"My people have always been at war with your kind, and as its new ruler, you pose a security threat to all of us. That's why we will eradicate you!" The lizardman talks again, but what he says frightens me a bit since he didn't say he would eradicate me, but he says 'we' as if there were more of them.
My fear is soon proven right when the walls of the place collapse on their own, finally revealing the massive hoard of lizardmen and dragonites surrounding me, all casting another spell that brings everyone back to the ocean I first landed on.
How could there be so many of them!? I could probably defeat a couple hundred of them, but there was no way I could kill that many, not thousands of them. Just to be a bit more safe this time, I immediately pull myself high into the air above as high as I can until I hit the invisible barrier again.
"Does it take this many lizardmen to defeat a single Witch!? No wonder you lived in fear!" I didn't have anything to lose or prove since I had already proved my worth and my prowess in battle multiple times, so this time, I wanted to be a little more controlled and not panic like always.
That's right, I've got nothing to prove to anyone! I already defeated multiple beasts scarier than these guys and have cemented myself as the strongest Witch Kid ever in recorded history! I had nothing more to gain other than more glory and EXP! That's right! These guys would just fuel my level needs!
"AHHHH! AHHHG! AHHG!" Without further ado, I chose to try and break away from the seal as being limited to 30 meters above the water didn't seem like a good idea and would probably force the lizards to deactivate whatever this anti-magic barrier was. To my surprise, my hits start cracking the barrier ever so slightly.
The lizardmen, however, do not wait until I break the barrier to start attacking me all at the same time from beneath me with arrows and other magical attacks that all crash against my spatial platform that cracks and makes horrible noises when hit until I'm forced to jump to another platform.
Then it hits me; if the barrier only affected magicules and my dark power does not need magicules, couldn't I just use Full Counter to destroy it? There was literally just one way to find out, so I did. "Dark magic! Full Counter!" I press my right arm against the barrier, cast my spell, and quickly start fragmenting the entire barrier, causing the waves to get even bigger.
Bingo! The barrier only lasts seconds against my Full Counter, but once that's done, I realize I've been using too much MP. Once I was able to see my stats again, which I opened up almost right away, it wasn't looking perfect for me, if I was being honest.
[MP: 7,000/15,000
Holy MP: 10,000/15,000
SP: 1,000 left]
Seven thousand plus ten thousand is seventeen thousand, but Holy magic does not let me use some of my most overpowered tools of war or arsenal, so it's not really that useful to have so much of it left. My full counter used a lot of MP, and I could only use dark magic for it, so from now on, I wouldn't use it so freely.
I could also use the Hope Special skill I used in that battle to destroy the entire society of lizardmen trying to kill me. Still, if I end up in the same state, I did back then, well, then I will die drowning in the water since holy power can also use my Dark Power to complete its purpose.
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Why can Holy Power use dark energy to complete its spells, but I can't use holy power to perform a Full counter or summon spatial hooks? I would have to look into it when I had time since this was not the time to think about such things.
"Artillery strikes!" The dragonets below me scream while casting some sort of group magic together, which does seem scary as soon as I look at how big the magic seal is right above me every time, and I say it because I just kept moving with spatial hooks, only frustrating the lizards with my ingenuity.
"Seems like you need to try harder! Don't worry, I give free lessons on Thursdays, you useless leeches!" Since I figured these guys were still holding something back, the best way to get it out of them would be to tease them, which seemed to work as they all looked really pissed, swimming in the water, looking up at me, all enraged.
"Crown, do you have some sort of MP left? I could really use some refueling for sure."
[I do, but not a lot. I only have 500 MP with me at all times; I do not need much to operate]
Goddamit that wouldn't be of much help, and to think I thought this crown would be a helpful gadget turned out to be less valuable than Bartholomew, and that's saying something. [I can hear your thoughts as well, you know.] Oh, shove it. I don't need a second Veronica on my head at all times; besides, this was not the time to be nagging.
{Eschatologia Iudicata - Qian Ding}
As I finish my little bit with the crown, the lizardman and dragonites are nowhere to be seen now, leaving me perplexed, floating on top of a spatial platform fifty meters above the water level. Yet I see something down below moving as the skies clear up ever so slightly, letting some sunlight hit the waters.
The water sits a little more still now, and the sun hits the surface even more. Yet, for some reason, I get the chills now more than before as I see a massive dark spot quickly getting bigger and bigger from beneath, which olt screams "DANGER!' right in my face; of course, I did the right thing and climbed even higher with spatial hooks. Still, just when I thought I had been a little too cautious, it appeared out of the water.
"RAAAAAAAAAAAA" The massive creature screams as its enormous head jumps from under the water, almost taking me as its snack right then and there, but goddamn, the thing was massive! I was about seventy meters up into the sky, barely the height of the creature's head, which looked like a Caulophryne Pelagica from Earth but obviously a hundred times the size!
"What the FUCK is that?!" It is the first that I say right after almost getting eaten by the monster, and thankfully, the crown responds with an answer that calms me down a little bit. [That's a Krogen predator, one of the ocean's most feared creatures, along with sea dragons, krakens, and giant squids, not to mention Leviathan.]
Is there a way to beat one of those things with my arsenal? I doubt my sword can easily cut its head off. The whole thing looks like it could have a million HP. How could I even beat it? [There is a possibility to kill it, but the price would be too high and too risky without a proper execution]
{SWOOOSH}
A massive water wave soon hits me out of nowhere as I analyze my chances of victory. A wave of water so tall it makes me look like I'm so close to the water it would be laughable to call it safe just drops on me, sending me down, back to the ocean water where I can feel the incredible strength of the water currents caused by the fish's swimming near me.
Not only that, but the water feels so magically charged it starts cutting me all over the place, leaving me with the only option I knew would get me out there, which was the spatial hooks, but then again, I do not leave the ocean water without damage this time in the form a lot of small cuts and scratches all over my body which was terrible news.
I couldn't fall into the water because the monster's magical field was so strong it made the water its own weapon, and I couldn't flee with my spatial hooks because it would eventually catch up with me and eat me while I was weak; then how the hell!?