Chapter 41：Weird Corrupted Barbarians (2/2)

Endurance: 10.1(15.1)(0.5)

Intelligence: 3.8(3.9)]

When the cooldown ended I stood up once again and activated the Orb of Enhancement.

This time we'll finish on this side, there's only a few of them left but there's a group of Corrupted Barbarians that was proven to be difficult to deal with according to Ophelia. They were composed of a Saint Realm and 4 Augmented Realms. If I could describe how difficult they were to deal with, the 5 of them were identical but their Augmented Skills were all different from each other.

Are they quintuplets or it's some kind of Augmented Skill that made them all look like each other?

Err... Ophelia only described them and only now will I seek them to end that troublesome group. That group was the leader of the enemies sent here before we wiped out the first wave completely.

I'll have to see them with my own eyes to determine the peculiarity of that group.

After instructing the enhanced platoons to swiftly end the enemies, we followed Ophelia to the frontline.

Just by stepping in front, we were already assaulted by a number of Thornhogs and Corrupted Barbarians, but the three ladies dealt with them and all I had to do was to occasionally shoot Physique Boost to them.

Well, even if someone got past them, my current strength could deal with enemies below Saint Realm, whether corrupted or not.

Having both the System and Physique Cultivation, my stats were naturally higher than a barbarian who only relied on Physique Cultivation.

”General, it's them.”

After a while, the attacks died down. Or those eyeing us got scared so they changed their targets.

Ophelia then pointed somewhere. I followed it and saw a group of Corrupted Barbarians standing together, they were identical like how she described them. And they're all standing with different weird poses. They all looked like a group of costumed heroes from a Super Sentai show.

So there were these kinds of barbarians as well. Weirdos aren't unique on Earth.

”They're weird even for a barbarian.”

I heard Erin mutter at my side.

”Don't they get tired posing like that? And why are they just standing there?”

Avelin also commented.

”That's just how they are, I already fought them twice and I still couldn't get used to the way they fight.”

Ophelia detailed her experience with them. The Saint Realm is just a 1st Stage but because of the corruption, he's as strong as a 3rd Stage Saint Realm. She could beat him because of the enhancement from the Orb but yeah, with the other four added, it's hard for her to keep up with their different Augmented Skills.

Like I planned to do, I looked at them and observed the inherent energy surrounding them. I focused my attention to see if there's something off. Since Augmented Skills were just a repurposed clump of condensed Brute Energy, illusion skills like Erin's Shadow Concealment could be detected by me if I observe carefully.

As soon as I focused my gaze on them, the one in the middle turned to us and straightened his weird pose, he pointed at us and the four at his side immediately rushed towards us.

”Ophelia, Erin and Avelin, hold them off for me. I'll try to dispel the Augmented Skill covering them.”

Like I thought, it's some sort of Augmented Skill that made them look identical.

Ah. With the denseness of the compressed Brute Energy covering them, it's an upgraded Augmented Skill, a Halo.

The three beside me nodded and met the four rushing towards us.

I'm going to try something new again. I felt the container inside me already reached a certain size that it will be possible to create another type of skill using the stabilized energy stored inside it. But yeah it will be a one-off skill that needs to use more stabilized energy than what was used on Physique or Psyche Boost.