Kervantes

A monster befitting one of physical power and raw rage, the Kervantes is a large black beast adorned with spikes and a pair of large spiral horns upon its scalp as a four legged reptile with two large leather wings capable of flight. The Kervantes is a beast constantly looking for a fight, its strength rivaling even a demon in their form form while only standing at twenty feet in length and twelve feet in height at the shoulder. The Kervantes lives in high mountains, usually seen in the land of iron and other mountainous areas such as northern lightning country and other parts of the world. They are solitary creatures, living alone and only seldomly finding a mate once every few years, they're long lived and breed slowly with some of the oldest of their kind reaching over a hundred years. A Kervantes' spikes are similar to that of a Kaguya when and extend and constantly grow from the skin when the monster needs them, a Kervantes with a full body of spikes resembles a hedgehog or even a porcupine, these spines act as its natural armor and absorb physical impact, allowing them to weaponize their spines and shoot them out.

These beasts are highly aggressive and actively go out seeking fights as they're drawn to sagelands, villages and other high concentrations of power. The oldest Kervantes are intelligent as a human if not smarter, adapting their ways to fight creatures bigger than themselves. They're able to manipulate their spines and scientists have found trace amounts of Kaguya DNA in these monsters, explaining their spines and limited ability to control their own bones. Kervantes are able to mold chakra even and achieve a state of rage as they exhume an aura similar to a eight gates practitioner as tainted natural chakra envelops them. A Kervantes will fight just to fight, they are intelligent creatures that demand respect for their own power and will even attack when they feel offended. Unlike many creatures, it is not unknown for a Kervantes to be reasoned with or even befriended with a pact if they're faced with a stronger opponent. Some mountainous towns and villages pay tribute to a Kervantes and they've been known to be contented with leaving those who speak to its ego alone. As solitary monsters, A Kervantes hates others of its kind and can speak the human language, each one has a name and views another Kervantes as a rival or bitter enemy if they're not a mate.

## Techniques

### Basic Attack | Rank E-S+ | Stamina

A Kervantes will attack with any part of its body, striking with its powerful legs, horns or even bites. Their entire body is a wound up package of muscle and will use the spines they grow as a weapon. Attacks from a Kervantes inflict and one tier higher of Trauma than normal

### Natural Armor | Rank X | Passive

A Kervantes constantly grows spikes all over its body to protect it from other monsters and even human's attacks. With their spines fully grown, their body is treated as Heavy Armor with no penalties. This Natural armor breaks as normal, however the damage taken is absorbed into the creature's body for Retributrion. A Kervantes' spikes constantly regenerate every post, going up one armor tier at a time, when their spikes are fully broken or if Retribution is used, however it takes a single post cooldown before they begin growing like normal.

### Retribution | Rank Varies | Complex

The damage taken from any attack is absorbed into the spines of the Kervantes as the spikes grow more and more brittle. Every point of resource that is used in each attack that hit the natural armor of the Kervantes each tier is stored away in a Retribution Pool (example: 80 Chakra breaks, 80 Chakra is fueled into the Pool). Once the spines are broken, the Kervantes will explode out in a violet maelstrom of bony spines that shoot out in every direction along with natural chakra. This attack is unranked and instead attacks with the resource that is absorbed. If the Spines are broken from an opponent, this attack is a supplementary activation. If Kervantes willingly breaks their spines, this consumes an activation. Their spines Natural Armor will not regrow until the next post.

### Willow | Rank S | Spiritual

A Kervantes controls its spines much like a Kaguya and with a supplementary activation their can temporarily grow out their spines to enhance their Basic Attacks. These spines add S-Rank damage to any basic attack they do and counts as another jutsu for collisions

### Ranged Willow | Rank S | Spiritual

Much like Willow, a Kervantes can shoot a small barrage of spikes to impale a foe at a range of [30] feet. Despite its physical nature, this attack is a spiritual jutsu.

### Way of the Kervantes | Rank S+ | Senjutsu

The Kervantes will achieve a sage mode of their own senjutsu coursing through their bodies this increases their natural stats to 10 while pushing their Strength to 12, rivaling demons. Kervantes' have a natural energy pool of 1000 and they can fuel their spike growth with this along with their physical attacks. This sage mode lasts for [10] posts. At any point during this Sage Mode, the Kervantes can use Retribution and fuel the attack with as much Nature Chakra as they wish, creating an unranked attack and their Natural Armor will instantly regrow after this but the sage mode ends. This sage mode can be used twice in a single fight.

### Kaguya Monster | Rank X | Passive

Kervantes have traces amounts of Kaguya blood in them, they are able to make use of the Kaguya bloodline up to Stage 5.

## Loot

* Bones of Kervantes | Ultra Rare
* Spiked Armor | Rare
* Terrifying Scales | Rare