Chapter 47
Dylan activated the [Parallel Thinking] and [Accelerated Perception] skills and was finally able to enjoy the peace. The quick thinking calmed him down because he could think things through properly. He didn't like the fact that he couldn't react to the orc chieftain's spell in time. Dylan put his thoughts in order and looked around once more.
Goblins and Orcs were just trying to swim across the river, the goblins were doing very poorly, but the orcs were doing well. The force of the current had spread them out, just as he wanted. On the other side, the goblins and Orcs were collecting stones, he didn't see Shaman or any other class owners anywhere, which also upset him.
Overall, everything is going according to plan, but Ariana shooting the chieftain may have a negative effect on my goal of killing her. Should I use [Reincarnator's Madness] now and drop out of the fight for a while, or not?
Dylan pulled out his sword and walked to the river bank, meeting several orcs, they were no higher than Lvl 50, so they were not his opponents. As soon as they got to the bank, both of them screamed loudly and rushed at him with their bare hands. Dylan cheerfully thought "that they lost their clubs in the water" and used the skill [Ghost Flicker]. The orcs could only watch helplessly as he instantly moved with inhuman speed and his sword cut their throats, the first orc immediately fell in a pool of blood, and the second one managed to slightly move away from the sword and swung his hand at him, but the next blow pierced his brain through the eye.
Congratulations, you have defeated [Orc] [Rare] lvl 35.
Congratulations, you have defeated [Orc] [Rare] lvl 39.
Dylan turned off notifications and walked away a little, simultaneously dodging the rocks that the goblins and orcs were throwing. Their accuracy could be better, but the problem was the grouping of the projectiles, due to the number of rocks, they really did pose a threat, and a hit to the head would be a serious injury in such circumstances. So he went behind a tree and waited for it to stop.
Dylan began to look out and watch how his classmates were coping. A few more orcs had emerged a hundred meters away from him, but they were fairly easy to deal with, the goblins had not yet been able to overcome the current, but he was sure that some number would, sooner or later.
When the bombardment of rocks stopped, he looked out and was not happy to see that about 40 more had climbed into the water. Watching them, he was happy to hear the prince ordering the ice mages to prepare spells. It took the orcs about two minutes to get to the riverbank and they immediately received several spells that greatly reduced the temperature. These spells were cast by 2 [Water Mages] and 1 [Ice Mage]. Dylan recognized these spells, they were all level 3 and simply reduced the temperature over a large area. It took about 10 seconds for the spell to take effect, ice slowly formed along the riverbank and when the mana reached the orcs, they were covered in a thin film of ice, and their feet that were standing in the water were severely frozen. The spell was not at all lethal, but in such circumstances it did not allow the orcs to use all their physical strength due to severe frostbite.
Because the goblins stopped throwing stones, several adepts went out onto the ice and simply finished off the orcs, who, although they tried to resist, could not really do so.
At this rate we could do this for a long time, each spell cost about 500 MP and it is unknown how much mana the mages were able to accumulate in their staves. Therefore, until we are surrounded, we can continue to stand here and cope with this without problems.
Contrary to his expectations, the Orcs continued to go into the river and swim towards them, as did the Goblins. The battle continued, but he and the other strongest in the group were in no hurry to act, but waited for the Orc leader's turn. After the second round of "Ice Field" spells. From the trees on the other bank, the largest Orc he had ever seen appeared, with a really big and scary spear. He was almost 3 meters tall, his skin was brown and his teeth were big even for Orcs, he was dressed in animal skins with impenetrable black fur. He stopped near the rest of the Orcs who were standing on the river bank and briefly examined the people. Taking a deep breath, he opened his black mouth and shouted something very loudly, the sound wave that spread had spiritual energy and a small amount of mana.
The minds of all the people who heard the scream were dealt a hard blow, in the form of visions of brutal torture, rape of people and a huge amount of pain. Dylan easily brushed it off and expanded his aura to remove the effects from the rest of classmates. But his aura was not very large and he removed this effect only from a few adepts and people who were standing near him. Most of those who received the blow fell to their knees and groaned loudly. One man was just finishing off a frozen orc, but due to the spell, he lost consciousness. The orc reached out and pulled him towards himself, squeezing him hard enough he bent his chest inward. The man could only groan loudly, as the orc smashed his skull into the ice with a strong blow.
A black hole in space instantly formed around the man, into which he immediately fell, after which it also closed silently, as if nothing had happened.
Damn, that was tough! I expected us to just disappear from the spot before the fatal blow. Is it just me or is it like it takes some fucking resurrection, not regular magic, to put him back together?!
Dylan mentally promised himself that he would definitely kill that orc, carefully looking out from behind the tree he assessed the current enemy and the owner of the classes.
Name: Rarkhim, 80 years old.
Race: Orc [Rare] Lvl 100
Class: Ancestral Spirits Warrior [Uncommon] Lvl 150
Class: Ancestral Spirits Voice [Uncommon] Lvl 100
"Bitch, we're finished!"
Ah, I should have used [Reincarnator's Madness] earlier, I would have known there would be another monster there.
Dylan activated the [Reincarnator's Madness] skill and assessed how much stats this orc had while he assessed what his attack had done.
Statistics:
Strength 750
Dexterity 500
Endurance 840
Vitality 500
Constitution 760
Perception 470
Intelligence 310
Wisdom 310
Charisma 40
Willpower 800
Mental Control 40
Mana Output 300
Mana 800
Mana Regeneration 700
It's not good, but is it fair?! Like what are we supposed to do against this monster?! And we're lucky he didn't develop his race and second class further. Like really what? He's about 4 times stronger than me physically.
"Oh, shit! I'll show that bastard he shouldn't have come here! Liam, Lynella, you're with me!"
Dylan came out from behind the trees and drew his sword, Liam approached him holding a staff and activating the skill [Adaptive Aquatic Weapon], causing water to gather around him into something resembling a hemisphere. Liam took out bags of diamond dust and simply threw them into the water. Lynella also approached Dylan, but was invisible to the others.
"And so the plan is simple, when he tries to cross the river, we will attack him together, and you, Linella, will support us with unexpected illusion spells. I doubt that the orc will be able to discern the illusion, and even if he can, I will think of something."
"Okay." Liam spoke up without any objection. To which Lynella simply nodded and stepped outside of his compressed aura.
The orc on the other side of the water simply walked towards them on the water, testing the weight of his spear and swinging it forward. To which Liam immediately expanded his aura and poured a bunch of mana from his staff into the river, completely ignoring the orc's control over the water, causing him to fall into it.
Hah, don't tell me it'll be that easy?!
Liam entered the river and expanded the skill [Adaptive Aquatic Weapon], taking control of the water around the orc with an iron grip. To which the orc responded calmly, he grabbed the spear tighter and activated some skill. He made a piercing movement and from his body flew a white figure of an orc holding a spear and striking. The magic that made up the solid structures of the water and held the orc was completely broken. He activated another skill and began to run from the water as if on solid ground, quickly approaching Liam.
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Liam couldn't do anything in time due to his high speed, but Dylan could. Using all his strengthening skills and parrying technique, Dylan absorbed the momentum of the spear and deflected it to the side. He didn't have to do it exclusively, he just had to prevent Liam from being fatally wounded. After the weapons collided, Dylan immediately created a force spell on the tip of the sword and aimed it at the orc's eye. The orc moved his head to the side and a centimeter-long hole appeared in his cheek, which only slightly damaged his jaw.
Liam received a through wound to his stomach, causing his expression to be filled with pain. The spear hit several vital organs, but he dealt with it very quickly by freezing the wound. He was able to complete the compression of mana and cast a stronger water construct during this time. Than immediately hit the orc on the head, sending him back into the water.
Because the orc had lost his momentum, he could no longer stand on the water and fell down without any resistance, but this did not bother Dylan because he was standing on Liam's magic.
Liam continued to try to crush the orc in the water, but it was unsuccessful. The orc used unknown strengthening skills, which made it very durable. Seeing this, Dylan suggested another strategy.
"Let him go, and create diamond needles. You can damage his skin quite easily with them and we need to move away so that Linella's magic will be more effective."
Dylan said looking at his body, the technique had cost him a slight strain on his physique, he didn't feel it now but he was sure it would hurt later. Looking around he looked closely at Liam's injury and realized he couldn't tell how serious it was, but because of how well he was holding up he decided it didn't matter now.
Liam moved the mana constructs that held the orc and in their place created a tier 4 spell "Instant Freeze", this imprisoned the orc in ice, 4 meters in diameter. But of course, they both knew that this would not hold him for long. Dylan used the technique and quickly ran to the shore, and Liam simply levitated on the water. Just when they both got there, the ice cracked so that many people heard it.
The orc flew towards them using a movement technique. As it got closer, Dylan could clearly feel the spiritual energy and mana in its body. Liam created a dome around them with many diamond needles. The orc pierced the barrier with a spear, but hit Dylan's sword. There was a loud sound and Dylan felt his shoulder come out of its socket, but he barely managed to block the blow. The orc was unable to strike again with a spear, as many diamond needles flew at him. He quickly moved to the side, but did not use the technique, as he did not think it would be a serious injury.
Dylan quickly adjusted his shoulder and could watch with a mad smile as the orc was pierced by hundreds of darts. The orc's expression changed frame by frame - surprise, incomprehension, confusion and fear. When he landed on the water and tried to manipulate the water, Liam rejected his control and he fell into the river. Dylan managed to notice how some of the needles completely entered his body in the stomach area, but the orc managed to protect his neck and head. On the water where he disappeared, a red stain of blood was clearly visible.
"Don't freeze him, it will probably slow him down a lot and limit his use of powers and other skills, it will be interesting to see how he gets out of this."
Liam nodded, and Dylan surveyed the battlefield. Several class owners were fighting against Cassandra and Evander, but they weren't particularly strong so there were no problems, but the orcs' numbers had increased greatly. If before they were killed as soon as they came out of the water, now they had time to regroup in groups. They were still greatly weakened by the cold, but this would continue until they not finished mana, after which they would have to split up and flee into the forest.
Dylan couldn't see what the orc was doing underwater, but he never received any notification, so he was alive. Just when he wanted to get closer and take a look, a large amount of mana and spiritual energy began to emerge from the water, and then the orc himself.
His eyes glowed white and the holes that still had diamond needles in them also reflected color. Dylan's danger instincts screamed at him to do something, so he intuitively activated the skill [Reincarnator's Madness].
Possible future events flashed through his mind, but he immediately deactivated the skill to avoid being to avoid the next blow. The orc moved towards them and Nick activated the sword's shapeshifting, transforming it into a shield and standing in front of Liam.
Bitch, where did he weaken?!
Liam also felt that something was wrong with the orc and sent many diamond needles at him. The orc quickly broke the ice and diamond fragments with his spear and several white spirits occasionally came out of his body, which also reflected the rest of the projectiles. In an instant, a red spirit came out of him and quickly moved towards Liam, piercing the barrier and hitting Dylan's shield, after which it immediately dissipated.
Dylan and Liam were thrown back hard and crashed into the water barrier. Dylan immediately felt that both arms were broken, so he created mana constructs, connecting his bones together. He spent 300 MP on this, and he knew full well that it would not withstand all his physical strength, but he had no choice.
Liam began to cough up blood, although he was not hit very hard, all the patches he had created from ice in his body were broken. He almost lost control of the spell, but was able to blindly continue to direct most of the projectiles into the orc, simultaneously closing the wounds.
Standing up, Dylan expanded his [Aura of Secret Will] and tried to stop the Orc from summoning spirits and using their power. This had its success, the spirits that used to often appear from the Orc's body no longer did so quickly and it had a noticeable effect on him. The Orc slowed down and the white ghostly light that poured from his eyes began to dim. But it all came at a price, it drained a lot of Dylan's will. The Orc that used to systematically beat off many diamond needles could no longer do so and began to retreat, thereby weakening the control of Dylan's Aura.
Dylan only now noticed how skillfully Linella acted. She made the orc dodge the illusions of needles and break the real ones with a spear, protecting them during his attack. Dylan gave a sign with his hand and was very glad that Linella understood him without unnecessary words. An illusion appeared in his place, and he himself became invisible. Using the technique, he went around the orc from behind but did not rush to attack him.
He remembered how the Orc chieftain dodged the arrow, although she definitely shouldn't have. So he focused on his spiritual senses and was able to sense the Orc's Aura. As he watched him, he realized that he had relied heavily on it, but was still deceived by Linella's illusions. Thinking about this, Dylan came up with a way to hit the Orc with his sword. He took out a large amount of mana from the core and began to surround the Orc with it, without touching his Aura. When he was completely done, the mana began to move quickly, closing in on the Orc and thereby impairing his senses, or otherwise affecting them.
Dylan used the movement technique and got behind the orc while he was still not understanding what he had to defend himself from and whose mana it was. Dylan went around him, dodging the needles and stabbed his sword into his neck. Before he could get away, he was hit in the ribs by the shaft of a spear and sent flying, the sound and pain of multiple ribs breaking made him vomit the contents of his stomach.
Lying down, already visible, he could see how the color of the spiritual energy and mana that emanated from the orc, which had previously been white, began to turn red with black stripes.
Mmm, phase three! Definitely some kind of suicidal berserker, bitch!
But before he could do so, Liam redoubled his efforts and came closer to him. The Orc was greatly "distracted" by an arrow shot at him from behind, which he deflected with his spear. Therefore, he could not quickly move away from Liam, the water bonds trapped the Orc in a shell of water, and later in a dome. The water began to turn redder and the Orc could no longer escape with a deep wound on his neck. His Aura, which began to change, first dimmed, and then completely disappeared when Liam pierced him with hundreds of diamond needles.
Dylan was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but he realized he had not received a kill notification. Two seconds later, the orc's eyes opened and were completely black. Dylan and the others began to hear eerie whispers of an unknown language and saw the orc's throat begin to blacken and release dark energy and dark liquid into the water.
Dylan only needed to see it to know it was a cursed, suicidal attack. He was about to use magic when Linella appeared next to the orc with a cursed weapon. Liam manipulated the holy mana within the barrier in a second and allowed Linella to pass through. She effortlessly reached the tip of the blade to the orc's throat and activated the sword's ability. The orc's throat instantly crumbled into gray dust, and all the cursed energy he had accumulated harmlessly dissipated into the water due to the holy mana.
Congratulations, you have defeated [Orc] [Rare] Lvl 100, class [Ancestral Spirit Warrior] [Uncommon] Lvl 150, class [Ancestral Spirit Voice] [Uncommon] Lvl 100. You get more experience for defeating a higher level enemy. You gain less experience for winning in a group.
Congratulations, you have gained several levels in the [Ghost Sword Arts Adept][Rare] class Level 6 > Level 12
For 6 levels you get:
Strength +30
Dexterity +42
Stamina +42
Vitality +24
Constitution +30
Intelligence +12
Perception +30
+30 Free Attribute Points
Congratulations, you have gained several levels in the [Mage of Arcane Will] class [Rare][Unique]] Level 5 > Level 9
For level 4 you get:
Mental Control +32
Willpower +40
Mana +40
Mana Output +20
Mana Regeneration +32
+20 Free Attribute Points
Dylan looked around and saw that Lynella and Liam were also looking at the notifications, and saw that more orcs were fighting Cassandra, Evander and the others. He looked at the orc's corpse and decided to ignore it, but he still walked up and took his spear.
In the distance to the right, he saw that Nathan Spelsword was fighting a hundred goblins that had finally reached them across the river. After taking only a moment to notice, he had to admit that [Sword Aura] was very effective against them. The blue stripes of the sword cut through dozens of goblins in a straight line without any hindrance, causing many goblins to cry out pitifully and even try to flee. Dylan felt a little sorry for the goblins. He wanted to join the first battle that came his way, but Evander's loud voice, amplified by some kind of spell, reached everyone.
"We're retreating!"
Cassandra then took control of a large amount of blood, gathering it into a sphere in front of her. Alistair stood next to her and something poured into the sphere, after which Cassandra created thousands of needles of blood and shot them at everyone she saw.
Damn, it's definitely something to do with poison.
Dylan walked up to Liam and tried to help him walk, but he waved him off and flew on a disk of ice towards the trees. Dylan shrugged, made sure they hadn't left anyone behind, and ran after him.