Reborn as the Vampire Prince at Server Start, I am Invincible-Chapter 90 : Fearful Self

Fearful Self
Caught off guard, the mutated Sawtooth Crocodile was hit by the combo of [Wound Tear] and [Blood Drain], instantly losing over 1,000 HP.
And this number continued to climb thanks to the [Bleeding] effect.
Although such damage was already quite high, because the Sawtooth Crocodile's health pool was so thick, it still wasn't enough to truly kill it.
Staring at the enraged, wounded beast, Chen Zixuan's heart gradually went cold.
No, the damage is still too low...
Faced with this kind of monster, his once-proud high attack was basically useless.
Even if he used every skill he had, he could barely kill one such monster. But how many were there here?
A hundred...? Or two hundred?
It was too slow...
Even the most ordinary monster required such a struggle just to barely win. To complete the [Hunter's Revenge] quest, he needed to kill at least 50 mutated Sawtooth Crocodiles.
How long would that take?
And then there was the D-rank world boss, [Sawtooth Demon King Crocodile]. Just how high a level did he have to reach to defeat it?
Was twenty days really enough to clear this game?
Chen Zixuan fell into deep confusion.
He was greedy, so greedy that he couldn't even wait a year.
Within twenty days, before he completely turned into a girl, he wanted to kill the four Archangels' avatars in the game and finally beat the game.
Then, he'd delete his account and quit for good, never logging in again. As for the four Archangels, left eternally in another world, they probably wouldn't be able to do anything to him, right?
That was Chen Zixuan's original plan.
However, as the initial hot-blooded impulse faded, cold reality poured over him like a bucket of ice water, forcing him to face his own weakness and incompetence.
Never mind clearing the game within twenty days.
At this point, even reaching level fifteen within a week seemed like an unattainable dream.
As expected...
No matter how hard I try...
I'm still a useless failure...
Ahead, the badly injured Sawtooth Crocodile, now like a runaway truck, charged at her wildly, yet the silver-haired girl just stood there dazed.
The misty drizzle kept pattering on her face, cold and chilly.
It was as if she had lost her soul, her aquamarine eyes filled only with painful confusion.
Finally, when the seven or eight meter long giant crocodile was nearly upon her, the silver-haired girl sidestepped, clenched her fair left fist, and smashed it hard into the Sawtooth Crocodile's tough back.
-1!
A near-fracturing pain shot from her fist to her fingertips, and then through her entire left hand.
This was a monster, not a human.
Punching like that, the only one to get hurt in the end would be herself.
However, the pain from that punch did help Chen Zixuan regain some clarity.
She turned her head to the monster beside her, and for the first time, an intense flame of anger burned in her aquamarine eyes.
"Just you? And you want to bully me?!"
Almost roaring, she growled low at the monster beside her.
But before her words even faded, a thick, powerful, spike-covered crocodile tail came whooshing at supersonic speed, smashing fiercely into the tiny body of the girl and sending her flying.
Chen Zixuan had made a serious mistake.
She'd only paid attention to the Sawtooth Crocodile's huge, jagged jaws, but had ignored its other weapon—the long, massive tail it dragged behind.
In some cases, a crocodile's tail could be even more terrifying than its astonishing bite force.
As the scenery swept by in a blur, Chen Zixuan only heard the rush of wind by her ears, and a sharp, rib-cracking pain came from her chest, making it hard to even breathe.
Two seconds later, there was a deep thud. The girl's body crashed hard against a tree by the stream and came to a stop.
That move from the Sawtooth Crocodile must have been its innate skill, [Fierce Dragon Tail Whip]. Even with Chen Zixuan's current 60+ points of physical defense, the strike dealt him massive damage.
-387!
Her original full health of 500 instantly dropped to a dangerous 113.
If this wasn't a game, but reality, taking such a heavy hit would probably have caved in her entire chest.
No player in Legend of Kaloran could take a hit like this head on.
Even the highest-defense Holy Knights and Warriors would drop dead instantly, sent straight back to the respawn square in Main City.
Yet this seemingly frail girl had actually endured it.
Still, even in a game, with pain simulated at 100%, such agony was more than any normal person could bear.
Groaning several times, the girl finally managed to prop herself up, pull a potion from her waist, and gulped down the entire bottle.
+15...
+15...
+15...
Forcing herself to breathe through the stabbing pain, her face regained some color, no longer as deathly pale as before.
With the potion's effects over, Chen Zixuan's HP recovered to 203.
What a rotten day...
As a trace of vitality slowly spread in his body, Chen Zixuan thought so in his mind.
Yes, it really was an unlucky day.
He'd thought that after learning four new skills, he'd be able to wipe out the mutated Sawtooth Crocodiles here and maybe take down the D-rank world boss too.
Optimistically, he thought it would take less than two hours.
Yet now, just a single ordinary Sawtooth Crocodile had left her in this state and cost her a pricey healing potion.
While a large part of that was due to Chen Zixuan's own distraction, this battle still dealt a huge blow to the courage and confidence he'd only just managed to muster.
After all, he was just an ordinary mortal.
It makes sense—how could mortal power possibly shake the lofty gods?
No matter how hard he struggled, he'd only be considered an overreaching clown by the angels.
Just then, two more Sawtooth Crocodiles in the stream to the girl's right noticed her and stood up in the water, turning and swaying toward her.
With Chen Zixuan's current strength, if it was one-on-one, as long as he was careful, he could take on a single Sawtooth Crocodile.
But with two, or three—that was beyond him.
Fortunately, thanks to their mutations, the Sawtooth Crocodiles weren't very agile, and their movement speed was slow—nowhere near the nearly 400 agility of Cecilia.
What should I do? Run?
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