"First, I am gonna have to force them into using the magic circle. Second, I am gonna have to make these reptiles use their earth magic within seconds. Damn it, if only I had a magic core in me. "Eden started fuming over his fate. "Hmm, my gun is kind of useless in this situation. As for the launcher, forget it. The moment these reptiles use their magic I am a goner."
"How much does time bomb costs?"
[The cost of a time bomb is 7sp.]
"But I can't be quite accurate with the timing. I might not even get any results if they didn't activate the magic circle. Wait a minute."
"System, do you have a wireless bomb?"
[Affirmative, the cost of a wireless bomb is 10sp.]
"I will buy one."Eden didn't hesitate anymore. Grabbing the bomb he started climbing down the crevice.
"I never thought I would actually be thankful for that trial. I did max out the mountain climbing skill."
Eden was more than climbing right now. He was jumping, sliding, and climbing as if he had been doing this type of stuff since he was born. He didn't even produce any sound as if he was an assassin. Finally, Eden was hanging right above the leaders.
"Seems like the numbing powder has made their senses useless. Let's hope they can at least feel the pain, or else I am a real goner."
Eden placed the bomb at one of the reptilian-cara's leaders back. Once the job was done without waiting any longer he began climbing up. This time though he started to move sideways.
Eden has been keeping track of the movement of the magician from the beginning, now seems to be a perfect time to make a U-turn. After climbing and jumping around the crevice, while hiding from reptilian-cara and the magicians for around fifteen minutes he was close to getting out of the circle.
However, he had no plans to run away. Just as he reached the border he stopped running. Taking out the cloak he wrapped himself in it. No-one could any longer see his face. Finally, he jumped out of the edge of the crevice and started to walk towards the circle.
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"Leon, I saw him. He has entered the circle. He is coming to the center."
"Hmm. Good job Bosan. With this, we have exactly two thousand living sacrifices within the circle. We will finally be able to make our breakthrough directly into the sage stage. Gustav, start the magic circle."
Swoosh...
A bright light started to glow around creating a perfect circle. Eden suddenly stopped looking around as if startled. Three idiots rushed towards the center as fast as they could.
Within three seconds they reached the center. Eden had activated his sniping skill, hence was able to tell that two of them were grinning while the ringleader was smirking at him.
The countdown reached six when suddenly...
Booooooom...
All three of them were startled. What followed then was a series of explosions.
Boom... Boom... Boom...Boom...
The ground started to shake. Cracks started to appear in the ground. Suddenly the ground started to move and get crushed against each other. At the same time, new ground emerged from the inside. The circle was destroyed.
Cough... Cough... Cough...
All three mages started coughing blood violently, at the same time black blood was dropping out of their mouth, nose, ears. Their eyes were fully red. They looked disgusting right this moment.
The person who was responsible for the mess slowly started turning around, as if he had all the time in the world and didn't care about anything. Only those who truly knew him would understand that he was just showing off what he was able to achieve.
When one leader got killed and another heavily injured, all remaining one thousand nine hundred ninety-eight reptilian-cara at once used their earth magic. The power was so great the reptilian-cara themselves started to lose control over their magic. Which in turn scared them to use even more magic. Add to the fact that all of them had lost their senses to the bare minimum. These reptiles themselves didn't know who was causing them harm. In other words, they were using magic over magic.
At the same time, the person responsible for this mess was leveling up like crazy, at the same time Eden has been earning so many SP that he didn't have any idea what he was gonna do with those. He was gaining title after title.
Eden had already gotten some ideas on how he was able to get more SP from the system. If he was able to make his enemy scared, or if he was able to act tough, or if he was able to kill other beings if he was able to show off and through many other ways; in case he was able to achieve some success, system rewarded him with SP.
The tremor could be felt over hundreds of kilometers of the radius. Scared of the situation many people left the house thinking this was a huge earthquake. Mages were able to sense a huge amount of magic being released. Those who had soldiers sent them to get the idea of the situation. While summoners summoned their mount and headed towards the epi-center of the cause.
The whole event lasted for more than half an hour. In the end, every reptilian-cara got crushed by each other's earth magic. Those three advanced stage mages too got crushed deep inside the ground. Within five kilometers of radius, there was only one survivor, who was still slowly walking out of the dead zone.
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[Title gained: King of Slaughter.]
[Title gained: Master Tactician.]
[Title gained: One Man Army.]
However, Eden didn't care so much about those titles. As far as he was concerned titles didn't give him any money. However, the system did give him some SP for gaining those titles.
"System don't you have any auto-loot features?"
[The price for the auto-loot feature is 500sp.]
"Buy it, SP is the one thing that I don't lack right now."
Eden right now was rich with SP points. Every dead Reptilian-Cara provided him with 200SP. Those three dead advanced stage mages themselves provided him with 1000sp each. Titles gave him SP based on their levels. 'King of Slaughter' alone gave him 10,000sp. Others were comparatively low.
The moment the tremor slowly stopped marking the end of the lives, opening the system Eden looked at the inventory to check out his loots.
"Hmm, 5,997 gold coins, 19,359 silver coins, 500,762 copper coins. Unlimited water pouch, 200 draggers, 50 swords, 3 magical guns, 1999 Reptilian-Cara corpse... What am I supposed to do with their corpse? Warriors corpse? Mages corpse? What am I gonna do with these corpses?"
[Reptilian-Cara are magical beings hence their body contains the magic core. Their scales, covering their body can be used to make armor. Hence are sold for a high price. Mages corpse too consists of the magic core.]
"Than about the warriors?"
[... They are wearing armour.]
"..."
"Alright throw these warriors back inside their coffin holes after removing them off their armor, I am not staying at this place any longer."