Legendary Architect of Apocalypse

"Don't try to change the topic. Tell me when did you arrange it?" Astralious glared at the boy. "How did I not know about it?"

"When you have too many explosives in your stockpile, isn't it normal to drop one ever so often to keep a backup distraction on standby?" Elias brought three more modified mines from his storage, and waved them before Astralious.

"You! Stop waving such a dangerous thing on my face! What if it accidentally exploded?!" Astralious subconsciously took a step back, momentarily forgetting that he was only in a spiritual form.

"It won't explode without my permission," Elias explained, trying to calm Astralious. "It's due to another one of my abilities called Creation Control. As long as I don't want it to explode, it won't explode."

He tossed the mines back on his inventory. "If I do want them to explode, they will explode without someone stepping on them. Isn't that a neat little ability?"

He brought a bottle of water from his storage, all this running and talking making his throat dry.

"Why didn't I notice you drop these things?" Astralious asked, trying to recall the last few hours of his life, but he didn't remember Elias ever arranging these things.

"Isn't it simply because you were so distracted by the frozen tree of flames?" Elias gulped down the water, almost emptying half the bottle in a single gulp, despite his small size. "Why would I roam so freely in the enemy territory without something like that?"

Even though he didn't know what this tree actually was when he first saw it, he still considered the threat because this was the territory of the creator class.

If things went from bad to worse, he needed a distraction, which was why he dropped a mine every few hundred meters at spots that couldn't be easily noticed in a single glance.

Every time he did that, Astralious was looking at the frozen tree of flames like a fanboy, and trying to flex his knowledge, not even paying attention to Elias dropping unknown objects on the ground.

"This..." Astralious was at a loss of words. Was he really so bad at observing things that he didn't notice such a simple thing? He couldn't even blame Elias for not telling him such things.

"I spend every second with you, trapped in your mind. Still, why are there so many things about you that I know nothing about? At times, I truly feel like a failure."

"Well, that makes it the two of us." Elias tossed the empty bottle aside and stood up, patting his clothes while the black wings behind him slowly disappeared.

Tuck~

A strange sound echoed in the passage, and the empty bottle of water came flying back to Elias, falling next to his feet. He stomped on the empty bottle and gazed at the direction where he had tossed the bottle.

"It looks like we have some guests."

There was a clunking noise, as if bones were hitting against each other. Flaming torches across the entire passage lit up, filling the dark passage with light.

"That's..." Astralious saw the things standing in the distance, and his eyes widened, but not from shock. It was simply a reaction of disdain. "That's it? This is what that man prepared? A mere skeleton?*

"I don't think I would call it a mere skeleton." Elias, on the other hand, looked more grim.

Even though it looked like a mere skeleton that was only four feet tall, its stats were so dangerous that he had to take a second glance to make sure that he hadn't seen anything wrong.

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Assigned Title: Little Skeleton

Species: Undead

Threat Grade: SSS

Age: Seven Thousand Three Hundred Years

Description: A Skeleton roaming across the tomb, looking for something. If you can't give it what it wants, it will never let you go.

~Stats~

Strength: 550

Defence: 430

Speed: 490

Element: Undead

Elemental Affinity: 90

Hostility: 50

............

He thought that his own stats had grown to a somewhat impressive extent after returning from the Land of Fables. But compared to this, it was an understatement to call his own stats to be lacking.

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Name: Elias Ashborn

Age: Twelve

Class: Architect (Rank 2)

Level: 15

Class Grade: Ex

~Stats~

Strength: 150 (+87)

Defence: 115 (+55)

Speed: 130 (+96)

Intelligence: 58 (+10)

~Elemental Affinity~

High affinity with Space

Medium affinity with Darkness

Medium affinity with Wind

Medium affinity with Fire

Medium affinity with Water

Medium affinity with Earth

Medium affinity with Lightning

~Class Skills~

Precise Extraction (B)

Advanced Merger (B)

Extraction Control (B)

Analysis (A)

Creation Comprehension (A)

Advanced Storage (B)

~Additional Skills~

Fable Creation (C)

Shadow Blades (D)

Wings of Darkness (E)

Fire Domain (C)

Shadow Domain (B)

Water Domain (C)

Blessing of the Wind (C)

Earth Domain (C)

Lightning Summoner (C)

Material Composition: Elias Ashborn (90% Percent), Core Essence of Elemental Fables (7 Percent), Bones of Ancient Dragon (3 Percent)

Material Stability: 75 Percent

Extraction Possibility: High

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His stats were close to the stats of a person who had gone through their third evolution, especially if he was to use the extra abilities that he had gained. Still, they paled in comparison.

The small and seemingly ordinary skeleton before him was even stronger than a peak tier fable in the Land of Fables.

"Why do you look scared of this weak skeleton? Just kick it, and it should break into pieces. Don't tell me you are scared of Undeads?"

Astralious found Elias's grim expressions suspicious, especially since he couldn't see anything special in the skeleton.

He came to the conclusion that it might be because Elias was scared of the undead, something that couldn't be far from the truth.

"If I had my body, I would have slapped that skeleton into oblivion," he reiterated.

"If you had a body, I would have loved to toss you to that skeleton," Elias sarcastically answered. If he was to fight that skeleton, he had a feeling that he might be able to destroy it despite the large difference in stats.

Still, there was something about this ordinary looking skeleton that he couldn't quite put his finger on.