Versatile: Alternate World

Elder Lich.

A type of undead that has evolved from the normal undead or skeleton depending on which type they are as they both can ascend to either of them. If an undead or a skeleton gets to reach a certain level by killing humans and other creatures, they have the chances to evolve into a normal lich, that's when they gain various abilities that they can utilize to complete their evolution and progress further and those that became successful in doing so evolves into an Elder Lich where their abilities amplified and depending on how strong they are from being a normal lich, they might become a very dangerous being that some would even become a boss of their own dungeons.

Right now, it seems the Elder Lich we encountered is not facilitating a dungeon. In my experience, a dungeon facilitating Elder Lich is weaker than the Elder Lich who does not own a dungeon. Perhaps the reason for this is that an Elder Lich who does not own a dungeon actively hones its abilities by hunting prey by themselves while the Elder Lich who owns a dungeon will have to rely on their dungeon to get "nutrients" to get nutrients. It is clear which out of the two will get stronger just based on that alone.

And right now, we are facing a creature that checks all of the boxes.

"How foolish of humans to visit their demise themselves. But you can say that everyone's arrival is a good and nice time for me. I just happened to lack the ingredients to complete my awakening. You all are perfect and have fresh ingredients! I will grind-"

BANG!

CLANG!

Smoke came out from the muzzle of my Versatile Weapon's gun form, showing that I have fired off a bullet from it. The Elder Lich also stopped because some gold chains pierced his shoulders and bind the two arms that looked like they were about to rot after a few more years. Beside me is Sigma crossing her hands while staring at Elder Lich with a bored look in her eyes.

"You talk too much. We are in a hurry and we don't have the time for idle chatter. If you are so-called strong, then show it to us, you little piece of sh*t," Sigma condescendingly insulted Elder Lich. I stayed quiet but I also agree that this Elder Lich is a chatterbox. Not a really good way to make a good first impression.

"Piece of sh*t? How brazen, but I admire that you are all in a rush in death. Very well, death is what you seek, death I award shall!"

That's when the HP of the boss appeared the name of the Elder Licha appeared before us.

[The Sixth Commandment]

HP: 10,000,000/10,000,000

Trait: Dark, Undead

So this guy is the sixth, never expected to see the next commandment so soon but that saves me time looking for them. Chase immediately activated [Domain of the Sick] and [Domain of the Weak] together after the HP and the name of the boss appeared, covering the area of the domain and allowing the buffs to be twice as potent, healing capabilities and auto-heal increases while the debuffs inflicted to us who are inside the domain will be shortened or resisted easily.

"A domain! How fancy! But that doesn't mean much to me!"

He raised his arms and the bones beneath our feet started to rise up from the ground.

"As if I let you do this!"

Changing the form of my Versatile Weapon and stomping the skull of the skeleton that tried to drag me down, I stab it straight to the ground and activated the [Earth Fissure]. All the skeletons that were about to rise that were on the way to the [Earth Fissure]'s activation were reduced to dust. Of course, I didn't get to wipe them out all. The [Earth Fissure] might be strong but it doesn't cover all of the ground, only the area around me where I struck the sword down. But that was enough for everyone to get enough time to fight back and prepare their own attacks.

Sigma remained standing still but she used her chains to fight back, every undead that tries to rise up on the ground will immediately get pierced by the golden chains before moving to another target. With her precise attacks, the undead that was supposed to appear were forced back to their graves and died permanently.

"Well, I will be damned. Seeing how you all are fending against me just fine, means not only your bodies are fresh and good, but you all are also potential for my mana bank! It looks like it is my lucky day!"

He waved his hands and chains made of bones appeared around and bind everyone to them. But when it comes to Sigma, the chains can't even come close before the golden chains start to interfere. I also managed to get away as I just stomped down one of the skulls below on my feet and break it, causing the chains made of bones to turn to dust. Once I managed to get free, I pulled out one Magic Scroll and tear it up as I run towards the Sixth Commandment.

"Have a taste of this!"

White chains bind his legs and arms and before he can react, light engulfed his body before a ray of light poured straight into the Sixth Commandment.

"GAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!"

p The scroll I have just torn to pieces is known as [Nova], light magic from the Cleric's Ascended job, Bishop. It's strong against the undead and no matter what kind of gimmick the undead or lich has to counter light magic which they are weak against, the [Nova] cancels them by using the white chains that prevent them from activating the abilities that would counter my attack. Then the light came down burning up the remaining flesh of the Elder Lich and purifying the remaining dark energy that revolves around its body of it.

[Nova] is a good spell, but as I said on what happened to me, my skills are reset to zero and the skills are locked to a certain tier until I unlock the previous tiers. And in terms of [Nova] Magic Scrolls, it's also not easy to make as it needed quite specific items that are limited in the market and comes mostly weekly in limited amount, and creating one scroll of it needs lots of it. I still have three [Nova] scrolls left but I don't want to use them carelessly.

Once the [Nova] is done, any undead that takes the brunt of the attack, if they didn't die, would experience [Trance] for 30 seconds that will render him unable to respond for that time limit.

"Alright, now, time to strike!"

With my signal, everyone released their attacks to the Sixth Commandment. Sigma binds the whole body of the Sixth Commandment before everyone attacks to ensure it won't have time to attack even in trance mode.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Explosions of magic spells and physical attacks bombard the body of the Sixth Commandment and when the [Trance] effect wore off, the Sixth Commandment roared in pain but his roar is more like a thin scream that when he did so, our ears starts to bleed and our eyesight started to make a few blurs.

"PAINFUL! SO PAINFUL! YOU ALL WILL PAY FOR THIS!"

He raised his hands but he didn't summon anything, instead, his size grew and he became a towering monster that seemed to be summoned somewhere. He then slammed down his arms to the ground and shook the whole place and we are forced to fall back when the attack came down.

[You have been inflicted with [Status Curse]. Your stats will decrease by 10 every 50 seconds while the effect is on effect. Cannot be removed.]

Damn! Unremovable debuff and it is the worst kind to the boot! 10 stat points will decrease every 50 seconds. It might sound not that bad but it was very bad since not only one of your random stats but all stats will decrease 10 points and once it decreased by 10 points, your damage output will also plummet and your ability to fight back will also lessen its effectiveness. That also means the maximum HP we are lowered alongside the MP and that made the whole situation very bad, even for Sigma who specialized in absolute defense will be torn like a paper in a matter of prolonged battle.

What makes this debuff worse, it is unremovable so there is no way to cancel the effect and stop it from doing the troublesome effect of decreasing 10 stats per 50 seconds. You can say that to prevent this from being a bother, we have to speedrun and reduce the HP of the Sixth Commandment to zero.

Then, the Versatile Weapon vibrated before the Shadow Dragon inside peeks out from my sword with its tongue licking in anticipation. For some unknown reason, this guy is hungry once again.