Monster Integration

The cracks have filled the 95% of my shields, and the moment they fill 100%, they will shatter. I could not let that happen, and for it, I am considering all the options I have.

Not that I have many options, I only have one other than digesting as much strengthening energy as possible. The only thing I have is burning my blood; I have kept it on standby and would burn it the moment cracks reach 98% of it.

Usually, I did not wait for such long to burn my blood when things were this grave, but this time, I am holding back as much as possible.

I don't know what kind of danger I will face after this attack; another few peak Grandmasters might appear on the battlefield, or even the attack of Frost Chimpman passed through the aegis of lord Saraf and came at me.

Even though the chances of me stopping such an attack are quite low, I still want to keep the options with me, as I am a big believer in chance and miracle.

The cracks continued to spread; in less than a second, 96% of my shields got covered in them, and a fraction of seconds later, they covered 97%, and by the time the second was over, they had covered 98% of my shield.

Hun!

'I can't wait any longer,' I said to myself and was about to activate the 'Forth Boost' when I suddenly stopped and the reason for that, the cracks stooped spreading, they stopped.

For a second, I was not able to understand what was happening; it took me a whole second to see that the cracks had stopped spreading as the attack did not have the energy to make the spread further.

A more shocking thing had happened a moment later; the cracks had begun healing. The speed is slow but still visible that within a minute, the cracks would heal completely.

"We survived, We Survived!" Grandmaster Kaff whispered before shouting loudly, as he was still having a hard time believing that we had survived the most powerful attack of the Dark Water Apeman, which is beyond his limit.

He would not be able to launch such an attack any sooner; it would not matter to me, If it launched it again, as long as it is a minute later.

By that time, I would be able to absorb all the strengthening energy present in me, and this attack would not be as big of a threat as it is right now.

"You…you, how can you survive? Even Atkins would have had a hard time defending against such a powerful attack," asked Dark Water Apeman, with eyes full of shock.

As if it could not believe, I was able to defend against its mighty attack. Forget it; even I am having a problem believing that I have survived such a powerful attack.

I did not say anything, just shakily stood up and finally let some strengthening energies heal my injuries.

I am far more injured than I looked right now; I have not suffered grave injuries in this battle but also in the previous one who has remained to be unhealed.

I do not want to use my precious strengthening energy to heal injuries that I could heal on my own, but the injuries are too grave and grave enough that I would have some problem burning my essence at full power when I want to.

"You must have used sone forbidden method to strengthen the shield for a moment of time; you could not continue to use it forever!" Said the muddled Apeman suddenly and launched a powerful attack on my shields which had just healed half.

Bang Bang Bang

It began to launch attacks on my shields rapidly, but they barely had any effect; they did not even slow down the healing of the cracks.

Its attacks are weak, weaker than the attacks that it had used before the powerful wave attack. The wave attack had seemed to have made it a little weak that it could not even use its full power against me.

It continued attacking while my shields healed. Twenty seconds passed, and my shields were now fully healed, more powerful than ever; the only regret is that the strengthening energy have been finished, and there was no bloodline monster had remained unless I counted the peak Grandmaster.

I do not have the strength to fight against the Grandmaster, even after consuming the bloodline of the three Grandmasters.

Though now I could defend against the peak Grandmaster but not all of them. The Grandmaster at the level of Councilmembers is still hard; I will have to consume a few more before I can reach that level.

As for having the power to defend against the Royal attack would be extremely hard, even if I burned my blood at full power.

The Apeman is still attacking me crazily, but I did not even look at it instead; the changes begin to appear on my shield, but these changes are invisible to everyone else aside from me.

I have created an illusion that will show everything is fine inside, with three alive and one deal Grimm Monster, but that would not be the case in a few minutes.

Now that I have harvested the Grimms with bloodline, it is time to finish off the three, and I don't want Grimms to see it, lest it will enrage them and force them to do something that would cost me my life.

The sneakier I am harvesting these bastards, the better it would be. Though they are going to know it sometime, that sometimes would be a few minutes later, and anything could happen in a few minutes, like one of these Grimms awakening a bloodline.

The chances of that happening are extremely low, but one could dream.

Taking a deep breath, I released the strings which I had got from my recent advancement, and they began to wrap around the Grimm Grandmasters.

It is a huge regret that I have lost one Grimm Grandmaster; the value of Grandmaster class essence rose is a lot, and now I would only get mana crystals from it, which is like nothing compared to the essence rose.