Chapter 134: Rapid Burst (1/2)

Back in the Grade 3 underground mine in the Fabelt Pass.

Fear-stricken by the wave of negative energy that assaulted them, most of the Intermediate class monsters that had managed to survive the spell, desperately tried to flee for their lives while the others whose survival instincts had been forcibly overwritten by despair, retreated closer to the walls as they tried to make themselves as small as possible while shivering in fear.

However, Tyler had no intentions of letting even a single one of them escape. It did not matter if they had already submitted to his Spell and could now be tamed. For some reason, he just could not tolerate the existence of these creatures who had dared inflict damage on him even though he had already fixed his eardrums with the spell, Light Heal.

°Spatial Distortion°

Having a very limited range of skills and spells, he knew needed to get creative with the ones he had. Spatial Distortion, while it was only a skill attached to a magic artifact— it had proven itself to be the most valuable skill Tyler had. After all, it was a skill at the peak of the 7th tier so therefore, it could do more than just utter or distort the rules of the space around him. It could even Distort the rules of other skills or spell, just like what he had done with the spatial movements skill when he had accidentally created what he now called the spatial teleportation skill.

While there was a lot he could learn from further experimentations and testing. What he knew about the skill at the moment was more than enough for what he was about to do.

—Spatial Lock.

What Tyler would do this time was equivalent to a barrier of sorts. A restriction forcefully placed on the space around him that nobody weaker than him would be able to break. Something like a spatial lock.

By distorting the concept of leaving this expanse and connecting leaving back to the idea of entering, none of the Night Terrors could escape this space.

His skill spanned the entire cave but he was only focused on the space within this expanse. Still, almost like mindless creatures, the Night Terrors continuously tried to escape the expanse only to turn around each time as they found themselves back where they had started from.

They did this repeatedly, almost in a frenzy, completely foregoing the thought of attacking, and hadn't even used their skills.

Seeing the scared creatures acting like this— their previous intelligence nowhere to be seen. Tyler suddenly felt the anger slowly fade away. While his emotions had once again spiraled out of control and his slight anger had been greatly intensified by some reason within his soul.

He still had no intentions of sparing these monster's lives, after all, their cores would at least hold some value. The monsters also didn't seem to have paid his earlier words any heed or perhaps they just didn't understand it, or were too frightened to care, still...

”I guess there's no point in speaking to savage beasts like you huh... Fine, I'll end this in an instance.”

As Tyler raised an arm to cast a spell, he suddenly felt the blood surge into his head as his body shuddered for a moment and he instantly felt a wave of piercing pain that came or originated from his left arm all the way to his chest.

Raising the sleeve of his coat to take a look at what happened, he noticed that his left arm looked deathly pale as the negative corruption that had only affect the area around his palm had now extended fully all the way to his shoulder and the left parts of his chest.

As Tyler stared at his arm with a perplexed expression on his face, he suddenly realized the problem and almost faced palmed himself.

'Damn it, how could I get so carried away with something so dangerous looming over me.'

He had just realized why this had happened, after all, he had used the wave of despair spell yet again. It was a spell that was overflowing with negative energy and in his rage, he had completely ignored the consequences of his actions. All he had wanted was to see the insolent monsters tremble in fear and yet now he had to deal with this.

Another wave of pain suddenly brought his mind back to the reality at hand and Tyler quickly used the spell Light healing to slow down the effects of the rapidly growing corruption. However, the spell didn't seem to be as effective as it once was as the corruption was only temporarily halted and the pain was only slightly reduced.

In this brief moment of hesitation, a few of the Night Terrors constantly trying to escape his spatial lock suddenly broke free of their frightened state and took the opportunity to attack their oppressor. They were after all partly undead creatures and had high resistance to negative mental attacks so this should've been expected.

The monsters flew rapidly at him and clawed at him with their bloodied talons. Tyler being slightly numbed from the corruption— although he was able to sense these creatures approaching a mile away— was still too slow to react in time and could only raise his arm in an attempt to block their attacks.

It was a good thing his current outfit was quite durable as it hadn't been torn by the attacks. His unbalanced stance made him stumble back and the monsters saw their chance to land a decisive and most likely finishing blow to their enemy.

However—

”Don't get cocky pests.”

In a fit of annoyance, Tyler's eyes flashed red and the bodies of all ten Night Terrors that were attacking him slammed headfirst into the Rocky ground.