ALL NOVEL Book 3. Chapter 9 “An enemy presence”
Book 3. Chapter 9
“An enemy presence”
[Does the user wish to absorb this target’s stats or skills?]
”Everything! I want it all!” She affirmed, greed shining in her green eyes.
[Congratulations! The user has acquired a new skill: Fireball. Level 25!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 7 strength points!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 10 points of agility!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 10 points of endurance!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired a new skill: Spirit Communication. Level 55!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired a new skill: Communication with sacred beasts. Level 50!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired a new skill: Communication with plants. Level 35!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired a new skill: Communication with the earth. Level 40!]
[Congratulations, the user has acquired 4500 MP points!]
[Congratulations, the user has acquired 4000 HP points!]
The huge smile laden with satisfaction on Kalysto’s face only grew bigger as the excitement of acquiring the shield grew in her chest. But as soon as the last notification appeared before her, the hobgoblin’s body turned to ashes.
“What the fuck? Where’s my shield?” She cried out in shock at the loss, not noticing the tentacles of black mana that continued to shoot out through the remains of the split altar, above which the silhouette of a giant eye began to form. “No! NO! It can’t be! I wanted that shield!” She shouted again, shaking with her hands the small pile of dust that remained of the body while a soft gust of wind finished scattering the remains in the air. “Absorb! Absorb! Absorb! Absorb!” She insisted again, but her skill didn’t activate. “Shit! If I had known it would happen this way, I would have absorbed all his skills first and then his stats! Why the fuck didn’t I realize that before? Agg!” she wailed, clutching her ash-soiled hands as she continued to kneel against the ground.
Too shocked by her loss, Kalysto didn’t notice the eye behind her finish forming until a surge of dark mana emanated from it and abruptly scattered around, knocking her to the ground and smearing her face with dirt.
“What the fuck?” She growled angrily as she spat in disgust, wanting to get rid of the unpleasant taste that penetrated her mouth. But as soon as she tried to turn around to look at her attacker, her body stopped responding at the same instant she noticed the gigantic eye in front of the remains of the altar.
An identical copy of the gigantic eye she had seen in the tower.
And a shiver ran through her body at the same time that Persphone’s presence came to life violently, trying to steal control of her body.
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Come on Kalysto, focus! She scolded herself and a wave of relief washed over her as the familiar coldness flooded her body.
[The skill Mental Defense has been activated.]
But the relief was short-lived.
[The skill Mental Defense has been deactivated.]
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It took Kalysto a few seconds to realize it was coming from her own body and her blood ran cold at the thought of losing control in front of the thing.
Even when the dark mana had done no harm to her, other than the fall.
Come on Kalysto, focus! She tried again.
[The skill Mental Defense has been activated].
But he only got the same result.
[The skill Mental defense has been deactivated.]
Shit!
And as she struggled against Persephone, a thick black liquid began to gush out of the eye that remained closed, spreading rapidly over the ground and drying up the life of the small plants it touched in a matter of seconds.
Is that the plague? The saintess was startled, immediately recognizing the thick, shiny black liquid that she had seen coming out of the bodies of some monsters and petrifying parts of the bodies of fairies and elves.
“Ezhil Purification! Ezhil Purification!” She quickly conjured up just before the liquid reached her.
But just as the thick liquid stopped, another surge of black mana, one far more powerful than the last, burst from the eye, knocking over the nearby huts and trees, sending her several meters away from the altar.
Pain shot through her back as she fell against one hut, knocking it over.
[The passive skill Pain Resistance has been activated.]
Come on Kalysto, focus!
[The skill Mental defense has been activated.]
Kalysto repeated the same process until she felt that she had regained full control of her body again, then she began to remove the debris that fell on her and started to stand up, only to see with terror how the liquid had spread to the nearby trees, drying them completely and covering the bodies of the monsters she had killed before, turning them into stone in a matter of seconds.
It was then that the eyelid that had so far kept the eye completely covered began to slowly lift at the same time that Kalysto felt the temperature around her drop ten degrees in one fell stroke.
“Regeneration! Regeneration! Ezhil Purification! Ezhil Dispel! Ezhil Purification! Ezhil Dispel! Ezhil Dispel!” She hastened to conjure.
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”Blessing!” She quickly squeezed, pointing at herself and thus raising her chances of success as a faint glow surrounded her body.
“Ezhil Purification! Dispel Ezhil! Ezhil Purification! Dispel Ezhil!” she added, repeating the process more than ten times in a row, as fast as she could. Inwardly grateful that, unlike her skills as a wizard, her skills as a saintess had no cooldown time.
And just as the eyelid covering the eye stopped before it reached halfway, a pair of notifications appeared to her left.
[Warning! User has less than 10 MP remaining. Please wait a few minutes before attempting to use any skills again, or your health will be severely affected.]
[Warning! User has lost 10% of HP.]
Inventory! Kalysto thought as soon as she saw the first notification and raised her hand to take a mana crystal, but when she saw the second notification, her whole body froze. And where did that come from?
She immediately tried to remember when she was attacked, but then she remembered the vitality curse.
Shit!
Then, taking advantage of the fact that the golden light of her skills was still active and that the movements of both the eye and the black liquid had stopped for an instant, she pulled out a mana crystal.
Absorb!
[Does the user wish to absorb this mana crystal?]
[YES/NO]
Yes!
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 7000 MP!]
”Ezhil Purification! Ezhil Dispel! Ezhil Purification! Ezhil Dispel! Ezhil Dispel!” He immediately squeezed, throwing a second round as he pulled out a health potion Caranthir gave him and took a long drink. “Dispel Ezhil! Ezhil Purification! Dispel Ezhil! Ezhil Purification!” She continued to conjure for another fifteen minutes, having to absorb another crystal of mana until finally the entire camp was completely purified, with no trace of the dark mana, the black plague-spreading liquid, or the gigantic eye.
It closed again before turning back into black smoke.
Her legs gave way, and she fell to her knees against the ground as several beads of sweat trickled down her forehead, neck, and chest.
Half of the shirt under the black leather jacket was almost completely soaked while she struggled to normalize her breathing.
I’m so tired! She thought as she began to close the set of notifications she received during the fight.
I think I did better this time, just because the eye hadn’t opened all the way!
[Warning! User has lost 10% HP.]
[The skill Dispel Ezhil has leveled up to level 27!]
[Ezhil’s Purification skill has leveled up to level 36!]
And while she absorbed another mana crystal again, she finished drinking the rest of the health potion bottle.
“Status window!” She muttered, worried about her HP.
[Status window] [Status window
Name: Kalysto Luna
Age: 21 years old
Race: Half-breed (????????)
Level: 65
Fatigue: 99
Class: Saintess (Heroic)
Professions: Enchantments
Title: Champion of the fairies (avatar of ?????) (?????? of the ??????)
Affiliation: Kingdom of Bahram
HP: 5964/8520
MP: 4005/8306
DMP: 3600
Strength: 166+55
Vitality: 173+80
Agility: 220
Stamina: 186+110
Intelligence: 167 +100
Charisma: 11
Luck: 40
???: 75
Status: exhausted.
Available points: 0]
“So from now on, even if I don’t get attacked, I can die?” She muttered with annoyance, worried about the curse she received. “If only I had killed him before he threw it!” She complained as she stood up and pulled a thel from her inventory and began to eat it. Then she began to pick up the weapons that looked usable from the enemy. “Map!” She checked the direction where the girls’ points were and walked in that direction while checking her new skills as she finished picking up the weapons she thought she could use for her new business after checking that there were no more traces of dark mana or other altars around.
[Sacred Beast Communication. Allows the user to communicate verbally or telepathically with any sacred beast (including dragons) within a range of 200 meters. When it is a beast with which one has a magical contract or has been tamed, the range increases to 500 meters. When raised to level 100, the user will be able to communicate with a contracted or tamed sacred beast regardless of the distance. Spends 50 MP per-use.]
A smile came to Kalysto’s face.
Well, at least this one isn’t too bad.
“Communication with sacred beasts! Tsuki! Can you hear me?”
“Master?” Tsuki answered suspiciously, but then anxiety flooded his voice. “Master, we are surrounded!”