Ranker’s Return

was no room for him to think. A giant elephant-like demonic creature trampled past where Tang-E had just been. Tang-E barely escaped. If he had been a bit late, he would’ve been turned into gum stuck on the ground under the thick soles of that demonic creature.

‘Did I provoke too many demonic creatures? Should I help?’ Hyeonu suddenly had this thought. Hyeonu had used his energy to lure the demonic creatures over. It was just enough for the demonic creatures to rush in.
They recognized Hyeonu as easy prey and rushed over like crazy.
Tang-E had been fighting busily since then like he was now.

Thinking about this, Hyeonu felt sorry and called out to Tang-E, who was running amidst the demonic creatures: “Tang-E, do you want help?”

The return answer was firm. 

“It’s fine, damn Master dude! I’ll take care of all of them!” Tang-E answered and raised all the magic power in his body.

Then he used Lightning. It was right to say that Lightning was Tang-E’s most powerful magic. Lightning was the first one he gained as well as the one he used the most, so the skill proficiency ranking was different from that of the others. At this time, a bunch of clouds gathered in the clear sky. The demon world didn’t have a very bright atmosphere to begin with.

Now that clouds were suddenly covering the sun, it became even darker. Just then, sparks started to appear on the surface of the clouds. At first, it was just one or two, but the number increased rapidly. One became two, and two became four. The sparks soon gathered to form a giant lightning bolt with a prominent presence.

Just then, an intense sound of thunder filled the area. The thunder was so loud that Hyeonu and the demonic creatures blocked their ears. Some of the demonic creatures even began bleeding from their ears.

Finally, a dark blue lightning bolt fell from the sky toward the ground, descending specifically toward Tang-E’s head. Naturally, the demonic creatures around Tang-E couldn’t avoid being hit by the lightning. The surviving demonic creatures tried frantically to escape, but Tang-E grew to 7 meters tall and started cleaning them up while sparks were still around his body. Even if they weren’t beaten directly by Tang-E, the demonic creatures started collapsing to the ground after being struck by the lighting emitted from Tang-E’s paws.

When Hyeonu saw this, a smile appeared on his face. The scene of Tang-E killing the demonic creatures without his help was a great sight.

‘This brat—he’s good,’ Hyeonu thought. It was like seeing his own child. In fact, it wasn’t an exaggeration to call Tang-E his child.
They had been through everything together since Tang-E was level 1 until now.

‘This is the last one…’

The end of the long battle was approaching. Tang-E’s right paw killed the remaining elephant demonic creature. The elephant’s throat burst open, and blood poured out. Tang-E approached the side of the kneeling elephant demonic creature and grabbed its white ivory. Then he used fire magic. A dark blue flame swallowed everything around the demonic creature. Blood, flesh, and skin were burned generously as fuel.

“Did you see it, Master dude?! I’m so strong now!” Tang-E shouted at Hyeonu while holding up both paws.
His loud cry rang through the field.

[Your pet ‘Tang-E’ has reached level 300.]

[The third awakening has begun.]

At this moment, there was a huge whirlwind of magic power centered on Tang-E’s body. It wasn’t just that. The magic power was dark enough to be visible to the naked eye.

“Eh?” Hyeonu murmured to himself like a fool when he saw it.
This sight…

He remembered seeing something like this before.

‘The third awakening!’

It happened whenever Tang-E awakened. This time, it was the third awakening, so the energy was more powerful. If the second awakening was a calm stream, this was now a waterfall.
There was a powerful swirl of magic power around Tang-E.

‘He can get something or nothing.
What he has now is enough.’ Hyeonu currently had such thoughts.

Tang-E already had three buffs. Of course, they weren’t perfect, but they were enough. There were no difficulties when Hyeonu and Tang-E hunted, and it was too much to get ahead of others. Tang-E’s stats would rise even if he didn’t obtain any skills. Even if the stats increase was only as much as in the second awakening, the stats themselves made him a monster.

Time passed by, and the magic power surrounding Tang-E started to disperse. Some of the magic power was absorbed into Tang-E’s body while the rest returned to their original position.
Once the whirlwind of magic power completely disappeared and the field returned to its original state, many message windows appeared in front of Hyeonu.

[Stats have risen due to the third awakening.]

[The third awakening has created skills.]

[The third awakening has created an attribute.]

[The strength stat has increased by 782 points.]

[The agility stat has increased by 782 points.]

[The physique stat has increased by 1,024 points.]

[The magic power stat has increased by 1,983 points.]

[The wisdom stat has increased by 1,689 points.]

[Your pet ‘Tang-E’ has over 5,000 magic power, and a new skill has been created.]

‘A skill!’

The message about a new skill finally emerged. Hyeonu instinctively tried to check the information of the skill, but he then shook his head and slapped his cheeks. Tang-E came first. Hyeonu had to see how Tang-E had changed.

“Uh…? Tang-E?” Tang-E’s appearance had changed.
Moreover, it was by quite a lot.