Chapter 561: Rewards (1/2)
It took fifteen damned seconds for the pillar of blinding light that erupted from my hands to finally vanish. The only thing that I could compare it to, was a silly movie of a cartoon character of one of the simple, two-dimensional fighter games that I used to play back as the kid. The only difference was, that back in that game, the thick line of instakilling light was ending in a place that the screen could no longer project, yet in the current situation, this fallen column of blinding death didn't seem to have any limits in terms of its length!
At the very least, I could tell that either my angle of attack was incorrect, making this fire spell of mine actually break through the atmosphere and extend somewhere into the outer space of this universe, someone actually managed to stop it with some insanely powerful shield in some faraway place, or the most likely scenario, it penetrated deeply into the sea, finally dampening its power in a place that my eyes couldn't reach.
But even after that spell, just that many times more powerful than a sunflare of mine that said sunflare was stronger from a weak fireball, finally disappeared, I still had to wait over two minutes for my eyes, blinded by its light, to slowly start regaining their normal ability to see.
”Woah…”
Even though I knew that breaking through the barrier to this new realm of sage would make me powerful, but after seeing Eve fight with those weak monsters, I thought that I managed to get a good grip on my current limits. Yet when seeing the outcome of my attack with my own eyes, made me realise that just like my growth of strength defined by my rising status couldn't be defined by even a geometrical function, so did the increase caused by Bonger!
”Bart!”
As I started in an incredibly deep ravine right in front of my eyes, slowly filling by the water rushing from all sides, I heard a whisper of a voice coming from behind. Yet after turning around, I realised that rather than trying to call me out gently, Eve was screaming my name so loudly that she actually lost her balance because of that, falling on all fours!
”Eve?”
Not willing to make the same mistake, I simply said her name while pulling my eyes away from the long and wide hole that used to be one of the nicest peninsulas I have ever seen on both of my eyes. Yet to my surprise, or rather its lack, no sound reached my ears!
”Don't worry, your ears are not used to normal hearing after I had to block them to prevent you from going completely deaf.”
If not for Bonger's reassuring message right as I was starting to panic, I could've very well just flip right now!
But now, that I knew that I most likely only had to wait for a moment, I could actually focus on all the system notifications that I simply cast aside a moment ago, when I was too focused on the spell to allow any distractions to come my way.
Starting with the rewards, like always, killing the monsters ended up with my experience points increasing, but maybe because of how strong those monsters were when compared to how low my actual level was, the increase actually went through the roof!