Chapter 284 - Tower Defence (part 2) (1/2)
Looking down at the entire empty space around the tower filled with magical beasts, I finally realised why did Bonger try to make me change my mind back then. I guess I should stop ignoring its advices when it's trying to give them out for free, but there are times when other things simply take priority!
With most of the beasts at the level manageable for me, I was worried about around forty behemoths that reached the level of the beast that I fought with back in the city. It was their combined attacks that were capable of shaking the tower to its very core.
As my storage rings crumbled, I was left with only the items that I had equipped on myself as I teleported. With not even a single sword on hand, I had to fully rely on my mage stick to go through this madness!
But there was something I had to try beforehand!
Bonger, can you change my healing to allow its mutations to accommodate my body for the entropy coursing through my veins?
”Blop!”
”Such action can result in putting a limit over the host potential growth, but might result in lower pressure from the poison.”
”Do you wish to proceed?”
While my heal was keeping up with the speed of degradation of my body, the most important and actually the worst part of this sentence was - for now. I didn't forget how it was slowly losing its effectiveness over healing Eve's wound, so I had no grounds to believe that I would be a different case!
All those bests already stepping on each other to reach for my figure in the window of the second floor… There was no way I could challenge even a single one of them with how fragile my constitution was right now!
But if I were to allow the entropy to freely but slowly change my body to move through it just like the normal, pure energy, I might limit my future possibilities, but the poison would at least lose its lethality! In the current situation, I would take that as an absolute win!
”Blop!”
”Turning the integrity protection for the heal ability off”
It was as if the sun suddenly scorched my entire body!
Every single bit of my being screamed in pain, as the healing that so far was blocking the entropy from tearing my cells apart, was now letting the poison do what it wanted.
Someone could say, just endure it. It can't get any worse than that, could it?
Oh hell yes!
Just like I expected, the pain was only growing in its intensity!
If the first wave of this new torture was akin to being skinned and burned alive at the same time, now it turned to make my body grow nails all over my skin, before slowly and brutally pulling them all out at once!
But there was one change.
Even with my heal still going on, while it stopped blocking the pain, the degradation of my body not only stalled but seemed to reverse!
Once again I was able to properly move around, as long as I was mentally resilient enough to ignore the constant pain exploding in waves in my brain!
Shake.
The tremor caused by yet another behemoth-like beast smashing itself against the stone wall of the tower, almost made me fall over the edge of the window, right in the jaws of thousands of the beasts.
Thankfully, no matter the pain, my reactions were back on track.
Grabbing the side of the wall, I managed to stabilise myself, before bringing my mage's stick forward.