This Time, It's the Erudite Advancement Quest (Continued)

Adrian flicked his fingers, urging the pale White Thousand-Hand Buddha in the sky to launch a second full-scale barrage at Guryang the White Lion.

Brilliant Ghost Energy Cannons streaked across the sky, raining down on the badly wounded white griffin like a cascade of blue meteors.

Watching the beams come at him again, Guryang's pupils shrank to pinpoints. He nearly cursed aloud.

What is wrong with White Ghost?!

How can he keep unleashing attacks this powerful, this fast, one after another?

And I already look half-dead! Shouldn't even an enemy come closer to confirm the result?

Guryang seethed.

But faced with the Ghost Energy Cannons, he still chose to dodge as fast as he could.

He drew a deep breath. Bloodlust steamed from his body as he abruptly abandoned his strongest hybrid form and returned to his most agile form: a white griffin.

Clang—

The white griffin soaring through the sky opened his eagle beak and let out a cry sharp as clashing steel. Then he beat his gray-white wings and darted through the air.

Under the full pressure of a life-or-death struggle, he was noticeably faster than he had been in his hybrid form.

His wings beat, and he became a gray-white streak weaving through the dense blue cannon fire. As he dodged the Ghost Energy Cannons, his beast form slowly healed the wounds he had just suffered.

Adrian was in no hurry.

The Griffin-Griffin Fruit granted its user the rare and precious ability to fly, along with formidable improvements to physical strength, resistance, recovery, and more.

But its weakness was obvious.

Griffins might have been creatures of myth in Adrian's former world.

On this strange sea, though, they actually existed.

The Griffin-Griffin Fruit was merely an ordinary Ancient Zoan.

Those had been Guryang's own words.

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