Chapter 21: Enhancing The Raid

"S-senior?" Elon Immediately remarked, after he beheld the destruction the person in his view unleashed on the enemies. "Appraisal!"

"Hmm?"

[ Name: Foel Mirage

Gender: Female

Race: Tanomobi | Mutant | ???

Age: 467

Mana Deposited: 7825(A)

Mana Gathering Speed: 30 per hour average (G-)

Physical Prowess: 892(A)

Intelligent: 735(A)

Soul: 1267(S)

Charisma: 456(B)

Cultivation Law: Huntsmen Of Darkness (Grade C) | Iron Might (Grade C) | Scattering Petals Of Thousand Palms (Grade B) | Rigid Shadow Without Mist (Grade C) | Fiery Fire Of Molten Heart (Grade A)

Cultivation Phase: Golden Orb | Symbols Pill Condensation

Golden Orb: Encapsulating Storage Orb (Grade F)

Soul Pill's Symbols: (4 Pills): Iron-Strength-Endurance-Hardness | Petals-Lightness-Flowing-Serenity | Unknown-Darkness-Night-Null | Fortitude-Truth-Molten-Heart

Blessings: None

Technique: Tearing Scar | Concentrated Dark Energy Eruption | Scattering Palms | 109 Weapons Master ]

The holographic screen that can only be seen by Elon. To Foel, she only saw a young man focusing their eyes into something in the air in front of him.

'Multiple cultivation laws!? Is it possible?? What is soul symbol pills!?' Elon thought, as he doesn't know the existence of physical cultivation. Even his system doesn't differentiate between mana and physical cultivation.

'She was one stage lower than me yet her action was decisive while minimizing the use of mana, fierce and gallant… Dual cultivation.' Elon's face reddened a bit as he was a virgin himself. 'She must be someone's cultivation partner.'

While the Calamities were shredded into pieces, Foel brandished her giant claymore to the flabbergasted man. "I can see that you're ogling me, young man. Don't you think that a higher phase in the road of greatness means you're domineering me by any means."

"I deeply apologize." Elon bowed after he regained his stance, putting his fist to his other palm. "I'm currently searching for two of my friends that have been wandering too far from the Citadel. Senior, please help me find them! I'll give you 10 high grade mana crystals!"

"Huh?" Foel reacted with a reluctant sneer. "Those crystals were insignificant if you want to use them as an offer."

"Truly, as someone who is as mighty as Senior." Elon then noticed the disparities of senior physical prowess and mana gathering. He was thinking that an artifact would be a better object to barter for her help instead. He also sees Foel as someone who wasn't greedy because of that, and a good image of her began to fill up within Elon's head.

Of course, the reason why Foel rejected the mana crystal offer was that she knew and believed that her husband could make more. Foel wasn't a fool, by rejecting the offer, she gained a first phase impression of her target.

She was also intentionally giving him a space and time by holding off the crowd of monstrosity with her numerous flying weapons. Calamities will definitely not attack her in this raid as they see Foel as her own; she wanted to give a false sense of security to Elon.

Elon took out a palm-size black bead with red crescent from his pocket space. "A Retaining Night Moon, it could nourish Senior's body considering that Senior has a strong affinity with darkness and the night."

"How did you know?"

In a blink, the claymore was placed near the man's blood vessel on his neck. A drop of sweat was eaten by the ground. As he thinks twice to ensure the word he throws to be convincing, he continued his speech, "I have an innate ability to appraise the energy affinity of someone. Please, Senior! help me find my friends!"

"I see, your worry for your companions is genuine. I'll help you search for them."

"I will pay your kindness ten-fold in the future."

'You're a fine man, such a shame that I must kill you.'

As the frontline erupted near the Citadel walls, claws and fangs clashed with swords and steel. They threw a volley of range attacks at each other when the chances were there, the spellcaster summoned a meteor and divine rain of sword while one of the Calamities sent thousands of heat-seeking dark orbs.

There were numerous dragon-type and titan-bat types ravaging the sky with ten Usurpers trying to dispose each of them off from the walls. A wrong move would result in an instant death, some warriors were lucky enough to crack their jaw into a life-saving pill while others were annihilated instantly.

And that was only the tip of the iceberg of what was looming in this raid.

The Guardians from the Vagant Association were dealing with the high rank Calamities while the followers of Pallas gave their enhancement buffs to the frontline.

With their pace the Usurpers would fend the raid with atleast quarter of the Citadel's losses. Hope was in sight! The valiant army of kindling fire within the storm was brave enough to withstand the gale.

Then their pace was disrupted when the Calamities that were supposed to have no range attack capabilities, started to blast an organic kinetic projectile, travelling at the speed of sound.

"W-what is happening!?"

"Amplify the barrier! An unknown force has interrupted!"

It wasn't an unknown force at all.

"What are these Calamities!? Since when did Ravagers have a cannon on their limbs!?"

"A new variant! Sent the news to the rear that there was a new var—"

Before the Usurpers could finish their speech, a gaping hole was replacing his face. Nobody saw it coming.

"Tch! Everyone! Fortify the barrier!"

"Even the Koltis and Yelper! All of them can do range attacks!"

"Enhance your physical protection! Those are not an elemental attack made by mana!"

"HELP! UGHWAAAAA!! MY STOMACH!! UWAAAAA!!—"

More and more types of Calamities began to take the trait of this organic sniper variant. The bipedal monstrosity with razor claws and fire breath began to attack from afar, not only that but some of the incoming titan-bat types also have the cancer blaster on their head.

"Immense Growth XXL and my version of Organic Cannon." The devil laughed. "Injecting the combination into a Calamity cost me nothing, and with the immense growth gene schematic as the sub gene for the organic cannon, they will be forced to use their own energy to mutate at extreme pace, becoming a brand new variant... Fufufufu, MUAHAHAHA!

"Ahhh~ such a thrill when this fire ignited, watching the fuse divided never been so excited! Imagining them as they curl and unfurl, binding the light in a swirl! Clad in darkness! So fast and destructive!"

She then hurled a heavy sigh.

"It was as easy as flipping a switch to turn a whole factory inactive."