299 Night 35

Night 35

One hundred [Living Armour: Lvl 70] marched upon their position. Bodies that consisted entirely of magical energy filled the full plate armour set. Great swords hovered upon their backs as their plated boots crushed the corpses they stood upon.

"Dwarven King Caronia, want in on the action?"

"Mate, is this your goddess' challenge or mine? Stop bugging me and get to it!"

"Fair enough..."

Asai went according to plan, leaving his summons behind he dived into the darkness of the night. Whilst the darkness usually concealed his presence due to his outfit being mostly black, along with [Yokai Mask]

His current opponents had no eyes to begin with. At the very least, their magical energies appeared as bright balls of flames, making their positions easily noticeable.

"One versus fifty, lets go!"

[Decimate: Half Moon] !

A radiance of sharp light blazed through the darkness, the astral energy inflicted true damage upon the living-armours. If it were any other challenger, who relied solely upon physical and normal means of dealing damage, perhaps such a person would fail this stage entirely.

Luckily for Asai, his party and him had access to skills. Courtesy of the over powered [System]

Within a single sword strike, 15 hostiles immediately perished, returning to the void of inexistence. As the duke of war was charging up another moon to bloom. [Lingering Shadow] shot out a secondary [Decimate] slaughtering another 5 that were too eager in entering the proximity.

After the second skill fired and faded, the living-armours were quick to converge upon his position. Recklessly throwing themselves at the man, forcing him to release his skill early, slaughtering only 10.

The 20 remaining hostiles managed to engage in close-quarters-melee. Powerfully slamming their blades down upon his position.

With extreme precision and timing, [Ruin] parried the multiple larger blades with critical attacks. Finding the opportune windows, Asai vaulted over their shoulders, slamming both practical blade and magical with [Psychic Phantom] into them.

"I guess friendly fire is a concept foreign to them."

Asai saw, within their desperation to kill him, they cared not for the sake of one and another. Slamming their blades amongst themselves as the human continued to vault amidst their ranks. Culling their numbers leisurely.

[Asai Trichia: Lvl 87] 

[Living Armour: Lvl 70]

Truly, Asai Trichia was simply exercising. Barely recognising their efforts as a threat. With such a large disparity in both levels and skills, especially when Asai had access to so many passives. The human could only look forward to the stronger monsters that were to come.

[Oliver: Lvl 60->72]

[HP: 100 MP:100]

[Skills unlocked:]

[Knight Symbol]

Adds 50% to the damage you deal. Secondary damage ignores target defence.

[Olivia: Lvl 60->72]

[HP: 100 MP:100]

[Skills unlocked:]

[Blunt Mastery]

50% boost in One Handed Mace damage

[Miku: Lvl 60->72]

[HP: 100 MP:100]

[Skills unlocked:]

[Invenom]

Increase Venom Elemental damage by 20%, 10% chance to inflict 5 additional ticks of venom

Honestly, Asai was overjoyed with the fruits already. Rather than spending months of traveling, scavenging and searching for prey to boost his people. Watching them get boosted at such a ridiculous rate definitely felt good. His old gamer-personality resurfacing a little as he remembered all the hours he spent boosting his friends up to end game levels. Just so they could quickly enjoy the real content, and not all the usual tutorial junk.

The sun was just rising, as night ended. Thus, Asai ordered them to sleep. Training their new skills can wait. As they were so tired, they simply curled up upon the castle walls and slept huddled up together.

Whatever rivalry they naturally had, none of it showed anymore. As they now considered one and another to be siblings who had been through hell together.

...

Day 36

Oliver's new skill surprised him greatly, he finally received an attacking skill of his own, that wasn't a passive. Testing the skill out on the duke himself, they soon figured out its mechanics.

Whilst the skill forced him to strike down from above, a secondary magical strike would appear horizontally, creating a cross-cut. The magical aspect would ignore both armour and weapons. Striking the clones directly. However, when Asai tested it himself, his own mana clashed against it, reducing its ignore target defence value greatly.

"Must be because of the level difference and stats huh."

When imbuing mana into his blade, Asai found it possible to block both physical and magic cuts. Thus, the skill would only truly shine against foes who weren't able to utilize their element.

Olivia, felt a weird sense of wisdom, and experience. As her expertise with her mace suddenly shot through the roof. Muscle memory she never knew she had before surged, her angles, her muscle contractions and even how she balanced her centre of mass all shifted. Increasing her proficiency greatly. However great it all was though, she felt almost like she was controlling someone else's body. Hence, the weird feelings within her mind.

Miku's new skill was her own element. Asai was sure whether it was a dhan specific element, or one that was unique to her. However, the aesthetics certainly looked dangerous. Her daggers now radiated in a dark green that constantly shifted around as if it was a living form of mass.

Whilst it buffered her damage by an additional 20%. Whenever her 10% chance to poison triggered, that 20% of additional damage would continue to tick 5 times more within short intervals.

The foreign mana actually did more than just inflict HP damage. It somewhat interfered with his mana flow, as his heart had to struggle to deal with the foreign substance. Like a virus, Asai felt his body heat up as if he had a fever. But, the moment either his body managed to flush the virus out, or it finished its 5 ticks. His body temperature returned to normal, albeit with lesser HP. As Miku, being level 72 was now strong enough to inflict proper damage upon him.

Oliver, Olivia and Miku approached Asai Trichia.

"Your Grace, how about a duel? Us three versus you." Asai, nodded. Deciding it would be fun to personally test their newfound combat prowess.

"Sure, do you want to fight just me? Or all of me?"

"No holds barred." Suggested Miku.

"Everything goes." Commented Olivia.

"Anything goes." Said Oliver.

The young duke of war, smiled revealing his teeth as he did so.

"It's a bit too soon to be biting the hand that feeds you isn't it?" Asai internally chuckled.

"Alright my little apprentices, show me what you've got!"

Asai immediately dipped into [Hide] vanishing from their view right before them. As extreme killing intent suddenly flooded their senses.

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[Asai Trichia: Lvl 87]

[HP: 125 MP:115]

[Title: Monster]

[Skills unlocked:]

[Active Skills:]

[Hide]

Able to Vanish from players or monsters that are up to 15 levels higher.

[Death Call]

Brings an opponent within a 5 meter distance to your feet and paralyze it for 2 seconds.

[Double Psychic Phantom/Annihilate]

Additional 200% Damage added to a regular attack.

[Sealing Square]

Seals opponents that are within a 15 meter range

[Phantom Menace]

Summon two phantoms 50% of caster level

[Lingering Shadow]

Leaves a phantom after image after skill usage

[Summon Skeleton]

Skill costs both HP & MP. Maximum [25]

[Weighted Slash]

Overhead sword strike that increases caster's total [Mass] x [Velocity] by 10%

[Knife Throw]

Additional 40% damage added to your Dart Attacks.

[Inventory]

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[Passive Skills:]

[Sword Saint]

Lumix bloodline: +20% attack speed, damage, accuracy and critical rate when wielding a sword

[Sword and Dagger Mastery]

50% boost in Dagger and One Handed Sword damage

[Bloodthirsty]

+20% damage against [Living] targets. Kills regain 10% of missing stamina.

[David & Goliath]

15% of damage dealt against larger targets changed to true damage

[Divinity]

Increase Divine Elemental damage by 20% and Elemental defence by 10%.

[Stealth]

When in stealth additional 50% effect

[Mental Fortitude]

Pain tolerance +50% effect. Mental debuff durations -50%

[Masochist]

Damage drop -20%

[Survivalist]

Potion consumption effect +10%

[Immunity]

Immune to bacteria, viruses, disease and toxins

[Endurance]

Stamina, health points and endurance increased +10

[Robin's Desire]

15% Pain & DMG transferred to [Robin] When within 20m

[Delicious essence]

Your essence now tastes sweet.

[Alcoholic]

Alcohol tolerance +40%

[Nympho]

Ignite strong sexual urges within target

[Maestro's Touch]

Target sensitivity during intimacy increased +10

[Quirky]

All non-vanilla intercourse +10 target arousal and pleasure.

[High Libido]

Seed regeneration and capacity increased. Targets receive [Healthy] status.

[Loha's Blessing]

Royal Blood now flows through your veins.

[Chloe's Faith]

Targets that willingly consume your essence +10 loyalty

[Vena's Friend]

Citizens of Via Marea + 10 likeability

[Charismatic] 

Charm +10 Only effects the opposite sex.

[Dancer]

Whilst dancing, grace and coordination +10

[Longevity]

Lifespan increased to [607.5] Aging greatly decelerated [Youth] Greatly extended.