Infinite Paths: The Raging Phoenix-Chapter 1445: Level down

Hilo’s suspicions gnawed at him as he processed the situation. Arel, with her extensive knowledge and access to critical information in the prison, seemed oddly suspicious about the status of the prison lords. It puzzled him why she would withhold such vital intelligence, especially given the gravity of their mission. This omission hinted at either a lapse in communication or, more troublingly, a deliberate concealment of facts.

The realization dawned on him that their adversary might possess a level of strategic cunning that surpassed even the most sophisticated assessments of the machine gods. If the enemy had managed to keep the lords of the prison alive without detection, it suggested a depth of planning and resourcefulness that far exceeded their expectations. This revelation shook Hilo to the core, forcing him to reevaluate the nature of the threat they faced.

The sudden turn of events injected an air of uncertainty into the already weird situation. Hilo grappled with the implications, his mind racing to reassess their strategies and readiness. It was a sobering reminder that they were facing a foe whose capabilities were not to be underestimated and that every move they made could be met with unforeseen challenges. freewebnσvel.cøm

Before the enemy could make any adjustments to his plan, Loar unleashed all of his power and turned into a shuriken of light and split half of the fake lords in the blink of an eye... even his copy got on his eye, but it didn’t last even half a second. Both of them collided, and then a massive blast of light took over the area...

When the light vanished, everyone just saw the bodies of the remaining fake lords dissipating into the mist. In the next moment, Rain sent back all of the lords back to his pocket dimension.

"Did you like that?" Rain said. "That is my legendary Pokemon Loar. I raised him from level one without using candies. I also captured him using a normal Pokeball with a rate of 0.5% chance of success. I am the best pokemon trainer in the world."

"Here we go again with the nerdy jokes," Elisabetha said. "You should focus on the new types, even toilet humor sometimes is better than your current style."

"Rain, I am ready for more," Loar said.

"Show off," Hardt said.

Hilo didn’t do anything while he analyzed the scene that he saw... the data of the fake lords should be equal to the real ones from six months ago. Even if they had gotten stronger, they shouldn’t have gotten that much stronger.

The difference was the fact that Rain made them join the paths system, and while inside his pocket dimension, they improved their skills a lot faster. Even though they didn’t have that much freedom, they had time to do whatever they wanted and free food as well since Rain didn’t want them to starve to death before they became useful.

"Hmm, it seems that Rais also neglected to share the information about your species and their capabilities to adapt and evolve. As expected, we can’t trust each other, and we never will. We were created with too much freedom. Being born with a single order to our entire existence caused this issue..."

The order was to learn everything that there was to learn about the aspects at any cost. It was only obvious that the other machine gods would become a nuisance to each other... in any case, Rain was a bit worried that the machine god of time had enough Intel about them and up-to-date information, but that was an issue for another time.

Hilo wanted to learn more about Rain’s capabilities... Considering what he had seen so far, it was still a bit difficult to imagine how he defeated Loks. For the first time in hundreds of thousands of years, Hilo started to feel motivated to do something. Thanks to that, the dimension began to respond to his willpower... and began to distort.

Little by little, the dimension began to turn darker and darker until, eventually, the darkness began to take the shape of numerous humanoid creatures that had the same shape as Rain but were completely naked and unarmed. Thousands upon thousands of them were formed, and they all looked at Rain with their lack of detailed appearances.

All of a sudden, the creatures began to launch themselves at Rain like rockets, and he didn’t like that at all... without hesitation, he swung the ominous blade and then began to split them in half, making them dissipate into nothing after they were destroyed... However, after not so long...

The skill Dragon Fire Resistance lost a level.

The skill of Draconic Anatomy lost a level.

The dragon slayer path lost a level.

...

"What?" Rain furrowed his eyebrows in shock.

"... I don’t feel so good," Elisabetha said. "It feels like a part of me is being erased with every single moment I cut those things."

"I see... it appears that before destroying the weapon, its magical properties need to be weakened considerably. I suppose it makes sense given the power that it already showed."

Hilo was still studying Rain and Elisabetha, but his powers were already very effective... Rain was hoping that things wouldn’t work like that for a while longer... at least until Hilo decided to fight himself, but it was rare for things to go as planned against the machine gods.

Rain began to dodge instead of attacking the creatures, but he had to find another solution... eventually, he would be surrounded from all sides, and dodging that would be very difficult.

"First... I need to understand how his technique works," Rain thought while he was flying from one side to the other and then avoided the creatures. "Easier said than done."

Losing the power of the dragon slayer Path and making Elizabetha weaker wasn’t something that he could afford, so Rain had to work fast... the annoying part was the fact that he couldn’t gain experience by killing those things. However... he had an idea.