Chapter 142
“Conquering the tower.” Part 3
The two doors opened before her and as soon as she stepped into the room, a new window appeared before her.
[Warning! The user has entered the boss’s room on the top floor of the dungeon!]
Inside the spacious room, only a six-meter-tall creature was waiting for her right in the center of the room. Its huge two-headed body prevented her from approaching the marble altar in the background, above which a black crystal sphere floated. From which a thin swirl of black smoke was beginning to be drawn above it.
And something within that unnatural swirl of darkness stirred something inside her, drawing her to it in a very silent invitation that echoed loudly within her.
A shiver ran down her back. The hairs on the back of her neck stood on end, the palms of her hands began to sweat, and her stomach shrank in response.
And as fear churned her insides, urging her to flee, the presence of Persephone, stirred in the depths of her mind.
The roar emitted by the Sajhun helped to bring her out of the strange reaction that thing caused in her, allowing her to finally take her eyes off it.
[The user is under the attack of the skill ‘Fear’ and her defense dropped by 50% in all her stats.]
[The skill ‘Mental Defense’ has withstood the attack and all her stats have returned to normal.]
What the hell was that? Kalysto worried for a second, while internally thanking the monster in front of her for his timely intervention. Though she didn’t need to inspect him to recognize what race he belonged to.
Not when his lower arms were dripping with the plague.
The Sajhun rushed towards her quickly when he saw that his mental attack had no effect, with a fist raised and ready to strike her as one of his heads breathed in sharply and the instant Kalysto evaded his fist, a flare of fire erupted from the Sajhun’s mouth.
Absolute immunity to fire! She thought as she failed to dodge the attack completely and half of her pants were scorched to a crisp. Only her shoes and most of her shirt were still useful.
But the Sajhun didn’t give her time to counterattack, and while one head rested during the waiting time of his skill, the other grunted and took a deep breath while throwing several punches towards Kalysto, who evaded them with ease.
And just as she raised her axe to counter his attack, the second head blew, and a swirl of wind blew her away from him, sending her crashing into the wall next to the now-closed entrance doors.
“Ezhil Purification! Dispel Ezhil!” Kalysto growled as she saw the Sajhun hurling himself at her again and her new axe lying in the enemy’s hands. “Ezhil Purification! Dispel Ezhil!” But the most curious thing of all was not to see the Sajhun stumble and lose his balance as his arms faded under the golden light of her skills making him lose control over the stolen axe, but this time although ‘Dispel’ did not work against him, it did seem to work against the swirl of black smoke that had begun to form on top of the crystal that was on top of the altar.
And whose shape had begun to resemble that of a large eye.
But Kalysto could not continue questioning the loss of the shape of that thing since the Sajhun returned to lunge against her while the arms of that creature began to regenerate again.
“Ice arrows!” She conjured, and as soon as the enemy evaded the first one and hit the second one, with what was left of its arm still regenerating, she saw him get confident and prepare to hit the third one, then she whispered. “Ice stakes! Ice spear!” And the creature, confident that it could evade her next attacks, struck the stakes, but as it did the same with the spear, it pierced his arm to his shoulder.
The Sajhun screamed in pain and immediately Kalysto jumped on him.
Inventory! She thought, pulling out the mace she took from the Minotaur and striking the head that threw swirling winds, crushing half of his face and disfiguring it with a single blow.
A punch flew towards her at the same time as the other head launched a flare of fire towards her, but she managed to evade them both and jumped towards one of the corners of the room as soon as the Sajhun ran towards her, Kalysto dropped the mace and after standing all the way around the corner she touched both walls and waited until the Sajhun reached her.
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“Earth manipulation!” She chanted and transformed the walls into stone spikes that dug into the arms and torso of her enemy. Leaving him trapped.
Kalysto grabbed the mace and jumped, escaping the trap she had prepared. Then she retrieved her axe and put the mace in her inventory.
“Ezhil Purification! Lightning!” She conjured and then leaped onto the Sajhun’s back and buried the axe in the skull of the fire-breathing head.
Then she cut off his legs, his arms, and then the second head.
“Why the hell do you all have to be so hard to kill? Just die already!” She growled, not noticing that the swirl of smoke above the black glass had formed again.
It was when she buried the axe between the small space separating the two necks that a series of notifications appeared before her.
[You have gained 5000 experience points!]
[You’ve leveled up!]
[The user is now level 37!]
[The boss on the last floor of the dungeon has been defeated!]
[The user has acquired the skill ‘fire immunity’ as a reward and it has been added to her stats!]
[Error! The user already possesses a similar skill at a higher level. The skill ‘fire immunity’ has been absorbed by the skill ‘Absolute fire immunity (Legendary)’ and has been raised to level 3!]]
[The user has acquired ‘Rune of Eternal Youth’ as a reward and has been added to her inventory!]
[The user has acquired the title ‘Tower Conqueror’ and all her stats have increased by 10 points!]
[The user has gained 1000 extra experience points for participating in defeating the boss!]]
Feeling curious about the rune, she pulled it out of her inventory.
[Does the user wish to absorb this Rune of Eternal Youth?]
[YES/NO]
Yes! she thought with some curiosity.
[Congratulations! The user has learned the passive skill ‘Eternal Youth.’ Level 1!]
Uninterested in her new skill, she turned towards her enemy’s body.
“Earth Manipulation!” Immediately Kalysto removed the stone stakes from the Sajhun’s body, kept the axe in her inventory and as soon as the creature’s body fell to the ground, she kicked it, knocking it on its back and pulled out a sword with penetration stats from her inventory.
And without even noticing that, unlike the previous times, the rest of the heroes were not teleported to the boss’s room as soon as she killed it, she began to search for the monster’s core.
Nor did she notice that the swirl of black smoke transformed into a huge closed eye twice the size of her own head.
Too focused on getting the core out of the Sajhun before someone else took it from her, she didn’t even hear the footsteps of Koden and Rita as soon as they entered the room and found her with her clothes partially burned and the blood of the enemy on her body.
Kalysto, with her back to them, did not even flinch at their arrival. Instead, as soon as she finally managed to get the Sajhun’s core out of her body, she immediately absorbed it.
[Does the user wish to absorb this Sajhun’s core?]
[YES/NO]
Yes! she thought, full of excitement at the prospect of acquiring a new attack skill.
[Congratulations, the user has acquired the skill ‘Wind Swirl’ Level 1!]
Happy about her new skill, Kalysto smiled.
“Kalysto? Uh...I think he’s already dead...as in as of a minute or so ago," Rita commented.
Kalysto was surprised to see them inside the room, suddenly noticing the blue portal near the door that would lead them to freedom, but feeling a tug inside her, her gaze was immediately drawn to the black crystal still hovering above the marble altar that the Sajhun had so jealously guarded.
“Kalysto, could you help us get the rest of the boys out of the portal, please?... Kalysto?” interrupted Koden, but the former captain of the athletics team seemed hypnotized by the dark orb and the creepy closed eye floating above it.
And when he wanted to approach her and touch her shoulder, Rita stopped him.
“Leave her alone. You know she likes to collect things. Let’s concentrate on getting the others out of here quickly," she insisted, not wanting to interrupt her.
And while they did so, taking advantage of the proximity of the portal to the entrance door of the room, Rita helped support a twin on each of Koden’s arms while she carried Emanuel and they imitated what Kalysto had done with them, throwing them through the portal. Then it was the turn of Oscar and Edward, who went through the portal along with Koden.
Meanwhile, Kalysto advanced as if hypnotized by the song of a siren to the altar. But when she was about to touch the black crystal sphere the size of two clenched fists, the dark eyelid covering the eye disappeared.
Revealing an immense eye, whose gaze immediately fell on her.
A pressure far more powerful than the one she had experienced with the queen flooded the room, preventing her from breathing.
And all the air escaped from her lungs. Her knees trembled and buckled, unable to support her weight. Beads of sweat bathed her forehead as she struggled to get some air and fight the powerful pressure that squeezed her to her core.
Kalysto thought she was going to die.
What had begun as a calling, an attraction she couldn’t resist, quickly morphed into pure, raw hostility.
But then, suddenly, Persephone stirred inside her urging her to let her out, and as she struggled to keep her at bay and maintain control of her body, the hairs on the back of her neck and her arms stood on end as she realized something wasn’t right.
It was then that terror coursed through her body as she realized that Persephone’s energy, began to resonate with that of ‘it’.
As if she recognized it.