Chapter 34 - Declining With Style (1/2)
”Join the Tempest Branch Alliance or die,” Loran said to Aurus as an aura that instilled fear emanated from her tree body.
Aurus felt that the tree in front of him was incredibly strong. Not only that, the branch was also strong, considering the fact that it was able to shoot out a gust of wind towards him in a matter of an instant.
Staying silent for a bit, he commanded the system to identify the both using [Species Analysis], only to be shocked by their stats, levels, and HP and SP amount.
Ding!
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[Loran (Young Tree — Energistus Sub-Fearus)]
Existence Level: Inanimate (S)
Level: 19/20
HP: 3500/3500
SP: 1250/1250
Stats:
[Toughness]: 276
[Thickness]: 375
[Root Rigidity]: 523
Skills:
Uncheckable due to the skill [Species Analysis] being low level
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[Horell (Branch Grandius Forminosus — High Energistus)
Existence Level: Inanimate (X)
Level: 32/40
HP: 25500/25500
SP: 7800/7800
Stats:
[Toughness]: 2213
[Thickness]: 2435
[Spirit Density]: 3263
Skills:
[Middle-High Spell Core], other skills are uncheckable due to the skill [Species Analysis] being low level
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”...” Aurus didn't know what to say. The strongest enemy he has fought against was Exos who had an attack stat of 130! That alone was enough to remove a quarter of his HP even with a grazing attack. Now with the attack stats of the two beings in front of him being over 500 and over 3000 respectively, it wouldn't be weird for him to die under a single touch of their bodies!
”The Tempest Branch Alliance...” As Aurus was thinking of the possibilities on how they were able to gain that much stats when in comparison, the enemies he fought at their grade had less stats, this name came in all of a sudden.
Alliances within ISE allowed players to have boosted stats that could easily crush players who decided to play solo. Most of the time, these solo players tend to avoid these players who have joined alliances not only because of that, but they also had a plethora of skills to their disposal.
Of course, who wouldn't want to enter a place that allowed them to reign over players with their higher stats? That way of thinking resulted in almost every alliance being filled up to its limit with players.
”Who knew that Kurohana would also add this function,” Aurus couldn't help but mumble to himself. Composing his thoughts, he looked at the two beings and respectfully said, ”No.”
”No?” This time, Horell was the one who spoke. With his calm and collected voice, it brought chills to Aurus who was only A-grade, two grades below him. ”May I asky why you declined our offer?”
”First off, it's because you two are forcing to enter an alliance that I don't even have an idea about plus the way you look at me is just—” Aurus explained the reasons why he declined the offer in a rational manner that had bits of his emotions added into it, only for a root that travelled at an insanely fast speed to nearly hit him, a sonic boom forming not long after.
Aurus froze in place and looked at the origin of the root. It came from Loran, who looked at Aurus as if he should thank the both of them for the chance of entering a prestigious alliance. She then spat out coldly, ”You know what? Since he dares to be cocky, let's just kill him.”
Without hesitation, Loran's leaves started to glow a faint green as a tornado manifested above her body. Horell looked at this and looked back at Aurus as he sighed. He then said to Aurus, ”I don't know what you did to her, but I can't control it. Think of it as a test of sorts.”
Of course, Horell didn't bother to join the fight as he knew that he could easily Aurus with just a single Lower Level 0 Spell. Instead, he casted a barrier around the two as he made sure to check on Aurus every once in a while, because he knew Herellia's true intentions.
After a few seconds, the tornado hovering above Loran's body grew to a size that could deal large amounts of damage along its path. Once it reached a certain point, Loran shot the tornado towards Aurus as she shouted, ”[Tornado of Fear]!”
As she shot the tornado out, cackling sounds could be heard coming from the tornado all of a sudden. Once Aurus heard this sound, a few notification screens appeared in front of his field of vision.
Ding!
'You have been inflicted with the Fear debuff for 2 seconds.'
'System estimates that getting hit by this skill will result in the user dying!'
”Well no shit!” Aurus couldn't help but curse as the tornado gradually got closer to his body at a fast speed. Since the gap between them was only around 10 meters, it was a given that this tornado would hit him before the Fear debuff was dispelled.
The Fear debuff made enemies freeze up in place. In other words, it was a debuff that allowed the person attacking the enemy to bombard multiple amounts of skills within the specified amount of time.