Chapter 199: Raid

DISCLAIMER: This story is NOT MINE IN ANY WAY. That honor has gone to the attractive bastard Ryuugi. This has been pulled from his Spacebattles publishment at threads/rwby-the-gamer-the-games-we-play-disk-five.341621/. Anyway on with the present…err learn.

Raid

Your stage has elevated by one! Your stage has elevated by one! Your stage has elevated by one! Your stage has elevated by one! Your stage has elevated by one! Your stage has elevated by one! Your stage has elevated by one! Your stage has elevated by one! Your stage has elevated by one!

By elevating Thunderbolt to stage 99, you will have gained the ability ‘Vajra.’

By elevating Far Slayer to stage 99, you will have gained the ability ‘Grass Cutter.’

By elevating Detect Life to stage 99, you will have gained the ability ‘Detect Organism.’

By elevating Longshot to stage 99, you will have gained the ability ‘Attain.’

By elevating Delusory to stage 99, you will have gained the ability ‘Fantasy.’

You used Bai Hu’s Roar with out the ability. Your Mastery has improved by 10%.

Home windows appeared earlier than my eyes one after one other, however I may barely spare the time to acknowledge them as I danced between the onslaught of assaults beside my workforce. Part of me questioned if this was one other check on Malkuth’s half or the pure results of drawing a lot consideration, however both manner, I wasn’t fairly keen to again down yetnot even in opposition to an enemy like this.

The Descending Terror

Stage 159

Humbaba

The creature that stood earlier than me was monstrousmade all of the extra so by what it was supposedly primarily based on. Whereas most specifies of Grimm had been primarily based, in some sense, upon animals or different organisms, the Humbaba had been one of many few Grimm that had been thought-about to be primarily based, at the very least partly, on people. I wasn’t solely sure who’d made that decision, but it surely was a bit arduous to see the place they had been coming from, now that I may see it for myself.

Within the vaguest sense, I suppose its chest was just like that of a person’s, however that was the place the similarities ended. It is arms had been just like the twisted claws of a Nemean, if with considerably longer ‘fingers’. Its legs had been like these of a Nevermore, solely armored extra closely, for the entire of its physique was coated in layers of spiked scales. From its again grew a pair of snakes, one pitch black and the opposite pure white, as if somebody had sown each ends of a King Taijitu to its tail bone.

However by far its most annoying function was its head, which was misshapen and undefined. Reasonably than having something entire, it is head was a tangled mass of thick ‘strings’, like soiled rags or an individual’s entrails. Two crimson eyes glowed from inside the shadows of the issues head and a pair of horns rose from mass, catching a number of strands. All advised, calling the factor ‘humanlike’ was an excessive exaggeration.

Its energy, nevertheless, was simple. It had fallen upon us abruptly after I might unleashed the ability of my Gentle Elementalof my soulto stage every part round me and slaughter numerous Grimm. Although that transient glimpse of energy had been exhausting, all that had remained was a subject of scorched earth, cleansed of the contact of the Grimm. I might seared away all traces of the creatures, right down to the roots of the Lotus Eaters, and slaughtered hundreds, granting me my stage ups within the course of.

After which the Humbaba had appeared within the midst of the clearing. For all that it was a great ten tales in top, it had moved rapidly sufficient that another person might need thought it had teleported, and had struck out at me without delay.

Within the face of that assault, I might instantly triggered the second of my contingencies, utilizing a maximized heal I stored saved with Patientia and returning to full a second earlier than the assault may hit me. Given the harm it had dealt, I knew I might made the appropriate transfer and that the Humbaba’s status wasn’t only for present. I might instantly thought-about retreating, as properly.

ButJericho Falls was full of beasts like thisones, in all probability, far stronger than a Humbaba wandering the sides of Grimm. Might I run away with out even making an attempt?

No. SoI was making an attempt.

We had been making an attempt. As Raven opened a portal to my aspect, Gou leapt by means of without delay, energy flowing by means of him. Benefitting from his connection to me, he’d elevated his Vitality once more lately, deepening his energy. Although the Humbaba had a number of dozen ranges on him, Gou’s specialization was nothing to sneeze at, particularly when backed up by my very own expertise, and he was fast to develop to the scale of a Goliath and rampage throughout the battlefield together with his easy, monolithic may. The Humbaba searing blasts of energy from the gaps of his face, a gradual stream of energy that melted away chunks of my canine’s flesh, but it surely wasn’t sufficient to cease him and I healed him with each strike.

“Oh,” I agreed with a smile. “We made some first rate progress right this moment. Even you gained a stage, Raven.”

“Hm?” She voiced earlier than following Adam’s lead. “Ah. So I’ve.”

Raven Branwen

LV 174

I nonetheless could not see the extent above her head, however my Social gathering window was nonetheless open and I might seen the progress she’d made after the Humbaba’s defeat. Or fairly, even after all of the creatures we would defeated, she’d solely gotten a single levelI suppose it could not be helped given how highly effective she already was; if something, we should always in all probability be grateful. She will need to have been comparatively near leveling as much as start with, so far as my energy was involved.

Nonetheless

“It is not a lot,” I stated apologetically. “However hopefully it is of some use to you. As we struggle stronger opponents, you must be capable of get extra out of it, however thanks for aiding us to date.”

“There isn’t any have to thank me,” She replied. “I’ve had fairly a little bit of issue enhancing myself as of late, so I am grateful for no matter positive factors I obtain. Ratheram I actually that a lot greater leveled then you definately? I could not be sure till now, however I am unable to say I take into account you weaker than me.”

“That is sort of you to say,” I replied, smiling at her. “Due to the character of my energy, my ranges are calculated in another way from everybody else’s and my energy is tied extra to my expertise then my stats. Nonetheless, it is good to enhance each at any time when possibleand enhancing them considerably comes with its personal benefits. Talking of which, pardon me for a second.”

Absently calling up my standing web page, my eyes instantly dropped to my stats. Due to the simultaneous enchancment to my searching grounds and to the quantity of expertise I obtained, I might gained an infinite quantity of ranges in a significantly brief quantity of timeenough to enhance two stats of my selection by fifty. Useless to remain, I might stick to what I already knew labored and enhance my Intelligence and Knowledge once more. It had solely been a brief period of time since my final enchancment, butwell, I suppose it was arduous to complain about getting too many ranges.

I began with Knowledge, not that it made a lot distinction ultimately. Due to the abilities I already possessed, enhancing Knowledge additionally improved the quantity of expertise I gained, on prime of the enhancements to my MP regeneration. With the assistance of my latest INT expertise particularly, my MP regen had improved much more considerably, and whereas this addition could be comparatively minor in comparison with what I already had, it wasn’t something to sneeze at eitherand each bit helped, particularly once I was making an attempt to grind so many alternative issues on the identical time. With that in thoughts, I raised my Knowledge rapidly and waited for a wave of screens to look.

However even after a number of seconds handed, nothing occurred.

My coronary heart fell like a rock. Was it as I might feared, then? Once I’d seen the transformation Gou had underwent by massively enhancing his Vitality, I might questioned about my very own limitsif I would hit a degree the place I may not acquire expertise just by elevating my stats, just because I might already discovered so many. All my stat-related expertise had been particular, issues that both a uncommon few individuals had been born with or else issues that had been obtained by means of nice research, effort, or enlightenment. Mixed with the steadily rising variety of expertise I bought at every milestone, it stood to purpose that as I took my stats greater and better, to locations that few had ever reached, I might finally attain a stage the place both there have been no extra such expertise to get or begin receiving much less highly effective talents.

I might already famous to myself how tough it was to enhance Knowledge naturallywithout the factors I obtained by leveling up, I used to be pretty positive I might by no means have been capable of increase it as excessive as I did. What number of different individuals had damaged the 300 barrier, in my Semblance’s eyes? Whereas anybody may develop stronger with sufficient coaching, rising wiser was a completely totally different factor. Whereas I would not say that most individuals had low Knowledge, it was uncommon to have a substantial amount of it; moreover myself, I might by no means met anybody with over 100 factors in it. On condition that, it was potential that I might merely reached the restrict of what may very well be obtained from the stat, as I might feared I’d.

Not that it wasn’t nonetheless helpful, for the advance to my MP and development. It is simply thatwell, in comparison with the eleven expertise I might been hoping for, it was arduous to not really feel left down. I would not fairly name it a waste of factors, particularly because the solely manner I might have recognized was by making an attempt, butwell, I felt a contact of remorse. Ability factors had been one thing that, as soon as spent, I could not get again and each was priceless. Whereas I may all the time acquire extra ranges, every was tougher to achieve than the final and whereas I used to be enhancing swiftly now that I used to be in a brand new space and will proceed to take action for some time, I might decelerate once more finally. These fifty factors I would just used may have been spent elsewhere; even when they had been decrease and yielded much less expertise then my psychological stats had lately, I nonetheless may have gotten 5 expertise from considered one of my bodily stats or one thing.

After which there was my Intelligence. Ought to I attempt to enhance it as properly, having seen the dearth of outcomes from Knowledge? It wasn’t unattainable that Knowledge had a decrease ‘cap’ for expertise due to how arduous it was to enhance; even within the days of Babel the place the Angels and Archangels pressed the bounds of what was humanly potential, I feel Historical past proved that Knowledge had been in comparatively brief provide. Intelligence, howeverthere may have been nice geniuses and masters who’d obtained nice heights, particularly contemplating the developments I might heard of from that age. It is not as if enhancing INT did not had advantages in and of itself; since my MP regen was proportion primarily based, any enchancment to my numerical MP additionally improved the quantity I regained per secondto say nothing of the various, many expertise I had that improved together with my Intelligence.

Hell, most of my MP expertise had been INT primarily based and would develop considerably from such a lift. On condition that, should not I enhance it as properly? On the very least, it might show whether or not the dearth of expertise from Knowledge was a one-time factor or not, which was crucial data to have. In some ways, the abilities I obtained from enhancing my stats had been my best weapons and I wanted each one I may get. If I used to be going to struggle Malkuth especiallyif there have been eleven INT expertise ready for me and I prevented them as a result of I used to be afraid, it wasn’t one thing I may simply really feel foolish aboutit may very properly be the deciding issue between victory and defeat.

However on the identical time, if I used 100 factors and bought nothing out of it however a stat enhance, I might remorse it. I knew I might be spending the factors regardless, as a result of I could not afford to not know, however I nonetheless closed my eyes for a second and hoped.

Then I added fifty extra factors to my Intelligence and waited. For a beat, nothing occurred once more and I felt my coronary heart drop furtherbut then a window appeared.

By means of super enchancment of your information and understanding, you will have reached the head of your psychological abilitiesand on the summit, lastly understood the best of mysteries. By elevating each INT and WIS above 300, you will have unlocked the best of secrets and techniques and obtained the ability ‘Arcana.’

Huh? I blinked on the phrases on the display in shock earlier than feeling one thing hit me like a lightning bolt. Even because the ability’s window opened and revealed its contents, I understood the reality.

That is?