Chapter 570 [570] Raid the Labyrinth.

Chapter 570 [570] Raid the Labyrinth.

My strategy to clear this labyrinth was not complicated or anything of the sort. In fact, it could even be said to be extremely simple.

But sometimes, Simple is best.

Most of the Minotaurs here, according to the scan I did with my dragon eyes, said that they were A-rank, with a few a rank above.

The knights I led, which were all A rank, would be the main fighting force of this mission. Each would isolate a Minotaur and fight them alone. Which wasn't hard because that is how their nature is.

The Jade Spear men would help and 'poke' the Minotaur, inducing flesh wounds whilst it was occupied by the knight, and 50 of the mages I had brought would do the same, assist the knights in taking the Minotaur's down as fast as possible.

The rest of the 50 mages were divided into two groups, each with 25 mages. One group would focus on buffing and healing the injured soldiers, whilst the other would be busy in maintaining a large scale magic... Their own version of my specialty, Glacial Collapse.

It was for an emergency, where a rabid S-rank Minotaur might appear while I wasn't here to take care of it. That would decimate my plans. So, I had that spell ready just in case. The group dealing with the buffs and heals would be overworked, but they could deal with it if they were given sufficient breaks.

My strategy was simple, but it was also time-consuming...which was honestly perfect for me. I didn't mind at all if this took a few days or not. In fact, I welcomed it.

The reason for such was...

"Now...how did I do that?"

I muttered to myself as my army advanced forth, I let the commanders take complete control of the situation and stayed behind, pondering.

I stimulated the aura in my body and made it cover each and every inch of it, suppressing my mana as well.

I had done the first step...now comes the second.

The reason why I didn't mind if this took some time was because of my desire to learn two abilities I had showcased during my aura awakening.

The first was to completely vanish. My spatial manipulation could manage this with the help of mana, but it was subpar to what I had done with aura. With spatial manipulation with mana, I would still be seen easily by beings who were highly sensitive to mana, or had great senses... But with aura, it was different.

It was as if, instead of manipulating the surrounding space, I distorted it, completely. Distorted it and created a realm of my own, isolated from the rest, thus others would have a hard time trying to find me...

'I know...let's call it spatial distortion!'

As I toiled around with my aura, trying to perfect, or at least achieve, the ability. I heard the sounds of battle ahead. Curious, I raised my head and smiled proudly.

It was working, we had encountered the Minotaur that resided in the first layer, well a group of them anyway. My knights rushed forth first, engaging in solo fights as my spear men and mages took their positions, The knights succeeded in pulling the Minotaurs away from one another, the labyrinth was big enough... So it wasn't too hard.

"Go work on building that portal..."

Well, I was still satisfied with the concealment effects. I should try it out on the Minotaur's... But the problem is I have to remain stationary for it to work as intended.

"How do I fix this...?"

I racked my brains, and did the same thing a couple more times, I found out that the movement of my body destroyed the space I had built around me, and so I thought to expand it, but that didn't work.

Then it struck me...

"Maybe I shouldn't expand it too much all of a sudden..."

It would lose control, therefore, I first stood still and cast the distortion once again, This time, prior to moving my feet, I extended only the space there, and when I finished. I moved that extended space to other parts of my body, allowing me to finally move whilst having the skill cast.

"... It's good, But I can't use it efficiently in battle."

Unlike what I had done during the fight with Night Lady... It would be difficult to use this in an actual battle, although sneaking up on opponents won't be too hard.

"I should really learn an aura-breathing technique..."

I had asked Lanesha for it, but those breathing techniques were practically non-existent in the empire ruled by my kind. We dealt it mana...and besides, the techniques, the good ones, were hard to come by.

Nonetheless, I tried practicing it on my own, the skill 'Spatial distortion'. But I wasn't able to make much progress.

'I should ask Master for help when he is free...'

The man had studied aura a lot longer than me...he should know a thing...or two...

*Thud*

My head collided with the floor, the distortion skill was broken, and I struggled to stand up, resisting the urge to vomit, as nauseous as I was...

"Ugh...what the hell?"

That day I encountered a problem similar to mana drain, something faced by every species except dragons... just the aura version of it, Aura drain. Where all the aura in my body was used up.

I puked.