Chapter 400: Everything is an enemy

Chapter 400: Everything is an enemy

How much can I push without losing any health?

I remember that around 200 000 the heat was starting to get pretty bad. Maybe if I made heat shields with bones

I can charge much faster now at least. About five thousand a second.

After about forty seconds of channeling, the bolt on Sofias scepter started changing appearance, becoming smooth and glossy. The waves of heat were not nearly as bad as she remembered, and the dragon-scale arm perfectly protected her hand.

VPPV went through all of realm 2 since last time, that must be why Im not feeling it as much.

She had flown a bit further from the stone ruins, and watched as more and more underground swamp creatures gathered beneath her, hiding below the mud. She still had no idea what they even looked like. What little she saw of them through the heat vision of her left eye was a blurry mess at best. I should ask Richard if he can make it clearer.

220 000 this should be enough.

Sofia simply released the bolt, letting it fly straight down below her as she herself flew up.

The bolt hit the swamp with an almost metallic ring, and the world became halfway white, Sofias fake eye let her see right through the burst of light, as an explosion of wild blue flames engulfed the swamp. A rain of notifications started spamming Sofias system feed.

Oh god, collapse all the ones without an imprint, please.

You have defeated [Skitrill - Lv. 103 to 199]*342

You have defeated [Skitrill - Lv. 208 - Imprint Damaged]

You have defeated [Skitrill - Lv. 248 - Imprint Mostly intact]

You have defeated [Skitrill - Lv. 239 - Imprint Badly Damaged]

You have defeated [Skitrill - Lv. 207 - Imprint Intact]

You have defeated [Skitrill - Lv. 212 - Imprint Intact]

You have defeated [Skitrill - Lv. 240 - Imprint Damaged]

You have defeated [Skitrill - Lv. 233 - Imprint Mostly intact]

You have defeated [Skitrill - Lv. 224 - Imprint Damaged]

As the explosion died down, Sofia kept flying, her heat vision was as good as useless now with the waves of heat of her own making washing over the swamp. She couldnt feel a trace of the monsters. All she could see within the swamp were bits of bloody brown flesh sticking out of the mud.

No way did that kill them all. There had to be more than that. But that has probably killed all those near the center of the explosion.

If I had to guess, the closer to the center the more damaged the imprint, while the intact ones probably died to the shockwave only.

That left quite a crater. Its already filling back up with water though. I still dont really know what these Skitrills look like. Is it safe to say the survivors probably escaped?

How do I get the imprints, though?

Oh, I think I know.

Go down first to check if its safe.Follow current novels at novelhall.com)

All stats -5% (E rank base)Health + 3Mana + 1757[Relocate Core]

No point in finishing this one off, toss it to the side.

The creature weakly burrowed in the mud after the skeletons let it go.

The graveyard skeletons took about fifteen minutes to fish out all the dead bugs, and Sofia managed to confirm that their intact imprint was +100 Health, and the total she collected was 561 Health points.

Barely worth the time.

Leaving a charred bit of swamp and a mountain of bug corpses behind, she quickly went to check up on the stone fort. She landed in the middle of the half-collapsed fort.

Not made by a skill, this is real stone, quite old. The size of the entrance and stairs is too small to be human, and looks too shoddy for dwarves. Conclusion I have no idea who might have built this. There isnt much left but this feels like a military outpost of some kind.

The floor has three layers of stone so they clearly knew about the Skitrills. In comparison, the walls are quite thin.

Why build an outpost like this on the border of a swamp? This must have taken a long time, too, when were only here for a year. Even for me it would take a few days to set up something like this out of bones, let alone stone.

Well, whatever, at least it makes for a nice landmark to find my way back to the tower if ever needed.

Not lingering in the ruins any longer, Sofia flew straight up until she hit the layer of turbulent mana and was forced to stop. Today was a bit cloudy, which made looking around not as easy as before. She looked for the potential herd of land animals the Skitrills description had mentioned.

Hmm no. Nothing this way either A few flying monsters but nothing big Huh? I could have sworn

Sofia had seen something, not on the ground, but in one of the clouds. An eye.

Am I seeing things?

Using her enhanced eye, she zoomed on the thick white cloud in question, failing to spot anything.

Ive seen how well hidden some of the monsters here are. No way Im not going to check.

Sofia quick-charged a low mana piercing bolt and threw it at the cloud. The lightning bolt pierced a hole through the fluffy white cloud and kept flying.

Nothing?

She almost gave up and returned to looking at the ground, but just to feel safe, she brought Bookie out and summoned a Firebird skeleton for 35 000 mana. The skeleton came out with its wings covered in flames just like the monster, and Sofia sent it into the suspicious cloud.

Suddenly, as the skeletons flames disappeared into the cloud, Sofia lost her connection to it.

Huh?!

She saw bits of bones fall from the cloud and dissipate into a thin mana mist.

There was actually something And the cloud blocked sunlight enough for the blessing not to work. Crap.

Ive been flying up and down through the clouds without a care in the world

I need to draw that thing out. How does one dissipate a cloud?

Rot? No, if Sunlight doesnt reach through the thick cloud, the holy light wont either. And it wont stick to the cloud itself.

I see. Well, I have no lack of long range weapons. Skull Choir! Maximum skulls, Sandworm form!