When Aurek shouted for them to separate, Aionthra controlled the Special Monster and raised her staff. Even when her fighting looked overwhelming, the consumption of Aether Mana was equally monstrous.
So, just before they separated, Aionthra gathered almost 10% of her total
"
[You've been affected by
[Corrected.]
[Debuff timer increased to: ∞.]
Aurek's face and everyone else felt their eyes widen at the egregious debuff. It was the initial skill, 10 seconds of 50% less damage was strong, but not unthinkable. Only under Aionthra's
Aurek shouted, drawing his bow and shooting a barrage of arrows at the Special Monster. "Debuffs! Does it work!?"
"It needs more than one cast!"
The few debuffers in the group answered straight away while Aionthra shifted around and tried to dodge all of Aurek's attacks. Beside him, there were a lot of Aethermancy and melee threats. However, other than Kaelen and Aurek, who could heavily injure her, their damage was nothing but tickling in comparison.
A direct attack from either Aurek or Kael could shave around 5% to 10% of her total
Thankfully, the debuffs helped Aionthra calculate and make sure that she could dodge the attacks of the two main threats with the Special Monster.
'Still…' Aionthra glanced around, feeling the group's vitality and using her powerful information skill to look at their ternary essence reserves. 'No one is close to dying. I've yet to land too many debuffs that tickle down health.'
The reason was that she was controlling her
When fighting, Aionthra used superior everlasting and uncleansable debuffs. Once they piled up enough, the only thing she needed to do was use her superior mobility to dodge and wait for them to die off.
Of course, she had methods for overwhelming aethermancy. However, this was her main fighting style.
As she quickly used part of her title skill to freeze the world for half a second and dodge an arrow right before her heart, Aionthra went on the offensive.
'Now that they are separated, I can finally focus my offensive on the healers. If I can even kill one healer, this Special Monster will be well used.'
So, with a single thought, Aionthra twisted the fabric of space and reappeared behind one of the healers. This skill,
When she reappeared behind one of the female healers, the strange urges to attack those frontliners had disappeared.
"Ahira, DODGE!"
The healer, having escape skills, was about to use them when Aionthra's voice boomed out of the Special Monster, as if commanding the world itself. "
The world stopped, and only Ahira and the Special Monster remained in motion. "
Ahira completed her escape technique and appeared far away. However, after she did, a heart-sinking message reached her.
[You've been affected by
[You've been trapped in the
[Time has stopped for 12.5 seconds for both.]
[Your stats have been reduced by 23% for the duration of the skill.]
Ahira's eyes widened. "W-What?"
"
[The next skill that lands on you will be applied 6.4 times.]
The
Aionthra's voice and the second skill snapped her back to her senses, and the healer quickly activated her defensive skill. "
Yellow wings made out of light manifested around her like a cocoon. However, this skill was useless for Aionthra's next attack.
"
A massive ripple spread out, affecting everyone around her. However, on Ahira, things were different.
[You've been affected by
[
[You've been affected by
[You've been affected by
[You've been affected by
[You've been affected by
[You've been affected by
[You've been affected by
[You've been affected by
[Corrected.]
[Debuff timers increased to: ∞.]
Suddenly, she, who was already losing around 2,000 Phoer per second, was inflicted by an extra 7,400 Phoer loss debuff per second. In total, that was almost 0.1
This was also a wide area of effect damage skill, so all frozen people were affected and began losing health even during the frozen time. This damage could have been caused only because debuffs affected by her Domain skill were unaffected by any time constraints.
So, if Aionthra bonked someone with her staff in the frozen time, nothing would happen. However, if she applied a burning debuff that was extended by her Domain, the person would start burning and lose actual vitality.
The healer's face turned pale. If she were protected, casting a few healing skills might have helped her prevent the ridiculous loss. However, even as an elite, the woman had only around 6
"
[+5,540,000,000]! (+55,400)! (+0.5)!
Without hesitation, Ahira cast one of her strongest healing spells. But as she did so, Aionthra had taken her chance to once more cast
Still, now that her objective was killing the woman in front of her, Aionthra wouldn't mind consuming all her remaining
The woman, noticing the ridiculous amount of Aether Mana around the Special Monster, clenched her teeth and layered another
"
After Aionthra spoke, the sky suddenly turned purple. Looking up, Ahira was witness to a scene worthy of an apocalyptic event.
Countless massive crystal rocks fell from the sky, each of them streaking down at blinding speed.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
[-7,111,000,000] (-71,110) (-0.71)
[-7,111,000,000] (-71,110) (-0.71)
[-7,111,000,000] (-71,110) (-0.71)
…
[You've been affected by
[
[You've been affected by
[You've been affected by
[You've been affected by
[You've been affected by
[You've been affected by
[You've been affected by
[You've been affected by
[Corrected.]
[Debuff timers increased to: ∞.]
Ahira's body was thrown flying, her limbs and torso being mangled by the incredible force of the meteor impact. Even when much of the attack had been blocked by
The time left for
The woman was unconscious from the impacts, so it was no problem. Instead, Aionthra glanced at the rest and looked around. "...With my remaining
So, this time, she focused her
"
Time moved again, and together with the sky crumpling down, several pillars of purple light struck down right on top of one of the more wounded male mages.
BOOM!!!
The layered pressure and essence crumpled his body like paper, his bones snapping and his organs failing.
Aurek felt his body burning, but without a single instant of hesitation, he pulled back his bow's string and released a terrifying attack. "
BOOM!!
The arrow crossed the distance between him and the Special Monster in a fraction of a second. This time, Aionthra didn't bother dodging and smiled at him.
BANG!
The crystal and wooden Special Monster were blasted into pieces.
[Congratulations! You've defeated
[Congratulations! You've gained
[You can now submit it and create a defensive structure back in the camp.]
However, even when the messages of success appeared, no one cheered. Instead, they all became incredibly busy trying to dispel all the debuffs that the Special Monster had applied to them.
They took potions and applied long-casting and more powerful skills, eventually cleansing everything without any extra casualties.
Meanwhile, Aurek stood in front of the woman who had become scorched beyond recognition. "...What happened?"
In his eyes, at one instant, they all separated, and the next second, Aionthra blinked and appeared behind Ahira. Then, after another moment that felt like a blink of an eye, Ahira and Aionthra appeared in another location, one completely burned and the other pointing her staff to the sky like some kind of empress bringing down judgment.
The next second, a blinding pillar of purple light killed another of their companions, and then, the Special Monster died.
Kaelen, standing nearby, glanced at the two corpses and sighed. "...Let's go back first. We've been roaming around, and soon, the first wave of monsters will attack the World Tree. We can ask the World Tree more after we deliver the
Aurek could only nod, picking everything salvageable from both corpses. It was common sense to erase the corpses of the fallen unless they could bring them back after the
After all, corpses were not entirely safe. So, most of the time, burning them to ashes was the standard procedure. This time, they also follow it.
By the time they left, only ashes remained where the two previous people had died.