Chapter 211 Back Then...


    At that moment, a sh of ck gold appeared and a smooth disk appeared before the flying spear.


    BANG!


    Ss'' gaze deepened. The spear actually broke right through, but even worse than that, sparks of a greenish fog were beginning to spread.


    His gaze flickered and the runes that the green gas emitted told Ss one very important thing.


    He did not want it to get anywhere near him.


    Although it was a bit of a surprise that the spear was able to break through a shield with 400 Defense, Ss was still exceptionally calm.


    At that moment, <King''s Shield> broke through from Fragmentd Master to Bronze Mastery in a single bond, raising its Defense to 600.


    He cast it once again before the spear could close in the rest of the distance, relying on his shield to slow it down.


    At the same time, he activated his Basic Aetherflow and de Aura Gene Talents, striking out with two heavy palms. His hands suddenly formed illusory green palms in the air, shuttling forward and swiping at the air. Arge gust of wind blew the fog approaching him in the other direction. n/?/vel/b//in dot c//om


    All the while, Ss never stopped moving. He reached a second mammoth corpse and stored it away.


    The bouncer-like man wanted to send out another attack toward him, but the infuriated mammoth beast before him didn''t give him such a chance. It rose onto its hind legs, its long, powerful tusks radiating with a silver-blue light as it stomped downward.


    The gathering runes reflected in Ss'' eyes and his expression changed. Almost instantly, he activated <King''s Shift> on his body and his sideways momentum became backward momentum.


    THWACK! THWACK! THWACK!


    His three kunai bolted themselves against the trees'' trunk, and the same moment the mammoth beast stomped downward, his toes had already firmly pressed against the lowest.


    His thighs flexed and he bolted himself upward.


    BOOM!


    The ground violently trembled and a wave of earth spread out in all directions. Ss'' second foot managed to reach the second kunai just before the wave reached his tree.


    It rocked him.


    The tree swayed to the side under the strong impact and was almost ripped up from the ground. However, Ss was unprecedentedly focused. Having gathered up momentum, he had already soared up several meters, grabbing onto the thickest branch that he could.


    His visualization was still locked on the battle below, and his frown couldn''t be concealed. The mammoth suddenly toppled over, a green venom pulsing in itsrge eyes.


    He had already had worries after seeing that the man used poison. He couldn''t help but recall the Rotten Wolves that attacked Casstle Main. Would the Basilisk King be able to take advantage of these corpses?


    However, Ss realized something else.


    The man had disappeared into the portal, having been partly blown back, and another part retreating to escape the range of the mammoth''s final desperate strike.


    When Ss saw this, he dropped down from his branch,nding on the third kunai and pushing forward with all his strength.


    He soared over the wave of earth and the plumes of poison gas, falling over the dead mammoth and stretching out a hand. This was clearly the strongest creature here, and though he hadn''t had time to check its stats, it was no doubt the greatest prize.


    Poisoned to death or not, he would take it now and check the situationter.


    However, as Ss was falling through the skies, the man suddenly came back through the portal, seemingly having weathered the storm.


    His gaze turned malevolent as he saw Ss falling through the air and reacted quickly.


    But Ss was already ready. The moment the man deployed another poison spear Skill, Ss activated <King''s Shift>.


    Just as it seemed that he was falling through the air, he did a double jump. Then, as he was about to soar over his target, he activated <King''s Shift> once again, plummeting like a meteor through the air.


    BANG!


    Hended heavily on the back of therge mammoth and it instantly vanished into his Madness Key.


    At that moment, the gazes of Ss and the bouncer met. Danger signs red through Ss'' mind, not just from the man, but from the beasts that were recovering from the mammoth''sst ditch effort.


    The portal was still a fatal attraction; how could they give up on it.


    But right now, the man seemed to be entirely focused on Ss.


    Time slowed.


    Suddenly, Ss felt his stats boost by another 10% as BOSS yer activated in the background.


    At the same time, Voice of a King thrummed. As powerful as the man was, it seemed that his Will was still weaker than Ss'', and that only made sense. With Madness activated, Ss'' Will was 1176.


    Realizing this, Ss didn''t hesitate. He pumped one Aether Unit into <King''s Bind> and then turned and ran without hesitation.


    He did this for a very clear reason. Bind Skills were powerful, but they had counters. He had no idea if this man would have a counter, but he wouldn''t risk it.


    He was willing to put his life on the line for benefits, but he knew when to cut his losses.


    Ss'' visualization almost instantly picked up that the man was circting a counter; he seemed to have sensed Ss'' attempt ahead of time. But this was within Ss'' expectations as well.


    He touched the Stabilization Bracelet, ready to activate it at any moment.


    However, to his surprise, the man''s counter failed.


    Ss still didn''t turn back. In just two seconds, he was already over 20 meters away and the man slipped out of the range of his visualization. If he turned back now, he might fall into a trap.


    "STOP RIGHT THERE!"


    The roar came and Ss'' gaze flickered. The man had a second countering Skill even more powerful than the first, and it had managed to break <King''s Bind>, but it was clear that this technique took longer to cast, giving Ss another two seconds to slip over 50 meters away.


    He shed forward at his fastest speed, weaving out of the way of beasts. He used his kunai as footholds, leaping up and then soaring through the trees step by step.


    ''That dialect… he should be from the Africor Continent. That at least gives me a potential vague location…''


    Although everyone on Earth spoke the samenguage, their dialects were bound to be different. From a single shout, Ss had already analyzed it all.


    What Ss didn''t know was that the man wasn''t just from Africor. In fact, he had seen his name once before on a familiar leaderboard.


    Back then, it had read…


    [8. Ragnar Ravenw - Level 8]


    Clearly, he had far surpassed that Level now.