Assimilate All Talents

Chapter 235: Sandstone

BOOM!

"I want to go back to fighting Nether Wraiths!" Sol yelled as he and Amber ran away from the source of the explosions. Seven magic hands rotated above him, sending a full spectrum beam toward where they had come from.

The white beam blasted back, causing light to flood the entire passage. The duo left the magic hands behind to hold back their pursuers while they gained more ground. Sadly, the hands didn’t hold them back for long. Within mere seconds, hundreds of black flame orbs flew from the direction of the beam’s attack, targeting the magic hands. Sol was forced to redirect the beam to split into a spiral pattern, forming a shield at the last second. He did so just in time, as the black flames collided with the barrier, resulting in multiple explosions.

Even though the full spectrum beam was doing its job in defending against the black flames, the duo took it a step further. A wall of stone and sand rose as they combined their [Sand Manipulation] and [Terra Manipulation] into one extraordinarily durable barrier.

If it had only been the black flames, the two wouldn’t have taken such measures, but the loud thuds that caused the ground beneath them to quake told them that their pursuers were close.

Looking at the wall they created, Sol grimaced as he warned Amber. "My hands were destroyed! Get ready!"

Amber nodded, summoning a massive sand soldier along with over a hundred normal ones to use as meat shields. In the little time they had, Sol also made his own preparations by retrieving a weapon from his spatial ring.

As he did so, the wall burst open like fragile glass, and a hulking monstrosity appeared, with a floating skull laughing maniacally behind it.

Name: N/A

Race: Laughing Skull

Talents: [Death Affinity], [Endless Chant], [Death’s Joke]

Level: 98

Name: N/A

Race: Tomb Hulk

The flames began getting sucked into the cannon, similar to water falling down a drain. Even if the black flames were heading in a different direction, as long as they got within 10 meters of the cannon, they would be forcefully pulled into its barrel.

The skull, upon seeing this, didn’t stop casting. Instead, it sent more black flames than before in an effort to overwhelm the weapon. Sadly for the skull, it was severely underestimating the cannon’s ability to absorb and convert energy into void energy. A minute later, the skull finally stopped chanting and fell toward the ground, unable to maintain itself afloat with its almost depleted mana.

Sol saw it fall to the ground helplessly and turned his eyes to the cannon’s energy total.

’70%. It was a little over half when I shot it, so the skull was only able to fill it by 20%.’

He let the skull cast as long as it could and didn’t attempt to interrupt it as it was doing him a favor by refilling the previously spent void energy.

With the Laughing Skull completely out of mana, it was easy for Amber to slash it from afar, cutting it in two.

[You have slain a Lv 98 Laughing Skull! Gained 5,902,604 Exp (280%)]

Having defeated the undead, Sol sighed in relief. He looked back at the weapon and felt glad yet sad at the same time.

’I’m glad it works, but to already have to use it on the 22nd floor...’

It made him wonder if he was still not strong enough to tackle these upcoming floors, but after some thought, he shook his head.

’It was two enemies at the same time, and they didn’t give me a chance to use my own ability. I can only tackle one skill at a time, so even if I disable one, the other still has theirs. I need to either become much faster at disabling them or disable both at the same time.’

So far, he had been able to shave a full second off the process, but it was clearly not enough. He needed to try even harder and push it to its very limit. After some thought, he concluded that tackling two skills at once wouldn’t make the process faster but slower than disabling one at a time. For now, he had to focus on improving his manipulation of the strings before trying new things.

"Ready to go, Amber? Ah, before I forget. [Siphon]."

He wasn’t just about to leave without obtaining some new skills.