Chapter 835: Core Members Tournament 12With that over and done with, Draco closed the portal and returned to his meditation. While he and Eva were both interested in watching the fight between Umbra''s core members, solidifying their bloodline breakthrough and reaching level 1 ''mastery'' of their new power was paramount.
Before that, they did not dare to use any of their bloodline powers, forced to stick to in old Bloodline Energy. Using raw energy to attack, instead of processing it into something more capable, was obviously a crass and ugly method of attack that would normally be far beneath them, yet it was far better than identally blowing up Boundless World.
The core members simrly settled down once Hera respawned among them, looking aloof as usual. It would take more than this to break this kuudere loli, and that made many sigh with relief. However, as friends of Hera, Sublime, Keira and Lucia couldn''t help but re at Tunder.
The fellow simply smiled and walked over to cate thedies with some words and promises while the next fight went on.
10th Battle: Tunder wins!
11th Battle: Cobra vs Happy Schr, begin!
Cobra leapt onto the stage dexterously, facing off against a silent Happy Schr whose expression was not too good. After all, everyone knew Cobra was the second strongest among the Five Generals in terms of potential, talent and skill, right after Kiran.
Admittedly, Rina was strong, but take away the staff that had allowed her to ss Up into a Divine ss, then what is she?
While the two faced off, intellectuals with 1 billion IQ naturally would want to know their improved ss details.
Naturally.
?yer - Legendary ss (Rank 4)
Skills: Blood World (Active), Blood Clones (Active).
Exp gain rate: 70%
Rank up difficulty: 50%
ss weapons: Any small
ss skills: Any assassin?
?Blood World – Active skill
Effect: Submerge an area of 1 kilometer around the user in a domain of blood, where the same substance within the body of all enemies is forcibly drawn out if they are one Rank below the user, or disturbed to varying degrees if they are at the same Rank and above that of the user.
Duration: 1 hour
Cooldown: 1 day.?
?Blood Clones – Active skill
Effect: Create two clones made of blood spawned from yourself or your enemy. Blood clones possess 40% of your HP, stats and power, but take 120% more damage. Theyst until they are destroyed.
Cooldown: 1 hour.?
?Rune Grandmaster - Legendary ss (Rank 4)
Skills:
Rank 1: Rune Mastery (Passive), Battle Enchanting (Passive), Word of Power (Active), Written Word (Active)
Rank 2: Knowledge Rune (Active), Wisdom Rune (Active)
Rank 3: Immacte Writing (Passive), Legendary Source Origin (Passive)
Rank 4: Instant Rune (Active), Special Rune (Active)
Exp gain rate: 110%
Rank up difficulty: 35%
ss weapons: None.
ss skills: Any Rune.?
?Rune Mastery – Passive skill
Effect: As a Rune Grandmaster, you naturally possess ess to the Rune God''s Tome of Runes, though yours is only a clone. Still, this allows you to use any and all the Runes within the tome to their fullest abilities.?
?Battle Enchanting – Passive skill
Effect: You are of the same breed as a Tradeskill Enchanter, but have honed your craft not for imbuing runes into items, but generating them out of thin air itself. Mana is used to empower Runes and allows them to have life.?
?Word of Power – Active skill
Effect: Speak out a selected word and turn it into a Rune that will affect its literary meaning upon a foe. The effectiveness of this varies per word chosen, the strength of the enemy and the amount of mana invested into the skill.
Cooldown: 30 seconds.?
?Written Word – Active skill
Effect: Write down a word or phrase that will be a single Rune, affecting itself in reality to perform what it states. The effectiveness of this depends on the circumstances, the amount of mana divulged to the spell and the length of the phrase.
Cooldown: 45 seconds.?
?Knowledge Rune – Active skill
Effect: Eject a Rune from your memories that works in tandem with other offensive of defensive runes to increase their effects. The amount of increment depends on the amount of mana invested.
Cooldown: 1 minute.?
?Wisdom Rune – Active skill
Effect: Manually craft a Rune with any effect. The Rune works based on the parameters described and its effectiveness will be based solely on the amount of mana ced within.
Cooldown: 3 minutes.?
?Immacte Writing – Passive skill
Effect: You have mastered the ability to write upon reality itself, using the world as a canvas for your Runes to have existence. All rune casting is now instant and possess 300% more power while requiring 70% less resources to cast.?
?Legendary Source Origin – Passive skill
Effect: You have gained a unique Legendary Source Origin due to your experiments in rune work. You can now supply Runes with mana or Worldly Energy ambient in the world. However, all Runes powered by Worldly Energy require 1,000% more cast time and are 400% weaker than mana-infused runes.?
?Instant Rune – Active skill
Effect: Immediately create a Rune with energy filled up to the parameters you''ve set. The Rune is subject to the usual limitations, but its power is truly one to behold.
Cooldown: 1 day.?
?Special Rune – Active skill
Effect: Craft a unique Rune that is fixed to this skill, and can be used repeatedly as long as there is enough mana or Worldly Energy present. The cooldown of this skill is decided by the attached rune.
Attached Rune: Barrier.
Cooldown: 5 seconds.?
Cobra immediately entered his Extreme Stealth, disappearing from the senses of everyone without bloodlines. Tier 3 or Tier 4 Control alone was not enough to to detect him, as thebination of his yer ss and his own use of his pinnacle Tier 3 Control allowed him to negate the power of Control against stealth.
Happy Schr knew that the moment Cobra disappeared, his life was on countdown, so he first activated his Special Rune: Barrier!
A crisp blue barrier appeared around him made of 3% of his mana reserves. It should be obvious, but his ss allocation mostly favored his Spirit stat, and all his equipment possessed enchantments that increased either his mana pool, mana regen or lowered his mana costs.
Happy Schr was likely the only core member with more raw mana than even Eva, and that was a great achievement!
However, just having mana wasn''t enough, because Runes were reality bending magic. To bend reality, the kind of energy needed was massive, and it could be seen from how Eva usually strained to do so herself.
Relying on just huge mana to bend reality freely was impossible, so Happy Schr was not as overpowered as he could have been if he had an ''infinite mana'' skill like Draco and Eva did.
However, he had still invested quite a bit into the barrier, which instantly deformed as Cobra struck from behind Happy Schr the very next second. The barrier took severe damage but did not break, granting the Rune Grandmaster the opportunity to retaliate!
Word of Power: Armor!
Written Word: Fog!
Instant Rune: True Sight!
First, Happy Schr coated himself in a set of ethereal armor that draped over his typical mage-like robes, then filled the arena with a thick fog that could not be seen through easily, but still allowed the VoPs of thebatants and onlookers to view the scene.
He then gave himself True Sight, which did not allow him to break Cobra''s Extreme Stealth since that would be too broken, but allowed him to perfectly see through the fog.
The byproduct of all this was that Happy Schr now had a bit more protection on his fragile life, able to make our Cobra''s outline roughly through the fog. Extreme Stealth was not the same as disappearing visually, but also disappearing from all other five senses.
Nevertheless, it was a far cry from the Ultima Sunt''s Perfect Stealth which made one totally invisible to all forms of senses until the Ultima Sunt struck first. That was just one of the reasons why even Origin Gods felt fear towards this race.
It didn''t matter what kind of power you had, if you fell into the range of an Ultima Sunt''s Perfect Stealth, you would not see them until they got in a free sucker punch.
That King fellow had only died to Draco because the retard had allowed his hatred for Draco to manifest. His Dark Angel side had instantly sensed that, allowing him to pinpoint the general area where King had been hiding.
There had been no need to see King, Draco had simply continued swinging at the air around King because he knew something had to be there that was feeding him hate. Eventually, he used the air currents that brushed off King''s body from his actions to finally decapitate the fellow.
Truth be told, to this day fuckboy Draco did not appreciate just how lucky he had been that King was a a retard and that he had coincidentally unlocked his bloodline at the time. The Flora and Fauna Quest would have been 10,000% times harder and more stress inducing had King escaped that day and the plot followed its natural course.
Likewise, Happy Schr was using every means he could to negate the Extreme Stealth which was Cobra''s biggest advantage. However, he was surprised when the yer suddenly appeared before him with azy posture, smiling inly.
"You do realize that I am not just a suped up Assassin, right? The depth of my abilities surpass just crouch walking while invisible." Cobra teased.
Suddenly, Happy Schr felt the aura of death upon him. He only understood how much he had fucked up when Cobra had opened his mouth. He hadpletely forgotten the exra set of powers that made his opponent into something akin to a Sanguinemancer, with the ability to manipte blood to a certain degree!
Happy Schr smiled bitterly as he coughed out a huge wad of blood, feeling the blood within his body suddenly reverse its flow and be chaotic. He no longer had the capacity to cast runes, trying to use his Tier 3 Body of Godliness to control his blood flow and regte it properly.
This actually proved extremely fruitful, as Tier 3 and above Body of Godliness gave elementary control over blood flow in the body to regte healing, among other things. This greatly weakened Cobra''s ss'' power, but one had to remember, this was a battlefield, not a party.
Thepse of focus Happy Schr used to correct his blood flow was more than enough time for Cobra to stab him a hundred times over with his level of speed. Happy Schr could only sigh at being turned into a sieve as his body exploded into blood mist after Cobra elerated his blood flow to uneptable degrees.
11th Battle: Cobra wins!
12th Battle: Gentle Flower vs Shadowheart, begin!
Gentle Flower smiled softly as she floated onstage, her body radiating an aura of purity and freshness that could leave anyone of both sexes extremely pleased.
On the other side, Shadowheart slowly walked up the stage with his staff in hand, casually fixing his suave suit with his ck cloak billowing behind him. Coupled with his immacte goatee, slicked back ck hair and sharp ck eyes, he looked like a powerful Count reincarnated into the modern day.
Gentle Flower greeted Shadowheart with a pleasant smile. "Greetings, Sir Shadowheart. Let''s have an enjoyable fight."
Shadowheart smiled politely, ever the gentleman. "It would be my pleasure, beautiful Miss Gentle Flower."
Gentle Flower had already possessed a Legendary ss from the onset, but paired up with Shadowheart who had both his bloodline and his Divine ss, the female Guildmaster knew she was facing an impossible task.
Yet like those that came before, she was determined to scale this wall and scrape her knees on it, for it was the only way to prove her mettle and establish where she stood on the scale of power!
Shadowheart responded to Gentle Flower''s determination by allowing her to maximize the use of her power before he crushed herpletely. She was allowed to maintain her dignity of course, but she needed to understand the gap in power before she made a mistake in future and thought she could actually match up to someone of his level.