Chapter 564: Uphill Battle (1/2)
Chapter 564 Uphill Battle
Ilea quickly checked her status, letting the Queen move up towards her. At least the woman was pretty slow and didn’t teleport. A very welcome change of pace and the only reason Ilea could keep this thing up. Otherwise she would’ve had to lure her out of the dungeon before escaping, hoping the town would’ve survived that. She doubted they could. Not when the rot could make even her puke up blood at a close distance.
Name: Ilea Spears
Unspent statpoints: 11
Class 1: The Azarinth Sentinel – lvl 447
- Active: Absolute Destruction – 3rd lvl 30
Class 2: Kin of Ash – lvl 443
- Active: Armor of Ash – 3rd lvl 30
Class 3: The Faen Valkyrie – lvl 380
- Active: Phaseshift – 3rd lvl 9
General Skills: Hidden
Status:
Vitality: 1300
Health: 20842/22594
Hmm… I reached nineteen hundred at some point. So two third tier General points available. Could go for Rot once it’s at level twenty but right now that doesn’t help me.
The only other thing… Core skill points.
Core Skill Points available: 63
[3rd tier Class Skill Point]
Nothing new unlocked. Got everything in the third tier and skill boosts don’t seem worth it at this point. They’ll advance while I fight this thing.
Question is, is it enough?
She glanced at the Stat Gain option for a little while. Two points for fifty points in a stat. 500 for twenty? A thousand for forty? I mean how many could I need at my next evolution?
Ilea didn’t want to waste the points but her Intelligence was sitting at 1200. If she invested just twelve points, her damage should theoretically increase by twenty five percent. With all her multipliers it may be enough to overwhelm the creature.
Theoretically… if the cost doesn’t increase, I could nearly double my Intelligence.
She bit her lip. The achievement of killing a four mark while alone would surely be massive for her next evolutions. But she wasn’t about to dump all of her gathered Core skill points into it just to achieve it.
Okay, first let’s try the normal way. I can try to inspect her with Sentinel Reconstruction to see how much of an effect various abilities have. Let’s see what I can learn.
Ilea continued her fight, more familiar with the Queen’s spells and movements. With the full fifty percent reduction from Body of the Valkyrie, she could generally ignore the cyclone around her.
The direct applications of blood and rot magic still damaged her enough to force a short retreat. And while the Queen’s attacks weren’t quite as frequent as those of the Meadow, they could quickly overwhelm her if she stopped evading.
Ilea found the training to be quite efficient at the very least. All her Class skills were benefiting from this. Her main goal however was to end the creature, if something like that was even possible.
Reconstruction did allow her to gain some insight into the health and anatomy of the Queen. What she learned didn’t exactly reassure her. If anything the creature was closer to a spirit than a human at this point. A being of mana, not one of flesh and blood.
The only noticeable damage Ilea managed to deal was caused by a powerful use of Heart of Cinder coupled with overcharged auras and the expenditure of the fifteen minute bonus from Aspect of Ash.
It really was quite ridiculous.
And when she checked a mere second later, the damage had been healed both visibly and to her spell.
Funny, she thought and blinked up through the destroyed complex of tunnels and rooms. By now most of it was just separated holes and corridors in the mountain, much of it collapsed or ripped apart.
Ilea landed, stretching as she stared at her Endurance. It had nearly reached zero.
How?
She shook her head, watching the numbers go up with each second. Admittedly, fighting the Queen took a lot of concentration and moving, both her body, limbs, and wings constantly in motion. Her precognition allowed her to keep up with the sheer number of spells flying around but she couldn’t just tank it all, not with the main attacks dealing so much damage.
How long have I been fighting her?
She had no clue.
‘ding’ ‘You have defeated [Specter of Rot – lvl 612]
‘ding’ ‘The Faen Valkyrie has reached lvl 381 – One stat point awarded’
‘ding’ ‘Phaseshift reaches 3rd lvl 10’
‘ding’ ‘Space Shift reaches 3rd lvl 8’
‘ding’ ‘Body of the Valkyrie reaches 3rd lvl 13’
‘ding’ ‘Monster Hunter reaches 3rd lvl 9’
‘ding’ ‘Blood Magic Resistance reaches 3rd lvl 13’
‘ding’ ‘Bone Magic Resistance reaches 2nd lvl 10’
‘ding’ ‘Rot Resistance reaches 2nd lvl 15’
Should probably get that one to the third tier once it’s at 20.
Ilea saw no reason to advance her bone magic resistance, easily able to avoid heavy damage from those spells because of her speed, teleportation, and ability to get out when grappled.
The rot damage however was high, and constant. The nausea could be dealt with by using her healing coupled with her enhanced body itself, only flaring up when the Queen directly used the magic type on her. Realistically it simply reduced Ilea’s regeneration.
But it’s not enough. Even if I’m a hundred percent resistant to that or could double my regeneration, that still won’t allow me to just stand there and deck it out with that relic from the great skeleton war.
The four mark simply had overwhelming power.
What I need is enough damage to whittle her down.
[Stat Gain] – [Gain 50 stat points to distribute freely – Cost: 2]
Hmmmmmmmmmmm. Let’s use eight points and see if it makes a difference.