Hellmode ~Gamer Who Likes to Speedrun Becomes Peerless in a Parallel World with Obsolete Setting~ Vol. 8 - Chapter 404 - Attributes (2)

"Once the Iron Golems are defeated and reborn, their attribute returns to earth. The Attribute-Supports should continuously use their skills, that way they'll get Skill Experience too."

Kiel detailed more about their strategy to Helmios, who led the Hero's Army.

"Got it. We have to make sure they have mana to keep going too."

The n from Allen's Army were regenerating as much mana as Dogora spent.

anwhile Allen had borrowed Helmios' Mana Regeneration Ring during the Five Continents' Alliance eting.

Dogora was wearing that ring now.

Allen had also made Kurena give her Luvanka's Sacred Bead to Dogora for the ti being.

Allen wanted Dogora's Skill Levels to go up as fast as possible.

During the eting that morning, Dogora had asked the supports from both sides to replenish his mana whenever necessary.

"I feel like I'm starting to see the pattern now."

Locht and the other Attribute-Supports were slowly getting into a groove.

Kiel was relieved seeing they could move as a unit, even though they had been given so rather vague orders.

"Mhmm. It's a rather simple strategy as well. By the way, would you happen to know what inspired Allen to co up with this strategy?"

Helmios seed curious to know how Allen figured out this way to fight.

"I think the fight against the Evil Cult was the main inspiration."

"The Evil Cult?"

That had been roughly the ti when Allen began considering Attribute Changes.

At first, Allen's summons did not have the ability to perform Attribute Changes.

The most he could do was tell Cecile and Sophie which elent of magic or spirits to use.

But then rus beca a summon, and his options beca much broader.

Lastly, Dogora obtained the Divine Artifact Kagutsuchi, a fire elent weapon.

Kiel narrated the source of that strategy while Dogora and rle fought.

First they had received a distress signal from the Holy Land, which ended with a fight against Gushara.

While Allen's party had various thods of attack, soone with an insurmountable amount of Endurance appeared in front of them.

That was the leader of the Evil Cult, Gushara.

Allen had been continuously wondering and analyzing how Gushara was so resilient, no attacks getting through to him.

At first he thought it was the countless souls Gushara had gathered, or because his Intelligence and Endurance as a Demon Great General was too high, or he had so sort of resilience against offensive magic, but in the end he realized it was because of elents.

rus had ntioned that while Allen kept thinking about that fight.

The concept of elents existed in this world, so made attacks more powerful, or enhanced defenses.

Depending on the elent of an attack, and the elent of a defense, the ratios of damage scaled differently. It was sothing so common they even taught it in the Academy.

The Four Great Gods ford the main elents, fire, water, wind, and earth.

For instance, a fire attack on a wind defense could cause devastating damage.

But on the other hand, a wind attack on fire defense was negligible.

Not all elents were equal though, there was a tiered system to them.

-At the bottom was null, no elent attributes

-Next (on the lowest level) were the fundantals, fire, earth, wind, and water

-Then the derivative (low level) elents, wood, ice, etc.

-Middle level elents were space-ti, lightning, etc.

-High level elents were light, shadow, etc.

-Highest level elents were divine and darkness

Higher level elents usually had a more drastic effect than lower level ones.

If sothing had an elent of the highest level, like divine or darkness, then an attack with any of the lowest level elents would do next to no damage.

The lowest level ones were usually called fundantal elents, but that was only done by order of the Goddess of Fire Freya.

When Allen explained elents to Dogora, he replied saying "What, so Freya is in the lowest level?" which prompted Freya's descent through the Divine Artifact just to puml Dogora.

Allen tried explaining that elents were tiered, but gods not so much, though it was hard to say how much Dogora could hear, rolling around the ground as Freya punched him.

The black flas covering Gushara's body also had a very specific elent.

Darkness.

Not even the Spirit King's Blessing that pushed Cecile's magic power to 40000 was enough to cause much damage to Gushara, and any scratches were instantly healed by the Skeleton Pope.

Covered by a defense of the highest level elent darkness, Gushara was nearly untouchable for Allen's party.

"O-ohh, darkness, huh. Wasn't it possible to do an Attribute Change then?"

Helmios was slowly starting to understand.

Everything had started by Allen wondering why no attacks worked on Gushara.

That led to a lot of thought being put into elents and how to use them against the Demon King's Army.

Allen would often get obsessed over such things.

Helmios recalled Allen ticulously planning a way to taken down the Demon General Razel before, making sure they could win.

Then he would ask all sorts of questions, like whether Helmios' Extra Skill could be used in mid-air, or if it was possible to use it after canceling a cast, it went from the obvious to really niche things.

Knowing how much Allen focused on analyzing and trying things, he must have figured one thing out.

Attribute-Supports were limited on the elents they could change.

Lower level Attribute-Supports could only alter the four fundantal elents.

Higher level ones could change higher level elents as well, and with more effectiveness.

But everyone in the world knew that divine and darkness elents could not be changed.

"Those are the elents of the God of Creation and the God of Darkness after all. Allen said he would need to rely on your Extra Skill [Phoenix Sword] if we ever encountered another enemy with the darkness elent."

The Hero's Army was not ready to fight Demon Great Generals yet.

Kiel said that their limit would be Demon Generals, and only high level elents.

"I see, my Extra Skill is a divine elent attack after all."

It was believed that all gods and spirits fit into one elent or another.

The divine elent belonged to the God of Creation Ela, making it absolute.

And Helmios' Extra Skill had been handcrafted by Ela.

"Yes, so it should work on darkness elent defenses."

Darkness was the opposite of divine.

It was said that the darkness elent ca from the God of Darkness, the ruler of the Dark World, who was said to have power equal to Ela.

The God of Creation and God of Darkness were said to be untouchable entities.

"Your Extra Skill is truly magnificent, Helmios."

"Mhm, I know. It's a unique Skill given to by Ela."

Rosetta and Doberg nodded at the sa ti.

"Well, just give a call when you need then."

"You really have no reservations then."

Allen knew Helmios would willingly agree to that.

Kiel also had his purification magic, which was a divine elent spell too.

Any Saint or Saintess with 3 Stars could use purification magic.

They were nowhere as devastating as Helmios' Extra Skill though.

"I haven't seen how effective Attribute Changes can be in an actual battle yet, but I feel like light and shadow elents could be tricky to deal with."

"I know what you an. Allen said rescinding elents overall would be best in such cases."

"I see. No elent isn't the best when defending, but it can attack pretty much any elent."

Higher level elents were not always better.

There was sothing that could work on basically all elents.

Including divine and darkness.

That was raw attacks with no elent.

No elent was at the bottom of the ladder, aning Attribute-Supports could grant it too.

Most Skills involving weapons had no elent.

Sotis such a plain attack was the best way to win against an enemy with a high level elent.

Unless they were so rare type of enemy with ethereal bodies, no elent attacks would work on any enemy no matter their elent.

It was a normal conclusion to co to. If low level elents were negated by a higher one, it was best to just not use any elents to fight them.

"Still, I wasn't expecting people to be researching elents in such depth here."

Rosetta sounded sowhat dumbfounded.

"To be honest this feels like nothing if you spend enough ti around Allen."

"That sounds quite troubleso. I rember him being that way our first ti here too though."

Kiel ntioned how being around Allen ant being involved in his ridiculous experints.

Kiel only knew so much about elents because Allen would babble on about them all the ti.

Rosetta also seed to rember Allen being that way.

Allen was the one most engrossed in conquering the dungeon.

He always seed to be enjoying himself, that was how Rosetta rembered him.

"So, where is Allen now?"

"Basically he's in a top secret mission, I guess I can say he's just trying to get more power."

"That sounds like Allen alright."

Allen had left the day before, but that was all Helmios knew.

Half of Allen's party had gone with him too.

"Hmm, still, this is quite so power you have in so few mbers. Allen's Army seems to be in good shape too. You should feel proud of yourself, Kiel."

"Thank you for your kind words."

Doberg praised Kiel's efforts too.

Kiel was the one seamlessly incorporating the Hero's Army into Allen's Army.

That was essentially the sa as mobilizing various troops with thousands of soldiers.

Kiel was doing the work of a great general.

Allen had left Kiel as team leader because he knew Kiel's personality bowed down to no one.

"Anyway, Kiel."

"Yes?"

Doberg continued talking.

He seed to have sothing to tell Kiel.

"Before coming here I was told to ask you to contact Latash."

"Contact them?"

"Yes. Could you use the guild's magic device and call Latash's royal family?"

Latash's royal family had entrusted Doberg with a ssage before he ca here.

Kiel just said "Understood, I'll do it as soon as I have ti."

Doberg did not know why they wanted Kiel to call, so that was all he could say.

"Well, I think that's enough chatting for now. My Skills haven't reached their maximum level yet, and neither have yours, right Doberg?"

Doberg had said everything he had to, leading to Helmios talking again.

"Yes, we can think of the rest while we fight."

Saying that, Helmios and Doberg both took their swords.

"Alright, I'll go collect the fallen treasure chests. I'm worried any valuable items could get damaged."

Rosetta was going to take care of collecting all the treasure chests.

The rest of the mbers had already found their rhythm to fight Iron Golems, so treasure chests were periodically dropping from the fallen Iron Golems.

Helmios just sighed seeing Rosetta was still the sa as always.