Chapter 57: Chapter 56: Who Would Disturb a Sleeping Lion? Part II (1/2)
Chapter 57: Chapter 56: Who Would Disturb a Sleeping Lion? Part II
Translator: HunterW
Editor: RED
[You have been affected by ice magic. You are now afflicted by Frostbite.]
[Frostbite prevented by status immunity effect.]
The message alerts came up one after the other. The most annoying thing about ice magic was its additional effect, called Frostbite. Frostbite lowered your movement and attack speed.
There wasn't much damage to it compared to fire magic's Burn effect, but it was still the most effective debuff, as the more it stacked, the more movement and attack speed was lowered.
I can finally see the effectiveness of the Unrivaled skill. My high health, VIT, and WIL were enough to deal with the damage from Kim Jihan's ice magic.
[HP: 958,185/977,500
Fatigue: 1]
According to my health UI, I noticed that I barely lost 20,000 points in health from the two Ice Arrows. That was less than 10,000 points of damage per arrow, barely enough damage to affect me. I continued to get closer to the guy frantically throwing knives at me.
”What the hell? Why isn't Frostbite working?” Lee Jiwon's back should have been covered in ice from the Frostbite effect when he got hit by the two Ice Arrows, but his back was clean.
”Gah! His feet! I said, get his feet!” I ignored whatever attacks Kim Jihan threw my way and when I got close enough to that Specialist guy, I swung my greatsword at his waist with the intent to slice him in half.
The Specialist kept backing up to dodge my attack, but the alleyway was too narrow for him to move efficiently. He stopped backing up and tried to block my attack with a knife, but the difference in our strength was too great. My greatsword cut through the knife and cut deeply into the Specialist's side.
”Gahh!” The Specialist scrunched his face in pain. He could see that he just lost more than 7% of his health. It wasn't a skill; it was just a normal attack, and it hit that hard!
The Specialist put so many of his stats into AGI and focused his skills into the throwing dagger tree. He learned every skill he could: active skills like Increase Throwing Dagger Capacity, Homing Throwing Daggers, Exploding Throwing Daggers, Angled Throw, and Hidden Wounds, along with passive skills like Throwing Dagger Mastery, Increase Throwing Dagger Accuracy, Increase Throwing Dagger Damage, Increase Throwing Dagger Attack Range, and Increase AGI. However, all of these skills proved to be dead weight now. He had nothing to block the attack.
”He's so fast!” The Specialist could only remark at the insane speed Lee Jiwon moved wielding that greatsword. He could also feel the difference in STR between them when he tried to block the attack with his dagger. When he realized the difference in power, he could only look at Lee Jiwon in bewilderment. He was nothing like what the information said. He wanted to take that report and throw it back at the guild master right now, but it had to wait. He had to get away from this abomination first!
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I used the greatsword's momentum to swing my body around and attacked the Specialist once more. But instead of meeting flesh, my sword met something hard.
”What?” The Specialist had jumped over my attack and deftly climbed up the building, leaving my sword buried into the wall two meters deep. At least there didn't seem to be anyone inside...
”This is fun.” I looked up at the Specialist and smiled. I jumped up from the ground and chased after him.
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”Eeek! Homing Throwing Daggers!” As the Specialist wall-jumped between the two buildings, he noticed that Lee Jiwon was hot on his heels. He threw out a flurry of throwing daggers. He knew that a head-on attack wouldn't work, and threw his daggers past Lee Jiwon. As soon as they flew past, the Specialist bent a finger and the daggers turned in mid-air towards Lee Jiwon's back. The Specialist then clenched his hand into a fist and at that moment, the daggers sped towards Lee Jiwon's back.
The Specialist heard the four daggers find their mark and smiled. It was his ace in the hole. If he could train this skill more, he could control up to eight daggers, but he could only manage four right now.
But those four daggers had never let him down before!
”Activate Hidden Wounds! Activate Grave Shock! Activate Critical Bleeding!” As soon as he saw the four daggers stab into Lee Jiwon's back, he activated three critical effects in row. Each dagger carried all three effects, causing the damage to more than triple. This was more effective against mages with low VIT or assassins with high AGI, such as himself. These effects would decrease the opponents' abilities by 50%.
He doubted that Lee Jiwon's VIT was as high as his AGI and STR. If his VIT was…then the guild master made a mistake taking this mission. This mission wasn't worth five times the normal rate; he would have accepted no less than twenty. But that's impossible. He wasn't planning on killing Lee Jiwon with this attack. He had to kidnap him. He just had to slow him down enough until the other guys got here.
But the Specialist's smile disappeared in a matter of seconds.
”...” He didn't want Lee Jiwon to come out of his Groggy state, but he didn't think there was a problem when Lee Jiwon fell towards the ground when he lost his balance. He knew his attack succeeded. Everyone he attacked like this reacted the same way.
”That was tingly.” Lee Jiwon smiled.