Chapter 142: Shady business

Chapter 142: Shady business

Pareth and the vampires made steady progress in the corridor until a certain point where they got overwhelmed. Two of the vampires got killed and that made everything harder. Pareths mana was also starting to run low, so they retreated and came back to the pond.

Sofia was too busy carving the runes on her body to be thinking about the next steps at the moment. Only when she got done carving the first one did she pause to look at the system notifications.

You have defeated [True Shade - lv. 172]

You have defeated [True Shade - lv. 180]

You have defeated [True Shade - lv. 201]

You have defeated [True Shade - lv. 199]

You have defeated [True Shade - lv. 236]

You gained a level!

You have defeated [True Shade - lv. 236]

You have defeated [True Shade - lv. 212]nôvel binz was the first platform to present this chapter.

All I get from this is general experience and even that will become worthless soon. Thats not ideal. I need to get in there and fight with my own skills. But thats dangerous I need my three runes ready.

She focused on carving her second immortality rune on her other shoulder. Then the third one appeared on her waist.

Im starting to look like a piece of spare paper used to try out a new stamp. And with this, I have an absolute 9 seconds of invincibility. That or three random death cancels. That does make me feel a lot safer. Though if something manages to break all three runes it can likely kill me a fourth time.

Sofia left her makeshift bark and joined Pareth and the two Vampires. One of them was badly damaged. Sofia healed him, frowning at the mana consumption.

[Heal Undead] reached level 59

[Heal Undead] : Invokes a pillar of Holy healing light. Only heals the undead.

Max range and radius of 59 meter (1*Skill Level).

Heal the undead for 69 (10 + Skill level) Health + (5% of the healed undeads maximum health) per second while the light is channeled.

She tried other things like throwing the dust from their fallen comrades at them since that was also mana charged but it didnt work either.

Wait a minute. They dont go near the pond.

Silverwater dissolves souls.

Its water that affects the spirit realm, right?

She had collected a whole barrels worth of the thing and the pond was still nearby. Its a bit wasteful but Sofia summoned the whole barrel out of her storage. Of course, the light of the water was still suppressed by the darkness. She plunged her hand into the thick liquid. That has to work. Like the powder before, she put some of the liquid in a glass jar, closed it, and threw it at the screaming monsters further ahead.

She missed by a long shot, she could tell without even checking with her mana sense. What am I doing? Next, she filled another jar and gave it to the Vampire skeleton on her left.

The jar flew toward the next screaming Shade. It exploded and the monster was covered in liquid. Its screaming only got worse, and Sofia could finally see her enemies with her mana senses.

The liquid showed the Shade moving along the wall as it screamed, it was truly like a shadow stuck to the whole and filling every crevice, following the grain of the stone. It was vaguely humanoid with uneven features, and where a normal humans shadow would have had arms, it had two blade-like spikes as long as the rest of its body. It flailed around, howling in pain, and Sofia understood how these things attacked, they could detach their sword-like arms from the wall, turning them corporeal and using them like actual weapons. At the moment, these were scratching the floor, leaving deep grooves as the monster struggled because of the Silverwater.

Leave this one to me.

Pareth did so. He was fighting at least three more of the monsters that were already taking up all his attention. Three seconds later Sofias [Spine of the Black Sun] was fully materialized in her hand, and she lashed out at the Shade that was shaking off more and more of the Silverwater with each passing instant.

The monster shook so badly as the solar flare from the spines whip attack engulfed it that Sofia almost felt bad for it. She struck a second time. Between the Silverwater and the repeated debilitating explosions the Shade was very sensitive to, it couldnt move anymore.

Sofia struck and struck again. The shade caught fire, it burned up in a flash of mana, completely obstructing Sofias mana senses. She could clearly hear the roar of a raging fire coming from his direction. It calmed down as abruptly as it had started and all that was left was another pile of dust. It looks brighter than Pareths piles.

You have defeated [True Shade - lv. 206]

[Way of the Fool] grants bonus experience'

You gained a level!

Sofia raised her whip, cheering at her victory, but she had to double-check [Way of the Fool]s description.

[Way of the Fool] : Analytical thinking is 69% (1*Skill level + 50) more efficient when used for personal gains. The Fool always stumbles but never falls. Gain extra experience from performing kills with trickery and deceit.

That was trickery or deceit? Why, because it felt safe from me throwing useless shit at it before finding something that worked? Was that the trickery? Hey, Ill take it. But Id rather for the skill to level up and not my class.