Confrontation

Their fight started without any prelude. The flaming monkey dashed toward Joe, leaving behind a cloud of fire. The trajectory of his path also caught up fire.

Joe used his bling skill to dodge it's attack. It was fast and powerful than any other beast he fought before.

Joe was trying to keep his distance. But the beast didn't give any chance. It chased after him relentlessly. It roared and screeched furiously when it couldn't land any hit on Joe.

Wherever it punched, it created a crater there. The trees and bushes in the surrounding area became a fiery pit of hell.

Joe was trying to fire his gun but they were moving around too fast so he could not make a straight shot. On the other side, the flaming monkey got more and more agitated.

Joe kept on dodging, also ran away from the flaming monkey. He wasn't sure if he can fight it head on. So he decided to retreat while dodging the beasts attack.

Seeing that it couldn't land any punch on Joe, the beast got angry. Then it suddenly spat out fireball from it's mouth. The fireball was as big as football in size. But when it landed on something, it didn't burn it, instead melted it.

"Shit! it can spew out fire."

Although he can run but he can't outrun every time. If this fireball hits him, he will also melt like a candle wax. The flaming monkey kept on rampaging. Fires kept burning everything in the area with more ferocity.

The whole place soon was filled with dark smoke.

"Damn! This is only getting worse."

At this time, suddenly two fist-like beam of fire came very quickly and hit Joe. Joe was send away flying and hit his head in a tree at a distance.

Blood seeped out from his forehead but he didn't get burn or melted. He only took damage from the crash but not a bit of the damage from the fist-like fire assailed him.

The reason is Joe was wearing his Blue Cloak of Beginning. It shielded him from the damage.

"SWEET!"

Joe was happy that the cloak could prevent him from taking any damage from the flaming monkey's attacks. But still, that last attack was very frightening and it was very unexpected.

"It must be a new attack."

Grrr....

The monkey was still unsatisfied and madly chased after Joe. Joe wiped the blood in his forehead.

He felt exhausted and his body felt weak. Although he narrowly escaped death, after running for so long he felt his legs losing strength.

Joe saw the flaming monkey getting close so he fired his gun. It was the speed hindering Beretta 93R Submachine gun. When the bullets hit the beast, it slowed down like like a man going against raging water current.

With the beast moving slowly, he had the time to load bullets in his Green Bull Shotgun. His shotgun is his main firepower currently. The Beretta 93R doesn't have any damage, it just slows down enemies speed. But Green Bull Shotgun has the disadvantage of needing to reload every time he fires. So he didn't use it before as there was no time to load his shotgun.

But now with the beast's speed reduced, he can confront it for one time. If he cannot defeat it, then he can only run.

Joe has no scruples with running away. He will be able to defeat the opponents he can't defeat now when he gets stronger. So there is no need to get worked up on a beast when he has no enmity with it or nothing to gain from it.

Joe finished loading his shotgun and aiming it for a while, he fired. The instant he fired, he also used bling skill to teleport away.

BANG!

The sound of gunshot reverberated everywhere.

The monkey got shrouded in smoke as the bullet hit him. But Joe couldn't see it. When he fired the flaming monkey got too close to him so he used bling to get away from it. He teleported to the left of the beast.

He saw that after firing, the monkey didn't move but stayed there and exploded in a thunderous roar afterwards. It was wounded.

It's hand was blasted open and blood flowed out like river. Probably it tried to defend the attack with it's fist, that's why it was so brutally mangled. It cried out in anger and pain as it stared at Joe with eyes full of hatred. It was full of intimidation and hatred. It was very strong to begin with, it lived in this place, its territorial advantage was obvious. Now that it has turned into a full on murder machine, there is no stopping it.

But Joe was daring and courageous, his expression did not change, he was still calm and composed.

"Come at me!" He shouted, his body shook as he used Beretta 93R. He fired his Beretta again and TRIED to slow down the monkey.

BANG! BANG!

There was a clear and sharp sound of gunshots in the battlefield, like the roar of thunderbolt.

But the monkey got smarter this time. It actually dodged and spit out another of those fire attack. Joe also dodged hurriedly. They both kept a distance from each other and avoided getting hit by the others attack.

But soon, The flaming monkey roared and whipped up a fire storm.

The huge beast sprinted and asaulted Joe fiercely.

Joe tried to block it.

But, he was injured again.

He was completely suppressed, there was no chance to win. If he wanted to live, he had to find a way to escape.

But hope was too short in supply in current situations.

Blue Cloak of Beginning

But this blue cloak was completely unfazed by the flaming beast's attacks, it protected Joe from life threatening situation completely.

Joe was injured, but not from the attacks of the beast, he was slammed into the trees and boulders which caused his weak body to get injured. On the contrary, the cloak absorbed vitality from the monkey and made it exhaust itself while transferring the vitality to Joe's body, helping him heal his body albeit very slowly.

But this was very impressive.

It was just a rank two level up reward. He is already looking forward to what rewards he will get in future.