Versatile: Alternate World-Chapter 671 Borrowed Power
The bishop unleashed his power and decided to no longer hold back. His power started to spike and the pressure of the darkness is now hard for the NPCs to handle they were forced to fall to the ground, struggling as they were pressed. They won't die but they will be struggling to move and in case some enemies will appear, they will be too defenseless to defend themselves. The only NPC who is not affected is Alain. As for us players, we are not affected but we can feel the power too which is a sign this is going to be a forced Boss Battle.
"Get ready everyone. Atlas, I will be counting on you to absorb the dark powers of that guy, alright?"
"No problem, Master. Get ready, he is about to unleash something."
Just like Atlas said, the Bishop started floating high up in the air and raised his scepter, releasing a strong gale that consist of the power of darkness and corruption in one blow. Atlas slashes through the gale, protecting everyone in the path though I made sure of focusing on the protection by deploying the shield and blocking everyone behind me. Thankfully, the Shield of Pride is helpful at this as this weapon form is able to manipulate the darkness as well. With most of the NPCs unable to move, Sigma decided to move as she is currently the only one from us who can unleash holy aura, Holy Knight's unique passive exclusive to her class to expel the surrounding darkness and cure everyone from the affliction caused by the darkness. I can't use it since the Versatile does not copy the unique passive from other classes so even if I have the ability to become a Holy Knight, becoming an actual replacement for the class is not possible.
After the attack, the angels who were killed and have their dead bodies left on the road were immediately possessed by dark energies and started rising back from the dead, becoming an undead angel. Thankfully, due to the help of Sigma, the NPCs are now back on their feet and are ready to return to the fight.
"Bladeheart! We will deal with the resurrected soldiers, you focus on taking down the bishop with the others!" Alain pat my back before he heads to the fray with the others to fight against the new undead enemies.
"Naive! Did you really think you all can win against my abilities? The power that the Pope possesses cannot be defeated by anything. He is destined to consume everything that he despises. You all will not be spared and to ensure that, I will be giving you all the front-row seat in tasting that much earlier!"
The bishop taps the scepter to the ground and dark powers started to bubble up around us. We expected it to be skeleton monsters as the Bishop is a necromancer but we soon realized that that wasn't the case.
"Yuck! What the heck are those?!" Harmless Sparrow instinctively backed off seeing the newly spawned enemies.
"Master, everyone, be careful! I can sense extreme malice and evil in these things! Even my ability to absorb these evil energies won't be able to handle this!" Atlas warned. 𝒇𝑟e𝙚𝑤𝙚𝐛𝗻𝐨ν𝚎𝘭.c𝐨m
"My Holy Aura won't be a good help on these either. They are too corrupted to be purified. Our only option is to fight and destroy these before they start attacking us with extreme things!" Sigma summoned her golden chains.
"Damn, we should burn it with fire!" Harmless Sparrow then sliced the incoming tentacles but her blade misses as the tentacles disappeared and emerges a little farther from her.
"It dodged?!" Popo taps his bo staff to the ground and summons [Corrupted Vines of Poison] to tie up the tentacles but before the vines can even grab it, they dodged once more and emerges in another place.
Seeing other methods are not working, I looked at Leoran and nodded with him to signal our attacks. He immediately shot out multiple bolts of crossbow bolts while I changed the Versatile Weapon's form to dual handguns and repeatedly released a barrage of bullets to the tentacles, hoping to hit any of them.
But alas... those actions were wasted when the tentacles easily dodges them and returned to surround us. Atlas also used his abilities that were available for him as a boss but rarely uses it in combat, [Shadow Capture] to grab at least a few but it soon didn't work either as well. Even Viola and Kylan's strategy to use the latter's Chronomancer's slowing down movements and Viola's quick and quick kills didn't work. Tsuru shoots his cannon at the tentacles and even that does not work either.
"Sh*t...all our attacks miss and even though some of it connects, it seems we don't actually damage them at all!" Harmless Sparrow grits her teeth in frustration.
Even I don't understand it either. How can these tentacles easily dodge our attacks or in fact, completely ignore them? What is going on?
"Hehe, I already told you all. The power of the pope is absolute. You will not be able to fight back. You all are just playthings and are not worth the pope's time. Therefore, this is goodbye, players. It's our win. Better luck next time. Now, my lovely tentacles, devour and use their bodies however you all liked!"
With his command, all the tentacles immediately rush toward us ready to devour us. Everyone including me started to defend the inevitable when.
"BURN IN FLAMES AND RETURN TO THE VOID!"
An explosive flame burst into the surroundings and all the tentacle monsters charging to kill us were repelled, burning them all to ashes and destroying them to pieces before they were reduced to ashes.
"What?!" The Bishop was greatly surprised. All of the tentacles he summoned were burned to flames and disappeared.
"Lucia?!" I was surprised as well. After all, Lucia didn't seem will fight with us this time around but her timely appearance just allowed us to survive.
"Whew. At least it was good but that was barely a warmup! Also, Atlas, I told you to protect Master but if I didn't join into the battle, you all will die instead!"
"But can you blame me? The bastard can use some kind of sorcery that allowed the enemies to dodge and evade our attacks! It's not just me but Master and the others as well! We were helpless there!" Atlas reasoned out. f𝐫𝑒𝗲𝙬𝒆𝚋𝐧૦𝘃𝗲l.c𝚘𝘮
Sigma shook her head for a bit but didn't bother to scold Atlas further.
"Well, I can understand, after all, this ability is a lost dark magic ability that was present during the age of the Primordial Gods. It's understandable you all have trouble with it."
"How?! How did you destroy the absolute and formidable power that I borrowed from the Pope?!" the bishop frowned.
"Borrowed? Ah, so that's why it was so weak. No wonder it felt a little odd for some unknown reason. So that was the case. Heh, pretty amusing if you think that was formidable and absolute power but in reality, it was so mediocre that even the dark mage practitioners back in the day find this skill boring and useless. I can't believe someone will be using it."
"Care to explain what is going on, Lucia?" I asked.
"Master, those tentacles were the product of the power of the evil god who ascended after consuming other enemies and getting more sacrifices from many different sources. Anyways, the reason it was so hard to hit even with all of your attacks combined, the main reason is due to the fact that these things are not materialized properly."
"Because of its weak summoner, the tentacles that were burned were mediocre at best. They aren't even worth the time and if you exploit and understood what they are, then it is easy, they will also lose their soul state and will now be destroyed easily now."
"You dare mock the power of the Pope and spout heresy?!"
"F*CK off old man. I know you are devoted but I don't care about your damnable pope."
Lucia snapped and her demonic parts which were not fully shown unless they are too serious emerged revealing her demonic race. Causing the Bishop to back away.
"HEATHENS! A real demon! Go away! Heretics! You all have to die here! AAAAAHHHHH!" He then repeatedly taps the floor with his scepter and the tentacles earlier started to reappear as well.
"Master, just leave it to me. Also, just sit tight there along with the others. After all, you guys should just look at this incident as a big whoopsie."
Lucia snaps her fingers and the whole surroundings lit up in flames as the tentacles started burning up. The bishop getting desperate repeatedly taps the scepter to the floor. That's when I realized something was happening to the Bishop as we currently speak.
"You noticed it, Master? You don't need to do anything at all. After all, this guy will die after consuming his lifespan summoning these weak-ass monsters."
