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Chapter 30 - The scale of death

I cast "bullet time" just to protect myself in case the skeletons were faster than expected, but no, with half of them paralyzed, I could run through the remaining horde, avoiding their bone hands. Only a few of them carried weapons, so I had time to rehearse...

I discovered, or rather, I verified, that they did not die from being crushed or cut in half; in the end, they ended up recomposing themselves and unifying the broken bones. There was a magic that sustained them. It was a small nucleus, barely a spark, floating in the rib cage.

It wasn't an impossible mission to hit it with the sword, but it was damned slow, especially considering how the more than 500 standing skeletons were approaching and surrounding me even though I didn't stop moving.

When they became very attached, I would rise in the sky and flee somewhere else to start again. It was the first time when I rose when I saw the strange obelisk from which a dark energy emanated.

Lightning magic was also not effective; it only managed to slow them down a little; however, attacks with concentrated light generated fatal damage that could not be regenerated. Exposing them to the energy of life killed them directly...

When I learned all this, more than 60 skeletons were already dead again. The few attacks that hit me during that time barely grazed me or were definitely stopped by my armor, shield and defenses...

Those that were half buried did not worry me; they would still be there for another half hour, and as for those that were trying to surround me, I decided to try a large explosion of life mana...

Not healing wounds or repairing tissue, the life energy found little resistance to devouring the weak energy cores of the undead. Those who did not die in the first volley died in the second, in part from the cumulative effects of My title...

Exterminator: 100% additional damage against rats

100% bonus damage against skeletons

I checked the battlefield in case there was anything of interest to collect. At that moment, the obelisk began to pulse with energy, and another horde of skeletons rose in its place...

"Then they won't stop coming out until I destroy the obelisk or the summon runs out. Well, this is going to be funny."

If I needed 2 waves to finish off the skeletons, this left me energy for another 3 additional rounds...

I released the waves of life energy and climbed to the top of the obelisk to have a good view...

The field was full of inert skeletons. Even when I no longer had the energy to launch a large-scale wave, I still had enough to save a life preserver in case of need.

I climbed down from the obelisk and let the next wave appear. Using both hands, I launched beams of concentrated light with each of my hands. Each beam traveled no less than 20 meters before losing effectiveness; it was like cutting butter; many died when they were hit in their wings. Cores by the lasers, those that remained active when they were cut in half, I sheathed the sword and finished them off on the ground with the spear.

There were some that squirmed or tried to crawl, but nothing serious, nothing that even made me sweat...

The laser operation was repeated four more times before my light mana ran out... leaving them motionless in the middle of the earth or in dry mud took me longer. Let's just say I got bored; it was like aiming at mannequins. No, There was not even a hint of emotion at the moment in this combat... Thus came the tenth wave...

Lacking other resources, I discharged an electric field to slow them down and launched my "bullet time" With my dexterity of 17 close to the human limit, which increased my speed, their bodies slowed down, and my perception of time at half speed was easy to finish. With half of that round without even flinching...

My exterminator title changed again, giving me 200% damage to the skeletons. By the time I finished, it was harder to put my foot on the ground than on the bones... I waited for the next round, but it never came. The obelisk had run out of gas.

I approached the obelisk; it was cold, cold and hard stone... I harvested the little earth energy that I had left and concentrated it on creating a rift in the stone pillar. With a large air blade, I sent pieces of the obelisk to fly all over the prairie.

This entire one-sided massacre had been nothing more than a free experience for me... I turned around and calmly left the meadow, just as I had arrived.

I got to the next door and opened it. This was another small room... just a small altar with a dagger and a bowl...

There was nothing else there, a dagger and an empty bowl. Were they trying to kill me? I voluntarily committed suicide to obtain a bit of a power that made me nauseous (I never liked necromancers, nor could I understand their fans).

I turned around and left; there was nothing in that room for me; death was not an option; I still had two energies left in the tutorial...

The scale room was a little further ahead. I had no emotion in receiving this energy; I would only do it to have some advantage in the game, but nothing more...

"Death is a hard path because at every step it can assault you, if you have come this far you will know what the value of your life is and how fragile it is, but more difficult than valuing your life is accepting that death will even reach your loved ones." dear ones and many times you will not be able to do anything to avoid it, but death is also a powerful force in combat because it is capable of extinguishing the life of the bravest warrior, and if you have gone further you will have seen the power of the armies that death can bring back, although the last step is only reserved for those who renounce their own life to walk the rest of its mysteries, put your hands on the scales and let the weight of your shoulders so that death becomes a reward."

The melon-sized ball of energy crashed into my heart. For a second, I thought my heart was stopping.

"Affinity with the mana of death was created. 1/18100"

"Congratulations on completing the main death mana core during the tutorial."

"Congratulations on partially completing the hidden quest in the Psyche Room, 3/4 completed."

"Congratulations on being the first player with 12 cores of level 3 or higher in the tutorial"

Death Mana Core, Level 4. 1/25000

This time, I didn't waste time practicing with that energy; there was no other living being there but me. I didn't feel like staying a second longer in that hallway because of all the damage it had done to me. Even if it was just "a test," I opened a rift and jumped into the statue room, there was compassion in his eyes...

I sat down to regain energy and meditate when, halfway through my meditation, Data's voice rang.

"Congratulations on being the first player to obtain the advanced rank skill "advanced meditation" *Common: 1/50000* The player will receive the effects of meditation even when walking or doing activities that are not combat or require a large load physical or mental."

Yujuuuu a jackpot. One of the main problems I had had was the inability to recover mana at an adequate rate without having to stop to meditate. This partially solved the problem...

Now there was only the corridor of fire and the corridor of ice. My intuition told me that both, due to the nature of the energies, would be problematic, in some way different from the rest of the tunnels... the question was where to start.

A classic of RPGs was elemental magicians, or at least elemental magic based on these energies: destructive fireballs, ice spikes that fell from the sky, large ice shields or circles of fire that burned anyone who approached. , the soil of every combat mage, and even here in this world where there were no "classes" like mage, warrior, or priest, they would be a combat fanatic's wet dream...

Willing to do the opposite of others until the end, I decided to start with fire energy. Whatever happened, it seemed easier to defeat ice with fire than the opposite. To fight fire, he had the mana of water, or he could even remove the air from an area to extinguish the flames...

While skilled players tended to build their characters based on pure practical power first and then focus on secondary factors, in the case of a cheater, the game was the opposite: first he had to make his character versatile from the base and then go collecting more and more resources to be able to face the different challenges, which of the two options was better? Who would achieve a better result?

I headed towards the penultimate hallway of the tutorial...