Hello, hello it's is Chaos again with another chapter of The Way of the Forgotten.
I decided to add Artemis to the pairing as all of you want it. Now they won't get together for some time. As for Diana and Alya they will get together in 4th year if everything will go as planned. Now I am not good in romance so don't flame me if I will do some stupid mistakes as it will be the first time that I am writing something like that (any tips are welcome). I am saying it now, I won't write lemons. No, just no if there is someone that will want to write them for me go ahead and pm me but I won't do it. I am just to green in this whole writing stuff.
Now I know that I am sticking a lot of cannon and I am sorry for that. It's just that I won't go get to later years, so I can begin putting in my plot. But I saw that it might not be so good idea and I prepared a mini arc before 3rd year, I don't know how long it will be but I was hoping to put it in one chapter which didn't work out.
Thank you for the follows and reviews. You can put your ideas and questions in reviews or pm. I will do a little Q&A in next chapter if you guys will have questions.
EDIT: IMPORTANT QUESTION, I AM PLANNING FOR DIANA TO NOT TAKE PART IN TRI-WIZARD TROURNAMENT, PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU AGREE WITH THAT, DON'T WORRY IT WILL STILL PLAY A BIG PART IN THE STORY.
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Chapter 11. Summer and a fight
After finally getting back home, both girls decided to take some time to relax and spend it with their family. Sirius and Emily were glad that the girls don't want to focus only on their training and want to spend some time with them. They know that Diana has a big legacy to uphold and Alya doesn't want to leave her alone, but still they wish that they would sometimes just give it some rest and act like normal kids their age.
Well it is a wishful thinking.
For the first week this was exactly what they did with sometimes going to dungeon nothing more. Unfortunately, everything that's is good ends pretty fast and both girls went back to their routine. It is not to say that they don't like it, no, on the contrary, they love training and fighting as it is now in their blood. Every fight makes them stronger and every second of training takes them closer to creating new techniques.
Speaking of new skills. Diana after three weeks into summer finally managed to create one of the new attacks.
Due to your hard training and combining of Flash Step and Daggers Proficiency you created a new skill
- Quick Attack (Active) lv.1/50 (0%)
User dash forward at blinding speed while attacking the target ONCE and reappearing behind it. This attack is easy to dodge but it's speed can be brought up with training.
100% crit chance.
Crit multiplier: 2x-5x (perks and skills don't affect it)
Cost: 2000 MP DMG: 10000 (attack can be made stronger by adding elemental power to it)
When Diana finally completed it and read its description she was torn, from one side this attack will be the really good finisher or just an attack to get behind the enemy, but from the other side the cost of the attack and its big chance to miss is not so good. Of course for now it is, the skill says that its speed can be brought up by training and this is what Diana will be doing.
Alya now that she knows how the attack must look know that it will take her probably another two or three days before she gets it right.
Regarding the second skill, both girls are almost done with compresing its power and soon will be working to make it invisible.
Apart from that both girls started having hunter dreams again. It came as a surprise as Alya never had those dreams, but was happy to get them. Those dreams focused on magic. Not the magic that wizard use, but the one that hunters of old used in fights with demons. They were shown that even if someone don't have an affinity towards, for example earth, they can still use their magic to control it to a smaller degree. For example, creating wall of stone, sending simple blasts of fire or creating streams of lightning.
While attack like those are draining on one's magic they are still helpful. That is why both Alya and Diana dedicated their time to learn it to at least some degree for now. To their surprise even though both girls can use magic like that, they never got a new skill. After some discussion both girls came to conclusion that the game creates and shows only the most important skills or they would be spammed to death by it.
Along with their training, spending time with family and fighting in dungeons, Diana and Alya are still wondering when the damn egg will hatch. Their observe is not telling them anything, well apart from the question marks. They can feel that it is getting closer to hatching as the energy in it is building up but how long will it take? No one knows.
Since the welcoming feast last year Diana is still trying to figure out what is the feeling that she gets in her Mindscape. She tried to search it whole many times, but always got nothing. One time she tried to do the same thing that she has done when she was connecting her magic with her mind, but the only thing that she got in return was a headache. After that, she figured out that it has something to do with her meditation skill, so that is why she focused to level it up. And let me tell you this shit ain't easy. Just 2 days ago, she got it to level 92 and she got this skill for almost 8 years and it is not as easy to train as her elemental skills as she needs to first get rid of her whole menu and then go meditate, then repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat... yeah you get the idea.
At least leveling up her meditation is rising her stats and the feeling is getting stronger. If she focuses on it she might get it down before Christmas comes. And she really needs to get rid of it fast as it is getting annoying. Of course the feeling itself is not as annoying as Alya telling her that she lost her mind and then laughing at her.
Diana really hopes that getting the skill up to level 100 will solve the problem, apart from that she wonders if something will happen when it levels up.
Apart from that both girls are dealing with their own problems. Well, they are the same problems, but they would never talk about them with each other. Diana started to notice that even though she is a girl and naturally she should be attracted to boys, that is not the case with her. She really don't know what to think about it. Diana always trained in fighting and magic, not the working on the relationships between people. So even though she might be mature Diana is wondering how nice it would be to be taught things like that when she was younger... well if she can't figure it out soon, she will speak with Emily as speaking to Alya that she is attracted to her might be a bit too embarrassing for her.
As for Alya? Well, she knows a little bit more about relationships between people and while she knows that it is possible for a woman to be with another woman, Alya never really thought about it too much. Because of that she is in a similar situation as Diana but the only reason that she had not gone her mother yet, is because she is too embarrassed.
And that is why so many awkward situations got created between the two girls lately. The amount of blushing and stuttering that the two girls are doing is pretty funny if someone was to ask their parents that are sometimes watching the interactions. While both Emily and Sirius know that soon they need to speak with them about it or the girls will go mad, for now they decided to have some fun with them.
So for now both girls are dancing around themselves like chickens without heads, without any idea what to do.
As of now, both girls are sitting in their training room after completing another shadow dungeon.
"We are already a few weeks into the summer and we have not done anything special yet. Our training is going pretty good, we are still sending some information to Daniel so he will stick to his routine. So what now, you know that I like to train, but we still need to figure out what is going on with the demons that are disappearing," Alya said while running her hand through her hair.
Diana frowned, it is true that they didn't make any progress in their investigation and this is bad, "I have only one idea how we go about it. but first I will need to check some things so I can see if it is possible to do this during this summer. Apart from that I would like to try the new dungeon tomorrow, I unlocked it long time ago, so now I want to check it out."
Her friend raised an eyebrow before gaining a look of understanding, "Right, I completely forgot about the dungeon. The shadow one while is good to train our senses, it is getting too easy."
"Yeah, it is time for something new besides has a feeling that it will finally challenge us."
"I will believe it when I see it, I just hope that it won't be a total joke," Diana snickered at that, even though the gaming system in very useful, it's sometimes like to make idiots out of them so they wouldn't be surprised when it happens tomorrow.
"Don't worry if it is a joke I will need to only get 2 more levels in ID create and we have another dungeon," Alya pouted at her when she heard that, it is not her fault that this system is making fun out of her lately.
Diana blushed a little at how cute Alya looked here, but quickly turned away and got a hold of herself, she still don't really know what is happening to her. Sometimes she curses the day when she decided to read only books about fighting and training. Some other casual knowledge would be nice there.
Alya's pout quickly turned into a smirk when she saw the blush and quickly went and gathered Diana into a hug, "Aww, are you blushing?"
Diana's whole self control went away and turned red and started stuttering, "n-n-no no-nothing like th-that," hearing that Alya smirked even wider, while she might be too embarrassed to speak with someone her attraction to Diana, it doesn't mean that she won't tease her friend. It is the only moment when Alya can get a rise out of her.
Finally deciding that it is enough embarrassment for now, Alya released her and spoke, "So for today we are done and tomorrow we are going exploring?"
Diana still flustered, answered quickly, "Yeah, apart from that I need to send a letter and if I get an affirmative, we might be able to do something about our demon problem."
Alya nodded and stood up, "Alright, if it is all I am going to see what mom and brother are doing."
Diana sighed as Alya left the room and she let herself fall on the back of the couch. Alya started to tease her since they came back from school and she doesn't really have any answer to that. Guess growing up in an orphanage where no one wants to speak with you leave one with poor social abilities. Sighing again she waved her hand to summon herself some paper and a pen before beginning to write a letter that might give the two girls some possibilities.
Next day, training room
"Ready?"
"Yeah, let's get over this, I want to see what we have been waiting for almost half a year," said Alya with a smirk.
"Alright, ID Create: lvl. 25," The world around them started to shimmer and like a few seconds ago they were standing in their training room, now they were standing on a road that was leading to the big city. One could compare it to the likes of New York or even Tokyo with the big number of skyscrapers. Just when both of the girls wanted to move so they could explore and check what monster are in the city, a big blue box appeared before them and everything around them froze.
WARNING
You are entering Demon Dungeon Class-C, most of the enemies here are demons created artificially so they won't give standard drop. All of the demons are minimum High D-class, therefore be prepared for hard fights against more than one enemy.
It is the last chance to escape. Do you want to proceed?
YES/NO
Both girls looked at each other and smirked, well they got what they wanted, a challenge.
"So are we going in?" questioned Diana.
"Yep, although, I feel that it will be harder than anything that we fought till this day," answered Alya, this might not be easy, but they were waiting for this so there is no reason to back down now.
"I hoped that you won't say that, it is bad luck."
Alya laughed at her, "Well, that I can agree to. If something happens, it will be on me."
Diana only shook her head and clicked the YES on the screen so they could proceed. The world around them unfrozen and the girls started walking forward.
After finally getting into the city they started to hear all kinds of sounds coming from every side of the city. Diana and Alya were not scared as they both knew that those are the sounds of demons, but even then the number of them was pretty big. The most demons that they fought at the same time was when they found two speed High D rank demons, while the fight was not hard as they already fought a lot stronger c rank, it was still annoying to focus on two fast moving demons and not one.
After walking for about 5 minutes both girls decided to flash step on a roof so they could scout the area. From what they gathered Diana cannot sense anything in this dungeon so the sensing ability on long ranges is probably disabled in this city. Not good, but bearable.
After they got to the highest building in the area they came to the sight of about 3 tank type demons that were almost two times bigger than the normal D-class kind. From observing they read that those demons are almost 2 times stronger in terms of HP and strength but nothing more.
Of course they were not all the demons that were standing on the street in this group, no there were two more demon types.
The first one looked like some kind of worm with long body and three strong legs with claws on each side, they also had two tubes coming from their backs and Diana and Alya for the world could not guess why there were here. From what the girls could see there were 5 of those demons and every one of them was at least High D rank and they also had the boost.
The second type was more surprising. Both girls knew that there were flying types of demons, but it is the first time that they see one. Luckily, there were only two of them so they can always focus on taking them out first. Those demons looked similar to the speed ones, they had blades instead of hands, their legs were clawed and from their back two wings build of pure energy were coming out.
Observe showed that they also preferred speed, but had high pools of mana which was surprising. Fortunately for the girls the demons were glass canons so if they can land a hit on them with one of their most powerful attacks they should be dead.
Just when Diana and Alya wanted to attack the flying demons which were called zaoars, the demons released a loud shriek and focused of the two huntresses.
"Here goes our surprise attack, anyway, I will try to distract the ground bound demons when you try to take down the zaoars, I don't want to find out why they need such big mana pool," Diana said while frowning, while she is pretty sure that they can beat them it will be hard to focus on every enemy there is.
Alya nodded, "Alright, if you can get them off me for some time I can make it rain."
Diana smirked at that as she knows what her friend is planning, now she only needs to distract them.
Just when she wanted to create 'firestorm' so the monsters would focus on her, both girls needed to jump away from a big number of energy shards raining down on them.
After landing some distance away, Diana saw that those projectiles came from one of the zaoars, it looks like this is the reason for big mana pools if the number of shards is anything to go by. It looks like they won't give her time to prepare any attack, well she will need to try something else instead.
Diana saw 2 of the tanks going in Alya's direction so she quickly flash stepped herself next to the demons and delivered a bala to each of them. Even though the attack didn't do more than angering them, Diana knew that now they will focus on her.
Before she could deliver more hits to tanks, she needed to flash away from another rain of shards. Normally she would start flashing herself into the air and kill the zaoars, but they were too fast and she doesn't have any skill to stay airborne for now so she can't even focus on attacks while in air.
Meanwhile Alya was jumping away from the bombs of dark energy that exploded on impact. It looks like those tubes on the worm demons backs can release bombs of the size of a soccer ball. Now this would not be a problem, but those fucking bombs can destroy half of a one story house, now this is pretty fucked up. Next, it appears that those worms are the rare type of demons that can go under the ground, fortunately they can not shoot those bombs from there.
Now if she needed to fight two or even three of those, then she could probably win it pretty easy, but she needs to fucking dodge bombs from five of those demons. The only thing that Alya can do is to dodge those attacks while sending small attacks of lightning. From what she observed those fuckers have almost the same amount of HP as tanks so if she or Diana won't think of any better plan they will stay here for some time.
Dina at the time that Alya was having fun with worms, managed to get the attention of the rest of the tanks and the zaoars. Now she would be proud of this accomplishment if it was not for her need to dodge every second. If it is not a charge from one of the tanks, then she needs to jump away from the rain of shards.
For now she only uses 'Bala' to deal some damage from time to time when she can flash next to the tank and apart from that she is using one of her first tactics against demons. She is leaving small pools of dark energy on the ground so they would act like land mines. Now, while her darkness element doesn't have the biggest amount of damage it is still good plus it slows down the tanks with its passive effect.
Now she is going in the direction that she heard some explosions as she still needs the attention of worms so Alya can prepare her attack. She was as much surprised as Alya when she saw what the tubes could do, she even snickered a little when she saw Alya dancing around all of the bombs, but in the same moment she needed to dodge another volley of shards, "karma is a bitch," she thought.
Diana quickly flashed herself some distance away and instantly created two cero in her hand and flashed herself again to avoid another volley. Reappearing an another roof, she pointed her ceros on the worm like demons and fired, in the same moment she added about 2000 of mana to armor as she already saw the projectiles coming down on her and she couldn't cast any strong shield with her hands occupied. Her fast reacting shield charm would break after one attack so there is no point in casting it.
Her cross went straight towards the group of three worms and in the same moment the shards connected with Diana taking almost 500 HP each. Taking under consideration that those attacks were coming from two demons that can fire those shards at insane speed, she lost almost 250k armor in 3 seconds before she could flash away.
When she appeared some distance away, she quickly applied another 2k mana to her armor and started dodging the attacks again. She still felt some pain from all of the attacks, but now is not the time for whining.
Apart from that her ceros attacks connected with the 3 worms and now they are attacking her. Diana quickly decided that it would now be a good time to take those demons away from Alya so she could finish those two worms and prepare for attack.
This is exactly what Alya was doing. When she saw three of the worm demons going away with the group that Diana brought she released a sigh of relief and summoned her daggers. She channelled lightning in them before beginning her onslaught. While she might not be as fast as Diana, she is still a lot faster than all the attacks that the two worms can muster so without wasting more time she began to use 'dance of blades' to extract more damage.
The worms couldn't even spot her so they started to throw the bombs in all directions, while their number was not too big now that there were only two of them, they were still annoying and Alya needed to be careful where she flashes.
After another 5 minutes of Alya's attacks, both demons finally died. Alya released a deep breath as she used a lot of mana in a short time to defeat enemies with such big amount of HP.
Knowing that she needs to hurry up to help her friend, she sat down for a half a minute and used meditation to get at least her mana back. Meditation might be able to give you back HP and MP but it can't heal the strain that all of the fast movements and attacks put on one's body. Even the Gamer's body can't help with it.
Quickly getting up, Alya started flashing herself in the direction of the explosions that the worm's bombs are causing.
She came to the sight of a completely destroyed buildings and streets. She could see the blur that was her friend and even could catch some of her heavy breaths. Diana must not have too much mana left if she needs to use her pure speed instead of flash step to dodge the attacks.
Alya then flashed herself to one the building roof and started to collect mana into her palms.
Diana meanwhile, is having a time of her life, apart from almost being out of her mana she got hit a few times when she lost the sight of some demons. Even her sensing can't help her in every situation and she is getting pretty annoyed. For now she decided to stop using flash step and start using her pure speed to dodge the attacks.
One thing that she decided that she needs to do after the fight is to train fast movement combat without using flash step, she started to use it way too much. While her current skill without flashing is good, it could be a lot better. That is one thing that she noted to train later. Another thing is shielding, while she can dodge a lot of things, Diana needs a technique that can shield more powerful attacks so she can get a breather and prepare her own technique.
Apart from her dark wave she doesn't really have anything else to shield powerful attacks. Now that she thinks about it there is one skill that also uses darkness that she used to shield herself on time in the past.
Giving herself a nod, she stopped herself in the center of the battlefield and surrounded herself in a black dome. At first only the shard projectiles came at her, next were the bombs form worm demons and the last were the three tank demons that charged at her. Diana held the dome with her magic quickly going down when she finally sensed the tanks connecting with her dome.
In this exact moment she poured 90% of her remaining Mona and released the dome. The release created a Shockwave of darkness that went through the whole battlefield, dealing a good amount of damage and stunning all of the demons.
Diana fell on her knees while taking deep breaths. She can feel her magic screaming at her and telling her to give it some rest after the technique she just used. It was experimental, so she should expect something like that to happen.
After about 10 seconds she saw the demons coming to themselves so she knew that it is time to run. Fortunately for her at this exact moment she saw tons of lightnings going towards the sky. She breathed a sigh of relief and used the remaining magic to flash herself to a safe distance.
Just when she stopped on one of the roofs she saw the first lighting come down on the battlefield that she was just on. After the first one, another followed and another and another. after a 2 seconds the battlefield was filled with lighting strikes.
When the lighting rain stopped Diana quickly flashed herself closer to the battlefield to take a look if anything survived. Luckily nothing remained and Diana flashed to the place that she could feel Alya's energy.
Reappearing on another roof, she saw Alya sitting cross legged and breathing deeply, Diana smiled at her, "You alright? This was one hell of a light show."
Alya released a tired chuckle, "I think that I should be the one asking you that question, you were the one that was dancing around almost 10 demons, not me, plus from what I felt, you tried another experimental skill out there."
Diana laughed lightly and settled herself next to Alya, "You might be right and I probably created new defensive skill, but now tell me how was your attack."
Alya smiled at that, "It is getting better, while it still drains more than 80% of my mana it is getting a little faster to create. Still, if it was not for you stunning them all I think that at least one of them would escape the rain."
'The rain' a technique created by Alya, It takes almost all of her mana and instead of creating a rain of water, it changes the water to lighting. It is pretty slow to create and at first easy to escape, but when the 3 first lightings comes down you can't really escape what is coming after. It is a good skill to destroy enemies that are slow and can't stop you while you create it, but against a faster enemy there is no way in utilizing it. That's why Alya is trying to reduce the time needed to create it, but she is trying to create a sub-techniques that are faster but deal less damage.
"I don't know about that, but still if you can get it to create faster you will have an amazing skill... Anyway... I wonder if the fight would be even half as hard if those demons were not boosted," inquired Diana.
Alya thought about it for a moment and answered, "Probably not, they gained a lot of speed from those boosts and those bomb fuckers would probably be a lot weaker."
Diana nodded and laughed at the bomb remark, "Yeah, you are probably right, there is no way that flying D-class demon would be able to fire so many projectiles in a second. Anyway, let's relax for a minute and then we need to start clearing the city or we will be here forever. At least now we know how to fight against them."
Alya frowned a little when she thought about clearing the whole city, "Damn... it won't be easy huh?"
Diana smirked and replied, "Nope... Now come on we need to hurry up or mom and dad will kill us."
Alya paled a little and got up, "That's right. Come on, get up we need to get going."
Diana only shook her head while looking at her amusedly but nonetheless followed her.
Form here both girls were a lot more careful and prepared before clearing each group. Most of the demons were the same as in the first one, but there were a few of pure speed types and even some spider like demons that could throw some kind of acid on them.
While the fights were not too easy, the girls gained more experience with each battle and after 6th group they started to go through them without bigger problems if they had a good plan.
After a few hours the whole city was cleared and Diana and Alya were standing in a clearing of the park that was placed in the center of the city. If they are right the boss should appear now that they defeated all monsters.
After waiting for a few minutes they decided to go for another round around the city to check if they left something, but at this moment a portal appeared and from it came demon that had posture like human. The demon was big, about 7 ft and pretty bulky, although most of its body was hidden behind some sort of armor. The armor itself was pure black and looked like it was created by some kind of dragon scales. From each shoulder 2 spikes were coming out with the same happening on the back of the demons thighs.
Apart from that from his back 4 wings made of pure energy were coming out. They looked the same as with the zaoars so they probably can also shoot the same shards, Diana cursed under her breath, she should know that shit like that will happen.
Diana and Alya didn't waste any more time and used observe about him.
Mikar lvl. 100 (High C-rank) WARNING: BOOSTED monster
HP: 200k
MP:100k
STR: 390
VIT: 387
DEX: 383
INT: 421
WIS: 311
INFO: Mikar is artificially created demon for the needs of demon dungeon. He can't speak, but possesses an ability to think like any other c-class demon. Originally he was a C-classed demon, but with the dungeon boost he is much stronger.
"Well shit," was the thought running through heads of both girls. If it was just standard High class, then dealing with it together would not be that hard. Now, though the only stat that Diana has higher than Mikar is Wis, yeah not too helpful.
Both girls looked at each other and nodded, first they need to see what this demon can do. They summoned their daggers and went to rush the demon when he jumped into the air and started firing his shard projectiles at them. They were a lot faster than those from zaoars and bigger.
Alya created a wall of water in front herself to test the strength of those projectiles and Diana created dark wave. Both of their defenses didn't last long and both girls got hit with a few of the shards before they could flash away.
Alya this time started to run around the clearing and send some lightning attacks at the demon only to have them blocked with some of his projectiles. Diana meanwhile channeled wind magic into her daggers and used dance of blades on Mikar.
The demon was most certainly not expecting her to appear before him and start to appear and disappear around him. That caused him to lost focus and stop his onslaught with his wings. He only managed to catch one of the strikes with his armored hand.
Diana was not expecting this and because of that Mikar grabbed her before thrusting her towards the ground with full force and then sending a blast of black fire at her.
Diana hit the ground with full force, but managed to cast a very strong shield so it could defend her from the fire. Alya took this moment to send a lighting dragon at the demon, this was one of her most powerful attacks apart from 'the rain'. Mikar went back to the ground and his wings became a lot shorter. Then he summoned two black swords from somewhere and with their help send a wave of fire in X formation at the dragon.
The two attacks fought for a second before canceling each other. Then Mikar brought one hand to the place where his mouth should be and Alya in the moment felt a big amount of magic coming from him.
In this moment Mikar released from his hand a big firestorm of black flames that were coming towards her. Alya has been just second away from using almost half of her mana to summon a big wave of water to block the attack when Diana appeared before her and did the same thing as Mikar and released a firestorm of violet flames.
The two types of flames started to battle each other, after about a half a minute Diana's fire started to win and push back the black flames. The demon seeing this finished his attack and again brought out his wings and shoot in the air. Diana did the same and again brought out her daggers before dodging another volley of shards.
Alya sees that Mikar's focus is on Diana, created a cero in her hand and fired it at the demon. Mike has never seen such attack before and tried to block it with a wall of flames, unfortunately for him cero still went through the defense and while it was weakened from the wall, it still hurt him.
Knowing that his fire is weaker than the fire of his opponent, he again went down on the ground and summoned his swords before disappearing from the sight. He reappeared a second later next to Alya with his sword ready to cut off her head. Alya thanks to her sensing training managed to block the attack in the last second with both of her daggers and kick Mikar back.
Mikar even though getting kicked back managed to send some shards at Alya which she couldn't dodge in time. They managed to take some of her armor away.
Just when the demon wanted to rush his enemy again, he needed to cross his blades at his chest when a beam of energy came straight at him and pushed him some distance away while creating a cloud of smoke.
At this moment Diana appeared next to Alya and nodded to her, "Tough demon huh? He managed to block overpowered cero with fucking swords, although I got notification that half of the damage still went through."
Alya winced a little when she saw Diana's destroyed outfit, "He got you pretty hard, you alright?"
Diana shrugged, "Mehh... hurt a little, but something like that won't take me down. Still, I will be sore tomorrow."
Alya looked into the distance where the cloud of smoke was disappearing and saw the demon coming out of it, "It looks like we need to cut this conversation short, but now that you are here what do you say, together?"
Diana smirked at her and brought her daggers out, "Together."
The girls and Mikar disappeared in a burst of speed without using any techniques. They meet in a center with a clang of blades. Diana and Alya using their daggers and Mikar using both of his swords and wings to block the attacks from both girls. Alya was focusing more on staying in the battle as she was less experienced in close quarters than Diana as she preferred long range fights.
Diana meanwhile, was trying to combine the weapon fight along with sending small amounts of fire and wind at Mikar.
Mikar was also focusing on dealing with both of the annoyances. While he mostly used his swords to block the attacks, he also needed to utilize his wings to block as four weapons against two was not too easy, especially when those weapons are used by two opponents. From time to time he was able to send some projectiles from his wings at the girls and land some hits, but is the same moments he also got overwhelmed and hit a few times before he again used his wings to block.
This went on for about 10 minutes with both sides getting some hits. Diana saw that while she could still probably go for another few minutes, Alya was tiring faster than her. She activated magic augmentation for a second to overpower Mikar and kicked him in the stomach to throw him back a few feet. Then she looked Alya straight into eyes while using a little of legilimency and send her quick message, "Back down and prepare something for him, I will hold him for a minute no longer."
Alya nodded back to show that she understood and flashed away, Diana again used 'dance of blades' but Mikar this time only got hit once before he again caught her hand and threw her away while sending some shards in her direction.
Diana cursed and repositioned herself in the air so she could land on her feet. She then spun around and send a 'dark wave' towards the projectiles to counter them. Taking the advantage of being behind her wave she created a cero with half of her mana left and fired it straight through the wave.
Mikar this time saw the beam of energy coming and only got hit with some of the explosions on the side.
Mikar HP: 86200 - 9200 = 77000
Diana frowned a little, "so he dodged it, but still got hit by the explosion as it still dealt almost all basic damage even though it was overpowered," she sighed and prepared herself to continue the fight.
Luckily for her at this exact moment Alya decided to use her technique and 5 lighting blades dig themselves around the downed Mikar. Before he could even react all of the blades got connected by strands of lightning and then a big explosion of lightning occurred in the area that the blades were covering.
Diana did not waste even a second and send a dragon made of fire at the explosion to deal more damage.
Finally the explosion and fire died out and a kneeling Mikar with destroyed armor stood there while releasing heavy breaths. His body was covered in burns and black marks from the explosion. He still had his two swords in his hands. Quick observes showed that he lost 37000 HP leaving him with 40k. Before either Alya or Diana could go and finish him, Mikar stood up and shoot up in the sky with his four wings out.
Diana and Alya backed off when they saw him charging energy to his blades, then his eyes fell on the girls and they instantly got ready. Diana though quickly turned to Alya and said, "Alya, I got an idea and even if it won't work he should be open after it enough for you to hit him with something strong."
Alya hesitated for a moment before nodding, Diana knows what she is doing, at least she hopes so.
Diana meanwhile brought out her skills and selected one of them.
- Quick Attack (Active) lv.7/50 (17%)
User dash forward at blinding speed while attacking the target ONCE and reappearing behind it. This attack is easy to dodge but it's speed can be brought up with training.
100% crit chance.
Crit multiplier: 2x-5x (perks and skills don't affect it)
Cost: 1820 MP DMG: 13000 (attack can be made stronger by adding elemental power to it)
Yeah, it may not be the best idea, but even if she will miss, Mikar should be distracted enough for Alya to hit him. But to be safe Diana added another 100 points into luck leaving her with 85 points. With 400 luck, it might finally give her something positive.
In the next second she saw Mikar going straight at her so not wasting anymore time she activated magic augmentation and added wind to her daggers. With that done, she waited for the right moment and then murmured before disappearing, "Quick Attack."
She reappeared some way in the air where Mikar was previously and in the next moment she heard a big explosion behind her. Unfortunately, at the same moment she felt the big amount of pain coming from her back and got a warning notification.
HP: 733/19250
The next thing she knew was falling down through the air straight towards the ground. Luckily, just when she was to hit the ground someone caught her and placed her down, "Damn, almost worked perfectly, but still in a second you should get level up so some of the pain will go away."
And Alya was right as in the next moment another notification came out.
Mikar HP: 40000 - (13000 + 3200) x3 = 0
Congratulation you leveled up!
Name: Diana Rose Black
HP: 19425 - 3,8% reg every 20 sec
MP: 17675 - 3,7% reg every 10 sec
AR: 111000
Race: Divine Huntress/ Ancient Dragoness
Title: Seasoned Hunter
Level: 111 Exp: 63000/444000
STR: 206 (+17%) = 241
VIT: 282 (+17%) = 329
DEX: 295 (+17%) = 345
INT: 278 (+19%) = 330
WIS: 276 (+19%) = 329
LUC: 400
Money: 3kk $ 110k G
SP: 90
PP: 3
Instantly Diana felt better, her wound on the back closed along with other cuts. Unfortunately, she was still too tired and sore to do anything so she blushed a little and looked at Alya, "Will you carry me? I don't know If I have the strength to even stand up."
Alya also blushed, but then quickly smiled and nodded, "Alright, but first let's see what we got from the dungeon," Diana nodded to that and brought the screen that showed the rewards.
Congratulations you defeated Demon dungeon for the first time.
Your rewards:
-200k $ and 5k G from loot
-Demon's heart shards x3
-100k EXP for completing the dungeon
Nothing special apart from the new heart shards, but still the dungeon itself is good. Diana then turned to Alya and said, "Alright, I am taking us out of the dungeon so if you can please grab me and then put me in my bed."
Alya raised an eyebrow, but then saw the world shimmering so she quickly grabbed Diana just in time to see her close her eyes, "Ahh, so that's what you meant," with that Alya took Diana to her room and placed her on a bed before going back to her own room and going to sleep, she doesn't' have the energy to do anything else
Alright so I am cutting it right here as I already have 7k+ words.
I am really sorry for taking so much time with this chapter but I at first needed to think soem things through and then I want on vacation so you see.
Now I wanted to carry on with the chapter but I decided to make the next part of the summer in the next chapter.
I want to thank you all for the follows and reviews and I am hoping that you liked the new chapter as I had a blast writing the fight scenes. I might be a beginner at that but I still feel good about them. Let me know if you liked them.
Chaos out.