He used extreme poison with all his leftover mana; the air formed as even the air around it started to sizzle.
The metal energy around it started to decay as they disappeared, Nexus felt his surroundings becoming more friendly to him.
Alas, he didn't have the time to enjoy it, as after firing the arrow, he bolted toward the poison cave; he didn't even dare look back.
The Metal hunter leader also sensed danger the moment Nexus completely formed the arrow, he stopped charging his attack as he fired his skill.
'Metal Blast'
It muttered in its head as a beam of blinding silver light was released; the arrow also moved at four times the speed of sound as the beam, and the arrow collided.
BOOMMMM!!!!
A shockwave spread as the cave shook, rocks and metals started to fall from the ceiling and the walls, and even the river was destabilized for a moment.
The arrow and the beam of silver light stopped in their track as the metal element tried to cut through the poison, and the extreme poison tried to corrode the metal element.
Their class continued as the metal hunter leader backed down. He slammed his foot on the ground as the metal wall rose in front of him. He continued this action until he entered the metal element cave.
Ten layers of metal wall blocked the cave's entrance as he went deeper. He understood that today's battle was a loss as he had already seen Nexus escape.
Nexus entered the poison element cave and turned back to look, seeing the two attack colliding and forming an energy ball containing two colors. His body sensed fear.
He looked at the poison element in the cave that was flowing toward the energy ball and entered deeper into the cave.
The two elements were unable to overpower one another as they started to mix; the poison element and the metal element from the two sides started to gather toward them as they formed a weird balance.
As the energy contained in the two attacks continued to increase, the extreme poison finally overpowered the metal blast by a small margin.
But this small margin caused the weird balance to break; the energy ball destabilized as it started to expand outward.
BOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!
A massive explosion was heard as a flash of purple light illuminated the entire cave like a mini sun; the metals and rocks making up the outer layer of the cave started to melt, and even the river took on a purple hue momentarily.
The walls created by the metal hunter-leader dissolved upon contact with the purple light as the purple light continued deeper into the cave.
The metal element in the cave slowly disappeared, but it also cut through the poison. After a while, the metal element won as the purple light disappeared.
On the other side, as the purple light entered the poison element cave, it slowly dispersed, mixing with the poison element in the surrounding.
As the poison light continued deeper, it slowly weakened and disappeared after a while. The cave returned to silence.
Outside in the opening, the purple hue of the river slowly disappeared with the following water as it regained its initial color.
The dissolved metal slowly started to reform with the increasing metal energy in the room; in fact, some silver and iron even took on a purple hue, glowing a purple light instead of white.
Although they were in a sparse amount, they still existed; these purple irons were quite special as they radiated both the metal and poison elemental energy.
A few hours passed as Nexus slowly woke out of the cave, looking at the devastated area, his gaze fixed on the purple crystal.
With a flick of his tail, he removed one from the ground as he collected it inside his inventory. He also collected a piece of the glowing metal.
With that, he gave one last glance at the metal element-rich cave and returned. Opening his inventory, he looked at the information about the two items.
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Name: Silver Iron
Grade: G
Attribute: Metal
Effect: A metal containing a great amount of metal energy can be used as food for metal elemental beasts or used to form armor and weapons for knights up to F grade.
Special Effect: None
Description: When a normal iron is formed near a metal element-rich area, it can absorb that energy to transform into Silver Iron, whose quality, hardness, and durability will be 50%~300% better than ordinary iron.
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Name: Poisoned Iron Crystal
Grade: D
Attribute: Poison, Metal
Effect: A metal containing a great amount of metal energy and poison energy, which can be used as food for metal elemental beasts and poison elemental beasts. It can also be used as a catalyst to balance out the poison and metal elements and allow them to mix without clashing.
Special Effect: Consuming it in large amounts can grant a skill containing both the poison and metal elements with the rank of Uncommon~Rare.
Description: This is a special material that is formed during a very special phenomenon, when the silver iron is melted with the light of a poison metal, there is a chance for it to reform into this special metal when the metal elemental energy in the surrounding increases.
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Looking at the two items, especially the second one, his eyes lit up, and he remembered seeing many such crystals in the outer caves.
He looked at his injured body, and after making sure that it didn't affect his combat effectiveness, he ventured outside.
He dug out both the Silver Iron and Poisoned Iron Crystal with his tail, the poisoned iron crystal for himself, and the silver iron for selling it to Silvia.
After all the information sold by her is his only means to know the overall situation of the forest. He guessed that her talent must be related to stealth or intelligence gathering.
After all, some of the information she sold was something they shouldn't be able to access at their level. After all, they had information about the Beast Lords.
He was quite happy with himself for having bought her services.