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5.14% I Own EVERY Class in This World: Life Set to HELL Mode! / Chapter 21: The Elite Monster [2]

Chapter 21: The Elite Monster [2]

Stark felt the weight of the impending battle settle on his shoulders as he faced off against the Outskirts Leader.

The leader's eyes bore into Stark, a silent challenge passing between them.

As the first tendrils of shadow magic began to curl towards him, Stark knew he had to act fast.

Looking at him from all nearby windows, and surrounding him completely were dozens upon dozens of gloomstalkers.

'How are the other people supposed to beat these things…?' he wondered, after all he was confident in his strength compared to all the other students, yet here he was struggling this much against an area boss…

"Shadow Magic!"

Arrows made out of darkness began forming around the second leader, and then hurtled toward Stark.

With a swift movement, he dodged the incoming tendrils of darkness and closed the distance between him and the Outskirts Second Leader in a flash.

With a powerful leap, Stark aimed a devastating punch directly at the leader's chest. The impact sent shockwaves rippling through the air, causing even the gloomstalkers to stagger back in surprise.

"-3618!" the damage was incredible.

The leader staggered backward, its cloak billowing around it as it struggled to regain its balance.

"Summon!" it summoned more gloomstalkers from the ground in front of it to protect itself from Stark's attacks.

Seizing the opportunity, Stark followed up with a series of lightning-fast strikes, each blow landing with precision and force against the monsters, not even letting them get out of the ground.

"-3739! -2638! -2947!"

Forced to back away, Stark made sure that nothing was behind him.

[Area Boss HP: 3405/12000]

'One or two more hits…' Stark thought.

His confidence was its peak, and the leader looked extremely injured, struggling to even stay in place or summon more gloomstalkers.

"-3718!"

"-3918!"

"-4183!"

Each gloomstalker that tried to attack him was met by an instant punch that made it turn into dust: none of them were capable of touching Stark, even with their numbers.

Realizing that: most of the minions just stood there, not even moving anymore, knowing it was futile to even try, it seemed like they had a conscience of their own even while being controlled by the leader.

And that's when it happened: behind the smiley-face mask the second leader was wearing, Stark noticed dark and hostile pupils, glowing with a purplish aura.

"CURSED DOMAIN!"

A sudden surge of dark energy emanated from the leader, enveloping the entire area in a malevolent aura of darkness.

Stark felt a chill run down his spine as his movements slowed, the shadows seeming to constrict around him, sapping his strength with each passing second.

The gloomstalkers that remained standing seemed revitalized, their attacks gaining a dangerous edge under the influence of the Cursed Domain.

[You are in a cursed domain, defeat the enemy boss before it is too late (all enemies receive a stat boost inside the domain)]

Struggling against the oppressive magic, Stark gritted his teeth and focused on maintaining his resolve.

"Shadow Magic!"

The second leader didn't waste time and summoned three darkness arrows again, launching them at Stark.

His movements were reduced, and the arrows were faster than before, but 'Focus' still allowed him to see them coming.

He avoided one… he avoided two…

He couldn't avoid the third.

Sensing that, Stark decided to focus most of his aura around his chest, in the area where the arrow was aimed at, in the hopes of stopping it.

And…

"-82!" the damage he received was minimal as the arrow was stopped by the wall of aura before it could pierce him, meaning that this "aura barrier" truly worked.

[HP: 36/950 (CRITICAL CONDITION)]

'Fuck that shit!' Stark realizing that he was one hit away from dying focused all his aura into another 'Aura Smash'.

He kept avoiding darkness arrows all the while powering up his attack, and after a few seconds…

"GO TO HELL," he punched the air, sending the crimson fist toward the second leader, who was unable to avoid it.

"-2192!" its defense was higher because of the domain.

But…

[Enemy stunned]

Seizing the moment of weakness, Stark wasted no time. Channeling all his remaining strength and fury into a final, decisive strike, he launched himself at the stunned leader with a speed and power that seemed almost supernatural.

"I'm not stuck with you!" he jumped in the air, in front of the leader's eyes as it was unable to move any of its limbs or staff, "YOU ARE STUCK WITH ME!"

He punched it.

"-2719!"

[Area Boss HP: 0/12000]

The leader let out a final anguished cry as Stark's punch connected, shattering its remaining defenses and sending it crumbling to the ground.

A deafening silence fell over the battlefield as the cursed domain dissipated, leaving only the sound of the wind rustling through the trees.

All the gloomstalkers surroundings Stark immediately also began turning to dust as they were all only kept alive by the outskirts second leader's magic.

And just like that, Stark was able to defeat that shitty boss.

[You have slain "Outskirts Second Leader lv15 (ELITE)", gained 22000EXP!]

[You have slain twenty-two "Gloomstalkers lvl14", gained 24500 EXP]

[Experience: 59310/75000]

'Not even enough to level up…' he sighed but immediately began running nonetheless.

[Black Sun Curse: 95% (WARNING)]

[You have slain 'Shadow Demon lv14', gained 2300 EXP]

[You have slain 'Water Blob lv13', gained 2150 EXP]

[You have slain 'Crazy Archer lv14', gained 2200

[Black Sun Curse: 96% (WARNING)]

Sweat pouring out from his forehead, Stark continued running, his time was counted, and although he wondered just how was any of the other students supposed to survive this, he still had his own safety in mind first.

[Black Sun Curse: 97% (WARNING, GET TO A BONFIRE)]

The warning blared in Stark's mind as he sprinted through the city outskirts, now ignoring the monsters that tried to stop him as he didn't want to waste time.

He could feel the Black Sun looking at him, awaiting for him to be consumed by its powers to transform him.

But… it would never have this pleasure.

Since when he turned around another corner, Stark spotted the flickering glow of a bonfire in the middle of a giant street.

And beyond it… a silver fog wall could be seen.

'BINGO!'

[Black Sun Curse: 98% (WARNING, GET TO A BONFIRE)]

Relief flooded through him as he pushed himself to run even faster

Warning panels surrounded his view as the number reached 99%, but thankfully enough… he was able to reach the bonfire, entering the 'safe space' right before the boss battle.


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Chapter 22: NO CHEATING!

The bonfire crackled and flickered, casting a warm, reassuring light in the dark world Stark found himself in.

[Entered safe space, enjoy the safety while it lasts =)]

The silver fog wall loomed right in front of him (only a few meters away), a barrier separating him from whatever awaited on the other side: the boss of the [City Ruins].

But for now… all he wanted to do was rest.

He sat on the ground around the bonfire, enjoying the feeling of slowly regaining his HP and the curse of the Black Sun going down.

'No… I can't rest now…' he thought after sitting down for a minute, and then got up.

[Experience: 65960/75000]

'I'll get to level 10, then I can rest as much as I want,' he nodded before getting up, he had retrieved some of his life back, plus he was confident he would have no issue dealing with enemies nearby.

There were some monsters he had never seen roaming nearby, and so he decided to do something… quite strange.

He went to the border of the 'safe zone', and then put half of his body outside, allowing the monsters to see him.

Some immediately rushed to kill the human, while others just looked, waiting to see what would happen.

And so as some monsters were about to hit Stark… he took a step back and went inside the safe zone again.

And then…

"Let's see if that works!" he laughed then tried to punch the monsters while still in the safe zone, giving him an almost impossible to break shield while still being able to hit them as his fist traversed the 'barrier'.

"-2719!"

"-3162!"

"-2913!"

The monsters outside the safe zone roared in frustration as Stark's punches connected through the barrier, dealing damage without putting himself at risk.

'I'm actually cheating the system, how has nobody thought of that before,' he laughed, trying to punch yet another monster.

But…

~ZAP~

"-100!"

A lightning strike that came from the sky hit his body and dealt 100 points of damage to him, luckily he had allowed his HP to go up with the bonfire, or else it would have been bad.

[No cheating]

This panel appeared in front of him.

"…" Stark groaned before leaving the safe zone and killed the last monster that was in front of the barrier, "this was the last one anyway, I wasn't gonna abuse it," he shouted to whoever (or whatever) was watching him, but of course, no response.

[You have slain 'City Beast lv15', gained 3000 EXP!]

[You have slain two 'Mouthless Figures lv15', gained 5800 EXP!]

[You have slain 'Owl Cultist lv15', gained 2750 EXP!]

And of course, eliminating those foes resulted in the reappearance of the golden aura, once again enveloping him.

[Your level has increased to level 10, granting you one skill point and boost in stats]

[Experience: 2510/85000]

'Finally… damn it!' Stark smiled and sat beside the bonfire again, enjoying the feeling of finally reaching level 10, meaning he could now equip the necklace he had acquired.

And also…

[Level 10 Reached: please pick a skill card]

Just like last time, three cards materialized in front of him out of thin air, this time their color was blue.

'Oh yeah… that thing,' this had been how he acquired [Aura Smash], it seemed like he would be able to choose a new skill every 5 levels.

Stark gazed at the three blue cards in front of him, pondering his choice carefully.

"Oh well, it's not like I can decide what skill i'll get," he shrugged and picked the middle card at random.

The other two disappeared once he did that, and so he turned the card he picked to see an image of… himself?

[Name: Clone Frenzy]

[Type: Rare]

[Level: 1]

[Description: Summons a clone of yourself that acts and fights just like you do, giving you a temporary additional character to control in battle, the clone does damage based on how much aura you give it, but its stats are extremely reduced, and its HP is set to 1, cooldown period of 30 minutes between each clone]

And yet again, below the description was some sort of low-budget animation showing how the skill worked: a stickman that was supposed to be Stark used aura to summon another stickman that looked exactly like him, and he was able to control it to fight enemies.

'I guess it's good…' Stark would need to see it in battle to judge, but this was his first 'rare' type skill, meaning that it MUST be good, right?

[Clone Frenzy has been added to your skill list]

[You have upgraded 'Clone Frenzy' to level 2!]

After reaching level 10 and acquiring this skill, Stark just sighed and looked at the sky while sitting beside the bonfire, its darkness was mesmerizing for some strange reason.

'Spatial Inventory,' he mumbled after five minutes, and the small void appeared beside him.

He hesitated for a few seconds, but then put his arm inside while thinking of the "Soulbearer's Embrace" necklace.

Suddenly, he could feel his fingers brushing against the cool metal of the necklace, and so he pulled out his hand, just to see that the necklace was in fact inside it.

'I guess that's pretty cool and convenient.'

Without wasting time, he put the necklace around his neck.

["Soulbearer's Embrace" Equipped]

If he remembered correctly, that necklace was supposed to give him +20 strength, +100 HP, and also…

[Special Perk:] Grants the wearer the ability to absorb a very small percentage of damage dealt back as health.

If there was a way to gain health through damage, then he sure as hell was gonna take it.

'I guess that's all for now, isn't it?' he lay on the cold ground, maybe it was dirty, but even sitting down left him uncomfortable, so this was his best option.

He needed to be full of energy before attempting to kill the boss after all since he would do it alone and only at level 10 while it was probably recommended to do it with a party of level 15 classifiers.

'I hope that new skill helps… it would be great if it truly worked just as I envisioned it to be…'

Stark kept thinking about the future for a bit… and then… before he even realized it, the ground became strangely comfortable.

And so he closed his eyes.


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