Skill Creation in the Fantasy World

158  Hunt in the Hole II

As the Rank 2 man's headless body fell on the ground, his other two comrades who were warding off the insane Rank 3 man shuddered in shock. @@novelbin@@

"No! How could you!!"

"Aaaaghh!!!"

The two of them pushed away the Rank 3 man as they turned to dash toward Felix, hoping to recover their insane teammate who had lost his mind.

But before they could attack Felix, he waved his hand at them and dropped on the ground like a slime, his body disappearing into the earth.

"W-What?!"

"Where did he go!?"

Stomping on the ground where Felix had vanished, the two of them searched for him.

"Grrrr.."

A growl reached behind them as the Rank 3 man again jumped on them using his hands, interfering with their search as they came back to face him.

"Shit! It seems we have to kill him now. There's no other way!", one of them exclaimed.

"What!? No way! He's our teammate, how can we kill him!?", the other retorted while defending himself from the wild attacks.

"What else can we do?! It's either him dying here or us! We have to choose one or the other. Don't tell me you want to die?!"

"T-That..... but..."

As they were hesitating, a sudden force of energy attacked their body as they felt their strength seep away.

"Unfortunately, you guys don't have any choice. All of you are dying here...", Felix muttered as he appeared behind them using the Cursed Domain to suppress the two of them.

"Gaghh!"

"Noo!"

The Rank 3 man's attacks landed on them as their bodies were subjugated to the baleful energy of decay and corrosion.

'Right.... Just like that....', Felix smirked as they somehow followed the plan he had.

His targets were all the Rank 2's and the Rank 3 in the sinkhole, but his combat power alone was not enough to take them all on, which made him think of corrupting the Rank 3 fighter into losing his mind and taking the others on before he could take the final kill.

The two Rank 2's a while ago were not decisive in killing their Rank 3 comrade, but with the threat of Felix who could attack them any time, they decided to hurry and improvise.

The three engaged in a frenzy of attacks as blood and wounds appeared all over them. The Rank 3 man who could only use his physical body and wild instincts suffered heavily under the coordinated attacks of the two.

Using the last of his energy to resist as his body and mind both weakened due to the corrosion, the Rank 3 man grabbed one of the men and bit into his neck hard.

"AAAGHHHHH!!!"

The other man used the chance and stabbed his sword into the Rank 3 man's chest, twisting it and lunging forward to help his teammate.

'And with this... the game is over.', Felix made his last move as the earth under the three shifted.

'Earth Spikes!'

"Whooshh!"

Three spikes emerged quickly and pierced into the bodies of the three men, who were stuck close together and couldn't escape the sudden attack.

With the spikes pierced into their bodies, the three of them struggled to move as they remained alive under terrible pain and agony.

The Rank 3 man's eyes and body slowly turned normal, his skin returning to a shade of tan as the man spewed out blood and looked around in a daze.

"W...What ha...happened?", his voice cracked and reached the other men's ears.

"You....fucker."

"It's too.... late now. Just go...die."

Felix got out from the ground and glanced around, nodding his head as everyone else in this sinkhole seemed to have died.

"You're right. It's too late now."

Gripping his sword, Felix slashed it three times as three necks of the three men who were stuck on the three spikes fell with three thuds.

[You have killed a being higher than your own rank.]

[You have gained 100 skill points.]

[You have killed a being higher than your own rank.]

[You have gained 100 skill points.]

[You have killed a being higher than your own rank.]

[You have gained 1000 skill points.]

Hearing the chimes which brought a smile to his face, Felix wondered what skills he could create next as he moved to get out.

"On to the next sinkhole..."

*****

The other side of the Ice wall.

All the members from the Twilight Chaos and Mystic Society guilds had survived the fight and were surrounding the two beaten Rank 3 men who were kneeling on the ground after killing the rest.

"I'm not saying anything! Don't think you can use us as hostages either!", Barry snickered while being covered in wounds and injuries.

The other Rank 3 man looked scared as he kept his head down and muttered to himself.

Elsa and Evan glanced at each other before turning to Victor who had a thoughtful expression on his face.

"We don't have time to waste on them, so let's kill them too. Felix must be waiting on the other side."

The others nodded as Victor and Trellur, the Rank 3 spearman who was Victor's teammate, both raised their weapons to finish off the two enemies.

"No wait! Wait! I'll talk! I'll talk! Don't kill me!!"

Barry screamed in fear as the other man looked at him in shock, his face mirroring his thoughts as the man shouted in anger.

"You traitor! How could you-"

Whoosh!

His words were interrupted by the stab of a spear as Trellur pierced his weapon into the man's heart.

Staring at the dying body of his teammate, Barry trembled in fear and growled on the ground as his tears and snot soaked the soil.

"D-Don't kill me pwease....."

Trellur made a disgusted face as he turned to look at Victor who just shrugged and gave the others some orders.

"Elsa, freeze his veins. Evan, rope him up. We got ourselves a hostage."

After dealing with Barry and leaving some people to look after him, everyone gathered together as Victor walked towards the hole in the ice wall.

"Remember, there'll be only 14 enemies left behind this ice wall. But even though we have the higher numbers, don't let your guard down and stick together. Let's go!"

Giving his order, Victor nodded and stepped into the hole with the rest following behind him.

Trellur, Evan, Elsa, and then the rest.

As they slowly made their way to the other side of the ice wall, they heard a sigh from the front as Victor muttered wryly.

"This kid.... He's one troublemaker..."

When all of them had come out from the ice wall, they could only stand frozen in their spots and stare at the four huge holes in the ground in disbelief.

"Y-You're saying... Felix did all this?", Elsa asked, her voice trembling as she covered her mouth with her hand.

"Whew! I knew he was good, but..", Evan rubbed his head, "..this is something else."

Trellur was usually quiet but even he couldn't help but question in confusion.

"Isn't he just a Rank 1 Dual fighter? How could he create such big holes with the power of a Rank 1 mage?"

"....what?! Rank 1 mage?! Dual fighter?!", Elsa was again shocked as her brain couldn't process what she was hearing.

"AGHHH!!!"

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"When did he...."

"AGHHH!!!"

"GET AWAY!!!"

"LEAVE ME ALONE!!!"

"NOOO!!!"

Elsa's words hung in the air as terrifying screams of people echoed in the tunnel as if they were being slaughtered like pigs.

Barry, who was tied up and brought along with them, recognized the voices as he shouted in worry.

"It's them! What's happening to my comrades!?"

Evan slapped the back of Barry's head as he scolded him.

"Shut up, man. They're not your comrades anymore. Remember? You've already betrayed them...."

Leaving aside the helpless Barry, Victor and the others stepped closer towards the sinkhole from which they heard the screams.

As soon as they saw what was happening inside the hole, everyone widened their eyes in bewilderment.

"Dust Blast!"

"Quicksand!"

"Earth Spikes!"

"Cursed Domain!"

"Agility Burst!"

"Black Horizon Second Technique: Striking Blades!"

They could see a silver-haired young man flashing around inside the sinkhole, with a wide grin on his face as his ruby eyes glistened in a craze.

"DIIIEEEE!!!"

"NOOOO!!!"

In the sinkhole, Felix delivered the last strike on his enemies who had gotten too weak to even resist his attacks.

[You have killed a being higher than your own rank.]

[You have gained 100 skill points.]

[You have killed a being higher than your own rank.]

Victor, Elsa, and Evan shouted one after the other as Felix raised his head to see them.

"Oh? You guys finally arrived....", he smiled sheepishly at them before moving towards the wall of the hole and moving his way up to them using Earth Swimming.

"The heck!? You can even do that?!", Evan exclaimed in surprise at the boy who arrived before them by what appeared to be 'clinging' to the hole's wall.

"Yeah. It's one of the Earth attribute spells I've learned.", Felix dusted off his shoulders and replied candidly before a figure rushed into him.

"Felix, you're safe! I was so worried about you! To think you came to rescue me.", Elsa said as she wrapped her arms around his neck and buried her head in his chest.

"Hmm? Ah, I was worried about you too, Miss Elsa. You suddenly got trapped in the tunnels and everything. ...", he glanced at her with an awkward face.

Honestly, he had forgotten about the reason they had come here, which was to rescue the trapped members of their guilds as he was busy calculating how many skill points he had gained and how many enemies were left.

'To be exact, I gained 2400 skill points from the previous endeavor. And there are still three of the Rank 3 men remaining to be killed.... With a few Rank 2's too.'

While everyone was staring at them curiously, Elsa got out of the hug as she narrowed her eyes on Felix.

"I'm so confused here, Felix. How are you able to-", Elsa was going to question him on all sorts of things when a few new voices interrupted.

"Ohh yeah! We're coming up!"

"Nice one, Meldon. You're Water spell helped us escape the sinkhole!"

"Yeah, man. But we're all wet now! Sheesh!"

"Quieten down both of you, we have ourselves a situation to deal with here!"

Barry seemed to have gained some color on his face as he looked at the people who came up from one of the other two sinkholes which had been filled up with water now.

"Comrade Timor, it's you! And you Comrade Meldon too!", Barry shouted out in excitement as he waved his tied-up hands.

"Hey, there's me too, Comrade Owen! Be a bit happy to see me too.", the third man grumbled.

"Oh yeah, you too, Comrade Owen. Wait- who are you again?", Barry muttered before he was hit on the head by Evan who retorted.

"Stop with your comrade comrade thing! You've already betrayed them, remember?"

Victor and Timor ignored the trivial conversations happening around them as they stared at each other seriously.

"Timor, I didn't expect to meet you here...", Victor narrowed his eyes as he tightened his hold of his sword.

"Well I've really been hoping to meet you again, Victor.", Timor had a grin growing on his face. "It was the only reason I joined this scouting group."

As everyone started to get ready for a fight, Felix looked at the two of them staring at each other intensely, and asked the spearman behind him.

"Are they friends? Or were they?"

"They're more like...", Trellur had a complicated expression on his face as he bit his lip.

".....brothers."

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