You are all my wings!

As Lyon sheathed his sword and landed, the Minotaur's wound on its back burst forth with a torrent of blood, splattering onto the ground and sending plumes of hot white steam rising into the air.

Awooo!!!

Minotaur roared in pain, arching his back due to the pain in his back.

Just then——

A slender spear of light arrived in an instant, like a shooting star, piercing through the still-bleeding wound in the Minotaur's chest.

Minotaur roared again, his voice growing increasingly harsh and short.

Clearly, the series of attacks had inflicted considerable damage on it.

The two attacks from the front and back dealt at least 16 points of terrifying health to the Minotaur.

Adding to the damage from Lyon's previous two attacks, the Minotaur's health has been reduced by about 30 points. Yet, it still seems to have the strength to fight, without showing any obvious signs of low health or severe stamina decline.

"This guy has unusually high health, it can't be more than 40, right? Or is it because he has high stamina, so his health regenerates quickly?"

If it's the type that recovers quickly, then the situation is bad.

Because it seems like a lot of Minotaur's blood has been cut off, if time goes on, the opponent will still be full of energy, while your own magic and stamina will gradually run out, which is a nightmare.

"Captain, this powerful monster looks much stronger than the usual powerful monsters. Should we retreat?"

Iris noticed that Lyon's fighting rhythm was a little off and quickly said.

She had originally wanted to show off and practice her skills, but this thing was too much of a hindrance to her, so she had no choice but to make this suggestion.

"Then let me test the waters one last time to confirm their situation."

As he thought this, Leon raised his hand, and magic gathered in his palm.

call out! ! !

A small vortex of air appeared at the wound on the Minotaur's back.

Immediately afterwards, ten fireballs shot out, heading towards the small airflow behind the Minotaur.

Basic spell: Cyclone! *1!

Magic -1!

Basic magic, Fireball x2

Magic -2!

Soon, four fireballs were deflected due to the Minotaur's movements. Three of them hit the Minotaur's uninjured waist, slightly igniting the black hairs on his waist, but quickly went out.

The last three missiles accurately struck the small airflow, instantly creating a rapidly rotating airflow that spun as if powered by a small electric motor, generating a huge pressure difference.

call out! ! !

Then, an astonishing scene unfolded.

A large amount of blood suddenly gushed from the wound on the Minotaur's back, swirling towards the small cyclone.

It turned out that Lyon used the small cyclone and heating to increase the cyclone's suction force, drawing away a large amount of Minotaur's blood.

This is also a unique combination magic created by Lyon: the Suction Wind!

Although its power is not much higher than that of a basic spell, it has the advantage of special and concealed effects, which can effectively increase the sustained damage to enemies!

Whether it would work against the Minotaur was still unknown; he adopted a "do it if it works, and if it doesn't, we'll give up" mentality.

"Iris, please provide me with a defensive light shield!"

"it is good."

Iris is fully engaged and ready to go.

Lyon took a deep breath, suppressing the pain he had just felt, and focused his mind on high alertness. Then, dragging his sword, he accelerated forward.

Taking advantage of the Minotaur's massive bleeding, Leon leaped to its side, without using magic to infuse the silver sword to amplify the damage. Instead, he twisted his waist and turned sideways in mid-air, using his arms to accelerate and exert force.

The shadow instantly enveloped the blade!

Shadow Sword Slash!

Stamina -2, Magic -1.

Chapter Eighteen: Spoils of War

Crash!!

The defensive light shield blocked the Minotaur's attack with its battle axe.

Leon's final, fatal blow struck the opening through which the Minotaur had been pierced by the spear of light, widening the wound and turning it into a crack-like opening.

More black blood dripped down, and the suction wind behind it continued to draw blood.

Minotaur eventually lost a lot of health and fell to the ground with a dull thud.

However, its huge bull eyes remained open.

The battle axe in his hand was still struggling violently, desperately mustering its remaining strength.

Lyon stepped on the bull's head, then thrust his sword downwards with a fierce thrust.

puff.

The sword tip pierced the bull's right eye, penetrated the inner skull, stirred three times, and was slowly pulled out.

Having finished off the enemy, Leon held back his anger, remaining highly vigilant of his surroundings and suppressing the pain, as this was precisely the time when he was most vulnerable to being ambushed by other monsters.

He slowly took out the rabbit jerky he had prepared in advance, and stood on the bloody corpse to chew it, the stench of blood rising up.

Seeing this, Iris didn't find it too gory that Leon was eating meat while standing on a monster; instead, she felt a sense of admiration.

This habit of remaining vigilant after the war shows that he was a reliable and mature adventurer.

Lyon assessed his consumption: he had half of his magic and half of his stamina remaining. His injuries were mainly painful, but not serious. He could use water healing spells to relieve the pain and wait for recovery.

He rated himself as qualified.

Without Iris's help, I would have run away the moment I encountered a powerful monster. There's no other reason why having a ranged teammate who can heal and revive makes all the difference compared to my previous lone-wolf exploration.

Moreover, magic, stamina, and health (life force) recovery potions are expensive and can be life-saving in critical moments. A small bottle costs fifty gold coins. In this battle, only half of the magic was consumed, and there was no need to spend life-saving potions. This was obviously the result of the tactical choice and the proper cooperation with Iris.

It is clear that although Iris still doubts herself, her combat skills and character are indeed as reliable as he knew.

Now, it's time to find a place to recover my magic and stamina, and reap the spoils.

Lyon currently only has enough resources to keep one bottle of health recovery potion on hand.

Both magic power and stamina recovery can only be achieved through food.

Incidentally, if your stamina and health drop drastically, your mana regeneration speed will also slow down.

For a normal person, mana regeneration is usually more than half as slow as stamina regeneration.

Fortunately, Lyon has a passive skill called High-Speed ​​Mana Recovery, so his daily mana recovery speed is about the same as his stamina.

As long as your physical strength doesn't plummet to its lowest point, the recovery speed is considerable.

If you have meat to eat, you can recover 10 points of magic power in an hour of rest.

A normal human at level one can recover a maximum of 3 points of magic power per hour. Once the daily limit is exhausted, it takes about half a day to recover.

If Leon wants to have a faster recovery speed, he can only wait for the mage class to advance or change to an elementalist.

Given that mana regeneration takes a considerable amount of time, Leon always advised Iris that once her mana was more than half depleted, she should immediately report it, shake off the current obstructing monsters, and quickly find a place to rest.

In no time at all, Lyon finished the rabbit jerky.

Whew, that feels good.

Even though his magic and physical strength hadn't recovered much, he felt a sense of fullness in his body.

what.

At this point, Lyon noticed other updates on the panel.

[A perilous battle, dodging is key, risking life and death, Agility +1]

[The combat skill Phantom Step (Tier 2) is upgraded to Instant Shadow Step (Tier 3)]

【主要属性：生命力30/魔力量27/体力30/力量31/敏捷40】

"It's actually an increase in agility."

Lyon stroked his chin, somewhat surprised.

Although real combat and training are the best ways to improve attributes.

However, Lyon's agility hasn't improved in over half a year, and he's probably already reached the attribute limit for his current class.

On the contrary, he was not surprised that Phantom Step was upgraded to a third-tier combat skill ahead of schedule. Practical combat generally has a strong effect on skill improvement, especially at lower tiers, where the improvement rate in practical combat is very high.

Moreover, he has already mastered all the skills required for the Shadow Walker and Mage classes, and could potentially advance ahead of his rank at any time, allowing him to accumulate even more substantial professional experience.

This is certainly good news.

The early advancement of combat skills means that the Shadow Walker class has met the basic requirements for advancement, and is only missing a suitable advancement item. If a suitable item can be found on a monster, the improvement will be relatively high.

However, there is another issue that needs our attention right now.

"I took the job of fraudster yesterday. Except for agility, all my other attributes increased directly. So the bottleneck of agility should not have been broken."

"Is agility already very high, so training is needed to show results?"

After thinking for a while, he could only attribute the reason to his high agility attribute, which was why he couldn't increase the value directly when he took the job. He needed to train or practice to reach this bottleneck.

As he was thinking, he turned to look at Iris and found her pacing back and forth warily in other directions of the cave.

After finishing off the enemy, I didn't let my guard down. While he was finishing him off, I quickly went to guard the perimeter to prevent any accidents.

This is the future demigod Iris.

Even without the trials of blood and fire, they already possess a commendable rigorous work ethic.

This teammate is pretty good.

"Iris, how's the situation? Have any monsters been attracted by our battle?"

"Not yet. It's possible that the Minotaur's influence on other monsters is too strong, and they don't dare to come and pick up any scraps when they hear the commotion. Or maybe they haven't arrived yet."

Iris walked around and then came back.

At this moment, Lyon had already taken out a pre-prepared leather cutter from his backpack and started cutting the Minotaur's hide.

This is good stuff.

The root of the Minotaur's high resistance to physical resistance lies in this layer.

Although it was damaged by the silver sword and the spear of light, it can be repaired and forged into a decent second-tier leather armor that can be sold for two or three hundred gold coins.

If sold as raw material, it could probably fetch seventy or eighty gold coins.

If it weren't damaged, its value could easily double.

This is the value of powerful monsters.

If you were to use the hide of a regular second-tier monster, you'd be lucky to make a first-tier leather armor. Some monsters don't even have any useful parts at all, and the only profit you get is the bounty money or bounty money from the Adventurers' Guild, which is less than a few gold coins.

This is also the significance of Lyon and Iris teaming up.

Either of them could get here, but to defeat the Minotaur, they would have to severely deplete their original equipment and supplies. If they didn't perform well, they might even be ganged up on by other monsters. Successfully retreating would be considered a success.

Essentially, exploring dungeons is an activity that combines economic benefits with physical exercise.

Let's set aside whether our strength has improved in the process.

But if you can't make a profit, can't get the target items, and even lose money on equipment and supplies, this is simply unsustainable.

"Leon, you're not actually a dual-profession user, but a triple-profession user, right?"

Just as Leon was about to finish cutting the Minotaur's skin, Iris, who had been watching Leon's movements with her hands behind her back, suddenly spoke up.

Lyon paused for a moment, then spoke:

"Now that we're teammates, I don't intend to hide it from you. As you can see, I do indeed hold three extraordinary professions."

This is the truth.