335 Shield Skills
Even if the exchange didn’t seem worth it, it bought me a lot of time. This was the true value in such a tactic.
“Next,” I called them back, summoned thirty more bulls and started to run towards the next zone.
The added monsters were an aim towards balancing the situation. After all, if I kept summoning the lost monsters in each battle, I’d end up losing too much.
The added monsters proved their worth in the next zones. The loss decreased from ten to only three, making me feel more satisfied about this plan.
In the next few hours, I kept collecting my loot and using the same tactic to clear the zones. At last I finally ended this fight, and reached the gate after fifteen hours from entering through the last gate.
“So the next gate might take up to twenty hours?” I looked up at the gate while thinking about the time progress here.
It wouldn’t matter much if the time difference was too much. But if it wasn’t, then it meant I was losing much time while fighting here.
Taking all these skills was awesome. But if that was on the cost of my next big battle, then it wasn’t worth it anymore.
I gained skills for my main weapons, swords and glaives. I could get more, but I started retreating and called it a day.
Even if this dungeon final score wasn’t that good, I still had another dungeon key. That one would be left when I got more time to invest.
“Let’s clear a couple more gates first,” I took out my shield and slammed it heavily against the gate. The familiar clanging sound came with the appearance of the usual system messages.
I got three skills, two were pure defensive and the last one was the one I was looking for.
“An attack repulsion skill… Terrific!”
The three skills were as such:
[The Great Palm skill: Rare grade skill. The shield will create a big image of a palm, defending against attacks with equal defence to five folds the initial defensive power of the shield for twenty seconds. Cool down: One minute. Price to unlock: One hundred thousand coins]
[The Shell skill: Rare grade skill. The shield will turn into a massive shield encompassing the user and anything in an area around him for fifty metres radius inside a big shell. The defensive power equals to three folds the initial defensive value of the shield used. Duration: Ten seconds. Cool down: One minute. Price to unlock: One hundred thousand coins]
[The Mighty Defence skill: Unique grade skill. The shield will absorb damage taken for half a minute before releasing half of the damage back into all the ones that attacked in a single flashy attack per target. Cool down: Two minutes. Price to unlock: One million coins]
“This is it,” I purchased the three, but the third one was the best. It was enough to let me stand alone, facing all of these annoying toxic monsters, and they’d eventually die.
But this wasn’t just everything. I thought about merging two skills together. For example if I used the Shell skill first then added the Mighty Defence skill the next moment, then it would be epic! ρꪖꪕᦔꪖꪕꪫꪣꫀꪶ
There was no mention of limiting the use of such skills together, right? So why wouldn’t I use both together? After all, the Mighty Defence skill worked by absorbing any attack landing over my shield.
So if it was a shield or a shield turning into a palm or a shell, it wouldn’t matter. I looked up at the gate and then used the Great Palm skill to hit the gate and wipe away the dust.
“What is… That?!!” but as I did that, I was surprised to see a new change in this big mural.
This gate looked slightly bigger than the first one I opened. But that didn’t matter to me until I saw the drawings over its surface.
Before it got many races with each race having only one drawing each. But this time it felt like part of this mural was filled with humans. To add more weirdness these drawings were slightly similar to me.
Yes, I saw a human fighting with a group of monsters on his side, my warriors. It felt like this mural was changing, describing my journey here.
But this wasn’t the only change here.
That central sphere I first thought would be the symbol of the system had two big eyes. It felt like it was watching, watching me fighting my way through this world.
What? Wasn’t this the system? Why did I have the feeling it was like a scary being and he got alarmed with my activities here?
For a second there, I seriously considered retreating and leaving this dungeon at once. But I soon shook off such thoughts. I came here to gain as many points as I could.
Plus I got only skills for my heavy glaive. I still had two more glaives, one was light and fast and the other was domineering and crushing.
I was sure using these glaives would end up with a different set of skills. I wanted these skills, and that was the main reason I decided to keep fighting for two more gates.
“Time for the next challenge,” as the gate opened in front of my shield in no more than five minutes, I passed through the pitch darkness there.
The world was the same, but the monsters weren’t.
Previously the bull monsters showed a change in their fur. They were metallic. But this time, these bull monsters looked much different.
First their bodies got enlarged by almost fifty percent. Second their fur changed and there were scales covering its body with few spikes here and there.
They also grew two thick and short arms, ending up with sharp black claws. I looked at their red eyes, feeling they were much stronger than before.
“So the second world had the bulls slightly change, then the second world had the agile toxic monsters change more, and now this world had the bulls changing much more.