Book 3. Chapter 17.
“Preparing for war.” Part 3
“Are you out of your mind? I’m only level sixty-five!” Kalysto was alarmed as she watched the monster continue to climb. “lightning!” Conjured, trying to stop its advance, but being a level six skill, it didn’t have much effect on the creature.
“Are you sure?” Aegir closed her eyes, concentrating as she conjured. “Your stats are pretty high for someone who is only level sixty-five...” he commented while frowning. When he opened his eyes again, he looked at her. “In that case, I apologize. I thought that with those stats it would be possible for you to take care of him, but it seems I was wrong,” as he expected, the comment annoyed the saintess, who continued attacking from the corner of the cliff.
“Perfect aim! Multiple targets! Ice spear! Telekinesis! Penetration enchantment! Duplication! Duplication! Duplication! Duplication!” Five spears buried themselves in different parts of the Kraken’s enormous eye, whose eye began to bleed, causing the creature to stiffen and accelerate its advance. “Mana control! Mana manipulation! Blast of fire!” she added, emptying almost all of her mana in the last attack to increase its power.
[The skill Fire Blast has leveled up to level 6!]
However, although it hit the target, it didn’t do much damage.
Isn’t a sea animal supposed to be weak to fire?
The Kraken with slightly scorched skin on one of its tentacles continued its advance while Kalysto pulled a mana crystal from her inventory.
You may be stronger than me, but I have access to an almost unlimited supply of mana!... And an axe! She started to get excited. Let’s see who goes down first!
“Absorb!”
[Does the user wish to absorb this mana crystal?]
[YES/NO]
Yes!
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 10,000 MP!]
“Fireball!” she launched, attacking the other eye. “Fire creation!” She added, concentrating her mana on boosting the pure fire attack that erupted from the palms of her hands, focusing it on the Kraken’s head.
This time, the attack had a better result.
There’s a big difference between a normal magic attack and a divine class attack! Even if there are so many levels of difference. She was surprised to see the scorched flesh of the monster’s head. The eye she had wounded before was now completely closed and the eyelid was completely scorched.
The smell of burning flesh flooded her nose, and she was suddenly curious.
Would it be edible? Aegir’s laughter let her know that he had heard her.
“Although most people don’t consider it right to feed on monsters for fear of being exposed to the black plague, my species often does. Especially when it comes to sea monsters whose chances of contagion are practically nonexistent,” he commented, ”Although I must warn you that some taste better than others.”
“Thanks for the tip,” she murmured, returning to absorb another mana crystal.
[Does the user wish to absorb this mana crystal?]
[YES/NO]
Yes!
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 10,000 MP!]
By the time she finished absorbing the second crystal, the creature had already reached her. Twelve huge tentacles greeted her, while three of them attacked her. Kalysto dodged them easily, but not the fourth, which smashed into her stomach and sent her into a huge boulder, which shattered on impact.
[The passive skill Pain Resistance has been activated.]
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As she stood up, Kalysto pulled out her axe and jumped at him, five tentacles rushed at her, but she managed to cut the tip of one of them, however when the next tentacle attack came, her axe got stuck in one of them and the fairy champion had to jump back and forth, evading the collection of continuous attacks.
The Kraken didn’t seem to want to give her time to cast a spell.
And Kalysto couldn’t help but smile at this realization, especially since Aegir was right. Even though there were forty-five levels of difference between them, she was faster than him.
“Inventory!” She took out one of the swords she had enchanted and gave a duplicate to Natasha, Katia, and Sakura. “Duplication!” She grabbed the original and, after duplicating the copy she had just made of the sword, she began to make as many cuts as she could on the tentacles that insisted on trying to crush her or smash her against any of the rocks nearby. “Lightning! Fireball! Fire blast!” Then it absorbed another ten thousand MP crystal again. “Fire creation!”
Then she jumped away from the creature, increasing the distance between them, but the Kraken followed her, so she had to move further away.
“Duplication!” she conjured, pulling out a copy of the sword which she put back in her inventory and after dodging three more consecutive attacks, she ran towards him again, and while dodging the strong tentacles she used them as a springboard to jump over the monster’s head and stand on the wet orange and half-charred skin. “Duplication!” she conjured and buried both swords in its skull. She couldn’t bury them completely, but still, she pulled out one of them and duplicated it three more times. She had to move away several times due to the annoying tentacles that tried to hinder her feat, but she continued repeating the same pattern several times until the top of the enemy’s head was partially covered with swords. “Duplication!” She tried to continue, after evading another pair of tentacles and jumping over the Kraken’s head again. But unlike the previous times, the sword turned to ashes in her hands. “What the heck?” She was surprised. “I didn’t know there was a limit to how many times an object could be duplicated.”
She moved away again while nimbly dodging several attacks from the multiple tentacles, rescued her axe, cut off the tip of another tentacle, and pulled Tsuki out of the inventory.
“Aegir, get away from here! Tsuki, get ready!” Then she absorbed another 10,000 MP from another mana crystal. “Lightning!” Tsuki joined her attack, using the collection of spades he had buried in the Kraken’s body as a lightning rod.
[The skill Lightning has been raised to level 7!]
She then approached the supercharged kraken again and began slashing at the tips of its tentacles while dodging its attacks. As the fight dragged on for over forty minutes, Kalysto began to feel tempted to use the plague-infected dagger that the goblins had used against her when the day she arrived at Elinor. But Aegir was still nearby, and it might be counterproductive for the demon king to see her using it as a weapon since he could not only tell the fairy queen but also use it against her.
“Absorb!” conjured Kalysto, while touching one of the tentacles.
[Does the user wish to absorb this target’s stats or skills?]
Yes! Absorb its vitality, quickly!
[Warning! The difference in levels is too big. Only 500HP could be absorbed.]
Sensing the change, the Kraken rushed to take her off while Tsuki took advantage of the fact that his mistress was far away from the monster to attack it.
Less than five minutes later, after cutting another piece of tentacle, Kalysto managed to absorb 100 strength points, along with another 500 MP. This frightened the Kraken, which, exhausted from the long battle, began to advance again toward the edge of the cliff with its tentacles half severed.
“Not so fast!” Kalysto roared, running after him and cutting another tentacle, this time. Although it was much fatter than the tips she had cut before, her axe didn’t get stuck and cut through the tough skin more easily. The monster roared, turning to attack her with the rest of its tentacles. But as Kalytso dodged its blows gracefully, and then pulled a ten thousand MP stone from her inventory and absorbed it. ”Fire creation!” It roared against the Kraken’s face, blinding it completely.
The monster ran back to the edge of the cliff, with Kalysto bathing it in fire.
[The skill Fire Creation has been raised to level 12!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired a new skill: Fireball. Level 1. Class: divine!]
[Warning! The user already possessed this skill in a lower class! The skill of the higher class has absorbed the previous one and the difference in levels has become experience.]
[The skill Fireball has leveled up to level 26!]
Finally, after much effort, the Kraken reached the cliff's top. Immediately, both Tsuki and Kalysto attacked it again.
“Ice Spear! Lightning! Fire Blast!”
[The skill Fire Blast has leveled up to level 7!]
[The skill Lightning has leveled up to level 8!]
And the expected notification appeared to her left, just as the lifeless body of the Kraken fell into the sea.
[The skill Lightning has leveled up to level 7!]
[You have leveled up!]
[You have leveled up!]
[You have leveled up!]
[You have leveled up!]
[You have leveled up!]
[The user is now level 71!]
Kalysto frowned when she saw that despite the big difference between their levels, she had only gone up 5.
Where did the rest of my experience points go? She frowned, confused and annoyed that the kraken’s body fell into the sea and she couldn’t get a sample to eat it.
A quick glance at the tips of the tentacles she had cut off with her axe showed her that they were unpalatable, not only because of how dirty they were but also because they were burned.
“Master!” Tsuki shouted excitedly in her mind, calling her attention. “I went up fourteen levels! Now I’m level thirty-four!”
And that’s where all those experience points went!