Primordial Expanse: I have the Strongest Talent! - Chapter 299

Chapter 299: A beast?
But her excitement at finally finding something living within her range dwindled instantly.

‘Why isn’t my spatial perception picking it up?’

There was one, very big problem that she noticed immediately.

She could see it — its form was clearly there, moving with slow but deliberate movements.

It was a large creature, its green fur blending seamlessly with the foliage, like it was a part of the forest itself.

But despite its size, Mira couldn’t detect it at all with her spatial perception.

Mira didn’t know it, but if Alex were there, he would recognise that beast instantly.

It was the very first type of beast he had ever encountered when he first made contact with the Primordial Expanse.

A Galephant.

Only this one was a little smaller than the one Alex had encountered.

‘I can feel its strength all the way over here, it’s at least C rank, and a Variant class at that!’

Her lips curled into a slight, confident smile.

She had faced worse before.

Her mind, however, was still on high alert.

The forest had been eerily quiet since her arrival, and the sudden appearance of a C rank beast right next to her drop pod did indeed seem too convenient to be a coincidence, she knew this.

But she wouldn’t find out much about what was going on just by standing back and watching from afar.

She had to do something proactive.

She couldn’t let her scepticism and doubts cloud her judgement.

‘Focus.’ she commanded herself, lightly tapping her cheeks to wake her up from her constantly self questioning state of mind.

If there were other threats in the vicinity, then she would deal with them as they came.

For now, the Galephant was her priority concern.

Mira moved silently, circling around the back of the beast, using the dense foliage as cover.

She had deactivated her spatial perception, as she realised at this point that it was just a waste of energy in this place.

And she was hoping that the Galephant would have a similar debuff on it as well where it’s own extrasensory perception would be useless at sensing her, just like hers was with sensing it.

She wanted to get a better angle, one that would give her the advantage of a surprise attack.

After finding out about the dangers of the Void dimension, she was much more careful in her use of it, only entering it in times of real desperation and need rather than just whenever she felt like it like she previously used to do, before Principal Farnes had warned her.

But she still had other strengths to back her up.

Such as her other talent, Golden Presence.

It had been a while since she had last made use of this talent, with the last time being during her last journey into the Primordial Expanse.

She would have used it much more often if it weren’t for the one drawback it had, which brought its rank down from being an A+ rank, perhaps even an S- rank talent.

The 10 minute time limit she had with it, until a cooldown period would start where she was noticeably weakened for a short period of time afterwards.

There weren’t many scenarios she was in where she could use Golden presence reliably without having to worry about what she would do when the cooldown started.

But this time, against the Galephant, she decided that there wouldn’t be a better opportunity for her to use it.

She effectively had no other options anyway.

‘I need to find the best opportunity to use it…’

She continued hovering around the periphery of the clearing her drop pod had created, waiting for the Galephant to turn its back to her.

‘Now!’

Only a few moments passed before it did just that, as it seemed to have not noticed Mira yet and was still very focused on the drop pod itself.

It could probably smell Mira’s scent in the surroundings and was investigating that.

Mira activated Golden Presence, feeling every of her physical attributes triple.

Her strength tripled.

Her speed tripled.

Her reaction time tripled.

Everything that could be considered ‘physical’ about her, had its strength tripled.

Her Golden Presence talent had become much stronger than it previously was when she had first obtained it.

Her proficiency in using it had increased its effectiveness.

Though it was still an A- rank talent.

With her golden hair creating a noticeable light source in the dark, shadowed forest floor, the Galephant had noticed the change and was ready to react.

But it was too late, as Mira was already right behind it.

It seemed her hopes that its own extrasensory perceptions were useless here as well had come to fruition.

With her Mutant class C rank sword in hand, Mira launched herself at the rear of the Galephant.

Her body had become a finely tuned weapon of destruction.

The forest around her seemed to slow down as her thoughts sped up and her perception of time slowed.

In a blur of motion, she reached the Galephant in mere milliseconds, and she was on top of it only a moment later.

The Galephant, massive and lumbering, had barely begun to react.

Its keen eyesight might have alerted it to the sudden new light source behind it, but that didn’t mean it had time to turn around to inspect what had caused this change.

Mira’s sword felt weightless in her hands, and she aimed it at a spot near to where she guessed the Galephant’s spine would be.

Whoosh!

She drove it forward with as much strength as she could muster.

The blade struck true.

She wasn’t like Alex, where he had some flashy moves with his Phoenix flames like some special effects.

Her attacks looked simple, but they were anything but simple in reality.

There was a brief moment of resistance as the sword met the Galephant’s dense hide.

‘Yeah, this fight would have been much tougher if I went out without Golden Presence.’

Mira was sure that her decision to use Golden presence from the start was correct when her sword made contact with the Galephant for the first time.

Unlike Alex, with his soul orbs and Phoenix flames, Mira didn’t have a super powerful offensive talent backing her up, so fighting against a beast that was not only a whole tier higher than her, but also a higher class than her, was not something that she could take on without activating Golden Presence.