From my left, the white marble-like spear came rushing, but I blocked with my sword. Again, the impact made my hands wobble like jelly. I tried grabbing his spear with [Shadow Limbs], but they faded the moment they made contact.
The pillar man grabbed my face with his free hand, but I quickly slid out with [Slime Body]. [Overload Armour] immediately went into action, giving me a 60% boost in all stats and a 100% boost in defence. The fire scarf around my neck was now blue and hazy.
Even then, my stats were less than his. He roared loudly out of nowhere and I felt my ears bleeding. Unfortunately, with my enhanced hearing I couldn’t ignore the pain. I reflexively dropped my blade to cover my ears.
[You have lost 60 health points]
Could have been my worst mistake if I didn’t have several shadows that sacrificed themselves for my protection.
They all vapourised, leaving me with five pillar men coming up on me. Their spears were suddenly alit with pale blue flames as they surrounded me with the blades pointed at me.
‘Ah.’
Mightily, they simultaneously thrusted at me.
‘Teleport!’
I reappeared behind one of them. With [Lethal Black Claws] I tried to pierce his back, but my claws broke off. The pillar man hit me with his tail faster than I could react.
[You have lost 120 health points]
Angrily, I summoned more shadows to come help me deal with them. At least 500 shadows to help me personally finish them off. The other shadows at other locations had already been wiped out by the pillar men who showed absolutely no sign of difficulty.
In the mix of shadows, I also sprayed black ink around to cause disorientation. The shadows all went for the kill, but I heard a mutter from one of the pillar men.
“[Flow Technique: Blue Canon].”
From his direction, something was moving fast, like a shooting star. It was a bright blue and it easily cut through my shadows like hot knife through butter. Behind it, all the water spun like a tornado, propelling it even further and faster towards me.
Again, I teleported out of the weapon’s way, but a pillar man was waiting for me. He used the skill [Death Thrust] and I flipped over, grabbing the shaft of the spear then landing a [Fiery Kick], [High Force Impact] and [Shatter] to his face. My attack did practically nothing to him.
Instead, I could feel my hair being dragged away. One of them was using the curtain technique to trap me. I returned to my bird form to escape the sea’s pull before transforming back into my human form and charging straight at the guy who tried to grab me.
‘Shadow demon summoning!’
At point blank, I assumed it would be best to simply blast him with an eruption of shadows. To my dismay, he grabbed my orb and crushed it like it was nothing.
In the heat of the moment, I activated [Devil Light Manipulation], but nothing worked. Rather, he brought down his fist on my head mightily. I could have sworn I heard my skull split in half.
[You have lost 1000 health points]
[You have been afflicted with [Concussion]]
‘O-Oi! 1000? And most of it was off-set with [Slime body] and [Shock Absorber].’
‘We could have died just now?’
‘Um, here!’
Hyakun did something, causing a vial to appear before me.
‘It’s a healing potion. Drink it up before our thoughts go awry.’
I grabbed the vial and shot myself backwards to quite the reasonable distance. I consumed the potion.
[You have consumed 1 red-blood health potion.]
[You have recovered 700 health points]
[You have been cured of all afflictions]
‘Ah?’
‘Just bought it from the store. Take this too.’
My sword, the hekati blade appeared in my hands.
‘Huh? How? I dropped it.’
‘There’s a function to withdraw all owned items into the item box no matter where they are.’
‘For real?’
‘Yeah. Now, I think we can’t do this without [Devil Form].’
‘You think?’
‘Y-Yeah, but i-if it’s against them, w-we will d-die for sure.’
ραпdα nᴏνɐ| сom ‘True. If not by their hands, we will definitely run out of time and end up consuming all our life force.’
‘Should we use ‘that’ then?’
‘Maybe? But… I honestly don’t see how it’s going to help. Maybe cause a long enough distraction?’
Not allowing me to continue my conversation in my head, one of the bastards grabbed my right leg with the sea. He dragged me towards himself, so I used [High Force Impact]. He had zero reactions to that, making me realise how weak the royal guards (Osveta in particular) were weak.
Another grabbed my arm that held my sword, causing me to drop it once again. The harder I pulled, the tougher the resistance I got from the water.
‘To hell with it all. [Devil Form]!’
I activated the skill in desperation and managed to break my leg free. Unfortunately for me, one of the pillar men grabbed my other free arm. Another grabbed my leg and the fourth grabbed my other leg, just like before.
They all pulled on my limbs, threatening to rip them apart with the slightest gesture. I couldn’t think up any better solution for the situation I was in except for using ‘that’.
‘Uuh, guys. Why don’t we talk this out?’
When physical violence wasn’t working, it was sometimes best to resort to simple diplomacy.
‘You guys are supposed to be protecting the pillars, not planting bombs on them! Maybe you didn’t know that what you planted is bomb and I’m sorry for attacking you, but could you remove it before things get really bad for everyone?’
Their response to my plea was sending lightning my way, giving me one of the biggest shocks of my life. Get it?
[You have lost 400 health points]
[You have lost 390 health points]
[You have lost 430 health points]
[You have lost 570 health points]
I looked up and saw one of the pillar men spinning his spear around.
‘Ah… That hurt like hell you bastards! And I’m losing health points fast! I swear if I manage t- wait. Teleport!’
Escaping from my entrapment, I came up right underneath the only pillar man to be plotting an attack for me.
I used my [Tori Original: Fiery Uppercut] on his chin with [Gravity], hoping to push him up. Be it fortunate or unfortunate, the attack moved his head by an inch or two. My [Gravity] skill wasn’t at a high enough level to cause any real damage to real threats.
‘Hahaha… I didn’t mean anything by that, I swear.’
He struck once again. I side-stepped then sprayed him with [High Force Impact] and [Shatter] in the form of [Ferocious Slash]es. I prayed that the attack would do some damage, but it didn’t even nick the armour.
‘O-oi… what about Twilight Manipulation.’
‘Uses mana. It won’t work here.’
‘Anything that doesn’t use mana?’
In an annoyingly repetitive manner, the pillar man attacked me with a volley of thrusts, spins and slashes. It was frustrating how eloquently he utilised his sea-curtain techniques and flow techniques to hinder my movements while also activating the lightning attribute of his spear to cause me damage even if I avoided the direct hit from the spear itself.
[You have lost 320 health points]
[You have lost 210 health points]
[You have lost 239 health points]
[Due to the unique skill [Evolver], you have acquired the skill [Lightning resistance]]
[The skill [Vector control] has gone up by 1 level]
[You have acquired the title [Nimble Feet]]
[You have acquired the skill [Evasion]]
I was so desperate for my life, I used [Luminosity] and [Deadly Beast Roar] to stop him for barely a second. In that second, I enveloped my body with the [Sinuous King Adamas Armour] and spat out enormous amounts of ink using [Ink Creation].
‘Oi, oi! I need proper ideas here.’
‘Twilight energy! Let’s try using that!’
‘Um…’
‘What is it?’
‘Still uses mana to work.’
‘HUH!?’
‘I thought it was a different form of energy!’
‘Have you seen any status bars for it?’
'But I thought-'
'Thought what? We'd use the power of friendship to win? Friendship with no one but yourself is pathetic loneliness and in some cases a literal mental disorder. Gosh, It's frustrating not being able to do anything useful!'
Akkun sounded pissed there. Well, mostly because all my magic was rendered useless now, Akkun had absolutely nothing to do. I could understand his frustration at being the only one who couldn't provide any help.
The other pillar men all started to band together to create a large vortex. I clicked my tongue and made my own skill through the use of [Torrent] and [Constriction]. I altered the pressures and currents of two different torrents, forced them to clash and ended up causing a large riptide that should have been equal in size to the vortex coming beneath me.
Unfortunately, the pillar man who was on me had already recovered from the one second shock. Narrowly, his spear missed my head, but it tore off my ear and sent a powerful shock of lightning to my brain.
[You have lost 957 health points]
‘I-I have a t-theory!’
Akkun came up with an idea, as if he’d been struck by a bolt of lightning. Haha!
‘Open to ideas right now!’
‘C-convert all our remaining m-mana into a-aura.’
‘Into aura?’
‘Yeah, yeah! That’s worth a shot!’
‘Alright then! But this body doesn’t store aura so, it’s basically us shooting out unnecessary amounts of energy.’
‘Not like we have any better choice.’
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