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[LFTAW] Chapter 327: Sudden Intrusion
🕑 Added 2024-11-23 01:28:36 +0000 UTCRiezel fully understood that YGGDRASIL was a game with an incredibly high degree of freedom, so when everything in it became reality, it truly felt like the world's balance had been shattered.
Not to mention the over six thousand magic spells, just talking about the seven hundred races and two thousand job classes, and then these races and job classes became reality, the power they brought to players or NPCs was absolutely mind-blowing.
Putting aside humans with no unique racial abilities, demi-humans and heteromorphs only needed to reach the required level to unlock the unique abilities of their race.
For example, as an Overlord, Ainz could create four high-tier undead per day, twelve mid-tier undead per day, and twenty low-tier undead per day as his racial abilities, whereas others had to use either magic or special skills from their job classes to achieve the same feat.
In addition, Ainz also had active and passive racial abilities like Negative Energy Touch, Despair Aura, Negative Protection, Dark Soul, Black Halo, Undead Blessing, Unholy Protection, Piercing Damage Resistance, Slashing Damage Resistance, High Tier Physical Immunity, High Tier Magic Immunity, Ice Immunity, Acid Immunity, Electric Immunity, and many more.
All of these were just some of the racial abilities a max-level Overlord could have.
As an undead, Ainz also had basic racial abilities all undead had, like immunity to critical hits, mind control, poison, diseases, sleep, paralysis, physical penalties, and many more.
Aside from them, Ainz also had a variety of special skills from his job classes, including but not limited to a terrifying special skill that could ignore all kinds of instant death resistance or immunity, which could immediately cause instant death to anything—a special skill known as 'The Goal of All Life is Death'.
Moreover, with over seven hundred magic spells at Ainz's disposal, imagine the balance-breaking effect if all of them were brought into reality.
One should know that in the world of Danmachi, every adventurer could awaken a maximum of three magic, with even Lefiya and Riveria, who were known as top-tier mages in Orario, being restricted by this rule to some extent. It was only because their magic was so unique that they could use more than three magic.
On the other hand, adventurers in the world of Danmachi had no such limit to their skills, but from what Riezel knew, the one with the most skills was Finn, who had five.
Looking at this comparison, it was easy to tell which side was more overpowered.
Sure, it wasn't always about having more magic or skills since some of them were weak and might never be used, but as the saying goes, 'small changes lead to big changes'.
Even if Ainz himself wasn't particularly strong, the sheer number of magic spells, racial abilities, and special skills from job classes stacked up, making him a formidable opponent. Not to mention, he was also a player at the maximum level, a Level 100 player with rich experience—clearly far from weak.
Naturally, Ainz still had weaknesses.
As an undead, attacks from positive attributes like holy or light could cause Ainz serious damage. He also had extremely low resistance to blunt weapons and could take double damage from fire attribute attacks.
Despite his weaknesses, however, Ainz still had a massive advantage compared to the natives of this world and those from other worlds.
In other words, even though Shalltear didn't have as many magic spells, special skills, or racial abilities as Ainz, compared to the natives of this world, her advantages were still immense.
As mentioned earlier, the racial abilities that came with being undead were one thing, but like the Negative Impact Shield Shalltear had used earlier, she still had many overpowered special skills and magic that were even better than those in Ainz's possession.
Even the ball of blood floating above Shalltear's head had its own significance, storing the blood of her victims for various uses, such as extracting magical energy from it.
All these varying magic, special skills, and racial abilities combined ultimately created a powerful existence like Shalltear—an NPC strong enough to easily stand up to a Level 7 adventurer in the world of Danmachi.
Shalltear's continued fight with Riezel up until now was proof of this.
However, what made Shalltear even more terrifying was that she was actually still in her bare state.
YGGDRASIL was, after all, home to countless magic items, some of which could break the laws of the world.
As every gamer knew, the difference between a game character wearing equipment and one not wearing equipment was like night and day.
Shalltear hadn't even put on her armor yet, nor was she equipped with the powerful weapon that her creator in Ainz Ooal Gown had prepared for her. If she put on all of them and fought Riezel fully equipped, the battle would definitely play out differently.
Riezel naturally understood this all too well.
However—
'Setting aside outstanding special skills like Negative Impact Shield, some of these so-called special skills aren't necessarily good things.'
With such a thought, Riezel's gaze at Shalltear grew increasingly intense.
"He actually forced me to use Negative Impact Shield... Damn human... Damn human..."
It wasn't clear if the fact that a human had forced her to use one of her trump cards had wounded her pride, but the evil aura, anger, and madness radiating from Shalltear grew more violent by the second.
"Unforgivable... Unforgivable..."
Shalltear, muttering like a lunatic, was almost completely devoid of any rational thought.
In truth, her becoming like this wasn't solely because she had been provoked by Riezel.
In YGGDRASIL, to balance out some overpowered job classes, these job classes had their special skills come with passive penalties.
Shalltear happened to possess one of these special skills known as 'Blood Frenzy', where the more blood spilled on her body, the greater the slaughter impulse that surged within her. Even though her combat power would increase dramatically, the cost was that she would lose control of her mind.
Now, with a considerable amount of blood already spilled on her body, the provocation from Riezel nearly pushed her to the edge of losing control.
"Summon Household!"
On the verge of losing all her sanity, Shalltear used another special skill.
As the name suggested, this special skill allowed her to summon servant monsters who obeyed her commands. Once activated, shadows formed from pure darkness emerged from around her, almost as if they were crawling out of her own shadow, surrounding her on all sides.
Among these servant monsters were swarms of bats and beast-like creatures that resembled wolves or dogs, all sharing one trait—their entire bodies were pitch black, with only their eyes glowing a blood-red hue.
"GO! MY SERVANTS! TEAR THAT HUMAN APART!"
Following Shalltear's almost frenzied scream, countless servant monsters charged toward Riezel.
At the same time, in Shalltear's hand, a lance appeared without Riezel even realizing it—a massive long lance, strangely shaped like a syringe.
"Finally getting serious, huh?"
Riezel narrowed his eyes and suddenly smiled.
"Well then, I guess it's time for me to get more serious."
In the next moment, he tightened his grip on his sword before his breathing rhythm shifted slightly, causing the moonlight flickering along its blade to gradually fade away.
Instead, a searing heat, like flames forming, began to coil around his sword.
"Total Concentration - Sun Breathing..."
Riezel was preparing to inhale large amounts of air, ready to enhance his power to its peak, but just then, several presences suddenly barged in.
"Mm?"
"What?"
Riezel and Shalltear immediately noticed the presence of several people approaching at the same time, causing both of them to immediately stop what they were doing.
Turning their heads to look, they saw a group of people charging out from the forest, which had been mostly flattened by their battle, at the edge where it had not been destroyed.
It was a group of humans armed with various types of weaponry.
Although there weren't many of them, certainly fewer than the servant monsters Shalltear had summoned, they were all fully equipped, and the quality of their equipment was immediately apparent.
Even from a distance, Riezel and Shalltear could vaguely sense the magical energy flowing through them, especially the one in the lead.
He seemed to be a young man, but his appearance was quite androgynous, giving off a confusing impression as if it were unclear whether he was male or female. He wasn't very tall either, and his features looked quite youthful, with long black hair that reached his waist.
After looking at the destroyed surroundings, the young man's sharp red eyes first turned to Riezel with what seemed like surprise before shifting to Shalltear, where the surprise turned into a serious, hostile look.
In his hand, he carried a long spear that seemed out of place compared to his other equipment, but it exuded a sense of quality—certainly not worse than the so-called four treasures of the Re-Estize Kingdom.
Upon seeing this group, Riezel and Shalltear had different reactions.
'So, the other group that entered the forest was them?'
Riezel had a look of realization on his face after seeing the young man and his companions.
Shalltear, on the other hand, was initially surprised by their appearances, but as she sensed a threat from the young man, her focus shifted to him.
"Don't get in my way!"
Shalltear glared at the group led by the young man with her bloodshot eyes before immediately casting magic.
"Mass Hold Species!"
It was a binding magic that targeted all species, capable of affecting multiple targets at once.
However, it seemed that the equipment these people wore reacted to her magic, flashing and successfully blocking it.
"Don't let her get away."
With a cold expression and voice, the young man ordered his companions.
"Use it on her."
As soon as these words left the young man's mouth, an old woman dressed in a cheongsam, looking out of place, stepped forward from behind the young man.
