Dungeon of Pride, Laplace

"Ah, another thing my lord. Although that guy does not have any dragon bloodline, it is capable of breath attacks" At this moment, he recalled the words of the Lightning draconic Serpent.

Breath attack, an exclusive racial skill of some high level beast and monsters. It is said to be one of the most powerful attacks, an ace in the hole that can turn situations around.

There was no doubt about it, the skill that the deep Sea Alligator king used, something that made alarm bells ring inside his head was none other the breath attack, the lightning draconic serpent told him to be careful of.

<strong>GRUUHH…</strong> the deep sea alligator king growled, its enlarged body and crimson colour slowly returning to its original state. The effect of the [berserk] and [overpower] skill was over.

Simon looked up and saw that his word was still dug inside its left eye. Without the buff from the sword, he was not its match. Thus he had to get his sword back but there was no need for him to physically go there to retrieve it since he was capable of that technique.

Simon extended his hands towards the sword and with the emergence of strange runes and marking on his hand, the sword stuck in the eyes of the Deep Sea Alligator king started trembling and moving.

<strong>GRRUUHHHH…</strong> the beast gave a roar of agony. If one looked carefully, the sword that was impaling its left eye had the same marking as the one on Simon's hand. As if obeying his will, the sword slowly pulled itself out from the beast's eye and flew back to him.

Simon caught the sword in his hand and smiled. The technique he just used was none other than [Dominator's control] that Irene had taught him. According to her, one can dominate any animate or inanimate objects with this technique.

After Simon got to experience how useful this legacy technique that was passed down to him was, he practised and comprehended the technique to increase his mastery over it in his free time. Thus one day Simon decided to practice this technique on his sword and to his delightment, he was able to mark and dominate the sword even without Irene's help.

From his experience, he understood how important the buff provided by the sword was when fighting an enemy multiple levels stronger than him. If he drops the sword or it is knocked away from his hand, he immediately losses the buff.

In fact, that person named Davis from the adventurer's association, did the same thing and knocked the sword away from his grasp to contain him. In the future, there would be enemies who would be able to see through the power buff of the sword and recognise its tier.

They would no doubt try to knock the sword away to weaken him. Hence, Simon came up with this idea after he deliberated over it.

Now, using this technique, even if the sword was knocked away from him or he himself uses it as ammunition just like what he hurled the sword at the left eye of the deep Sea Alligator king, he would still be able to recall the sword back.

Feeling the change in his stats brought by the sword, Simon set his sight onto his enemy. Seeing that they were not shooting any more of those breath attacks, Simon was about to initiate his own assault when suddenly he realised his vision was going blurry and everything around him was starting to move.

What was going on?

Huff… Huff…

Simon had difficulty breathing, even standing straight was starting to become a problem. He tried shaking off this feeling by biting his lips when from the corner of his eyes he saw thin green smoke come out of the water puddle around him.

Poison?!

It suddenly struck him. This discomforting feeling that was raging inside him was none other than poison. The area around him was filled with a greenish gas at some point.

Simon hurriedly covered his nose and stopped inhaling any more of the air. When he looked around he finally realised that the poison was coming from the water puddles and the droplets of water that remained after that breath attack.

At this moment, alarm bells rang inside Simon's head once again and he hurriedly dodged to the side while struggling to keep his senses together. The instant he moved to the side, a highly pressurised, high-velocity breath of water passed through the place he was at just a moment ago.

What's more, other than having the power to even crumble down mountains, that pressurised blast of water also contained poison.

Simon was sure of it when he saw greenish gas come out of the puddles that remained after that attack.

He took out a vial and quickly gulped down its content.

[Elixir of Antidote X1 consumed].

The thing that he just consumed, was an antidote that he purchased from the [Shop]. It healed all kinds of weak poison and only lasted for a while.

After feeling the effects of poison dissipate and his vision become clear again, Simon started moving again. He cannot afford to stand still and let that breath hit him. Apart from that, he was also worried about how long the antidote would last since he could see this part of the forest slowly getting covered by a greenish gas.

Sure he can blow them away using his gale magic but the Deep Sea Alligator king can simply produce more. Plus to completely get rid of the poisonous gas, he had to get rid of the puddles of water that had spread all around this part of the forest.

<strong>BOOM… BOOOM…</strong>

The Deep Sea Alligator King fired one breath attack after another dealing severe damage to the environment. However, it did not care about it all as its rage filled eye was locked on the demon who looked very miserable while dodging all those attacks from it.

"Seven seconds interval… although it's not a lot of time, it is still somewhat doable" Simon muttered in a voice that only he could hear.

Perhaps if the Deep Sea Alligator king was a little saner, it would have realised that the demon was not just simply dodging but counting down the internal time between the breath attacks it can release.

Even if it made him look pathetic, with dirt and grime covering his clothes, Simon dodged the attacks like his life depended on it. He gulped down a few more Elixirs of Healing and Elixirs of Antidote and waited until his wings had recovered.

The attacks that he was unable to dodge, he would use the golden guardian stone to cover up for it. Like that, Simon stalled the Deep Sea Alligator king long enough for his wings to heal.

If he wanted to damage the latter, he had to get closer and without his wings and flight ability, it was just too dangerous. Thus the moment, his wings recovered enough to use the flight skill again, he rushed towards the Deep sea alligator king right after it fired its breath attack.

Using the seven seconds window, Simon flew towards the beast as fast as he could without wasting even a second. Taking the breath attack head-on and in close range was suicidal thus he had to make it so that it cannot fire those breath attacks anymore.

Simon flapped his wings and exerted the entire strength of his body to inch closer as soon as possible. However, how could the deep Sea alligator king just allow him to approach closer to its body?

It slammed its stumpy legs into the ground and numerous spiky rocky emerged out of the earth to impale him.

'There is no time to dodge all these attacks' Simon reckoned, instead of dodging and going around the rocks that would eat away at his window of time, he decided to brave through the attacks.

While still using flight, he activated all of his augmenting skills and sword mastery skill to erupt forward with hundreds of blade shadows that clashed with the onrushing stones.

<strong>BOOOM…</strong>

Numerous collisions sound echoed out and a cloud of dust formed up front. The Deep Sea Alligator King narrowed its remaining eye and observed the cloud of dust carefully, trying to detect where its opponent went.

Whoosh… at this moment, piercing the cloud of dust, a highly condensed flame spear came targeting its eye. This time though, the Deep Sea Alligator King was prepared and simply moved its head to the right a little so that the magic landed on its temple that was prot4ected by a layer of plated scales instead of its right eye.

However, the next second it realised its mistake, due to turning its head to the right and its left eye unusable, it had no vision of the left side of its surroundings.

FLAP… Simon flapped his wings harder, his jet black hair wildly swaying with the wind. He was flying so fast that the muscles in his wings started creaking and tearing a little.

Using the flame spear as a diversion, Simon was able to utilise this gap in his enemy's vision to approach closer to its body.

The Deep Sea Alligator King's breath attack was a long-range attack and covered a wide area. Its earth magic and enormous tail gave it a good medium range attack and its bone-plated scales provided it with a solid defence.

The only weakness it had was its underbelly which had the lowest defence. Thus Simon had to make it a close range battle to deal it any damage.