Dungeon of Pride, Laplace

This was further proven true when Simon started using low altitude attacks. The highly compact flame and lightning spear were conjured closer to the ground and unless the Deep Sea Alligator king learned to jump, it would be unable to dodge these attacks.

However, it was simply asking too much for its heavy body to make a movement such as that. Thus just as Simon had predicted, it took all of the attacks by lowering its body once again.

"Pesky demon stop running and fight me!!!" Possibly because it was completely enraged, the Deep Sea Alligator King did not realise that it was lured far away from its lake.

At this moment, Simon finally stopped backing away and turned around to face the beast. A crimson sword appeared in his hand at an unknown time and his gaze was firmly locked on his opponent.

<strong>GRRUUHHH…</strong>

The Deep Sea Alligator King grunted, its eyes that shone with an intelligent light landed on the sword. It did not know how powerful the sword was but from the aura of the demon that changed completely after they held the sword, it could tell that the sword was dangerous.

Nonetheless, it was one of the three overlords of the north that reigned supreme over countless other monsters in this forest. There was no way, it would back just because of a sword. From its perspective, the demon noble in front of it was weaker than him, the aura the former released and also the exchange earlier was enough for it to realise that.

Thus the Deep Sea Alligator king thought that it can take the demon down. With a deep roar that was enough to scare the monsters in a few kilometres area away, it started charging at the demon.

<strong>BANG… BANG… BANG…</strong> the ground trembled with its march as it left deep footprints.

Although its charge was slow and comical even, one cannot look down at the momentum a body as gigantic as that created. The charge of the Deep Sea Alligator King gave the illusion of a mountain crumbling down.

Simon waited till the last second before unfurling his wings and dodging the charge. He flew by its body and was just about to target its lower belly, when suddenly the Deep Sea Alligator king turned its upper body towards the side mid-charge.

A movement as agile as that and something that was only possible for a streamlined body such as that, took Simon by surprise. An enormous jaw big enough to swallow a mammoth, decked with razor sharp teeth came to bite him.

The powerful jaw of the Deep Sea Alligator king was enough to crush even a block of metal let alone Simon. To him, that attack was like a maw of death, something that he had to dodge no matter what.

<strong>CRUNCH...</strong> the huge maw of death closed upon him and bit down.

The Deep Sea Alligator King leered with its eyes, thinking that the demon was over its head to think that it can conquer the northern region of the forest not to mention to defeat itself. However, its eyes became wide the next second when it realised that it cannot close its mouth.

A circular golden halo was barring it from closing its mouth. No matter how strong the pressure it applied to close its gaping maw, the circular golden halo refused to budge down.

BANG… SHATTER… at the end though, the barrier like halo succumbed down and shatter in front fo the might of its bite.

The golden halo did shatter but it managed to buy Simon precious time and allowed him to escape the maw of death. Had it not been for the golden guardian stone, that attack would be enough to claim his life.

It was a good thing he hadn't underestimated his enemy and was prepared for all sorts of attacks. The Deep Sea Alligator King might be slow, but its streamlined body made movements such as before extremely easy.

Now apart from its tail, he also had to be careful of its [Butal Bite] skill when approaching closer to its body. Fortunately for him, he had lots of golden guardian stones to spare.

In these past few weeks, lady luck had shined upon him a couple of times and he was able to draw out a few sets of golden guardian stones with each set consisting of ten stones. That is to say, Simon had more than thirty Golden guardian stones currently sitting in his inventory.

Even then, he still has to be careful, the Deep Sea Alligator King was not an opponent he can look down upon. The golden guardian stones might be able to stop all kinds of physical attacks and magical attacks under a certain level.

However, its effects only lasted a few seconds. Thus he had to use that few seconds of invulnerability to make an impact.

Simon flapped his wings and using his [High-Speed Flight], flew around the Beast trying to find its blind spot.

After its last attack failed, the Deep Sea Alligator King became wary of the demon that was using some kind of unorthodox items to fight. Its [Brutal Bite] skill that was powerful enough to crush enemies multiple levels higher than him was stopped by something on the person of that demon.

As careful as it was, it was naturally wary of the counter-attacks from that demon. Although it was cautious, it did not mean that it was afraid. Especially after fighting with the demon, it knew that the latter was not its match.

It used the same method again and started charging towards Simon. This time though it also used its mastery over earth magic to create spiky rocks of sorts that erupted out from the ground and barricaded the demon and limited its movement.

If the demon tried to take its charge head-on, they will be crushed, if they tried to dodge, the Deep Sea Alligator King can simply bend its body to the side and bite with his powerful jaws.

As it had expected, the demon flew left and right trying to dodge the spiky rocks, but when they got surrendered they tried to avoid his charge by moving to the side or so it should have been.

However, the demon acted differently this time and did not move away from the path of its charge.

Did the demon think that they can survive its charge head on?

"Idiot… if you wanted to die so badly, then I will fulfil your wish" the Deep Sea Alligator king roared and dashed towards the demon with even more momentum.

Feeling its powerful charge, Simon planted his foot strongly into the ground and arched his body forward and circulated his mana all around his body. The Deep Sea Alligator King's stats might have been higher than his in some areas but that was before he used the Crimson Sword.

With the buff that was provided by his weapon, the difference between their stats wasn't that big any longer. On the contrary, Simon might even surpass him in some aspects. The fact that the Deep Sea Alligator did not know it was the key factor here.

<strong>BAM… BAM… BAM</strong>

The ground trembled and the wind whistled, just when the huge frame of the Deep Sea Alligator king was upon him, Simon utilised his [Sword Mastery] skill and swung his sword with all of his strength.

CLANG… an intense metallic noise rang around the surroundings and intense spark generated from the collision.

His sword clashed against the enlarged snout of the beast that was covered with a defence so strong that even his sword had difficulty cutting in.

SCREEE…

Simon's feet scraped the ground as he was pushed back a few meters by the momentum and strength behind the charge of the Deep Sea Alligator. Nevertheless, even if he was pushed back in the process, he still stopped the charge of the beast dozens of times bigger than him in the end.

Simon used the outstretched rocks behind him that was meant to blockade him as a foothold to cancel the force pushing him behind and jump towards the dazed Deep Sea Alligator king.

The latter who didn't expect the demon to be able to stop its charge was in a state of disbelief and thus was unable to react when they rushed at him.

Simon used this chance when his enemy wasn't ready to slip past their body and attacked the place they had been guarding so thoroughly.

"Infernal Magic Mastery- Infernal Blaze" Simon executed one of the infernal magic that condensed the golden flames around his sword making it seems just like an enlarged golden sword.

As he had expected, the underbelly of the Deep Sea Alligator King was much more softer than the skin on its upper body and back that was protected by a layer of plated scales.

The enlarged golden sword dug deeply into the skin of the Deep Sea Alligator king and even burned its innards with an infernal heat.

<strong>GRUUHHHHHH…</strong> the Deep Sea Alligator king roared once again this time its roar was filled with mind numbing pain and agony.

At the same time, the pain was the catalyst that woke it up from its daze as it turned towards the demon to bite and force him away from its underbelly.

<strong>BANG...</strong>

However, how could Simon who had gained the advantage let go of this opportunity to deal more damage and back away? The maw of death approached and shut close on him but at that exact moment, a circular golden barrier appeared around him and stopped the jaws of the Deep Sea Alligator King for the second time.

Using this time, Simon dug his sword even deeper. He poured more of his mana into the sword and mess the internal organs of the beast with its infernal heat.

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