Spirit Taming

Chapter 255: Victory By A Thread

Seeing Clark rush toward the gluttonous imp made Isa want to slap him. It was reckless and he could do so many more things. She was sure that they could just slowly wear this mess of a beast down if they were to take their time. It was clearly slow and would be unable to follow them to the first floor. But he was attacking anyways.

Clark on the other hand felt that he had no choice. Wearing away at a beast that had eaten itself in to a flabby armor would be tough. The gluttonous imp could easily resist the physical and magical attacks from him and Isa. By the system had given him a clear way to beat it and he could do that.

The messy movements of the gluttonous imp were what brought Clark confidence. He had seen it fail to hit them with its tail even though it could easily have done so. The simple reason being that it was too fat to make a proper move. That was also why it needed to force the dark imps and the elder dark imps to create a food pile for it. It was smart enough to do that but too dumb not to eat it all.

The slow movements it had were due to its own gluttony. Clark took advantage of this and used his ghostly steps to get close. He purposefully stayed near the legs where it would not be able to easily try and fall on him. If it did fall Clark would have to do was pivot and dive away, but that was not what the gluttonous imp was thinking.

It was thinking that it was being attacked in the same sore spot that an icicle and a fire ball had just hit it.

The guttural screech of pain that came when Clark slashed the imp three times in a row before its club like claws swung down was soon matched by the increasingly loud laughter from Devi. Instead of holding back, as usual, Devi was giving in to the skill fully.

The normal terrifying laughter that Devi would release was always to diffuse and scare others. But right this second, it was filled with malice. He was sure that this beast would kill Clark and eat him without a thought. It would kill anything and try to eat it. That was truly evil and Devi felt that he had to eradicate it so that no other being would suffer.

Naturally, Crim picked up on this, he could sense it. The feeling of disgust from Clark and Devi. The intense feeling permeated his mind. How could a dragon look at something so lowly that it would eat its own kind just to fill its stomach? It was not getting stronger or achieving some grand ambition. It was just mutating more while destroying everything around it.

A terrible waste of existence.

This pride of a dragon caused Crim's leap upwards toward the face of the gluttonous imp. Between Devi's mental attacks and chilling bites, the gluttonous imp was already losing its mind. Now with the sudden pain of something clawing at its eyes, it lost itself completely. The guttural screeches increased while the imp tried to bend its mutated fat arms toward its face to free itself from pain.

Clark saw the tail begin to twitch as it fell out of the stone wall. The imp had remembered that it had an entire appendage to attack with.

"Wait for it Shy…let me attack then do everything you have to alter the course. Just like you did that scorpion bastard's punch." Clark was trusting Shy, he could feel that she was also understanding her older sibling's anger and disgust. But even more so, the feeling of reliance that Clark had put on her. She trusted him and he trusted her. They were one and the same family.

Feeling the stab of Clark's spear again made the gluttonous imp act. Its tail whipped around and was hit by a solid icicle forcing it to slow, Isa had been watching carefully for a chance to protect him. But also trying to alter the course of the tail even more so that it would stab the main body of the imp instead of Clark.

Unfortunately, she didn't know what Calrk was planning and saw his death about to happen before her.

A single shout of fear and anger came from behind him, yet Clark was smiling. His spear spun around and with all his force he slashed at the base of the tail he had come to. The somewhat thin tail that had been sat on and abused because of its smaller size compared to the mutated fatty body it was attached to. The weakest point on the entire gluttonous imp.

This free falling piece of tail should still have pierced Clark's body. SHOULD, have still pierced his body. Shy had something to say about that though. The single hiss that she made was the first sound that Clark had heard her make. Quiet as it was, it seemed to scream out in his ears louder than anything.

The defiant cry of someone who desired to be powerful and to stand by those they had a bond with. A cry that could make anyone proud to know it was for them.

The powerful shadow thread that burst forth carried the same threads that Shy had been training since she entered the ave. but they also carried the mixed energy from Devi and Crim. they had gladly shared what strength they had for this plan. A ghost's inner strength and a dragon's outer strength. The perfect pair to strengthen a newborn's only innate skill other than hiding in plain sight.

The tip of the tail that would have penetrated Clark's skull and sent stomach acid to his brain flashed passed him and stabbed in to the very same weakened point that had been attacked over and over again by Isa and Clark. "And now you hammer it in!"

With all his might, Clark spun and used the flat side of the spear tip to hammer in the tail deeper. The burst of steam from the acid caused the gluttonous imp's screeching to fade. Instead, it lost all the air in its lungs while trying to reach for the pain it felt. It was only a few seconds before its entire inner body had begun to dissolve and it was collapsing before Clark.

"Let's leave it to crumble by itself." Clark looked behind the gluttonous imp to the remaining cave that had just been revealed. There had used to be a nest there but it was broken eggs and nothing else. The gluttonous imp would have eaten this dungeon in to extinction. A terrible and disgusting thing that should never see the light of day.

'Quest- dark imp subjugation

The increased dark energy coming from the dark imps is due to a stronger dark imp growing on the final floor of the dungeon. It is better to defeat this imp or tame it so that it will not cause a dungeon break out in three days.

Requirement- tame or defeat the imp causing issues.

Reward- 5 gacha tickets, two shadow crystals, one shadow fruit seed.'

'The host has completed the quest and revealed the mutation of an elder dark imp. The host's rewards have been placed within their storage ring and the gacha drawing will be available at any time for the host.'

Clark saw the system respond to him but he just ignored it for the time being. Shy had fallen asleep immediately after using her skill to change the course of a powerful attack that should have turned on him. He was beyond proud of her for overcoming a small blockage in her training. It was what she could do with all her strength and bonds.

It was a lesson for her that would make her many times much stronger than any other beast she came against in life.

Devi, Crim…let's go to camp." Devi and Crim came to watch Clark's back while Isa was just staring at them incredulously. She wondered how Sane Clark was. But she also understood. This was the kind of training he did. These were the life and death risks that put him above everyone else.

It wasn't that Clark was a genius or even spectacularly talented. He created pressure to forge himself in to a diamond that outshined everyone. It was inspiring. But that didn't stop her fist from hitting his arm as he came back to match step with her. "Ever do that in front of me again and I will let Maria bring you back to life with her healing then beat you to a pulp myself."

"Understood. Don't make my friends watch me die. I'll make a mental note to make sure we are all safe then. But in that respect, we should run. The other imps are coming out from their hiding place now that this thing is turning in to a puddle." Clark heard the scratching and hissing from the walls and little holes that the dark imps hid in. running was best.