Appearing in front of the statue Aten looked at the pendant in his hands and cleared away the system messages.Then he proceeded to sit down to rest while putting on the 'Pendant of Lumen'.
"Ha..That was tiring,my mana is almost completely depleted.Guess i have to wait for it to regenerate before going back."
He then sat down quietly and began thinking on how to beat the Umbra.The Umbra was a being made up entirely of Dark attribute mana.It didn't even have a proper physical form,it was just an accumulation of souls that had died due to the Tower of Abyss and had gotten corrupted from the the Dark mana.As such it was incorporeal,unable to be touched nor able to touch corporeal beings.This was also a weakness of it as it was purely made up of Dark attribute mana, Light imbued attacks would do an extra 25% more damage.
The Umbra would also only be able to attack through curses and magic but due to it being merely a collection of dead souls and mana it would have no place to store the mana used for the attacks.Thus,To use spells it would use the mana it was made up of, becoming progressively getting weaker and weaker throughout the fight.So the most effective way to fight it for now would be to stall it and make it waste its mana and deliver the Final blow.
Having thought of the plan Aten got up and started to use his mana which had regenerated 3/4th of its capacity to generate pale green colored wind below his shoes like he had done before and started to step onto the water once again walking step by step toward the shore of the lake.
Reaching the shore he started walking back towards the dormitory looking at the clock tower at the west of Barthos hall.The clock displayed 8:07 am seeing this Aten began to quicken his steps towards the dormitory.Ater reaching the Entrance of the dormitory which was beginning to get crowded as the residents had began to wake up,he started going to the back of the biggest dorm building. At the back of the dorm building was a thick forest he began heading inside the forest going towards the south west direction of the forest looking around for a birch tree while walking he eventually saw a small shack that seemed to be broken down next to a birch tree.
The shack or 'Hidden stall' looked like it had been deserted for years with plants growing on its walls,it seemed to be made up of entirely wood with a roof which had moss growing on it.The stall didn't have a window and although there was a doorway there wasn't a door.
The reason Aten was going here and not the shopping district was because this small hidden stall sold items which were more effective than the ones sold in the shopping district for the same price if not less.It also sold some rare items that he was going to need in the future.
Walking into the stall Aten saw a counter separating the room into 2 halves and a chair on top of the counter was a sleeping snow owl wearing what seemed to be a leather bag the place where it slept seemed to be covered in some tiny white crystals.Aten then went towards the counter and sat down on the chair which made a loud creaking sound.The snow owl opened its eyes then turned its head 90 degrees while looking at him then turned it straight again.
It spoke"It seems that a guest is here.It has been quite a while since one appeared."
"Let me introduce myself,I am Gelu an ice spirit and the one running this small shop."
"I welcome you to my store"
"My name is Aten Hall a first year.I came here to buy some items."
"Well then Aten take a look and find what you want to buy"
Saying that the snow owl slid a thin catalog towards Aten with its leg.Looking at the catalog he could see many useful items such as Subspace ring,Hernir staff,Robe of flames,Fire resistance potion,Frost resistance potion,etc.The subspace pouch cost 3,700 lumen.Then he closed the catalog and said,
"I would like to buy 1 low tier healing vial and 1 low tier mana recovery potion."
"Is that it?There are many more interesting items why not buy those?"
"Well you see I am unable to afford those right now."
"is that so,well your total is 650 lumen 350 for the low tier mana recovery potion and 300 for low tier healing vial."
After Aten payed Gelu he began to stand up and head to the door way.
"Come and buy more next time"
"Of course"
Saying that Aten left the shop and started heading east towards the Hydrangea garden.The Hydrangea garden was where the main character was attacked by the Umbra.Aten while running as fast as he could saw a mass of black slowly walking in the same direction as him a couple of metres away.It was the Umbra the thing he would have to beat to clear the quest.Seeing it he stopped and blew a gust of pale green wind at it managing to throw it back a few metres.The mass of black that seemed to flicker between a black liquid and a deformed human about 1.8metre tall, wearing armor covered with purple fog turned towards Aten and right next to it a floating black colored magic circle formed.
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[Umbra]
Level : 10
Elemental Attribute:Dark
[Risk:High]
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[(2★)Dark spear]
A pitch black spear formed from the magic circle and came flying towards Aten.Aten immediately activated his [(1★)Basic Mana Protection] surrounding himself in a light blue hue and attempted to dodge the spear by moving to the left but it hit his shoulder.The [(1★)Basic Mana Protection] instantly crumbled but it did block some of the damage.The spear now half the length pierced him in the shoulder.
Aten bit his lip to stop himself from screaming.The Umbra now slightly smaller created another magic circle which took longer to complete than the last one,from that circle a chain shot out towards Aten.
[(2★)Dark Binding].
Aten had already jumped to the side predicting the attack recognizing the pattern from the game.Aten then once again activated [(1★)Basic Mana Protection] and started conjuring pale green wind [(1★)Wind Generation] and creating a wall in front of him with it.At the same time a wave of darkness spread towards him [(2★)Darkness Wave]. In an instant a pitch black wave swarmed towards Aten but was blocked by the wall made of wind.The dark spear on his shoulder began disappearing and he began to surrounding himself in the pale green win. As the dark wave and wall of wind disappeared a dark spear came flying and was about to hit him right on his chest but it was deflected by the pale green hue and light blue hue around his body shattering both of them.
As Aten looked at the Umbra which was much smaller than earlier he activated the Pendant of Lumen by channeling mana to it.The amber on the pendant began to glow lightly.Aten also pulled out the mana vial and drank it recovering his mana.
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As the counter began to go down Aten compressed wind into a single point on his index finger.In front of his index finger a small pale green ball of wind lightly started shining white.As Aten pointed the finger at the umbra and released it the Umbra also sent a dark spear which was smaller then the previous ones at him.
Seeing this Aten didn't dodge but rather blocked it with his hand concentrating [(1★)Basic Mana Protection] there.The spear didn't pierce his hand but shattered along with basic mana protection.The umbra which was about 1m tall was hit by a concentrated shot of wind and light exploding on contact.
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Even with that attack the umbra had survived with it getting even smaller it seemed to be about 0.2 m tall it looked like a floating wisp.Once again concentrating wind Aten fired it at the small floating wisp.
A glowing blue screen appeared in front of his eyes.
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[MAIN QUEST:UMBRA]-CLEARED
CLEAR GRADE-A
[Rewards are being given]
→[Passive skill:Aeolus's Blessing] Has been obtained.
[Additional rewards are being provided]
→[Passive Skill:Photographic Memory] Has been obtained.
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