ALL NOVEL Book 3. Chapter 8 “A Dark Presence” Part 2
Book 3. Chapter 8
“A Dark Presence” Part 2
“Hey, leave her alone, you’d better pick on someone your size!” Kalysto shouted, annoyed at the mistreatment the girl was suffering, but the chanting of the monsters under the robes grew louder.
Ignoring her completely.
[You have gained 2 experience points!] x3
She immediately ran towards the girl, but was intercepted by another group of monsters while ignoring the notification indicating the experience gained thanks to the monsters that the girls were eliminating and that she had frozen earlier.
As soon as Kalysto defeated the first group, a second one intercepted her with their thick armor reflecting the sunlight.
[You have gained 7 experience points!] x13
[You’ve gained 5 experience points!] x10
“What annoying things!” She grunted as she waited for the cooldown of her skills to pass and ran her forearm across her forehead, wiping off the bloodstains of her enemies.
[You have gained 2 experience points!] x3
“Multiple targets! Ice stakes! Duplication! Duplication! Telekinesis!” She conjured, throwing the three stakes at three of the six hooded men surrounding the altar and piercing their chests.
[You’ve gained 10 experience points!] x3
Kalysto leapt over the bodies of the tall orcs that had lunged to attack her, her axe raised high, ready to destroy the altar and the orc covered with a tunic and symbols painted on his face, surrounded by two hobgoblins, but when Kalysto’s axe was less than a meter near them a magic shield blocked her attack completely, taking her by surprise.
[You gained 2 experience points!] x5
“What the fuck?” She muttered as the group of armored orcs let out several war cries behind her, but before they could reach her, she turned around. “Dark mana creation! Dark mana manipulation!” She conjured, trying to form the same wall of ice that her other skill allowed her, but instead creating a huge cluster of interconnected black mana crystals that trapped the group of orcs inside. The rest of the goblins that were there fled in terror at the sight.
[You have gained 10 experience points!] x60
“¿¿¿???” Something was shouted from the altar in a language she couldn’t recognize, but before she could turn around something hit her back, making her lose her balance at the same time the orc that had been forcibly carrying the girl towards the altar dropped her while pointing at Kalysto, screaming in fright at the sight of what she had just summoned while the girl took advantage of his distraction and ran away from there.
[You’ve gained 2 experience points!] x5
At that same instant, a violet window appeared before Kalysto.
[Warning! The user has been afflicted with a vitality reduction curse. Every ten minutes ten percent of your vitality will be stolen.]
“What the hell?” She grunted, turning around, and noticing the orc standing in front of the altar with his arm stretched out in her direction. The same orc who had conjured the shield earlier. “Count yourself dead!” She sentenced and threw her axe at him at the same time he conjured his shield again and she jumped in his direction, ignoring the system’s warning as she slammed her bare fists into the shield of the annoying orc.
But the shield remained intact. So she jumped back.
“Dispel Ezhil! Dispel Ezhil!” She conjured and saw terror flash in the other mage’s eyes as the shield began to disintegrate under the golden light of her skill. “Rain of ice stakes!” She attacked immediately, killing the orc that had brought the girl and the other two hooded wizards.
[You have gained 7 experience points!] x3
“Now it’s just you and me!” She grunted, retrieving her axe. “And guess what?” She smiled, “I want that fucking shield!” Then she jumped again and split the altar with her weapon and then launched herself against the wounded wizard, who tried to escape crawling on the ground and then summoned a strong gust of wind that threw her a couple of meters back. “Dispel Ezhil! Dispel Ezhil!” She squealed, nullifying the attack as she fell to the ground on her two legs and took off her momentum, launching herself again against the frightened and very surprised orc, who crawled away from her and threw a fireball that she evaded with ease.
Kalysto, seeing her fear, smiled.
“Not so fast! I haven’t gotten what I want yet!” she muttered, lowering her axe and chopping off one of his legs with a single slash.
The orc cried out in pain.
“At least that much I could understand,” she muttered, cutting off his right arm, the same one she had seen him throw the shield with, and moved her axe to her left hand and put her right hand over her enemy’s head. “Absorb!”
[Warning! The skill ‘Absorb’ has too low a level and cannot be used on this target.]
Kalysto clicked her tongue in annoyance at the news, but she didn’t give up and slashed the other arm of the orc, which screamed at the sudden attack.
And as the monster trembled in front of her, Kalysto pulled a mana crystal from her inventory.
“Absorb!”
[Does the user wish to absorb this mana crystal?]
[YES/NO]
Yes! she thought as a pitiful moan escaped from the throat of the orc who looked at her with hatred stamped in his eyes, while he began to mutter in a language she didn’t understand.
[Congratulations, the user has acquired 4000 MP!]
“Fire Blast!” She conjured directing her attack towards the orc’s face, interrupting his spell and making him scream from the pain as she sat on his chest. “Jhil! Jhil!” She began to heal him, needing him to survive long enough until she could level up her absorb skill so she could get that fucking shield. “Purification! Jhil! Ezhil Purification! Jhil! Dispel! Jhil! Dispel Ezhil! Jhil!” she added at the last moment, remembering the queen’s request to upgrade those other skills. “Inspect!” She said, annoyed at having to waste her time to get what she really wanted from this guy.
[Name: Holle’oth
Race: Orc
Level: ??
Class: ????
HP: ???/????
MP: ???/????]
Shit, I can’t even see his stats?
Kalysto, seeing that he couldn’t even get the basic information of his enemy, continued to repeat her attacks, occasionally switching between spells while using him as a guinea pig to level up her saintess skills for more than twenty minutes.
[The skill Fire Blast has leveled up to level 5!]
[The skill Dispel has leveled up to level 20!]
[The skill Dispel Ezhil has leveled up to level 25!]
[The skill Sleep Well has leveled up to level 15!]
[The skill Purification has leveled up to level 20!]
[The skill Ezhil Purification has leveled up to level 35!]
[The skill Jhil has leveled up to level 25!]
[The skill Lightning has leveled up to level 5!]
[The skill Ice Daggers has leveled up to level 5!]
[The skill Absorb has leveled up to level 50!]
[The skill Inspect has leveled up to level 10!]
“Inspect!” A smile spread across her face as she watched the progress she had made several minutes after sending a message to Sakura warning her to stay away from the center of town and ordering Tsuki to take them and the abductees back to the park entrance, not wanting any of the girls to see her in that state.
[Name: Holle’oth
Race: Orc
Level: 50
Class: Shaman
HP: 420/4000
MP: 10/4500]
“Finally!” she rejoiced, not noticing the thin strands of black smoke that began to rise from the remains of the altar now that she had stopped purifying the surrounding environment. “Absorb!”
[Does the user wish to absorb this target’s stats or skills?]
“Everything!”