Chapter 200: Shadow Dimensioner

Chapter 200: Shadow Dimensioner

“What the fuck is going on?” Havel shouted.

A soldier wearing heavy plate metal sprinted forward as if the heavy armour had no bearing on his movement.

“Havel, the shadow monsters are attacking from the rear,” The soldier said.

“Shit,” Havel spat. “They’re attacking through the bubble.”

“If they can attack through a separate dimension,” Lisa continued, “then water also has no effect on their movement.”

Havel shook his head. “I should have thought of that.” He turned to the soldier. “Have everyone camped out return to the wall. From now on, no one travels beyond what Brett can see.”

The soldier nodded and ran back to the camp grounds. Soon, everyone was ushered back to the wall. Wayfarers, Seafarers, Humanity Corps, and powerful adventurers simply looking for a landfall had their head on a swivel. Left to right, front to back, they had no idea where the monsters could pop out next.

It was the same for Brett. He had to constantly look beyond the wall, and behind them so his neck was busy.This chapter is updated by nov(e)(l)biin.com

Daniel walked over to Brett and held his shoulder. “How are you holding up?”

“Well I’ll be turning into an owl soon, but it’s better than dying, I suppose.”

Astrid, being right next to them, asked, “The ones that fled, were they all going in the same direction?”

“Pretty much,” Brett said. “What are you thinking, lass?”

“She’s thinking that they are returning all to one place,” Losef added. “It makes sense. If they weren’t together, then they would retreat in every direction. Not just one.”

Astrid nodded. It was indeed what she was thinking. Like an army, they moved together.

Brett moved his head back to the front, but the moment he did so, a scream appeared from a warrior not too far away. He was at the edge of the group, and in a flash, his body disappeared.

The warriors next to him already had their weapons brandished, but it was like their vision turned blank. They couldn’t react in time to save their friend.

“Frank!” One of them shouted, sprinted into the distance before someone else pulled him back.

“We need another plan,” Daniel said to Havel.

He responded, “If you have anything, don’t be afraid to speak your mind.”

“They are all heading in the same direction. Retreating together, it’s clear they are taking our warriors somewhere,” Daniel continued. “Whether that’s a camp of some sort, I’m not sure, but we should follow them and attack with everything we’ve got.”

“That’s a huge risk.” Havel frowned.

“Better than losing all our warriors before the big battle has even begun,” Daniel said. “But it’s your call. Stay here, defend, and lose our soldiers one by one, or risk the attack.”

Havel stopped for a moment as he gazed into the distance. His finger tapped against the magic crafted battlement as he made the tough decision. To defend, or attack.

“Yeah, if there wasn’t reality warping shadow monsters after our necks.” Rachelle tightened her grip around her new staff.

Noah controlled a huge ball of water, then fired it in the air. She followed it up with a bullet, and when they contacted each-other, the ball of water exploded into a mist.

Astrid wondered what she was doing.

“Approaching from the left–” Brett readied his blade, but the moment the words left his mouth, Noah had already acted.

A bullet of water shot through the air faster than Astrid could blink. It was followed by a stream of red, then a thud of flesh, and bones. The monster appeared, dead.

How? Astrid was shocked. Her own Intelligence was incredibly high, but even she couldn’t react that quick... unless the pirate king knew it was there herself. Astrid’s brows rose as she thought back to the use of the water spray.

Noah didn’t move her eyes from the dark alleyways. “Even if you don’t have a scouting class, everyone has their own techniques to find enemies that can’t be seen.”

Although it was just a hint, it was enough for Astrid to understand. With her high water control, she was probably telepathically connected to the water in the surrounding area. Perhaps it was her own domain, and when the monster walked through the spray of water, it let Noah know where the shadow lurker was located.

Astrid’s mind wandered. Being in the centre meant she was the safest and with Noah by her side, she could afford to.

Deciding to test something out thanks to Noah’s inspiration, Astrid connected to the matter in her surroundings. It was exactly what she did when she was ready to [Crash] it, but this time, she didn’t sweep it into a highly condensed mass.

Instead, she created little balls of loose matter that hung in the air. She made hundreds all around her, and then hundreds turned into thousands. It was the limit of what her mental capacity could afford, but it was enough for her test.

“Four o’clock,” Brett warned.

Astrid didn’t know whether Noah was aware that Astrid was testing something, but her lightning reaction to slay the monster was delayed.

In the air, despite the shadow lurker being from another dimension, it couldn’t bypass matter. It walked through one of Astrid’s mines, and her mind twitched.

She immediately [Crashed] the area where it passed. Its entire body was split apart. Its low constitution couldn’t handle the devastating attack as blood and body parts scattered the surrounding area.



You defeated a Shadow Dimensioner - Level 281!

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| Extra experience is granted for defeating an enemy many levels above!

You have Levelled up!

| Oculus Witch Level 184-> Oculus Witch Level 190

| Voidmare Level 184 -> Voidmare Level 190

You have gained 60 stat points.

| You now have 1666 Intelligence.