novelraw Chapter 162: Good Day
Chapter 162: Good Day
Effects: Activated by temporarily halving your MP and Stamina by 50%. Effects of regen rate are unaffected.
Create Dawn: ATK +100, ATK + 10 for all allies and summons. You can use the skills [Blessing of Eos],[Morning star], and [Glory] at Dawn.
Blessing of Eos (Passive): Activates if horizon is visible behind your enemy. Your attacks will be mirrored with 20% power.
Morning Star: Summon the projection of the brightest star for one minute. Critical rate +10%, Critical damage +50%,
Glory (Passive): Create a halo of sunlight around you and your allies. Frontal assault deals 10% bonus damage, the halo will increase DEF by 1 with every kill.
Duration: 30 minutes
CD: 1 day
Create Dusk. ATK +100, Agility +5 for all allies and summons. You can use the skills [Vesper’s Blessing], [Nocturne], and [Erebus] at Dusk.
Vesper’s Blessing (Passive): Activates if Shadows are visible behind your enemy. You can link your attacks with the enemy’s shadows at 80% power.
Nocturne: Veil the ground in shadows for one minute. Ignore defense by 50%, increase weakness damage by 20%.
Erebus (Passive): Create halo spears for every enemy you have attacked. The spears will attack at random with 1-5% of your power. They are invulnerable as long as the skill is active.
Duration: 30 minutes
CD: 1 day
Twilight: Using Sweet Nightmare at Dawn and Good Day at dusk will enact Twilight. Using both abilities together will also enact Twilight regardless of time and space.
[During Twilight, all effects can be activated simultaneously]
These were the prowess of an Epic-ranked weapon. When he was in the sanctuary, there was no way such skills would be allowed. Not only were the abilities blocked, even the ATK was nerfed to 200.
‘I should retreat after a blitz attack.’
Zyrus didn’t let the surge of power cloud his judgment. His MP and stamina were halved, and there were hundreds of scorpions. This didn't take into account the other unknown monsters who might be lurking in this desert.
*Hissssss*
The scorpion leader tried to calm down the others, but how could Zyrus let the chance slip by?
[Arcane Lance]
Zyrus used half of his remaining mana to create black spears tinged with poisonous aura. [Blessing of Eos] and [Glory] had a great synergy if you could instantly kill your enemy.
[Shackles of Nihility]
Every ounce of his MP was consumed with this. He felt feverish as blood rushed out from his nose and ears, but even so, he smiled as he saw the battlefield with his blurry eyesight.
More than a hundred scorpions that surrounded him were bound by purple shackles. Their already unstable formation became even worse.
Zyrus swept twilight crusher in all directions and launched the spears hovering around him. Just by infusing a tiny bit of his aura he had converted the arcane lances into attacks dealt by his weapon.
Only those who stood at the apex of arcana could pull this off as easily as he had done.
‘They will die in ten seconds.’
Some might think that his method of fighting was stupid, but Zyrus believed otherwise. He knew better than anyone that using a weapon that was way above your level was asking for death.
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But that didn’t apply to those who knew how to use their cards right.
8 Seconds…7 Seconds…6 Seconds…
*Schlk*
*Hisssssss*
His abyssal spears struck the bound scorpions, and at the same time, the scorpion leader retaliated with its skill. No one had noticed when the ghoul had reached near the backlines.
5 Seconds…4 Seconds…3 Seconds…
*Tchaang*
The scorpions shot off gray beams with their tails. Their speed was too fast to see whether they were a projectile or a laser beam type attack. Regardless of which, Zyrus knew that they'd tear through him like cheese.
2 Seconds…1 Second…
Hundreds of faint black spears attacked the half-dead scorpions bound by the shackles of nihility. The mirror attacks triggered by Vesper’s Blessing had no more than 20% strength remaining, but what mattered here was the poison and abyss attribute.
*Clang*Clang*Clang*
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..
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Metallic bangs echoed throughout the area as the gray beams struck Zyrus. Or rather, they struck the orange aura that formed around him. Glory created a halo of sunlight around him and his allies, and with each kill the halo would increase the DEF by 1.
*Craccck*
“Damn that hurt!”
Zyrus groaned under the almost broken sphere of light. 100 defense was comparable to a unique grade armor. The might of the scorpion’s attack was easy to gauge from the fact that it almost destroyed the Glory’s halo. The fact that he was practically naked without the Lorica Squamata didn’t help either.
‘Still, it would be overpowered with my summons.’
Zyrus wiped the blood from his mouth and faced the scorpion leader, who at the moment had its leg pinned down by the green skulled ghoul.
He used his talents once again to recover his MP and stamina. Even though the leader was temporarily immobilized, scorpions wouldn’t just stand there and let him do as he wished. He had to make every second count.
[Morning Star]
A blurry red sun appeared behind him. Adding the blood mist that arose from his talent’s activation, the current scene looked like a landscape from hell.
[Spear aura]
Zyrus ran while channelling all of his stamina. The mark on his chest flared up as well as he had activated the Devourer’s effect.
The stellar attribute was somewhat hard to grasp even for him. But after months of practice, he was certain of one thing: It hit harder than any attribute he’d ever seen.
Zyrus made full use of his agility and climbed over the unorganized scorpions. His target was well within a hundread feet.
*Hissssss*
‘Argh…it’s perceptive,’
Before he even breached the 50-foot radius, Zyrus found that there was a hole carved on his shoulder. The scorpion leader’s attack speed was nothing to laugh at.
‘But it’s too late…’
*Hissssss*
*Splatter*
Dozens of aura spears struck the scorpion leader along with Zyrus’s twilight crusher. With so many concentrated attacks on its head some were bound to trigger the critical hits. Naturally, Zyrus took another hit on his stomach as well.
But this place wasn’t the sanctuary where one had to bring down a monster’s HP to 0 in order to kill it. The critical rate and damage were more like the weapon’s enchantments that dealt more damage rather than plain numbers.
The scorpion leader couldn’t be more dead. Its subordinates were useless since none of them could match Zyrus’s agility once he went all out.
‘Time to retreat.’
[Earth Movement]
Of course, he had used his blood to poison the leader’s corpse before leaving. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the scorpions had something like a funeral ceremony?
…
Zyrus discovered that travelling in the desert was easier than on land, at least for those who could move underground. At this moment he felt like he was swimming in a swamp as he went deeper and deeper into the ground.
“Guooooo!”
The ghoul was having a good time as well. With no restrictions in his traits Zyrus was able to bring it along with ease.
‘Let’s see…Zirnitra is on the right.’
He located the duo with his connection and moved in their direction. The first thing they needed in their mission was to figure out the overall terrain and the types of monsters that lived in this desert.
‘I thought there’d be some creatures living underground as well…’
Zyrus kept his vigilance despite the lack of any other lifeforms. Perhaps the scorpions and sandworms had eaten all the other species, or they were invaders who now lived on this barren desert. Regardless of which, being able to move unhindered gave him a lot of opportunities.
At the same time, his understanding of dungeons had deepened ever since coming to the Streit bastion. Back on earth he had figured that Dungeons were fundamentally fragments of spacetime.
Natural dungeons were formed due to irregularities and congestion in the flow of mana. The objects and environment within a dungeon could take millions of years to fully assimilate with the laws of the world.
The more fragile a world’s boundary was the more it was prone to invasion. The strength of the world’s will and its laws were related to life that was born on that world, and vice versa. After talking with the will of the earth Zyrus had become quite familiar with this aspect.
‘This leads to the question: Who are the bug like aliens? Where are they from? How and why are they invading the universe?’
Out of the three, the last one was easy to answer at the moment. Taking earth as an example, a dungeon would gradually assimilate with surrounding land until it completely overlapped with the other dimension. Next up would be the dungeon break and appearance of a Gate that connected both sides.
Streit bastion was essentially connecting to different worlds by making dungeons. The Dungeon M98 in sector D was an example of a Dungeon break. Zyrus had in fact used a gate to go to that world.
Now, things were different here. From what he had observed thus far Zyrus was sure that he was, in fact, inside the dungeon. Him and the monsters in this region should be trapped in this fragment of spacetime.
‘My task of clearing the plains of Ilios should be for causing a dungeon break and connecting to the other world.’
As for what would happen after that? Zyrus was as clueless as the ghoul next to him. Nonetheless, one fact wouldn’t change no matter what.
He had to become even stronger.