Chapter 150: Reverse Battle-ball (2/2)

”Anyone has any buffing or healing techniques?!” Layn suddenly shouted to his people, taking a step back on his own.

Seeing this, the entire line wobbled for a moment, threatening to collapse, yet thanks to Al quickly following suit, it somehow remained in place.

”What do you mean, healing techniques?” The massive man asked, clearly puzzled by the question.

”Something that doesn't harm the opponent,” Layn explained before bringing his eyes back at the massive monster. Ever since it appeared, it continued its slow journey forward, relentless in its desire to crush Layn and his group. ”I believe this isn't a monster, but a floating core or something. It seems to reverse all the effects of whatever enters its sphere of influence!” Layn shared his guess, not worried about the other side listening in at all.

After all, the humanoid type of build was the most versatile. It wasn't some kind of bias that Layn developed as a human himself, but something that was extensively researched in the times of his first life.

While there were many flaws in the normal human build, in general, there was hardly anything better than any living being could evolve into. As such, the fact that humanoid-like monsters have yet to reach them, most likely meant that the other side didn't have anything to get inspiration for this kind of monster yet.

As such, the chances of them being able to understand the very concept of what speech was, was pretty minimal.

”I could do it, but I don't have any mana left,” Irea volunteered before spreading her hands around with a helpless expression on her face.

”It's okay, use those stones,” Layn didn't mind wasting a bit of the mana stones. While they could be put to the best use by turning them into stone dust and used to passively continue sucking the energy out of the air, in times of need like right now, he didn't really mind using them in the way everyone else considered to be natural.

”Thanks!” Irea shouted back when she grabbed the pouch Layn sent flying towards her. A split of a second later, she poured a handful of crystals on her palm.

It wasn't hard for Layn to see what was going on. Once the stones fell on top of Irea's skin, the energy contained within started leaking out, only to be instantly absorbed into the girl's flesh and bones.

As soon as the minimal amount of energy returned to the girl's system, she created a simple construct, one that not only used the stuff that Layn taught her but some other techniques that Layn could barely recognize as a part of the cultivation tradition before blasting it forward.

From the looks of it, the spell looked like your ordinary wave of wind, aimed at either throwing the enemy off balance or actually cutting through him if the air was condensed enough.

But that wasn't the case this time.

”I wanted to show it off to you in a better moment, but I guess I didn't have the chance,” Irea muttered silently, watching how the spell reached the area of influence of the ball-like monster.

At first, the two of them just watched the situation with tense expressions. Layn continued to passively produce more and more spells that he would then instantly fire off and move on to produce more spells. He didn't want to just use passive damage like during the battle at the cave as he didn't want the Overlord opposing them to learn about this technique of his.

'After all, there are huge chances the next time we will come here, that bastard will figure out a way to oppose those spells of mine,' Layn thought, watching the trajectory of Irea's spell.

And then, it hit.

It was a sight that instantly made Layn feel like throwing up. In a single instant, the soft flesh of the monster suddenly started cracking before the entire soft-looking ball that was its body simply cracked apart and lost its cohesiveness.

The first thought Layn had, was that the thing just melted. But then he realized. It looked like it was melting because all the guts that it had inside spilled all over the place in a single instant.

And so, the monster was dead.

Yet, by the time it died, several of its identical companions already appeared on the verge of the forest.