38 Farewell, Forest Of Beginning (1/2)
Shesmu and Leo were both sitting under the shade of a tree.
”Hey, Shesmu. It's been five minutes now, do you think something happened to him?”
”Well, let's just wait for now.”
”If you say so. But I'm really get-”
”Shh.”
Finger on his lips, Shesmu signaled Leo to quiet down. From the distance, a faint noise could be heard.
”What's that?” Leo asked.
”Well, I think that the one we've been waiting for has finally come back.”
”Huh?”
Shesmu stood up and Leo followed him whilst being confused. In the distance, Shesmu could hear howling sounds. Between the noise, Shesmu could make out a cry for help.
”Ahh! Save me!”
DepressedRyan appeared from behind the trees and fled with all of his might towards the duo from a danger preying on him. From behind DepressedRyan, one wolf after the other came in running towards him.
”Help!”
Looking at the scene in front of him, Leo was in a state between fear and confusion.
”What the heck is that? How did he pull so many mobs?!”
Shesmu stood next to Leo, but contrary to the latter, he wasn't scared. In fact, he was excited. Good thing that Cross-Slash is off cooldown, I can finally test it on a live target.
”Hey, Ryan! Don't get hit!”
Shesmu warned DepressedRyan and unsheathed his sword. He didn't care whether his friend understood his warning or not. Cross-Slash!
Energy surged out of Shesmu's abdomen and flowed into his sword. Black and green light engulfed Shesmu's weapon before he swang his it horizontally. Shesmu's sword drew a crescent of energy before he changed his stance to a vertical one. With his sword at the level of his head, Shesmu slashed once again, producing another energy slash.
Two crescents, one horizontal the other vertical, raced towards the howling horde of wolves. DepressedRyan saw the upcoming waves of doom and his face became pale. However, he didn't panic and immediately Dashed out, leaving the sword slashes' trajectory.
Crash!
The sword slashes crashed into the packs of wolves blasting two consecutive times. From behind the debris and smoke, Shesmu could see damage numbers in the 6000s everywhere. So, it can be used this way. Also, those numbers don't make sense. I get this kind of skills have been nerfed at one point or another in past timeline, Shesmu thought.
Both Leo and DepressedRyan were stupefied by the firepower of Shesmu's skill. But, when the smoke died out, their stupefaction turned into a mix of horror and excitement. The horde of more than 30 wolves was wiped out, and Shesmu heard the familiar ding that precedes a notification.
Congratulation, you leveled up!
Shesmu quickly distributed his new stat points before turning towards Leo and DepressedRyan.
”First of all, what the heck was that horde. Second of all, don't worry, that 6000 damage was legit.” He shrugged and continued, ”Ashes of Gods AOE is damn broken.”