Archie leaped over the torso of the corpse of the Five-Eyed Serpent, dodging another spray of undeath flames from the reborn serpent.

  , Archie mused as he watched the serpent slither through the giant burnt hole it made through the Five-Eyed Serpent’s corpse.

  The veins that previously surrounded its eyes and appeared when it spewed undeath flames were now absent. Rather, the only indication Archie got when it came would be its black eye flickering for a moment before they spewed from its mouth.

  “Better than nothing I guess,” Archie conceded, charging towards the serpent whose black eye dimmed and flames stopped.

  Archei crossed the distance between the two in seconds, blasting its 25-meter frame backwards by a meter before following up with a flurry of blows, this time Leeching Strikes of Fury

  Previously, when he tried to reach the Five-Eyed Serpent’s core by ripping through its body, not a single drop of vital energy was transferred to him. Which made sense as it was all condensed into its core, not leaving behind any in the rest of its body. Also explaining how he was able to tear through its scales and flesh with far more ease compared to when he initially struck it.

  Archie ignored the hissing that came from the serpent before it arced its upper body downwards, its mouth wide open to swallow him whole. Instead of moving out of the way, he raised his right forearm above his head with Material Carapace active; both his arms gaining makeshift shields atop them, along with the rest of his body getting covered with Sentinel Platiniteshell plates.

  The serpent’s maw engulfed his right arm alongside the makeshift shield atop it, just past his elbow when Archie’s index finger on his left hand pressed the trigger on his Mana Revolver, aimed at the roof of the serpent’s mouth.

  The Nature-Attuned manabolt tore through a couple of centimeters of the roof of the serpent’s mouth, coincidentally ripping a hole through one of the poison sacs connected to its left upper fang.

  The sudden pain caused the serpent to clamp down onto Archie’s right arm instead of swallowing him whole.

  But as it clamped down on his arm, Archie’s makeshift shield pressed against the jaws of the serpent, holding it open as Archie sent his Mana Revolver back into his spatial storage and continued to release a barrage of blows with his free left hand. All the while ignoring the toxins that splashed across his back and corroded his armor.

  His Vital Metabolism

  Hearing his makeshift shield crack under the pressure of the serpent’s jaw strength, Archie quickly activated Runic Amplification

  The mana pathways Archie etched himself atop the respective runic scripts and runes pulsed a faint red color before the runic bases themselves glowed red, dying the mana pathways connected to them the same color.

  The cracked makeshift shield pushed back against the jaws of the Triarch Serpent with renewed strength, its cracked appearance repairing alongside the holes the toxins both corroded and seeped through.

  The serpent was in disbelief; even after its rebirth, it was unable to kill the weak creature in front of it. It kept flexing its jaws in an attempt to crush whatever the human shoved in its jaws.

  While it understood it had lost the majority of the strength it once had and some of the abilities it had, its current body was far more stable to handle its newly gained skills. It was an acceptable sacrifice in its eyes; no longer were its flesh and scales weakened by its influx of power gained from its new eyes.

  Truly, it was something it planned to resolve when the Tutorial ended and when it would arrive on the new planet it would be staying on. But due to the urgency of its current situation, some things needed to be snipped, regardless of future gain. ; words it followed to its core which it inherited from the great snake above.

  His only question:

  Angered by this realization, the serpent activated its purple eye, unseen by Archie, who was ripping through its body with his left fist, building up the kinetic energy in his left gauntlet with each blow he dealt.

  The purple eye glowed a bright purple before its vertical eye lids closed it, unlike what happened in its previous body with its red eye; the purple eye simply went dormant.

  And appearing behind Archie was another serpent, looking just like the Triarch Serpent, in fact, there was no difference between the two. Both had three eyes, in the same format, with the purple one closed and the rest dulled, and its size was the exact same, even in the same position it was currently in.

  The only difference was that it had no will of its own, fully commanded by the original as per its own design and weaker. Afterall, it would do no good for there to be two kings of the Emernigan Isle, especially when it would eventually take over its new planet when the Tutorial would end.

  Archie, unaware of the second serpent behind him, kept up his barrage of blows into the serpent’s torso, jumping over and ducking under the tail swipes it sent at him while doing so.

  So, it wasn’t a surprise for anyone other than himself when he was suddenly smacked in his armored side, creating spiderweb like cracks across his armor from the blow that quickly repaired due to Runic Amplification

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  Archie felt his shoulder snap and almost ripped off from the blow, gritting his teeth, he created a mana platform to kick off of. Twisting around his arm that was still lodged in the serpent’s mouth, Archie landed on the upper back of the Triarch Serpent in a crouch, looking at the new serpent that looked just like the serpent he was atop of.

  [Triune Serpent Marionette Lv ???]

  “Are you kidding me?” Archie muttered in disbelief.

  His eyes widened as the marionette’s black eye started to glow, and tufts of undeath flame escaped from the sides of its closed mouth. Seeing that he needed to get out of the way of the upcoming blast, Archie deactivated Material Carapace and quickly wrenched out his arm before the Triarch Serpent slammed its jaws shut.

  Leaping to his left and breaking his fall with a roll before breaking into a sprint, Archie dodged the torrent of undeath flames that engulfed the upper body of the Triarch Serpent.

  Arcing towards the marionette, Archie felt his shoulder pop back into place, and the damage inflicted on it from both the blow and his mid-air twist repaired itself. Now with full function in both arms, Archie activated Savage Charge

  The force of Archie’s blow knocked back the marionette, cutting off the torrent of undeath flames it spewed towards him.

  Archie then quickly followed up with a flurry of blows that ripped through the scales and into the flesh of the marionette, surprising him momentarily by its substantially weaker flesh compared to the Triarch Serpent.

  When suddenly, its yellow eye activated, turning a bright yellow before closing, covering its body in bone-like plated armor, barbing the end of its tail with a rattlesnake-like mace, and covering its head with a similar looking helmet as the Primalsaur’s.

  But Archie paid no heed to the sudden plated armor on the marionette, instead focusing on doing as much damage as he could with every blow.

  While Archie was tearing through the thrashing marionette, the Triarch Serpent collected itself from releasing its hold on the marionette’s body, having only used the skill for the first time.

  , the Triarch Serpent mused to itself before activating its black eye once more and spewing a torrent of undeath flames onto Archie.

  Archie felt the unfortunately familiar pain of undeath flames covering his form, melting through his runic amplified armor, and slowly melting his gauntlets. He felt his Vital Metabolism work on overdrive, repairing as much muscle, flesh, and bone as it could with as much he’d consumed prior.

  52%

  His fists were leeching as much Health as he could from the marionette in an attempt to halt his own rapidly decreasing Health.

  44%

  Through the torrent of undeath flames that covered him, his Vital Sight

  32%

  Through the barrage of blows Archie unleashed on both the serpents, Archie flooded his body with as much of his remaining stamina and mana as he could, pushing Adrenaline Rush

  Archie’s Relentless Flurry

  The red jeweled crystal of his Amulet of the Infernal melted into his skin, barely larger than a pebble, glowed a molten red color, having activated for the second time during the Group Tutorial. But unlike before, Archie had activated Runic Amplification

  An infernal shroud of molten flames exploded from the crystal, blasting both serpents away from Archie and sending them writhing from the infernal flames that consumed their scaled flesh and seared their exposed flesh.

  The Infernal Flames of the Minotaur shall remain as the ever-present flame against the encroaching serpents. For the wrath of the Minotaur towards the serpents is undying even through the veil of death. As per the decree of Minos, the Stalwart Guardian of the Warband.

  A guttural roar erupted from Archie’s throat that resounded throughout the Isle, further blasting the two-hundred-ton serpents away, locking their forms in place. The Infernal Shroud’s rage flooded into Archie’s own rage, erupting the simmering adrenaline that Archie constantly kept under control to think rationally.

  Archie exploded in motion, charging towards the nearest serpent and crashing into its side, releasing a flurry of blows that tore through its flesh and revealing its crystal-like multicolored core.

  With one final blow, Archie cocked back his right fist before smashing it against its core having activated Impact Dynamo at 100% just as his knuckles grazed the core.

  The core was flooded with Nature-Attuned kinetic energy, dying it the color of green for a moment before shattering into thousands of pieces along with the rest of the marionette’s body.

  Archie lunged forward, grabbing the lower half of the marionette’s armored body and dragging the 50-ton limb with him as he turned to charge at the still aflame Triarch Serpent.

  Archie charged through the torrent of undeath flames the serpent spewed at him, closing the distance between the two within seconds before raising the marionette’s armored lower half above his shoulder and at its head, smashing it to the side and stopping its spew of undeath flames.

  Archie kept flooding his body with all the mana and stamina he had left, pushing Adrenaline Rush

  After the tenth strike, the marionette’s tail turned to paste, making Archie lunge towards the serpent’s beaten face, unleashing a barrage of blows to its face with his broken and crushed fists until its face covered the ground around him.

  Archie released one last blow before adrenaline flooded his entire being, pushing back all the rage that filled him, cleansing him of the rage of the Minotaur.

  Archie released a gasp, looking around in shock, staring at the mutilated head of the Triarch Serpent below him. Last Stand,

  Staring at his equally mutilated arms and blood-soaked body, Archie quickly deactivated his active skills and looked at the notifications he’d ignored.

  *[Triune Serpent Marionette Lv 101] has been slain – XP has been given. 2020 Tutorial Points given**[Triarch Serpent Lv 124] has been slain – XP has been given. 2728 Tutorial Points given*

  *Your Class has reached Lv 79 – Points allocated, +4 Free Points*

  ***

  *Your Class has reached Lv 85 – Points allocated, +4 Free Points**Your Race has reached Lv 77 – Points allocated, +3 Free Points*

  ***

  *Your Race has reached Lv 81 – Points allocated, +3 Free Points*

  Quest: Group Tutorial Final-Boss

  You have survived the Hoarfrost Highlands, and have bested its king and have moved on to conquer the Emernigan Isle. Having killed the inhabitants of Emernigan Isle and their Queen, the Verdant Serpent, the King of the Emernigan Isle has been unleashed and greatly empowered. He is now actively searching to eliminate you all, starting with the killer of his mate. Your reward will be scaled based on your performance.

  Requirements:

  Reward:

  An overwhelming rush of excitement flooded Archie, further bolstered by the adrenaline he’d gained from Last Stand.

  “Fuck Yeah!”

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