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Chapter 125 “The Tower.” Part 4
🕑 Added 2024-03-04 23:05:16 +0000 UTC“What the hell is that thing?” Edward’s knees trembled and his legs gave way under his weight, dropping him to the ground as his face lost all trace of color. As Emanuel, Gideon and Gabriel remained silent, terrified by the imposing aura of that monster.
But despite the silent movements of the rest of the group, Edward’s words attracted the attention of the hundreds of human skeletons that had been in the center surrounding the remains of the group of warriors that entered before them. And with a speed that surpassed that of any human, the group of undead launched themselves at the newcomers.
But they were not the only ones.
The dungeon boss joined them in their attack.
Throwing himself against the heroes with two of his four swords held high, he gave a powerful leap that overtook the group of skeletons and made him land hard right in front of the last members of the group, and the weakest ones, at the same time hitting the ground with his swords.
At that instant, the portal that allowed them to escape to the previous floor disappeared.
The impact of the blow threw the four unprepared heroes against the wall where the portal had been, while a cloud of dust spread in the surroundings as if it were mist while the chimera lifted its two swords from the floor it had just split in two, creating a huge crack in the stone floor.
And right at the end of the grotesque fracture caused by his swords was Emanuel, sitting on the ground with his legs spread open. His eyes bathed in tears as his body trembled in terror at how close he had been to death. How close he had been to losing even his manhood if the impact of that thing hadn’t stopped just two centimeters from his crotch.
At that very instant, the smell of urine penetrated Kalysto’s nostrils.
Holy shit! The fairy champion didn’t even have time to react. One second the chimera was several meters to her left on the other side of the room, and the next it was a couple of meters behind her.
“Ice daggers! Ice manipulation!” Conjured Kalysto as she extended her daggers and leapt towards the rear of the group, in a desperate attempt to save them.
But the chimera only needed to raise one of her muscular arms to block her attack with one of his thick swords, at the same time that another of his arms used the handle of his sword to deliver a blow to her stomach, emptying the air from her lungs and throwing her several meters towards the center of the room where her body fell in the center of the group of skeletons that were a couple of meters away from the heroes.
Kalysto coughed, the pain spreading through every part of her body long before the notification window appeared before her announcing that her skill had been activated and she coughed hard again trying to regain the rhythm of her breathing as she struggled to get some air back into her lungs as the pain from her broken ribs barely allowed her to take a shallow breath.
[The passive skill Pain Resistance has been activated.]
But the skeletons surrounding her gave her no wait, and lunged at her with their swords held high while she was still in a fetal position, struggling to get to her knees so she could get on her fours so she could finally stand up. Turning her back to the enemy as she continued to cough, several swords came at her battered body.
<<Dumbass! Just let me out and I’ll take care of killing that overfed gorilla and that bunch of weaklings! You’ll get us both killed!>> Persephone complained as she struggled to regain the power of that body.
“Tundra! Cough!...Cough!” Kalysto shouted and her mana reserves almost emptied as a wave of ice froze the skeletons of her enemies, including the remains of the other group of warriors.
[Warning! The 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.]
How the hell is he so strong? Up to that floor, they had only fought monsters whose strength and level were easy to deal with and were almost in accordance with the floor number they were on. Why is this one so different from the others? Is it because we are at level ten?...Does that mean I should expect the same when we get to level twenty?
“Come on Kalysto, concentrate!” She scolded herself in a low whisper.
[The passive skill Mental Defense has been activated.]
“Koden, attract the boss and keep him away from the rest! Oscar, protect Rita and you two take care of the skeletons! Rita saves ‘Fire Creation’ for when I ask you!” She shouted, hoping it would buy them some time while she finished recovering. “Inventory!” She whispered, and the respective windows opened to her left.
Kalysto took out a bottle of holy water and drank it immediately. As she felt the sting of the potion taking effect, rebuilding her broken ribs, she pulled out a mana crystal.
“Absorb!” she whispered.
[Does the user wish to absorb this mana crystal?]
[YES/NO]
Yes! she thought.
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 6000 MP!]
“Mana manipulation!” she muttered as she touched one of the frozen skeletons and transformed the ice in front of her into a ladder and climbed up it while she could feel the effects of the holy water healing the damage inside her body.
When she stood on the surface of the frozen bodies, she realized that she had not been notified of their deaths at any time, and at the same time, she noticed that only a portion of them were frozen. While the rest of the skeletons were divided between those surrounding her looking for a way to get closer to her body and those fighting, Oscar and Rita, who were trying to keep them away from the four wounded heroes who were leaning against the back wall.
At the same time, Koden was using his newfound skill to lure monsters and keep the boss away from the rest of the wounded group while he was doing his best to dodge the continuous blows of the four swords and jumping back and forth while blood was running down the left side of his face.
“Perfect aim! Ice spear! Telekinesis! Duplication! Duplication! Multiple targets!” Kalysto muttered, summoning the ice spears and hurling one at the chimera’s shoulder and the other at its neck. And although the monster managed to avoid the one aimed at his neck, which buried itself in his leg, the other pierced one of his arms, detaching him from the rest of his body. “Oscar, go help Koden! Rita, get away from here!” As soon as the blonde did so, Kalysto ran to the edge of the ice surface she was standing on and continued to summon. “Ice creation!” She shouted, covering the rest of the skeletons and the chimera with her ice, extending it several meters beyond what she was normally capable of and almost covering half of the wide room.
A strong dizziness seized her and the familiar notification notice appeared in front of her, warning her of the danger she was in.
[Warning! User has less than 10 MP remaining. Please wait a few minutes before attempting to use any skills again or your health will be severely affected.]
Kalysto fell to her knees on the frozen skeletons, her knees scraping against the hard surface, though her brain did not register the pain. Her face lost all color as with trembling hands she struggled to reach for another mana crystal, this time a smaller one.
Ab...Absorb! She thought.
[Does the user wish to absorb this mana crystal?]
[YES/NO]
Yes!
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 3000 MP!]
And as she slowly regained control of her body and her agitated breathing, Kalysto managed to hear the murmur of the other heroes as she lay on her back and waited for the dizziness to subside.
“I thought we were going to die!” Gabriel exclaimed.
“Did we make it?” Gideon questioned as he drank a health potion.
But no one answered.
“Status window!” whispered Kalysto.
[Status window]
Name: Kalysto Luna
Age: 21 years old
Race: ---
Level: 30
Fatigue: 82
Class: Saintess (Heroic)
Professions: Enchantments
Title: Champion of the fairies (avatar of ?????) (?????? of the ??????)
Affiliation: Kingdom of Bahram
HP: 1520/3120
MP: 3010/2826
DMP: 2800
Strength: 79+50
Vitality: 88+80
Agility: 93
Stamina: 91 +110
Intelligence: 87 +100
Charisma: 10
Luck: 20
???: 50
State: dizzy, tired.
Available points: 12 ]
Kalysto immediately assigned all her available points to her agility stat, leaving it at 105.
“Koden, if you’ve leveled up and you haven’t assigned your available points yet, put them in agility. If we meet another guy like this again, we’re going to need it! The rest of you take your health potions!” With an effort she managed to get up and approach Koden, whose arm with which he was holding the shield was broken. “Drink this, and try not to let the others notice," she whispered, taking out another vial of holy water using Koden’s shield as a cover. “Basic healing!” she conjured, helping to heal the collection of wounds the poor tank had obtained while distracting the monster.
With her status window still open, Kalysto noticed how her mana points dropped from 3010 to 1500 in a matter of a few minutes.
The mana expenditure is ridiculously higher as a water mage than as a saintess, how ironic... what Jhuliana said turned out to be true...I’ll have to level up my water manipulation skill in order to awaken intermediate healing.
But Kalysto didn’t have time to continue thinking about her new discovery.
A loud cracking sound echoed in the room, followed by another and another.
And everyone turned to stare in absolute terror at the frozen body of the chimera whose ice began to crack. The eyes of that monster moved, traveling from the group of heroes recovering against the wall, to focus on Kalysto.
Everyone fell absolutely silent.
Another crack echoed in the suddenly silent room, and a chunk of the ice surrounding the chimera began to fall off, as did twenty-five other skeletons.
