The King Beast Candidate!
The King Candidate was an Evolved Panther with arms like a bear, hide like a crocodile, its fangs are sharp, glittering in metallic lustre.
The Beast stood bipedal, with thick legs that could leap high, a robust black crocodile-like hide but its chest area was a soft coat with irregular patterns of White and Gold.
One of the Irregular Gold was shaped like a Spoon!
[Beware of the golden spoon] Elias remembered.
"So, Kings and Kings' candidates revolved around Gold and Spoons?" He tilted his head in wonder!
Elias just stood there staring at the two-meter tall Beast. Seeing it has intelligence, he thought of talking with it!
"Hi. I'm willing to ally with you!"
The Evolved Beast walked with a thud, but then it smelled something on Elias and it frowned before it snarled. Without Elias' control, the slimes shot toward the Beast.
The Evolved Beast sidestepped and lunged at Elias with speed fast that eye could follow.
Thankfully, Elias was already immersed in the Island-viewpoint and things were moving slowly in his perception. But that doesn't mean he can move as fast. Taking a step back, he was about to fall on the White Chest when the Chains slithered and held him in place and wrapped him very fast!
At the same time, the Island floor softened and a Sand Slide happened, the Beast's leg sank, trapped inside, and then the sand became rigid!
In a split second, Elias took away the Island Authority by pushing the brunt of his Mental Fortitude against the Beast's, which instantly disoriented it for five seconds!
Within those seconds, using Telekinesis, he aimed one of the slimes at the Beast's face. While the Grade 4 Metallic Slime Monster rolled and bounded the Beast's free leg. Now, one leg was sunk by the sand and the other was enveloped and bound by the Metallic Slime Monster!
But at the end of five-second, all that proved ineffective!
Elias' perception blurred and… a massive gash appeared on his chest, blood flowed out, and he became dazed!
[Great Healing Activated]
[Great Immunity Activated]
That quickly appeased Elias' dizziness!
The Evolved Beast has moved fast and gouged a chunk of flesh with a casual swipe of its claws. In that time the Chain pulled Elias towards it, leaving the Beast standing in his previous location!
The Beast licked the flesh with a sadistic smile then it—froze—in a trance. The Sand has moved the Chest Of Infinity and it touched the Beast's leg!
Elias stood beside the Chest for when the Beast attacked, he would move away and maybe the Beast may stumble on the White Chest!
The moment the Beast was in trance, the Metallic Slime Monster shot a portion of it and it slid through the Beast's ears and its mouth.
As for Elias, the motion was fast and it rattled his inside together with the pain from the wound that made him barely hold on to his consciousness. If not for the Traits, he would have fainted!
"Throw the flesh at him!" Elias grunted. The Chain Chest opened its lid, using a sharp metal that was slowly melting and pierced the Squirming Laughing Cursed Flesh. It declared.
~Eliassss! Your suffering is tantalizing~
The Cursed Flesh was thrown at the recovering Beast, the moment it shook away the trancing effect, it saw the dangerous Flesh coming it away. The Beast tried to move but its legs were bound by Metallic Slime Monster and the Sand. Also, inside its head, something was disturbing it, making it dizzy!
Roar!
Elias' ears were busted, his inside rattled and his bones cracked, and he began to bleed out. He managed to send one last command before fainting!
The Beast's roar broke all shackled as he spattered the Metallic Slime Monster and the one that was in his head seeped out. But… the time taken for all that to happen was enough for the Cursed Flesh to reach it, the Beast swiped its metallic claw at it.
The Cursed Flesh squirmed, bent and dock on its palm then—it began to corrode it!
The Evolved Beast raised the other hand and was about to chop the hand off, the White Chest tumbled and opened!
The space—froze—and, moments later, everything began to suck into the Chest!
As the Evolved Beast was very close, it was feeling the brunt of it. Its attention completely changed from the corroding hand to preventing itself from being consumed by the Mass Of Black in the Chest!
Chain Chest has embedded its daggers at the Island boulders, to prevent it from being carried away. And Elias was wrapped well, making sure he did not get sucked too.
As for the Slimes, they seeped into the Island.
The other Chest was firmly unmoving.
Elias opened his eyes in time to see the Beast struggling from being consumed by what seemed to be an—Orb of Black Mass—sitting on a Soft Pillow in the Chest Of Infinity!
At that moment, he saw the resemblance of it with the Blot of Infinity in his Subconscious Mind. Apart from that—he felt dread, unlike anything he ever felt! As if in a helpless situation against an Infinite Substance weighing down on him!
His body shivered and he quickly took his eyes off it and looked at the Beast, thinking—the Evolved Beast as The King Candidate was just one among countless insignificant characters that were trying to find their place in this horrifying Gray Fog!
Clamp!
The Chest was closed and all the sucking came to a stop. The Evolved Beast panted as he placed his right leg on the White Chest preventing it from opening. His eyes barely retained lucidity and—there was fear in them. Adding to that, the Chest was still affecting its Mind!
The Islander—Elias Gobarau—and The Kind Candidate—Evolved Panther Beast—were at a stalemate!
If the Evolved Beast attacked Elias, the Chest might open and devour it. And also there was the Cursed Flesh that was corroding and feasting on its left hand!
"Haha" it cracked up! It was amusing!
At first, it wanted to have this Super Intelligence Race of Beasts as An Ally, but sniffing King Beast's scent on him stopped it., and attacked to feed on him. However, the creature is weak but equipped with terrifying Treasures!
It stared at Elias with human intelligence before it used its left hand and cut off the right one, with a thud, it fell. And then the Evolved Beast Golden Eyes glowed and glanced at the Chain Chest, not only that the—Golden Spoon—Shape on its chest glowed!
At that moment, the chains holding Elias dropped him and the Chest took its Chains back!
With a cruel smile, it turned and jumped out of the Island.
Zing!
[Congratulations]
[You have survived the Beast King Candidate Encounter]
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The Island sped from the Third Trial allowing Elias to faint with confusion about what happened and also allow his body to be healed by his Traits!
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End Of Third Arc: Third Trial—King Beasts Candidate!