Author's note:-
I'm sorry for not posting any chapter for so many days. its just that i had no motivation to write anything and it stagnated the whole progress.
Well, I'm back and there are more chapters coming today.
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Enjoy.
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Rocky’s P.O.V:-
I followed behind him. From my memories of his cruelty, I thought he would definitely stop and enjoy the marvel that he has created, but really unlike my discretion, he didn’t even look back.
He stood up and started walking toward the exit of the tunnel.
Was he walking slowly and with a limp from the injuries that he suffered while fighting with the demon?
No, he was running at his top speed. I even thought that maybe everything was an illusion, but his bloody body and torn attire were enough of an indication to make me consider my thoughts again.
I asked Minie to confirm my doubts to her, but, “No, it was true not an illusion.” Was what she said.
Well, we exited the tunnel, but unlike what I had thought that he would do, instead of going straight to ‘The Queen’ or ‘My’ room that is just in front after crossing the ‘queen size’ tunnel, he turned and entered one of the adjacent tunnels.
Exactly the one in which the Earth mage and one of his illusions were travelling in.
My artificial face contorted to describe my confusion, but everything became clear when I followed him, sneakily.
He entered the tunnel taking advantage of the natural darkness of the dungeon and sneaked behind my Ants. Just as he got near my ants his illusion which was walking with that girl faded under an extravagant show of dark shadows. The girl must have thought that he was using one of his skills to travel behind the ants. And after vanishing into twilights, he magically appeared behind the monsters.
He then sneaked behind my Ants, and killed them both by cutting their heads. Then he took the heads and used his shadow movement technique to directly appear in front of the girl.
He waited while holding the heads in his hands, waited for them to give some kind of a reward for the kill, but I cancelled the reward for him.
Why would I want to give this bullshit troll anything, moreover, for killing my own troops sneakily?
Her eyebrows flinched once when she saw him holding two ant heads. Then they waited for the ant to give them some kind of a reward, but the ants disappeared into lights without dropping anything.
They walked out of the tunnel and waited for their other team members to come out of the tunnels too.
While they were waiting for their party to team up, I decided to ask Minie about things that we had no time to talk about before.
Illusions, what are they? These are quite powerful and we wouldn’t have been able to do anything if I didn’t have my mana perception. So I asked her about it and after some time her response came.
“So you have the time to talk to me now?” Her voice had a tinge of sadness, like telling me how lonely she was feeling without me.
Feeling giddy from her behavior, I replied, “Yeah, sorry they were too, how should I say, interesting to be distracted. Well, then go on, tell me then what are illusions?”
“Illusions are the distortions in one's senses. They are not physically present, but are something that an illusionist conjures for deception, like used in the tunnel by your assassin friend down there.”
Her explanation was right on but I had my doubts so I asked,
“What do you mean by saying ‘they are not physically present’? I could see them properly?”
“Yes, that's why I said its deception. An illusionist uses mana and provides extra or more information than there really is in the surroundings. There are many ways to create illusions, like sound illusions, light illusions, then mind illusions etc. The rate and factor all depend on the trickster and their level and mastery of the said art.”
‘What is she getting all excited for’ I thought, but I didn’t give the thought any more room to prevail and asked her the question, which was banging in my mind like crazy.
“Then aren’t illusionists the most powerful people in this world.” Think about it, if people can’t even see their attacker, then how they would even face off against them? But her answer opened my eyes or was she praising me?
“Well, didn’t you see right through them?”
Hearing her answer my soul stared floating and I felt relieved. Why? Because this is how she praises.
“Yes, you are right. But can all the people use illusions.”
“No, only those who have a dark affinity have the ability to use them and most assassins and the like have a dark affinity, so yeah. But to answer your real question, yes, you can use illusions. Why can’t you?”
I could feel her smirking while she said that. Well, yeah I wanted to ask her whether I could use illusions or not, but whatever.
“Ahem…tell me about the archer. What happened to him? Why did he suddenly change from a fully fledged, naïve crybaby to a fight loving and rampaging bloody monster?”
“Umm… I don’t know how demons came to be. Forget me, no one actually knows how the first demon was born or should I say who the first demon was? Demons are the creatures of sin. Extremely strong emotions, well negative emotion like hate, anger, fear make one susceptible to becoming a demon. Well, according to most people and old tales, Demons are the creatures who once lived a life full of misery and then sold their soul for power, but some say that when that when a human get possessed by an evil soul, then it becomes a demon. If we see it that way, then evil taking possession could be the Chaos element. So the possession story might not actually be false, we have seen a real human turning after all.”
“What role do emotions play in all of this? I didn’t suspect anyone like him would go crazy with anger or something.”
“Did you see a purple dot or seed appearing inside his soul ball?”
“Yes.”
“Then the ‘seed’ grew and took over his element and forcibly changed his element of affinity from wind to Chaos.”
“Yes.”
“That was the role which his emotions played in his…Turning. I don’t know when or how, but a seed of chaos or evil took root inside his soul and when the assassin showed, no way for him to leave alive and when all of his hopes broke, the seed grew until it completely converted him."
"Then does that mean the demons are much powerful than humans, but they lose their humanity when they turn?"
"Powerful? Actually, he wasn't powerfully at all. That was just the replica of a demon at best. A real demon not those that are born as a demon, but those who turn are only formed when the seed of evil slowly corrupts their soul and slowly turns their nature from one of a human into a bloodthirsty beast. Such demons are rare, but a single such demon could easily destroy more than dozen humans on the same level...alone."
"Damm. Then we are actually fortunate."
“Yeah. Well, forget about that. Did you see how many credits we got from him getting killed here.”
“No, how much?"
She is again acting very excited I don’t know why, but even though I sometimes miss that evil and arrogant Minie, but this character of her is not bad either and neither was her answer.
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“Almost two thousand! We got almost two thousand and we can still collect more profit from him.”
“How 2 thous… how is this possible are you sure? Let me check.”
“Check it afterward, firstly eat that body.”
“Do what?”
“That body you need to eat it. If you do, we’ll get even more credits.”
“But…”
“No buts Just do it.”
Just do it. What am I: a cannibal, a beast, I can't eat that body. I am hoping that I would not need to eat that, but who am I kidding, I know she will never listen to me and will probably reprimand me for not doing it like she said. I just hope she won't ask me to go and chew every part of him, not like I can.
“How should I… eat it? Won't it be very hard for me to chew, when even the assassin's daggers were only leaving behind sparks?”
“Don’t worry, you won’t have to personally go and chomp down every bit of it. Just will it and the room he is in will slowly but surely sort his body along with all of the items that he is carrying and absorb it. Then everything in and on him will get absorbed and provide ‘nutrition’ to your dungeon.”
“Absorb it?”
“Yes, absorb it.”
“To get stronger?”
“Yes, to get stronger.”
You know what I did after I heard her saying, ‘it was to get stronger’. I shrugged my shoulders did what she said, and his body started decomposing right in front of me. No, it wasn’t actually decomposing, but the same like how my Ants vanish into nothingness; He was also disappearing into lights right in front of me, the same way just slowly.
After it completely vanished and disappeared into the void, I heard the sweet music again.
*Ding*
+500 Dc
+19 Mp
+Items
+Skill Book: Rapid Fire
Whoa. I never thought I would get so many things, moreover, from a dead body. It sure felt fantastic.
“So, how was it? What did you get?”
I told her everything and she was even happier than me. I asked her what that skill book thing was all about and her expressions changed. From happy to confuse, then her voice cracked and I heard the weirdest laughter in my life.
“Fufefufeefuu..” She laughed.
“Learn it, learn it, and learn it! Don’t throw it away, once you learn it our dungeon will become a gold mine, which those humans will never be able to destroy, no matter how much or who wanted to destroy us.”
“What do you mean learn it? Can I learn a skill from this book? Don’t I need to practice like really hard to master a skill?” I asked her feeling a bit confused and puzzled.
“A skill book is just for that. It helps reduce your burden and the time one needs to learn a skill.”
“So, how should I do it? I mean, where is the book? I don’t see it anywhere.”
“The book is in your dungeon inventory. An inventory is a like a holding space, which help one to carry or simply hold their belongings with them. Now you have two different types of inventories, one is your simple inventory that will hold all and every important object like this skill book etc. and resources that you would buy from the dungeon. The other is an item well or sack or junk yard. It is the place where all and everything that the room absorbs goes to.”
“Even the bodies?”
“No. you already absorbed the body, and they got converted into Dungeon credits.”
I sighed once before asking her, “So, what should I do to get the book out of my inventory?”
“No need to get into that right now, just think of the skill book and it will appear in front of you and then open it and a notification should appear asking whether you want to learn the skill or not. You press yes to conform it and that’s all.”
I repeated what she said and did it in the same order as she asked me to do. I thought of the book to appear, and it appeared. I ordered it to open and it did open and just like she said, a notification appeared in front of me.”
Skill : Rapid FireRank : BIt is a Bow skill. Helps the caster to fire mana arrows at rapid speed without any break.Restrictions:
Class: Archer
Weapon: Bow
Cool down: 10min
This skill won’t stop midway without firing all 20 arrows.
Mana consumed: 20Arrows conjured: 10Would you like to learn: Yes/No
“Minie it has class and weapon limitation. Can I really learn it? I don’t think that I can use it.”
“Just say yes and see the result. You’ll be surprised.” She hurriedly replied back. Maybe she was more eager than me to learn the skill.
I thought, yes and the skill book vanished under a bustle of shining lights. Just as the skill book vanished from my view, information related to the skill directly entered my mind. I got excited; the light show of rainbow colored lights ended and a notification entered my field of view.
Rapid Arrow Skill learned Level : 0Exp : 0%
My happiness from learning a new skill without doing any kind of practice or hard work hadn’t even blossomed, when all of my expectations and desires broke, cause of this other information box that had appeared in front of me out of nowhere.
[table=Red]SKILL SEALED
You don’t meet the required conditions to use the skill.[/table]