Chapter 350: Lead Support (1/2)

After estimating my current Energy Reserves, it's enough to go all out for more than a minute.

And estimating the arrival of the three, it's one minute, more or less.

Upon realizing that, I immediately reactivated everything I could use to let us tide through this crisis.

Energy Zone!

Energy Amplification!

Energy Incarnate Transformation!

Domain of Valor!

Bulwark of Invulnerability!

And lastly Energy Linkage!

Giving the three 5% each of my total Energy Control and 10% to Irja through the Link which extended from me and attached to them, halved the cumulative amount I could provide.

If not for my limited Energy Reserves, I would've given them everything I could.

Feeling the 125 units of Level 2 Flux Energy per second to maintain that connection along with maintenance of the rest of my opened buff Skills, made my body feel the strain by using too much energy all at once.

With the Energy Zone in place, it somehow abated a bit of it. In any case, with all of these skills opened, I am now useless on the offensive side.

If I could lodge Energy Thread to those three, it could also provide me a slight relief by draining them of their inherent Level 3 Source Energy.

But the distance and their current alertness were hindrances to accomplish that.

Feeling the sudden change in their body provided by the Energy Linkage, Monady and Axter could only stare at me with added mysteriousness. Even Udann who thought he already knew everything I am capable of doing had his mouth open before renewed vigor filled his eyes.

Irja, on the other hand, had long stopped being surprised at what I could do. Holding the thick Totem in both of her hands, she injected her Energy to manipulate its size, turning it into a thin stick almost the same size as her broomstick.

While I was busy upping their combat prowess, the opposing group was discussing amongst themselves.

”How did you turn into that mess? Two lower worlder a lot weaker than you and you cannot kill even one of them? Are you always this useless, Rowena?”

Within the distance between us, it's fairly easy to hear them and it didn't look like they're trying to prevent us from hearing them.

”Shut up, Yordi. Those two are unkillable. They're more than just ants. They're cockroaches!”

”I will be reporting this to the Company, Rowena. Your evaluation will surely go down.”

”Hmph. Do what you want, Sir Larnel. I'm an employee who was tasked to follow you and you're the employer's son. It's natural to give an evaluation. However, do you think it is still as easy to leave this place?”

Hearing this conversation among them provided me with more information about their origins. Company, Employer and Employee? It sounded modern. Perhaps that's why their clothing had a similarity to a suit. Although Rowena's clothing was already in tatters, it still gave off the air of an elite. Yordi and his glasses as well. Only Larnel felt out of place with how he acted. But if he's just a rich young master then that could explain his behavior.

”It's just a bunch of same-rank Transcendents. It's nothing mu—”

Before Larnel could finish his words, his eyes narrowed to a slit and immediately bent his body backward, evading a colorful beam of energy that originated from behind me.

Because he successfully evaded it, the beam continued to fly behind them before it landed on a ruined structure.

BOOM!

Even from afar, we felt the ground quaked from the impact it produced. One could even see a small mushroom cloud rising from its rubble.

If Larner was a tad bit slower at evading, his face would've been destroyed by that attack.

”… I suggest we retreat and think of a way to deal with that.” Slowly turning his body to look at it, Yordi was speechless for a while. Afterward, he fixed his glasses in a bid to appear calm. However, the trembling of his legs sold him out.