Chapter 36 (2/2)

Randidly smiled reflexively, then shook his head sorrowfully. There were just so many skills he had to grind now. There simply wasn’t enough time in the day for them. But still…

Randidly adjusted his plans, and looked South, towards the area that the fireball casting imps came from. Perhaps he should try out these new skills before anything else.

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After sneaking past their patrols, and earning himself another skill point for sneak, Randidly stood in a ruined building that served as their base. While he had been getting in position, another pillar of light had risen up into the sky, and a notification about the Policeman’s Newbie Village had appeared before Randidly, but he dismissed it, focusing on the task at hand.

As he stood, hidden, he activated Pollen of the Rafflesia, and could sense, rather than see, a cloud of… something, the pollen, spreading out around him.

Randidly’s eyes narrowed as two imps walked forward, or rather floated, right into the pollen. At first nothing happened, and Randidly was slightly disappointed. But then he noticed some strange movements and activated Eyes of the Spear Phantom, his vision instantly sharpening.

The left Imp still seemed fine, but the right imp was…. twitching. And as Randidly watched, it seemed to be talking to itself. As it walked deeper into the cloud of pollen, the twitching got progressively worse.

Two more imps, who had been out of Randidly’s vision, around the corner, appeared heading in the opposite direction of the first two, and the twitching imps response made Randidly gasp.

It raised its hand and blasted its compatriots in the face with a fireball. They fell back shrieking, but it just aggressively rushed forward and blasted more.

Randidly’s Pollen of the Rafflesia improved to Lvl 2.

The right imp, finally responding to the horror, grasped at the other imp back, but missed, and fell to the ground, where it vomited up the contents of its stomach. The one imp continued to roast the other two imps, but Randidly was impressed. His Intelligence stat probably made up for the lower skill level, and was pretty effective against the imps, when they didn’t know what was happening.

Randidly flexed his hand, summoning pestilence, a swarm of buzzing insects the size of his fist appearing above his hand. They instantly began to fly everywhere and Randidly frowned, pressing down with his will, and they unwillingly gathered back up.

While doing so, the skill improved immediately to Lvl 4. It seemed that his control was helping him gain levels more quickly. Randidly then pointed, and the pestilence surged forward, albeit haphazardly, hitting the imp that was vomiting on the ground. The flies and wasps instantly dug their greedy mouths into the Imp’s flesh, causing it to roll around, screeching. Within seconds, half of its head was missing, eaten away by the pestilence.

The Imp who was flaming the two other imps turned, its eyes dull and confused. Randidly reached out and pressed, and the pestilence rose up off the first imp and attacked this second imp, or at least most of the insects did. Some admittedly stayed, gnawing on the imp on the ground. It even earned Randidly another skill level.

After watching them for several minutes, Randidly concluded that it was a useful skill, but currently not deadly. Although they could eat a lot of the imps flesh, it was mostly just superficial wounds. He suspected that the skill would fare slightly better now that it was Lvl 5, but not enough to make a difference.

Still, it would be excellent at distracting enemies, and reaching hard to catch enemies, like the cat. With Magic Missile and Summon Pestilence, Randidly felt much more confident about facing the enemies beyond the edge of the boundary.