Mortal's Terror (1)
Passive Skills: The target marked as an enemy by this Fallen Summoner grants its Fallen Summoned a 45% increased boost (except for HP) of all their stats to the Fallen Summoned who accurately hits the target. When it dies, 15% of its total stats are equally transmitted to the rest of the living Fallen Summoned.
*PING* ... a Fallen Summoner has used up 10% of its mana to summon its undying Fallen Summons.
[Soundbreaker Giant Butterfly]: Type: Fallen Summoned(Monster), Grade: Lord, Level: 40, HP: 100,000. This species are the top-best priority when aerial battles are unfolded. They can carry a huge amount of 'soldiers' and capable of carrying a certain amount of weight that is many times completely disproportional to its size, thanks to its unique flying ability of traveling within the sound.
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*PING*... a Fallen Summoner has sacrificed 10 of its total mana pool to liberate a Fallen Summoned of its Fallen destiny. It has recuperated a slim percentage of its true power and has gained intelligence once again. However, it'll die after an hour.
*PING*... the Fallen Summoned 'Sonic Space-Trespasser Butterfly' has been reanimated for a short time, evolution of its grade has been granted.
*PING*... you've successfully killed an Enlightened...
*PING*... you've successfully killed an Enlightened...
*PING*... you've successfully killed an Enlightened...
*PING*... the Lord grade BOSS Enamoured Fallen Summoner has been depleted of its entire mana pool. It's trying to escape!
*PING*... - ... - ... Enamoured Fallen Summoner has been successfully slayed. SP+10,000 and Fame+10,000.
*PING*... the floor's progress has been updated. Objectives: [Kill Fallen Summoners: 15/15].
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'It finally ended... I've done it, argghhh, how good.' Tongqiu thought as he was stretching his body and enjoying having done such a boring and tiresome task, the satisfaction from such a result really felt good as if a burden was no longer eating at his nape.
During all this time, Tongqiu didn't merely used his essential weaponry and his gladiuses over and over; instead, whenever he had the chance and found a potential sparring partner, he'd use them for as long as he could before starting to even get tired so as to kill the rest of the Fallen Summoned without stupidly failing.
Naturally, his painstaking efforts granted him a vast and appropriate combat experience. He never really understood how important it was to improve in his use of weapons. His dual sword wielding wasn't that amazing but it was enough so far, so Tongqiu naturally neglected any sort of training with the sword. When he met the Ferret and his attacks were easily deflected to say the least, Tongqiu then thought how even if one is to be obliterated by their enemy's immense damage, one could still protect themselves without needing a skill or dodging/blocking it.
Following that train of thought, Tongqiu then began to 'spar' in many different ways. When he found a bulky and colossal Fallen Summoned; he would not use any weapon at all and merely use his fist to put the thing down. He of course had instead be the one beaten down senseless, at first. But just like with the Ferret, his senses allowed him to enjoy, comprehend, understand, evaluate, reflect and possible even 'create' in the middle of the battle; slowly becoming more and more skilled with his fists, arms, legs, feet and even control his body entirely like his head to absurdly change the balance in which his body was to a completely impossible one, whether on the ground or in middle of the air. As well as even capable of now 'constricting' his body to avoid specific attacks aimed to his vital points in a grotesque yet efficient manner, so as to avoid actual injuries, merely lowering a little the damage taken yet not having their body enter a CC state.
But that one was merely one of the many ways he found out how to work things out all around him. Towards Fallen Summoners which didn't had some extremely special or 'unique' Fallen Summoned like the Ferret and the likes; he'd simply gather every single one of them to do a crazy 1 v 10. Naturally, he only adopted such a mad-like method in their Lord phase, completely opting for a one-shooting strategy for the Enlightened phase.
Tongqiu knew he was strong right now, inconceivable at that, but he definitely wouldn't be able to deal with Enlightened beings with close or even more than a million full HP. Even if he was bored, he wasn't a masochist. The one and only reason he was able to easily get rid of them was the fact that some of them had been somewhat 'dizzy' after the evolution since Fallen cannot evolve unless their Fallen Destiny itself mutates. Hence, Tongqiu had ample few seconds to bombard them and if he was slightly slow as there were already two of them 'waking up'; he would unhesitatingly enter his 'abnormal' state with a double-arrow Wideshot and eradicate them with beautiful looking -220,320 numbers.
Besides having his melee awareness and expertise substantially rise, Tongqiu decided to use some of the Common and Valuable weapons he had to keep on training. One of them was a very mediocre bow, he wanted to feel himself with a bow and arrow with other than just his essential weaponry. The result was quite different from what he felt at the beginning when there was a 'vacant' feeling as he pulled the string back at his first day in Rising Essence where he met Tornyllia, that azure haired woman who he had not the time nor opportunity to even know about her, let alone meeting her.
As if already knowing what kind of thoughts her man had, Tonkia sent some 'angry' and 'rebuking' flashes from the True Wish relic. Smirking playfully, Tongqiu simply 'talked' with Tonkia for a little before soothing that 'little' girl with his honeyed words.
Besides the Common bow and Useless graded arrows, Tongqiu took out all the different type of swords he could find and also trained in each of them a little, corresponding to their supposedly use and intention depending on the type of sword, to the best of his capabilities.
From there, when thinking about what else to 'train' in, Tongqiu suddenly recalled that black-robed man with a supposedly yet strange Hidden Class in the forums, being brutalized by that sorcerer. He then next decided to rise up his abilities on his polearms mastery; he first took a couple of different looking spears as he trained with them. They were a bit flexible and their shaft could easily bend with Tongqiu's strength and dexterity, the sensation quite marveled Tongqiu which he then became engrossed with it unknowingly. After the spears broke, he took out a Halberd, ever since the Halberd of The Fallen was used to open up the 'thorax'-coffin of the deserter, it has been in a state of 'Fix Needed'; but since he only wanted to use his Sunfacing Brilliant Gladiuses, he entirely neglected it. He pulled out another Valuable grade Halberd as he flung it around. This time, it seemed to have more 'affinity' with being smashed and used as if it was a long, very long hammer; than with the spears. The feeling was that of being able to brutally smack someone really heavily yet still being a couple meters apart.
He wasn't interested in magic in the slightest so he simply ignored the possibility of even using it. Though his class allowed him to do as he pleased with any weapon and even equipment, it wasn't so that he would lose himself idiotically in endless possibilities.
At the end of it all, Tongqiu's mastery in polearms, melee and swordsmanship increased immensely.
His mastery with the sword was the truly high-ground of Tongqiu, if a real master from New Earth were to know that a person managed to easily surpass them in a mere few weeks, they would probably become a monk or something. Tongqiu now started feeling as if the Sunfacing Brilliant Gladiuses were immensely joyful at his new mastery of swords, he felt that he could dominate anyone or anything trying to stand in his way and every swing of his or merely a casual movement of his arms while holding a sword were significant.
Tongqiu even saw some silvery 'sparks' at some point, which was tracing his arms whenever he held a sword, but it was for less than even an instant so he couldn't be sure if it really was something else or the sheen from the swords and some ray of light that perfectly coincided just then, so he decided to ignore it for now.
*PING*... you've reached yet another LV MAX cap Experience, as a reward, Mind Power+1.
*PING*... you've completed the objective: [Kill Fallen Summoners 15]. The nex-tt---t--t---
'Oh... here we go again.' Tongqiu thought as he calmly took a sit on the ground as he simply waited like a kid about to be rebuked yet fearless at the incoming yelling and even somewhat tauntingly glaring back.
RUMBLE
The entire floor started shaking invigoratingly, startling Tongqiu into a pose of obviously trying to maintain his balance.
'Why do I hear BOSS music?' Tongqiu suddenly had a weird thought cross his head as he frowned deeply at the next scene unfolding before his very own eyes.
The mist slowly disappeared along with the unceasing shaking; once it was gone, Tongqiu finally saw the enormous room he had been staying around for days. It was easily a 10,000 square meters area in which looked to be a box made entirely from refined stone, extremely dark-blue colored.
At the center of the floor in the roof, a terrifyingly fierce and berserk-like light-blue energy started pouring out before spreading in different currents all over the floor. Counting them, Tongqiu saw that they were 15 of them, as his heart started to have a bad feeling towards the following possible events.
It wasn't long at all; before a low, deep voice 'shrieked' which made all those energy-like currents to frighteningly react, they all wanted to escape but swiftly after realizing they couldn't even muster a single ounce of resistance they converged at the center of the floor now in mid air, however- Tongqiu couldn't find where did the shrieking originated form as if it was invisible or concealed from himself. Another deep, low voice resounded again and this time, Tongqiu managed to witness an enormous outline of a shadow that was seemingly formless or of a non-physical being.
When the 15 energy-like souls of the Fallen Summoners were now ready to counterattack such outline of a shadow in a 'last stand', they were suddenly dragged towards that same outlined shadow which was barely moving. It kept on making oral sounds as if it was trying to give commands to a horse or who knows what, but it kept doing so with excited and playful groans and even some moans every now and then.
As the 15 energy-like souls of the Fallen Summoners went 'inside' the outline shadow, a brown-red vortex appeared in the middle of such shadow as the energy-like souls started being devoured by it. One would think that the brown-red vortex would've taken in some of the blue-light color from the souls it was consuming, but it instead became more and more brown-red as it seemed to form flesh and blood...
After the vortex finished devouring those energy-like light blue souls, it stopped moving entirely as it then began to crumble before merging with the outlined shadow. It was as if a completely blank piece of paper had been erroneously tinted with a drop of brownish-red paint. Once it happened, it acted as if an unstoppable chain reaction took over the shadowy's body as it began to be 'painted' by such putrid and odorless disgusting color. Little by little, it covered the entire outline shadow as it became now a mud-like colossal being with an extremely unnecessarily long body except for its small limbs and even smaller and slimmer neck and head.
Silence took over this dimension for three seconds.
Then, as if no longer capable of resisting being at such a form; the mud-like body dried up completely before hardening to an astounding level in an instant and finally, its body exploded as pieces of gigantic wall-like mud went about everywhere in the room, once again triggering another earthshaking earthquake for a couple minutes.
Tongqiu managed to avoid everything that came close to him as he frenziedly ran around without a stop; when running was no longer useful, he decisively started jumping from wall-like mud to another until he was more or less close to touching the rooftop itself. Before beginning an unavoidable free fall, which he freed himself, as well as from an easy death by repeating his actions from when he came down to the Mysterious Hidden Grounds at the beginning.
After Tongqiu composed himself and stood up, he looked towards where that thing was which surprised and shocked him to the core.
There was a naked, fat and bizarre body consisting of a longer than necessary torso and even hips, yet was somewhat quite thick, probably around 500 meters or so large and around 300 meters wide. It had, however, diminute limbs. Its legs were around 30-40 legs long and quite slim and its feet were merely 10 or so meters long with human body-sized toes. Its arms were around 250 meters long while its hands were merely as big as 15-20 meters long with short 2-3 meters long fingers and without fingernails. Its neck was that of 60 meters long and was as thin as three bulky men lined up together. Its head was an extremely small 20 meters big with a disfigured inverse triangle shape. Its eyes were 1/4 as wide and large as its head it had a witch-like nose and its lips were basically its own regular skin with a hole larger than necessary going from ear to ear as the mouth, if it at least had ears which it obviously didn't. Creepiest of all, it had a short hair Classic Buzz Cut style which was deep black in color. It even seemed to have some kind of parasites at the base of its hair, ruffling it around non-stop ever so slightly.
And it was looking straight at Tongqiu, no longer hiding.
Tongqiu however, though he felt terror there, for a second, when he locked eyes with the thing; didn't receive any kind of information from this... BOSS (?).
It was then that the thing, as if noticing something, waving its right arm as a black robe manifested upon its body. That was when Tongqiu finally acquired this shit's information:
[Manifestation, Mortal's Terror]: Type: ???(Monster), Grade: Heavenly (just a shy step away from reaching Legendary grade), Level: 100, HP: ?. ???. A complete utter abomination which had to be quickly created so as to prevent ??? from being freed. It holds a small speck of dust of one of the G?? power. Because it was created in a jiffy, its powers are immensely downgraded.
"Heheh-heheh! Puny little races, PUNY LITTLE RAAACEEEEEES, HUFF~, I'll. Eat. You. All. Heheh-heheh~!" The voice of that thing was like three different majestic deep voices talking from the same source at the same time, giving it its well-deserved extra nape tingling characteristic.
Tongqiu: ¯\(°_o)/¯
'Just WTF?! And it's on a weakened state?! Fuck off!' Tongqiu's frown was utterly ugly as he couldn't help but wish for the game's damnation, how in the hell could something like this just happen? It was then, where Tongqiu knew the meaning of salvation.
Ttrtr... TKRKKKKR
Tongqiu's pupils constricted as he heard a not so familiar yet incredibly known sound.
Rumble... zzz-CLAP...zzzz-PANG!!
Two deafening and shocking to the core-like lightning strikes went ahead and alerted both Tongqiu and Mortal's Terror out of their wits as it seemingly landed right on the 'roof' of the floor from this Mysterious Hidden Grounds.
The thing immediately became utterly terrified to the prospect of being ruthlessly reached by those lightning strikes as it immediately made a move! Its right hand moved towards Tongqiu as it still had its panic stricken expression plastered on its wide opened eyes and its unnecessarily large mouth that couldn't open completely.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz...PANG!!!!
At the exact moment when such an ugly thing's limb was right before Tongqiu, the sound of lightning condensing up above was heard before an abrupt stop. Tongqiu felt as if space had come to a stalemate as time was also inherently stopped. What came right after he sensed such an abrupt anomaly was the so deafening sound of thunder striking and a light so powerfully blinding that all of his orifices from his head started bleeding profusely, even his nails jolted for once for an instant before producing blood from within. The only thing Tongqiu could see before going absolutely blind and deaf, was the image of that of a huge, enormous shadow as big as three times the Mortal's Terror's head surrounded by white and purple lightning, dancing around the abyss-black shadow as if they had gone completely mad! It traveled at the speed of light, yet Tongqiu could see it make its trajectory towards the Mortal's Terror exceptionally slowly, and once it reached the head of that thing as if trying to put it back inside its body; it was at that moment that Tongqiu lost his two senses as he could only feel the blood coming from his orifices tickling all over his skin.
After a long time, probably minutes; Tongqiu could finally hear a thing and open his eyes to see Mortal's Terror bending over in pain as it clumsily and anxiously tried to take out its own head from where its neck is supposed to be. After 20 seconds or so, it managed to go back to 'normal', Tongqiu however, saw different:
[Subdued Manifestation, Mortal's Terror]: Type: ???(Monster), Grade: Enlightened, Level 50, HP: 2,550,000. A true abomination, a Legendary creation which cannot evolve nor devolve and is stuck at its granted power when created. It is, however, not a Fallen and cannot die unless its very being it's decimated. It has been subdued by an unknown omnipotent Will and is now easily killable without the need of Essence. As long as its stolen vitality and soul force is struck down, this abomination will cease to exist.
Skills: Wide-Open Bite!, Ten Screams of Satisfaction, Utter Terror, Law Bending Terror Strike and Impossible Coexistence.
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Author's Note: Its skills are right next chapter!
Also: Oh, don't mind me, I've just decided to publish 9 extra chapters today- meaning 10 chapters in total for today. Tomorrow, it will continue to be 1 per day, don't worry... I've got some saved up Q_Q .
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