Alexia

Hours pass and eventually the number of undead drops significantly. And throughout the process I manage to kill the lich king at least two dozen times, leading to the man at some point simply giving up on killing me and attempting to escape. Which only ends up with me having to focus more on killing him each time.

Overall, a massive pain.

I frown after finishing off a little over half of the undead, feeling exhaustion covering my entire body as I notice something odd happening lower down on the pyramid.

For some reason, the bones and bodies of the undead I’ve killed are all starting to converge.

My eyes narrow and I immediately begin using more explosive measures to destroy the undead. Mostly to destroy their corpses entirely. But that only manages to decrease the amount of undead that merge into what I quickly realize is an abomination. An undead made up of corpses.

I switch my main focus to the abomination that is still rapidly forming, only to find a certain lich king swapping into it as I do so.

Then the lich king roars out with laughter through a mouth that appears somewhere on the mass of bone and flesh.

“All of this death energy!!” he shouts, not even pausing in his laughter as he does so. “Thank you, Lady Reaper, for granting me the perfect body!”

I frown as I teleport back to the top of the pyramid right when all of the remaining undead suddenly drop inert, the lich king’s attention most likely being solely focused on his new body. Then he starts dragging those corpses into the abomination as well.

Another reason why lich kings are a pain to deal with. They can truly be powerful if they take on the form of a powerful undead.

Although I didn’t realize he could make an abomination.

I frown as I consider my options. The abomination would never be able to take me at my full strength, and even at my current level of exhaustion, I doubt it’ll be able to defeat me. But I’m pretty sure that’s not what he’s going for.

He’s going to try to make me run low on soul and retreat, giving him room to run away while I’m running on empty.

My eyes narrow and I quickly notify Luna about what I’m going to do. And the second she gives me her okay, I refill my soul from a little past halfway full to full. Then I change out my bow for my good ol’ elemental polearm. Something that was fixed right before I headed over to this Block.

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Not that I’ve had to use it much, considering how weak most of the creatures in the Block are. And how I’ve been teleporting for weeks now nonstop.

The abomination continues growing as it digests the undead that formed his army, following which a large head appears atop the mound that’s covering a third of the massive pyramid. And the head looks rather… disturbing. But I ignore that as he speaks, his voice being rather loud thanks to his size, “Now we begin the true battle.”

Fine with me.

I rush forwards while sending my polearm flying straight at the large head, followed by several Quantum Bolts. Only for the abomination to shift moments before they strike, making the outer layer of it shift to only contain bone. Bone that looks almost like steel, unlike the bone that was actually used to make the abomination in the first place. And my polearm actually gets caught in the bone instead of piercing through.

That doesn’t surprise me too much, but the sight of my Quantum Bolts only burning slightly through the bone armor does.

I pull back right when a large hand reaches out of the abomination and tries to grab me, teleporting to the throne again.

Well this is more complicated than I expected it would be.

The lich king starts laughing again, making me frown. Because his laughter is far more… insane than earlier.

Oh. Right.

The mental state of the undead he takes over affects the lich king. I almost forgot that from classes at the academy.

And an abomination’s mental state is never a sane one.

He must’ve really been at the ends of his ropes to pull this stunt. A last ditch measure.

Well, not that it really matters all that much to me.

This might make this battle simpler, actually. Since abominations can’t use magic around most of their body. Only around their core, which I’ll have to dig around to find.

The mere fact that he took on an abomination’s form at all is reason enough to believe he’s trying to exhaust me. Because while he won’t be able to do much to me so long as I don’t get in the range of his core, I can’t do much to him either.

Or at least, that’s what he assumes.

I let out a sigh and activate the Wave form of my skill Wave-Particle Cascade. And immediately after doing that, my body enters a nearly permanently glitched out state, with parts all around my body constantly glitching out and appearing partially ethereal in form.

This form has significantly increased magic power and speed with the ability to phase through three objects, but it significantly increases my weakness to magic as well. Which would normally be a problem, but with this situation…

It’s not.

I raise a hand in his direction, making the giant head narrow his eyes and state in a rather crazy manner, “Ohhh nooo you doon’t!”

Without hesitation I activate several Quantum Paradox Blast all around a single point of his armor, making a massive explosion of purple light spew forth, utterly destroying the bone armor around that area with the enhanced blasts. All while I tilt my head and answer, “Yes I do?”

He doesn’t respond. Well, unless I count the loud screeching he’s making as he slowly moves back down the pyramid again.

It’s a pity that my first Class S species to fight is a lich king. A dragon would’ve put up a hell of a lot more of a fight.

I raise my other hand and begin making more Quantum Paradox Blasts explode all around his body.

Let’s see if I can’t get this guy down to size.