The Dreamer's POV

Towers of black rocks came at me, twisting and spinning as if they were tentacles, utterly stubborn about catching me, but I was too fast, too agile. I smoothly glided about them, dodging most that came at me, and those that I didn't, my trusty advanced grand rocks came and did the job for me, easily crushing through the formations as if they were butter.

The sounds of the collisions were thunderous. Dodging rock towers was fun, but I needed something more, it was a chore to go on–doing nothing but dodge.

I zoomed at the Muck guardian demon, it had on its perpetual frown and it groaned as it saw me approach, and suddenly, two rock towers jutted from the bottom and came at me.

I shifted to the side avoiding the strike of one and then delivered a strong kick that caused it to crack and then fall, descending on the master that had summoned it.

BOOM

The giant piece of rock fell on the muck guardian demon, creating a momentarily dust cloud. Muck erupted below as pieces of rocks crashed into them.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Despite the crash on it, the Muck guardian demon remained standing, only shortly stunned by the blow.

I turned to the other rock tower and zoomed towards it, I grappled it and broke it off its bottom body.

Before the Muck guardian demon could attack, I spun, swinging the broken tower with me, and then I released the tower unto the creature.

The broken tower was hurtling over when the creature opened its maw and suddenly it screamed, or rather howled.

The cry was loud, and I was forced to cover my earbuds.

"What the….?" I exclaimed seeing as the rock tower became undone, with pieces twirling and pulling into the jaws of the muck monster. And it wasn't just the tower, I could feel it in the air too, the trees and even me.

There was a vibration in the air, and leaves, branches all zoomed to the creature's jaws.

Though I maintained my footing, I slowly but evidently began getting pulled to the creature's mouth, and in my slow approach, multiple items struck me as the jutting rock towers were getting pulled into it as well.

A large rock struck my head and had me lose my balance, causing me to twirl forward for a few seconds.

This wasn't fun anymore, and I decided to activate <Haven> once more, and I found myself in the sanctuary of the energy projection shield. It was warm, and most importantly sturdy.

The rocks that struck either bounced off from the Haven or got crushed themselves, there was no in between.

I cupped my chin as I watched the muck guardian demon execute one of its special skills, the Magnetic Howl.

From the contortion of its face, it seemed to have its eyes closed, and its mouth went so wide horizontally that it seemed it would take up its entire head.

'It isn't aware that its plan isn't working? I'm not getting pulled, you know.' Explore more at empire

I let out a sigh, my advanced grand rocks slowly drifting in a helix by my side.

I was about to have them sink into its mouth and then rampage from within, but before I could, the muck guardian stopped its vacuum ability, and its mouth swole, I knew what was next from that.

What came was a barrage of what it had swallowed. The things banged against my Haven shield, and I wasn't harmed in any way whatsoever. It would take much more than that to do any harm.

The thing continued its spittle of rubbish, blowing out miscellaneous things like a garbage cannon, and I was done waiting.

I left the path of the attack and came at it, I swung forward my arm, and my rocks zoomed forward and crashed into the torso of the guardian demon.

It stopped its spittle, and then staggered back, almost falling .

Unlike previously, I wasn't going to have my rocks come back just after a strike, they were moving about within it, striking and crushing whatever they could.

I smirked, delighted at the discomfort the giant creature showed. Surprisingly, its face could mimic the expression of people, but that didn't matter, there was a reason why I was <Lawful Evil>. I wasn't going to pity a monster just because it seemed like it was in pain.

I heard the booming sounds from within, the crashes and I saw the hollows that they made as they made its insides their site of destruction.

Yet, the creature was regenerating, and the muck below flowed to the muck creature to give its strength and to rebuild.

My rocks had it stalled, and it was clearly in pain, but it was looking like this would be a forever thing. The muck monster seemed to be so capable of regeneration that I was a little doubtful that it could even be killed.

Unless…

"Just as I said previously, regeneration requires large amounts of life energy. If I can get it to exhaust its life energy and destroy it entirely, then perhaps I should be able to get it destroyed and then overcome this hurdle."

That was the only logical plan, aside from running, but I wasn't going to run from a fight, especially one that seemed this easy and was going to have valuable drops.

My dark eyes brimmed with a warm light as he activated <Absolute Appraisal> to view the muck guardian status once again. I was slightly taken aback, the creature's stats were almost as it was from the beginning of the battle.

I then spotted a tree branch extending and then sinking and disappearing into the muck monster, and then it struck me.

The forest, the trees and the soil were power to boost the creature's batteries. And the jungle in itself brimmed with so much life energy, especially the large trees, they had set Mikey up to lose.

To win, I would have to cut off the energy supply, but how would I do that?

"I have to cut it off." I said, my voice deep with resolve.

The muck guardian demon was about thirty times my size, what could I do to cut something like that from recharging?