Chapter 37 - Infinite Stamina

Chapter 37: 37 - Infinite Stamina

The system hurriedly tried to stop King, but there was no way it could persuade someone as stubborn as him.

Almost breaking a bone meant it hadn’t broken yet. If it hadn’t broken, then there was nothing to be afraid of! Who would dodge a slap from a dog?

"Shut up! This is my battle. You are forbidden to interfere! The only winner can be me."

King’s teeth clenched tightly, his hand gripping the sword hilt so hard that even a layer of his iron-hard skin was scraped off.

"First Divine Skill - Heaven Splitting Sword!"

A sword qi slash was unleashed, cutting straight upward from below with tremendous power. Cerberus reacted immediately, but the distance was too close for it to dodge the entire attack.

The powerful sword qi slash struck its body, but the fatal wound King had expected did not appear. The sword qi slash only cut off a patch of Cerberus’s fur and blew away a small part of its flesh before being slightly deflected and flying straight toward the arena’s ceiling.

King’s target this time was Cerberus, but by pure coincidence, it veered right toward another gigantic chain. As long as two more chains were cut, that enormous rock weighing tens of thousands of tons would fall down.

It was uncertain whether it could kill Cerberus, but if that rock fell accurately, it would create the perfect opportunity for King to deliver the finishing blow.

In the blink of an eye, Cerberus was nearly a hundred meters away from King. Its terrifying speed made King’s expression extremely ugly.

"Tsk, its speed really isn’t ordinary."

No matter how arrogant he was, he wasn’t so unreasonable that he couldn’t accept the fact that Cerberus’s speed was almost equal to his despite its enormous body.

At this speed, the time it took for the enormous rock to fall would be more than enough for Cerberus to escape the rock’s area of effect.

"What should I do now? How can I hold it back for a few seconds?"

While Cerberus simply stood still and stared at him, King took the opportunity to think. His thoughts were very hazy because he had absolutely no real combat experience in an actual battle.

For the first time, his first all-out battle was a rank III fighting a rank IV. If he won this battle, calling him a battle genius would not be an exaggeration at all.

"Tsk, this is annoying. If I keep fighting, I’ll think of a way somehow."

King was still very confident in himself. Not because he was smart or talented or anything, but because he was a transmigrator and a reader who had entered a novel. There was no ’reasonable’ reason for him to lose to a dog with a higher rank than him.

Since Cerberus didn’t want to attack first, King would be the one to take the initiative. It was time to let it know that besides divine skills, King also knew ’basic swordsmanship’.

He gripped the sword hilt tightly with both hands, then King’s figure seemed to turn into light and disappear. With the advantage in speed due to being much smaller than Cerberus, King moved incredibly nimbly. He swept past its side and left behind a long sword mark.

Cerberus’s fur fell all over the place, and its thick skin had also been cut open. Although some blood flowed out, this injury was far too insignificant for its enormous body, which was like a moving steel fortress.

Right after delivering a slash, King charged straight into the wall of the arena. Using the wall as a foothold, he turned around and stomped his foot hard before shooting out like a bullet toward Cerberus.

King bounced back and forth between the curved wall of the enormous arena at an extremely high speed. As he moved, he continuously released a brilliant aura, making him look like a ray of light reflected after bouncing off sheets of glass.

Every time he charged in, Cerberus immediately swung its paw to intercept him, but all of them missed. The powerful giant fantastic beast now struggled no differently from an ordinary person trying to catch a fly with their hands.

"Hahahaha! Just a rank IV pup and you think you can keep up with my speed?"

While moving at an extremely high speed, King laughed loudly, making his laughter seem to echo from every corner of the arena.

Although he laughed loudly like that, after slashing Cerberus hundreds of times, it wasn’t seriously injured despite blood flowing all over its body. The wounds from these ordinary slashes were too shallow.

King was well aware of that, but he didn’t want to use a divine skill for the time being. Using a divine skill consumed too much spiritual power, so he couldn’t spam it recklessly.

As for ’normal attacks’, King could spam them as much as he wanted. In the Heavenly Dao Swordsman state, he felt like these basic slashes and normal movements didn’t consume any stamina at all.

[Congratulations, master!]

"Huh? Congratulations for what?"

While he was happily ’practicing his slashes’, the system suddenly started shouting loudly, making King frown slightly. No matter how he thought about it, he couldn’t figure out what good thing had happened that was worth congratulating him for.

[I am congratulating you for discovering the hidden passive after transforming into the Heavenly Dao Swordsman state.]

[Infinite Stamina!]

[Using the Heavenly Dao Swordsman state will continuously consume spiritual power, but in return, it allows you to use your stamina as you wish. The amount of spiritual power consumed by this state is actually not much for you.

[With this hidden passive, you can fight or run however you want. As long as you don’t use additional spiritual power or divine skills, you are the supreme being in a battle of endurance.]

[Please note that you must not get injured. The more injured you are, the weaker you will become. Infinite Stamina has no effect on recovering injuries.]

"So that’s how it is. No wonder I always felt tired after transforming, but it felt somehow very different from before."

King blinked a few times and immediately remembered his experiences from his previous transformations. Based on the information the system had just provided, he could finally explain the strange ’tiredness’ he felt. So the tiredness here was actually the feeling caused by consuming spiritual power.

"Wait! System, how much stamina does Cerberus have?"

After learning that he possessed such a ’bugged’ ability, his eyes suddenly lit up. A perfect battle strategy immediately appeared in his mind.

[Aside from you, no one has infinite stamina. Cerberus has a huge body, so its stamina consumption is proportional to its body. Even if it has reached rank IV strength, its endurance is nothing compared to yours.]

"Hahahaha... Cerberus! You’re dead!"