Chapter 340: The Advantage of Buffs and Debuffs (1/2)

Upon seeing myself bleed along with this racking pain on my whole body from defending against a full-powered attack from someone sufficiently stronger than me, I realized that it has been a while since I got this injured in a battle.

Most of the time, my battles will be easy. Easy being it will either end quickly because of my overwhelming advantage or I will just run away and have someone deal with the opponent if I ever found one I can support.

Besides, after becoming a Transcendent, apart from the descending Transcendents, there's nothing that can threaten me anymore in a Mortal World.

However, this is a battle between two Transcendent Worlds.

Perhaps I am unconsciously taking this world and this Dimensional Space lightly as well. Although I felt the feeling of helplessness twice or thrice, I have never experienced being in a situation of true life and death. There were moments that I could recall being close to that, however, they were all easily resolved in one way or another. And it doesn't end up with being severely injured.

Now that I think about it, all of those instances added up have made me too confident about my survivability.

Furthermore, this time, I charged in confidently because I believed that they would come in and save us. And that they did.

But what if… right?

My Adaptability keeps me calm in this situation but I shouldn't be too confident about my survivability…

That's why…

I looked onto the enemy Transcendent being bombarded by Irja's colorful attacks.

At first, he was screaming from pain because of the sudden enhancement of Irja's stats. With all of her stats enhanced, not only did it make her attacks stronger, but it also allowed her to increase the rate at which she delivered it.

If she was just an ordinary machine gun before, now, there's only a little delay between her attacks that allowed her to prevent him from jumping or dashing out of the way.

To further doom him of his chances to retaliate or escape, I brought out my System and added Irja to my list of Allies and gave her the 50% of my Support Bonus. After adding three people, there's only 50% left from the cumulative amount of boost I can give to an ally.

”Huh? What's this?” Irja suddenly exclaimed as she turned her head towards me once more.

The Domain and my other buffs didn't bring up system messages but by adding someone to a System Pathway-related skill, a system message will naturally show up.

”A Skill born from my Transcendent Pathway. Go on and kill him.” I answered her.

Everyone in the Dark World has a Spirit-type Pathway after all. Being a Transcendent. She probably already encountered someone else who's treading a System-type Pathway. Telling her that it's from my Transcendent Pathway, will be easily acceptable even. Besides, I can control my Flux Energy and make the energy fluctuating around my body appear as Dark Energy. Moreover, due to having adapted to it, just like before, I look like a native for them.

Upon hearing my answer, Irja reluctantly nodded and brought her focus back in front of her. Even if she wanted to ask me more questions, she could only hold onto that thought for now.

”Argh! H-help me! I can't retreat!”

The enemy Transcendent's pained cries started to form words as he called onto his allies.

However, at the moment, all four of his allies were locked into combat against Monady and the other three.

My eyes naturally sweep over the battlefield.

Because of the restriction to fly, everyone would always go back to the ground. Even Irja's broomstick-like equipment only let her glide over to our position to save us.

With everyone more or less at the same level as their opponent. Although the four couldn't gain an advantage, it's enough for them to prevent them from answering that guy's call for help.

”Damn it! How did it suddenly turn to this? We're about to take the first kill!” The acting leader of the enemy shouted his frustration as his enlarged foot clashed against Monady's crimson-colored Energy-based attack.

As sparks flashed at the point of impact along with the ground that broke from the force of the two, Monady's taunting voice traveled to everyone's ears.

”Because you're weak. Five of you couldn't even finish one of us in a short time. What kind of ambush was that? Go back to your world or rather die for us so we can leave this space” Monady sneered before her almost invisible Domain opened up from below her feet, sneakily subjecting her opponent under its effect.

”Y-you--”

Before he could finish his reply, he was sent hurtling towards the darkness by Monady's follow up attack, parting it away for a bit before becoming engulfed with it.

Upon seeing that, she followed him into that Darkness and threw him back to the middle.

She's aware that separating from us will be dangerous. Here, we can see each other.

Up above, apart from our position where the most of the activities were happening, the map also showed movements from two of the nearby scouts, scouring the places around us. In case reinforcement from the enemies arrives, we will be aware of it as long as they pass through a scout's 100-meter range.

The same with Monady, Udann and the other two were fighting an even battle against their respective opponents.

With the limited range of Domain and how I suppressed it, I continuously used a lower nodes Flash Step variant of Elemental Spell to put them under the buffs.