ALL NOVEL Chapter 170 “The Orc.”
Chapter 170
“The Orc.”
The orc’s thick fist slammed into her upper arm, dislocating her shoulder.
A wave of pain spread throughout her body as the lack of mobility that the skill the enemy had used against her began to fade and a pair of windows opened to her left.
[The passive skill ‘Pain Resistance’ has been activated.]
Wind Whirlwind! -She squeezed as soon as one of her hands was completely free, giving her a few seconds to finish regaining full control of her body at the same time as the orc’s body was thrown against a wall which broke letting him pass by until his heavy body crashed against a thick stone wall.
And while Kalysto watched him, with her good hand she took out a mana stone from her inventory, fearing that just like the previous time she would not be able to finish healing, adding to the problem that she had to wait seven more minutes before taking a potion again.
[Does the user wish to absorb this mana crystal?]
[YES/NO]
Yes! she thought as the orc let out a roar full of rage and after clasping his hands together near his solar plexus while growling something unintelligible two small portals opened in front of him and two packs of fifteen horned wolves came out of each portal and rushed towards her.
[Congratulations, the user has acquired 5500 MP!]
A summoner! He’s definitely a summoner! .... But then how come he has a skill that looks like a berserker? She thought with annoyance as she put the axe in her inventory and exchanged it for the mace, which was much easier for her to manipulate with one hand. Regeneration!
“Regeneration! Regeneration!” she conjured aloud, remembering at the last moment that mentally conjuring spent almost twice as much mana when using a skill of the system. At the same time, the first two packs arrived to where she was and surrounded her while the orc took a few seconds to recover and take a small mana potion.
“Tundra! Regeneration!” she summoned as she froze the first two packs and she frowned as she saw what the orc was doing. “Rain of ice stakes! Regeneration! At that moment a crunching noise sounded and the bone that had thinned out fell back into place as the two other wolf packs scattered and the orc used his sharp axe to evade most of the thin ice stakes, but even so some of them managed to make small cuts in his arms and legs.
A pair of windows opened to her left.
[The active skill ‘Regeneration’ has leveled up to level 3!]
[The passive skill ‘Regeneration’ has leveled up to level 5!]
[You have gained 300 experience points!] x30
Kalysto put the sledgehammer away again after jumping over the frozen wolf corpses and hitting one of them in the jaw, which sent him crashing into the stone wall next to the orc at the same time his blood stained the wall.
[You’ve gained 300 experience points!]
The orc lunged at her at the same time as the rest of the wolves, but the saintess could notice that his movements were no longer as fast as after his transformation and his muscles seemed a little less overfed with steroids.
“Ice daggers! Ice manipulation!” She conjured after putting away the mace and dodging a new attack from the orc’s sharp axe, which he used to coordinate his attacks with those of the wolves that were trying to bite her. And after extending her two daggers, sharpening their edges, dodging another wolf and the orc’s fist, she took the opportunity to attack his torso, but she could barely make a small scratch. “That damned resistance! If only she could conjure penetration statistics!” She growled as she cut off the heads of two more wolves and dodged the attack of four others.
[You have gained 300 experience points!] x2
Kalysto jumped, trying to escape from the group of wolves that had been surrounding her together with the orc that barely gave her room to do anything. But as soon as she moved away, the rest of her enemies ran towards her, trying to reach her.
“Ice blades!” she summoned, blinding one of the wolves. “Multiple targets! Water arrows! Ice arrows!” she continued, throwing them this time at the necks of two wolves who stumbled as they began to cough up blood and fell to the ground as the rest of the wolves passed over or around them. The orc, however, took the opportunity to drink a health potion. Not that! Perfect aim! Ice spear! -She conjured, hurling it at his thick thigh, right into an open wound made by the rain of stakes. Unlike her other attacks, this one hit the target, and the orc’s cry of pain permeated the air. A half-sideways grin broke out on Kalysto’s face at her new accomplishment as she dodged another wolf’s attack and slashed its head off.
[You’ve gained 300 experience points!]
Then Kalysto again switched places, trying to reach the wolf she had blinded earlier and decapitated it as notification of the death of the other two who had attacked earlier reached her.
[You have gained 300 experience points!] x3
The orc’s breathing suddenly hitched as he pulled the ice spear from his thigh and tried to pull out another vial of red potion hidden in his war pants, but before he could take it Kalysto threw one of his daggers at the bottle splitting it long before it slipped from the orc’s hands and fell to the ground.
The orc growled and gave a powerful kick against the ground, thick cracks opened their way towards her weakening the floor below her and making her fall together with a pile of debris to the floor below, but unlike the pack of wolves that were caught unawares and fell together with the debris, the saintess jumped up just in time to avoid the fall, but receiving a punch in the stomach from the orc, which sent her against a wall. But the enemy did not give her time to recover, and continued attacking her melee while she could barely block most of his blows in time. As she did so, the wolves surrounded them as she noticed that it was getting easier and easier for her to match his speed, although she doubted it was because her speed was increasing.
“Regeneration, regeneration, regeneration!” She whispered over and over again as she defended herself so that her body was healing little by little despite the amount of damage she received the few times the enemy’s blows hit the target. But even so, she knew she could hold her own.
Almost ten minutes later, the first signs of fatigue began to show in the orc, whose body, full of minor cuts, began to become slower and slower, returning to the same speed he had had at the beginning of their confrontation.
Seeing this, Kalysto immediately got excited, attacking as fast as she could while it was this time the orc’s turn to block her fists until one finally collided with his jaw, knocking him back a step.
“Tundra!” She immediately conjured as she pulled the axe from her inventory and charged at the rest of the wolves, cutting off the heads of five of them in less than ten seconds. “Perfect aim! Multiple targets! Ice arrows! Water arrows!” she added, attacking the necks of six more wolves while the remaining two fell back and she took the opportunity to take out a small vial of holy water and drink it in one gulp.
[You’ve gained 300 experience points!] x11.
But as she felt the peculiar itch that came with the healing of the holy water, she didn’t realize that she miscalculated the timing, so she didn’t notice that the orc had escaped from its ice prison. By the time the strong, muscular orc picked up a large debris and hurled it at her, it was too late.
And Kalytso was thrown against the outer wall of the mansion, knocking it down and then crashing into the grass of one of the gardens surrounding the mansion.
The enemy soon followed, leaping with ease from the third floor to a few meters near where she had fallen face up. His heavy footsteps echoed in Kalysto’s ears as pain spread through the broken bones in her back and her injured hands tried to grab something that could help her escape but found nothing.
[The passive skill ‘Pain Resistance’ has been activated.]
Despite the thick beads of sweat that furrowed the monster’s greenish skin, that didn’t stop his pace as a thin smile was drawn on his angular face as he approached his prey and raised his heavy axe over his shoulders, ready to chop off the head of the annoyingly feminine creature.
“Earth manipulation!” conjured Kalysto, wiping the annoying smile from her enemy’s lips.