In the end, I figured out why that tizhurek was running away. It wasn’t scared of or anything. That was simply its programming, leading to a trap where I wouldn’t be able to see all the others hiding in wait for to tear apart.
[You have killed 1 Shadow Tizhurek]
[You have received 30,000 experience points]
I had just used [Lethal Black Claw] on one tizhurek. The others scread at , releasing black clouds at . With [Torrent], I prevented the cloud from touching .
My resistance wasn’t high enough to protect from the effects of the cloud yet. It was best to avoid getting hit entirely. I spun at a high speed, firing off my quills and activating [Feather Ignition] to create explosions, hopefully killing them at random. One of them managed to avoid my explosives and get in close to .
I on the other hand didn’t stop my montum and secreted poison from my body. I gave it a good old [Poison Maelstrom], coming out through it.
[You have killed 1 Shadow Tizhurek]
[You have received 30,000 experience points]
Sadly, the poison wasn’t really the effective part. I only managed to kill it with [Stabbing Enhancent] and my raw strength stat. I didn’t talk about it much, but I really was strong now. I could definitely overwhelm a human now in terms of just raw strength. My problem was Minerva and Daxia. Sure, with [Mithril Body] and [Aura Control], I could make my strength stat imitate theirs easily, but that wasn’t effective. That was basically putting my all in a fight of attrition against those two and I doubted I could win in that.
There were loud explosions all around , suggesting to that the others weren’t so fortunate.
[You have killed 10 Shadow Tizhureks]
[You have received 300,000 experience points]
[You have gone up 1 level]
‘Hmm, only one level, again?’
While thinking about this issue, I could feel myself being pulled towards the dungeon boss pair. The Malevolent King Bukavac was using [Gravity] to pull in closer, like I was in a trap. The remaining tizhureks all sward and sprayed with their clouds of illusion gas or whatever.
‘Ugh, this is a pain in the ass.’
‘Let’s try [World Eater].’
‘Huh?’
‘We can eat up the clouds.’
‘Why eat them up when we can just keep them at bay?’
‘To get the skill obviously.’
‘Hmmm.’
After that, I begun to suck in my surroundings, all of its going into the bottomless pit that was my stomach. For a mont, I could have sworn I saw shock in the eyes of the mobs, but they didn’t feel fear so it was most likely just imagining things.
‘I’ll analyse it and try to procreate the skill.’
‘Sure.’
I used my last bit of [Osveta’s Blood] to activate the [Sea Curtain Technique] and latch myself onto all the remaining Shadow Tizhureks. With [High Force Impact], [Crush] and [Destroy], I sent three powerful blows to their heads.
[You have killed 4 Shadow Tizhureks]
[You have received 120,000 experience points]
I was done with everyone and was now left with the floor bosses. They both looked at , staring down intensely like I was so sort of shocking monstrosity. Well, no one did like my current form. Sothing about it being too ugly for this sea.
I conjured up two spears of water which were fired off quickly. They were hit by a barrier conjured up by the frog which was croaking loudly. He was using a weird magic called [Sound Magic]. It created varying effects depending on his song like the na suggested.
I decided to try another alternative then. I casted [Space Isolation] on the frog. The magic skill was one that separated the victim from their surroundings completely. No oxygen, no water, no thod for breathing and no ans to speak. It was the equivalent of dying a silent death. I had no idea what was going through Akkun’s mind when he ca up with this specific spell, but it sure as hell was a scary idea.
The attack worked and the barrier disappeared. Two balls of light followed imdiately, aiming for the queen tizhurek’s head. Surprisingly, she herself was pretty agile and managed to avoid the light speed projectiles. I was surprised since that ant she was faster than .
Then again, looking at her stats, her strong suit lied in her speed and magic. Still though, she wasn’t nearly as fast as Minerva. In fact, she was only as fast as I was which I could easily change at any mont.
Just to be sure I wasn’t seeing things, I fired off so more light orbs, but she skilfully avoided them and ca in close to .
‘Hmm? Reason?’
‘Oh, look at that. She’s a master evader it seems.’
She too possessed the [Evasion] skill, much like . So it wasn’t a matter of her being faster than light. She was simply able to dodge incoming attacks. But there needed to be a limit to that skill. For instance, an area of effect skill would render the [Evasion] skill useless.
The queen tizhurek had closed the gap between us in an instant and wacked with her tail. It wasn’t strong enough to even make budge, but its spikey tail did manage to pierce my body.
[You have been inflicted with [Nightmare Poison]]
‘Poison? [Poison Resistance] will handle that then.’
As if to make my statent completely redundant, I blinked and found myself in my classroom from earth. It was noisy with everyone going about their normal business chatting and having fun. There was sothing nostalgic about this as well as frightening. My hand was shaking unconsciously.
“Oi, Akira.”
A familiar voice called . Ken was sitting next to playing gas on his phone as usual. His legs were on his desk and both he and Manyuda were looking at .
“Ken? Manyuda?”
“Don’t look at us. Look at your desk.”
“What?”
But he disappeared before my very eyes. The classroom was eerily silent and empty. Deciding to do as Ken said, I looked down.
There was a notebook on my desk. On it, there was an English word written boldly in red.
‘E-N-I-G-M-A?’
I reached out to open it, but a hand slamd down on the desk, forcing to look up. I saw my mother’s face and she was holding a piece of paper. It had an F on it, but a score of 98.
“What’s with this terrible grade?”
“S-Sorry.”
“Sorry? That isn’t going to make up for the missing 2 marks, is it?”
“I’m very sorry.”
“Co on, Akkun. What are you shaking your head for?”
Akane’s voice ca in my ears. With her red dyed hair. She walked past with both hands behind her back, but strangely enough, I couldn’t see her eyes. There was a wry smile on her face.
“What are you sitting down in class for? Let’s go outside and play for a bit, hmm?”
“No. Stay here and talk to so more, Kuromiya-kun.”
Arms wrapped around shoulders and the soft breath of a high school hit my cheeks.
“M-Maya?”
“What? Akkun wouldn’t choose you over , would you?”
Akane slamd my desk, but I wasn’t sure how to respond. My childhood friend or my crush. Who was I going to choose in such a situation? Of course, I couldn’t respond to her question, but she should have understood as well. She knew I was crushing on Maya.
Ok, I hadn’t explicitly told her that, but it was obvious. Everyone knew this. Even Maya knew this, so of course she aware of this, right?
“Didn’t you hear ? Kuromiya-kun will be playing with today.”
“What was that? Let go of him, you bitch. You aren’t even on a first na basis with him.”
Akane pointed out and grabbed Maya’s arms which were grabbing tightly.
“I am on a first na basis with him. Isn’t that right, Akira-kun?”
“Uuh.”
“Honestly, speak up for once Akkun. You won’t get the girl of your dreams that way, you know?”
Akane folded her arms and stared down on .
“Go on. Decide now.”
Oddly, I heard hissing sounds. Probing around, I could feel weird slender things moving around my chest. They were snakes wrapping themselves around my neck. One red, one brown.
“Choose, Akira.”
They both said to , choking . It was getting harder to breathe as they repeated their order at . I tried to remove the snakes, but they kept tightening their grip on and started fighting each other.
“He’ll choose .”
“No. He’ll choose .”
Was what they kept arguing over. I thought if I broke up their fight, they’d stop, but instead I got sprayed in the eye by their poison and soon scread off the top of my lungs in pain. It was like Acid in my eyes.
I could feel my eyes lting in my sockets and all I could do was scream and try to claw them out.
“Tori-kun?”
Just then, in the madness, I heard Minerva’s curiously soothing voice. The pain in my eyes was non-existent then. I opened them and in front of the classroom, sitting on one of the desks in my school’s girl uniform, she called out to with her usual wide grin. For that mont, everything else didn’t exist and I felt at peace.
That didn’t last long.
Blood started to fall out of her eyes. Surprised, my body just sat frozen in shock. Her white hair was tainted with red before I realised and her blood flooded the classroom.
“No!”
I scread in fear and shut my eyes. This wasn’t real. There was no way it was real. This was all just a nightmare.
“Oh, look. I got a bird.”
Again, I opened my eyes after hearing a familiar voice. I was standing in the palms of the red eyed Shiro. I fell back on her palms. Was this… was all of it a dream? Was I about to start all over again? Go through everything?
But… if I could change things, then why shouldn’t I? I could fix everything and stop Minerva from going missing.
“Kieeeeeeeeeekkkkkkk!”
I heard a wailing sound. Everything puffed up and I was in the dark, cold, corpse-filled cave. The kizhurek had been severed in half, probably Akira doing sothing.
[You have killed Level 1 Dungeon bosses and ]
[You have received 400,000 experience points]
[You have gone up 1 level]
[You are now level 80]
[Congratulations! You have cleared the 1st Level]
[You may proceed to the 2nd Level]
The wall cracked open, revealing a path. I quietly swam through it, trying to get my mind over what just happened.
‘That… that never happened.’
‘O-of course.’
‘What never happened?’
‘…’
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