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Chapter 183 - Blood (Thank you for your support, Ian Finerfrock!)
🕑 Added 2024-11-14 12:34:00 +0000 UTCI confirmed that the combined bow worked… but despite the materials and the fact that the new longbow was of the Epic Rank, it only added two extra slots to the new combined bow… it was the limit of cheating combination.
‘If the highest rarity bow gives four slots, the others will give one slot less, it seems…’
Titan Triple Glacic Bow (Legendary)
Enchantment Slots: Mana Drain (Adept) (03)–Restores your mana when hitting a target. You can recover mana equal to twenty percent of the damage caused. Critical strikes increase mana gain to 40%.
Arrow Creation (Adept) (03) - You can summon arrows made of wood for five points of mana, iron for ten points of mana, or silver for twenty points of mana. The arrows can last for 45 minutes.
Magic Force (Expert) - Increases the wearer’s magic by forty points per level.
Magic Force (Expert) - Increases the wearer’s magic by forty points per level.
Magic Force (Expert) - Increases the wearer’s magic by forty points per level.
Bonus Effects: Homing Shot - Causes arrows to adjust their trajectory to track a target, with reduced accuracy over long distances.
Pierce - Ignores forty points of the endurance of the target when hitting them.
Spectral Bond - Mark an enemy with a spirit tether, allowing allies to deal increased damage to that target while the mark lasts. It lasts for five seconds, making the target suffer ten percent more damage per effect stacked.
Troll’s Strength: Decreases by half the costs of skills when using this weapon.
Attack: 120
Durability: 120/200
Aside from increasing fifty points in durability, the bow gained thirty points in attack and also gained Troll’s Strength… it was simply amazing the final effect. I could use bow skills now at half of their original cost. I could do that deadly combination three times in a row, at least now…
“Hehehe. Nice. All that hard work paid off.”
I stopped using the camouflage amulet, and then the boss finally saw me. The creature soon swung its sword to kill me in a blast of frost, but I fired an explosive arrow and completely blocked it.
‘The area of the explosion increased to a ten meters radius… good, very good. My bow is essentially a rocket launcher that doesn’t need to be reloaded as long as it hits a target now.’
The blast of the attack pushed the enemy away as the ice began to melt around the area. The creature soon realized that it was in a bind. I was in a bind as well. This wasn’t my real strength, it was a combination of my knowledge, skills and my own strength. So, I couldn’t get carried away.
I also had to run away from the abyssal worm, so I soon resumed my focus… It was time to dispose of the monster in front of me and get the heck away from the boss’ chamber.
The Frozen Skeleton soon grabbed its shield and then assumed a cautious stance, but I charged toward the creature and then unleashed an explosive arrow. The monster raised its shield to block the attack, and it pulled off… its shield wasn’t merely made of ice, apparently.
Still, I used Shadow Step to the side and then attacked the monster from the side. The creature raised its sword to chop down the arrow, but the explosion sent the creature spiraling in the air toward the closest wall.
The wall cracked, and the monster began to fall after sinking it deep, but more and more explosive arrows hit the creature. Despite my high attack power, the monster was able to last for quite a while.
I was winning with ease, but soon I panicked when the attacks coming from the previous floor were starting to make the ceiling crack. I had to hurry up… the common limitations of a labyrinth was something that this kind of worm could easily ignore, given enough time.
“Just die already!”
I used my extra mana to use Fireball. A large explosion made the entire chamber warm up… since my bow increased my magic, that spell also got insanely powerful. I used Power Shot, Shadow Mark, Precision Mark and Deadeye Focus… after two shots like that, the monster eventually cracked.
Before the creature could fall on the ground, I charged toward it and then got its armor and gear before running away with all my might to the next floor.
You received 25.000 experience points.
You completed a trial. Please choose between the classes: Shadow Crusader, (Barbarian, Dark Paladin and Warblade), Dreadful Enchanter, and Sorcerer (Blood Mage).
It had to be a bad joke in this kind of situation… First I get three bad choices in a row, then nothing bad, then three bad choices again. I wanted to laugh because if I didn’t, I would probably cry. Moreover, thanks to the worm, I had to make my decision in the split second.
You obtained the Blood Mage class.
You improved the Health Regeneration parameter.
You unlocked the Aptitude: Blood Rain.
You unlocked the skill: Blood Siphon.
You unlocked the skill: Crimson Burst.
Blood Rain: Gain 1 point of experience for each successful blood spell cast. Spells that use your own health or the health of enemies provide additional experience based on the amount of health sacrificed.
Blood Siphon: Drain the life force of a target, dealing damage over time and healing yourself for a portion of the damage dealt. The amount of life drained increases with your magic, power and spirit. If the target’s health falls below 20% during the drain, the healing effect is doubled. When your health is full, the blood restores your stamina with an extra of 100%. Cost: 50 mana per second.
Crimson Burst: Sacrifice a portion of your own health to create a powerful explosion of blood magic around you, dealing area damage to nearby enemies. The damage dealt is based on the amount of health sacrificed and your magic, and enemies hit by the burst are afflicted with a bleeding debuff that deals additional damage over time. Cost: 30% of your current health.
A large explosion came from the entrance of the chamber and then the worm came furiously at me… it was moving at least double of the speed before. It could actually reach me with my current movement speed…
‘Damn it!’
I jumped to the staircase and then spun in the air and fired three explosive arrows at its head… An area of five meters around the head turned into a crisp and then disintegrated like ashes. I smiled, but then the head immediately regenerated.
My luck was beyond terrible… I picked the Blood Mage class thinking that it would increase my magic, but it didn’t do that and it increased my vampiric powers. When I landed on the next floor, I could feel my eyes burning and my teeth hurting like hell… I didn’t want to check them, but I could tell what was happening.
‘Damn it…’
When things started to go well for me, something like that had to happen and then make a complete 180… Complaining was useless, so I just kept dashing to the end of the labyrinth. My vision got red like the color of my eyes had become like that too, and then the thirst came stronger than ever. I tried not to look at Glacien because I didn’t know what I would do.
An explosion happened behind me and the worm showed up, destroying the walls and it moved toward me like it was very hungry as well. As if that wasn’t enough, the new enemies showed up to block my path. Flying ice monsters…
Their name was Blizzard Bird, majestic and terrifying looking creatures that embodied the fierce power of winter storms. These large avian beings have a wingspan of 15 feet, with feathers that glow in shades of icy blue, mimicking the swirling snow of a blizzard. Their plumage was thick and layered, resembling frosted feathers and snowflakes, allowing them to endure the harshest of cold climates.
Their heads were crowned with a crest of spiked, frost-covered feathers that resemble a frozen crown. Piercing, glowing, icy blue eyes stand out against their pale feathers, radiating an intense glow. Their beaks are long and sharp, like jagged shards of ice, capable of raking through even the toughest prey.
I didn’t have time to be mesmerized by their appearance and soon fired explosive arrows at them… but they reacted in time to fire ice spears and stop my attacks. Using two arcane arrows per target would make my mana drain essentially useless, but it was better than letting them be eaten by the monster.
The creatures lost their focus when they saw the massive worm approaching, they even began to flap their wings and move away in the opposite direction… It looked like even those kinds of monsters could understand that dying by the maw of that beast was worse than real death. Unfortunately for them, I still attacked them and then used the mana recovered to use Shadow Step. I also grabbed their bodies when they fell and stored away, not like I thought that I could use them to survive in this labyrinth.
‘Should I attack this thing to make it waste mana or should I use Shadow Step to reach the final boss faster?’
It was a tough call to make… turning around to look at the thing made me feel shivers, but letting the beast gain even more energy was the same as asking to be eaten sooner or later. The downside of this was the fact that the battle wouldn’t end anytime soon… I would have to keep running and exhausting myself.
I looked at my new skills once and then hesitated in considering them… if I had to test their effectiveness against this thing, it had to be now. I pointed my hand and the enemy and then used Blood Siphon… I felt my vision turning red again and then the beast began to shake as blood left its body… I didn’t want to drink the blood of that thing, it was just too repulsive.
Fortunately, I confirmed that I didn’t have to drink it, it was just absorbed by my body. Still, my body began to heat up thanks to that.
‘Damn it… it looks like when my health is full, the blood restores my stamina, then why is the skill only consuming half of the mana that it was supposed to?’
There was only one exploration for that… it was because of my vampire heritage…
