Richie consecutively burned every coin he possibly could gathering momentum in his original bounce coin shot. It collided against the wall to his left, and bounced with incredible force in the direction of Lin Hao.
"Lin Hao! Grab it and spin with it! Throw it at the boss or else!!!" Richie shouted with great urgency, Lin Hao reacting in accordance to the coin flying right at him.
He cast one of his previous skills, [Volcanic Enhancement] but on himself, in order to force his body to move faster to catch the coin.
He raised his hand into the air, catching the coin. It burned immensely as he spun himself with the force in the coin, preforming multiple 360 spins.
[You are inventing a new skill!]
Volcanic might gathered itself in the coin Lin Hao was holding within his hands.
He burned every last ounce of his Cubic Reservoir in order to make this next throw count, causing it to gain a massive volcanic charge.
[Skill] Volcanic Fastball
[Rank]:0
[Description]
Imbues whatever you are holding with volcanic power to become a potent projectile. Upon burning all of your cubic reservoir into it, the item gains a special effect.
[Item now pierces through all defences!]
The system window burst in front of Lin Hao as he chucked the coin like a flaming fast ball. It collided directly with the Cult Leader's face rapidly, burning a gigantic hole in his head.
But the attack did not stop there, it exploded into pieces, burning and searing his entire body inside out. He couldn't even make a sound, or register what had happened.
He had died upon impact, everything else was just a fancy show.
The pressure that was taking over the room had now instantly disappeared. All of the unholy energy that was obstructing the party vanished into thin air, as Richie let out a cry of victory.
"Yahoo! Can you really believe we did that! I mean wow!" Richie was ecstatic, Fu Mei raised her hands to then spray the leftover water from the geyser at him. Causing Richie to jump up in shock. "Hey what the hell man, it's so cold!"
However, Fu Mei nonchalantly waved it off. "Whoops." She said sarcastically.
Lin Hao moved to pick up the glaive, but Richie discouraged him. "Don't worry about that thing Lin Hao. Maybe you should use a different weapon instead, that one's so big!"
Before Lin Hao could say anything further, the notification window sprang itself in front of all three of them.
[Achievement unlocked, first to clear (Fortress of Huln). +3 to all Stats!]
A wave of power washed over all of them, as the difference began to show through them. "Wow, I'm so lucky. My intelligence stat is just so low without all these boosts!"
Lin Hao felt stronger as a whole, and any potential weaknesses Fu Mei had were now brushed up slightly.
[Distributing Rewards...]
A massive chest full of potential rewards appeared in front of the party, the corpse of the boss now disappearing into thin air. But something strange stood out to Lin Hao from this.
The body of the boss disappeared into a weird matrix of circuitry and data. Leaving all of them confused, "See what I said Lin Hao. Video game! V-I-D-E-O G-A-M-E" He emphasized the last part as annoyingly as he could.
Then he immediately ran over and attempted to dig through the treasure chest.
"Oh come on you stupid rewards chest, just open already!!!" Richie almost banged his head against the chest, but he had learned from his previous attempt to open the door from earlier. This time he was exercising precautions.
...Until he slammed himself face first into it trying to pry the chest open.
With some work however, he managed to get it open. He was digging through it immediately like a rat in a pile of garbage.
"Guys get the fuck over here! Look! Loooooook!" Richie began to exclaim like a horn constantly blaring at them. He took out a strange and unusual cube that glowed with dark and unusual energy all over it. It was compromised of a weird circuitry.
"Hey Richie I don't think we should use that thing." It looked suspicious to Lin Hao, like a power that could corrupt them. "Oh no Lin Hao, don't tell me you want to throw it away! Just look at it first!" Richie handed over the cube to Lin Hao, who looked at it's status.
[Black Magic Cube]
[Description]
"Grants the wielder control over dark magic. May merge with their current Cubic Power and transform it into something new."
"You see Lin Hao! We gotta evolve. But who's gonna use this. I don't think it should be me. I got enough as it is. And I don't wanna turn...Edgy..." Richie made a face, instinctively cringing at the thought of himself turning "bad and dark".