Level Up in Earth Evolution

Chapter 126: Monster Stampede - 3

"Humph! What I do has nothing to do with you. Also, why are you hiding behind the cloak? Is your face too ugly?" Irene mocked him with a disdainful expression after hearing his taunt.

"You! What do you mean I am ugly? I am the most handsome man in the world, the Lord of Pride. In front of me, even the gods fear to compare!" Pride shouted in anger and took off the cloak, revealing his handsome human face.

Just as he said, he was handsome with blonde hair and a muscular body with his black elegant clothes.

"Ohh, so you look good huh. But why do I feel like the Abyss leader is more handsome?" Irene muttered with a puzzled face, thinking about the reason why she was feeling like this.

But after hearing her mutter, Pride's face became ugly. He took pride in being handsome, and now she was saying someone is more handsome than him.

"Abyss Leader, just wait! I'll kill you after I am done with this!!" he shouted with anger, his deep voice echoing through the whole battlefield.

Li Wei also heard it and felt a shiver on his spine.

'Fuck! What did I do, and why is priestess talking about me to him?' he cursed in his mind and started to think of escaping plans.

Other people who were on the battlefield also heard this and wondered who was this Abyss leader.

Because no one knew Li Wei's nickname except the Harrison family, his own party, Priestess Irene, and her legion.

On the platform Karina frowned hearing this while Alex shivered in fear also thinking of the way to escape.

While the guild master and Lyla became speechless.

"Priestess Irene is really mischievous," Maurice commented with an wry smile.

Irene was famous throughout the whole kingdom for her deeds like poisoning the pope of the church who is her own father and running away from home time to time.

While she also messed with newbie adventurers always and he thought she was doing the same here.

Lyla also thought the same and frowned in irritation.

'Ugh, why priestess Irene is so childish,' she thought with a sigh and looked at her.

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Irene, who didn't know their thoughts, was still puzzled at why she was feeling like Li Wei is more handsome.

'Is it some kind of charming skill?' she thought when Pride roared again after getting no response.

"Priestess, I will kill you first and then that Abyss leader!" Pride shouted again.

Hearing this Irene finally snapped out of her thoughts.

"Oops, my loose mouth. Hehe," she giggled beautifully and looked at Pride with a doubt.

"Are you sure you can kill me? Your level is 140 and mine is 158. Also, you are not even a Grade-1 evolution monster yet, so where did you get the guts to speak?" she asked with interest wanting to know the reason behind his confidence.

The evolution of monsters looked scary but it doesn't mean they will be able to fulfill the conditions immediately and sometimes it needed a lot of time because the conditions were harsh.

But it didn't stop monsters from leveling up so most of the monsters didn't bother to fulfill the conditions and they were called Grade-0 monsters.

It was the same case for Lord of Pride who must have a very hard conditions to become a Grade-1 evolution monster.

So with his current level, he was just an ant who was courting death.

But the Lord of Pride didn't show the slightest fear and snorted.

"Humph, priestess, don't count me with those ugly monsters. Don't you know I am the Lord of Pride, and I can gain the share of powers from people and monsters under my control?"

"With that it's enough to kill you and wipe most of the adventurers here," he replied licking his lips as if looking forward towards the meal.

"Che, I thought it will be something different but it's the same as always," Irene muttered with a disappointed face and started to pour mana into her sword.

"It's enough chit-chat here let's fight," she declared holding the sword tightly.

"Looks like you want to die very badly, then I will fulfill your wish," Pride replied as he also clenched his sword.

"You can rest in peace cute priestess but don't worry I will make sure to use your body fully," he said licking his lips and launched towards her with booming sound in mid-air.

"Courting death!" Irene shouted, her eyes flashing coldly, and she too launched towards him.

"Holy Slash," she chanted and swung her sword that glowed with holy light.

Watching this Pride didn't hesitate and activated his skill Dark Slash making his sword giving off an evil sinister black aura as it headed to counter the attack of Irene.

However before it could counter the attack his face changed into fear and anger.

"You Motherfucker!" he cursed loudly attracting the attention of everyone.

Where they saw Priestess Irene attacking him with a sword in mid-air.

It was a normal scene of fight for them until Irene launched a sneak attack with an evil smile and what was that?

A strong kick towards the precious family jewels.

They didn't know what was happening but they could see the Lord of Pride couldn't evade the attack for some reason.

"Bye bye," Irene said as her special made metal boots hit like a meteor before even the swords collided.

*Crack!*

A loud cracking sound of eggs echoed as the expression of Pride changed to the pain with his mouth open to scream.

But before he could scream, he was sent flying back with a boom and after a while a scream was heard.

"Ahhhhh," Pride screamed like a butchered pig, his voice echoing through the whole battlefield and sending shivers to every man who heard it.

However Irene, who was watching, didn't seem to care and pondered with a nod.

"So it's really like this, if any of the seven lords focused their all shared strength on a skill they wouldn't be able to react in time," she murmured in a low voice.

In the previous conversation, she deliberately led him to speak about his shared power so she could figure out if he was going to use it or not and also it's to verify the facts from books that were written by hero's.

But she just chose a ruthless way to do it, making every man inside the city fear her.

"Ugh, priestess, this is not something you should do," Lyla muttered in a crying tone while Maurice refrained from saying anything in fear.

Li Wei, who also watched her fight, instantly made a decision not to provoke her ever, after all, he didn't want to lose his family jewels.

"Ahhhhh I will kill you!" the lord of the Pride shouted, his eyes turning red with anger, and launched towards Irene with an attack again.

"Interesting, you recovered so fast," Irene smiled watching his recovery speed.

This was one of the special abilities that Lord of Pride held – speed recovery with regeneration.

As long as he had enough mana he could recover indefinitely making him a fearsome foe.

However Irene didn't show any concern and once again launched an attack with an evil smile and kick.

But the Lord of Pride was prepared this time, as he saved some of the shared strength to dodge her attacks.

Nonetheless it didn't stop Irene for making a sneak attack while between their fight and sending him flying again with pain.

While the people below watched the fight silently, they also kept an eye on the battle with monsters to see if someone needed help.

Li Wei was also doing the same while thinking should he learn their skills or not and after a while he soon found a problem.

Irene and Lord of Pride were only using normal skills that will cost him around 10k-30k MP. It was nothing to him but the special skills will definitely cost more or even double or triple.

He currently has 500k MP with a recovery speed of 7,400 MP per minute, meaning 444k MP per hour. That wasn't enough for his consumption.

If his MP got too low he had to increase his intelligence attribute or wait for it to recover itself but he couldn't wait that long as he needed MP to fight with monsters.

So that left him with only one choice – increasing the intelligence attribute.

'Looks like I have to increase my intelligence attribute again,' he thought and opened his system panel to do it.

He wasn't willing to let the valuable chance go, so without hesitation he raised his intelligence attribute to 200k for 100 million coins that increased his MP to 1 million.

"Now I can learn skills freely," he nodded with a smile and activated the eternal learning skill while looking at Irene and Lord of Pride.

[Ding, Congratulations! You have learned the following A-grade skills: Holy Slash-120, Dark Slash-110, Swift Flying Movement-108, Flight- 120 (?40+), Swift Kick-120]

'Holy fuck, the kicking in jewels is a skill,' Li Wei cursed, ignoring everything else.

The kicking skill was maxed out at her current level. It means she liked the skill and used it frequently.

'I should stay away from her,' he made a silent decision again and looked over the ongoing fight with monsters.

He could learn the skills of others too but he was saving his MP for the big skills that would be used by high-level ones.