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Chapter 126 “The Tower.” Part 5
🕑 Added 2024-03-06 20:31:02 +0000 UTCFirst, it was a hand.
Then the ice around another hand fell piece by piece against the hard ground, followed by the ice around the middle of the first arm and his sword.
“Everyone, get ready for battle! Rita, come with me! Koden, go with the boys!” Kalysto couldn’t even finish healing all of Koden’s wounds, although she had healed his head and the more serious wounds. She was hoping that the holy water would do the rest, though she’d rather have it take care of healing his broken arm.
Before Rita reached her side and the chimera’s head had finished thawing, the tenth floor boss threw the only sword that had unfrozen towards them. Forcing them away from each other as they both dodged the blow.
“Rita, get ready to throw ‘Fire Creation’ at him as soon as he finishes thawing!” The blonde nodded her head in preparation for what was coming as the rest of the group of heroes moved away from them and ran to the other side of the room. Inspect!
[Name: Alhunga
Race: Chimera (Elite)
Class: Death Knight
Level: 29
HP: 366,430/370,000
MP: 1,450/1,500
DMP: 1,000/1,000]
Why did his mana drop? Kalysto frowned at the change in stats, but instead of standing around waiting for him to finish thawing, she lunged at him and buried one of her daggers just below the elbow of the arm that had thawed and with which he had thrown a sword at them, taking advantage of a small gap between the thick armor protecting him.
But as she did so, she did not realize that the eyes of the chimera were on her and that the ice around the face of that creature cracked, falling just before she could bury the second dagger and finish amputating his forearm.
The monster took advantage of Kalysto’s small moment of distraction and let out a powerful war cry while concentrating part of its mana to finish unfreezing his body.
[Warning! The user has been affected by the skill ‘Fear’. All your stats will drop by 10% and the user won’t be able to move for two minutes!]
[Warning! The level of the skill ‘Mental Defense’ is higher than that of ‘Fear’ and has blocked the attack!]
Wasting no time, as soon as she was able to move again, Kalysto buried her second dagger in one of the chimera’s eyes and pulled out the dagger she had buried under its elbow.
“Ice manipulation!” This time she shortened her dagger and made it thicker and sharper so she could pierce the chimera’s tough skin and finally finished cutting the creature’s forearm. “Rita, bathe it on fire!” She shouted as she moved away from him, but no fire fell on her enemy whose torso and hips were no longer imprisoned under a layer of ice. “Rita?”
Contrary to what she expected, the fire mage stood with her arms outstretched and the palms of her hands pointing towards the enemy, but with her body completely frozen under the paralysis of the mental attack.
Holy shit!
And as the ice on his legs cracked, Kalysto took the opportunity to attack him again.
“Ice stakes! Perfect aim! Telekinesis! Duplication! Duplication! Multiple targets!” Conjured, throwing the stakes against the chimera’s chest, arms and neck, but the thick armor that protected him blocked each of her attacks. “Rita, as soon as you’re ready, I need you to attack him and help me melt his armor!”
At that moment the chimera finally broke free, launching itself against Kalytso who barely managed to conjure a new pair of daggers, which broke under the force of the monster’s sword attack and Kalysto jumped back, putting some space between them while a group of twenty-five skeletons managed to thaw half of their bodies and began to growl as they fought against the remaining ice that prevented their release.
But the boss didn’t give her time to conjure another weapon again or help her friends as he charged at her attacking with his two remaining swords while Kalysto again evaded his attack and jumped a couple of meters away from him, keeping the distance between them. The same process was repeated several times as much of the ground became a pile of split rocks after suffering with the boss’s continuous attacks.
Annoyed at the fairy champion’s continued escapades, the chimera lunged at her again with much more force, imbuing mana into his attack, and a trail of black light extended much further than the edge of his blades, splintering the wall behind her.
Holy shit, that was close! A bead of sweat trickled down Kalysto’s forehead at the sight of his destructive power.
And just before he jumped to attack her again, while he was still gathering momentum, she kicked the ground and conjured:
“Earth manipulation! Mana manipulation!” She concentrated her mana on the soles of her feet and sent it through the ground, softening the earth and rocks beneath that creature and transforming their texture into thin sand, causing the chimera’s feet to sink into the ground. And the more he tried to escape, the more mana she concentrated on softening the hard surface, until not only his feet were the only ones to sink but also his muscular legs down to his knees. And though the creature lifted one leg trying to take a step out of what now appeared to be quicksands, his body sank a couple more inches, and the foot he had lifted also sank into the earth in front of him. Preventing him from escaping.
Kalysto was about to continue until a pair of notices appeared to her left.
[Warning! User has less than 10 MP left. Please wait a few minutes before attempting to use any skills again or your health will be severely affected.]
She immediately pulled a mana crystal from her inventory.
Absorb!
[Does the user wish to absorb this mana crystal?]
[YES/NO]
Yes!
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 4000 MP!]
Earth Manipulation! She thought, and invested half of the newly gained mana into continuing her attack until finally the inner half of the chimera’s body caved in due to the weight of the thick armor it was wearing.
And as the monster struggled to try to stop its body from continuing to descend, he dropped his blades as he tried to cling to any stone he could find around him, but even those Kalysto turned into dirt.
“Rita, now!”
“Fire creation!” But just as the blonde began to launch her attack, the boss let out a mighty roar, interrupting her spell and paralyzing her again.
Fortunately, Kalysto’s ‘Mental Defense’ skill resisted the attack once again.
But the chimera had one more surprise in store and the arm Kalysto had detached from his body with an ice spear and the one he had cut off with a dagger began to regenerate.
What? Seriously? Kalysto grunted in annoyance as out of the corner of her eye she noticed that the rest of the skeletons had finally finished thawing.
And after taking out another mana crystal from her inventory, she absorbed it while looking at the information window with the chimera’s data.
[Congratulations, the user has acquired 7000 MP!]
[Name: Alhunga
Race: Chimera (Elite)
Class: Death Knight
Level: 29
HP: 361.000/370.000
MP: 1,100/1,500
DMP: 890/1,000]
Her heart shrank as she saw that despite all the damage she had caused him, his health was still mostly intact.
Kalysto frowned in annoyance.
She had worked so hard over the last month to keep her skills hidden, to keep herself safe. And while she knew she could rely on Rita and Koden to keep her secrets safe, Emanuel and Oscar were a completely different story.
Especially the way the latter moved.
Kalysto wouldn’t be surprised if they later discovered that the silent brunet was the right-hand man of a mafia boss or a hired assassin, if they took into account the way he moved, or the great skill with which he handled his daggers.
Or the ease and practicality with which he cut the necks of monsters without changing the expression on his face.
In fact, she didn’t understand how Rita could be attracted to him.
Fuck it, what does it matter if they realize I’m a wizard. I’ll probably never even see most of them again after we leave the tower!
Then she ran towards the chimera.
“Lightning!” As a collection of lightning bolts descended on her enemy, she took a deep breath and stood a meter away from him and conjured: “Fire blast!” At the last moment she thought: Absolute immunity to fire!
Then she pointed, letting her mana reserves drop while she kept the fire skill active for almost two minutes.
As soon as she ran out of air, Kalysto coughed a couple of times while trying to regain some air and pulled another mana crystal from her inventory, at the same time as strong dizziness overcame her.
Wisps of smoke billowed from the body of the chimera, who still remained alive, but with her armor completely melted on her charred skin.
“Inspection!” she whispered.
[Name: Alhunga
Race: Chimera (Elite)
Class: Death Knight
Level: 29
HP: 295,320/370,000
MP: 500/1,500
DMP: 890/1,000]
“Rita, help Koden with the skeletons!” Kalysto asked while making sure she didn’t take any damage after using the skill she had obtained from the Sajhun.
“Understood!” shouted the blonde who ran to where Koden and Oscar were fighting while Gabriel shot arrows at the skeletons, but without doing any damage to them. “Fire creation!” shouted Rita while she burned five of them and Koden destroyed the head he had cut off one of them, while he finished destroying it with his shield as soon as it touched the ground.
Kalysto watched the chimera who was trying to regenerate as he had not yet managed to escape from the trap, now turned into burning glass, in which he was trapped. And she pulled out another mana crystal and absorbed it.
[Congratulations, the user has acquired 5000 MP!]
“Lightning! Fire blast!” She continued attacking again and again while recharging her mana reserves and waiting for her skills to cool down so she could use them again. During the third round, several tendrils of black mana shot out of the chimera’s body and lashed out like whips at her, causing several cuts on her cheeks and arms. “Dispel!” She whispered as she touched one of the tendrils, taking advantage of the fact that none of the other heroes were paying any attention to her as they fought the rest of the skeletons.
The black mana whip dissolved into thin air and Kalysto continued to conjure her unique fire skill. Until a couple of minutes later, as she was running out of air, a pair of notifications appeared to her left.
[You have gained 11,700 experience points!]
[The skill ‘Absolute fire immunity’ has been raised to level 2!]
[The skill ‘Lightning’ has been leveled up to level 2!]
[You have leveled up!]
[The user has gained 1000 bonus experience points for participating in defeating the boss!]
[The user has acquired ‘Sword of Alhunga’ as a reward and it has been added to your inventory!]]
[The user has acquired a strength stat crystal as a reward and it has been added to your inventory!]]
“Yes! I am now level 17!” Koden shouted, full of enthusiasm as a satisfied smile broke out on Kalysto’s face.
