MONSTROUS RIVALS

"Big sis big brother did you see I used double casting" Suzy was completely shocked then started jumping and shouting from happiness because she did something only exceptional mages can do.

At that moment an angry scream came from inside the fire and she saw two pigs running to her with red eyes. In the heat of happiness, Suzy actually forgot about the ongoing fight which led to the boars reaching her while she was completely defenseless.

Although she did an amateur mistake, Tony from the beginning didn't take his eyes from the fight, so when the two boars attacked Suzy he was already in the motion of activating [Lightning strike] which took the rest of the monsters HP 

"Thank God big brother is with us" 

"Suzy this is not the time for playing around how can you do such a stupid mistake" 

"But sis I was just happy" Suzy replied before she lowered her head and said with a pitiful voice "I'm sorry I won't do this again" seeing how her little sister was behaving made Maya heart hurt because it was the first time in her life did she talked to Suzy in such away.

"Well if I was the one to achieve double-casting I would have done the same thing" "achieving double-casting without actual training is rare and anyone will do what you did so don't put in mind you little monster" Suzy mode instantly became good after seeing Tony and Maya comforting her.

"Hmmm big brother don't call me like that I don't want to be known as a monster" "well what you showed us made you a certified monster" Suzy stumped her feet on the ground and pretended to be angry after being made fun of by both her sister and Tony.

"Stop playing around and go loot the corps" usually the leader of the party or someone with significant position loots the monster corps, In their little party Tony should be the one to loot the corps yet at the moment he was giving the honor to Suzy which was like a sign of trust and encouragement for her which made both Maya and Suzy happy.

While Suzy was looting the nin boars and humming happily they heard a rumbling from the forest and a boar that was like a small mountain came into their view, the said boar first looked at the dead little boars before releasing an angry roar that made everything trumble this frightened the two girls and the villagers as they all took few steps back letting Tony the first one in the face of the big boar.

"Oh no it's the boar king" "we are doomed" "but why would the boar king leave the forest this's a disaster" the villagers started panicking after they saw the monsters after all in that small region of the forest the boar king was like a ruler.

[Name: boar king]

[Rank: Special Elite]

HP: 1000

Attacks: charge

Skills: earth stump, angry roar, and Ferocity

"Interesting, to think I will come across a high-rank monster this early on" Tony was the only person there who welcomed the newcomer happily after all he was a battle maniac. So when the boar king was preparing to attack them Tony was already in front of him as he brandished his sword and attacked from three different angles hitting the boar's neck which made him scream from pain as -12, -11, and -20 appeared above the boar head.

With those attacks, Tony was able to attract the aggro of the boar king as he was only looking at Tony with those big red eyes while using charge at him which he dodged to the side, but the boar king who was charging with full speed ahead suddenly changed his course midway and slammed his body in Tony who was able to block that charge in the last moment and he lost -49 HP from it.

Seeing that the first charge didn't do much the boar king wanted to do the same thing ones more but at that moment Suzy completed the chant of [Gravity pull] wanting to stun the boar king who did something shocked all of them, the instant Suzy skill was going to take effect the boar king actually used on of his skill [Earth stump] which countered [Gravity pull] as he ignored Suzy and focused only on Tony who gave the monster bigger pressure.

"Impossible how can he counter my attack" Suzy couldn't help but exclaim at what was happening because she never heard of a monster in a game that counters players' skills.

"So this the monsters with high intelligence that the system guide talked about" the more Tony battled the fiercer the boar king became, if fighting a Common monster was like fighting a normal player, and fighting Elite monster is like fighting a player with some skills, then the Special Elite monster is like fighting an experienced player and the difference between them is the Special Elite monster have complete control over their skills and terrain usage. Like how the boar king was evading some of Suzy's spells and if not for Tony pinning him down and forcing the boar king in a defensive state the whole time, the two sisters alone would have no hope of defeating the boar king.

Tony was maneuvering around the boar king evading all the attacks coming at him while striking on the monster weak points although Suzy wanted to help but whenever she uses [Gravity pull] the boar king will counter it using [earth stump], and when she uses [Fireball] he will just evade it, the boar king even used his other skill [Angry roar] which force anyone it hit to run aimlessly around and it took effect on both Suzy and Maya two times, in one of those times Maya was left with only 15 of her HP which frightened her and if not for Tony last-minute intervention she would have died at the boar king charge. 

"This stupid boar is actually started to figure out the way I fight" if in his previous flights Tony was able to achieve 100% success with his skills and attacks then against the boar king he was only able to achieve 80% although it's not a big difference, for Tony it was a huge problem after all the boar king was merely a law level monster yet he found some difficulty against it so if he came across a high-level monster his chances of surviving are not a lot.

"This game is truly a masterpiece underestimating it means never reaching the top" this was what Tony figured while fighting the boar king and not only him, all the strong players who took their time and battled many monsters all reached the same conclusion that Ancient Myth is different than all other games. Only by developing your own style of fighting could you truly reach the top of the game.

Both Suzy and Maya who was watching from the sideline saw that the way Tony was fighting changed completely, it was mysterious and his attacks became irregular yet the boar king who was getting the hang of it completely lost it when Tony form changed, no matter what the monster did all his attacks hit the air while Tony kept taking away the boar king HP in a steady way. But Suzy noticed that Tony's face became a little bit pale while his breathing was not stable.

"Big brother are you okay?" Be it her or Maya they completely ignored the monster and were only concerned about him.

"Don't worry about me everything's fine I just almost depleted my hidden attribute conscious" seeing how the two sisters were concerned about his being made Tony touched.

"To think using the formless style for a bit made me almost passing out" this surprised Tony the most since entering the game, the formless style was a unique fighting style that he came out with the help of his master and since he found out that you can apply martial arts principal inside the game, Tony was slowly trying to integrate some of those principals with his movements and it was the first time that he was successful in doing that. Although the results were very good he can only do that one time before reaching his limits.

"Ding ding ding system notification: congratulations for being the fifth player to achieve a unique fighting style, rewarding: conscious +1 and one bronze equipment"

Tony didn't pay any attention to the notification because he was only thinking about the 4 monsters who figured out their fighting style before him.

"Interesting the more rivals there are, the more fun it will be after crushing them and reaching the top" Tony understood that the four who did it before him were all absolute monsters that are worthy of being his rivals in his conquest.