Profile:
Name: Kaian Klei’dal
Level: 69
Race: Pantherae
Age: 32 Years
Job: Relentless Gale
Status:
Health: 3689/3689 Mana: 623/623 Strength: 1541 Intelligence: 421 Vitality: 1342 Wisdom: 804 Agility: 2161 Stamina: 2612/2612 Effects: [Strengthening Flame] Skill:
Magic skills and related:
[Mana Control Lv. 1]
Physical skills and related:
[Unarmed Technique Lv. 8] [Unarmed Mastery Lv. 9]
[True Spear Technique Lv. 1] [True Spear Mastery Lv. 1]
[Stamina Strike Lv. 6] [Sundering Enhancement Lv. 7]
[Piercing Enhancement Lv. 8] [Crushing Enhancement Lv. 3]
[Enhanced Claws Lv. 7] [Enhanced Fangs Lv. 3]
[Klei’dal Clan Spearmanship Lv. 5]
Senses and movement skills:
[Stealth Lv. 8] [Accuracy Correction Lv. 9]
[Enhanced Enemy Sense Lv. 7] [Concentration Lv. 6] [Prediction Lv. 7]
[Probability Correction Lv. 7] [Danger Perception Lv. 10]
[Enhanced Vision Lv. 7] [Enhanced Auditory Sense Lv. 5]
[Enhanced Olfactory Sense Lv. 6] [Tracking Lv. 9]
[Night Vision Lv. 10] [Presence Killer Lv. 7]
[Evasion Lv. 10] [Acrobatic Lv. 10] [Air Walk Lv. 1]
[Terrain Maneuvering Lv. 8]
Resistance:
[Physical Super-Resistance Lv. 2] [Absolute Pain Tolerance]
[Mental Corruption Resistance Lv. 1] [Bleed Resistance Lv. 4]
[Poison Resistance Lv. 6]
[Paralyzation Resistance Lv. 5] [Torpor Resistance Lv. 1]
[Fear Resistance Lv. 5]
[Holy Resistance Lv. 2] [Fire Resistance Lv. 5]
[Water Resistance Lv. 4] [Earth Resistance Lv. 4]
[Wind Resistance Lv. 5] [Dark Resistance Lv. 6]
Stat growth and related:
[Health Recovery Lv. 6] [Stamina Recovery Lv. 7]
[Enhanced Health Growth Lv. 4]
[Enhanced Health Capacity Lv. 3]
[Enhanced Strength Growth Lv. 4]
[Enhanced Strength Enforcement Lv. 3]
[Enhanced Vitality Growth Lv. 3]
[Enhanced Vitality Enforcement Lv. 3]
[Enhanced Agility Growth Lv. 5]
[Enhanced Agility Enforcement Lv. 3]
[Enhanced Stamina Growth Lv. 5]
[Enhanced Stamina Capacity Lv. 3]
Others:
[Handicraft Lv. 2] [Dismantle Lv. 10] [Terror Aura Lv. 5] [Bloodlust]
[Starvation Lv. 8]
Job Skill:
[Spear Mastery Lv. 8] [Wind Pressure Resistance Lv. 5] [Gale Stride]
[Infuse Weapon: Wind]
Ability List:
Unarmed abilities:
[Gale Steps] [Gale Kick] [Firm Stance]
Klei’dal Spear abilities:
[Bladespider’s Strike] [Eight Folding-Strikes] [pantherae Pounce]
[Hunter’s Javelin] [Ambush Charge]
The stalemate caused by Gael’s appearance ended and the battle flared into action again. Uno, Song, Sarasa and my clone reengaged with the armored human and the bear beastman. Gael and I, on the other hand, attacked Kaian the panther beastman, the rabbit beastman, and the bird beastman. Nobody went ahead and said it aloud, we just knew who we had to fight and focus on.
As we were both Dark Mages, Gael and I planned to use [Shadow Dash] to close the distance to the two backliners, the loopridae mage and arvisan crossbowman. However, as Gael had to chant his spell, I decided to just clad him in my [Shadow Armament] and forcibly pulled him into my shadow instead of waiting for him to finish chanting.
Once we traveled to my spell’s destination through the shadow world, I threw Gael out of my shadow to use him as a decoy. As I informed him about it telepathically, he managed to adapt to the situation and narrowly dodge the incoming fire spell and crossbow bolt. After those variables were gone, I emerged from my shadow, but, instead of finding my targets’ undefended flanks, I discovered Kaian’s spear rushing to greet me.
Kuso! (Shit!) I cursed as I blocked his attack with my tanto.
“Hey, hey, how about we let our weapons talk?” he declared with a smug grin.
Stat-wise, Kaian and I were quite close if I ignored Hestia’s and Tasianna’s buffs. If I were to compare him to a previous enemy, then he would be considered the more agile version of Narube, that bandit leader our party fought against to free those Carine villagers. Honestly, I would have forgotten his name already if it wasn’t for Gael and Kaian mentioning him.
Anyway, with how close our stats were, it made it hard for me to not use [Humanization] to increase my stats and create an advantage for myself. My whole face was covered in my [Shadow Armament], so it wasn’t possible for them to notice that I’d gotten furrier than before. Still, I wasn’t planning on letting any of these mercenaries leave without being in chains or in a grave.
Especially not this pantherae in front of me!
Using my [Shadow Armament], I directed two of my [Dark Tendrils] to pull the daggers attached to them towards Kaian’s back, planning to stab him with them. He, instead of dodging them, gave me a swift kick to my chest to create some distance between us before turning around to knock the daggers down with his spear. He then stomped his left leg into the ground and shouted “Ambush Charge” to dash at me with incredible speed.
“Saori!” Gael shouted out, but I didn’t need his warnings to react to this attack. With [Foresight], reacting to this attack was a given.
While I was recoiling from the attack, I had already taken out one of Hestia’s newer contraptions. I infused some mana into it and threw it into Kaian’s face before shielding my eyes. With a small delay, the ball of rock split apart and a glaring light exploded from it. If Hestia can make spotlights, then she can also make flash bombs.
“Grk?! Fuck!” Kaian cursed as his attack missed, unable to react to my dodge.
[“Uno, Song. Now!”] In the time while I was dodging, I called my wolves to use [Dark Bolt] to destroy the two last light sources of the hallway, completely turning it dark save for the fire at the stairs. The more shadows and darkness, the more I can use my spells to their fullest potential.
I aimed my tanto at Kaian and dashed to stab him with it. Kaian used [Gale Steps] in combination with [Enhanced Enemy Sense] to side step all of them, despite his temporary blindness. I was preparing to use my own weapon ability to counteract his movements, but a sudden crossbow bolt stopped me from advancing for a single second, giving Kaian enough time to launch a counter.
“Bladespider’s Strike!” Like the swing of a scythe, he swung his spear at me to dissuade me from coming close long enough for him to recover his sight.
“Gael!” I called out, but when I looked over, he was not only preoccupied with the mage, but the bear brawler managed to join the fight. The armored human was keeping my wolves at bay and already destroyed my shadow clone, meaning less manpower was needed for his front.
My wolves might have been reborn as C rank monsters, but they only had the bare minimum of skills that a garm would be born with, including the [Dark Magic] that I taught them. Stats were important, but skills decide battles on equal grounds. I wasn’t sure how these mercenaries took down one of my shadow clones, but I guess their teamwork was decent enough to overcome that hurdle.
Still, Gael wasn’t in trouble. His face was calm and stoic, and his movements were precise and focused. He was dodging each strike from the brawler by a hair’s breadth while leaving small cuts on him in return. The mage was trying to help, but without getting a clear shot, she wasn’t shooting any more spells. Considering I’ve been fighting with a fire mage for literally my whole life, I can safely presume she was worried the building would collapse if she carelessly fought.
“Hey, where are you looking at?! I am over here!”
With a sharp “clank” sound, my head turned to the chatty feline. “Don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten you! Just Blink!”
Kaian flinched backwards as I disappeared from his sight for a single second, and in this time, I somersaulted and elongated my leg with [Shadow Armament]. “Shadow Descent!”
Kaian dodged out of it in time, but my kick still left a small hole in the floor. I didn’t let him recover through, as I threw some toxic sludge in his direction. As expected, he dodged the poison, but that left him without the momentum to dodge a larger attack in the next few seconds.
“Dark Tendrils! Claws of Darkness!”
Two black magic circles appeared — one prevented him from moving, while the other summoned a large claws of darkness, ripping a chunk away from his chest armor. First blood belonged to me.
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“Good! Good! You’re good! You’re fuckin’ amazin’! Pantherae Pounce!” with a maniacal laugh, he destroyed the tendrils and leaped into the air like a jaguar, before boosting it further with [Air Walk]. Even with [Foresight] and [Danger Perception] warning me, I couldn’t prevent him from pinning me onto the ground.
“Grck!” I groaned, narrowly redirecting his spear away from my head with my tanto.
“Eight Folding-Strikes,” he continued with his attack, but, as the room was dark enough to hinder everybody without [Night Vision], I had a way out of this. With [Shadow Dash], I escaped from both his pin and his devastating spear strikes.
As I reappeared, Kaian already aimed his spear at the shadow I moved to, having already prepared another [Eight Folding-Strikes], but that was when I began using the darkness of the room to its fullest. As everything was now covered in viable “shadows,” I could unleash all my spells having to aim all the time.
“Dark Tendrils!” Black appendages emerged from my [Shadow Armament] suit and grabbed onto the ceiling, pulling me up. With [Multi-Cast], [Continuous Cast], and [Delay Cast], I began slowly littering the room with additional black magic circles for [Dark Tendrils], all ready to activate at my signal. It was my take on Hestia’s spotlights system.
With each magic circle activated, tendrils appeared and pulled me to them before returning back into their magic circle. And I repeated it over and over again, jumping to one circle then to the next without stop. Like a cricket, I switched my position at a blinding speed, giving Kaian no chance to predict my position as I was alternating to whichever I felt like.
[“Uno, Song, Sarasa. Return!”]
[“““Yes, Alpha! We hunt!”””]
Similar to how I could use the darkness to my advantage, so could my wolves. They might not have [Shadow Dash] just yet, but as shadow garms, they could still enter shadows and move through the shadow world. They overcame the armored human by avoiding him completely to return back to my shadow. And once I had a good angle, I threw them out.
“““Arooooowwww!”””” they howled as they pounced out of my shadow and onto Kaian. He cursed and used his weapon abilities; however, my wolves weren’t there to attack, but to distract.
Daggers coated, I thought, using my claw protectors as a substitute for Hestia’s sludge vials. I didn’t need to take the vials out when I could simply coat all three of my daggers with a drop of slime and instantly prepare them.
With all my position swapping with my tendrils, I’ve gained a pretty impressive speed that anybody would love to unleash. And unleash it I did. Holding onto my tanto and one dagger with my hands and then another with [Shadow Armament], I pinpointed my target and shot my body at him, all while spinning around like a cyclone of blades.
“Tyler!” the armored human cried out, but it was already too late.
Gael, having noticed my aim, took something that looked like sand out of his pouch, and threw it into the bear beastman’s eyes, causing him to recoil back. He was now vulnerable, unable to dodge anything. And his nape was conveniently unprotected.
“Hyaaak!” I roared as my daggers carved a huge chunk of his nape, sending it twisting around from how I cut it. I clicked my tongue, disappointed that I couldn’t decapitate him, but I guess his fur was similar to that one stone-fur grizzly I met in Belzac forest. Stone-hard.
“Eyarrghhhh!” he cried out, clutching onto his nape while thrashing on the ground. Even if he survived the attack, the toxic slime was already corroding his body, turning his flesh necrotic.
But, Gael wasn’t patient enough to wait out his death. The loopridae mage noticed his intention, releasing a powerful [Flame Spear] at him while the arvisian crossbowman shot another bolt at Gael, trying to defend their weakened ally. However, Gael was just like my wolves and me. A dark mage was the most powerful in full darkness.
With a huge, smug smile of his own, he jumped on to the ground like a soldier, where he stabbed his dagger into the bearman’s neck and slammed him onto the ground with one of those American wrestling moves — the DDT, I think. While doing that, his finished [Shadow Dash] activated and he melted into the darkness, avoiding the fire spell and bolt entirely. The [Flame Spear] slammed against the wall and created a huge hole, letting fresh air enter the hallway.
Tch, kill stealer. That was my level up. As much as I wanted to complain to Gael’s face, my body was already melting back into another shadow to reappear behind Kaian, who was still dancing around with my garms. Unlike my [Shadow Clones] amd [Shadow Pack] spell, it was an advantage for me that these garms can think independently. I meant, I didn’t need to direct them and they could perform the right actions to preserve themselves. They executed my orders perfectly!
As the twisting tornado that was me came out of the shadows, Kaian simply frowned and used [Bladespider’s Strike] to slice at me. As I already considered this possibility, a tendril was already extending from my [Shadow Armament] to pull me away. I thought I could dodge it, but somehow Kaian managed to slice my leg.
“Arck!” I groaned, before being pulled away to a wall like a spider. I looked down at my leg to see a large bleeding wound and that a chunk of my Health was missing. [Sanctified Blaze] was already healing it up for me, but I didn’t expect to be hit like that. I thought I timed it correctly.
Gale Stride
By spending both Mana and Stamina, the user gains an unstoppable burst of speed for a single second. The user’s next attack ignores all defensive skills and spells
Ahh, damnit. That’s my fault for being careless for a second.
Kaian probably wanted to continue his attack, but my wolves were already pre-occupying him to defend me. And honestly? I needed it. I only checked now but, with how often I used [Dark Tendrils] and [Shadow Dash] this fight, my Mana was running low while I think I could feel a small tingling in my arms. I pulled out a mana potion and drank it.
My [Arcane Corruption] was level ten, so I don’t believe I would have trouble with it anytime soon, but I should be careful with using too many spells in the future. I wasn’t Hestia. I didn’t have a near infinite amount of Mana to spend whenever and however I wanted. I needed to be more frugal.
“Kyaaaaak!”
After I was done drinking my second Mana potion, a loud shrill directed my attention to Gael’s side of the battle, where he managed to injure the mage at her arm. It was bleeding a lot and, knowing Gael, he probably had poison applied. I mean, he threw sand at a person’s eyes; having that personality while being a rogue made tricky moves like poison daggers an obvious answer.
“Oooh, better have that treated soon, lass; otherwise, you might lose an arm,” he joked.
“Arck! F-fuck you, traitor!” As expected of a rabbit beastman, the mage used her well-developed legs to kick at Gael, but as she only had the stats of a mage, it was futile. Gael had no trouble dodging it, but any further attacks from him were stopped due to the armored human and crossbowman.
“Fuck! Dammit! Gale Steps!” Kaian, seeing what happened, using [Gale Stride] in combination with [Gale Steps] to avoid all my garms and move towards his injured comrade. “Enough! We can’t lose anymore! Forget the contract!”
Then he swiftly picked up the loopridae mage in a princess carry before running towards the hole in the building the mage made with [Flame Javelin]. The crossbowman and armored human nodded, each taking out a ball and tossing it onto the ground, covering the hallway in smoke.
“Wait!” I cried out. I was not done with Kaian yet!
Gael tried to stop the armored human, but as he was completely armored and had a shield, it was impossible for him to do it even with [Dark Tendrils], as the giant tank simply steamrolled out of the building.
I wanted to stop Kaian from running away, but the mage used [Petal Flames] to cause the ceiling to collapse before me. She also kept a flame lit above herself to prevent me from using nearby shadows to [Shadow Dash] towards.
“Hey, wolfkin!” he shouted. “‘Never owe a debt.’ The next time we fight, I’ll make sure to pay you back for today! I will remember you, Saori!”
He then leaped out of the building with his companion and shouted, “The kid’s name was ‘Tatsuya!’ He screamed his friend’s name, ‘Kyouuuuuuuuyaaaaaaaaaa’ as he watched that big human’s body drop to the ground, bleeding! Ha ha ha ha ha!” And then he escaped.
Kaian landed gracefully like a cat, the armored human cracked the ground, while the arvisian crossbowman simply flew with his winged arms. We managed to take down a couple of them, but those mercenaries still escaped in the end. The two leaders were among the escapees, too.
But that wasn’t important. Memories began clouding my mind. The four years that I spent at Shirako High School when I was still a teacher on Earth. My first year was as an assistant teacher to learn how to teach, which I somehow managed to pass despite how strict the homeroom teacher was. The kids also weren’t the easiest to handle, as they expected a lot from you.
Then, when my second year began and I became a proper teacher, I was somehow assigned to becoming a homeroom teacher instead of only a history teacher. It wasn’t what I wanted, but what could I do when I had no other chance? Using the experience my senpais gave me, I had to adopt a new personality to teach my class.
That was when I met the students that I guided for the next three years. High School 1st Grade, 2nd classroom. It was like a package of colorful chocolate, as each of my students had different personalities. One was what people would call an antisocial chunnibyou with teacher pet tendencies, while another was a hard-working classroom “idol” with an overly ambitious nature. And then there was that one boy who was the son of the top prosecutor of the country.
That classroom was my second home for the last three years of my life on Earth. We spent time together in the classroom, on school trips, during school assemblies, and more. I didn’t become a teacher because I wanted to, but because of the money for my mother’s medicine. But… I guess along the way, I began to love it, just because of the kids.
Would I return to being a teacher? I don’t know. I love my current life.
But… a teacher is responsible for her student’s well-being. It is my duty to keep them safe and to help them become good adults... Even if I have died… Even if it is in a new world.
But most importantly, I want to see them again. My last tie to my life on Earth was on Peolynca!
They hadn’t even graduated yet, but they were imprisoned on Peolynca due to Aurena or whatever, I didn’t care how or why. These kids weren’t my responsibility anymore, but I want to help them one last time.
“Shit, seems like they got away,” Gael said at my side.
I nodded in agreement before heading towards my garms. “Uno, Song, Sarasa. Good work, you did a fine job. Good boy. Good girls.”
[“““Our lives are yours, Alpha.”””]
I smiled. “Sorry that you could not get the kills for the experience, but I promise I will train you up. Let us all evolve together.”
As I was having my moment with them, Gael approached us and gave me a questioning look before speaking, “Huh? You haven’t registered yourself as a tamer at the hunter’s guild, yet? You know they have something similar to a party bracelet for tamers and tamed monsters, right? You can even order the latest model with the Princess’ request.”
...Huh.
I guess that would exist in a game world like this. Tasianna and Hestia didn’t say anything and I had no idea it was even a possibility. Well, the more you know…
As I was reflecting on my ignorance, an explosion from below the building happened, where a horde of monsters with weird orbs and slimes attached to them ran out. According to the reports we gathered, these were probably the experimental monsters. Was Tasianna having a problem? No, checking on my party bracelet, Tasianna’s Mana was slowly recovering, so she should be fine.
I wanted to jump down to take care of those monsters, but Gael stopped me, saying, “The cleanup unit is already on it,” and then pointed at the opened door at the end of the hall. He was right, we needed to take care of our primary objective first.
Davison.
Now that I think about it, wasn’t this the sort of recklessness I wanted Hestia to stop doing? Wow, I just became a hypocrite, huh?
Even now, I was learning and maturing. Not only as a person, but also a teacher.
Multiple proficiency requirements fulfilled. [Tenebrous Magic Lv. 2] [Foresight Lv. 2] [Danger Perception Lv. 10] [Terror Aura Lv. 5] gained
Spell gained: [Abyssal Bomb]
Profile:
Name: Saori Segawa
Level: 25
Race: Young Shadowstalker Cadejo
Age: 7 Months
Status:
Health: 7752/7752 Mana: 3076/3076 Strength: 4310 Intelligence: 1640 Vitality: 3176 Wisdom: 3112 Agility: 6744 Stamina: 5018/5018 Effects: None Skill Points: 1450 (-1200) Unique Skill:
[Shadow Armament Lv. 7] (+1) [Shadow Pack Lv. 1] (New)
Skill:
Magic skills and related:
[Mana Efficiency Lv. 10] (+2) [Arcane Mind Lv. 10] (+1)
[Mana Control Lv. 10] [Dark Magic Lv. 10] [Dark Amp]
[Dark Magic Efficiency]
[Tenebrous Magic Lv. 2] (+1) [Space-Time Magic Lv. 3]
[Space-Time Efficiency] [Chant Revocation Lv. 10]
[Mental Stability Lv. 7] (+1) [Mental Warfare Lv. 7] (+1)
[Silent Casting Lv. 10] [Fluid Cast Lv. 2]
[Multi-Cast Lv. 1] [Continuous Cast Lv. 1] (New) [Delayed Cast Lv. 1] (New)
Physical skills and related:
[Unarmed Technique Lv. 9] [Unarmed Mastery Lv. 5] (+1)
[Dagger Technique Lv. 5] (+2) [Dagger Mastery Lv. 4] (New)
[Sundering Enhancement Lv. 8]
[Piercing Enhancement Lv. 7] (+1) [Crushing Enhancement Lv. 4] (+1)
[Lupine Claws Lv. 3] (+1) [Lupine Fangs Lv. 3] (+1)
Senses and movement skills:
[Primal Senses] [Silence Lv. 1] [Foresight Lv. 2] (+1)
[Concentration Lv. 7] (+1)
[Detection Sensor Lv. 2] (+1) [Danger Perception Lv. 10] (+1)
[Tracking Lv. 6] [Heat Vision Lv. 3]
[Night Vision Lv. 8] [Odorless Lv. 1] [Evasion Lv. 10]
[Acrobatic Lv. 10] [Air Walk Lv. 3] (+2) [Terrain Maneuvering Lv. 7] (+1)
Resistances:
[Physical Super-Resistance Lv. 4] (+1) [Absolute Pain Tolerance]
[Abnormal Status Nullification] [Fear Resistance Lv. 1]
[Arcane Corruption Resistance Lv. 10] [Ice Resistance Lv. 4] (+1)
[Lightning Resistance Lv. 2] [Holy Resistance Lv. 8] (+2)
[Inferno Resistance Lv. 1] (New)
[Earth Resistance Lv. 7] [Water Resistance Lv. 6] (+1)
[Wind Resistance Lv. 6] [Dark Resistance Lv. 7]
Stat growths and related:
[Health Recovery Lv. 6] (+1)
[Mana Recovery Lv. 4] [Stamina Recovery Lv. 6] (+1)
[Enhanced Health Growth Lv. 5]
[Enhanced Health Capacity Lv. 4]
[Enhanced Mana Growth Lv.´4]
[Enhanced Mana Capacity Lv. 2]
[Enhanced Strength Growth Lv. 6]
[Enhanced Strength Enforcement Lv. 5]
[Enhanced Intelligence Growth Lv. 4]
[Enhanced Intelligence Enforcement Lv. 2]
[Enhanced Vitality Growth Lv. 5] (+1)
[Enhanced Vitality Enforcement Lv. 4]
[Enhanced Wisdom Growth Lv. 5] (+1)
[Enhanced Wisdom Enforcement Lv. 4]
[Enhanced Agility Growth Lv. 6]
[Enhanced Agility Enforcement Lv. 5]
[Enhanced Stamina Growth Lv. 6]
[Enhanced Stamina Capacity Lv. 5]
Others:
[Dancing Lv. 2] (+1) [Mathematician Lv. 3] (+1) [Merchant Lv. 1] (New)
[Accounting Lv. 1] (New) [Monster Tamer Lv. 1] (New)
[Identify Blocker Lv. 10]
[Identify Lv. 10] [Terror Aura Lv. 5] (+1) [Bloodlust Lv. 4] (+2)
[Battle Mind Lv. 6] (+1) [Lifetaker Lv. 3] [Mana Weave Lv. 10]
[Sewing Lv. 10] [Elemental Mana Weave Lv. 6] (+1)
[Royal Etiquette Lv. 4] (+1) [Cooking Lv. 10] [Dismantle Lv. 8] (+2)
[Humanize Lv. 8] (+1) [Telepathy]
Ability List:
Unarmed abilities:
[Just Blink]
[Shadow Descent]
Dagger abilities:
[Shadow Pierce]
Spell List:
Custom Spells:
[Create Water] [Smoky Haze]
Dark Spells:
[Dark Bolt] [Dark Tendrils] [Shadow Dash] [Dark Slash] [Shadow Clones]
[Shadow Snake] [Enfeebling Winds] [Claws of Darkness]
[Umbral Pendulum] [Abyssal Bomb]
Space-Time Spells:
[Haste] [Storage Magic]
Titles:
[Belzac’s Successor] [Otherworldly Reincarnator] [Hestia’s Retainer]
[Pack Leader]