SSS Awakening: I Can Class Change at will - Chapter 368 Fighting The Spirit [3]
Chapter 368 Fighting The Spirit [3]
Moon did not waste the opportunity to attack the weak spirit. Although he didn’t have enough mana for another Thunderclap Raiju, he had other powerful skills to use.
He channeled [Ignite] through his staff. The C-Rank Elemental Staff in his grip, amplifying the spell as fire gathered at the crystal’s tip. The fireball that formed was bigger than anything he had produced barehanded, dense and roaring with heat.
He sent it hurtling toward the spirit.
At the same time, Mirage’s right eye flared purple. The doppelganger split from his body and broke into a sprint toward the spirit. Across the clone’s hide, a series of runes glowed with building intensity. Fewer than the first time, Moon’s mana reserves couldn’t afford the same payload, nor did he have enough runes left to do so.
But it was still enough to do serious damage at close range.
The spirit saw both attacks coming through Its bleeding eyes.
But seeing didn’t save it. After all, It couldn’t dodge both.
~BOOM~
The fireball struck first, engulfing the spirit in a roaring inferno that sent it staggering backward.
~BOOM~
The doppelganger detonated a heartbeat later, the runes erupting point blank against the spirit’s already burning body. The second explosion tore through the fire and smoke, shaking the ground hard enough to crack the stone beneath it.
The double explosions ripped through the clearing one after the other. A column of smoke and fire shot upward, thick enough to blot out the sky above them. Debris rained down across the scorched earth, chunks of rock and dirt clattering against the ground like hail.
Isabelle watched it all from where she knelt.
Her body was broken. The death debuff sat heavy on her limbs, her side still ached from where the spirit’s dagger had cut her, and her stamina was completely spent. She couldn’t have lifted her staff if her life depended on it.
But her eyes were alive.
They burned with a fire that had nothing to do with the inferno consuming the spirit’s body. Every wound it had given her, every moment it had toyed with her, every second she had spent running for her life while it followed at a leisurely pace, all of it poured into the expression on her face.
Amazement, happiness and spite glinted in her eyes.
“Die, you filthy vermin!” She screamed from the top of her lungs, her voice raw and cracking. “Die!”
The flames swallowed the spirit’s silhouette whole. Its body buckled, then crumbled, consumed by the combined devastation of fire and runes.
It didn’t get back up. Moon’s eyes narrowed, the spirit was still there.
It was on its knees, both arms hanging limp at its sides. Its bodysuit had been almost entirely burned away but it was breathing.
“This spirit is still not dead.” Moon muttered, the disbelief evident in his voice. “Even after all of that.”
Isabelle’s triumphant expression froze. Her eyes went wide as she stared at the kneeling figure in the smoke.
Moon didn’t waste time on shock. He was already gathering what little mana he had left, pulling it together from the deepest reserves in his body. It wasn’t much, but it would probably get the job done.
He channeled [Ignite] through his staff. The fireball that formed at the tip was smaller than the previous one. But at this range, against a target that could barely hold itself upright, it didn’t need to be his best.
It just needed to be the last.
Moon released it.
The fireball streaked across the clearing and swallowed the spirit whole. The explosion rang out once more, and flames consumed the spirit’s broken body for the last time.
[You have killed the Level 32 0-Star Spirit]
[You have gained 200 Lives]
[You have leveled up!]
A flood of spiritual energy surged into Moon’s body. He felt it rush through him and settle into his acupoint, denser and richer than anything the wolves or the PanPig had provided. Moon’s eyes widened at the notifications. The spirit was dead, the danger had passed. But the details on the screen gave him pause.
Level 32. A full four levels above him.
In terms of raw combat power, this spirit was one of the strongest creatures Moon had ever fought. Even the Supreme Jade Turtle, for all its terrifying durability, hadn’t matched this spirit overall strength. ‘It was at the peak of 0-Star. If this is what a 0-Star spirit is capable of, how strong are 1-Star spirits?’
The thought sat uncomfortably in his chest for a moment before he filed it away and turned his gaze toward Isabelle.
She was on the ground. Face down, arms splayed, completely unconscious. Her body had finally given out, the death debuffs, and exhaustion catching up to her all at once.
‘She’s knocked out cold.’
Moon stared at her for a moment.
“Going to sleep with a stranger nearby… she’s too trusting.” He shook his head.
He walked to the spirit’s remains first and stored the body in his storage ring. Then he made his way back to the unconscious woman and knelt beside her. He cast [Minor Mend], then stood and turned to Mirage. The horse understood without being told. His right eye flared purple and the doppelganger split from his body once more.
Moon lifted Isabelle carefully and placed her across the real Mirage’s back, making sure she was stable enough not to slide off. Then he climbed onto the doppelganger.
The two horses began to move, side by side, carrying their riders back toward the hideout. As he rode doppelganger, Moon found that his skill had been threaded into his acupoint!
His spiritual energy had more than doubled from before. ‘Killing the spirit had provided me with more spiritual energy than all of the other beasts combined.’
The thought was surprising to say the least.
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[ Name: Moon ] [ Race: Human ] [ Class: Classless] [ Level: 29 ]
[ Lives: 48,706 ] [Super Lives: 0] [ Strength: 148 ] [ Agility: 208 ] [ Constitution: 170 ] [ Mana: 250 ] (+10 to all stats) [ Attribute Points: 0] [ Skills: Elemental Attack, Advanced Elemental Body, Tenacity, Golden Skin, Ignite, Dagger Arts, Rune Inscription, Eye of Truth, Thunderclap Raiju, Calmness, Beastmaster, Minor Mend, Purify, Stone Clasp, Heaviness, Air Step, Piercing Sword, Bird dance, Bullseye, Archery, Spear Arts, Feint] [ Talent: Grim Reaper ] [ Class Skills: Class Slot {0/1}, Life Burn]
[Beast Souls: Fire and Nature]
