22 I won’t let you die! (2)
In the middle of the night, a youth could be seen among a pack of Dark Ghouls. Although he was walking among them, those monsters didn't seem to notice his presence at all. A short message appeared as he stared at one of the ghouls.
[Level 87]
'Alright, this should be somewhat doable.' He resolved himself as he whispered softly. "A night full of stars"
Slowly, many light orbs of a ping pong size rose up from the ground. Just a simple glance, one could see a few hundreds of them floating covering an area of 60 meter radius. And it was expanding at a visible rate, giving off a beautiful sight.
Feeling the mana, the eight ghouls started to panic as they scowled, looking at every direction, trying to find the culprit. But they didn't aware that a human was looking at them from behind.
A youth, Lucien, smiled as he lowered his stance and tightened his grip on a spear. His dark blue eyes glowed a golden color and said, "Twilight Edge!"
He then threw out his spear forward, drawing a straight white line, straight into the head of the ghoul in the middle.
Splash!
Thud!
Not given a chance to scream, the ghoul's head disappeared into thin air and its neck spurted out a fountain of blood, however, the spear didn't has its momentum stopped as it went through another ghoul's head.
Thud!
Both of the headless bodies fell down. The other ghouls didn't seem to care about their dead comrades at all. They all leaped into the figure that suddenly appeared out of thin air, roaring with an inhuman voice.
After one shotting two ghouls right away, Lucien didn't even change his expression as his body suddenly turned into a bright light and vanished. Of course, all the six ghouls missed their targets.
Lucien then appeared at his flying spear. His hand gripped the spear tightly as his figure blurred.
His body moved at an extreme speed with the synergy of Leap, Sprinting, Wind Reinforcement, Grace of the Wind and Moment of Elegance as the core.
And before the ghouls could notice something wrong, another two of their comrades had their head pierced.
His spear made no sound at all, making it hard for the ghouls to track him. One could only see a streak of light when the ghoul was killed. However, these ghouls had no sense of vision so they were unable to see such a beautiful sight.
Just when he was about to pierce another ghoul's head, the silver ghoul that seemed to be a leader swung its arm at him. Lucien barely dodged the strike and retreated a dozen of meters to catch his breath after managing to pierce another head.
Now there were 3 left. They stared at each other for seconds. The ghouls had no eyes, giving Lucien a weird feeling, but he could feel that the ghouls somehow locked its sense on him.
"Holy Feather of Spear Immunity"
Four translucent feather and two translucent spears formed in the thin air. Both feathers and spears gave off holy light as they floated around him.
Lucien then leaped 15 meters into the air, leaving only trails of wind. At the same time, he grabbed one of the translucent spear and threw at the ghoul leader.
Although the speed of the spear was fast, the leader dodged it with ease so the spear hit on ground. However there was no loud bang or even the impact from collision.
Grrrrrr!
The leader and subordinate ghouls howled viciously as they pounced forward.
"Celestial Locking Spear!"
Lucien shouted like a main character as he activated his skill. The spear laced on the ground emitted a white light as a holy chain materialized on its shaft, sealing the ghoul leader in place.
Lucien used his falling momentum, gravity and body weight professionally as he pulled all skills, smashing his spear into one of the ghoul's head, and blocked the strike of the another one.
Before the claw could hit his body, the four translucent feathers overlapped each other and intercepted the blow. However, the impact still sent him flew away.
All the feathers which have 10% of his max health points each were broken like a piece of glass and dissipated.
Lucien stood up slowly as his health points was left with only three quarter from one of the subordinate ghoul's blow. Which mean that blow alone could deplete 65% of his full health.
His Foster Blood and Blood Reciprocation worked fully, increasing his health regen exponentially. The light in his eyes didn't waver a bit from the pain inflicted on his left arm.
"Sigh.."
No one knew why he sighed or what he was thinking. HIs eyes flashed a cold light as he looked at the approaching subordinate ghoul.
The ghoul opened its disgusting mouth widely wanting to swallow him at once. At that moment, Lucien's spear blurred. Not even bothering to aim at its head, his strike hit straight into the ghoul's chest at an invisible speed.
Boom! Boom!
He only hit once but the ghoul felt like it had been hit twice before it died. Its body splattered into mincemeat.
"Seven Spectral Spear..", said Lucien coolly as he looked at the dead meat on the ground.
Grrrrrrrrr!
Clank! Clank!
"Don't worry, now it's your turn, big guy."
Lucien turned his attention to the struggling ghoul leader a dozen of meters away from him. Yep, it was still sealed by holy chains. "Let's make a cool ending scene, okay?"
With a playful voice Lucien lowered his stance, putting his free hand to the front like he was aiming. His hand tightened around the spear as it started to manifest an intense holy light one after another. After three lights, it stopped. The mana in his spear right now was so condensed that the air around it was shaking. His spear also let out a cracking noise like it could break apart any time soon.
"G*ia B*ster!!!"
Then, he shouted like a main character(again) dealing the last blow to the last boss as he swung his spear forward.
BOOM!
The air splitted itself before this immense power. The wind current turned chaos as sound was deprived from the surrounding area for a second, followed by a large boom echoed throughout the forest.
The ghoul leader's scream was also hindered by the large boom as its body turned into ash upon contacting with the bright light.
All the tree, grass, herbs and everything in the path of the skill which flew in a straight line melted into thin air.
Thud!
Lucien fell to the ground pathetically. There wasn't even an ounce of mana and stamina left in his body and his spear was destroyed from the impact of his own skill. However, he giggled like a kid, feeling satisfied, "Haha, serve you justice!"
"Serve you damn justice!"
Pak!
Alicia popped out of nowhere and kicked Lucien's abdomen.
Coughing out some blood, Lucien said pitifully,"Why did you kick me, Alicia?"
With two hands on her waist, Alicia scolded him angrily,"It's me who want to ask you why did you use Nine Caustic Destruction! You only needed to pricked it with your spear and done!? Moreover, what the hell was that G*ia B*ster!?"
"It's the same, Alicia. It will die anyway so why not give it a good ending scene?"
"And now you don't have any energy left? Huh, what if another monster appear!?"
"It's fine. I already checked with my skill there was no more monster. Even if there was, my big beautiful sister will protect me, right?" Lucien gave her a teasing glance.
It had been a year already since Lucien started learning spear from Alicia. He sparred with her for 9 months. Spending a months familiarize with Alicia's Skill Set and another two months hunting monster.
His body had grown taller and his body was well-built, full of manliness. His face a sharp and cool with his dark blue eyes and long black hair.
Yep, Lucien was so happy about his hair that he didn't dare to even trim it a bit, leaving a waist length long black hair. With his charm stats, his face could be considered very handsome on Earth.
Moreover, he was not wearing a girl dress anymore as he asked Alicia to sew a boy clothe for him from the beast's skin.
Per Alicia's instruction, he allocated the free stats efficiently, putting more on control because it was necessary for using his new skill. However, even with his higher control, he could only condense at most 5 lights from Nine Caustic Destruction. He also increased his endurance by 75, doubled the original, also to increase the effectiveness of Holy Feather of Spear Immunity.
"Are you even listening, Lulu?"
"Yep, I'm listening." His Acting skill actually leveled up from that.
Ignoring Alicia's complaining. After a year of staying together, she became more and more like mom than a sister.
*Sigh*
Lucien looked at old notification log and decided to invest his PP into the new paths.
[Congratulations! You have completed Firefly Path! +20 mana points, +2 intelligent and +2 control. You have learned A NIght Full of Star (E) lv1.]
(E) was for Epic, a rank higher than Rare but lower than Unique. From what he knew the skill and equipment had the same rating which were Common, Rare, Epic, Unique, Supreme and Legend. He didn't know if there was something higher and it seemed too far for him.
Well, aside from completion reward, Firefly Path 100/100 gave him 50 mana points, 5 mana regen, 4 magic stats, 4 intelligence and 4 control.
[Congratulations! You have completed Gale Manipulation Path! +20 mana regen and +5 control. You have learned Air Resistance Mastery ® lv1.]
Air Resistance Mastery ® lv1 : You can increase or decrease the air resistance you receive. The higher mana input, the more you can control.
Aside from completion rewards, he got 50 mana points, 5 mana regen, 2 intelligent and 8 control.
[Congratulations! You have completed Spear Mastery II! +50 health, +50 stamina, +5 stamina regen, +2 strength and +2 agility. You have learned Spear Parry lv1]
Aside from completion rewards, he got 50 stamina, 5 stamina regen and 15 physical stats.
"Now, it's time for the new path!" His saving PP was more than 600! He really felt like a rich guy right now.
[Congratulations! You have completed Concealment Path! +25 stamina, +5 agility and +5 perception. Your skills Sneak lv45 and Concealment ® lv52 have been combined into Assassin's Shroud (E) lv1. All previous effects are retained.]
This Concealment Path 200/200 gave him 50 stamina, 10 stamina regen, 10 agility, 5 perception and 5 reaction.
When his agility reached 200 from free stats he poured in, the Path of Agility was unlocked for him so as other stats that reached 200.
[Congratulations! You have completed Path of Agility! +1 agility per level, +10 agility and +1 all stats. You have learned Wind Walk (E) lv1]
This path gave him 1 agility every 10 PP. Quite low, but the completion rewards were a lot after all, +1 agility per level.
Right when he was about to choose Path of Strength next, a message popped out.
[Congratulations! Your skills Acting lv48, Dodge lv55, Misleading ® lv26, Hoodwinking ® lv13, Assassin's Shroud (E) lv1 and Wind Walk (E) lv1 have been combined into Imperceptible Blanket (S) lv1]
"Hmm? Combining? But shouldn't the result be something Unique rank-"
[Congratulations! Due to the influence of %#@^$&, Your skill Imperceptible Veil (S) lv1 has been upgraded to Illusory Mantilla (L) lv1]
"EH?What the fuck!?" Lucien screamed like a girl in surprise seeing the notification. Of course he was happy but he was more stupefied.
[WARNING! Your league is too low to contain a Legendary skill...]
"How the heck can this- Arghhhhhh"
Not like a little girl anymore, Lucien screamed with all his might. The unimaginable suddenly struck him without warning. He felt like every cells in his body was being destroyed and constructed, again and again.
"I have already told you many time not to- Ah! Lulu! W-What happened to you?" Alicia who was babbling non stop suddenly found her Lulu screamed in pain on the ground.
Blood poured out from every pores on his body and all he could feel was pain, pain and pain. It was not only pain from his physical body, but his soul also felt like it was being shred into pieces. He screamed until his voice turned hoarse, however his pain wasn't lessened one bit.
"Arghhhhhhh!!!!"
"NO! NO! NO! LULU!" Alicia herself also didn't know what happen, but she knew that if he was left like this, he would die.
She quickly covered him with her wings and poured her holy power and aether into his body. Unlike mana, her holy power wasn't sealed. However, this holy power was essential for her as an angel. She could only collect it in celestial worlds.
With her holy power, Lucien's body started to heal with a visible rate and his expression seemed to ease a little.
However, right when Lucien thought thing was over, a new message greeted him turning his face pale.
[Congratulations! Due to the influence of %#@^$& and Archangel's holy power, your skill Illusory Mantilla (L) lv1 has been upgraded to Mythical Veil of Ethereal Serenity (Myth) lv1]
[WARNING! Your league is too low to contain a Mythical skill...]
"ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! NO! PLEASE! NO MOREEEE!!!!" Lucien screamed like a mad man. He could feel it. That fucking of a system didn't even give him a solution.
He was dying.
And it wasn't his fault completing the path, nor Alicia pouring her holy power.
Someone was toying with him, with his life…
With his fate...
However, he didn't know anymore. The torment was inconceivable as blood flushing out of his body. He didn't even know that his body had this much blood. The torture he experienced a year ago was like a child comparing to what was undergoing right now.
"NOOOO!!! LULU!!!!"
He could hear Alicia's crying. It was full of indescribable sadness. And that sadness was like a knife piercing his heart.
He was saved by her and now he was dying again. Thinking about his life, he felt it was such a worthless one. He hadn't done anything, hadn't accomplished anything at all. Even his goal wasn't yet fulfilled…
Moreover, the most important person in his life…
He hadn't done anything to her….
He could feel Alicia was trying to save him once more. But this time, she would be doing something that would cost her a huge price.
He wanted to tell her to stop but with couldn't even utter a word anymore.
Please Alicia, leave me...
There is no use in saving the worthless me...
I'm sorry….
HIs vision started to black out
Fuck…
[Congratulations! Due to the influence of your skill, Mythical Veil of Ethereal Serenity (Myth), your Soul Skill has…..]
That moment, a message appeared once more, however his breath was already stopped.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
And Alicia's sad howling shook the whole Abyss...
