NOVEL NEXT B1 | Chapter 80 - Rescue
Alexia
The two of us run through the hills for a while with me slaughtering any monster that approaches, to Shawn’s absolute terror, until we reach the mountains and the monsters start being in the fifties and sixties in level. But I just continue killing each one with just a single Quantum Bolt, so it’s not an issue.
Shawn might think otherwise though.
His opinion aside, the snow and cold isn’t bothering me as we travel through the mountains. I barely even feel it. Which is interesting.
So I guess Quantum Adaptation is also raising my heat and cold tolerance as well. A very nice benefit.
It makes sense though. Sorta.
The line between a magical attack and a non-magical attack seems to be rather blurry though, so I’m not sure what to take from that.
Anyways, we continue traversing the mountains until the two of us arrive at the peak of one of them, where I immediately find the subordinates Shawn was mentioning. Not to mention the friends he was talking about as well. People who I was kinda questioning if were even alive or not. At least, until he mentioned that the level capped monster’s subordinates were wendigos.
Nasty creatures, wendigos. They will eat anything made of meat and care about nothing more than filling their seemingly endless stomachs. Hence why the wendigos are dragging the guy’s friends around with them tied to poles as if they were lugging around meat.
The monsters themselves are all between levels eighty and ninety, with the higher ups amongst them being around level 90. Just like the thunder hawks.
I purse my lips as I try to figure out how to deal with this situation.
The monsters shouldn’t be much of a problem since they’re all rather low level compared to me, but at the same time, there are a lot of them. And they could try using the people I’m trying to save as hostages.
After a few seconds, I open my skills list.
[General Skills]
|Pain Resistance Level 6(2%)(T1)|
|Polearm Mastery Level 5(19%)(T1)|
|Forerunner (Unique)|
|Stealth Level 2(94%)(T1)|
|Survivor Level 2(14%)(T1)|
|Poison Resistance Level 4(29%)(T1)|
|Exploration Level 3(1%)(T1)|
|Anti-Magic Barrier (Unique)|
|Tutorial Champion (Unique)|
|Energy Manipulation Level 1(6%)(T1)|
[Active Skills]
|Quantum Bolt Level 5(62%)(T1)|
|Quantum Displacement Level 7(5%)(T1)|
|Quantum Reversal Level 4(41%)(T1)|
|Quantum Resonance Level 1(4%)(T1)|
|Quantum Burst Level 4(23%)(T1)|
[Passive Skills]
|Quantum Attunement Level 5(31%)(T1)|
|Quantum Singularity Level 1(4%)(T1)|
|Quantum Infusion Level 4(15%)(T1)|
|Quantum Adaptation Level 6(4%)(T1)|
|Quantum Aura Level 2(73%)(T1)|
Quantum Bolt has definitely made progress, but not as much as I would’ve hoped.
I watch the wendigos carry around the group of people who I’m only just now realizing aren’t actually humans for a couple minutes as they climb up the side of the mountain with the elves. Then I let out a sigh and whisper to Shawn, “I’ll be saving them now.”
“How?” he asks, sounding nervous.
But I don’t bother answering since he’s not gonna be a help with his low level. Instead I just begin teleporting down to the wendigos and hostages.
I don’t have much experience in teleporting others, but I’ve done it before, and the person I teleported was perfectly fine even if it cost more soul to do it with someone else along with me. Quite a bit more, actually.
So I repeatedly teleport down to the wendigos before hiding in the bushes near them. Then I wait for several seconds before immediately teleporting over to a wendigo that’s out of sight, covering their mouth as tightly as possible, and teleporting back while snapping their neck and laying them out on the ground hidden by the bushes.
I repeat this process a few times with the hostages giving me rather frightened looks until I finish clearing out the area directly around the hostages of all the wendigos I could clear out without alerting the others. Which is about a third of them.
Good thing wendigos don’t have very good eyesight. They have great hearing though, but they’re also stupid. So they aren’t going to be able to figure out what I’m doing, considering that I’m teleporting.
I look over the monsters once, finding the majority of the remaining wendigos being the higher leveled ones that are nearby the hostages.
Okay, they’re probably gonna notice me at this point, but I don’t think it matters now that I’ve cleared out their numbers a bit.
So I teleport straight to a hostage and then teleport them away, immediately alarming all of the wendigos before I proceed to save the other four hostages. And just as I expected, none of the monsters are able to keep up with me, letting me quickly get all of the hostages out of danger.
Then I teleport back with a grin on my face and begin blasting the wendigos with Quantum Bolts, wiping most of them out with ease.
A couple of them manage to avoid my attacks though, to my surprise. And both of them are the highest level wendigos of the bunch.
Makes me glad that I saved the hostages, because I’m pretty sure these two would’ve gotten to them if I hadn’t.
They don’t last much longer though as I quickly teleport over to them and impale the first with my polearm before ripping it out, smacking the head of the other with the rear of the polearm, and whipping around the blade to cut through its throat. And before the corpses even fall to the ground, I throw my polearm at another of the wendigos and send a few more Quantum Bolts at the last three that are currently trying to run away.
After looking over the area once more, I turn back to look at the hostages who are still tied up, finding them all staring at me with a mixture of fear and confusion in their eyes now instead of the fear and shock that I had seen the first time I looked at them.
“So hello,” I tell them after teleporting back over to them and kneeling down slightly. “Do any of you happen to know where the leader of these wendigos is?”
Now they just look confused.