I jumped easily and attached the hook to the ceiling. After that, the rest of the students climbed the rope carefully and we found ourselves on a hidden floor. A small cave was connected to the wall and that was the only thing there so we moved in. We traveled for a bit before we found ourselves in a big cave, two tis bigger than the cave in which the ant guard boss resided.
It was circular like a Roman arena and in the middle there was a clearing where a figure stood. It was motionless and I couldn't feel anything from it. Almost as if it was asleep with all of its senses blocked.
[Race: Shapeshifter]
[Level 299]
[Rank A ]
[Currently under an evolution]
[Evolution in thirty minutes]
[The rank of the evolved shapeshifter would be S-]
That was bad. Very bad. A level 299 was already too much but if it evolved, it might end up anywhere in level 300-317. Not to ntion the stat increase, I won't be able to win, no one would be able to. No matter how many tricks I have up my sleeve, even AyaAkusa won't be able to cut its soul with such a level difference.
Which ans I will have to disrupt its evolution. If we were just a little bit late, it would have evolved and then co for us.
[Well, I guess you now know how Asmara survived in the novel]
'Yeah. Only she didn't.'
"What is that?" Asmara asked, pointing at the humanoid figure in the clearing.
"Shapeshifter." I simply replied as I began to accumulate a magic cannon. I used up an MP recovery potion and used more MP to empower it, making it bigger.
"What's a shapeshifter?" Asmara curiously asked because there was no knowledge of such a monster in the current world.
"They're a type of race just like the vampires or werewolves, only they are extinct," I replied as I used another MP potion. The Magic cannon was now around 2600 MP points strong and glowing brightly.
The limit of the magic bomb was 5000 MP points so I used another one as I continued my explanation, "A very dangerous race if I have to say. They can take anyone's shape and along with that, all their skills and experiences. And the worst part is that even if they change their appearance to soone else, the skills and experience of the previous person don't go away.
So they can easily have skills of thousands of people or different species."
Asmara and the rest were taken aback by my explanation as Sasha asked, "Is that the dungeon boss?" She asked as she also prepared mana of her own.
"Yes," I replied.
"What rank is it?" Asmara asked since I could tell the rank of the monsters. She didn't ask how I could see that but she made full use of this ability of mine to deal with different ranks of monsters.
"A . on the verge of breaking through to S-." I solemnly replied as finally the magic cannon was full. Since the main ability of shapeshifters is to change into soone else and play with their minds, they are weak in combat. But there is no way to distinguish between a shapeshifter and an original person because they play with the mind of the distinguisher.
Even if the shapeshifter itself said that it was a duplicate, the mind of the person would still doubt its decision. They are ntal manipulators, hindering the decision-making of a person. Pitting the humans against each other and that's what makes them even more dangerous.
"When you see two people, even if you want to attack the person you think is the duplicate, don't. Your mind would play tricks on you so you need to control yourselves. Understood?" I instructed and asked.
"Yes," Asmara replied.
"Understood." Sasha nodded in acknowledgent and similar voices ca from the one behind as well. I finally let go of the magic cannon because it was on the verge of exploding and the shapeshifter was also only fifteen minutes away from evolving.
The battle ahead won't be easy. As if the difference of more than level sixty with and almost a hundred with other students wasn't enough, I was also DE-buffed heavily.
My 'Magic cannon' finally fell on him but I didn't receive any kind of notification for a few seconds before the dust settled and a bloodied shapeshifter ca into view. It turned to look at us with its current shape of a male in his early thirties with slick black hair and dark brown eyes.
The bad news was that I could visibly see the wounds slowly healing. It had a regenerative ability as well.
[This really won't be easy]
I jumped in the air with all my might and raised the shield below my feet to reduce the fall damage while I conjured about a hundred magic cannons and shot them at the shapeshifter. Even though it was weak in combat, it was still high level enough to dodge almost all of them. if not for the number, it wouldn't have been damaged at all.
[Shapeshifter]
[HP 21452\\30000]
I landed near it and the shield prevented from gaining any fall damage. Without further ado, I attacked it with my sword. It didn't seem to have a weapon so that was a good thing. As far as I know, shapeshifters cannot animate nonliving objects. They have to expend a great amount of power and in this case, mana to copy the clothes of the person they copy if need be.
But my strikes were all for naught since it could simply dodge them. it spun and counterattacked, its fist aid straight at my abdon, which I easily dodged and hurriedly blocked the second strike that soon followed. I was experienced enough to know when a feint strike was being delivered but blocking proved to be detrintal for .
[HP 1200\\1109]
A 91-point damage even though I had equipped an armor to increase my already insane defense yet still such damage was delivered to .
Just as I was a little shaken, it didn't let go and delivered a flurry of punches to my chest in different places. I unequipped the sword because it was useless but the dagger gave a boost of agility so I kept it equipped only I put it away in my sheath.
Just in ti because the shield cracked after three of its hits and I had to deflect the rest of the hits of the shapeshifter myself. It wasn't easy. It was very good at martial arts.
It tried to attack with its feet which I canceled midstride but the damage accumulation was slowly taking its toll.
[HP 541\\1200]
Compared to , the damage it was taking was almost negligible. About nine to ten points if I was lucky. The good news was that it wasn't regenerating anymore. Maybe because it was saving mana to shapeshift or sothing.
It spun and attacked with its left elbow, I had no choice but to block the elbow strike with both my fists huddled together. Still, I was pushed quite a bit back but I managed to block the strike with only about 150 damage.
Just as it was stopped, it spun once again and delivered a spinning kick this ti which I blocked with my left forearm with the support of my right hand but once again I was pushed back. My left forearm cracked and it was officially broken. Even my right fist was numb.
[HP 169\\1200]
I didn't take another risk and let the force create so distance between us. It followed right after but my agility was around the sa as it so we began a chase with it being the chaser. I consud an HP potion but the HP recovery wasn't instant so I kept running and it kept following. Although my agility was decent, it was still a little higher so little by little, it was gaining up on .
[Sacred blessing]
[Magic cannon]
Even my enhanced and empowered skills weren't doing much damage to it.
[HP 19112\\30000]
I guess I should count myself lucky I was able to do this much but now I was realizing my limit greatly. Still, I had no choice but to keep it engaged. I couldn't let it evolve no matter what. It evolved, and we're done. At least right now I was delivering a little bit of damage and holding myself against it, once it reached S- rank, I wouldn't even be able to scratch it even if I was lucky.
As the inevitable, it caught up with and prepared to hit with its fist instead of bashing into like it was normally done. Still, I wasn't going to take this lying down so I decided to use the celestial guard and attack it.
But just as I was about to, it was hit with a water ball and fell in its tracks. It wasn't pushed much but it was still sothing and I didn't miss the chance and bashed into it with my dagger deeply embedded into its abdon.
[You have delivered critical damage to your opponent]
['Bleed' has taken effect]
[Your opponent will lose ten points of HP every second]
Yeah!!!
[Your opponent has used regeneration]
[The effect of 'Bleed' has been canceled]
No!!!
Fu*k. I guess it had quite a few tricks up its sleeve yet.
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