Chapter 79: Plans for the Future (1/2)

Gravis was looking at a massive bug with imposing horns. It was around five meters high and double as long, and its horns were just as long as the bug itself. This was the first high-grade demonic beast that Gravis had ever seen. While Gravis was watching it, it was munching on the crop of a village. It had already eaten so much of it that the village had nearly no food left.

”Let's see how my strength compares to a high-grade demonic beast,” he muttered to himself as he shot to the bug.

SHINK!

The bug couldn't even react before Gravis cut off one of its legs. Gravis was just too fast. The bug immediately grew panicked and opened its shell so its wings could unfold.

SHINK!

Gravis' saber cut off all the wings on one side, and when the bug tried to jump to get airborne, it only received lift from one side. It quickly toppled over and fell onto its side.

Gravis was no longer attacking and just looked at the bug. 'This is such a disappointment. No wonder Heaven had no issue with me hunting high-grade demonic beasts,' he thought as he saw the bug getting up. It turned towards Gravis in fear, panic, and rage. With all its strength, it stabbed its horns at him.

Gravis easily sidestepped the horns. He was faster than the beast, and together with his battle experience, he could dodge all of its attacks for hours on end. The beast rammed him again with its horn.

BANG!

Gravis wanted to test his strength and blocked the next strike. Gravis got pushed back for some meters, but that wasn't due to its strength, but due to the weak ground. Gravis' arms shook a little, but that was about it.

'This should be its strongest attack, yet I blocked it without an issue. My body strength is probably equal to the bug's. Yet, due to my weight, I am actually way faster. It takes a lot of power to move such a massive body, after all,' he thought.

The bug stabbed with its horns again, Gravis sidestepped, and then he used his full power to attack the horns.

CRRRRRRK!

Gravis' saber went through about 75% of the horn before it stopped. With another strong push, Gravis split the upper horn in two. This was probably one of the hardest parts that a high-grade demonic beast could have. If Gravis managed to sever that, he would manage to pierce anything in the Body Tempering Realm.

Demonic beasts were the beasts equivalent to the Body Tempering Realm. Under normal circumstances, a high-grade demonic beast would have a stronger body than anyone in the Body Tempering Realm. That was what made them so powerful. Humans only had their wits and intelligence to fight against the beasts if they fought on the same level.

Yet, Gravis easily destroyed that preconceived notion, and his muscles weren't even fully tempered. If Gravis tempered his muscles fully, he probably wouldn't even need a weapon to kill a high-grade demonic beast.

”I can't even fight Energy Beasts, because they all left for richer lands in the middle-continent. The only enemies in the outer continent that can properly fight me are those Guild Masters of the Proxy-Elemental Guilds. No other Energy Gathering Realm expert would walk around in this destitute land,” Gravis narrated to himself while constantly sidestepping the bug's attacks.