Chapter 232: No Use of It

James continued to walk around and use his exploitation skills for a long time, but nothing really changed.

No matter what he did he could not gain any status points, which was simply awful. In the end, the only option James had tied himself to, and indeed the only option he thought he had to enter into a situation where he could fully emerge victorious from this battle, was the status points he planned to gain by exploiting corpses.

This seemed to indicate to him that he had nothing left at the moment except the Aura of Chaos ability. Sёarᴄh the NôᴠelFirё.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

However, even an incredibly powerful skill like the Aura of Chaos skill would be useless against such a huge threat. Yes, it weakened enemies and strengthened friendly troops, but that was exactly what happened.

Despite a long search and reading the description of the ability over and over again, he could find no answers. He had wandered around for almost an hour, trying to figure out what was wrong. He hadn't even had a chance to rest and that was the worst part.

After a short time, when he returned to the camp, he could already see the bodies all around. For James, who had only heard about the reality of the war from stories and perhaps novels in the world where he had come to the tower, what was happening now had a devastating effect.

Even though his Mind Palace ability prevented any damage to his mind, he felt extremely nauseous.

Many people were crying around, from ordinary soldiers to nobles who had lost family members.

After so many deaths, the bodies of many soldiers had not even been found, many had been eaten by monsters and disappeared.

James knew that this battle was nowhere near the great battles of the tower's history, and that was his fear. His current strength was definitely not enough, he had to develop more.

After a short time, he saw Aether and was sure that he was all right. Afterwards, he entered the tent where the senior nobles were gathered.

Seeing James's expression and his bloodied clothes, the nobles realised how much trouble he had been through on the front lines, after all, their empress Eve had the same look.

"Thank goodness you're all right, I don't know what you did back there, but at least we managed to get some time to rest." Eve suddenly said, and James swallowed and said, "Thanks to you, I don't normally have enough mana to use my ability at that level of power."

Eve shook her head with these words and then said, "Unfortunately, I will not be able to use this ability again."

"I see... An ability of this power must already be incredibly difficult, I completely understand." James said, and he was absolutely right.

It was hard to even imagine how great the burden on the user would be with an ability that could provide such a buff. After all, even the person to whom the buff was applied, James, was under a great burden, his body exploding as soon as the ability was applied.

He didn't even want to think about the damage to Eve.

"Yes, it would not be wrong to say that I almost died, Mr Umbra, I really can't use it again, I'm sorry," Eve answered these words.

After these words, an old man, one of the dukes of the empire, took a step forward and said, "Sir, if we manage to set up attack runes, we can achieve a better success than this time. You said we could do it, but the sudden transactions and your failure to wake up have disrupted everything." Discover more content at m,v l'e-NovelFire

Even if those words had not been spoken in a rude way, James was sure that if the attack runes had been drawn, perhaps the losses could have been minimised. Right now he could clearly feel that all the blood was on him, and it was a terrible feeling.

"Yes, it must be done," James said suddenly and then shouted "AETHER!"

As Aether entered the tent James took out a scroll and then drew the powerful attack rune he had learnt on it.

"I want as many attack runes as possible within a radius of at least four kilometres of the camp. This spell absorbs energy from the air as it gains distance. The more you can draw and the more you manage to activate it, the more momentum we can build."

After handing the scroll to Aether, he sat down in the chair next to her and then shook his head, "I don't know what's going to happen, there's no way of knowing how long the currently locked gate will stay that way, we have to be careful."

James could have summoned Ariel, but the important thing right now wasn't Ariel getting here. Ariel had to find the Fallen God who had escaped as she had been told and inform James.

If they didn't chase the Fallen God continuously and the female Fallen God somehow managed to recover, everything would be over. It would be impossible to take care of the female Fallen God while being attacked by so many monsters.

Ariel herself was currently able to hunt down a wounded Fallen God because she had the strength to get close to James, if not exactly close.

This meant that James was the only one who needed to be present in the battle around the gate, Ariel had a mission.

At James' words, Eve nodded and then said, "You have a dragon, don't you? If we can use it, maybe we can launch another attack."

James smiled when he heard these words. It was as if no one had expected him to smile at such a moment, all of their faces were covered with a strange expression.

"Sir, is there a problem?" another nobleman asked, was incredibly curious about the look on James' face. Well, he was not wrong.

James shook his head after this question and then said, "That dragon is my daughter."