ALL NOVEL Chapter 158 “Monsters of War” Part 3
Chapter 158
“Monsters of War” Part 3
“Ezhil Purification!” Conjured Kalysto. The golden light spread about twenty-five meters farther from her body after the skill leveled up, even so, contrary to what she thought at first would be an easy enemy to defeat, the giant lich with a black crown on his head, a necklace of precious stones, a ring on each finger and a round crystal on top of his staff, did not disappear under the golden light of her skill.
“What the hell?”
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[The user is now level 40!]
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And as almost all the undead and skeletons near her disintegrated under the golden light, the lich just smiled.
“...Isn’t a lich supposed to be undead and as such weak to purification?” she questioned. Surprise framed the face of the saintess, who could not believe that while hundreds of skeletons and undead that had been in front of her disappeared before her skills, neither the lich nor the four headless horsemen took any damage.
“Technically speaking, according to all the video games I’ve played, the undead are weak to holy energy, so unless you’re a saintess, you might fail,” Koden replied with his sword held high, ready to fight anyone who faced them.
But I am a saintess. She was about to tell him as she turned her head to stare at him in utter disbelief.
“Greetings, saintess of the fairies!” The lynch’s creepy, raspy voice reached out to them with total clarity and Kalysto’s body froze the moment she heard the lich speak.
How the hell does he know that? She wondered.
“Wait! Are you a saintess?” Koden questioned incredulously.
“Can you understand his language?” She whispered as she nodded her head to the question he had just asked as she relaxed her facial expression and gave the lich a smile, the same smile she would give to a customer she found annoying but with whom she had to pretend to be polite.
“Greetings,” she commented, her voice reflecting a calmness she was far from feeling. “I suppose you must work for the priestess of the god Seth-Mainyu,” she commented as if she was sure of what she was talking about when in reality she just wanted to get some information and buy some time while she came up with a plan.
“That’s right!” The lich smiled in pleasure. Almost as if he was glad to know that he could have a moderately civilized conversation with a beast that he considered to possess a lower level of intelligence than he did. “We all have the great honor of serving the great god Seth-Mainyu!” The old man seemed to want to continue speaking, but Kalysto rushed at them, the golden light of her previous spell not even fading as she pulled the Minotaur’s mace from her inventory and tried to hit the lich with it.
“You seem to resort to violence as easily as the queen you serve,” the lich sighed with apparent regret as fifty undead stepped into the mace’s path. Kalysto struck the first one. But he immediately changed her tactics.
“Ezhil Purification!” She conjured, disintegrating them, but before she could reach to touch the lich’s body with her weapon, a field of dark energy shielded it and immediately one of the headless horsemen tackled her, stealing her attention. From the tip of the horseman’s sword, a wave of energy erupted that cut through everything in its path, forming a crack in the ground near where Kalysto had been just before dodging the attack.
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“But that’s not the only thing you seem to share with the fairy queen,” the Lynch muttered, catching her attention as she evaded the headless horseman’s sword again.
Does he even know I’m her avatar... inspection! She thought as she jumped back, trying to create some distance between them.
[Name: King Alun
Race: Lich.
Level: ?? (Elite)
HP: ?????/?????
MP: ?????/?????
DMP:?????/?????]
Kalysto clicked her tongue, annoyed that a mere monster knew so much about her when she knew next to nothing about him.
Then she lashed out at the lich again, once again part of the army of undead and skeleton warriors behind him as silent guards rushed towards her, as did the horseman she had fought earlier.
“Ezhil Purification! Ezhil Purification!” She conjured several times, this time ignoring the hundreds of monsters that rushed at her and focusing her attention on the rider, who, like the lich, seemed to be unaffected by her skills. “Dispel Ezhil!” She whispered, sure that neither of them could hear her. And this time, unlike the previous ones, she noticed a slight glow that lasted only a fraction of a second on the gems of the rings the horseman wore.
But other than that, nothing else changed. Still, she was thrilled by the new discovery.
If I can get ‘Dispel Ezhil’ up a level, I might stand a chance against them. She thought. I just need to get close enough to the lynch to check it out.
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“I would suggest you change your technique, saintess of the fairies. It’s more than obvious that I’m immune to it.” a creepy smile was drawn on the lich’s face. “Everyone, attack!” He ordered, and the entire army of undead behind him rushed at the two of them, at the same time that the other three horsemen surrounded Kalysto.
“Dispel Ezhil! Ezhil Purification!” conjured Kalysto immediately. “Multiple targets! Lightning!” She summoned, stretching out her left hand from which three lightning bolts burst forth, slamming into the bodies of three of the four headless horsemen, which transformed into black smoke at the same time as the sword of the fourth tried to stab into her back, barely giving her time to dodge the blow.
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[User is now level 41!]
“Kalysto, I need help back here!” Koden shouted as he was surrounded by undead.
“Dispel Ezhil! Ezhil Purification!” She conjured as she blocked another attack from the fourth horseman with her mace while he tried to keep her away from Koden and the lich, whose necklace gave off a faint glow for a brief instant.
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It was then that out of the corner of her eye, Kalysto noticed how the black smoke that had remained after electrocuting the other three horsemen gathered again, causing the horsemen to take physical form.
“Dispel Ezhil! Ezhil Purification!” She conjured again, causing the black smoke to dissipate again but the fourth horseman and the lich seemed to realize the same thing and immediately the lich began to perform a short chant and while the other horseman kept her busy, the lich created a dozen black crystals which he hurled at her.
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Kalysto jumped backwards and sideways, dodging with great agility each of the thick crystals longer than her long legs, only to miss a thin, small crystal that reached out and buried itself in her arm.
Shit! Regeneration! Regeneration! Ser hastily conjured mentally as she pulled out the small dark crystal. And she jumped again, dodging more attacks from the horseman and the lich as she tried to get closer to the group of undead that had stayed away from her and closer to Koden, taking advantage of the fact that she had been distracted.
Not realizing that in doing so, she gave the other three horsemen enough room to regenerate.
“ Dispel Ezhil! Ezhil Purification!” She conjured, completely oblivious to what was happening with the other horsemen as she tried to wipe out the entire army of undead as quickly as possible so they couldn’t kill Koden while she fought the other five.
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[The skill Dispel Ezhil has level up to level 11!]
[The skill Ezhil Purification has been level up to level 16!]
“Ezhil Dispel Ezhil! Ezhil Purification!” She conjured as she ran to the opposite corner and approached another group of monsters that had stayed away from her as she dodged the continuous attacks of dark mana crystals that the lich was throwing at her.
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Then he ran and jumped over another group of monsters that were closer to the lich.
“Dispel Ezhil! Ezhil Purification!” She conjured again, thrilled with the large amount of experience points she was gaining thanks to the large army of undead the enemy had been kind enough to bring her.
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[The user is now level 43!]
And confident about how well things were going, she launched herself at the lich again, swapped the mace for the Minuteman’s axe and leapt with her weapon raised high, ready to cleave the pesky monster in two. But just as she was about to reach him, the three swords of the three horsemen who had regenerated stabbed into her back, just after transforming into long spears, piercing her stomach.
“...Cogh!....” Surprise washed over Kalysto’s face as the metallic taste of blood flooded her tongue and spurted from her mouth.
The lynch’s smile grew as he moved his staff in front of him and a huge red magic circle was drawn in the air, less than a meter away from his summoner.
“It’s time to end this game!”