A deafening silence.
The area surrounding Ray has become very quiet.
It's like the presence of sound has ceased to exist.
All the things around...
The Brood Queen which was about to devour Ray, the ball of spiders wriggling on its back, and the spiders chasing Ray from behind like mad.
Everything within the Radius of ten meters around Ray has become still.
The time has stopped!
An invisible sphere has caught everyone in the zone where time has stopped!
With mana on his eyes, Ray could see a bluish sphere made of potent mana that has caught the surrounding creatures.
It was his 2nd Unique Ability.
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[Chrono Sphere (Unique Active)]
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Consume a great amount of mana to cast a sphere with a 10-meter radius within a designated area. Freeze time within the sphere for 5 seconds. (CD 30 minutes)
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The skill has consumed a great amount of mana, devouring more than half of his remaining mana despite him being gifted with a ton of mana points.
Ray look at the mouth of the Brood Queen.
Earlier, he wanted to go behind on its back but seeing its head close to him...
It was a chance.
Ray didn't think that the Brood Queen would actually try to eat him, he was just a small person in comparison to its size.
It would be like eating a single peanut.
What individual would settle for the satisfaction of eating a single peanut?
The Brood Queen's Wrath made Ray think that the Boss would most likely just kill him.
And there are a ton of ways of killing him without approaching him.
Crushing him with its legs would be perhaps a little easier in comparison to eating him.
It was hard for Ray to approach its head directly.
That's why Ray had put off the idea of making its head his target.
But it seems Ray had underestimated its wrath.
It seems the Brood Queen's anger had led to it wanting to eat him.
However.
Such a move was a huge mistake for its part.
Because of the Chrono sphere, its head is now defenseless against Ray.
Ray tried to feel the fire elementals around and found out that because of the Chrono sphere, they were also stuck in a time freeze.
Because of his repeated use of the skill [Flamethrower], he had learned how it worked, and with it, he had also learned how to detect the presence of fire elementals.
The [Flame thrower] skill works by attracting fire elementals from the surroundings in him, and after they were attracted in his hands, after covering them in mana and activating the skill that acts like a circuit.
The torrents of flames would then appear.
But with the fire elementals being frozen in time, it was futile.
It seems that he couldn't use the [Flame Thrower] skill.
It was a pity, but still, it wasn't a big deal.
Ray then activated a perk from his sacred crest.
"Borrowed Power!"
Overwhelming mana has then surrounded Ray, as he felt himself being filled with power.
[Borrowed Power Activated!]
[Strength + 52!]
[Agility + 50!]
[Vitality + 54!]
[Mana + 60!]
The Unique perk of his crest is a perk that anyone with the mark could use, and as Ray activated it, he could then feel the effects of the perk.
The perk [Borrowed Power] works by borrowing status equivalent to the basic status of the contractor.
And as Ray was the contractor, it was like his status just doubled!
And this will continue to be in one whole minute!
Ray then summoned a short sword on each of his hands.
He gathered all his power on his two hands as he had then thrown them towards the Brood Queens eyes!
And with double his strength and agility, the power behind it isn't just double, but exponentially stronger!
Unlike the fire elementals, the swords, Ray had thrown covered with his mana didn't get frozen by the Chrono sphere, they didn't just proceed without a problem, but proceed gloriously!
The power was overwhelming, the power behind the sword enabled the sword to dig deep into the eyes of the Brood Queen, making Ray see the splashed blood that was then frozen by the Chrono sphere.
Ray couldn't even see the handle of the swords.
2 seconds have passed!
But Ray is still isn't finished yet!
2 more swords then flew towards another 2 eyes of the Brood Queen!
3 seconds have passed!
Another 2!
4 seconds have passed!
And finally, 2 more swords sealed the last eyes of the Brood Queen!
As the last second was about to arrive, Ray had then stabbed the Brood Queen's head as he then used the sword as a platform to throw himself on its back! As he throws himself, he didn't forget to recover the sword. Right now, he only had two short swords remaining, and each of them being of vital importance.
5 seconds have passed!
The time resumes!
*SCREEEEECK!!!
The Brood Queen gave a loud monstrous shriek as it suddenly moved like crazy from the accumulated pain cause by the delayed time.
On the back of the Brood Queen, Ray felt like it was a magnitude 10 earthquake as he holds his ground by embracing a large thorn on its armored back.
'It really has great vitality, it's still alive from my attacks' Ray praised the vitality of the Brood Queen.
'As one would expect from a boss'
As the frozen time resumed, Ray then pointed his free hand into the ball of spiders.
"Flame thrower!"
*Shriek!
*Shriek!
Flames covered the ball, turning it into a ball of fire!
Receiving notifications of kills like crazy, Ray in his surprise, discovered a type of spider unharmed by the flames.
And these spiders are slowly killing the fire using its silk.
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[Firefighter Spiders]
[Type: Monster]
[Grade: 1 - Special]
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Stats:
Str: 10
Agi: 15
Vit: 15
Mana: 20
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Skills:
Fire Fighter (Active): Spray anti-fire silk on an area to kill fire.
Fire Resistance E (Passive): Offers a medium amount of resistance to fire.
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Description:
A new type of spider specially cultivated due to a recent calamity suffered by the Brood Queen's swarm.
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Ray saw the Firefighter spiders use its butt to spray silk killing the fire around.
But as the Brood Queen is still moving like crazy, the ball is waving around causing many spiders to fall.
Then Bang!
The ball of spiders got thrown off the Brood Queen.
Then Ray could see...
Underneath the ball of spiders from before...
There's a lot of disgusting creepy holes producing larva.
It's a scene that would surely cause massive fainting to those with Trypophobia.
Ray could even see one larva hatching a Firefighter spider.
The spiders born from the hole seems to be undergoing fast-paced growth that would turn them into semi-adults in a few seconds.
However, the pain was still causing the Brood Queen to keep on dancing that after a while, even the newborns are being thrown, in the end, it was only Ray remaining on its back.
Ray then slowly move towards the leg joints of the Brood Queen while holding his ground using the thorns around to hold.
There were still about 30 seconds left before the duration of the [Borrowed Power] is consumed.
with a short sword, Ray then slowly hacked a leg of a spider away!
Each leg was covered in hard armor, but between the joints, he could see the more vulnerable part.
Ray started striking the vulnerable area with heavy blows.
*Hack!
*Hack!
*Hack!!!
With great strength, Ray managed to hack a leg after a few seconds! making the Brood Queen out of balance.
Now, even with pain, the Brood Queen has realized that the small enemy is trying to cut off all of its legs on one side.
The Brood Queen has then stopped the earthquake as it put its everything in hatching spiders.
But because of the quakes stopping, Ray's other hand is now free!
Two swords then began hacking at the legs as the speed of a leg being cut down has doubled!
*Thud!
Another leg has fallen!
Another batch of eggs has hatched, and the fallen survivors from before started climbing on the Brood Queen's legs.
However, they are not fast enough!
Third leg down!
*Thud!!!
As the third leg falls with a loud thud, one leg couldn't hold the balance of the Brood Queen, as it caused the Brood Queen to tilt on the side.
Because of the tilting, a lot of spiders started sliding as Ray could see a bunch of them fall near him.
Now holding again on a thorn to hold ground, Ray defended against the sliding spiders with his free hand.
And as he could breathe again, he then started hacking the last leg on one side with one hand.
With not even half of it hacked, the remaining wounded leg couldn't hold the weight of the spider as it got severed forcefully by the force of the weight.
Boom!
The Brood Queen falls as all of its legs on one side are gone.
The Brood Queen is now immobile!
Because of the force of the fall, even Ray wasn't unscathed by the impact.
With slight pain in his body, Ray then looks at the holes which are spawning larvae.
It seems that now, he is on the final part.
...
Afterward, Ray started burning the holes one after another to stop the production of larvae at the same time as he was defending himself at the remaining surviving spiders.
After a while, it was only Ray and the Brood Queen left, as Ray continued to burn larvae-making holes.
When all of the holes were burned, Ray then picked one hole for his final attack.
As his final attack, Ray then slowly cooked the Brood Queen's insides through the hole.
During cooking, Ray could feel the Brood Queen give a strong twitch for a few times that would make him bounce on its back.
Also, whenever it twitches, its burned inside that was mixed with its blood, would spurt on all of its holes, making several fountains of caramel show at the same time.
This scene keeps on repeating, but after a while, it had then stopped...
[Congratulations! You have killed the 2nd grade Boss! Brood Queen!!!]
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Wasteland Portal.
Five people could be seen near the portal.
"Are you really going to act as a scout?" A schoolgirl asks the schoolboy, Yale, in concern.
"We have no choice; I am the only one who could detect danger with my skill [Animal Instinct] upfront " Yale said.
"But..." As the schoolgirl was about to continue, she was suddenly interrupted.
"I could also fight in front! I am the one who wants to revive him the most" Another schoolgirl said.
"Pfft! Could you girls even fight? Why don't you just leave all the fighting to us men, and go cheer us on the sidelines" a man said, pumping his chest with a fist.
"Are you mocking me?" A woman said coldly. It was the office lady, Flaye.
"No, no, leader, I'm not mocking you, you are not a girl~ you are a woman! you are different!" the man said.
"Shut up Cole… everyone, there's one thing I would like to clarify first... We are not here to play around" Flaye suddenly said to everyone seriously.
"We have already discussed everything earlier when you had all decided to accept my crest, everything, would be as we discussed." ...
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