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Chapter 39: Helping out
🕑 Added 2024-10-10 16:16:35 +0000 UTCThalion jumped on the top of a tall tree and then used his new ability, mistform, and shot with incredible speed in the air. After a short time, he was over 800 meters above the ground.
He deactivated the spell that had cost half his mana and summoned a mana barrier under his feet to get a good look around.
In the south, he saw a giant ocean. It has to be one this time since there were meter-high waves crashing at the beach.
On it, he saw some kind of swimming palace that looked so much more expensive than the last one of the blue robes he invaded. This most likely were different people, he concluded.
Then there was the jungle everywhere. To the west, he saw a giant white tower reaching at the sky, probably that Steven guy.
In the north did the mountains begin, and from them flowed a river through the jungle, with grassland surrounding the river until it entered the ocean.
He even spotted a big flying creature taking flight from the grassland. It looked like a griffin, identify sadly didn't work at such a distance.
To his delight, Thalion noticed a lot of trees that were blackened, which should be a nice meal for the umbral predator.
He finished his little Scouting session and was about to go down when he noticed that his mana was full.
That was insane; the combined recovery from the amulet and the sanguine thorn was just too strong. He might be able to hunt birds with this recovery.
But first he would feast on the black plants down there. They should increase his affinity for darkness and after that, he wanted to pay those mountains a visit. Maybe some big flying creature lives there waiting with Thalion’s new flying form.
Back on earth, eagles were the strongest predators from above, and they had their nest in the highest position, so if there were some strong flying predators, they should live on the top of those mountains.
He activated mistform and in a moment he was back on the ground watching how his mana pool recovered.
The recovery was so fast that being out of mana was basically impossible for him if he didn't use mistform all the time.
Next, he transformed into the umbral predator and quickly moved through the jungle.
It took him longer than expected to arrive at the black trees.
Shadowbark Tree Level 37
The best of those trees were not only the black plants growing on them. Between them also grew many black flowers.
Black Hellebore Level 32
Night Ivy Level 34
Moonflower Level 29
He used abyssal devourer and tentacles made from darkness shot out from his body, devouring everything in close proximity except the trees.
Some plants tried to fight back by shooting thorns, but Thalion just ignored the damage which was healed in seconds and their poison couldn’t really affect him at all.
After devouring over 50 plants, he felt full and had to stop. Thalion waited in his human form until he had digested all the plans as umbral predator. This luckly worked even when he was in a different form. In the meantime, he experimented with his spells. He tried to form the fireball into different shapes but sadly didn't succeed. In doing so, he could create small edges on the burning ball, but that was it.
Then he switched to some sword fighting with the help of the scroll he had permanently borrowed from a blue noble.
That was how he spent the next two days eating away the plants and the additional training when he was full.
From time to time, groups of survivors passed by, but he ignored them. They wouldn't bring much credits anyway, so not worth the trouble.
His senses were so sharp, even in his human form, that he could evade the survivors easily.
From all the eating, he had reached level 29 as human and as umbral predator.
He put the free points from his human form in wisdom and the free points from his other form into dexterity.
It was midday, and he tried to learn the second attack form for his sword, which contains three very quick swings and ends in a stab to quickly overpower his enemy.
The scroll of the blue robe swordsman has proven more useful than he could have imagined.
Then he heard a clash in the distance. There were a few these days, but he ignored them most of the time, completely focusing on himself.
But now he could use a bit of distraction. He wanted to test his sword skill in battle, and with that, he transformed into mist and shot with incredible speed through the jungle.
After a few moments, he reached the battle and ended the spell. Both groups were looking at him in surprise as he appeared on the clearing.
One was one of four humans most likely from earth. The other one were blue robes.
And there were much more blue robes than humans, which made the fight pretty lobsided, with already two humans being captured in some kind of water bubble.
They tried to swim out, but it did not seem to work for them in those water prisons.
One of the blue robes instantly attacked him with a spear. Thalion summoned his mana blade and dashed to the side, unleashing a mana slash at the two mages who were currently drowning the two humans.
The spearman had dashed after him, and his spear glowed in a blue light when he stabbed forward, but Thalion was too fast and moved to the side, stabbed at the leg of the man, turning the stab into a swing while rotating around, which was the first form he learned from the scroll.
His attack was fast and precise and cut open the leg of the man and inflicted a deep cut on the man's side.
The man screamed in pain, and from the left were two arrows incoming, but Thalion blocked them with a mana barrier while swinging at the man, cutting his head cleanly off.
The two humans who were captured in the water prison came free as the mages turned their attention onto Thalion. The former prisoners arrived at the ground with a wet splash dropped on the ground while vomiting water all over the place.
The four humans were heavy warriors only, and the two heavy warriors still standing were defending their comrades who were trying to get some air with their shields. One of them was throwing a stone attack at one of the water mages, but it had no effect since the mage blocked it with ease.
Thalion had to speed up with the four barley hanging on, and still 10 blue robes left consist of two archers and eight water mages, but they must have different classes since their fighting styles differed a lot.
Anyway, there were a lot of ice shards flying his way, and although two arrows made of water were coming for him.
He decided to go for the many mages first. His incredible speed and reflexes allowed him to dodge between the ice shards.
The arrows completely missed since the archers probably thought he would block again with his barrier.
He unleashed a mana slash with his blade at the mages stacked with mana, so it was not simple to block, and before the spell could hit, he stomped on the ground with tectonic slam.
The effect of tectonic slam was not as good as back in his glowhorn form when he only stomped with his foot, but it was strong enough to let the mages lose their footing for a moment.
Which ended in most barriers failing while the mana slash completely ripped through the last ones and four of the mages.
Thalion turned and moved now to the archers with telekinetic dash. They had two arrows already locked and shot them at Thalion, who in turn deflected one with his blade and with a fast step to the side, dodged the second one.
With one dash, he appeared before the archers, deeply cutting the first one with a swing. His comrade reacted fast by pulling out a small dagger and stabbing at Thalion.
Thalion in turn summoned a mana barrier to shield him from the mages who were already conjuring spells behind him and attacked the archer with his sword.
The man with the dagger probably never had used it before, as he just stabed forward over and over. Thalion had hoped to learn something new, but at least he could try out the second form from the scroll, which he spent perfecting the last day.
Within a second, the archer was dead, after Thalion had perfectly doged a stab and cut the man in two with a fluid motion. Now only three mages remained.
He had gone for the archer since those classes tend to be very fast and he didn't want to chase them for long. What if they had a good movement skill? It could take hours to catch them.
The mages in panic threw skill after skill at him. He used the ice shards and the water bubbles thrown at him fully for his training.
He cut or deflected the ice shards to the side with his blade, or if it was too much, dodged it with a sidestep.
He wasn't using any movement skills anymore to focus more on his footing and skill with the sword, or in his case, the mana blade.
He got hit by some ice shards burring in his flash, but he took the trait. When do you have the opportunity to train like this anyway?
After he had crossed half the distance and the spells of the mages grew weaker, he decided to end it. Thalion activated his movement skill and dashed between the mages, his blade swinging.
In moments, the fight was over with one mage alive for questioning. He was intrigued if that guy was from that giant water palace.
Williams day sucked. First, they were hunting those horses through the jungle, then they got ambushed by those humans from the other planet, and next when everything was lost, the man in the black robe appeared, killing those who had toyed with them with such ease it was incredible.
His reflexes, the skill with the sword, the power in his spells, and the pure speed in which he acted were just too much. How did he get that strong?
The last mage was trying to throw a spell at him, and the man just dodged and cut both of the mages hands off, who went down screaming.
Where is your castle now?" Thalion asked the mage on the ground.
"I am not telling you anything earth scum," the man snorted at him.
Thalion never tortured someone, but the theory was to simply inflict pain on the person without killing them, and this is what Thalion tried when he stabbed the man slowly through his shoulder. He could have used some of his blood skills, but he didn't want the four survivors who were watching him to know all his abilities.
So, he slowly stabbed the mage until he told him that he was from the blue palace. Which was controlled by the great princess Seraphina, who got blessed by some water goddess.
The man didn't know more, so Thalion ended his life after storing all corpses and their belongings in his special ring. He turned back to the four heavy warriors, who were back on their feed again.
They were all of a higher level than him, but still, they would have no chance in a fight. Just the buff from the amulet, the sanguine thorn, plus the mythic class, gave him such an advantage that it wouldn’t even be close.
"Thank you for the help. I am William”, one of the heavy warriors said with a small bow.
"No problem, good luck in the tutorial," Thalion said while turning around. He didn't know those people, and it was important that he ate more of those plants to improve his affinity for darkness as umbral predator anyway. If the four were no pushovers, they would be fine.
"Wait, are you part of a camp? If not, our leader is Steven, an incredible, strong warrior even stronger than you," the man said quickly. You could come with us. We can use someone with your abilities.
"Thank you for the invitation. Maybe at a later point, for now I have things to do. Good hunting," with those words, he disappeared in the jungle. He had no intention of becoming part of a camp. At the moment, Thalion enjoyed being out in the wild jungle on his own.
"What a mess, one of the other heavy warriors said while getting back on his feet. Steven definitely wouldn’t be happy."
The others nodded in agreement while turning and hurrying back to the fortress.
