A dark sky was before Apollo, to his surprise. However, it was not because the sun was down. In fact, it was in the middle of the day. What made the sky dark was somerge ck spot. It was as though all the clouds in the toxic wastndbined together here to create this.


    From that ck spot, was a constant downpour. Though there wasn''t too much light, it was still easy to see the discoloration within the individual raindrops. It definitely wasn''t the most weing thing out there.


    La continued running forward, prompting Apollo to follow as to not be left behind. He put the ck me match back into his hand. Currently, half of the match had burned away while roughly thirty minutes had passed.


    From this, Apollo determined that the matchsted roughly an hour total. He continued to run forth with La while holding the match.


    As they got closer, the ground became damper while the asional raindrop would fall down. La didn''t seem to mind it. Apollo definitely preferred not experiencing dirty rain falling on him, but he continued through it without a change in expression.


    Minutes after the two of them walked through the dirty rain, a series of deep thumping sounds resounded, rapidly approaching them.


    Apollo couldn''t see what it was because the ck me match was still active, restricting his vision. However, it wasn''t too hard to tell that it was something big.


    La looked up and gasped.


    "Wah! A friend ising over!"


    Apollo slowed down a little, after which La quickly left his vision. Although it was inconvenient having his own vision suppressed, he wanted to see if concealing himself had any effect.


    Apollo heard a rather loud roar from above which he guessed was the king-level toxic creature. Along with that, there was a quieter roar that came from La.


    "Rah!"


    A few loud bangs rang out one after another. The ground under cracked a little and shook. It was at this point Apollo realized that the mission might not count if he wasn''t the one that killed it.


    There were a few requests that werepleted where he wasn''t the sole person thatpleted it, such as killing Kn Noia. However, Apollo didn''t want to risk it.


    He rushed forward with a bokken in one hand and the match in the other. Soon, Apollo saw the foot of the king-level toxic creature. It was lying on the ground. The skin of the creature was ck, but had a slight green tint to it.


    Once he continued further, he saw that La was standing on the stomach of the creature with her hands on her hips with her elbows stuck out. She stuck her chin up confidently, clearly proud of the results of her action.


    "Hehe, I win again!"


    Even from this position, Apollo couldn''t see the creature''s head. He guessed that it must''ve been at least thirty meters tall. There was a fairlyrge wound on the creature where La was standing, but it didn''t look that bad.


    Without warning, the creature''s w shot towards La. It was a swift and decisive strike, but it wasn''t enough to catch La off guard. She responded in kind with her own w, mming the creature''s arm back down onto the ground. A bit of brown blood splurt out, but the injury was rtively light


    After letting out another roar, a maw filled with sharp teeth formed on the creature''s chest. It opened and tried to swallow La, but she hopped back before it could.


    The creature stood back up, staring vigntly at La. It did not notice Apollo at all. Trying to take advantage of this, Apollo flew up into the sky and behind the creature''s head.


    Despite having a head, there were no facial features anywhere on it. There weren''t even ears or some kind of hair. There was only one thing where three misshapen horns that were all different sizes.


    Apollo raised his bokken high into the air and began to gather lightning. In all honesty, he found the experience of not being seen by his opponent a little strange. The only thing he had gone through was head on fights for quite a while.


    The creature was backing up slowly, unaware that Apollo was right behind. It was as though the creature was willingly walking towards him.


    Apollo began to smile, enjoying this strange feeling.


    He clenched the hilt of his bokken as hard as he could, causing his knuckles to whiten. His muscles tightened to their limits. Arcs of lightningpletely covered his bokken. Even the majority of his hand was covered by them while a few overflowed onto his arm. It made his body look like they were glowing blue.


    Apollo would''ve used both hands if he didn''t need to use one to hold the match.


    But that didn''t mean his strike would be weak.


    The king-level toxic creature continued to back up slowly, getting closer and closer. Apollo waited patiently and when it was right next to him...


    He swung.


    A ring crackle reverberated throughout the wastnd.


    Brown blood and pieces of ck flesh filled the air, adding to the amount of things in the filthy rain. As for the creature, its head disappeared entirely. There was arge wound in his torso that appeared like a miniature crater. A few traces of lightning zapped around in its wound.


    The creature stumbled forward, disoriented from the strike, but still alive.


    Confused, it began to il all of its arms around wildly, but Apollo easily flew out of its range before it could hit him.


    A few remnant arcs of lightning danced across his body.


    Heughed freely, a little surprised by how easy it was for him to attack at full power. The feeling was a bit addicting.


    La raised both hands in the air.


    "Again, again!"


    Apollo smirked and raised his bokken once more.


    The creature continued to il its limbs around as though it was drowning, but gradually slowed when it didn''t achieve any results.


    And so, Apollo could approach easily.