Chapter 600 Energem Reclaimer
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|…yes. That's enough. |
Artemisa replied absentmindedly and Evan nodded, burning the heart in his hand to ashes with Mesarthim as a safety measure.
It was then that he finally appraised the creature's corpse and saw the second skill it had stolen.
| Unique Skill: Second Life. |
"This mother fucker wanted to be the next Yetu!"
The boy's series of actions and his sudden exclamation left his party members all looking perplexed, with Eliza being the first to snap out of it and ask him what happened.
"The monster had a Second Life and it was about to use it. I just damaged its body and soul to the point where the skill was rendered useless."
Turning to Kayla, he held up the forearm guard she had given him earlier and spoke.
"Thanks for this again."
He then looked at his hands, with the Doubler on his left and now the Energem Reclaimer (Recharger) on his right wrist, it was a wonder where he was going to fit his wristwatch comfortably.
|Energem Reclaimer (Recharger)
Type; Magic Artifact.
The result of an attempt by the first user of the 'Limit Break' skill's derivative; 'Overload', to cheat their way out of repaying their energy debt to the World.
Effect;
In the event that a user owes the 'World' an energy debt, this artifact consumes magic stones to pay back the energy on their behalf, so they can regenerate their energy normally as they would after a fight.
Can accommodate a maximum of five Magic Stones, regardless of quality.
Automatically adjusts to fit the wearer. |
Everything was the same as he expected, so he casually fished out five random grandmaster magic stones from his inventory and put them into the slots, after which he finally deactivated Limit Break.
A sense of lethargy washed over his body, and in that same moment, one of the Magic Stones cracked in half.
"Good, now I can use Limit Break without many issues."
"No, you cannot."
Eliza refuted his statement almost immediately, walking up to him and poking his chest with her hand coated in ether.
"The strain caused by temporarily increasing your power by three-fold Is still there, much less when you stack it with BoD.
Sure, you don't have to pay the world back your energy debt, but you still owe your body some rest."
Evan had to agree with her as he indeed felt strained, but this wasn't too surprising since he stacked two power multiplication skills.
Right after he thought that, the entire dungeon began trembling heavily, so much that the tremors affected those all the way at the other end of the Buffer Zone.
It lasted close to a minute before stopping, and along with it was the flow of monsters outside the dungeon.
"Anyway, we've dealt with the Giant Lizard here, and the Dungeon Break is stopped. After resting up a bit, we'd go pick up those guys we left on the 98th floor."
Right after saying that, Evan opened up his inventory and then proceeded to pull out as many things as a family on a picnic would need, even a refrigerator stuffed with cold strawberry drinks.
Seeing this, his party members couldn't help but shake their heads silently, but they still accepted the chairs he offered them, as well as the food they had in there.
After pushing Bhak's corpse to a random corner of the room and freezing the scorched floor, the Anomalies had their late lunch in the Boss Room.
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Main City Square
Sbireth
Desert Country Tarse
May 5th
Year 1053
"Da Ba Dee Da Ba Di…??"
A purple-haired woman hummed to herself as she walked through the busy city streets, her hands in the pocket of her black pair of shorts, on top of which she wore a white shirt and similarly coloured jacket.
She had changed out of her previous outfit as that one was quite conspicuous and attracted a lot of attention in this part of the city.
From the corner of her eyes, she spotted something on one of the roadside stalls, moving over to it with sparkling eyes as she murmured.
"pretty…"
"Ah! You like this one? It was made from a rare pearl.
But I doubt this colour would fit you."
The stall owner pulled out another necklace with the same design, but a different coloured gemstone and held it up as he continued.
"This one would be a better fit."
She glanced at the purple gemstone on the necklace in the man's hand before replying.
"That's indeed more my style, but I'm not buying for myself but for someone else, and pearls fit them more than amethysts."
"Oh! You're buying for a friend?"
"Mhmm…"
When she nodded in affirmation, the man picked up the necklace she was originally looking at, before putting the two side by side and offering.
"I'd give them both for one and half price, so you and your friend can match."
Hearing this, the woman's eyes seemed to gleam for a moment, and she nodded right after, accepting his offer and paying him quickly.
"Nice doing business with you."
The man spoke as he gave her a case for the two necklaces, which she accepted and placed into a small black hole that manifested mid-air in the space beside her.
Just as she was about to leave, the light of remembrance suddenly flashed through her eyes as she asked.
"I almost forgot. I'm kinda new here and I don't really know my way around some places.
If someone wanted to travel to the Beast Kingdom, which way would they go?"
"Beast Kingdom? That'd be down south. You have a long journey ahead of you."
The man proceeded to tell her about the nearest station city where she could find a train heading south, after which she thanked him and went on her merry way.
After she vanished into the crowd of people, the man silently rearranged his goods while muttering to himself.
"Still, those were some pretty strange eyes she had there. X crosses in her eyes.
Probably an adventurer with some weird eye skill"
He shrugged and put that matter out of his mind, focusing on the next customer who came to patronize him.
Meanwhile, the 'strange-eyed' woman swiped a tourist pamphlet from a passing man and looked at the map in it as she spoke to herself.
"So that's where it is. Was it always that far down south? Did Kolvar decolonize some other territories in the past few years or something?
I really need to start paying more attention to the happenings on the Alpha Continent."
She scratched her head lightly while scanning the map with her eyes, trying to find a particular city.
"Lacertilia…. Aha! There it is.
The distance on this thing is not so accurate though."
Putting the pamphlet in her back pocket, she slid into a random alleyway and held up her fist.
"Let's go with 2000km first and see."
With that statement, she covered her hand in spatial energy and punched the space in front of her, breaking open a spatial gate which she entered and disappeared beyond.
Little by little, one of Evan's greatest dreads was making their way towards Lacertilia.
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"… really, Evan?"
Eliza could not help but ask with a deadpan gaze as she sipped on her water bottle after finishing her meal.
The reason for her question was the fact that Evan had suddenly gotten up from his seat, walked up to her, proceeded to lift her up and then sat her on his lap before hugging her from behind and resting his cheek on hers.
He then carried on with his conversation with Pride, as if nothing serious happened, and the demon also ignored his actions like she didn't even notice it.
"I wish the monsters outside the dungeon would just disappear when you defeat the Boss, but sadly, that's only the case in games.
Reality doesn't work that way so we're gonna have to fight some more after getting out."
"There's also the 'Hidden Boss' you've mentioned repeatedly."
Pride's words made Evan think back to his bad luck of always hitting that 25% chance every time he played, frowning a bit as he replied.
"Yeah…that guy."
"Hidden Boss? That doesn't sound too good."
Eliza remarked after seeing Evan's noticeably sour mood, leaning in on his chest and silently patting his head as if trying to cheer him up.
"No shit, it's not
Don't forget that Maude who we just sent packing isn't the one in charge of the 'Lizard Lord's Outbreak'.
It's supposed to be Seventh Kethryllia, and Maude was her assistant."
Evan held up his two right fingers as he continued.
"Maude's Location has been accounted for, but since the beginning of all this, and despite how many demonic Hand members from the Seventh Division we encountered and killed while in the main city, there was no sign of Kethryllia or her contracted demon, Thagol."
"You mean to say she's with this Hidden Boss?"
"99% sure."
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