Ashley held her hands together in a cone formation, and flared up her mana reserves to the max.
[Flame Spiral]!
[Player Ashley: Intelligence Roll: 73]
[Player Ashley MP: 170/180]
The cone in Ashley's hands funneled the flames she produced, and they blasted forth, completely engulfing the entire hallway full of goblin warriors.
They were not even worth using [Analysis] on. They were dead in seconds, scorched and vaporized with no trace left behind aside from the stench of burnt flesh.
The spiral of flames exploded into the halls, wrecking the walls of the hallway and drilling a hole that continued on for about 500 feet, with a diameter of around 6 meters.
Oraguth shuddered in complete submission as he saw this.
He despised the wild goblins, but to see such power come from someone... it was no wonder that these demons had defeated even his own father so easily.
Were they merely playing with his father? That was seeming all the more likely. Perhaps they even pretended to have been caught in his spell... Oraguth had never met anyone to be able to resist Fargar's aura of fear... he didn't even think it would be possible.
Yet without a doubt, the elf was completely unaffected.
And Oraguth was almost certain now that the others had only pretended to be affected in order to tease his father.
Terrifying.
These beings were too powerful.
They came in here, did what they wanted, killed as they pleased, ordered the remaining ones around, and now they would leave with everything as they wished.
Oraguth was defeated.
It was a complete loss. There was nothing he could do anymore to save his neighbors from the fate of theirs. At least he would go down with them instead of watching as they suffered from the sidelines.
"An interesting new spell you obtained there.", Garett said to Ashley.
She smiled and giggled like a high school girl who had been praised by a boy she liked. For Ashley this was extremely abnormal. 'Perhaps she was in a good mood after we tortured Fargar together?', Garett thought.
However, when all the goblins had been swiftly taken care of, the party received another message.
[Level Up!](Lvl 12)
[Player Garett: Strength +4, Intelligence +4]
[Strength: 27](+4 Fanged Club)
[Dexterity: 5]
[Perception: 10]
[Charisma: 10]
[Intelligence: 14]
[HP 100/100 MP 45/45]
[Player Trevor: Strength +5. Dexterity +16, Perception +8, Charisma +11, Intelligence +13]
[Strength: 25]
[Dexterity: 60]
[Perception: 37]
[Charisma: 43] (+5 with cultured beings)
[Intelligence: 46]
[HP 85/85 MP 105/105]
[Player Trevor has become a master of deception. Charisma +20 for those who are badly disposed towards you]
[Player Samantha: Strength +6. Dexterity +5, Perception +7, Charisma +12, Intelligence +10]
[Strength: 20]
[Dexterity: 21]
[Perception: 28]
[Charisma: 61] (+5 Halo)
[Intelligence: 44]
[HP 75/75 MP 120/120]
[Player Ashley: Strength +4, Dexterity +7, Perception +8, Intelligence +1X]
[Strength: 19](+5 Against Defenseless)
[Dexterity: 23]
[Perception: 28]
[Charisma: 4] (+5 with lawful beings)(+5 Wish subjects)
[Intelligence: MAX]
[HP: 70/70 MP: 300,000/300000]
[Player Ashley had gained the trait: Always right]
[Player Ashley has reached IQ 2,000,000]
[Player Ashley will no longer perform intelligence rolls. Her rolls for intelligence are automatically set to 1000]
"What."
"The."
"FUCK."
Trevor, Garett, and Samantha spoke in turns.
If their mouths could be on the floor, they most certainly would.
Ashley stood there giggling, seemingly very happy with the outcome.
"You all look paler than I do. Come on guys... isn't this a benefit to you all? So long as I don't betray you all of course... heh heh heh...."
Breathing a sigh of relief, Trevor laughed.
"Ah... thank goodness. I thought you had changed your personality for a second there. You sure like to scare people with your sadistic jokes."
Ashley laughed, and Garett looked at the two. Him and Samantha were completely confused. Why was Trevor laughing? If Ashley wanted to, she could technically kill off the other 3 right now and not have any issues surviving or doing what she wanted, so why would she joke about that?
But Garett realized why soon enough.
It was the same reason that they had tortured Fargar.
She was simply having fun.
She was playing around.
Garett knew this.
As the one who loved Ashley, he gave himself a mental slap to the face for not understanding her better.
He was angry at himself for not realizing this, but there was no time for that.
Coran... Berith...and all the goblin slaves...
They were all being forcefully pushed to the floor.
And it was not a simple push.
No, something was weighing them down with a force so great that they weren't even able to speak or utter a scream.
It was as if gravity had increased a hundredfold, and yet Garett, Trevor, and Samantha were unaffected.
What was going on?
To Ashley though, her mind become completely clear.
She knew exactly what was happening.
Ashley felt like a balloon. She felt like a balloon that was filled with holes, and connected to an air pump. The air pump was constantly flowing the air into her, which would then exit through the gaps in the balloon.
Of course, this flow was not air, but magical energy.
The amount of magical energy within Ashley's body was completely skyrocketing, and flowing out of her thus putting an extreme amount of pressure on anyone anywhere near the party.
Ashley had to stop this flow.
She could feel the energy flowing out of her, and one by one she imagined each of the holes where the energy was leaking from to be closed.
As she closed each hole, it became more and more difficult, and required more and more precision and concentration to close the next one, but eventually she had closed off each and every one of them.
Then, she 'shut off the faucet'.
Ashley had managed to completely conceal her magical aura.
She had gained so much energy from reaching the maximum amount of intelligence that Ashley had become an anomaly of this world.
The other three stood, completely astounded at the numbers that were shown by the messages.
"300,000 MP!?", Trevor shouted.