Chapter 82 (1/2)

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Overlimit.

It didn’t almost break me, but was supposed to. This ability, once used, causes me injury, and in return, greatly magnifies my stats for a very short time.

And while I get torn apart inside, the 【Viridian Sword of Crystal] does its job of healing me, making this a powerful and practical ability.

It was one of the trump cards my current self could use.

“You are quite the idiot to have returned my memories. I know it, the weakness of that Overlimit of yours.”

“… … …”

Yes, just as Yumis said, this power had a very obvious downside.

Since I was constantly healing myself, there was the vast usage of MP on that front. And since the【Viridian Sword of Crystal] works by simply accelerating the body’s natural healing process, I also lose a ton of calories. That was the reason I got intense pangs of hunger after using this trump card.

As my level increased, I’d have more place to store extra calories, and could even gain a skill like Stockpile to aid the process. Eating too much now would only make me fat.

In other words, this move won’t last long.

I’d used it against the army of monsters in a more subdued way and that still made me exhausted in 7 minutes or so.

If I went full throttle, I’d last 3 minutes max.

There was also the fact that a lot of my mana was drained from that Tenebris Ignis Giant.

I had only 30% MP remaining. The signs of an MP high had started showing. I stopped using overlimit.

“Hah! Right back at you, Yumis.”

But Yumis was not much better off.

Demon’s Fire cost little MP compared to the strength of the golems it bore.

But if the core of one of the golems is destroyed, a feedback curse is set on the spellcaster which causes a massive drop in their MP followed by intense pain.

Minnalis’ poison that silently drained mana while preventing spells, the high cost spells Tri Lightning and Multiple Lightning.

And finally, one Tenebris Ignis Giant’s core: destroyed.

This rate of expenditure was too high for the level she was at now. So I wasn’t the only one putting on a tough front.

“And yet, I still have 40% of my mana left over, your Overlimit has run out, and finally, I have one more Tenebris Ignis Giant under my command.”

“… … …”

“You are and will be always the fool. If you simply hadn’t given me these memories, I might’ve been wary of that power of yours, maybe even giving you the time to recover.”

Because I need to constantly keep healing when I’m in overlimit mode, there would be a faint green glow around me for the duration of it. When she saw that the glow had snuffed out, she gained assurance of victory and smiled in confidence.

“End him with all your might, o golem.”

“RUBOOOOHH”

At Yumis’ command, the sword golem flared up in its violet fire like the other one did just recently.

If I used any ordinary soulblade on that, it’d disappear having all the mana inside sucked away.

And seeing as I hadn’t moved, Yumis began readying a spell. She wasn’t voicing any chant, but I could see water and wind mana gathering around her.

I had a good idea what spell she’d choose in a situation like this.

“You really never change, do you.”

My low mutter was drowned out completely by the earth shaking thumps the golem made as it ran over.

“I was a fool, but you’re much more of a fool in your own right.”

All of this was still within my expectations.

So of course, I had prepared ways to counter and destroy her every move fully.

“Come, 【Absorber’s Edge].”

I instantiated a soulblade I’d unlocked for this specific battle.

It was as big as an ordinary longsword, with the blade being split in red and blue cleanly along the middle.

It had the power to aggregate anything I designate around me.

Yumis showed surprise seeing me holding this. She of course knew about the 【Absorber’s Edge] and I could tell that she was thinking, What is he planning now?

But the fact that she hadn’t caught on instantly, led her to my checkmate.

I turned towards the approaching golem, and at the right timing, thrust the soulblade into the ground.

“! What’s!?”

“BLRBLAAAHH!”

I made it look like I activated the trap with my sword and collapsed the ground from under the golem.

The bone monster made a dumb roar as it descended into the 7 meter deep pit, landing in the water which splashed up all the way to the surface.

“A pitfall!? And, water…?”

I pulled out the Absorber’s Edge and dashed towards the golem to deal the finishing blow.