Chapter 75: Forest Massacre Pt.2

Chapter 75: Forest Massacre Pt.2

Not far from where Lake was racing towards his next victim, a small group of cloaked figures had gathered around a slightly more impressive cloaked figure. "Domare, we have just passed the required number and can start whenever you wish." The figure the man called Domare didn't answer but instead lifted its hands from its robes. The source of this content is N0veII_bIn

Once its hands were in the air they stayed there, and the forest slowly lost its light like the sun was going down in fast forward. The only difference was the sun was still in the sky, and had a few hours before it actually started to set.

Once the forest was completely black, Domare and the group of cloaked figures took out daggers, and walked into the forest.

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Lake was about to drop onto the person he had been watching for the last few seconds when he noticed the light in the forest start to dim. He didn't think much of it at first because he thought it was just a cloud passing in front of the sun but when it continued to get darker at such a fast rate Lake thought he should actually see what was going on.

Lake climbed to the top of the tree he was in to see the sun was completely unobstructed by any clouds and the forest had actually just been covered in a cloud of black smoke. Lake couldn't smell the smoke so he took off his helmet to see if he could get a whiff, but when that didn't work Lake realized he had seen something else that could cause what he was looking at.

Just like in the dungeon under the Alchemist guild there was now a massive amount of Dark mana in the area. Lake wasn't sure what had caused it, but Joy had once mentioned that Unholy mana piggybacked on Dark mana these days, so Lake could guess who was responsible.

After the battle between the Demon Lord and the Dark Goddess that resulted in the Dark Goddess disappearing The Demon Lord had somehow hijacked the Dark Element, and used it to spread his element like he would be able to if he was a god himself. These days wherever you found the Dark element the Unholy element would be there in equal amounts.

Now that he had a possible way out Lake just needed to find out how to use it so he just went down the list of skills he had gotten from Appraiser until all he was left with was Decrypt. Right when he was about to use it, Lake heard something other than screaming coming towards him.

The fact that the footsteps owner wasn't screaming made Lake think they were probably part of the side doing the killing. With some quick thinking Lake took one of the cores he had just cut out of one of their guys and activated Impersonate. Lake didn't really have time to check his face before he was enveloped in a small bubble of light.

Lake took the thing out and held it in his hand like he knew what it did after he confirmed that the other person had one in their hand as well. "Why aren't you using your nullifier?" Lake didn't think there was an actual answer so he said. "It's broken." Hearing his new voice, Lake was pretty sure if this guy bought his lame excuse he was about to get another notification.

"How'd it break?" Lake could tell the guy was still not 100% sure about Lake and it made sense earlier when Lake had tried to mug the first guy he had thought Lake was one of them screwing around so they didn't all know each other. "I got attacked before we started and had to run away, but none of my stuff works now."

Lake also remembered the guy had told him to get to his area so Lake killed two birds with one stone and made an excuse for why he wasn't where he was supposed to be. "Let me see it."

[Quest complete: Reward Skill: Play The Part]

Lake looked at his new skill while the guy looked at the nullifier thing he had handed over.

Play The Part (U) Lv.1

Allows the stolen identity to take over and act like they would while they were alive.

Lake didn't activate it because he didn't think it would help right now. These two people didn't know each other so how he acted didn't really matter. "It seems just fine to me." The person was about to hand it back to Lake when he saw their face change. Lake didn't know exactly what it meant but he could tell the jig was up.