Chapter 137 Monster Room!

[Hey y'all

It's your friendly neighborhood Author.

So I was planning to make a few changes to the ages of some characters, mainly Evan and Laurene.

I would be changing their current ages from eleven to thirteen.

Due to this there would be some inconsistencies.

I would like to apologize for the trouble.

Thanks for your understanding and I look forward to seeing you continue our Reincarnated Hero's journey.]

"Evan bumped his fists together, lightning crackling down his arms as he locked his gaze onto one of the three spawn points, his trusted contracted spirit floating beside him as the duo prepared to roast the unfortunate blade wraiths."

"Evan...."

The young hero breached his role once more, earning him a glare from the ancient high demon, however, she had no time to reprimand him as dozens of blade wraiths began running out of the three spawn points.

"Let's go!!

Kayla!"

[Umu!]

The moment Kayla responded to Evan's call, she spread out her lightning and expanded it to cover his whole body. He could feel it strengthening his muscles and nerves, allowing him to tell that Kayla had at least doubled his overall power.

From the outside, he looked like he was simply shining as if he was shooting out lightning from his body.

To anyone looking at him, he probably looked more like a lightning beast than a human.

"You're using that again, huh?"

Pride recognized the familiar state that Evan had entered and heaved a sigh of exasperation as she took a stance with her right arm and leg drawn backward and her left arm stretched forward.

"Vanitas."

Her treasured sword responded to her call and appeared in her hand as she began focusing the might of the formless wind around her blade.

She consumed her magic power and manipulated the whirlwind, generating enough suction force to pull the incoming blade wraiths towards her front.

"Hap!"

With a short cry, she thrust her sword arm forward, releasing a miniature storm as all the blade wraiths running towards her were launched into the air.

On Eliza's side, she decided to bring out the big guns early, holding nothing back as she activated her flower cannon skill.

A gigantic shoot emerged from the ground, towering over Eliza, as a flower bud bloomed and from an opening of the petals, launched a powerful beam of concentrated magic power.

***WOOOONGGG!!!!

***BOOMM!!!

There was a loud explosion as dozens of blade wraiths were blasted to bits and pieces, yet the force behind the cannon did not recede.

Taking from the advice Artemisia gave her, Eliza rotated the flower, resulting in the beam of magic power affecting a wide area and consigning a few more blade wraiths to oblivion.

[Level Up!]

[Level Up!]

She then deactivated the skill the moment she saw the level-up notifications, so as not to exhaust herself already before casting a basic strength and speed buff on herself.

A ring of light appeared around her wrists and ankles, as she crouched with her front knee over and both hands on the floor.

The radiant codex hovered beside her and she took a deep breath before kicking off the ground and dashing in the direction of the monsters that had already replenished their numbers.

Meanwhile, Evan was having the time of his life, concentrating great amounts of lightning magic on his fists and punching the heads of the blade wraiths, exploding the lightning on contact after adding a little bit of fire magic to it at the last moment.

He used his blink skill to weave his way through the enemy numbers without getting caught by their sword slashes that were powerful enough to make him lose a limb or two.

With the help of Kuro's shadow manipulation, he could restrain enemies that attempted to attack him from his blind spots, giving himself enough time to either deal with the enemies in front or to turn around and launch an attack at the blade wraith at was unlucky to be restrained.

He even borrowed Kuro's light shadow magic to create a cage of light that held about half a dozen enemies in place, giving him a bit of breathing room as he dealt with the remaining ten or so that were sprinkling explosive powder on him.

In order to prevent the situation of him blowing himself up, he had to reduce his usage of fire magic and lightning, giving him a chance to familiarize himself with Kuro's light shadow magic.

He switched out Kayla's lightning possession for Kuro's shadows as his body effectively turned into shadows that could not be touched by normal means.

The young hero extended his shadow in length, creating a swirling vortex that pulled in any and every blade wraith within a five-metre radius of him.

He then grabbed his sword that had been floating beside him all this while and sheathed it. In the next moment, he dashed forward while striking with two wide arcs.

**SWISH!!

Blood splattered all over the floor as multiple blade wraiths were severed in two, with their corpses dropping to the floor and preventing the others from having a proper place to put their feet down.

[Master, I found them!]

Hearing Kayla's voice, Evan looked up to see the lightning spirit raise her hands in the air and clench her fists before swinging them downwards.

Dark clouds of magic gathered above their heads, followed by golden bolts of lighting dropping down onto a trio of yellow-skinned monsters that had bottles of explosive powder and unknown poisons in their hands.

**BOOOOMM!!! BOOOOOMMM!!!

"GURGH!!!"

Only one of them lived long enough to let out a scream as the other two exploded into chunks of meat as the lighting hit the explosive bottles in their hands and ignited them.

[Level Up!]

As soon as Evan confirmed the deaths of the yellow-skinned monsters, he switched out Kuro's shadowy form for Kayla's lightning and took a stance with his right arm pulled backward.

A golden aura coalesced around his sword, with Kayla's lightning causing sparks to appear along the blade and Kuro's shadows causing traces of dark light to appear within the gold aura.

"Vortex!"

He thrust his sword forward in the direction of the newly spawned blade wraiths, the roaring spiral-shaped mass of aura crashed into the bodies of the unfortunate monsters, sending them to their deaths mere seconds after they just came into existence.

**BOOOMM!!

He heard an explosion and turned around breathing heavily, his eyes widening as he looked at the scene of Pride floating in the air with six tornadoes of black wind rotating around her.

She snapped her fingers and a black circle of about ten metres in diameter appeared around her. In the next moment, all the enemies within that range were sucked towards the centre without being able to resist.

However, before they could even reach the centre, they were shredded to pieces by the might of the six tornadoes of demonic energy-infused wind.

'Hmm? Then the explosion was from Eliza?'

He turned his gaze in Eliza's direction, seeing the battle priestess impaling a yellow-skinned monster with her staff and flinging its body in the direction of a group of blade wraiths that were releasing slashes of condensed magic power towards her.

The slashes tore the yellow-skinned monster apart, with one of them breaking the bottle it was holding in its hand and triggering another explosion.

**BOOOOOOMM!!!!

Clouds of dust and smoke rose up as Eliza took advantage of this to buff her speed and bash the heads of the blade wraiths who had their vision clouded with her magic-infused staff.

"Where did she get that thing from?"

It did not take long for the group to make short work of the monsters, killing them all and finally giving themselves a few minutes of rest.

"We've dispersed a lot of the magic power that has condensed in the room and absorbed most of it into our bodies as experience points so it would take a few minutes for the monsters to re-spawn.

After all, this is just the first wave."

Evan remarked as he took off his gauntlets and looked at his arms which were a lot less injured than he had expected.

"huh?"

Before he could even ask why he received the answer in the form of a skill notification.

|Adaptive Evolution has been triggered. |

|Lightning resistance has been acquired. |

"Finally!"

He screamed out in joy as he had achieved one of his goals, with the other being to mimic the 'Fracture' skill that he once saw another top-rank player use during the game.

'It would be a good skill to use in close combat situations with my fists.'

As he thought that, he caught sight of Pride who picked up a potion but suddenly decided against drinking it and put it back into the knapsack.

She then tossed the sack to Evan and told him to place it back into his inventory.

"Why?"

"Whenever we end up going to that tower of trials that the 'goddess' created for you, it would be impossible for us to use potions and the like so I'm using this as practice."

Hearing what she said, Evan nodded in affirmation and placed the knapsack back into his inventory, taking his time to rest as he dwelled on Pride's words while his contracted shadow spirit reaped the magic stones of the blade wraiths from their corpses.

'Let's try fighting without the spirit's assistance now, shall we?'