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The figure standing at the left of the king suddenly spoke and the pitch of its voice is so deep, lifeless, and it echoes at your very soul, acting arrogant would be the last thing you might want to do when talking with this monster. Facing this unknown hiding in darkness with your comrade in arms could still make you feel powerless, it felt like numbers won't matter and only absolute power can turn fate in the other direction.
Chapter 5: The Ray of Hope
I looked at everyone's status, whether if all are able to withstand the pressure that was released against us. Everyone could barely keep up, some are in the midst of collapse, except for M.kei and Esme both are fine and well, it seems that the energy released by M.kei's is used to protect her mom from the pressure.
King: (shrouded in darkness) (the glow from the kid has Holy properties in them)....
Councilor: (shrouded in darkness) (Seems not everyone can withstand my pressure) You took your time well to get here, don't you guys think, that it was rude to keep his majesty to patiently wait for your arrival..
The pressure was now released as I spoke right after
I may not know noble etiquette please bare with me, I said
Councilor: (shrouded in darkness) Proceed...
Majesty, we are very sorry for not able to arrive earlier since the challenges that was laid on us and the ones we faced kept getting harder on each room we passed and with each challenge, we had to rest up, so we would be in our tip top shape in our next battle.
Councilor: So you are saying that you're in your best form right now and you'll be able to handle everything that will be thrown at you right now!?... Hmmm..
Lets try that claim, shall we..
Suddenly black magical energies started to bubbles up from the hands of the figure standing beside the king and directed it to the bones closed to us. The bones started shaking building up its legs all the way to its arms and head in the span of 7 seconds a skeleton wearing metal helm, chest protector, wielding medieval long swords and bucklers can be seen standing right beside us a total of 5 skeletons making a clacking sound made by their teeth clashing.
While the figure started gathering black bubbling energies on his hand all of us went into our defense positions, specially Esme keeping M.kei closed to her as possible in order to protect her like she always does and the same applies to some people that covered the back of Esme and M.kei, while the skeletons forming their bodies I casted {Inspect II} on it
[Rank II]
[Class 2]
[Skeleton Knights]
[Weakness: Holy attributes skills, Low defense]
Without using boost strength, and haste, I went ahead and tested the monster's durability. Since they formed their bodies right beside us, I was able to just swing my bloody guillotine horizontally which made 3 out of 5 skeleton knights flew a few meters away from me and after I used the skill {Bash} on the 2 beside me, swinging my weapon the opposite way still horizontally, the 2 skeletons bodies crumble but did not disappear, without rest I kicked off the ground and launched myself to the 3 skeletons while positioning the weapon over my head after a second I appeared closed to them and I brought down the bloody guillotine and did a diagonal slash simultaneously hitting all three at the same time.
The 3 skeleton knights bodies broke apart and fell on the floor also didn't disappear just like the the other 2 skeleton knights. Killing 5 skeleton knights took me about 7 seconds in total
I hurriedly check my notifications and saw that I did kill them and received a very generous experience and upgrade points for each monster killed, one thing the puzzles me is that their bodies didn't fade away like how monsters usually do in this dungeon
[Rank II Class 2 Skeleton Knights 580 Exp, and 900 UP]
[Rank II Class 2 Skeleton Knights 580 Exp, and 900 UP]
[Rank II Class 2 Skeleton Knights 580 Exp, and 900 UP]
[Rank II Class 2 Skeleton Knights 580 Exp, and 900 UP]
[Rank II Class 2 Skeleton Knights 580 Exp, and 900 UP]
Councilor: (shrouded in darkness) "Clap", "Clap", "Clap", "Clap" , "Clap"..
Councilor: (shrouded in darkness) well done, You didn't wait for me to command them and went ahead and destroyed them.
Uhh.. your not upset or mad !? As I look up and waited for its reply
Councilor: (shrouded in darkness) No, no I'm not upset as the matter of fact, I'm glad that even 1 of you could destroy this knights at ease.
So is the so called challenge over!?, M.kei said almost whispering to her mom but the monster shrouded in darkness heard her still and said
Councilor: (shrouded in darkness) of-course not little one, it's just the beginning and all of you has to..... (paused)
The pressure was released as it disappeared, the cold and deathly to it was now directed to all of us again
Councilor: (shrouded in darkness)
"PROVE YOUR WORTH"
As soon as he said those words the pressure disappeared again. One of the new skill that got unlocked while battling the wisp {Danger Sense) started blaring
As soon as I ask for my system what is happening, I got a new notification stating that an unknown mana signature is currently being collected by the unknown creature above
The figure shrouded in darkness standing beside its king, both of its hands are now covered with thick black bubbling energy which are more denser than the last. It started raising it's hands then the black energy rain down throughout the entire room, all the bones on the floor including the one I just destroyed starting to form their bodies once again
As soon as I saw what the monster shrouded in darkness was doing, I yelled to everyone to head the the room entrance and we will stand our ground there.
On the way towards the entrance the skeleton knights whose bodies made early started to move to our position. Noticing this, I activated my weapons skill <
The blood familiar nod its head after telling him what to do, then went to my family's location and gave them a temporary blood imprint and then went on its way.
(Both my wife and kid saw the summoning that's why they didn't questioned the familiar when it tried to gave them an imprint)
As soon as we arrived at the entrance all of them besides me went and made a defense circle, trying out some strategies, I stacked vehicles after vehicles at their left and right forming a five layer defense from their sides, hoping the skeleton knights would only enter in the center pathway easing their load even for just a tiny bit.
As soon as I stacked the vehicles I went out and started to destroy the skeletons outside the perimeter of the wall made of cars using boost strength alternating with the skill bash, I was able to hunt skeleton knights with ease sometimes it would take 2 hits before killing 3 to 5 monsters closed to each other but most if the time its only just 1 hit.
I could hear level up notification ever since my familiar started destroying the skeletons, I was able to gain the experience required to level up every 5-6 skeleton knights killed every now and then I go back inside the wall just to update my status and after a while our level and rank went up greatly and I even saw a new notification about unlocking a new feature for the dimension door but for the mean time I shove the idea of checking what is it about at the back of my head.
Every now and then I would go back inside the wall perimeter to update our status and equipment's until we levelled up to 79 in the span of 15 minutes, killing a total of 500 knights in the process
—————Level 33 -> 79 —————————
Title : Gamer, Hoarder
Rank: II -> IV
Host: Jason A.
Age: 34
Lvl: 33 -> 79
HP: 4500 -> 6300 (x2) = 12600
MP: 1800 -> 4200 (+2400)
Exp: 2800/7800
UP: 3 -> 450003 (+450000)
BP: 690 -> 14
SP: 460 -> 0
Str: 150 -> 210 (+60) Int: 90 -> 210 (+120)
Agi: 90 -> 270 (+180) Dex: 54 -> 150 (+96)
Vit: 150 -> 270 (+120) Luk: 50 -> 150 (+100)
Total Str: 210(x)4=840
Total Agi: 270(x)4=1080
Equipment stats:
Attack: 3325 Defense: 1450 M.defense: 700 Agility: 300 Sharpness: 350 Penetration: 350
Total stats: 1260
Other skills: Mechanic I, Carpentry I, Electrician I, Driving II,
Passive:
- Survival I, Pistol Mastery II, Archery IV, Hand to eye coordination VIII, Katana Mastery II, Adaptability III, HP Regen I->Super Regen I(new), Improve Concentration I, Drop & Critical up II, Super Strength II -> III (new), Iron Skin II, Super Speed I -> III (new), Mana Sense I -> II (new), Mana Manipulation II, Mana body II, Mana Aura I -> II (new), Eagles eye I -> II(new),
Dual Wielder (no rank), Hp Max Up (no rank), High-speed Reflex (no rank), Danger sense (no rank), Superhuman Reflex (no rank)(new), ★★ Drop Chance (no rank)(new)
Active:
- Inspect II -> III(new), Boost strength III, Haste II, Bash II*-> III(new), Barrier I, Earth Blades I -> II (new)
Stat combo skills:
Strength & Intelligence:
30 - Power shot (no rank)
90 - Rain Shot (no rank)
150 - Penetration shot (no rank)
210 - Heavenly Moon Wave I->II - V(new)
Strength & Luck:
150 - Critical Strike (no rank)
Strength & Vitality:
30 - Blood Forging I - V
90 - Muscle and Bones Forging I - V
150 - Body and Soul Forging I - EX
Vitality & Intelligence:
90 - Vital Energy I
150 - Mental Defense I
210 - Unlimited energy (no rank)
Intelligence & Luck:
30 - Enchant Luck (no rank)
150 - Future sight (no-rank passive)
Agility & Dexterity:
30 - Hiding (no rank)
90 - Fast Firing I
150 - Wind Walk (no rank)
Strength, Vitality & Intelligence
150 - Flight (no rank)
Agility, Vitality, Dexterity:
90 - Body weight manipulation (no rank)
Ability: (Can only be use for any vehicles owned)
- Speed up I
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Title : The Wife
Rank: II -> IV
Name: Esme A.
Lvl: 33 -> 79
HP: 4500 -> 8100 (x2) -> 16200
MP: 2200 -> 5400 (+400)
Exp: 2800/7800
BP: 690 -> 7
SP: 460 -> 25
Str: 90 -> 270 (+180) Int: 110 -> 270 (+160)
Agi: 90 -> 150 (+60) Dex: 90 -> 150 (+60)
Vit: 150 -> 270 (+120) Luck 47 -> 150 (+103)
Total Str: 270(x)1.5(x)4=1620
Total Agi: 150(x)4=600
Equipment stats:
Attack: 350 Defense: 2250 Magic defense: 1000 Agility: 700 Sharpness: 350 Penetration: 350
Total stats: 1260
Passive:
Knife Mastery III, Scalpel V, Cooking II, House cleaning III, Gardening III, Memorization III, HP Regen II -> Super Regen II (new), Drop & Critical up II, Improve Concentration I*, Super Strength I->III (new), Super Speed I->III (new), Iron Skin III, Mana Sense II, Mana Manipulation II -> III (new), Mana body I*-> II (new) , Mana Aura I(new), Eagles eye I (new)
Hp max up (no rank)(new), Heightened reflex (no rank), Double attack (no rank), ★★ Drop Chance (no rank)(new), Enhanced strength (no rank)
Active:
Inspect II (new), Knife throwing II, Boost strength I**->II (new), Haste II, Earth Wall I->II (new), Mana Shield I->III (new)
Stat combo skills:
Strength & Intelligence:
30 - Power shot (no rank)
90 - Rain Shot (no rank)
150 - Penetration shot (no rank)
210 - Mana wave I - V
Strength & Luck:
150 - Critical Strike (no rank)
Strength & Vitality:
30 - Blood Forging I - V
90 - Muscle and Bones Forging I - V
150 - Body and Soul Forging I - EX
270 - Immortality I - EX
Vitality & Intelligence:
90 - Vital Energy I
150 - Mental Defense I
210 - Unlimited energy (no rank)
270 - Pseudo Complete Defense (no rank)
Intelligence & Luck:
30 - Enchant Luck (no rank)
150 - Future sight (no-rank)
Agility & Dexterity:
30 - Hiding (no rank)
90 - Fast Firing I
150 - Wind Walk (no rank)
Strength, Vitality & Intelligence
150 - Flight (no rank)
270 - Pseudo Awakening I - V
Agility, Vitality & Dexterity:
90 - Body weight manipulation (no rank)
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Title : Genius
Rank: II -> IV
Name: M-kei A.
Age: 5
Lvl: 33 -> 79
HP: 6300 -> 8100 (x2) -> 16200
MP: 1800 -> 5400 (x2) -> 10800
Exp: 2800/7800
BP: 690 -> 2
SP: 460 -> 25
Str: 90 -> 270 (+180) Int: 90 -> 270 (+180)
Agi: 52 -> 150 (+98) Dex: 30 -> 150 (+120)
Vit: 210 -> 270 (+60) Luk 30 -> 80 (+50)
Total Str: 270(x)1.5(x)4=1620
Total Agi: 150(x)4=600
Equipment stats:
Attack: 0 Defense: 2450 Magic defense: 700 Agility: 350 Dexterity: 350
Total stats: 1190
Passive:
Building blocks (Lego) EX, Structural design S, Good at games I, Quick learner II, Hand to eye coordination VII, Super Regen III**, Improve Concentration I, Defense Up II, Super Strength I->III (new), Super Speed I->III (new), Iron skin I**->II (new), Mana Sense II**->III (new), Mana Manipulation III, Mana body I->II (new), Eagles eye I (new), Drop & Critical up I (new)
Hp max up (no rank)(new), Enhanced strength (no rank)(new), Double Attack (no rank)(new)
Active:
Inspect II, Throwing III, Haste I, Boost strength I, Mana Hands I**-III (new), Mana Shield I->II (new), Meteor I->II (new)
Stat combo skills:
Strength & Intelligence:
30 - Power shot (no rank)
90 - Rain Shot (no rank)
150 - Penetration shot (no rank)
210 - Mana Blaster I-V
Strength & Vitality:
30 - Blood Forging I - V
90 - Muscle and Bones Forging I - V
150 - Body and Soul Forging I - EX
270 - Immortality I - EX
Vitality & Intelligence:
90 - Vital Energy I
150 - Mental Defense I
210 - Unlimited energy (no rank)
270 - Pseudo Complete Defense (no rank)
Intelligence & Luck:
30 - Enchant Luck (no rank)
Agility & Dexterity:
30 - Hiding (no rank)
90 - Fast Firing I
150 - Wind Walk (no rank)
Strength, Vitality & Intelligence:
150 - Flight (no rank)
270 - Pseudo Awakening I - V
Agility, Vitality & Dexterity:
90 - Body weight manipulation (no rank)
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Since the last time I updated our status, my wife and kid unlocked a stat combo skill called Immortality, the visible changes that they received is that their skin have some glow in them. I asked my system for a quick question about immortality since my kid is just 5 years old and I'm hoping it wouldn't stop her growth when she got the skill
[Master, the immortality skill won't hold back your daughters growth until she reached 18 years old]
[At every rank the skill increased the life span of the user will increase a certain amount and it varies from each rank groups I-V, VI-VII, VIII-X, S-SSS then when the user reach the Rank EX, life span would be infinite]
(Daang, system that's pretty overpowered)
The monster shrouded in darkness starting to get excited by watching the fights with the humans versus an army of skeleton knights, the king on the other hand noticed his subordinate odd behavior which seems like he wanted to join in and have some fun ,its king immediately told his subordinate to join the fight. After a few minutes passed the figure that re-animated the skeleton knights bowed down facing its king and walked the aisle.
That being shrouded in darkness slowly moving in our direction and as soon as our eyes met, the shroud covering its appearance has started to come off little by little starting from its feet. The monster's body are made of dark purple metallic armor, joints are covered what looks like purple flames and the darkness inside its helm only shows its blue flaming eyes of evil and a few seconds after, the monster inside has fully shown its body and I instantly casted {Inspect III} on it
[Rank III]
[Class 3]
[Variant Dullahan]
[Undying]
Weakness: Holy Element, Slow Movement
M.kei's POV
I wanted to help my parents, but I'm so weak even though my level is going up at the same rate as my parents I'm still powerless.
First time I felt power surged inside of me was the time when I longed for something that could help them in their struggle, but my dad was able to turn thing around then after the power just subsided.
We just entered a very wide room filled with shiny objects and precious materials. The room got lots of bones littered the floor, I was scared to the point I held my mom's hand tightly. She said its going to be ok, she also said my dad will protect us, no matter what.
Even though my mom is encouraging me to believe on my dad prowess, I noticed that her voice is quavering like she is afraid of something and I'm unsure what it was until we were faced with that black blob standing in the king's balcony.
That blob was looking down on us, as soon as we arrived below the balcony, mom's legs are shaking and she started to sweat profusely, also while looking at the blob fear can be seen on mom face.
I wanted to helped her more to ease that pain she's feeling, to give her hope that everything is going to be ok, then after I wished so hard somehow inside of me that warm and calming energy started to run its course once again. I'm starting to understand how it works, this energy is so mysterious its coursing thru inside my body and a bit after I felt like I could control it.
I willed the energy to come out from the hands holding my mommy, trying to cover her whole until I finally saw her relax, her legs aren't shaking anymore and her face is starting to have courage in them once again. I felt so happy that it works, I was so thankful from that energy that it came out when I needed it the most.
~{ Divine Realm }~
A beautiful lady with a very warm and mysterious aura wearing garments made of silk so thin that the silhouette of her figure can be seen, she is currently walking back to her chambers and started to wonder about the feeling that she felt moments ago.
A will of some sort is tugging on her divinity and for some unknown reason the element she currently governing has found another user.
(Picture here)..
This lady went and grabbed her artifact that holds some of her divine powers and waited until she felt another tug, this time around it was so hard that she immediately transfer that tugging feeling to that of her artifact which is connected to her very soul.
She was able to peek on her mysterious friend and found out that the tugging was made by a kid who longed for something that could protect the people she cherished.
Somehow it piques her interest and started to look after the child of the lower realm
~{ Throne room }~
(-Back to M.kei-)
That blob once again released that ill feeling my mom felt a while ago but this time I didn't let it touch my mom as I willed that energy to protect her once again. It somehow felt easy to control that energy now than I first felt it.
I thought it could be my dad's helper that is helping me control it better but as time goes by I found out that some entity outside of our world is the one helping me all this time. (But This story is for some other time)
My dad told us to go back to the entrance when that blob started to gather that cold and bad energy to its hands and scattered it inside the room, I could see bones shaking on the floor then my mom placed me on her shoulder while she runs toward the the entrance door. Before we reached the door we stopped running and saw my dad has a twin but this one is all red entirely and its feet looks like the genie from Alladin. I heard dad talking to his twin telling it to protect all of us but my mom and I was its number 1 priority.
Daddy's twin magically glided toward us and placed a glowing red mark on mom's forehead and mine, somehow I felt that it was alive, it has the same vibe as my daddy and on reflex I thanked it. The twin smiled at me and pats my head then went off to do its duty, it really felt like its daddy in another body. Once the red skin twin of dad pats my her dad and mom's face made a weird look and it looks like they just threw it at the back of their like its nothing important.
My dad's been busy protecting us from time to time with his red twin defeating skeletons,
every now and then dad's been updating his status and moms helping me update my status as well. The energy that I was able to control a while back has somehow grew astronomically and its starting to change me from the inside at the same time after we updated our status I noticed my mom's aura changed for the better. Mom looks more magical, when you look closer and focus your attention to it more, you will be able to notice a glow in it. Then after my attention changed to myself when I saw that my skin is doing the same thing.
While watching people fights and try to defend us from harm, I really wished that I could ease their struggle and help them somehow until a feeling of something that is telling me to stretched both my arms straight then open my palm and faced it to the skeletons, then I heard a whisper telling me to repeat after her in-order {Mana hands}, {Mana Blaster}, {Mana hands}, {Meteor} and as soon as I said those words that warm and calming energy inside of me got mixed in and combined with the other energy we got from when we updated the status page.
A couple seconds after you could see that both my arms started to glow in golden light with blue streak of spark then on my palm a huge rushed of mana and a golden energy gathered. A second after, it was fired from where I was and made a wide beeline of energy that swallowed every skeletons on its course and went straight through the rooms wall, breaking it apart and went passed the wall through the horizon outside.
-M.kei pov cut-