076. Strange (2)
The moment the darkness-eating snake used a skill, I immediately kicked the ground.
Kim Seung-hun and Oh Chun-seok are unable to move due to the vision reduction skill and restraint skill.
I was the only one who could move freely in this spot.
「The field of view begins to shrink due to the skill ‘Dark Curtain’.」
「The field of view also gradually narrows in proportion to the amount of magic used.」
A skill used by a snake that eats darkness?
It wasn’t even worth worrying about.
The field of view was temporarily reduced by a skill that reduces the field of view as magic is used…
「The skill ‘Forced Breakthrough’ is activated.」 「The skill ‘
Exorcism ‘ is activated.」
The narrowing of the field of view was meaningless to me.
I grinned as I saw the light come to my vision that was about to turn into darkness in an instant.
「The mastery of the skill ‘Forced Break (D-)’ has reached 100%.」 「The grade of the skill ‘
Forced Break (D-)’ has risen by one level.」
Mastery has reached 100%.」
「The level of the skill ‘Magical Circuit (D-)’ has risen by one level.」 「
The mastery of the skill ‘Exorcism (D-)’ has reached 100%.」
「Skill The grade of ‘Anti-magic (D-)’ will go up by one level.”
Three skills grew at once, destroying the skill used by the snake that eats darkness.
I could feel the overheated magic circuit widening the air veins and transferring the magic faster and more concisely.
And that wasn’t all.
With the growth of Forced Breakthrough and the growth of Exorcism, it became easier to shake off the skills used by the Darkness Eater Snake.
Now, the bondage-type skills did not affect me any more.
When I realized that fact, the pleasure of growth spread all over my body along my spine.
And at the same time, other emotions started to rise like a small fire in a corner of my heart.
good luck.
I smiled bitterly at the fundamental desire to become stronger.
Even in an A-class dungeon, do you feel a sense of pride with a notorious monster in front of you?
At this point, I had no choice but to admit it.
It is not that we have no choice but to throw ourselves at the boundary between life and death in order to survive as before.
It wasn’t someone else’s order, but now I was jumping into a pit of fire to become stronger myself.
As well as the command to obtain by defeating the snake that eats darkness, as well as the additional rewards to be acquired through the contribution system…
I felt pleasure in this act of moving only to become stronger.
In the past, I felt this feeling and thought I was addicted to fighting and couldn’t think rationally.
But no.
It was perfectly normal to jump on the line between life and death in order to become strong.
Avoiding challenges and hoping only for safe victories is just a shortcut to being weeded out.
As long as I don’t risk my life, all I can get is the level of compensation I didn’t risk my life for.
It was better to take the hard way and grow myself to the limit rather than taking the easy way and slowly losing the will to challenge.
Kieeeeeeeek-!
In the meantime, the snake that eats darkness screamed, as if it was bothering me to release the ‘dark curtain’ and run.
Of course, the crying wasn’t just a threat.
「All stats are reduced by -3 by the skill ‘Gaze of Darkness’.」
「The effect of decreasing all stats by -3 is canceled by the skill ‘Exorcism’.」
「Movement speed is decreased by the skill ‘Touch of the Swamp’. -30% decrease.」
「The -30% decrease in movement speed is forcibly canceled by the skill ‘Forced Breakthrough’.」
If it wasn’t for Forced Breakthrough and Exorcism, there would be nothing to say even if it had become a cold corpse by now.
Like a notorious boss monster that appears in A-class dungeons, there were only insane bondage skills.
Even from a distance, the skills that were activated as a rough check were at this level.
Is that so?
It means that the skills that the Darkness Eater Snake uses at close range will be more threatening.
‘There’s no need for me to go wild like that.’
「The skill ‘Grace of Wind’ is activated.」
「All speeds are increased by 60%.」
「Current skill overlap progress – 6/7」
In an instant, Grace of Wind was activated almost to the end, and I became a gust of wind.
Paaang!
Passing through the gaps of the shadows around them, they reached right in front of the nose of the snake that ate the darkness.
Then, without hesitation, I kicked the floor and swung the sword as hard as I could with his mouth.
「The skill ‘Sword Warfare Sword’ is activated.]
Quaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…!!
The sword energy formed on the blade was shot in the form of a slash accompanied by lightning, creating a loud impact sound.
I wonder how much of a shock he was because he used the sword technique at least.
I could see cracks on his chin made of black mud, like crumbs.
Even if it’s an A-rank monster, it seems that it’s practically helpless against sword skills.
However, the snake that eats the darkness must have felt the danger of death, so it didn’t sit still.
Whoa!
The snake that ate the darkness immediately swung its tail at me and tried to take the initiative… but
if I was weak enough to fall under such an obvious attack, I wouldn’t be able to stand here.
Kwaaaaang!
“Kuh…”
I immediately raised my legs and blocked the tail with one foot, and I felt the thrill.
Blocking an A-class monster’s powerful attack with one shot?
Although it was not a skill, it was a normal attack, but it was not ordinary.
‘I really can’t go anywhere and be treated like a human being.’
At least, it seemed that he had gone far beyond the standard of an ordinary Hunter.
It was then.
Awesome profit…!
Suddenly, a strange wave emanated from the tail of the snake that ate the darkness, and his head began to throb.
“…!?”
Tung!
At that strange phenomenon, I kicked his tail and stepped back for a moment…
「Due to the Authority’s ‘Dark Resonance’, the ‘Status Abnormality: Madness’ begins to slowly erode away.」
At the same time, the snake that eats darkness I opened my eyes when I saw the message that I had written.
is it power?
‘I haven’t heard that even monsters can use authority.’
Skills can be used by both monsters and players.
That’s why I’ve been able to absorb skills from monsters up until now.
However, Authority is an ability acquired by contracting with the manager by those who rank high in the Tower of Trials.
In fact, in real life, I had never heard of a monster that used authority, and I had never seen it even after fighting several times while climbing the tower.
But…
the snake that eats darkness broke down that common sense and used its authority.
Of course, I could immediately figure out why I used this authority.
Should I call it the Tower of Trials?
‘It’s really different.’
In order to give away a monster suitable for the difficulty level, he strengthened the monster again.
I noticed it from the moment I met the challenger of the other world, but there were a lot of elements that wouldn’t be strange even if I died suddenly like a sunfish here and there.
Of course…
「’Status Abnormality: Madness’ is canceled by the authority ‘Bright Scene Index’.」 Even
I, who had prepared a countermeasure in advance for the elements that would not be strange even if I died, was not normal.
status abnormality?
‘I’d rather bring poison, so I won’t be hurt by something like this.’
It’s a variable I’ve never heard of or seen, but I’m not an ordinary challenger.
As a pioneer, he was a ranker who even signed a contract with the manager.
I was able to break down elements that I had never experienced before, depending on the situation.
Pod!
Immediately after canceling the status abnormality through the power of the Myungkyung Index.
I quickly closed the distance I had opened for a moment and rushed at the snake that ate the darkness.
It must have been a deliberate blow, but the darkness-eating snake was visibly taken aback, but that was only for a moment.
Did the dark-eating snake even notice that I pose a great threat to its own life?
With the debuff-type skill, he started attacking right away without even looking at the liver.
Even at a glance, I could feel that they were doing their best.
And that expectation turned into reality the next moment as the snake that ate darkness launched a full-scale attack.
Quaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
It opened its gigantic mouth wide, and soon emitted a black beam as if it were spitting out.
Of course…
「The skill ‘Counterattack Shield’ is activated.
」
Even when I saw that destructive beam, I immediately activated my skill without panicking.
I could have slashed one more time and prevented it from emitting rays at all, but… the
reason I didn’t have to was because I had a strong feeling that I could use the skills he uses in reverse.
Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-!
The black ray hit the counterattack shield and gave a big shock, but it wasn’t unbearable.
Of course, almost 80% of the mana was consumed while enduring the shock…
“I use the shadowy spirit to replenish the mana.
” come.
Kii-i-ing….
As the power of the black ray diminished, a message came to mind.
「Charge complete.」
「The skill ‘Counterattack Shield’ is in a state where it can reflect the accumulated damage.」
It was a message that it was okay to launch a counterattack now.
With the counterattack shield resting on the palm of my left hand, I immediately returned to the back of the darkness-eating snake.
Of course, all the monsters around me gathered around me, probably not wanting to watch it, but…
「The skill ‘Counterattack Shield’ releases the accumulated damage all at once
.
With the black beam emitted from the shield in his left hand, all the miscellaneous monsters that had flocked to the surroundings were cleared away.
Even in the meantime, the snake that eats darkness did not show any movement.
Did it recoil from using a skill that was quite powerful?
He couldn’t even move properly until he had wiped out all the dark priests.
Taking advantage of that gap, I stepped on his shadow and immediately stabbed my sword while activating the flash sword.
「The skill ‘Secret Shadow Step (C+)’ is activated.」
「You are stepping on the shadow of a creature.」 「
Your strength increases by +3 temporarily」 「Your strength increases by +3
once you are stepping on the shadow .」 do.
「The skill ‘Steel Blade (C+)’ is activated.」
「By using the skill ‘Steel Blade (C+),’ the wind attribute is given to the blade.」 In addition
to the thrusting attack, the blade was also mixed with wind.
Then, when I stabbed the sword, a line of wind lightning was shot out.
Pew!
When the slash shot through the stab hit the back of the snake that ate the darkness, the center of the upper body was completely pierced.
“Dark-eating snakes have been defeated.”
“Contribution is calculated…”
“ Dark-eating snakes have been hunted alone without anyone’s help.”
has.」
「Calculation completed.」
「Acquired 278 contribution.」
Neat finish.
「…The special task ‘Public Contribution’ ends.」
「…Challenger Seong-Yoon Han took first place in the Contribution Ranking.」
「…After the trial, additional rewards will be settled for Seong-Yoon Han.」
And along with it, it was a neat reversal.
