Chapter 121: Mage Hunters

Chapter 121: Mage Hunters

It's been already a few hours, and while running and avoiding the revenants' attacks, I was able to level up once by burning a group of Rottenfang vermin. I invested the gained stat points into constitution.

Hey, it's something, isn't it? But at the state I'm in, it feels like pouring a glass of water and hoping to save your house from burning down.

I'll die if this continues much longer. That's something I can say with certainty.

If I don't find Lily or if there won't be a healing aura, I'll die even if I get rid of the Templar Revenant that blocks me from strengthening my body.

My body is just that ruined.

Broken bones, bloodied left arm, a few stab and slash wounds from the Rogue Revenant. Pathways, muscles, and insides ruined by my creation of constructs and by my careless use of Kinetic Mana heart.

The state I'm in won't disappear after I rest for few hours. Strengthening my body to ignore it won't heal it either. So what is the solution?

Obviously, it's more abuse.

More mana flows inside my body, and I loosen my regulators, getting more energy out of my heart, and I seemingly carelessly handle bursts of mana that flow through my body.

If I have to die, I won't go down like a slowly dying candle. I'll burn like a wildfire.

The speed I'm moving at is now even quicker than ever before. I propel myself, I boost my legs to dash fast, while in the air I propel myself once more, my seemingly bottomless mana easily handling all of it.

Once in a while, a disruptive skill hits me, and a few times I crash down to the ground, barely strengthening my body against the impacts or absorbing energy from my fall, only to push myself again up and running.

The two monsters continue to track me with ease and even after I put some distance between us. Every time I stagger and slow down, they are there punishing me with a few more wounds or by making my mana clash inside my body.

But I'm improving.

While I push my body to the point of breaking, my skills break through as well. I [Focus] as much as never before. Turning the world around me into black and white colors where only mana shines brilliantly.

[Focus - lvl 30 > Focus - lvl 31]

I grab my mana every time the Templar Revenant disrupts it and I force it under my control, reducing the impact it has on my body. I also continue to try to fight against the monster's skill.

[Mana Manipulation - lvl 31 > Mana Manipulation - lvl 32]

I keep boosting mana inside my body, making it flow faster and stronger to do as much as possible in the time when the Templar Revenant's skill isn't affecting me.

[Mana Surge - lvl 16 > Mana Surge - lvl 18]

How much blood does a human have? And how much of it can I ignore with my now inhumanly strong body when compared to a normal human?

Also, I'm tired, so tired.

While running and jumping from roof to roof, avoiding two jerks hunting me and killing some monsters once in a while, I keep wanting to just sit there and give up.

Everything would be better than this, wouldn't it? I just need to stop for a bit and it will all stop, I did enough.

Yup, such and similar nonsense goes through my head. But who am I? Why would I give up now? I didn't even reach my goal, I didn't even see what there is to see. There is so much more to do.

So yeah, I better get my act together and stop sobbing. Just push through like you always did, filter out useless thoughts and focus.

And keep going.

I leveled up one more time and invested my stats into dexterity for the first time. As expected, it didn't help much, but I tried it.

I also tried to kill the Templar Revenant one more time, this time again the Rogue swapped place with him using some sort of skill to do so. I partially expected it and still wasn't able to finish the guy.

My reward is one more wound.

Then I finished another Side quest:Kill 600 enemies

I ate the little food I got and drank the water and as a reward, I picked a javelin, thinking that a physical weapon might work.

I did throw it with the full power of my body and boosted it with [Redistribution]. The weapon broke against the Templar Revenant's armor.

The system did not disappoint. The common rarity weapon was as bad as expected.

And these two, don't they have anything better to do? Just leave and go hunt Sophie or something. Now I'm also curious how the heck are others alive when there are jerks like these two around.

So yeah, just go and hunt others. But don't worry, after I become a bit stronger I'll come back and destroy you. Oh, I will totally not let this go.

Unsurprisingly, the duo continues to go after me and even after stretching my [Perception] as far as possible, I don't feel others.

The only thing that changes are the houses that become nicer and nicer, some of them now even with walls dyed in colors and there are no roads made from dirt anymore. All are made with cobblestones and I'm not sure, but I think I see a higher tower far in the distance.

It's hard to say if there is some ambient healing aura but that's it, as I pass and notice a few marks that point towards the hideout the natives told us how to identify, I decide to finally risk it.

Mana floods my body and for the last time, I turn and dash towards the annoying duo so used to hunting mages.Ñøv€l--ß1n hosted the premiere release of this chapter.