Reborn as an Extra

As Link caused the delay in their attacks, Rio's light spears passed right through and pierced the armor of the undead without any resistance!

*BOOOM!*

As the spears made of light elementals pierced the undead, they immediately blew apart and caused a powerful explosion from inside out, which scattered light elementals everywhere in their bodies.

Three of the undead that were already burning from Link's Dao Rhythm directly ended up falling apart from that attack on the spot; only the rest of the three barely dodged being destroyed on the spot.

Still, even they had massive holes in their armor and bodies by now.

"Strange… I fought another of a similar-looking undead on the upper floors, and that one was using actual sword techniques… These ones, on the other hand, aren't…"

"They are just doing random attacks with no skill or technique…"

Hearing Rio's words, Link nodded his head.

"Their aura and basic stats seem to be on par with peak S rankers, but they seem so much weaker than an actual peak S ranker in battle…"

Rio shook his head and spoke in his usual emotionless tone.

"No… the thing is… that undead I fought in the upper floors was actually able to talk as if it had a more sense of 'self' to it… These ones, on the other hand, seem to have no sense of 'self'…"

At Rio's words, Link suddenly remembered that oversized demon and said,

"Oh, I also met a demon that was able to talk… but it was surprisingly weaker for an actual S ranker… Now that I think about it, that's indeed strange…"

Link was so focused on worrying about Riya at that time that he doesn't even remember how badly he beat up that demon and threw him away like garbage at the end of the battle.

*Boom!*

Link and Rio stepped to the side as they both dodged a spear throw attack from the undead at the same time, and then they rushed towards the last three undead with extremely high speed!

"Hehe! Currently the score is evened out; you killed an undead and I killed a demon, then we both killed three undead… Now the one who kills the most undead from the last three will win!!"

Link smirked as he spoke those words. Despite the fact that they are right now in an unknown place and have no idea what's actually going on, the rivalry between them is still there.

No matter the circumstance, they are still rivals after all; even if they are fighting together as allies, that won't change the fact that both of them see each other as competitors!

"You are seriously going to compete with me over who can kill enemies faster? Speed is my specialty…"

[DarkWing Movement Art!]

[Sword Intent!]

[Elemental Sword Art: Healing Type: Forced Full Body Heal!]

Rio bent his knees down a bit and then thrust the tip of his blade into the undeath's armor.

The blade directly pierced through the armor and touched the skeleton body inside!

Then he spread out healing magic with immense force.

The bones of the skeleton literally turned into powder the moment it came into contact with healing magic, and its whole body fell apart instantly.

Link wasn't going to be left behind either; although he was a step slower than Rio, he didn't give up either.

[Dao Rhythm!]

[Link Style Martial Art: Serious Heart Grab!]

Link thrust his fist into the chest of the undead and then grabbed the other party's bones with his hand.

He then forcefully channeled an immense amount of 'Dao Rhythm' energy into the bones of the undead from the inside and purified the entire body of the undead in one go!

The bones of the skeleton burned and turned into powder along with the armor in an instant!

Rio and Link then instantly jumped away at the same time to dodge the kick attacks from the last remaining undead.

"Hoh… This one just used an unstable version of some kind of martial art technique…"

Link was surprised at the sudden outburst of the last undead; Rio, on the other hand, was as emotionless as ever.
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"Perhaps it's angry at you because you molested the other undead by touching its bones… I didn't expect this from you, Link… You have become an undead molester…"

Hearing Rio's words, blood veins appeared on Link's face due to anger.

"The heck are you talking about!? Can you be a bit more serious for a second!? I obviously will never touch anyone with such impure thoughts!! Except for one person, of course…"

[Divine Dragon Arts: Heaven's Equal: Fist of the Dragon Sage!]

[Elemental Sword Art: Fire Type: Phoenix's Flames of Destruction!]

Although Rio and Link were both messing around with each other on purpose, they were not distracted from battle even a little bit.

Their teamwork is extremely precise and impeccable!

They both closed the distance to the last undead and used attacks that would not cause 'AOE' type damage!

Their attacks were now focused on just one enemy, and as both of them were in close proximity, they used attacks that wouldn't end up harming each other instead.

Rio thrust his sword directly into the eye of the undead and made its head bend backward, thus making it impossible for the undead to take a proper stance and carry out any powerful counterattacks.

Link, who was one step slower, immediately punched the chest of the undead and shattered the entire body of the undead into two pieces with that one punch of his.

The entire lower half of the undead got destroyed by Dao Rhythm, and the upper half was reduced to powder by Rio's flame type attack.

Even the armor had crumbled to pieces.

"Tch… another draw…"

Link clicked his tongue and stepped back. Rio also nodded his head and acknowledged that it was a 'draw' in the end.

None of them won, and the competition of killing more undead than the other party ended in a complete draw!

"Well, there's only one way to decide the end now… Come, let's kill each other next!"

Link took his stance as a battle-crazed smile appeared on his face, and Rio also didn't back off either.

"Hoh, you have quite the nerve to think that you actually have the chance to kill me…"

"I can beat people like you who are weaker than Riya ten times over…"

Link cracked his knuckles at those words and replied in an equally competitive tone,

"Hoh, you think I can't beat you? Even if you have Lia's foresight, I can still beat ten of you with one punch."

Just as they were about to launch their attack, two familiar individuals suddenly appeared. Instantly, they suppressed their killing intent and aura, acting as if nothing was happening at all.

"Oh, you two were here too!?"

It was Lia who jumped down from the gigantic crack in the ceiling while carrying the unconscious Riya on her shoulder!

Lia landed on the ground, and Rio immediately sheathed his sword. Link, on the other hand, immediately rushed to her side to check Riya's condition.

Seeing the concerned look on Link's face, Lia put Riya down and made her sit with the support of a fallen boulder nearby.

"She's fine… I think she fainted due to excessive mental stress… She was likely using her skills a bit too much; it will take her a few minutes to recover…"

Rio also walked over to the side and sat down on a nearby boulder. He glanced at Lia and asked in his usual emotionless tone,

"How about you? You injured somewhere?... where's that lazy cat… It can't even protect you properly; perhaps you should make a contract with another spirit beast that's more responsible…"

Hearing Rio's words, Kai immediately appeared and glared at him fiercely.

"Oi Oi! Don't try to sway her! If she broke the contract with me, I will disappear! I am telling you; I am going to haunt you forever if you did such a mean thing to me!"

It's been a while since Kai joined the group, and Rio isn't as jealous of him anymore.

In fact, nowadays, Rio treats Kai as a household cat that's been the pet of the family for a long time.

"I have been keeping my 'Foresight' ability activated for a while now, so I haven't gotten injured as of yet…"

"It's just that my foresight is giving me constant signs that this so called 'spire of ascension' is very dangerous…"

While Lia and Rio were busy talking, Riya also woke up after a few minutes of laying her head on Link's shoulder.

And the very first thing she did after waking up was grab Link's hand and check if he was wearing his ring.

"Er… I-I can explain Riya… Actually, I was taking a bath when I got teleported all of a sudden, and even this robe I am wearing is something I stole from a demon!"

Riya's face suddenly became red for some reason, as she said,

"T-that means… y-you were wandering around here completely naked!? H-How perverted!"

Link was lost for words at that point and had no idea what he should say to explain his situation; he was indeed wandering around completely without clothes for a good few minutes after all.

Just when the group was taking a few seconds to relax and calm down, the ground started to tremble a bit.

Lia suddenly stood up and glanced in a certain direction with a look of concern.

"A huge group of monsters and demons is heading towards this place… It's like they are marching towards us like an army!"