You are all my wings...

As Leon sheathed his sword and landed, the wound on the Minotaur's back gushed forth a torrent of blood due to its movement, splashing onto the ground and sending plumes of hot white steam rising directly into the air.

Awooo!!!

Minotaur roared in pain, arching his back due to the pain in his back.

And it was at this moment—

A slender spear of light arrived in an instant, like a shooting star, piercing through the still-bleeding wound on Minotaur's chest.

Minotaur roared again, his voice growing increasingly harsh and short.

Clearly, the series of attacks had inflicted considerable damage on it.

The two attacks from the front and back dealt a terrifying 16 points of damage to Minotaur.

Adding to the damage from Lyon's previous two attacks, the Minotaur has lost about 30 points of health. Yet, it still seems to have the strength to fight back, without showing any signs of low health or severe stamina decline.

"This guy has abnormally high health, it can't be more than 40, right? Or is it because he has high stamina, so his health regenerates quickly?"

If it's a type that recovers quickly, then the situation is bad.

Because just now it seemed that a lot of Minotaur's blood was cut off, but if time goes on, the opponent will still be full of energy, while your own magic and stamina will gradually run out, that is the nightmare.

"Captain, this powerful monster looks much stronger than the average powerful monster. Should we retreat?"

Iris noticed that Lyon's fighting rhythm was slightly disrupted and quickly said.

She had originally wanted to show off and practice her skills, but this thing was too much of a hindrance to her, so she had no choice but to make this suggestion.

"Then let me test the waters one last time and confirm their situation first."

As he thought this, Leon raised his hand, and magic gathered in his palm.

call out! ! !

A small vortex of air appeared at the wound on the back of the Minotaur.

Immediately afterwards, ten fireballs shot out, heading towards the small airflow behind Minotaur.

Basic magic, Cyclone! *1!

Magic -1!

Basic magic, Fireball x2

Magic -2!

Soon, four fireballs were deflected due to Minotaur's movements, and three hit his uninjured waist, slightly igniting the black skin and hair there, but the fire quickly went out.

The last three bullets accurately struck the small airflow, instantly creating an extremely fast-spinning airflow that spun rapidly as if powered by a small electric motor, generating a huge pressure difference.

call out! ! !

Then, an astonishing scene unfolded.

A large amount of blood suddenly gushed from the wound on Minotaur's back, swirling towards the small cyclone.

It turned out that Lyon used that small cyclone and heating to increase the cyclone's suction force, drawing away a large amount of Minotaur's blood.

This is also a unique combination magic created by Leon: the Wind of Suction!

Although its power is not much higher than that of a basic spell, it has the advantage of special and concealed effects, which can effectively increase the sustained damage to enemies!

Whether the Minotaur would work was still unknown; he adopted a "do it if it works, and if it doesn't, we'll give up" attitude.

"Elise, provide me with a defensive light shield!"

"it is good."

Iris was fully prepared and ready to go.

Lyon took a deep breath, suppressing the pain from before, and with his mind highly excited, he dragged his sword and accelerated forward.

Taking advantage of the Minotaur's massive bleeding, Leon leaped to its side, without using magic to infuse his silver sword to amplify the damage. Instead, he twisted his waist and turned sideways in mid-air, using his arms to accelerate and exert force.

The shadow instantly enveloped the sword blade!

Shadow Sword Slash!

Stamina -2, Magic -1.

Chapter Eighteen: Spoils of War

Whoosh!!!

The defensive shield blocked the Minotaur's battle axe.

Leon's final, fatal sword strike landed squarely on the hole in Minotaur's body where the spear of light had pierced him, widening the wound and turning it into a crack-like opening.

More black blood dripped down, accompanied by the continuous sucking of blood by the wind sucking from behind it.

Minotaur finally lost a lot of health and fell to the ground with a dull thud.

However, its large bull eyes remained open.

The battle axe in his hand was still struggling violently, desperately mustering its limited strength.

Leon stepped on the bull's head, his sword tip pointing downwards, and plunged in fiercely.

puff.

The sword tip pierced the bull's right eye, penetrated the inner skull, stirred three times, and was slowly pulled out.

After delivering the finishing blow, Leon held back his pent-up energy, remaining highly vigilant of his surroundings and suppressing the pain, as this was precisely the time when he was most vulnerable to being ambushed by other monsters.

He slowly took out the rabbit jerky he had prepared in advance, and stood on the bloody corpse to chew it, the stench of blood rising up.

Seeing this, Iris didn't find Leon eating meat on top of a monster too gory; instead, she felt a sense of admiration.

This habit of remaining vigilant after the war shows that he was a reliable and mature adventurer.

Leon took stock of his energy expenditure: he had half of his magic and half of his stamina remaining. His injuries were mainly painful, but not serious. He could use water healing spells to relieve the pain and wait for recovery.

He assessed himself as qualified.

Without Iris's help, I would have run away the moment I encountered a powerful monster. There's no other reason why having a teammate who can heal and heal from a distance makes all the difference compared to my previous lone wolf exploration situation.

Moreover, magic, stamina, and health (life force) recovery potions are expensive and can be life-saving in critical moments. A small bottle costs fifty gold coins. In this battle, only half of the magic was consumed, and there was no need to spend money on life-saving potions. This was obviously the result of the tactical choice and the proper coordination with Iris.

It is evident that although Iris still doubts herself, her combat skills and character are indeed as reliable as she knew.

Now, it's time to find a place to replenish my magic and stamina, and reap the spoils.

Lyon currently only has one bottle of health recovery potion left to keep on hand.

Both magic power and stamina recovery can only be achieved through food.

Incidentally, if your stamina and health drop drastically, your mana regeneration speed will also slow down.

For a normal person, mana recovery is usually more than half as slow as stamina recovery.

Fortunately, Lyon has the passive skill of high-speed mana regeneration, so his daily mana regeneration speed is about the same as his stamina.

As long as physical strength doesn't plummet, the recovery speed is considerable.

If you have meat to eat, you can recover 10 points of magic power after an hour of rest.

A normal human at level one can recover a maximum of 3 points of magic per hour. Once the daily limit is exhausted, it takes about half a day to recover.

If Leon wants to have a faster response time, he can only wait to advance in the mage class or change to an elementalist.

Given that mana regeneration takes a considerable amount of time, Leon always advised Iris that once mana was used up to half its capacity, she should immediately report it, shake off the monsters blocking her way, and quickly find a place to rest.

In no time at all, Lyon finished the rabbit jerky.

Whew, that feels good.

Even though his magic and physical strength hadn't recovered much, his body felt much fuller.

what.

At this point, Lyon noticed other updates on the panel.

[A perilous battle, dodging is key, risking life and death, Agility +1]

The combat skill Phantom Step (Level 2) is upgraded to Instant Shadow Step (Level 3)

【主要屬性：生命力30/魔力量27/體力30/力量31/敏捷40】

"It's actually an increase in agility."

Leon stroked his chin, somewhat surprised.

Although practical experience and training are the best ways to improve attributes.

However, Lyon's agility hasn't improved in over half a year, and he's probably already reached the limit of his current profession's attributes.

On the contrary, he was not surprised that Phantom Step was upgraded to a third-tier combat skill ahead of schedule. The improvement of skills in actual combat is generally stronger, especially at lower tiers, where the improvement rate in actual combat is very high.

Moreover, he has already mastered all the skills required for the Shadow Walker and Mage professions, and he may advance ahead of his rank at any time, allowing him to accumulate even more professional expertise.

Of course, this is also good news.

The early advancement of combat skills means that your Shadow Walker class has met the basic requirements for advancement, and you only need a suitable advancement item. If you can find a suitable item on a monster, the advancement will be relatively high.

However, there is another issue that needs our attention right now.

"I started working as a fraudster yesterday, and all my attributes except for Agility increased directly. So the Agility bottleneck shouldn't have been broken."

"Is agility already high enough that training is needed to see results?"

After thinking for a while, he could only attribute the reason to his high agility attribute, which was why he couldn't increase the value directly when he took the job. He needed to train or practice to reach this bottleneck.

As he was thinking, he turned to look at Iris and found her pacing back and forth warily in other directions of the cave.

After eliminating the enemy, I didn't let my guard down. While he was finishing him off, I quickly went to guard the perimeter to prevent any accidents.

This is the future demigoddess, Iris.

Even without the tempering of blood and fire, they already possess a commendable rigorous work style.

This teammate is pretty good.

"Iris, how is it? Have any monsters been attracted by our battle?"

"Not yet. Perhaps Minotaur's oppressive presence on other monsters is too strong, and they dare not come to pick up the scraps even when they hear the commotion. Or perhaps he hasn't arrived yet."

Iris walked around and then came back.

At this moment, Lyon had already taken out a pre-prepared leather cutter from his backpack and started cutting the Minotaur's hide.

This is good stuff.

The root of Minotaur's resistance to physical agents lies in this layer.

Although it was damaged by the silver sword and the spear of light, it could be repaired and forged into a decent second-tier leather armor that could sell for two or three hundred gold coins.

If sold as raw material, it could probably fetch seventy or eighty gold coins.

If it weren't damaged, its value could easily double.

This is the value of powerful monsters.

If it were the hide of a regular second-tier monster, it would be good enough to make a first-tier leather armor. Some monsters don't have any useful parts at all, and the only profit is the bounty and reward money provided by the Adventurers' Guild, which is less than a few gold coins.

This is also the significance of Leon and Iris teaming up.

Either of them could get here, but to defeat Minotaur, they would have to severely deplete their original equipment and supplies. If they didn't perform well, they might even be surrounded and attacked by other monsters. Successfully retreating would be considered a success.

In essence, exploring dungeons is an activity that combines economic benefits with physical exercise.

Let's set aside whether their strength has improved in the process.

However, if you can't make a profit, can't acquire the target items, and even lose money on equipment and subsidies, this is simply unsustainable.

"Leon, you're not actually a dual-professional, you're a triple-professional, aren't you?"

Just as Leon was about to finish cutting the Minotaur's skin, Iris, who had been watching Leon's movements with her hands behind her back, suddenly spoke up.

Leon paused in his hand movements, then spoke:

"Now that we're teammates, I don't intend to hide it from you. As you can see, I do indeed hold three extraordinary professions."

This is the truth.