Chapter 22: A Pack Problem (2/2)
Magical invisibility was troublesome to deal with, but not invincible The Strikers could not pick up anything with their sharp sense of sht at it
Basically, it see a 'shell' of obscurens like scent, sound, and appearance fro, their heartbeat, or the clicking of bones was all hidden
What did worry Aldrich was that ave off hints when the user interacted with physical surfaces Footsteps, for example, were still audible And Aldrich noted that the Skeleton Rogue did make imprints in the dirt wherever it stepped
However, the Skeleton Rogue had training as an assassin to racefully darting about only in firm patches of dirt on the tips of its bony toes so as to absolutely minimize any traces of itself
The proble tried to use invisibility, others could still track him with either the sound of his footsteps or any impressions he made on surfaces
This was not an issue for the Evil Eye which was a spirit that made no sound in the first place, so for now, it seemed that the Evil Eye was completely undetectable Functionally invincible unless it was caught up in some wide area of effect attack
Whether Alter powers that could see through conventional invisibility or sense others worked against this invisibility remained to be seen, but Aldrich heavily suspected that they would not
Most detection based Alter poorked by sensing the unique energy signatures Alters gave off
That would not work at all on ical invisibility
"TO BATTLE!" shouted Valera as she charged in with her enorenerated all attention on her
A Striker leaped up to bite her, and Valera took her shi+eld and used it like a giant battering ram to swat the Striker away like a fly The Striker flew like it was launched by a cannon into a tree and slaainst it with a crack, its spine shattered
Another Striker bit her leg but could not penetrate her armor She drove her shi+eld down into the Striker's neck and decapitated the creature in one swift blow
"Dirty e me with this! Let alone my master!?" said Valera as she pounded her breastplate in challenge
The Alpha Striker was blinded, but it tracked her through her obviously loud voice and charged towards her, snarling It see and engorging with blood until it was the size of a hovercar
Valera put her shi+eld ahead of her and blocked the Striker's charge The loud clang of half a ton of solidthrough the night Valerain her greaves, resisting the Striker's powerful attack
"Hahaha! Now that's more like it!" said Valera
In the next instant, the re and clawing and biting at her ar i appreciable
"Swars you are - just what I wanted!" said Valera Her eyes glowed bloody red through the slits of her helo of her shi+eld and then loosed a heavy punch into the ground A shockwave of cri the Strikers on her body every which way
That was the skill [bloody Strike] that infused her next attack with a shockwave of explosive blood
The shockas strong enough that all the norans ruptured or bones shattered
Only the Alpha striker ained balance
Blood from the Strikers Valera had killed flowed fro in a thin barrier that formed a spherical shell around her
"Yes, yes, YES!" she exclaimed as the blood not only flowed around her, but into her, seeping through the gaps in her are]
"Valera-," began Aldrich, not wanting to have her fall into madness
"Oraa!" Valera heaved her shi+eld back and then tossed it The cross-shi+eld spun like an enormously oversized shuriken towards the Alpha Striker Because the Striker was blind, it was too late to dodge, and the giant shi+eld slae tree
Valera turned around to Aldrich and reave hihtest, happiest smile he had seen At the very least, she was still sane, just high on the thrill of fighting