Selene quickly made her way to the gate, where the guards were preventing Amélie from entering. She excused herself and told the guards that she’d handle it from there, then gestured for Amélie to follow her.
As they walked, Selene spoke up. "I apologize for our poor hospitality. Things have just been a little difficult for us as of late. I hope you understand."
"Nevermind that. Where are you taking ?" Amélie changed the subject.
"To the guest rooms," Selene said.
"What? I told you I wanted to et the new Chairman," Amélie said, stopping in her tracks.
Selene turned around. "The Chairman is busy at the mont. You can wait for him to get back to you. I’ll tell you imdiately once he’s free," she said.
Amélie still wasn’t convinced. "No. I want to speak to the Chairman right now," she demanded, turning around.
But Selene grabbed her hand.
"What are you doing?" Amélie asked.
"Miss Amélie, please don’t make things difficult for the both of us," Selene said.
"What do you an? Are you threatening ?" she asked.
"Oh no, I misspoke," Selene said quickly, her tone sincere. "I only hope that the Miss doesn’t make things difficult for . After all, I’m just an insignificant officer following orders." She paused, eting Amélie’s eyes. "The Miss might have so issues with the Chairman, but I hope the Miss won’t harm an officer who’s just following orders in the process."
Amélie looked at Selene for a long mont.
"Hmph. Fine. I’ll wait," she said.
"Thank you," Selene said with a small bow.
"Insignificant, you say..." Amélie spoke as she observed Selene.
Suddenly, a huge explosion reverberated through the Association area, and a loud voice ca from above.
"Association trash, your ti has co!"
With that, massive fireballs began raining from the sky.
...
Selene turned to Amélie. "I can’t entertain you further, Miss Amélie. Please follow the path to the guest rooms..."
Amélie scoffed at this, "Are you asking to hide with my tail between my legs? Who do you think I am?"
Selene’s expression remained serious. "We will try our best to protect our foreign friend. But if things go south, we will put the safety of the organization before you."
Amélie mused at the thought of being protected. She rose up into the air to et an incoming fireball, which she instantly destroyed with her hand.
"You were saying?" she asked, looking down at Selene.
Selene could only sigh. "Thank you for your help, Miss Amélie. The Chairman will be grateful for your assistance in defending the Association."
"He better be," Amélie said as she flew up to et more of the descending fireballs.
Atop one of the Association buildings, Draven stood looking at the undead that were beginning to gather, then up at the descending fireballs. He was about to go et them when he saw soone else flying through the air, intercepting them. He looked up, recognizing the flying figure.
"Sister-in-law?" he murmured.
He wondered when she’d gotten here. Would she fault him for what happened with Marcus? He sighed. Even now, it didn’t feel real.
He shook his head, regaining his focus. That wasn’t important right now. He needed to focus on defending what they had left first.
With that, he jumped off the building. His chanical arm transford mid-fall, producing flas that slowed his descent. He landed between the zombies, and his hand transford back. He then smashed his chanical and natural arm together, creating a shockwave that pushed back the undead.
"Ti for round two, you bastards!" he shouted and charged at them.
...
Cipher appeared atop a building a few blocks away from the Association entrance. He looked toward the association. The situation didn’t look good. There were undead everywhere in the Association. He could still hear the fighting, though, so at least the situation wasn’t as bad as it could be.
He summoned his system. He needed to quickly fight his way through the undead and get to the Immortal King. In the battle with the Chairman, he’d awakened quite a few new skills and hadn’t checked them out yet. He decided to give them a quick glance.
He summoned the system and checked the first ability.
[Skill: Battle Instinct (A-Rank)]
[Type: Passive]
[Cost: 0 Mana]
[Description: Enhances sensory perception in combat situations. Allows the user to read and interpret battle intent from opponents, predicting their actions before they execute them.]
"Battle intent?" he wondered.
[That’s right,] the Heavenly Demon spoke up.
[Think of it like killing intent, but for battle. With killing intent, you can feel when soone is leaking their desire to kill you. But with battle intent, you can read soone’s desire to strike and mostly predict where they’re going to attack through reading this intent. It’s quite an advanced technique. I’m even surprised you actually learned it.] She said.
[Usually, at this level, soone would just learn regular battle instinct that relied on killing intent to predict the flow of battle. This is quite easy to overco, as stronger opponents can hide or manipulate their killing intent, making the predictions almost completely useless. But with battle intent reading, you can more accurately predict your opponent’s attacks.] She added.
Cipher looked at the skill. "That powerful?" he wondered aloud.
[Of course. To reach this level in the Jianghu, you need to at least reach the Origin Realm. In your terms, that’s SS-Rank,] she explained.
Cipher nodded. It was indeed a powerful ability. If used well, he could definitely use it to deal so serious damage while preserving his life, which was his biggest problem at the mont. Although he had the ans to deal high damage, his cap was always his other stats, which prevented him from being able to match people in a higher realm than him.
But if he could predict their attacks, he should be able to sowhat keep up.
He moved on to the other awakened skill.
[Skill: Unwavering Will (B-Rank)]
[Type: Toggle (Passive/Active)]
[Cost: 200 Mana (Active)]
[Description: Passively boosts resistance to mind-related status effects. While active, improves concentration to the maximum for five minutes, resisting all ntal disruptions and allowing complete focus.]
[Note: Leaves user under ntal exhaustion after use.]
Cipher observed the skill. It was a good skill. This in conjunction with Battle Instinct would be perfect - if not for the hefty price that is. Worth two hundred whole mana and lasting just five minutes. There was no way he could use this at the mont.
Especially not with the ntal exhaustion penalty that he didn’t know anything about. Mana exhaustion was quite bad so he didn’t expect this to be any different. He first needed to get a Patch Card for it. And maybe an Optimize Card to reduce that hefty price.
As for the last skill...
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