Ascension of Chaos-Chapter 158 - B2 | 19

Ashley

I find myself feeling slightly irritated as I try to look through my massive interface for my Skill Trees. An interface that contains thousands upon thousands of different skills, the majority of which are grayed out and unpurchased.

Because it's getting harder and harder to find these skills that I'm getting.

The idea that I'm struggling to figure out what some of my skills even do just because I can't find them on the stupid interface is both ridiculous and embarrassing.

Of the new skills though, I did manage to find a couple of them that are of interest. Mostly because the Skill Trees do at least seem to be organized a bit based on the level of the Skill Tree holder. That and their skills themselves, considering how the Unique Skill Tree is right next to my own personal Skill Tree of one skill.

The skills that I found interesting for this next battle is one that makes it so that I can throw out lightning bolts one after another. With each bolt costing little more than a fraction of a unit of lightning mana. I also have a magnetic skill that attracts the lightning in the area that I wish to attract straight to me. Pretty much turning me into a lightning rod when I want.

Even after finding those skills though, the rather slow hunters still aren't here. Although I guess I can give a pass to the ones who can't fly, seeing as some of those have to pass through multiple islands to get here. But the ones who can don't get any sort of pass.

When I focus on them though, I can't help but feel like there's something wrong.

And I quickly get my answer when they finally arrive at the island and begin encircling it in the air, with each of them at an equal distance from the others. Meanwhile any of the hunters who reach the neighboring islands go to the edges of the islands without crossing the bridge.

Then the hunters in the air all begin chanting, startling me as they create a massive spell circle over the island.

Oh hell no! They're working together?!

The spell circle above the island covers the entire thing, and it's made entirely out of neutral mana. Almost as if the bastards around the island were trying to make one massive spell that would vaporize me with nothing but pure mana. Without even bothering with any sort of complex spell.

I immediately begin to fly towards the edge of the island, but when I try, the hunters on the other islands begin launching their own attacks at me. And it's not just them. The ones flying around the island that clearly don't have mana manipulation skills begin to launch attacks at me as well. All while they continue to glow as the others no doubt drain their mana for the massive spell.

Meanwhile I find the Successor of Sin watching with a wide grin on his face from the distance.

I ignore him as Chaos said to focus on breaking through the blockade. I don't even bother with defending myself as I use one skill after another to blast everything in my way. Letting the attacks from the side strike me without a care.

Fortunately for me, my armor and the scales I activate tank the hits without showing even a single scratch on the armor. Well, other than the glowing crimson cracks that I'm pretty sure are also on my skin and scales beneath. Almost like the armor is representing my body.

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The glowing crimson cracks continue to shine brightly, but they don't do much more than that. And the injuries on my body are so minor other than the cracks that I completely ignore them.

Simply letting my incredible destruction resistance and my scales do their thing.

I keep pushing harder and harder to get out of the encirclement, meanwhile the large spell circle above me begins to glow brighter and brighter. And right when I'm almost at the edge of the circle, it suddenly flashes once before sending a massive blast of energy straight down at the island below.

With me still being within its range of attack.

I grit my teeth before coughing out a mouthful of blood when the blast hits me. But I continue to push forwards to the edge of the circle. All while activating one defense skill after another.

And after several more seconds, I manage to break out of the massive blast of energy that is still raining down on the island even after I make it out.

I pant in exhaustion while glancing at the massive beam that stretches across the entire spell circle before turning to look at the rather shocked looking hunters within sight of me. Then I look down at myself to find my armor having so many cracks that I'm honestly wondering how it's even still on me.

And my body beneath it is in a similar situation, except with wounds covering me. Burns to be specific.

Burns that go through my scales and even extend to my inner organs in some places.

Someone must have used a sniping spell amidst the massive one as well, since there is one tiny hole that goes straight through my armor, chest, and heart, and out the other side from my back.

But I just fly away while using several regeneration skills I've claimed over time along with some healing skills to push the healing to quickly get to work at it. Meanwhile my Amorphous Body skill keeps me alive even without a working heart.

I let out a sigh of relief as I move. Only to feel pain as that kind of fails thanks to the whole 'no heart' thing.

Fortunately for me, my regeneration and healing skills seem to prioritize my heart as they heal me. So my heart returns to full health rather quickly.

And my other wounds, while they are major, aren't debilitating.

Good.

Once I reach about halfway to the next island, some of the grounded hunters begin sending attacks my way again. With some shouting some garbage about me being on my last legs or something.

Some of them even prove kind enough to throw me some bolts of lightning, which I happily take for myself. Then I raise both of my hands and activate another lightning call skill that I happen to have. A rather useful method of avoiding cooldowns that I realized not too long ago.

If a skill has a cooldown, then all I have to do is use another of the exact same skill from a different Skill Tree, and I won't have to worry about the cooldown.

So I take in all of the lightning from the clouds above, even as I drain away at my remaining mana to about a third of my full mana capacity remaining. Then I move my hands to my side and activate a different skill this time along with Assimilate.

I activate a new skill I got from that last kill spree called Lightning Storm Burst.

A skill that shoots out all of the lightning within my body all around me to create a massive storm of lightning spanning hundreds of meters in radius.

Then I hear screams filling the air as the lightning courses through the many hunters that were going after me. Meanwhile others block the attack with their own barriers, only for a lot of their barriers to shatter before they join the others in being electrocuted.

I briefly glance back at the massive blast of energy from their spell circle that is currently dying out at last. Revealing the other mages from the other side of the island that were blocked from sight by the blast.

And there isn't a single calm expression amongst them as they see both me alive and well, and the other hunters being slaughtered over here.

A slightly tired grin stretches across my face. Then I turn to look at the hunters I'm electrocuting all around me. And quite a few of them are surrendering. Which is still allowed in Class D events, even if it's not allowed from Class C events and above. With the exception of surrender tickets.

My storm of lightning continues to ravage the other hunters even as the remaining hunters run away without even bothering trying to attack me. With more than a few of the hunters in the lightning storm trying to flee the storm and go to other islands as well.

And by the end of it all, I find myself flying high in the air not directly above any island all by myself. Other than the electrocuted corpses that are covering the island next to me.

Not half bad.

I turn to look at the Successor of Sin, who is still grinning at me.

Except that now his grin is even more ecstatic than before.

Guess he's my next opponent.

Shouldn't be a problem if what Chaos said is true.