ALL NOVEL Chapter 169 “An old acquaintance, a pending revenge” Part 3
Chapter 169
“An old acquaintance, a pending revenge” Part 3
“He was a berserker? ...I thought he was a warrior?” Kalysto tried to remember if there was a class called Berserker among the classes Milo had explained to them when they had when he explained the system. But she was sure that neither Milo nor any of the court mages had ever told them about that class and if she remembered correctly, the only classes that existed within the system were Warrior, mage or Wizards, rogue, tank, Saintess, and Archer. Though in her forays within the forbidden section of the library, she had found that there was one class that was forbidden within the human realms, which the goddess Mhiralla had only granted in the past, it was the necromancer class.
And although Kalysto herself was not an expert in video games, she had seen Natasha, the daughter of her former landlady, playing while she ate dinner after arriving nearly midnight at the apartment where they lived, after finishing her shift at the restaurant.
The affectionate teenager liked to stay up late playing on weekends with the excuse of joining her for dinner.
And although Kalysto had rarely heard her talk about berserkers, she was sure it was a class and not a skill that normal warriors had.
Besides, none of the other heroes had it.
She knew it well because, during meals, everyone used to tell what skills they had acquired during the early days until the death of Rita’s father. After which they only shared it quietly when they met and there were no guards around.
That and Koden and Edward were quite talkative whenever they acquired a new skill. This made the rest of the men in the group, with the exception of Oscar and Eric, not hesitate to brag about their skills as well.
Kalysto’s gaze was directed for half a second to the portal.
“...And a warrior couldn’t summon a portal either,” she whispered, but if her memory didn’t fail her in one of her visits to the forbidden part of the library, she had found a book in which they talked about three classes that had been lost: Summoner, beast tamer and Elementalist. The last was practically an urban legend. And the first was considered a myth.
But as she watched the portal and recalled seeing the orc manipulate one several times, there was no doubt in her mind that he too had acquired such a class.
Kalysto frowned.
According to the book, what summoners could do was open a door to another world inhabited by holy beasts, allowing them entrance to this world to defend the summoner from their enemies and eliminate the monsters.
The irony was not lost on Kalysto that it was precisely the system of a goddess who was supposed to support humans that gave the power to a monster to summon more monsters to destroy humanity.
Still, that didn’t explain how he was a berserker.
“Did he also have a double system?”
But before she could try to see his stats. Gal’oth leaped at her far surpassing his previous speed, making it a bit difficult for the young saintess to dodge his continuous blows.
Still, Kalysto jumped from side to side while the orc, who now looked like an overfed gorilla, chased her with his axe from one side to the other, destroying the rooftop floor every time she dodged a new blow. However, despite the terrifying reddish glow in his eyes, he took great care to move away from her again, as soon as the cooldown minutes of her ‘Tundra’ skill expired, choosing to uproot the burnt bushes and chairs along with anything else he found in his path and hurl them at her, trying to force her to lower her guard.
Inspect! She thought as she dodged around the large collection of objects, distracted for a second as both systems gave her the information.
[Name: Gal’oth, son of Holle’oth,
Race: Orc
Level: ??
Class: Summoner (Heroic)
HP: ?????/?????
MP: ?????/?????]
That’s obviously not a summoner! Kalysto complained after evading the remains of a wrought-iron table. Followed by a huge chunk of wall.
And why are there so many question marks? She became annoyed, averting her gaze for less than a second from her enemy, and fixating on the violet window to her left.
Just as she sensed the presence of another object approaching, she turned her attention back to the front, only to realize that where she had turned to avoid the trunk of a bush, the orc’s sharp axe was waiting for her.
Oh, shit!
Kalysto barely had time to answer the attack with her own axe, but the orc’s tall, heavy, muscular body had an advantage over her as his massive figure tried to press her down. The ground beneath her feet began to crack and Kalysto took a step back, seeking to get a better balance, but the orc with an unexpected kick, sent her into a nearby wall.
The taste of blood flooded her mouth, her body bounced against the ground and the axe slipped from her hand as they both fell against the hard stone floor.
Regeneration! Regeneration! She thought as the pain spread throughout her body. I don’t plan to die here and lose to this overfed ‘thing’!
Four windows opened to her right, but she ignored them as she felt the pain fade.
[The skill Mental Defense has been activated.]
[The passive skill Pain Resistance has been activated.]
“ Rain of ice stakes!” She conjured, needing a few seconds to collect herself, and as the orc dodged the only area attack the saintess had, she took out a small vial of holy water and drank it immediately, began to think of a way to defeat it. But the orc barely gave her time to drink half of the vial when he jumped on her despite her earlier attack. “Ice stakes! Multiple targets! Ice blades! Water blades!” She alternated between attacking his neck and his good eye, but the latter attack, despite hitting the target, barely tickled the orc after he dodged the former. “Telekinesis!” She added, drawing the dropped axe into her hand just in time to parry the orc’s new attack, but the force of the blow and the pressure of his fall was too much for the section of the floor she was on. They both fell to the floor below along with a clump of debris, one of which ended up breaking the floor less than two meters from where she was standing and continued its descent to another floor below. However, that did not seem to dissuade the orc, who continued to press his axe against the saintess, who did everything humanly possible to block his axe with hers.
Fire blast! She thought, annoyed at being on her back with her back uncomfortably lying on the debris and the remains of whatever was on the floor below. A puff of fire shot out of her mouth, covering the orc’s chest, lower face, and waist.
But to her great surprise, when her attack was over, the orc was intact. Neither his skin, nor his thick armor, or the large collection of rings or the necklace he was wearing suffered any damage. Except for the thin red cloth he had tied around his waist and to which was tied a cloth bag, which fell open to the ground.
The eyes of both fell on the portable mana sphere, which came out of the cloth bag and continued rolling to the ground, dodging the debris that seemed to have cleared the way beforehand. Approaching the three foot wide hole that one of the debris had made in the ground less than two meters from where the two had fallen.
“Nooo!” shouted Kalysto as fear flashed in the orc’s eyes as he saw her move with the intention of picking up the magical object.
Immediately, the orc’s powerful growl was heard, paralyzing her on the spot. And a pair of annoying windows appeared to her left at the same time as the orc lunged with the intention of picking up the sphere before it fell through the hole to the floor below them.
[The user has been afflicted with the skill ‘fear’. All of her stats have been reduced by 50%. ]
No!…Tundra! She thought, and a wave of ice magic spread from her body to the surrounding area, freezing the orc’s feet first and making it impossible for the orc to reach the sphere before it fell through the hole by a mere two centimeters.
If she could have, Kalytso would have screamed and laughed at the same time at the loss.
At least he wouldn’t be able to use it anymore! She tried to console herself, but to no avail.
She had wanted that sphere for herself. And she ached for the loss.
But the sound of breaking ice reached her ears, and her eyes widened as she saw the sheet of ice curling around the orc, cracking right in front of her as shards of ice fell to the ground.