Chapter 366 Only One Monster Left Aphex, The Moon Apostle
"..." Stark didn\'t answer.
"I\'m going to guess that he is," Aphex smirked, "But that\'s fine, that won\'t work on me, though you\'re free to try."
"Don\'t want to."
Stark\'s aura was extremely powerful, but he wasn\'t stupid enough to go for another [Banish Game], especially since he could feel that Aphex would be stronger.
Ding!
[You have killed "Tormented One", gained 70,000,000 experience points!] Your journey continues on empire
Ding! Ding!
[Your level has increased to level 130, granting you five skill points and a boost in stats.]
[Your level has increased to level 131, granting you five skill points and a boost in stats.]
[Experience: 21,545,000/26,000,000] (level 131)
And of course, the fact he went past level 130 could only mean one thing.
Ding!
[Level 130 Reached: Pick Two Cards]
"Huh?"
The text now said two instead of one!
Was his class trying to help him out while he was a tough situation?
Who knows, but new skills were always helpful, so he wasn\'t about to give up on a bonus one.
Ding!
And so around Stark appeared dozens of cards.
"What the-"
Yet again, this was something that had never happened before, instead the max had been 5, though he couldn\'t be really surprised as events like these weren\'t that uncommon.
He couldn\'t summon his [Ultimate Clone] or [Superior Clone] either, since none of his clones were available because of the cooldown.
"..." Stark looked up to make sure the moon apostle didn\'t attack, and just as expected, he kept staring at the human with a wide smile.
Until Aphex decided to go down himself, Stark couldn\'t really reach him anyway, so instead he focused on the skills.
"Alright," Stark looked back at the cards, who now began to spin around him, "Damn."
Closing his eyes, he picked two cards at random.
And once he opened them...
Ding! Ding!
In his hands were the two cards, with their usual style.
One had the drawings of a falling meteor, while the second was... an axe cutting off the right arm of a stickman figure.
"Huh."
Still making sure to keep an eye on Aphex and the weird black demon protecting Follower, he decided to read the descriptions of his newly acquired skills.
[Skill: Meteor Crash (Mythical)]
[Description: Summon a blazing meteor from the heavens to crash at a designated location, dealing catastrophic damage to all enemies within a 30-meter radius. The impact creates an intense shockwave that stuns nearby enemies for 3 seconds and leaves a fiery zone behind it, has a 5 minutes cooldown.]
"Nice," that was actually pretty damn good, and very useful with enemies as it added another skill that he could use from long range.
Plus, this one seemed very powerful even from far, the description itself saying it was devastating damage.
"Basically," Stark mumbled as he eyed Aphex, "It\'s perfect for my situation..." he smiled.
It was as if his class itself had realized what his problem was and answere accordingly.
But then, what could the other skill potentially be?
[Skill: Limb Sacrifice (Godly)]
"Huh?" Stark\'s pupils shook a little, and a sweat dropped from his brow as he saw the name and rank.
Why are the words limb sacrifice put next to one another, and why was that considered a godly level skill?!
[Description: To awaken the skill\'s full potential, one must sever one of their arms using the cursed axe that comes with the skill. The axe appears in your hand upon activation.]
[Note: In sacrifice, power blooms. The arm lost shall be the spark for an inferno untamed.]
"What the actual fuck?!"
Sacrificing one of his arms?
This is pure insanity! He wasn\'t going to do that!
Though, when he read the note, he became skeptical.
Cutting off his arms basically meant cutting his speed and power in half, but to be honest, doesn\'t he have four more available arms with [Asura\'s Arms]?
The problem with that was that his normal arms were those he was used to the most, meaning that cutting one of them off was... overwhelming, to say the least.
He would only do it as a last resort if anything happened, but until then he could manage just fine.
"Are you done?" Aphex yawned, spinning in the air, "We don\'t have all the time in the world, you know."
"Well," Stark sighed, "There\'s nothing but us, and I don\'t think the others are going to wake up anyway, so no, we in fact have all the time in the world."
"Plus, you\'re the one supposed to go down," he completed, glaring at the [Moon Apostle].
"No can do," Aphex laughed, "I\'ll just wait for you to sleep, get tired or hungry, and it\'s my win instantly."
In contrast to all other apostles, Aphex was the type to just wait for the perfect opportunity to sneak attack someone.
He had immense strength, yet still didn\'t feel like taking any risks.
"You can always try that Banish Game on me, though," Aphex suggested for the second time, seemingly really eager to try it.
But Stark simply sighed.
Aphex probably already expected every single one of his skills, and from this distance, even if he tried to throw his crimson fists or spears, a simple move would be enough for him to avoid it.
Domination Soul can\'t reach that distance either, and neither can Domi-Chains Restrain.
And though he could climb out of the crater if he wanted, leaving the two girls in there would potentially mean Aphex attempting to kill them.
Then if he tried to get them out with him, the moon apostle could also attack him from afar.
Basically, there was no real solution to leave without putting Lilith, Sora or himself at risk.
At least, that would be the case if he hadn\'t just unlocked the perfect skill for this situation.
And so, he simply pointed his finger at the sky, channeling his aura to try and use [Meteor Crash] for the first time.
Fwish! Fwish!
He sensed an energy ball in the sky, forming slowly from his aura, and once he looked up, a meteor, the size of a building, appeared.
"What the fuck?" he hadn\'t expected it to be this big!
But in the end, he simply did what he needed to do to keep himself and his friends safe, and so with a single swing of his arm downward, the meteor finished forming and immediately crashed down.
"Are you stupid, human, you can\'t use the spear anymore-" Aphex laughed, but his sentence was cut as he suddenly heard, and felt, a massive presence behind him.
While floating, he turned around, just to see the massive meteor, five times his size, coming.
"Oh, I guess I didn\'t expect that," he mumbled, the eight crimson crescent-shaped blades around him twitching.
CRASH! BOOM!
He was hit straight on, unable to avoid something this big even with his speed.
The meteor kept falling though, and Aphex was taken with it toward the crater, crashing down in a massive explosion that shook Termina again.
Stark made sure to place himself in front of Sora and Lilith to defend them, but thankfully enough they were safe.
-2,377,983!
The damage number appeared, and Stark smirked.
If he kept going like this, then maybe it could be manageable.