Transcending Realms With My Leveling System As A Demon-Chapter 129: Lamia’s Blessing
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[Technique Failed]
└ False Body Deception
[Info]
└ User was inches away from hitting the designated target with a [99.9%] Chance but missed.
[Reason]
└ Lamia Lumineres [The Second Order] suddenly disappeared mid technique.
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As Zylus swung his katana from right to left, appearing just behind Lamia, she disappeared into nothing, completely gone.
He took a look around, trying to understand what had happened, but there was nothing. He was still inside the train; the convoy continued to move without any stops in sight, although it seemed as though Zylus had been placed in a new reality.
There wasn’t anything around him or near him, well, no living beings he could sense in that vicinity.
While ’Xiezhi’s Embodiment’ allows the individual to appear transparent and opaque at will, it can’t allow someone to disappear or even change the way things are. Thus, Zylus already knew something useful.
’This is her blessing,’ he thought, adjusting to his surroundings, ’there is something wrong here, really wrong.’
Mid-thought, a dark, bluish whirlpool from below started to take form, and silhouettes from the ground up began to appear.
Each one coated in that same blue, completely embodying who they were or what they were. The whirlpool began to fade once Zylus turned his body around to look at those things, and in that moment, he realized something.
’Necromancy?’ Zylus thought, ’this was exactly how they explained it in those former novels I’ve read, though, only three won’t be so bad.’
Once the whirlpool disappeared, Zylus was able to understand their shape and what they were.
’Skeletons,’ Zylus added in his recurring thought process, ’Somehow, she’s gotta be some sort of necromancer.’
There were only three, but a blue aura illuminated from all three. Each skeleton type of silhouette, coated in a dark blue glow with light blue eyes, had a sword in its right hand. The weapon they held was the same color as what they all were.
Zylus clutched his katana, flipping it arrogantly, "It doesn’t matter, I’ll kill all of you here and now."
He caught it by the handle, then began to rush all three of them. He moved with such precision, slicing their heads off without a second thought.
Slice!
Though nothing fell from that region, their Gommaar D’Hust remained intact, which gave Zylus a signal to back off.
"Just like I remember," all of them stood in place. Zylus rushed back in, "It’s not until I make the user run out of their amount of energy."
He sneered, "But, either way, this confirms one thing..." Zylus paused, "There’s some necromancy at work."
He charged in at 3,000Km/h, without using [Demonic Kin]; he didn’t want to waste the thirty minutes just yet, even if he could. Zylus decided to conserve it until he gets to fight Lamia again, the second order, because that’s when he would truly need it.
Zylus went in defenseless, just a katana’s end that went beyond his own vision, stabbing right into each of their hearts, if they had one.
Block!
This time, the undead creatures didn’t wait for him to come to them; they attacked back.
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[Quest Granted!]
└ Defeat 3 Undeads
[Accept or Reject?]
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Zylus didn’t think much about it; he was already going to have to defeat them.
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[Slain]
└ 0/3
[Rewards]
└ Granted Upon Completion
[Side Note]
└ Good Luck!
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Zylus turned around, and all three of them tried attacking him all at once, but Zylus moved back. The one at the front was about to stab him right in the jaw, moving almost as fast as Zylus, maybe only a couple km/h less, though. Zylus reacted in time to block that strike.
’Stronger than I thought,’ Zylus wondered, "Though, there’s something mistaken."
The undead beings didn’t wait for him to utter another word and charged. This time, however, only two of them came rushing in from the front; the other disappeared, and Zylus didn’t track it properly.
He was now alone and weary; he hadn’t received much sleep after all, which made him more exhausted than he should’ve been.
Zylus was at a huge disadvantage, one that was being abused by.
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[Skill Activated!]
└ Instinct OverDrive
[Allows the user to have a temporary danger-sense boost]
└ Last five minutes and resets every 24 hours
└ Only activates when truly needed
└ Automatic Skill
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In this moment, he sensed something indifferent. He saw visions of lines, going straight across him and stabbing Zylus in his back.
Without further thought, he avoided where that string followed, which had been where the third undead appeared.
Zylus sneered, ’Guess defeating the Orthus wasn’t useless after all, glad I decided to kill it.’
The three creatures in front of him stopped, and now, Zylus turned to the offensive, accelerating his feet from below, and ultimately moving faster than whatever speed they’re able to perceive.
Once again, Zylus had the upper hand.
"Come on!" He yelled, ecstatic, "Just bring out the big boss already! I know her power levels are depleting after stabbing you guys this much!"
Shank!
Stab!
Stoom!
Zylus wasn’t giving them time to strike back, so he continued to go again and again until he was left breathless, which wouldn’t happen anytime soon, considering his endurance.
He decided to keep on going nonstop, trying to understand the concept of how a necromancer truly works.
"No," during his every swing, Zylus started to overthink on his plan, ’But necromancers can’t block walls and alter a train’s inside, or mess with someone’s memory by making everyone disappear, not to what I have read at least.’
He tried thinking really intensely; the undead didn’t have a chance to come back at him, so he continued.
’No way...’
One thought finally crossed his mind, because he remembered Lamia earlier speaking about some ’Domain.’
It wasn’t a ’Domain’ as the sovereigns spoke about, no, it was something much more vulgar and disadvantageous to someone such as Zylus.
It was a blessing, one of Lamia Lumineres’ blessings.
And, in that moment, he noticed it too late.
"No!"
And, in that moment, Zylus Elwis realized...
He was fucked.
