131 The perfect counter

The black shadow started to surround all of them. It slowly incased the group until finally, the whole area around them was filled with purple shadows.

"Damn it! we're all going to die." Layla said.

But then Erin noticed that the Dalki was looking around at the shadows himself as if it was something unknown to him. No look, it seems like the Dalki is just as confused as we are and that's why he's not attacking right now."

It was usual for a person to be afraid of the unknown, and right now, the Dalki was seeing something he had never seen before. He got into a crouching position and was prepared for whatever was to come.

His senses were telling him something was in the room with them other than the four in front. Then from behind a claw-like shape of red lines came towards the Dalki. He turned around, sensing the power in the attack and lifted both of his arms to protect his face, by placing them in an X shape in front of his face.

The line of power had hit him, but it hadn't done much damage, but just as he was about to look up, four more of the same attacks came at him. He quickly held up his hands, strongly relying on his hard skin to block the attacks.

Although they didn't hurt the Dalki, for the first time in a while, he had been pushed back from his position.

When he pulled his arms down, he was surprised to see what looked like another student standing in front of him. "Oh, so it was you?" He said.

He was a young Dalki who had only met a few adult humans on his journey, but not a single one had given him any trouble or manged to even make him move back, and the same could be said for a beast. But here on this planet, he had found a student who had done just that.

As soon as Quinn had released his first attack, his shadow cloak had disappeared and revealed himself, but the problem was he was low on MC points. He had 90 when he first used the shadow cloak, and that had been reduced to 70 before he had arrived.

Then when casting the shadow void, it meant he only had 30 points of his MC left, and he needed to use it wisely.

On his hands and feet, he had already used shadow equip and had his best equipment on.

"Is that Quinn!" Peter shouted. "What is with that power? I don't understand."

Then to Erin's surprise, she spotted that Quinns watch currently displayed the number six. "His ability requires more Mc then mine so is the Shadow circle his doing. Was he hiding his strength this whole time!" She shouted.

"He had his reasons," Layla said. "But right now, he's going up against an enemy even I don't think even he can deal with."

Layla didn't know what to do, at this point, her arrows were useless and couldn't even be used as a distraction the Dalki would just ignore it. Erin had run out of MC, and Peter was far too weak to be of any use. So right now the only one that could help them was Vorden.

"Please," Layla begged. "You two have to fight it together."

Vorden wasn't the one in control, but Raten was.

'How is the little one doing?' he asked.

'Sleeping,' Vorden replied.

'So it looks like I'll have to deal with this one.'

The Dalki then went and picked up another piece of scrap metal from the ground that was part of the Well's machinery. Although the roof and area were covered in shadows, the same couldn't be said for the land.

The crumbled building and the broken metal pieces remained scattered everywhere. After picking up the piece of metal, he used his claws once again to turn it into a spear.

"I assuming I can't get out of this bubble you created so I couldn't run." The Dalki said. "Otherwise why would you waste so much of your power creating it."

Unknown to the Dalki, the sole purpose was for Quinn to block out the sun so he could fight at his full power.

"Let's see how strong you really are!" The Dalki shouted as he chucked the spear-like object towards Quinn. It went lightning-fast and was similar to the one that required all four of the others to block.

"No, there's no way he can block that!" Layla said. "We have to help."

Peter stayed by Erin's side while Raten and Layla rushed towards Quinn, but the spear was going to fast, and they wouldn't have been able to take four steps before the spear would reach Quinn.

[Shadow Control]

Using his shadow Quinn was able to create a circular round black shield.

"That will be too weak," Erin said, looking from the ground. "It took all four of us, why doesn't he try to dodge it?"

But Vorden seeing this, it made something click in his head.

The spear carried going at lightning speed until the tip had touched the black shadow, at that moment the spear looked like it had stopped in mid-air. However, Quinn and Vorden knew that it was only moving ever so slowly through the shadow.

Once it slowed, Quinn moved to the side, he took the shadow away and allowed the spear to continue moving forward and out of the shadow void.

"This is perfect," Vorden said.

Quinn's shadow ability was nearly a perfect counter to the Dalki. The enormous amount of strength meant nothing. No matter how powerful the attack was, it would be slowed down, as Quinn's shadows didn't block attacks as other abilities did.

In a way, Quinn was the perfect counter to the Dalki.

Raten continued to run forward while Layla took cover somewhere off to the side. It was clear that the Dalki was stunned by what he had just seen for the moment, and this was their chance.

Vorden threw an ice spear at the beast, that managed to shatter once hitting its body, but it caught the Dalki's attention.

Knowing that the Dalki was able to eat fire, left Raten with no choice but to just use his telekinesis and ice powers.

"You are boring!" The Dalki said. "I'm far more interested in this one." Ignoring Vorden's weak attacks, he dashed forward heading straight for Quinn.

Seeing this, even if Quinn was to use his wind walk ability on his boots, he wouldn't be able to outrun the Dalki. The only thing he could do was fight, but what could he use. The blood swipe, although powerful, it did no damage, which was problematic.

"Hey, Brat!" Raten shouted. "Its skin is too tough, use something that can hurt it from the inside."

"From the inside?" Now Quinn knew exactly what he had to do.

When the Dalki was a few meters away, it lept up into the air with its claws out and with both of his hands above his head, ready to smash down. Quinn quickly placed the shadow above, allowing both of his fists to sink in.

[MC 20/100]

The Dalki could feel his attack slowing down as soon as he touched the strange shadow-like substance but by using his strength was able to pull his hands from the shadow. The problem was with every physical attack, Quinn would lose points in his MC. He needed to finish it now and fast.

The Dalki was Quink on his feet though and didn't allow his first unsuccessful attack to distract him. Quickly on his feet, he threw out a straight kick at Quinn and once again Quinn stopped it with the shadow.

[MC 10/100]

'His attacks are so strong, I can only take one more.'

Quinn needed an opening and just defending wasn't doing it. The next thing he was going to do was risky, but it was the only thing he could do. As the Dalki threw another punch towards him, Quinn moved the shadow and wrapped it around his fist.

[MC 0/100]

The shadow void started to disappear, and Quinn only had a few more seconds before the sunlight would hit him. With the Dalki's other hand Quinn could see it coming right at him, he looked at in the eyes.

[Skill daze]

Although the Dalki was a strong opponent and the skill was unlikely to work. There was always a chance.

[Daze successful, your opponent has been stunned]

But for Quinn's next move he would need more time then the Daze would allow. He flash stepped behind the Dalki and prepared all the motions for the hammer strike. As he did, he finally added the last part of the blood spray to perform his most powerful attack, Blood hammer.

As Quinn's fist hit the Dalki hardback, vibrations and a wave of air had been set out form around the two, but the Dalki still hadn't moved from his spot. But after a few seconds, he fell down on one knee.

This was Quinn's answer, an internal attack.

[You are being hit by sunlight]

[Al stats have been reduced by 70 percent]

When Quinn thought everything was over, A large fist had come out of nowhere swinging out and hit Quinn right in the ribs sending him flying through the air.

[Critical hit]

[Your ribs have been broken]

[12/65 HP remaining]

The Dalki stood up from the ground and smiled wiping away the green blood from its mouth.

"I'm not done with you yet, boy."

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