Symbiotic

Looking at the jellyfish that was lifelessly floating in the water, he sighed. These beasts were at the top of the food chain, but unfortunately, they met him today. He examined the corpse and found its poison tentacles useful for fabrication. The beast's body disappeared from his sight as he teleported it to the underground lab.

'Three more to go.'

August appeared in another part of the lake. It was one of the deepest trenches of the lake, which was the territory of the two SS class beasts. From what he knew so far, the two beasts were in a symbiotic relationship. One of the beasts was like a seashell, while the other looked like a squid. The Seashell-looking beast had some type of suction cup attached to its outer surface. When looking at it closely, he could see that the beast was absorbing the surrounding nutrients in a very rapid manner. There were about a countless number of pores that came out of the shell.

The Seashell beast didn't have any eyes, but from the scan, August found that it had other extra-sensory organs inside the shell. It could see the electromagnetic spectrum with the organs. From the description, the beast was not very agile, if at all. It only had very high defense and similar skills to protect itself. So it relied upon the other beast to move it somewhere else. In exchange, it gave the beast a highly defensive shell.

Looking at the other beast that was partially inside the shell, that appeared to be a huge squid-like beast. It had two big arms and several tentacles. It had seven eyes of different sizes. He looked at the beast's description.

[ Type : Awakened Beast ]

[ Age : 3 years ]

[ Species : Ishter ]

[ Level : 291 ]

[ Strength : 311 ]

[ Agility : 322 ]

[ Vitality : 244 ]

[ Dexterity : 219 ]

[ Intelligence : 6 ]

[ Wisdom : 6 ]

[ Skills: Grind Castle(SS), Storm Ripper(SS), Crush(S), Wave Slash(S)…..]

The beast was more focused on speed, so its agility was the highest. It helped the seashell beast to move around and in exchange used its shell to protect itself as it has low vitality.

As he was looking at their skills, the squid beast extended its tentacles towards him. He didn't move as he was happy that the beast was coming to him on its own. The flickering colors on the tentacles covered the entire surrounding as the two arms tried to grab him from both sides.

August didn't move and applied his aura. The skill was recently ranked up and turned into SSS level. The surrounding water heated up, and an intimidating atmosphere was created. The arms of the squid stopped midway, shaking frivolously.

It was natural that Beasts recognized the higher rank aura, as their own aura was suppressed by it. It was not the case with quantum force, even though it was more powerful. Due to the beasts not having any quantum force, they couldn't perceive it instinctively, only by force suppression their whole body physically responds, but they are still unaware of it. This was not the case for the aura, as it was directly perceived by awakened beasts. Since August had an SSS level aura, the beast could directly perceive the aura level after he released his full aura.

And as a result, the beast's movement was suppressed by the aura. It was not as drastic as the authority, as in that the entire surrounding was stopped, and the beast can't move at all. In this situation, the beast could move but was greatly restricted by the pressure.

August moved closer to the beast and as he was moving the surrounding water distorted in a curve and all the tentacles were repelled by his aura. As he was just near the head of the squid, it panicked and tried to swim back. With its high agility, it was easy for it to move but the pressure caused by the aura slowed down its speed. As it moved backward the water was split in half and the two tentacles brushed past August.

Without being concerned he stretched out his arm and grabbed the arm that was getting away.

*HAP*

The beast stopped abruptly as the arm was grabbed by him. He pulled the arm with a tug and the squid shot forward towards him because of the pull. As it approached him with a swift speed, August put his hand in front. The beast crashed into his open palm as the internal organs were squished by the sudden halt and the suppression aura. The beast looked like a bloated balloon as the shell was detaching from its back.

' Not so fast.'

August quickly moved behind the squid beast and grabbed the outer shell of the sea-shell beast. His aura-enforced hands plunged into the shell. The shell was quite hard as it didn't break from all the force he applied.

' Hmm... Looks like I found a good material for a shield.'

He loosened the grip on the shell and spread his palm.

'Acquire'

[ Skills acquired: Aura(SS=>SSS) ]

He looked at the notification. He took the aura from the sea-shell beast and left it with just the hardening skills. After losing the aura, the beast was weakened. Now as August plunged his hand inside the shell, cracks appeared on it. The crack expanded into a spiderweb and when it reached the other side, it broke into pieces.

Inside the cracked shell, a shining silver core could be seen attached to a small piece of shell. There were some fleshy parts attached to the beast core. August reached out his hand and grabbed the glimmering beast core. He used his force to clean the beast and sent it back to the lab.

Looking at the squid, he approached the squished head and touched it on its surface.

[ Skills acquired : Aura(SS=>SSS) ]

After he absorbed the aura, he dug his hand inside the beast's head and took out the beast core. It was shimmering with navy blue color. There were several gradients on the beast core like arteries.

He looked at the beast core for a moment and then sent it back to the lab. The squid-like beast's corpse was not of much use, so he didn't send it to the lab. Besides, the residue energy was in the beast core and the body was not so strong. As for the sea-shell beast, it was really useful for creating shield artifacts, so he teleported them away.

' Now, only the SSS rank beast is left. Let's see how strong it is compared to continental rulers.'

He turned around to look in a certain direction. His line of sight was a little tilted as he was looking down at the abyss of the lake.