"Who's this guy? Why is he so strong?"
"He's so handsome and cool, I want him bad!"
"Is he from a prestigious clan or family?"
"Ascenders Clan are really powerful. I want to join one"
Amongst this people that was chattering about the identity of their mysterious 'savior', five individuals just keep their silence, watching mysteriously at the side. One of them were Erick.
3 man and 2 woman, all looking strong. Standing with poise.
No one knows what were they thinking inside their minds, nor what were they planning. As they watch Michael that looks like a lone god of war, standing amidst the army of enemy, alone.
"..."
Erick stated deeply at Michael's back, as unknown thought were circling through his mind.
...
[Name: Michael Arsia Vanne
Experience points: 910/3 200
Level: 5
Rank: Mortal
Unique Ability: Devouring (Legendary) – Can Grow
Attributes: Strength 9(↑18), Agility 7(↑14), Constitution 7(↑14), Intelligence 7, Willpower 5
Free Attributes: 5
Attribute Energy: 500
{Evolution}
{Skills}
Passive Skill:
Perseverance (Common), Overload (Common), Multitasking (Common),
Active Skill:
Crimson Battle Armour (Rare) , Bone Slash (Uncommon), Blight Roar (Uncommon)]
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Standing on the empty dried but reddish earth, Michael glared coldly at the three most powerful creatures present, who were also staring warily at him, circling around him as they wait to the perfect opportunity to strike.
This being who just watching with amusement from the side, finally treated this fight seriously. This small and insignificant prey suddenly keep on becoming stronger as more monsters fell in his hand. They cannot just let this go on, they need to take action.
The monster horde from before that were overbearing, and have the might of a tsunami rampaging where now like a weak tide. Stepping ten step back while Michael step one, becoming too terrified to keep on attacking.
But there's still bunch of monsters that didn't know what was good for them.
Roar! X4
Four level six [Wretched Hound], rush forward at Michael, wanting to take a bite off him. Unfortunately, they meet with a sharp bone sword that cut them into halves, never making up their dream of taking a big bite.
[Ding!]
[You've killed a [Wretched Hound] (Lvl. 5)]
[You gained 64 experience points]
[...]X3
Michael cut through them, while never once he let his eyes move away from the trio. He knows that a single mishaps would lead him into bad situation, so he can't afford to give them a chance.
He knows that he can't keep this up for long, as his amplified strength are not permanent as it relied on his continuous supply of mana, in which being keep replenished by the devoured monsters in which were too scared to come close to him.
In a battle of attrition and patience, he simply lack such capacity.
Whoosh~
A sharp and long bone hurdled through the air, in lightning speed. Almost piercing his head by mear inches, and only managed to scraped Micheal's face even while having the crimson battle armor still activated.
With this action, the battle between the trio superior and one lone warrior was about to commence!
Shoosh~
Michael disappeared from his position, and appearing behind the towering [Black Marrow] superior monster with long bone sword, glowing with condensed crimson energy as he slash forward.
Baam!
The hard and dense black towering armored skeleton got a long sword cut on its hard bones.
Michael back away as soon as he delivered the sword strike, as the spectral entity the [Dread Wisps] and the aberrant disgusting looking creature [Plague Stalker] launched a sneak attack at the same time.
Screee~~
A spectral skull was flying towards, looking like a curse. And the disgusting grey mist like thing that smelled like rotting was surrounding their battle area, at very fast speed, wanting to trap Micheal within this circle of spore cloud.
Michael face the spectral skull casted by the spectral monster. Slicing it apart using his mana enchanted bone sword. As for the spore cloud, he can only move away from it as e still doesn't have the ability to face area of effect skills at this scale.
Out of this powerful trio, he can only say that the aberrant and disgusting looking monster is the weakest, but still damningly strong compared to normal counterpart, he needs to focused on the weakest first so he could focus more on the strongest one.
He then appeared infront of the aberrant monster hiding inside the spore cloud it created, its body were full of disgusting puss and it's mouth were hanging wide as it's disgusting greyish saliva continue to drip down. The monster was shock that he got targeted first, but unhesitatingly attack as soon as it seen Michael's figure.
Clang!
It's sharp steel like claws meet with the mana enhanced bone sword, creating sparks and a loud clang sound as soon as it meet with each other.
Clang! Cling!
The duo exchange a couple of blows in a second before the the two appeared and join in the battle.
Micheal can handle and even defeat this [Plague Stalker] named monster all on his own, but face with the other two, he doubt he could.
He can only step back for a bit of distance to plan another wave of unexpected attacks while keeping watch out on his surrounds for the possibility of sneak attacks.
The [Dread Wisps] chased after him, as it was the fastest one amongst them while keeping his distance from Micheal as it also knows that it has the weakest constitution among them. As it keep on spamming numerous spectral skull curses and other spectral magic skill that it have.
The towering black skeleton, just stand by as it knows that chasing after Micheal was stupid, it knows that it have the slowest speed amongst them, and instead use it's bone spear skill to spam bone spear at Michael.
While the aberrant disgusting looking monster just keep still, it knows that it was being targeted and has the weakest fighting prowess amongst the three of them, so it can only stand there and continue using its area of effect skills continuously.
...
Meanwhile, the outside of the battle area, not affected by the spore cloud. The monsters and the group of human were just standing there in daze, staring dumbly at the greyish mist that surround a large area.
The two groups cannot see each other know dared to cross the artificial mist, as doing so would turn them into mindless undead, controlled by the aberrant disgusting looking monster.
While the humans didn't dare to get close to this mist wall, and only prayed that the savior just now would win against this battle they knew that cannot loss.
In contrast to the group of humans, monsters were in different. Some where dumb, while others likes to seek death.
They jump into the mist wall, without hesitation and looking brave until moments later, they died unknowingly, and turned into undead puppets at the aberrant monster beck.
...
"Graawh~~"
Micheal who were dodging and parrying the spectral magic skills by the spectral monster when suddenly, dozens of undead monsters of couple monster species jump out to Micheal.
Without hesitation and waiting, he cut them all with ease, while using his ability in the process as his mana were also dropping at dangerously low level. While he do so, he got hit by one of the spectral skull casted by the spectral monster.
He wright from the pain of his soul being burn. It's good that most of the damage was block by his battle armor, of he would have died here and now.
"Damn it!" He then turned around, to face the spectral monster that only dared to attack from afar. His eyes burned from irritation and rage, he cannot let this thing drag on for long.
Suddenly, he think of an idea to turn things around. His eyes glint with coldness as he prepared to take action to his new strategy.