Radmilo turned and swung his sword again at the mud monsters. The creature stopped and stared at the man with its large black eyes that suddenly popped out.
"Huh? It's different from normal mud monsters," Radmilo muttered to himself. He looked at the mud monsters with interest.
Mud monsters usually did not have human features like eyes. If they had, then it was just a mouth that would be open for a while. They would use their mouth to catch their opponent. However, those mouths were about to disappear since it was not their permanent feature.
"Hey, can you understand what I'm saying?" Radmilo asked while continuing to attack.
In his previous life, he had encountered a mud monster with eyes. It was an irregular type. They had better eyesight.
Mud monsters had bad eyesight so they always separated themselves to get a good range of attacks. It turned out the monsters that Radmilo was facing still did that even though they had eyes.
In an instant, the mud monsters separated themselves into hundreds of tiny pieces. They scattered on the ground the moment they separated.
The skill was called 'Dangerous Tiny Pieces'. One of the tiny pieces approached Radmilo. It jumped swiftly and alighted on his right hand. Radmilo's fingernails got stuck between the pieces.
"Oh, look at this."
He raised his eyebrows as the pain came from his hand. Then, he noticed the tiny pieces bits were getting into his fingers. It dug deeper and further until it emerged from beneath his palm.
A numbing sensation spread across his hand. He was not sure how long it would take the creature to burrow through his skin.
The tiny piece that entered Radmilo's skin prevented him from moving his hand. Meanwhile, another piece had stuck to his shoe. They tried to dig in but could not come into his armor.
Radmilo was still wearing the armor from the guild because he had not changed clothes after completing the raid on Beach Semaphore Dungeon. However, he lost his gauntlet armor. It seemed that Clem took the gauntlet off while healing him and forgot to put it back.
"Urgh...! This is why I hate mud monsters. They are wet and disgusting."
Radmilo stared at the skin slipping from his fingers. The mud monsters in this dungeon were mid-level but their power effects were quite terrifying. He could still hold it because he had experienced worse than this.
Meanwhile, another piece that had been biting into Radmilo's armor had given up. They realized that it would take a long time to dig the armor. Hence, they intended to fly into the man's face.
"Argh, fuck off!"
Radmilo cursed while taking a step back avoiding the other pieces. They did not give up and continued to target his face, which was not protected by anything. However, he could avoid them by continuously retreating, ducking, or fleeing to every side.
He had purposely let the first tiny piece hurt his hand, because he wanted to see if there was any response from the system. It turned out that the system did not perceive mid-level monsters' attacks as a threat to his state.
"Looks like I will have to get them all to attack me," Radmilo spoke while looking at the tiny pieces flying back at him.
This time, he let them land on his face. He also removed his armor using his free hands, giving them chance to dig into his body.
Radmilo only protected his free hand from being touched by them. After several minutes had passed, he still had not received any notification from the system.
"Is that damn system waiting for me to turn into a skeleton?" he cursed as he realized his right hand had almost lost all of its skin to the mud monsters.
Feeling no significant effect, Radmilo finally used his free hand and raised his middle finger to activate the <Spool Back> skill.
[Your condition is too unstable to use this skill!]
[You will automatically use the maximum usage time limit]
[Are you sure to use this skill?]
Radmilo immediately pressed the confirmation button. A split second later, time returned to before the mud monsters were pulled themselves into pieces. He had been counting in his mind from the moment he entered the dungeon.
Time had passed for approximately twenty-five minutes. Thus, Radmilo could conclude two things. A mid-level monster's mud-type attack did not affect his condition as his body could still endure it.
Then, the <Spool Back> skill had a maximum usage time limit was about twenty minutes. The system did not tell him about the side effects on his body. But, he was coughing up blood now and feeling his condition getting worse.
"This time I have to finish them off! Now I can't hold back anymore!" Radmilo said while wiping the blood dripping from his mouth.
He ran towards the Ferris wheel and the mud monsters immediately chased him. They quickly followed him hanging from the iron cage on the Ferris wheel.
Radmilo held on to the iron with one hand, while the other hand held the sword used to slash the mud monsters.
"Die you!"
The monsters lost their balance and fell from the Ferris wheel. However, it still had time to separate into tiny pieces before completely collapsing onto the ground. One of the tiny pieces jumped and landed on Radmilo's wrist.
Radmilo tried to let go by continuing to wave his hand. But the little creature stuck to him like glue. He struggled with the mud monster for a few seconds before finally catching it.
He held the mud monster tightly. It did not try to bite his hand again because his grip made it unable to do anything.
"This creature is really wet," said Radmilo, looking at the mud monster. "I will fight you seriously now."
The mud monster suddenly had bulging eyes when it heard Radmilo's words. It understood human language. Therefore, it was shocked after finding out the man was not serious about the earlier fighting.
Radmilo did not seem to be talking nonsense. He immediately choked the tiny piece in his hand until it shattered into pieces. It lost the power to reunite with the others.
"Now it's your turn," Radmilo smiled as he got off the Ferris wheel.
The other pieces of the mud monsters looked panicked after witnessing their comrades being killed. They split up to avoid Radmilo. It would be difficult for him to catch them if they were not running in the same direction.
However, they made a big mistake because Radmilo was still able to slaughter them. The man moved faster as he chased after the pieces one by one. He slashed them several times with his sword which suddenly burst into flames.
Radmilo did not waste his left hand. He used his hand to grab and strangle the mud monsters. Within ten minutes, he managed to destroy all the tiny pieces.
The mud monsters could not get back together. They really had been destroyed. A notification that Radmilo had cleared the dungeon appeared moments later. The man walked away looking at his hands.
His palms were stained with the slime of the mud monster. It was difficult to clean only using water. Radmilo needed a special potion to get rid of the slime.
"If I don't hurry, then this will leave a burn-like wound."
Radmilo directly took out the potion and spilled it into his palms. The potion was made from dragon saliva which could clean monster slime, whether it was poisonous or not. In a few seconds, the potion reacted.
The slime disappeared from Radmilo's palms. He kept the potion back and continued his plan to go to another dungeon. After clearing the dungeons around his apartment, he still had to go to other dungeons to test all the side effects of his power.
As Radmilo was thinking that, he suddenly caught the silhouette of a person peeking from the dungeon guard post.
"What? He can move? I believe I just stopped my skill for the dungeon earlier." Radmilo looked back to stare at the Former Amusement Park he had left.
He deactivated the <Pause> skill in the dungeon, so he could fight with the mud monsters. Now only he could move outside the dungeon.
Radmilo took out the flame sword he had originally kept back in his inventory. Without waiting long, he ran quickly towards the dungeon guard post.
Someone at the post dodged to safety when Radmilo destroyed the post with a single slash. Meanwhile, Radmilo blinked because he saw a boy staring at him.
A young child experiencing an awakening was not surprising. The IRO would protect and train them to control their power.
However, Radmilo had never seen a child who could move when he used his <Pause> skill. Did the boy have the same power as Hector?
"Who are you?" Radmilo asked as he pointed his sword at the boy.
Nonetheless, the boy showed no fear on his face.
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