Chapter 219: Monstrous Mana

Chapter 219: Monstrous Mana

Dominating Sovereigns Eye has extracted the Skill - Monstrous Mana - From the Sovereign Candidate: Jabari Cole.

Monstrous Mana: The mana in your container turns chaotic and untamed, like that of a wandering monster. Controlling it is difficult and strenuous, but it is far more effective than regular mana.

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So that’s why his mana container is so large...

Astrid wondered, but that wasn’t the only curiosity that was quelled. The young man wasn’t a fully fledged Sovereign like she had thought, but he was only a candidate. Like her.

Of course, his monsters were incredibly powerful, but his own body wasn’t on their level. In fact, Astrid had faced many more powerful monsters in the past.

Being able to rip out his eye told her one thing. He didn’t have an overly high intelligence. It was his unique Skill changing his mana that was the culprit of that.

Despite the amazing effect of Monstrous Mana, Astrid decided against absorbing the eye for now. She wasn’t familiar with it, and she couldn’t afford to practise with it at the moment.

Especially since the man named Jabari was busy glaring at her with one eye. However, in the next instant, he was forced to dodge an incoming attack from Lord Darian.

The young Candidate wasn’t in a good situation. But it seemed he had other methods at his disposal. Of course he had. Astrid spat.

His mana swirled as ghostly apparitions of various monsters seeped out of his body like phantom warriors. Some were like the spiders; long legs, hairy, tough chitinous armour. And some had the appearance of beasts such as hounds, huge felines, and draconic lizards.

Because of the strange event, Darian, and the elder, stopped their attacks. Attacking when the situation was unknown was never a good idea.

As experienced men, they understood that better than most. It was how they had lived for so long, after all.

Then Jabari started crying. Or at least that’s what Astrid thought he was doing. Hand cradling his face, the crying sounds transformed into a crazed laughter. Visit no(v)eLb(i)n.com for the best novel reading experience

The monsters danced around him with ferocious snarls, as if they were listening to their master's emotions. In the next second, all of them turned towards Astrid, and the others. They were waiting for the command of attack.

And then it arrived.

“Kill them all.”

Finally let loose, the ghostly monsters bounded forward with ferocity. Their howls scattered through the trees, letting the whole world know that they were on the attack.

However, it wasn’t Astrid who made her move, but the elder.

Stomping across the soil floor of the jungle, he roared. The jungle listened. Vines shot up into the air, trees groaned, and the earth trembled.

The elder leaped up into the air and just as he started to fall, the vines, and trees bent to according to his will. An entire platform was created, then another, and another, until it led the ferocious Ixtalian elder straight to the ghostly monsters.

As they made contact, all hell broke loose.

It was a grand display of sheer beastly ferocity. Each roar caused her palms to itch at the primal sight.

An ache vibrated through her arms as she was sent hurtling through the air. Transferring her stats once more, she stabilised herself, and glanced back to the Sovereign Candidate.

He no longer only had a tail, but his arms, legs, and even head had undergone a great change.

Jabari now had huge furry forearms that exuded strength, and his hands were now adorned with razor-sharp claws. His legs had taken the form of a large aviation bird. Whatever it was, it had three talons, each with the capabilities of ripping apart even the toughest of armour. And then there was his head. Two demonic horns pierced out from his forehead.

Finally, a pair of wings sprouted out from his back, and flapped in the air.

Jabari grinned, displaying sharpened teeth. The once handsome young man had completely transformed his entire body into a natural weapon.

It seemed Astrid wasn’t the only one that could change her attributes at will. Well at least she didn’t sprout animal parts...

Astrid bounded forward. The plan hadn’t changed. It was kill or be killed.

Reaching Jabari in an instant, she fired multiple void bullets that ricochet against his golden armour, and then she followed it up with a blitzing sword strike to his unarmoured gut.

Of course, the tip of the blade seeped under his fur, only to clang against hidden gold.

Now that Astrid was up close, Jabari raked his claws through Astrid’s body, but in the next second, her frame vanished like a puff of smoke. Her illusion had evaporated.

Astrid grit her teeth, swung her sword in a wide arc, and then Crashed the matter behind her blade. Tearing through the air, it smashed against Jabari’s gilded raised arm.

Sparks flew, and the impact sent a tingling sensation up her harm, but she wasn’t done there.

Astrid’s mask displayed a vicious grin and connected to her traps thrown all around the battlefield down below. With high speed, dozens of voidbent needles flew up toward Jabari with intense force.

Jabari tried to dodge, but he was met by the iron gaze of Lord Darian. The cat and the Lord were caught up in a furious exchange. If he transferred over, his life would be in a lot of danger.

Astrid had banked on that decision, and it seemed to be the right one.

The needles tore into Jabari’s underside, finding small cracks in the monster tamer’s armour. Pained gulps left the young man's throat.

He mustn't be used to pain.

Not only that, when Jabari lost control of his mind for a second, Astrid noticed that the cat also suffered. It looked like they required a constant connection so that Jabari could provide his tamed monsters with his powerful skills.

If that was the case...

Astrid connected to the young man’s mind and activated Mind Domain. However, Jabari also had the same idea. He used a domain. Astrid could feel it.

The energy around his body metamorphosed. The phantom monsters appeared around him once more, swirling around his body as if he was the centre of a typhoon.

Astrid, still in close proximity to Jabari, was beset on all sides by the hungry beasts. One of them in the form of a large cat chomped into her shoulder. Because of her thinly formed golden armour, most of the bite was blocked. But a few teeth managed to taste her flesh, and drink her blood.

Ignoring the hot pain, Astrid empowered her mind. She assimilated a large cluster of matter around its body, then Crashed it. The ghostly form was annihilated, and Astrid blinked away out of the range of his domain.

That wasn’t all. In the next moment, Astrid realised that the true form of the cute cat wasn’t a cat at all, but a horrifying monster...