NOVEL WEB Book 3. Chapter 11 “A mini enemy army” Part 1
Book 3. Chapter 11
“A mini enemy army” Part 1
“Blessing!” she conjured, pointing to herself. “Ice creation! Ice manipulation!” Freezing half the army of goblins and hobgoblins in less than a minute, leaving only their heads in the air to facilitate her absorption plans, was simple.
However, birds were a problem she was not used to. Especially when namiras, armed with spears, piloted them. Unfortunately for her, the red-skinned men were quite good at piloting the huge blue birds.
“New weapons to add to my collection,” she muttered as she saw them pause to watch her carefully while only two of them descended to throw their spears at her, Kalysto evading the attacks with ease. But the trolls snarled as they saw the street frozen from end to end, blocking their way, so they began to climb the wall of ice, crushing the heads of their allies in their attempt to advance to her. The rest of the enemy army did not hesitate to follow their example. “Hey, idiots! What do you think you’re doing with my future points?” she growled, but when she jumped to meet one of them and prevent him from advancing further, the same two namiras piloted their azuras and intercepted her. “Water blades! Ice blades!” She conjured, attacking the eyes of both pilots, but one of them easily evaded her, the other one instead, ended up swerving to the left and Kalysto took advantage of his movement and cut the back of the trunk of his bird, but when the azura’s tail fell it burned two goblin heads who screamed in pain as they died. “Shit, two less for my collection!” Upset by the loss while the rest of the army advanced as they stepped on the heads of the other goblins, Kalysto ran towards them, and taking a long leap she landed in the middle of the enemy army while cutting a troll in half, as she finished her descent.
[You’ve gained 1 experience point!]
[You have gained 1 experience point!]
[You have gained 15 experience points!]
[You’ve gained 100 experience points!]
“Tundra!” She growled, freezing all the trolls, and hobgoblins and leaving only a few goblins whose shaking heads she had let free earlier, but who cried in fear at what they had just witnessed as they shivered from the cold and begged for their lives in a language Kalysto did not understand.
[You have gained 7 experience points!] x100
[You have gained 10 experience points!] x50
[You have gained 9 experience points!] x 40
[You have gained 8 experience points!] x50
[You have gained 15 experience points!] x49
Now, there were only ten half-frozen goblins, twenty aevos four azuras, and five namiras left. Kalysto scowled at them, anger shining in her eyes as she gripped her axe tightly.
“You will pay for my loss of points!” she snarled, before launching herself at them and hunting them down.
But just as she was about to split an aevo in two with her axe, a namira piloting an azura crossed her path, blocking her attack with his spear.
“Nice spear,” muttered Kalysto, surprised by the weapon's resistance, which did not break despite the force she was imbuing into her attack. ”But soon it will be mine. Perfect aim! Ice blades! Ice daggers! Ice manipulation! Telekinesis!” she added, lengthening them into sharp blades. “Duplication! Duplication! Duplication! Duplication! Fireball!” She conjured, aiming the spells with her left hand at the azura’s neck as she fell to the ground. The blades did little damage to the bird’s skin, however, the daggers, turned into sharp swords, buried themselves viciously into the animal’s neck, causing blood to gush down its neck, only to have the edges of the ice left outside the bird’s skin melted by the fire which burned the open wounds caused by the modified daggers, causing the animal to roar in pain as it flapped in desperation, trying to escape the fire while losing altitude.
Despite the namira’s efforts to land carefully, the bird fell lifelessly, crashing to the pavement, almost three blocks from the portal. Although the pilot was badly injured by the fall, he survived.
[You have gained 70 experience points!]
“Perfect aim! Multiple targets! Ice Stakes! Telekinesis! Duplication! Duplication! Duplication!” Less than a second later six ice stakes pierced the chests of six aevos, which had pierced the ice block she had created and tried to fly towards where the girls were, their bodies fell to the ground as they writhed and tried to get up again, but blood was leaking from their wounds.
Seeing this, the rest of the azuras retreated, as did the rest of the aevos, but Kalysto managed to jump and cut in two the body of one of them before he finished escaping.
[You’ve gained 15 experience points!]
Seeing that the rest flew away, trying to get away, surely thinking that they could turn the corner at the end of the block and escape between the streets of the city, Kalysto passed the axe to her left hand.
“Blessing!” she said, touching her chest and then raised her hand, pointing at the group of birds. “Mana manipulation! Perfect aim! Multiple targets! Lightning!” She conjured, pouring almost all of her remaining mana into electrocuting them. The remaining fourteen aevos fell lifeless to the ground. However, the azuras and their pilots survived.
[The skill ‘Lightning’ has leveled up to level 6!]
[You have gained 15 experience points!] x10
[You have gained 12 experience points!] x4
Why do they have to be so tough?... I need to raise this skill to a higher level! She thought as she clicked her tongue, annoyed that she couldn’t kill them all in one hit.
A noise nearby made her turn around and look at the aevos that were still alive while in the background she could see Tsuki’s lightning bolts going back and forth. Kalysto was surprised to see that one of the two namiras she had left earlier, without a bird to pilot, raised his spear and pierced one of the aevos that she had wounded earlier, but it was still fighting for its life.
What the fuck was wrong with this guy? Why kill his allies during battle? It was then that a chilling thought crossed her mind.
They can level up too? She realized. Perfect aim! Ice spear! She conjured just as the namira once again inserted his spear viciously into the aevo’s chest. The humanoid, red-skinned creature was so focused on finishing killing the bird that it didn’t see the spear coming until it was too late and it pierced his chest.
[You have gained 3 experience points!]
[You’ve gained 150 experience points!]
She turned around again, noticing that the other three remaining namiras flew to attack her from behind, taking advantage of her distraction, after one of them picked up the other pilot who had lost his azura.
“Rain of ice stakes!” She summoned, stopping their advance with her right hand and putting her axe in her inventory with her left hand, then pulling out a mana crystal. “Absorb!”
[The passive skill ‘Double Conjure’ has been activated.]
[Does the user wish to absorb this mana crystal?]
[YES/NO]
Yes! she thought while trying her best to keep the stake rain active.
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 10,000 MP!]
As soon as she finished absorbing the crystal, a wave of pain squeezed her chest, realizing too late that she had absorbed a bit more mana than her body could withstand, inadvertently cutting off her spell.
[Passive skill Pain Resistance has been activated.]
Shit, I’m going to have to create several circles of mana for myself as soon as I can! She thought and immediately ran towards where the Azuras were still flying, almost tripping over several ice stakes that had fallen against the asphalt at the same time as two of the pilots threw their spears in her direction. But she was able to dodge them, although she almost lost her balance when she stood on top of one of the ice stakes and tripped over another that had stuck in the asphalt, but managed to recover in time.
“Fire blast!” She immediately conjured as soon as she got close enough to them, burning first the azura, who was carrying two pilots while the other managed to dodge her attack with ease.
Perfect aim! She thought, not quite sure if it would work the way she wanted it to at the same time as she pulled the axe from her inventory. Duplication! Telekinesis! Axe throw!
[You’ve gained 70 experience points!]
The other azura fell to the ground with its head separated from the rest of its body, which crushed one of its pilot’s legs, preventing him from escaping. While the other azura, its pilot and his companion, were still being devoured by fire. Even after the creature descended to the ground, hurting itself with the ice stakes that had become embedded against the pavement.
[You’ve gained 150 experience points!]
[You’ve gained 75 experience points!]
When Kalysto finished the attack, she put her axe away in the inventory while she observed that the co-pilot’s companion was still breathing. Approaching him, she grimaced with disgust as the smell of burning flesh entered her nose and saw the carbonized flesh covering most of the namira’s limbs, except for the center of his chest, which had been protected by the first pilot whose body was completely carbonized except for his back.
“Mana detection!” she conjured, looking for where this creature’s heart was and how close he was to dying. She quickly realized that just like a human, the namira’s heart was in the upper chest, but on the right side. “Jhil!” she said, touching with the palm of her hand the co-pilot’s chest, giving him a few more minutes of life. Watching as, little by little, his body began to heal around the golden glow surrounding her hand.
Surprise and confusion appeared on the enemy’s face just before terror swept across his features.
“Absorb!”
[Does the user wish to absorb this target’s stats or skills?]
“Give me all his skills first, then all his stats except for HP. Leave that one for last,” she clarified, wanting to make sure that this time she could absorb all available skills and stats before the enemy died.
I’m not going to do the hobgoblin thing again and not get a shield! Even if this thing doesn’t have one! She promised herself.
[Congratulations! The user has acquired a new skill: Spear Throwing. Level 17!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired a new skill: Axe Throwing. Level 10!]
[Warning! Since the user already possesses the same skill, but at a higher level, the newly absorbed skill will be transformed into an experience class! The user will need to absorb more skills of this type to change the class of this skill from normal to heroic!]
[The passive skill ‘Mental Defense’ has been deactivated.]
The namira screamed in pain as she absorbed his skills at the same time as a wave of images of an unknown world flashed through Kalysto’s mind, so fast that she barely had time to distinguish a large valley filled with violet-colored plants.
What on earth was that?