have been a wingless dragon, grew wings.

And they were permanent, unable to be dispelled by any magic, just like being born with them, miraculous as if created by a Creator.

For Turs, this was truly like a tiger growing wings.

Judging by this point alone, this die could be called a Divine Artifact.

For a lucky one, it was even the King of Divine Artifacts.

Finally, there was a third chance left, but Turs dared not use it.

Because if used again, this die would vanish on its own.

And he still did not know what would happen if used again.

The randomness was too great; if he were teleported to the Abyss, he would lose his life immediately.

No, according to this die's randomness, there might even be an option for instant death.

But now, Turs had to use it whether he wanted to or not; if he didn't use it again, he would truly die.