"Like hell we are!" (Fez)
Blood continued to spill forth from the witch's throat as she gasped for fresh air. So she still needs air to breath? High leveled Adventurer's could substitute it with magic, perhaps it was a feint. It was impossible for someone with an origin class to suffocate. It seemed that Fez had planted curses everywhere around the area.
"[Herculean strength Ex], [Herculean strength], [Atlas' Biceps], [Atlas' Biceps Ex], [God-like rejuvenation], [High existence], [superior battle sense],
[Hero's strength(imitation)], [Demon lord's power(imitation)], [Aura of authority(imitation)] [Divine speed of idol] "(James)
[Demon lord's power(imitation)] allowed James to enhance his mana pool by 3 digits in order the fuel the other skills. [Divine speed of idol] let's him borrow a person's speed, it was usually a useless utility skill as the person who the user is borrowing speed from must be viewed as an idol,and it could only be used once at a time so it can't borrow from multiple people.
Typically this 'idol' is a person that is a common part of the user's life like their parents and when the skill is active, the 'idol' can't move at all. Right now my body doesn't have my soul in it so it was already lifeless, this skill must have been prepared just so an encounter like this would not immediately mean it was the end. Stacking all his skills up, his strength have been raised by at least 14 digits and his speed surpassed the enemy's.
[High existence] was used to give him some resistance to time and space manipulation. It seems he had been preparing for a long time, but aren't his skills too overpowered? Stacking all of them together and even having a skill to support the mana cost for a short while... If the SS-tier classes didn't exist, this was what the pinnacle of the world would have looked like.
Unfortunately the SS-tier classes transcend stats. Breaking through his meagre resistance, [The witch's coffin] activated once again, bringing James alone into it's interior. It was not a subject of discussion about what would happen to James, we all knew that it was important to bring him back immediately. It wasn't time to fool around anymore. I needed to somehow break apart her defense. Thankfully, I had competent companions.
Just after James was abducted...
" You've triggered my trap card. After you activate a skill, your mana pool is cursed by being reduced by 80%. Subsequently when sound enters your ear, the curse takes away your sense of touch, taste and smell, and overloads them to drive your consious insane. When sound exits from your throat after you exhaled air from the shock of the second curse ,all your stats are reduced by 15%. You're rolling on the ground by your mind being driven insane, a curse is activated to rain shards of darkness into your skin. They aren't real shards and therefore would deal no physical damage, but the pain is still there pierce into your mind. I wonder if you can still endure it? In an instant, you would have lived a whole life in a dream, each time they would play completely differently but you'll always end up in the same spot of dying from a failure of any sort. Do you understand now? If you don't release my friends, there will be an eternity of pain. "(Fez)
" Guhh!... [One who takes all]! "(W)
In an instant, every curse was erased and the witch was left gasping from the shock. She took away the curses themselves and their side effects as well, acting as a debuff cleanser.
" [Theory of evolution]! "(Iyori)
"[Final hit: Cry of the banshee]!" (Fez)
A large dark purple beam of mass destruction weaved through the air, ignoring everything but the witch. It was auto locked to the target and matched their agility, but the enemy was clearly too exhausted to escape. Caught by surprise she didn't make an attempt to run.
"[The witch's coffin]! Sent the beam into the coffin!" (W)
The distortion in air opens up, forming a black mass that stood in the way of the attack...unfortunately it didn't stop the attack. [Theory of evolution], a class skill from Iyori's new origin class had enhanced the attack to disable the enemy's skills. James had reappeared back in the cafe an instant before the beam clashed with the enemy. A bright light swallows the cafe, the witch had also contemplated using [One that takes all] but that would disable it and free Emily's soul. So she withstood the pain.
Standing still, enduring her injuries, the witch waits for her natural recovery skills to regain her consciousness. Fez was left without anymore mana due to that last attack, only Iyori could have enough conceivable firepower to destroy the witch. There was roughly around 10 seconds. Walking briskly, Iyori endured the pressure emanating from the unconscious body. On the last second, she placed her palm and chanted.
" [Omni-drain] " ( Iyori )
Colour itself was vanishing from the already pale complexion and the clothes of the witch. Followed by the moisture of the witch's body and mana. She was actually middle-aged to somewhat young looking but now even her beauty was sucked out of her. Wrinkles formed, giving the complementing image of the witch's stereotypical look.
No matter how you looked at the situation, the witch had almost killed her sworn friends. People who gave her a second chance to return to adventuring, despite not having the need themselves. They had shown her a kindness she may not ever receive in her life again, that was why this time she gave a silent vow. Never to lose her friends again, she would spend her life to protect them. Who was she to fear death when her previous subordinates sacrificed themselves?
The witch was only a second away from returning back to consciousness, but even that was sucked away. Everything was being taken, irony of the witch's trump card [One that takes all]. The only thing that Iyori wasn't able to take was the origin class and any of the witch's skills. Was it because of the witch's resistance? Well, they would affect it somewhat but it was just simply out of the scope of the skill.
Some skill manifest more than 1 ability depending on how they're used, some have strength to accompany the skill's long name. It was only a tradition to believe skills with long names are more powerful. But like any other skill, their superiority comes with usage. Well, it was still somewhat true with some long-named skills summoning massive power and a wide versatility.
However single word skills like [Death] and [Conquest] could also hold a lot of power. One such power is [Omni-drain], the idea was that it was the very opposite of healing. Instead of giving, it took, and it took from the very 'core' of objects. And the core of a person as well, the soul.