NOVEL NEXT B1 | Chapter 56 - Lightning
Alexia
As it turns out, after getting up close and personal with the creatures, they’re actually rather easy to tear apart with my polearm. Just a single swipe of the blade and they’re cut in two.
So I tear through the birds with ease until two of them flying further away manage to send bolts of lightning at me that manage to connect, making me let out a scream of pain as I’m sent flying through the air with ease. And when I eventually slam into the ground, I cough out a mouthful of blood, a tiny portion of which glitches back into me, but not much.
I grit my teeth as I force my head up from the ground to look down at my waist, finding my armor to have been completely burnt through all the way down to my skin which is also completely burnt on my right side. The side that was struck by the bolts of lightning.
The wound is still sizzling with some arcs of electricity running across it with charred blood and some tree-like lines marking lightning burns branching off of the main burnt areas.
Although the wound hurts a lot less than I expected it would. Probably because my nerves were burnt to a crisp in the attack.
What worries me the most is the sight of my soul dropping rapidly, so I quickly use Quantum Reversal, making me let out another scream of pain as the burns are all reversed almost immediately thanks to how quickly the wound occurred in the first place. At a massive chunk of my soul in the process.
After it’s done healing, I find myself panting in exhaustion before looking up to find more lightning beginning to form around the few thunder hawks still remaining in the sky. Then I focus on my status to find my soul only at about ten percent remaining.
So I begin spamming Quantum Displacement in the direction of the jungle away from the mountains and the hawks. And to my surprise, the thunder hawks seem to allow me to leave as they don’t follow. But after a few seconds I notice the lack of Luna on my shoulder, making me look back to find the hawks having been distracted by her attacking them. And when I’m far enough away, she immediately begins to fly back to me, having actually killed one of the hawks herself before retreating.
“Good girl,” I tell her with a smile, only to continue moving all the way until I make it back inside of the jungle where I lean up against a tree from high up in the branches and let out a sigh of relief.
Who knows how long passes as I sit in the tree staring up at the sky before I finally decide to go ahead and let my System Messages flow. Messages I haven’t let flow since I first left the dungeon.
[Level 28-39 Human Defeated. User’s earned EXP has been decreased an extreme amount due to killing a being whose level is lower than their own by fifty or more levels. User's earned EXP has been decreased for defeating another user.] x18
[One fifth of their points have been earned for killing a user.] x18
I blink in surprise at that part of the message since I kind of forgot about the whole killing other users giving you part of their points thing. Also, it means that they are still alive since I killed them. Also forgot about that. Probably because I was alone in the dungeon when we were all told about it, with no users in sight.
The whole ‘users killed by other users are put in stasis instead of permanently dying.’
Wait, doesn’t that mean I should go kill the prince for his points? Or have Astrid do it. Yeah, that would be better.
Should just get Astrid to go kill him for his points.
Anyways, the next messages are all the messages for the monsters I’ve fought to get through the jungle up till the inner mountain area, none of which gave me much EXP. All of it totaling only to one level that brings me up to level 90.
The messages after that though are what are important.
{Congratulations! You have leveled up to level 90! Your Species has awarded you +2 VIT, +2 DEX, +2 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN. Your Class has awarded you +1 VIT, +1 DEX, +1 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN.}
[*New Active Skill* – Quantum Communication: Allows the user to fold space between them and another location near an energy source of their choosing, creating a portal that only allows sound to pass through.]
[Level 89-92 Thunder Hawk Defeated. User’s earned EXP for some of the kills have been increased a small amount for killing creatures above their level. User’s earned EXP for some of the kills have been decreased a small amount for killing creatures below their level.] x10
[One-three points have been earned for killing various creatures at the same level as you or above.] x10
{Congratulations! You have leveled up to level 91! Your Species has awarded you +2 VIT, +2 DEX, +2 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN. Your Class has awarded you +1 VIT, +1 DEX, +1 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN.}
[Level 89-92 Thunder Hawk Defeated. User’s earned EXP for some of the kills have been increased a small amount for killing creatures above their level. User’s earned EXP for some of the kills have been decreased a small amount for killing creatures below their level.] x12
[One-two points have been earned for killing various creatures at the same level as you or above.] x12
{Congratulations! You have leveled up to level 92! Your Species has awarded you +2 VIT, +2 DEX, +2 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN. Your Class has awarded you +1 VIT, +1 DEX, +1 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN.}
[Level 91-92 Thunder Hawk Defeated. User’s earned EXP for some of the kills have been decreased a small amount for killing creatures below their level.] x2
[One-two points have been earned for killing various creatures at the same level as you or above.] x2
{Congratulations! Your Passive Skill ‘Quantum Infusion’ has reached Level 3!}
{Congratulations! Your General Skill ‘Polearm Mastery’ has reached Level 4!}
{Congratulations! Your Passive Skill ‘Quantum Aura’ has reached Level 2!}
{Congratulations! Your Active Skill ‘Quantum Displacement’ has reached Level 5!}
I frown for a moment, considering that new active skill. A skill that could come in handy when keeping in contact with Astrid.
Although I’m not willing to permanently shift an offensive skill out for a non-offensive one. So I’ll only be able to switch it out when I’m in a Safe Zone and back to what it was after that.
I continue staring up at the sky for several seconds before letting out a sigh and deciding to just wait here for my soul to regenerate.
Then I can go hunt more thunder hawks.
Just more carefully this time now that I know how dangerous magical attacks are.