GRAAH!
GROWL!
ROAAR!
Countless monsters rushed forward like a tsunami wave, with their monster war cries. They look strong and unyielding as they rushed forward, unstoppable.
Suddenly, Michael stepped onto the shadows and merge with it, disappearing into the darkness.
[Shadow Emergence] (Special)
Type: Active / Spatial
Cost: 10 mana
Description: Allows the user to merge with any shadow, traversing through the unseen darkness and emerging from another within range. Movement within this state is instant and silent, unaffected by physical barriers but disrupted by light or purification effects. While inside the shadows, the user becomes intangible and hidden from normal perception, but prolonged use rapidly consumes energy and induces spatial instability.
•••
Moments later he appeared at the back of thousands of monsters, wearing his epic–crimson battle armour.
[Warlord] (Epic)
Type: Hybrid / Battle State
Cost: —
Description: A pinnacle martial state born from the fusion and ascension of numerous combat abilities. It channels instinct, intellect, endurance, and power into absolute harmony, transforming the user into a living engine of destruction. When activated, a crimson War Veil manifests—an adaptive armor forged from will and energy—that moves as an extension of the user's intent. The mind then fractures into multiple synchronized processes, allowing perfect control over offense, defense, and movement. Each strike carries refined precision and lethal purpose, while the user's aura alone exerts crushing pressure on lesser beings.
Effects:
• Can increases all Attributes by up to +500% during activation, scaling with available mana or other energy reserves.
• Multi-Process: Enables simultaneous control of multiple actions, reactions, and attacks.
• Crimson War Veil: Living, adaptive armor that absorbs the blood and essence of fallen enemies to restore its structure and convert it into raw power.
• Battle Instinct: Continuously analyzes enemy patterns to optimize combat rhythm and precision.
• Fear Immunity & Pain Suppression: User becomes unaffected by fear, fatigue, or pain during activation.
•••
Crimson energy gathered at his hand, condensing into a long sword, as he slashed forward.
Whooom~
Energy blade mowed the monsters at their back, the sound of loud and eerie vibration of the energy blade seems to be the call of the dead, as those heard it perished
[Ding!]
[You've killed a Undead Skinwalker (lvl.9)]
[You've gained 512 experience points]
[You've killed a Mutated Widow Spider (lvl.9)]
[You've gained 512 experience points]
[You've killed a Undead Wyrm (lvl.9)]
[You've gained 512 experience points]
[...]X99.
The crimson energy blade seems to have become stronger and wider as more monsters it reap apart. It even glowed more in the process, like it drink the blood of the fallen and use it on its own.
Boom!
But then, the ghostly claw appeared again, crushing the crimson blade apart before it could reap more lives. Everything happened in less than 2 seconds, it fast and ordinary people cannot keep up with.
The blight lich burning blue flame eyes seems to stared deeply at Micheal, focusing it's attention solely on him. It's face was hidden under it's long tattered cloak that hide it's full figure.
This blight lich was a powerful lich at the peak of Great rank, and it was even a superior existence. It controlled an army of blighted creatures while having powerful magic abilities also, it's good that Micheal was extremely mobile and can move in the shadows like teleporting or he'll surely have a big problem being with this guy.
Shaam!
Another ghostly claw appeared, and now directed above Micheal, falling down at lightning speed. But Micheal have merge with the shadow and disappeared from his position before it could land over him, just couple inches away.
Boom!
Dust rise, and the ground got carved into a claw like, 5 meters long. The blight lich was calm seeing this happened, it's burning soul fire eyes scanned the area for where Micheal would come next, with eerie precision like it have eyes everywhere.
Then Micheal emerged from the shadow just a second later, and began to proceed to use his mowing skill again.
Whooom~
[Ding!]
[You've killed a Three–Headed Serpent (lvl.9)]
[You've gained 512 experience points]
[You've killed a Undead Knight (lvl.9)]
[You've gained 512 experience points]
[You've killed a Skincrawler (lvl.9)]
[You've gained 512 experience points]
[...]X99
The sound of eerie crimson blade rang out again, and reaped the lives of hundreds of monsters that doesn't expect the sudden attack. Fortunately, this terrifying crimson blade attack got stopped by another ghostly claw that manifest out of nowhere.
Before a ghostly claw appeared above Micheal position, he already merge to the shadows, appearing randomly again.
This happened a couple more time that the blight lich have grown tired of it, and stopped spamming ghostly claw above him seeing it were useless.
It's attention now were focused on the dozen strong human fighting infront, even do they're weaker than this pesky mosquito, they were enough to be a punching bag for its irritated self. Rising it skeleton hands, ghostly energy gathered above it, like it was about to cast a powerful skill
Michael noticed this shift of attention, and he proceeds to launch his sneak attack. The distance between him and the blight lich were a couple hundred meters away, if he rushed forward he would be immediately be notice so he quietly merge to the shadows acting like he was about to attack randomly again.
Shoosh~
Michael appeared behind the blight lich just a couple meters away, short enough distance for him to attack in a blink of an eye. Just as Michael's crimson energy blade would slashed at the lich, it suddenly turned it's head slightly. Michael could swear to God that he just saw it smiling menacingly.
Boom!
It was a trick, it was not casting a powerful attack spell but a domain skill. Michael was trapped at this ghostly domain here the blight lich controlled.
"Sh*t!" He cursed as dozens of levitating cursed skull, flying towards him while laughing very eerily with other magic curses, and soul magic attacks, spamming at him like it cost no mana. The area around him were also very unwelcoming, casting debuff and draining his vitality at fast speed.
"HEHEHE" "HAHAHA"
In defense, Micheal put more mana on his sub–skill War Veil turning into more robust and powerful. But when eerie skull landed on his crimson shield, he immediately knew how much he underestimated this lich.
Boom!
The eerie flying phantom skull seems to target locked on him, that wherever he goes, this thing would follow him, and when it finally close into him, it exploded in spectacular spiritual explosion, the spiritual fire that got created continuously burn his shield, like a fire meeting a piece of paper.
Surely he can't afford to be hit with this thing, as it would be too disasterous. Now he needs deal with dozen of this dangerous thing, flying at extreme speed.
After dodging countless this eerie phantom skulls, that would not shake off, he thinks about something.
Shrieek!
Boom!
Michael let this phantom skulls hit his shield, and cut the affected area with his precisioned control. With this, he'll not going to deal with it's energy corrosiveness.
Then, he continue doing it slowly, while dodging and parrying other magical attacks.
As he was busy dealing with the spammed attacks, something silently manifested behind him. It was the lich that turned into cruel looking phantom, it's hands turned to claw looking sharp and dangerous. Then it rush towards Micheal who were busy dealing with phantom attacks, at full speed, channeling it's all power in the attack that target his heart with it's sharp claws.
Sensing the sudden danger, Micheal focused his shield on his back, turning his front shield weaker.
Baam!
Crack!
Micheal took an attack from back to front, and side to side. Earning him a couple of debuff and mortal injuries.
It's good that he stopped the lich at his back by turning his shield into a vortex to stop it's powerful attack, but he sustained multiple injuries in the process.
Magic attacks landed on all his sides while the explosive phantom skull destroyed his weaken shield and destroyed his phantom armour, leaving his body ablaze on soul burning fire. The pain was immense, like being skinned alive, the pain of the soul is really are more painful than that of physical one.
"F*ck it! Bastard you're a dead lich!" Michael was enraged, this is the first time he were angry after a long time. The feeling of powerlessness and desperation fuel this. Then he remembered something, and added. "You're a dead–dead lich!"
Then a strong–dazzling white light emerged out of Micheal's body, turning the space into white–silent, as he pushed himself to the limit.
It was a domain! Michael very own domain.