193 Showcase and Gardening (2)
CRACK! FSSHHH!
The hard ground broke as another of these strange creatures crawled out with a human-like movement, holding a very similar appearance to the first one that had popped out.
Then another and another and on and on…
Soon, the four were surrounded on all sides by the creatures with none but Skullius questioning what the heck these things were.
“They are Sunlight Shooters. We’re in luck. At least it won’t be as hard of a time as we thought it would,” said Stylla confidently as she drew the sword at her side.
It was a silver saber, its sharpened edge glistening under the light from the sky. The hilt with a blue, simplistic design looked quite beautiful, its sway in the hands of the lady being professional.
“Uh… Sunlight shooters?” asked Skullius with a ‘confused as flesh’ face. He then checked with his guidance field, marvelling at the fact this was the name of these monsters.
The name wasn’t the most creative but it did sum up the creatures’ abilities quite well.
Literal sunflowers with humanoid bodies that shot light projectiles from flowers they held tightly at their sides!
Skullius squinted, watching as the yellow petals and fruit at the centre which was the head of the creatures quivered in a lively way as they faced the four.
Thick green limbs extended from ripped stems with abs and toned chest pads visibly planted onto them. The creatures didn’t have the structure of arms as humans did though, as it could be seen that at the end of these muscular arms, there were tipped ends as leaves should be, curling around what was the weapons – long stemmed flowers that would coil their petals and unfurl them regularly when ready to launch projectiles.
These are what had almost gotten the better of Skullius before as they released brilliant lights akin to fire explosions.
Information about these creatures was widely known as they were categorised as very weak creatures in the bottom wrung within white Clusters.
Despite their physiques, they were actually very weak and relied on long range attacks.
Roughly 300 hundred of these things kept popping from the ground and circling the four silently, with muscle bound limbs.
“This is already proving to be an easy clear. Sunlight shooters aren’t anything to worry about. Let’s get this over with,” Bron said as he flexed his tough muscles and called mana from his core.
Skullius didn’t ask further questions about the Sunlight Shooters. As far as he was concerned, they were indeed weak.
A look from the guidance field gave the details he needed about these monsters. Most of it anyway.
The shield he had pulled out was the, The Keep shield he had bought from Frock.
He had used [Unbound] with the 1000 Null Life Essence points he had obtained after killing the Knights from the library incident to enhance it.
The enhanced version of the shield was called the Crystalline Hold, an Uncommon+ item with acceptable stats.
This was only the second time Skullius had gotten a bad roll on an item, which reminded him that [Unbound] could be less generous if it so chose.
The shield was coated in blue and white, the colours forming something similar to a bird on the face of the shield.
It didn’t have much in the way of special effects aside from absorbing impacts and spreading them in different directions in a rather visually pleasing way.
Still, Skullius saw it fit for use.
Stylla zoomed forward, lunging into the sea of Sunlight Shooters that began firing their ‘weapons’.
Bright beams of light flashed out of the flowers that they held like gatling guns, speeding towards the their targets with both heat and bright hues!
Stylla’s sword arched in the air, faint illusory streaks of running water trailing along the edges of the blade along with a blue hue along with similar counterparts that looked like tongues of fire!
After she swiped her sword once, the blue and red illusory waves of what seemed like genuine water and fire, her hand turned into a blur as in the next moment, ten Sunlight shooters were lit on fire with the sizzling of water also echoing on their bodies before they were slashed apart!
Her figure moved seamlessly through the waves of these creatures that didn’t seem to have any other game plan other than to shoot their loads!
Stylla’s application came from her family’s inherited sword technique that channelled mana in a way that mimicked the effects of water and fire. The stronger one became in practise, the more these elemental effects could be manifested through a medium such as a sword by the user.
Fore and Bron dashed in different directions as well, wrecking the Sunlight Shooters as if they were paper.
Bron’s technique was rather simple. As a Form User, a Warrior to be more specific, he honed his body to use mana for different physical effects.
He leapt with great intensity and fell like a meteor amidst the sea of Sunlight Shooters!
With a dignified look on his face, he put strength into his arm and pushed it forward towards his enemies with his three fingers extended!
The motion of his arm and hand wasn’t slow or fast, but the resulting effect, was nothing short of extraordinary.
A hazy ring with terrifying amount of power behind it pushed ahead, breaking apart tens of Sunlight Shooters as if they were made of… well….plant tissue.
The ground shattered in a continuous trail with a shockwave that ignored the thicc of the Sunlight Shooters and demolished their weapons. Then as if this wasn’t enough, a second and a third shockwave blasted out with Bron’s one move, carrying stronger forces than that of the first!
Soon, nothing remained in front of Bron exceot the corpses of his foes, green blood sprinkled over the hard surface. The bright flashes of firepower from the other beefy sunflowers didn’t do any damage to him at all!
Fore breathed lightly before facing his enemies that kept shooting at him like the fodder they were. Fore weaved through their attacks with his quick, nimble feet and set his gaze on a group of Sunlight Shooters.
His pupils constricted and instantly, a warp like effect applied on the space, covering nearly thirty Sunlight Shooters that were then pulled to a singular point in the air where they smashed against each other!
Fore increased his focus, the pulling force that drew on these monsters intensifying as they began to get crushed, being compounded against each other until they formed a large ball of green and yellow with plant limbs flailing helplessly.
The ball fell to the ground with a heavy thud, Fore not looking like he had broken even a drop of sweat.
He was a Mind Caster. A variation of Form Users that focused more on psychic strength than physical strength. Fore himself wasn’t of the belief that physical strength was to be neglected completely in the pursuit of mental supremacy like many Mind Casters, which was why he was so nimble.
He had achieved this through intense practise, not wanting to put all his eggs in one basket.
His mental abilities were not very powerful, but he was more interested in reaching a balance between his mental and physical capacities, thus he carried a sword with him.
Skullius watched with a sagely nod of his head.
‘They are strong. Especially Stylla…’ Skullius thought as he watched the lady leisurely mow down the Sunlight Shooters without even trying hard.
‘Also, they are making life even easier for me too.’
Skullius dashed towards the corpses of all the Sunlight Shooters and immediately began taking what he wanted before the timer ran out.
Null Life Essence!