17 Chapter 16: The First Battle of Rayleigh! What a Dangerous Situation!
Dungeon, 1st Floor.
1 kilometer in the eastern part of Atlantis City, there is a vast grassland area. The grassland has very wide green grass and around the environment of the grassland can be seen various kinds of islands floating in the sky where each island has water that descends from it to form a very beautiful sky waterfall. At the same time, the territory of the meadow was controlled by a monster named the horned cow.
Horned cows are very fierce monster especially they are very fierce to a creature that has a different race than they dare to enter the territory they have. Horned cows will not hesitate to kill creatures that dare to enter their territory individually or in groups.
"Sky island?" Rayleigh murmured, where he was currently hiding behind bushes close to the grassland.
When Rayleigh arrived at the pasture, he did not immediately attack the horned cow currently in front of him but hid first. Rayleigh is not someone who is a fool and an idiot. Rayleigh is one of those who often uses his mind in combat.
Rayleigh's gaze was then directed toward the front.
"So, it's a horned cow..." Rayleigh muttered as he narrowed his eyes staring towards the front.
Horned cows have the appearance of ordinary cows. Only, the horned cow's size is larger than that of an ordinary cow. The horned cow also has very sharp horns that serve to attack its enemies and then use those horns to tear apart its enemies who have been successfully attacked.
"What is the green box on the top of the body of the cow?" Rayleigh muttered in confusion.
At the top of each horned cow, there are several things such as the name of the monster, the level of the monster, and the status of the green bar that tells how much blood the horned cow has.
"Is it possible that the green box is the blood of the animal?" Rayleigh thought back calmly, "I think there is only one way to be able to verify that."
Rayleigh took one of the fairly large stones that were nearby and then through the stone, Rayleigh immediately put his Haki Ordnance into it.
"My haki is absorbed very much even if it is only used a little" Rayleigh muttered, looking at the stone in his hand at the moment, "At least, with all my current strength at the time when I am in top condition, I can only use five times the Haki Armament. It's complicating"
Rayleigh's gaze then aimed toward the horned cow whose location was only a few meters close meters.
"Let's go fishing one and try to check how strong the power is possessed by him," Rayleigh said seriously as he instantly exited his current position and immediately threw the stone that haki Armament had been inserted by him at the shielded cow that was close to him.
*Suuuu*
The stone thrown by Rayleigh moved very quickly toward the direction of the horned cow.
*BOOM!*
The stone immediately hit the abdomen of the horned cow where the attack released by Rayleigh immediately made the horned cow scream in pain where at the same time, the green city that was on the top of the head of the previously fully loaded horned cow was immediately 1/3 in size.
"Sure enough, the green box represents the monster's blood," Rayleigh muttered.
*Roaring!*
A roar of anger came straight out of the horned cow's mouth. The horned cow immediately cast his gaze toward the stone path that had attacked him before and instantly found Rayleigh who was currently staring at him with his sword that had been unsheathed and ready for battle.
*Roaring!*
A roar of anger again sounded from the mouth of the horned cow followed by the horned cow immediately running very quickly towards Rayleigh while his horns had also been pointed at him.
The speed possessed by the horned cow can still be anticipated by Rayleigh, before the horned cow's horn hits his body, Rayleigh has already avoided the attack while slashing using his sword toward the body of the horned cow.
*Roaring!*
The attack carried out by Rayleigh immediately made the blood possessed by the horned cow instantly decrease by 1/3 compared to before and at this time the blood belonging to the horned cow was only about 1/4.
Along with Rayleigh who managed to avoid the attack carried out by the horned cow, the horned cow managed to hit a tree there and immediately destroyed the tree where Rayleigh was also currently out of hiding and was already in a pasture location where there were many horned cows.
Instantly, Rayleigh through his Haki Observation felt a very dangerous threat throughout his surroundings.
Rayleigh immediately cast his gaze toward the surroundings and saw almost all the horned cows that were in the territory close to him at this time already staring at him with red eyes ready to kill him.
"Damn! It's a dangerous situation" Rayleigh muttered seriously and also broke out in a cold sweat.
This is because what is currently staring at Rayleigh is not a horned cow with a level 1 but there is also a horned cow that is level 3 even though there is only one in number. Despite this, the strength of the horned cow whose level is twice as high as that possessed by Rayleigh currently poses a very dangerous threat to him.
suddenly—
*Suuuu!*
From the rear direction at a very high speed, a horned cow was attacking in the direction of Rayleigh. Rayleigh's Haki Observation is currently in an active state. When he came out of the safe zone and felt the feeling of the threat, Rayleigh always activated his Haki Observation in the surrounding scope.
Rayleigh immediately turned his body and saw a level 3 horned cow attacking him extremely fiercely. Rayleigh knew that he could not avoid this attack at this time. As long as he avoids this attack, there is a possibility that one of the horned cows' horns will hit him.
Rayleigh immediately coated the Haki Ordnance on his sword then immediately slashed forward.
*BOOM!*
The two attacks clashed with each other. Luckily with the addition of Haki Weaponry, the impact of the attack owned by Rayleigh is stronger than his usual attack.
The blood-green box owned by the horned cow attacking him was instantly reduced temporarily because Rayleigh's raw power was weaker than that of the horned cow attacking him at this time. The horned cow directly won the battle of the attack battle and directly threw Rayleigh towards the rear.
Rayleigh immediately stabilized his body condition and after his body condition had stabilized again, Rayleigh immediately set up a position to attack.
"It's bad" Rayleigh muttered as his breathing became a little heavy, "Currently there are only three times left for me to be able to use Haki—"
However—
Before Rayleigh could have time to think about the plan he wanted to do. Rayleigh through his Observation Haki sensed an attack launched from the side. The attack had a slower speed than the previous attack where Rayleigh avoided the attack and immediately released his slash toward the horned cow that attacked him.
*Sling!*
*Roaring!*
The horned cow that attacked Rayleigh was a level 1 horned cow, where because of the attack released by Rayleigh, the blood of the horned cow was immediately reduced by 1/3.
Without letting Rayleigh rest for a moment, the other horned cows also began to make attacks on Rayleigh in swarm attacks. Rayleigh also began to take advantage of this momentum by starting to try to reduce the blood from the horned cow whose level was equivalent to his and his level which was slightly higher than his level 2.
The speed of their body response from Rayleigh at this time still belies himself to be able to avoid the attack released by the horned cow whose level is one time higher than that of him.
However, the momentum created by him was instantly dissipated the moment the horned ox that had previously thrown him backward was ready to attack him again. The horned cow again charged towards Rayleigh at high speed while setting up its horns ready to stab Rayleigh's body.
Rayleigh is currently fighting with a level two horned cow and has successfully avoided the attack released by him. At the moment when Rayleigh wanted to attack him to reduce the blood possessed by the horned cow, Rayleigh instantly felt a very dangerous threat from the direction of his side.
The attack that Rayleigh wanted to launch immediately stopped instantly.
"He's back, I'd better finish this one to build my momentum back," Rayleigh said with a serious look, "I still have a chance to use the advanced Conqueror Haki. Although it is only one time, I guess it is enough to create the opportunity of killing this monster"
Rayleigh directly twisted his body and stared at the level 3 horned cow that was already close to him.
*Roaring!*
A roar full of bruises immediately sounded from the mouth of the horned cow. The look in his eyes at the moment was full of murderous intent directed at Rayleigh.
Without waiting for a long time, Rayleigh also immediately coated his sword with the Conqueror's Haki and immediately slashed the level 3 horned cow.
*BOOM!*
Even without the sword touching the level 3 horned cow, the attack released by Rayleigh immediately hit the level 3 horned cow and directly threw the level 3 horned cow a few meters back in a dizzy state.
"Opportunity!"
Although at this time the energy possessed by him was already drained due to the use of the Conquering Haki, Rayleigh forced his body and immediately rushed towards the level 3 horned cow who was currently in a state of unpreparedness to fight or dizzy.
*Roaring!*
At the same time, there was a level 1 horned cow who wanted to block the way from Rayleigh by attacking him from the front direction.
"Don't get in the way!" Rayleigh shouted angrily while dodging the attack then slashed toward the horned cow where because of the slash, the level 1 horned cow that attacked Rayleigh had only 1/4 left blood.
There is no way that Rayleigh will eliminate the opportunity to kill the monster that is currently troubling him and can give himself death threats. It didn't take long for Rayleigh to arrive in front of the level 3 horned cow monster who was currently sitting due to dizziness.
*Sling!*
*Sling!*
*Sling!*
Without wasting much time, Rayleigh directly slashed blindly at the level 3 horned cow.
*Roaring!*
*Roaring!*
A roar full of pain was ejected by the level 3 horned cow.
Rayleigh didn't care about the roar and continued to slash the level 3 horned cow. Although Rayleigh had already done a lot of slashes. However, the defense of the level 3 horned cow is greater than the strength possessed by Rayleigh where this affects the blood of the level 3 horned cow very little every time it gets an attack from Rayleigh.
*Suuu*
suddenly—
Rayleigh felt a threat from behind him.
Through his Haki Observation, Rayleigh felt that a level 2 horned cow was about to attack him. Suddenly a good idea appeared in Rayleigh's mind. Rayleigh continued the attack made by him and instantly the level 2 horned cow that attacked him from behind was close at hand, Rayleigh immediately avoided the attack.
*Slurp!*
*Roaring!*
The two horns of the horned cow directly pierced into the body of the level 3 horned cow. The blood possessed by the level 3 horned cow was quickly reduced. Along with that, the horned cow that attacked the level 3 horned cow had difficulty removing its horns from the horned cow's body.
"This is an opportunity!"
Rayleigh, who saw an opportunity to solve the two monsters directly, Rayleigh didn't waste much time and immediately slashed toward the two monsters blindly. Unlike the level 3 horned cow, which has a stronger defense than the level 2 horned cow that attacked Rayleigh before, because the defense of the level 2 horned cow is not very high compared to the strength possessed by Rayleigh at this time, the blood of the level 2 horned cow is faster than that of the level 3 horned cow.
*Kacha!*
In just a few seconds, Rayleigh managed to kill the two-horned cows and as soon as both died, the two-horned cows instantly disintegrated and disappeared from the site and leaving only 1 kilogram of meat and also 1 liter of milk.
"Hahaha..." The breath possessed by Rayleigh at this time was already very heavy, "I never expected that it would take all the energy that belongs to me to finish off the two-horned cows"
The energy possessed by Rayleigh is currently very little because the energy possessed by him before has been spent from one attack released by him before to create momentum for himself to kill the horned cow before.
"Hahaha..." Rayleigh's gaze looked around him at this time where he had been stared at by dozens of horned cows whose levels were level 1 and level 2, "I can't stay here longer. It's dangerous to stay" Rayleigh muttered quietly as he put the meat and milk dropped by the two-horned cows killed by him earlier into the storage room.
*Roaring!*
*Roaring!*
*Roaring!*
Instantly the three-horned cows roared with great anger and immediately launched their attack on Rayleigh. Rayleigh, whose energy had been drained at this time without waiting for much time, immediately turned around and ran to leave the place while avoiding the attack from the horned cow.
As he ran away from the scene of the fight, rayleigh's face showed neither sadness nor disappointment. Rayleigh's face showed a look of eagerness and excitement because this was the sensation he had been looking for. The thrill of adventure.
Finally, after successfully escaping the site, Rayleigh immediately climbed to the top of the tree and began to rest there. The selection of a place on the top of the tree was because Rayleigh was afraid that one day there would be a horned cow attacking him. Rayleigh recalls the words from Soma and Jouichirou where horned cows are everywhere and very easy to find. This caused Rayleigh to choose to hide in a tree to restore his energy instead of being on the ground.
"I didn't expect that the first battle in this dungeon would be so difficult" Said Rayleigh with his breath that was still quite heavy, "If you know this, I should have brought some food supplies to quickly restore energy. Hmmm, I wonder, is it possible to get fruits around here"
