60 - daily life 3

From experience of battling after a while, your hearing, smell and sight becomes enhanced. It may have something to do with your level or the fact that the dungeon is always packed with mana, mutating your body into something more suited for battle. Due to past experience, I could tell that earth was being gouged up from the ground as blood is splattered around quite a distance away.

James must have started on it and was clearing them out. This just left the level 800 anomaly even further away from the battle field. Usually leader type monsters wouldn't have such a huge level disparity between itself and its subordinates, at most it would be around 50. This meant that something strange was happening far away, the level 800 was not normal by any means.

It was so far away that it probably barely hid out of James' detection range. He had a little trouble at first but his buffs were so insane that it didn't matter. 5 more smaller weird entities appeared in my detection radius, what they all shared was the fact that they walked at the same speed. The pack split into 2 with the first half distracting James while the second half was heading for my location. To be more specific, they were going towards the weak students so that they could feed on them and gain exp at the same time. Humans are generally the largest exp packs that exist and can only compete with the amount given off by boss monsters.

Well I guess it was my turn. Ever since I saw the level 800 monster, I used [Reality displacement] to hide my own presence. Monsters were still sent to this camp site, indicating that the boss either underestimates me or doesn't know I was here. Applying [Abyss control], stakes of darkness instantly arose from the ground, skewering the sea of monster meat. Seating down myself at another part of the campsite, the other students were already gathered by some teachers to evacuate.

Walking over to pick up the food prepared as breakfast, I watched as the teachers ran around not realising the threat has been dealt with. Well there was still the boss quite a distance away but James was done with his "walk" as well and was heading back. Fez just watched me suspiciously while eating her breakfast as well. Since it was a camp and the school didn't want to be too harsh on the students, breakfast and lunch was provided. Was my calm attitude really that suspicious?

"Listen now, before you say anything. I didn't cause this okay?"

"That make's it more suspicious! Well not like there should be anything to worry about." (Fez)

She can't detect the boss monster? I'll have to reevaluate the threat. Level 1000? It wouldn't be a problem with my stats, but it's still annoying. More over skills were more important than stats. Health and attack didn't matter if they could be negated by skills without any effort. Those were the most terrifying. 5 more level 800s have entered my range and were surrounding the first one. Say, for a bunch of monsters, they seem awfully human.

I'd say humans were the most terrifying, unlike monsters they could learn any skill they wish while monsters were stuck with simple magic and skills that were born from a characteristic of their body. Let's say the monster was large, they may gain a regenerative skill or a strength enhancing skill to go along with their size.

I can't disregard that these monsters could be enemies in disguise. Contacting Kurisu with a magic item, the party of 4 should be coming. With the 2 commandments they should at least be useful in guarding the place if I can't focus on protecting the camp site. Sending my attacks back in time,... Nothing happened...

There was no change in the numbers of enemies, just some damaged environment from the destructive force of the shadow lances I sent. That's it, I'll have to deal with it myself. Using [shadow step], I remanifested behind the largest figure, the original boss figure and swung my shadow scythe before firing magic lances from every direction. Using [Abyss control], I wrapped tentacles of darkness to restrict them. Every single attack was nullified. The scythe shattered, the lances crumbled and the tentacles were shredded.

Sending more attacks back in time, a small cut appears on his cheek as a wicked grin surfaces. After the attack during Fez's ascension to the throne, I read some useful information albeit barely scratching the surface in the library. This person definitely fit the descriptions in the book, his name was Veilcry and he had an unknown 'sin' power. He had his signature black and white stripes in his hair, and the surroundings were a strange wall of meat like substance that interferes with detection skills.

Strange tentacle like tendrills of a substance beyond comprehension rose from the ground, shifting around like snakes. The 5 somewhat weaker subordinates exited the area, heading for the camp site. They had a strange aura different from that of a 'sin wielder' but not that different. If I had to guess, it's that they have 'commandment's or something similar. Well I'll just catch up to them and defeat them later. Right now it's time to fight Veilcry.

Due to the strange material that was manifested by him, my [Abyss control] stopped working. Guess long range attacks can't be used anymore. My scythe can't even keep itself in existence before dissipating back into mana. It was similar to the person with mana-controlling like skills. Ah, that's right, now I have the authority of Conquest. 'wrath' isn't effective if my opponent can defeat me in an instant, so it was still better to go with 'Conquest'. 'Conquest' lets me manipulate to the very basic fundamental properties. Making the mana in my surroundings unstable, there was toxicity and radiation in the air.

Maybe that wasn't useful as anyone over level 900 has [immortality] to protect against debuffs. I didn't master any fast acting curses as well, so that's out the window. Well, I can still go in with raw power. [fate lock],' miss every attack'. [True death], 'no revival, no evasion' [Reality displacement], 'Messed perception'. Frankly, these were technically debuffs that existed outside the system, fate itself was being altered not the enemy.

'[Skill borrow] x 3, [Reality displacement]. '(?)

Tch! And all that preparation for nothing. [Skill borrow] was a low tier skill that was suppose to be useless. When activated, the opponent stops being able to use that skill and you could use it temporarily since it was' borrowed'. The problem was mana cost, if you were physical based, you couldn't maintain the skill and could only use it as a surprise attack. If you were magic based, physical based skills work horribly with your low strength stat, magic based skills didn't work well if you didn't have affinity for its element. But if you could maintain the mana cost which includes [Skill borrow] and the actual skill itself, none of that would matter if the skills aren't fixed to an element like the ones I used. How troublesome, I could only rely on physical attacks since my [Abyss control] was cancelled out.