Bro, I'm not an Undead!

An exquisite flash of lightning blasted onto Benzard who didn’t realise it until he felt the heavy and scorching sensation that assaulted his back!

It was much more fierce than the heat than he had experienced when he had been caught up in the skill of Skullius’ armour, [The Forge], which had introduced him to the place where it was made!

Benzard flew, carried by the lightning as it ate away at his skin and attempted to penetrate his very being!

He hurriedly coated himself in mana to mitigate the rest of the attack as he then fell down, billows of smoke coming from the portion of his unprotected body that had been burnt by this new element that Skullius wielded.

Silentburn Levin!

‘Heh! It’s really effective. I finally have something to fight this sockethole with,’ Skullius thought.

When he had read the description to the skill [Ful Discharge], he had been itching to test it out. But it wasn’t the only thing. Far from it.

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[Ful Discharge | Lv.1]

A concentrated streak of Silentburn Levin that can burn the target. It deals 10% Serenity damage.

Mana Requirements: 250 Mana Points

Duration: None

Cooldown: 5 seconds

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Benzard stood up, his hand still firmly gripping his sword._.

He couldn’t believe the subsequent blows he had suffered from Skullius much less how he had suffered them.

He gritted his teeth.

Sparks of red started to come from his body as he prepared to attack with a direction approach.

However…

He suddenly felt drowsy.

A shallow sense of weakness overtook him and Benzard almost dropped his sword, his strength beginning to fade.

‘What’s going on… Why do I feel weak all of..  a sudden…’

He staggered and stumbled but pulled himself together just enough so that he wouldn’t fall over.

The urge to close his eyes and just sleep came in very strong, trying to put him down.

A sense of weightlessness embraced him. For a few moments, it was like he didn’t have a body and the bliss that came with that sensation caused him to relax.

‘Ah….’ Benzard sighed, his sword beginning to slip from his fingers.

Sause who was watching from a distance frowned.

“Heh… so this is Serenity damage,” Skullius mumbled to himself, seeing the odd movements of Benzard. It was more effective than he had thought and he didn’t waste the chance.

Skullius held on tight to the Baleful Gale Reaper and shot forward!

As he did, streaks of Silentburn Levin flickered on his body fiercely, amplifying his movement speed!

Before even Skullius knew it himself, he was already facing the temporarily incapacitated Benzard with his sword ready to strike, fierce winds gushing around its blade eagerly!

The swords special effect was activated as the winds promised to shred Benzard’s skin!

Benzard gritted his teeth as he tried to free his body and mind from the strange feeling of weightlessness but it was too late!

Skullius cackled as he slashed down with his sword, his many points of Strength causing the rock on the floor which was under Benzard’s feet tremble and part!

SLASH!

The sword slashed from Benzard’s shoulder to side ferociously, the man who had eaten the attack opening his eyes wide in shock.

However…

Skullius’ sockets also blazed with a shocked light!

“Huh?”

Where Benzard should have had a deep gash across his body was… no sign of an injury at all!

This shock gave Benzard the little push he needed to snap out of his stupor.

Skullius leapt back and analysed Benzard warily.

‘Why didn’t it work? I put my back into it, dammit!’

On the other side, Benzard finally felt the feeling in his limbs get restored, his weight being something that he was quite aware of now.

He was about to sigh in relief when his body suddenly jerked and he felt an immense wave of pain from his insides!

He vomited mouthfuls of blood, feeling the damage he had received  to his organs somehow to be extensive!

‘What happened?! That last sword attack didn’t do anything to me. Then what could it be…’

It then hit Benzard.

That lightning blast!

As soon as he had been hit by it, he had felt drowsy and weightless. When he was in that confused state, was it possible that his body was receiving continuous damage while he was in a reverie, unable to respond or feel it?!

He only acknowledged this damage after he regained its senses.

Benzard’s eyes looked to Skullius who was also looking at him, a myriad of thoughts racing through his head.

‘This thing! I can’t attack up close and it can deal this strange yet devastating level of damage. What a tricky opponent. However, I won’t be losing this fight…’ he thought.

Skullius on the other, other hand had come to know why his attack didn’t work after scrolling throuhb the description of his race.

Apparently, he had forgotten the flaw of the Fulgurant Bone Penetrator.

He could not inflict damage to opponents by normal means. Only attacks meant to penetrate could do damage!

Slashing, swiping, sweeping.

All those would LITERALLY deal no damage!

‘I underestimated that flaw I guess. At least now, I understand it better. It even affects the weapon I’m using. Kek… But still… that’s not enough for me to lose,’ Skullius thought.

BOOOOM!

BZZZT! BZZZT!

The floor shuddered under the explosive power of Benzard who radiated thick bolts of red lightning.

His brown hair became laced in squirming streaks, his body becoming a bit more muscular and ripped, the damage he had received internally healing at a quick rate.

The red tattoos on his face gleamed as they suddenly turned black, Benzard’s eyes turning golden from their usual grey and their ferocity taunting Skullius to approach if he dared.

‘Passively increasing my strength won’t work anymore. I might as well use my trump card and see what it’s all about.’

The Penetrator was shocked by this display of strength.

Red bursts of lightning from Benzard graced his armour even from his distance.

‘There it is again. His power increased. What happened to this guy?’ Skullius thought.

Benzard had received the class of ‘Perpetual Colossus’ from Sause just hours ago.

As Benzard had said before. It was a simple class.

It increased his strength passively the more he used it, dying all of his traits with a red tint.

Strength, speed, agility, skills, recovery and all other aspects of his power would be increased.

With each passing day, he would experience a 3% growth to EVERY aspect of his strength individually, which he was continuing to receive as time went by for the current day.

The tattoo on his face represented the fact that he was using the powers of his class, and when they turned black, it meant that he was using his trump card.

With it, Benzard could summon a power increase of up to 5 days, which was 15% and apply it to one day, however the effect was temporary and he wouldn’t gain any increase in strength for the days he had used up.

Even with all this, it wasn’t complete as Sause… was still alive.

Benzard glared at Skullius and did something that was known to be impossible for someone in his Stage.

“Full Body Aura!” he roared, the entire area becoming died in bright and destructive bolts of lightning that stormed the entire place, causing a rumbling!

Skullius cackled.

He was not afraid.

He was excited.

He could have easily run away but this is what he needed.

A strong opponent to fight after his growth in strength.

Even as he felt the overbearing energy of the Aura from Benzard, he wasn’t fazed, pumping out mana to cause a burst of Silentburn Levin to storm out of his body and compete with Benzard’s lightning.

A glorious clash of light had officially begun.