blueteamnovel Chapter 512 - 511 – Second Tournament – Finals – Part 16.
Chapter 512 - 511 – Second Tournament – Finals – Part 16.
"You…. Fucking…. Whores…." – a man in a in green cloak who was producing a grayish poison from his palms.[Number of players left]
[20]
"FUCK! How the hell he survived for so long!? Wasn't he a pure mage!? How the hell he could survive for so long?! Did he had a tank build?!" – asked pissed off slime girl Maparapara.
"Nah… He was just healing at absurdly fast rate… Which I don't think should be possible for a curse and poison user." – said Thanatos as she picked her severed arm and used blood magic to reattach it.
[Warning!]
[The castle zone began collapsing.]
"We reached 20 and the second zone is collapsing…. So… What now?" – asked Maparapara as the duo were currently at the temple zone.
"…Honestly, I want to slow down." – said Thanatos as she sat down.
"The last fight against this bastard Mogu…. Rank 10…. He was definitely annoying…. This [Grey Death] class is really bullshit… No wonder Phantasia was dead set on getting it." - said Thanatos as she and the slime girl looked around, noticing that the entire area around was straight up melted.
(He was a high-ranking master ranker who specializes in negatives status like curses and poisons…) – thought exhausted Thanatos.
(I thought this would be bit easier, since that gal here have extremely high resistance to poisons and other stuff, and I myself posses some resistances, alongside the items that Phantasia made for us, in case of "friendly fire".)
(But still… Damn.)
(To think he would wreck us…. Still.)
"We are alive and we managed to get to the top 20 at least." – said Thanatos.
"But I think we shouldn't get greedy now."
"This last fight tired us way too much… I think we should our regeneration just do it thing instead of relying on skills."
"…Agree." – said Maparapara.
"Anyway, aren't you going to eat his corpses or something?"
"I can't. He isn't human or any bloody race I know… I don't know what the hell is he, but his entire body is made out of poison." – replied annoyed Thanatos.
"Seriously, what the hell is this crap?! I thought only Phantasia was the only one with fucked up body like this!"
"Are there other bastard like these out there with weird ass body?"
"…"
"Then again, you are a freaking slime."
"Hey! Slimes are cool! I have you know!" – said Maparapara.
"Yeah, yeah…. Anyway, rest up. My familiars should keep watch over the area in meantime." – said Thanatos.
"…"
(I honestly wasn't expecting to survive for this long.) – thought Maparapara.
(Top 20 is already somewhat good enough for me.)
(I would want to get to top 10… But then again…)
"…"
(I'm dumb.)
(But I'm not dumb enough to see what is going on here.)
(We had counters for that guy here, but we had solid struggle against him.)
(Heck! When I've managed to trap him and she managed to get a drop on him, he suddenly broke free and fired off a beam of acid, which straight up cut off her limb.)
(If she didn't reacted in time, it could had straight up blew off her head instead!)
"…"
(This is fucking stupid.) – thought Maparapara as she looked down, while straight up fuming with rage.
"…"
"Honest question." – Maparapara spoke up.
"Do you think we will be in some sort of highlight or something like that?"
"Hm… I don't know… I mean, we did took down the number 10 just now." – replied the masked vampire.
(This should give us enough attention…. But again, our plan is about getting as much attention as possible.) – thought Thanatos.
"…"
(My blood ghouls are in the swamp right now… And from what I'm seeing with their eyes? The fucking map is rotting.) – thought Thanatos as she was using a humanoid long limbed pale monstrosity with visible red veins underneath their skin, which were also equipped with inhuman long claws and fangs.
(I recognize this handy work.)
(Phantasia.)
(By the looks of things he took over the swamp.)
(He probably wants to rat out any players in that area and force them to fight him.)
(Should we…. But this time there are no real "teams", so the plague of his will end up attacking us.)
(Nah, joining up with him will be stupid.)
(It will be better if we avoid him.)
(We should-)
"[SHADOW MAGIC: SHADOW RAMPAGE]!" – Thanatos suddenly swung down her scythe, striking the ground and unleashing a barrage of sprouting shadow tendrils that instantly destroyed anything in their path, piercing and ripping stones that even came anywhere near the tendrils.
"!?"
"Attack!?" – shouted Maparapara as she instantly gotten ready to fight.
"Stealth user!" – shouted Thanatos as she quickly spotted the enemy who was hiding in the shadows, causing the masked vampire to use [Blood Blade: Blood Slash], firing of a slash attack projectile towards the hidden enemy.
However, as the projectile was about to reach the shadow, a figure suddenly leaped out of it and swung their blade, cutting the slash in half with their own skill.
(She noticed me instantly the moment I came even close to them!?) – thought the assassin player, who was none other than M.S.
"!"
(Wait, he is one of the random guys!) – thought Thanatos as the foe unleashed [Shadow Blade: Shadow Rise], unleashing a slash attack from their own shadow that grew in size as it was heading towards Thanatos.
However, Thanatos countered with her own [Shadow Blade: Shadow Rise], unleashing a same slash column of shadow that clashed with M.S attack, destroying both attacks.
And Thanatos wasn't the only one who was on the move, the slime girl Maparapara instantly started growing in size, before then swinging her spiked shields around, trying to smash the assassin, but none of the attacks were hitting.
However, from the shadow of the shield, Thanatos jumped at the assassin, catching him off guard and landing a solid strike.
"[Blood Blade: Thorn Of Organs]." – Thanatos swung her sword, unleashing several tendril slashes of blood all around her that started wrapping around the hostile assassin.
"[Shadow Magic: Shadow Blink]!"
[The skill has been restricted.]
The assassin tried teleporting away to the shadow nearby… But the blood tendrils were locking him in place, straight up not allowing him to use any movement skill.
"[Brutal Shield: Clap Smash]!" - and as the assassin was bound by the tendrils of blood, the slime girl with her massive shields aimed to sandwich the opponent between her weapons.
"[Mirror Magic: Mirror Barrier]!" – however, as the barrier were to smash the M.S, he suddenly manifested a clear glass sphere around himself, which ended up taking a hit and absorbing some of the impact, before then unleashing it back as the barrier shattered.
"!?"
(Counterattack?!) – thought Maparapara as her shields were knocked back… But not too far, as the slime tried once again smashing his foe.
(It wasn't enough?!) – thought M.S as before he could break free from the tendrils, he got smashed between the two spiked shields.
"[Shield Art: Charge Counter]!"
"!"
(WAIT! SHE HAS-)
The right shield erupted, unleashing a powerful shockwave in front of it, which dealt a critical amount of damage to the assassin.
"[Shadow Magic: Shadow Blink]!" - the blast however did ended up destroying Thanatos' blood tendrils, resulting in the assassin quickly disappearing and teleporting to the nearby shadows before Thanatos could decapitate the assassin… But it was worth it.
(Honestly, I'm not very thrilled about being attacked from the get go when we decided to rest… But still, thanks to him attacking like idiot, I still had build up damage from the fight we just had, which allowed me to fire off that blast.) – thought Maparapara.
(But still…)
"I fucking know you! You are Mask!" - said the slime girl.
"?"
"Mask?" – asked Thanatos.
"He is the mirror user assassin that Magnus found somewhere! I played alongside him on the same team during the previous tournament!" – said Maparapara.
"But back then he wasn't using his real nickname! He went by just a 'Mask'!"
"But that is definitely the same bastard!"
"…Yeah… Kind of realized it was the same guy from back then." – said Thanatos.
(Well, isn't this a present surprise?) – thought Thanatos.
(Honestly, I did wanted to have a another go with that bastard.)
(…But still, something isn't right.)
(I fought him back then and I could tell that he was beyond dangerous…. And yet, he disappeared without trace after the tournament?)
(Not buying it.)
(He was definitely working for somebody in the shadows all this time.)
(…Still, we haven't fully recovered yet after fighting the number 10.)
(So we are not in our top condition.)
"Any thing you want to tell me?" – asked Thanatos.
"Em… If I remember correctly, his mirror skills allows him to copy somebody's skill or counter them." – said Maparapara.
"Add shadow build on top of that, since by the looks of things he has that!" – said Thanatos as she launched herself towards assassin and then instantly clashing her scythe with the M.S's daggers.
"Hey! So, who the fuck are you working for!? I don't fucking buy it that you are alone!" – said Thanatos as the M.S managed to knock back the scythe blade… But that was a faint, as Thanatos revealed her cannon attached to her forearm, which she blasted right in the assassin's face, unleashing a shotgun like blast that swallowed the assassin's entire body, dealing a massive damage and knocking back the M.S.
[Scythe Art: Rip Out]
[Dagger Art: Assassination Block]
And right after getting blasted, Thanatos quickly swung her scythe from underneath, aiming for the quick finisher… But was instantly countered by M.S's daggers, which ended up saving the man and giving him time to quickly leap backwards, dodging the massive spiked shield that was launched at him.
"Tch! Slippery bastard!" – said Maparapara.
"Hey. Are we playing with him?"
{{Translation: Is he an alone? Do we play safe?}}
"…"
"No." – said Thanatos.
"We are killing him."