Chapter 837: Core Members Tournament 14

Chapter 837: Core Members Tournament 14

Silent Walker immediately struck the moment the battle began, not daring to give Rambunctious Buttlover the chance to even open his godforsaken mouth. Like a madman, he threw out all his skills and abilities at once, hoping that something would stop the mental onslaught that would be coming soon.

Endless Night!

Dark Barrier!

Tendril Storm!

Shadowguard!

Shadow Body!

Shadow Gate!

First, Endless Night brought a wave of dark clouds over from the edge of the horizon, covering the entire arena and eclipsing the ever present artificial sun that granted light to the stage. In this domain, all shadow and darkness related attacks were buffed by an extra 500% for 30 minutes.

The already powerful Silent Walker was even more potent now, given that his other passive, Noctis, granted him a 70% boost to his shadow skills and abilities permanently. Then, there was Nightwalker that granted him invulnerability when in darkness, making his damage immunity reach a shocking 150% with full immunity to darkness damage.

Of course, if hit with light or fire attacks, that became 150% damage susceptibility which was like a critical hit, but worse.

Then the Dark Barrier buffed by his two skills manifested, blocking 60% of all damage for 2 minutes at its base, and with its buff, blocking over 450% more of that, not even counting his Nightwalker passive.

Shadow Body turned him into a being similar to that dark mist lifeform Eva had bought from the Bazaar that was still resting in Draco's Inner Universe as well as similar to Eva's own former Void Form, albeit of a far lower quality and more gaseous than energy based.

This form raised his phys. resistance to 99% and reduced mag. resistance to 5%, meaning that any physical attacks were practically a waste on this guy, while magical attacks were the only way to defeat him. As long as they weren't of the Darkness element, obviously.

With all of this, Silent Walker was even capable to tank hits from a Divine Class wielder, no jokes. He had literally and effectively barricaded himself into a fucking neutron star for protection.

Then there were his attack related skills. Tendril Storm created a Field of shadow tendrils that emerged from the darkness of the ground, spreading about to wrangle and lash anyone that was in range.

Shadowguard was a passive skill that allowed Silent Walker to spawn between 1-12 Shadow Guards that had their powers split up depending on how many copies he created. If he created just one, it would have its full power, but if he created all 12, that power would be split 12 ways equally.

In this situation, he decided to spawn all 12 of them to send them charging at Rambunctious Buttlover.

Finally, there was the Shadow Gate skill which opened a menacing gate to the Shadow Realm. It was much similar to Dreary Travelers' own Netherworld Gate, only with a different destination/target. The gate itself was similarly designed, with a difference in terms of size though.

Aesthetically, it was like gaseous mist of shadow with the head of a humanoid at the tip of the arch, its eyes glowing with red flames. The doors creaked open and revealed a world that was like an endless plain of burning shadow, with hundreds of different inhumane shapes with burning red eyes appearing in the darkness.

With eldritch roars, they all rushed through the gate and invaded the Main Plane, basking in the pleasure that Silent Walker's Endless Night skill gave them while also benefiting from the power boost.

With this kind of defense and this kind of offense, all the core members with Divine Classes and bloodlines by the side wore solemn expressions. They put themselves in RamButt's shoes and realized that just using their classes alone, they would not have it easy to defeat this fellow. Then again, he was in the top 10 strongest of Umbra before the new batch of core members came, so there was that.

All eyes turned to the casual RamButt to see how he would handle this. Those who knew him were trembling with fear and begging him with their eyes to have mercy, while those who didn't were wondering what this handsome yet sketchy fellow with perverted eyes could achieve?

In the next moment, RamButt struck.

Or rather, he spoke.

After activating a combination of deadly skills that granted him the verbal might of Draco and Eva with their full power unleashed, he began rambling.

"Jaw drops to floor, eyes pop out of sockets accompanied by trumpets, heart beats out of chest, awooga awooga sound effect, pulls chain on train whistle that has appeared next to head as steam blows out, slams fists on table, rattling any plates, bowls or silverware, whistles loudly, fireworks shoot from top of head, pants loudly as tongue hangs out of mouth, wipes comically large bead of sweat from forehead, clears throat, straightens tie, combs hair… Ahem, you look very lovely."

"Grrrr jappan :Japan: is best country in teh world (sekai) !!!!:face_with_symbols_on_mouth::pouting_face:!!!:ogre::face_with_symbols_on_mouth:!!!!! west bAd grrrgghhhg japenis culture:shinto_shrine::Japanese_dolls::carp_streamer: better than amrican:Statue_of_Liberty::hamburger::thumbs_down:!!! (>~<) vendor machine eveywhere :Tokyo_tower:and sakura trees are so :cherry_blossom: a e s t h e t i c :cherry_blossom: UwU if u hate it then your NOT a man of culture so shinē!!! ~hmph baka -_- :red_paper_lantern:"

"If my girl:girl::smiling_face_with_heart-eyes: and my beyblades:hundred_points::fire: are both drowning:water_wave::frowning_face_with_open_mouth: and I could only save one:grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes::index_pointing_up:you can catch me letting it rip:face_with_steam_from_nose: at my girl's funeral:grinning_face_with_sweat::ghost::skull: cause it's bey blade or catch a fade:folded_hands::oncoming_fist::angry_face::hundred_points::loudly_crying_face:"

"This :backhand_index_pointing_left::backhand_index_pointing_right: is money snek. :snake::snake::money_bag::money_bag: Upsnek :up_arrow::up_arrow::SOON_arrow::SOON_arrow: in 7.123 7? 1?2?3? snekonds :snake::snake: or you :raised_hand::raised_hand: will NEVER :cross_mark::cross_mark::cross_mark::cross_mark: get monies :money_bag::money_bag: again Beware!! :raised_hand::raised_hand::cross_mark::cross_mark: You:smirking_face::smirking_face: don't :cross_mark::cross_mark: have much time!!:twelve_o’clock::twelve-thirty::one_o’clock::one-thirty::two_o’clock::two-thirty::two-thirty: You :smirking_face::smirking_face: may never :cross_mark::cross_mark:get monies :money_bag::money_bag::snake::money_bag::money_bag: again!!"

"To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny—they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existential catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens."

"Give it up folks, einstein over here has something to say. What's that buddy? Wha- A grammatical error?!? WHAT?!? B… Bu… That can't be possible! Surely not! A GRAMMAR MISTAKE? IN MY SIGHT?!? What a great, absolute miracle that you and your 257 IQ Brain were here to correct it! Thank you! Have my gratitude, Actually, What's your cash app? I'd like to give you 20$… Know what? While we're at it have the keys to my car. Actually, no, scratch that. Have the keys to my house, go watch my kids grow up. Also, my Paypal username and password are Ilikesmartazzes4 and 968386329. Go have fun. Thank you for your work."

"Let's say, hypothetically, I am a barbie girl. Okay let's even say I'm in a barbie world. Right so, in this scenario, I would obviously know from personal experience that life in plastic is fantastic. Wouldn't it be reasonable to assume you could brush my hair and undress me literally everywhere? Imagination; you can derive from the fundamentals of basic logic that life is your creation."

"Jeff Bezos has 121 BILLION dollars. The population of earth is 7 billion people. He could give every person 1 BILLION dollars and end poverty, and he would still have 114 billion dollars left over but he would do it. This is what capitalist greed looks like!"

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"Babe, I'm breaking up with you. it's not you, you were poggers. It's me, I'm omegalul. I'm sorry if this is pepehands but it has to be done, I've just been feeling pepega and our relationship has been weirdchamp for months, it's time to end it, no kappa."

By this point, the match had already come to an end as Silent Walker lay in a puddle of blood, (Editor's Note: I feel his pain…) his Shadow Form forcibly reversed as he turned back to his human form.

The shadow tendrils that thrashed on the stage had shriveled into dissected husks and were lying limply around, given up on life. The valiant Shadow Guards meant to protect their master till death had impaled themselves on their own swords to avoid having to listen to just one more word from the Orator.

The veil of darkness from the Endless Night skill had disappeared, yet not even the sun was visible, having long fled this area.

The menacing shadow monsters that had been rushing out of the Shadow Gate lay around limply, their bodies twitching with agony. An entity above Rank 7 on the other side had surpassed its limits to reach out and grabbed the sides of the door itself and shut it closed, locking it with a padlock from the other side.

That wasn't all, since even the AI was unable to stop the area of effect radius from RamButt's skills.

The core members felt as if they had collided with a hurricane, each member bloody and weak, on the verge of death.

Shadowheart gazed into the sky while standing firm. Blood leaking from his eyes, ears and nose as he gazed at the dark sky with a wry smile.

Essence floated off the ground while continually spurting blood from his mouth, grinning with defeat.

Misery was crawling desperately on the ground, trying to reach his fallen bottle of Legendary Rank beer, whispering how he wanted one last drink before the end.

AP_Berzerker was breathlessly spitting out lyrics to the greatest lines heard by man, feeling that this should be his final piece of poetry before entering the abyss.

Ghost had long closed his eyes, seated on the floor with a look of boredom even as his body ruptured. If one still had a functioning pair of ears, they would be able to hear him mocking Orochi for having encountered one thing the God Serpent was unable to block and repel perfectly.

Nightwalker, while bleeding out from all ends, was profusely consoling Jormungandr who was deeply hurt that there was a power out there more calamitous than anything he ever thought up.

All in all, death had come for the core members of Umbra. They felt as if this was going to be a true death, one they couldn't simply heal from as their very souls were washed away by the brutal nonsense flying from Rambunctious' mouth.

It was the end for Umbra.

Luckily, Xela was resilient enough to use a healing spell on everyone, quickly raising their HP which was in the red, as well as using her bloodline ability to create soul nourishment that restored some of their sanity.

Immediately, Armonia roared: "Use the Memory Wipe and Soul Cleansing!"

These two skills came attached to the Ear Mufflers given them. While they had been able to block out the sound, RamButt's attack was an insidious Soul/Mind based attack that couldn't easily be avoided. If just plugging your ears could negate his ability, then his class shouldn't be called Legendary.

While activating these two skills, the core members simultaneously - and without planning or colluding previously - sent their strongest attacks over to the stage, instantly obliterating RamButt and sending him into respawn.

After clearing their minds of the filth that was pulling them to an early grave, they sighed with relief and couldn't help but feel lingering fear towards the demise they avoided.