Chapter 36 Part3 (2/2)
”Senior Lloyd...”
”However... No, never mind. Let's go fight too. I have no idea what's going on, but... I know what we have to do right now. We have to fight and come out alive.”
”Lloyd...”
Lloyd really was amazing. Lee s.h.i.+n Woo had to acknowledge his fort.i.tude, considering the fact that he remained so pretentious despite experiencing all this. Lloyd consoled Erian, who was clinging on to him. Seeing that, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo inwardly applauded.
”I'm going to give him a rougher time next time.”
”Your true feelings are coming out.”
”Hey, Junior!”
Lee s.h.i.+n Woo and Jin quietly joked around, and then, someone clung to his back. It was Prince, who for some reason hadn't followed Lloyd.
”Explain! Why did you send me with this woman, and why did you not let me receive Senior Ethan's buff!?”
”I'll explain all of it to you later, so please help Senior Lloyd for now. I was helped, but it seems like Lloyd has gone through a hard time. So...”
”Hmph. It's fine since that elf's still clinging to him. He expects me to help him, but he doesn't realize how valuable I am, so I'll just leave him to suffer...”
”If you just leave them be, then rather than realizing how precious you are to him, wouldn't he develop feelings for Senior Erian instead? I believe your best bet is getting in between them and stopping that from happening.”
”...”
Prince was silent. She realized that Lee s.h.i.+n Woo had read her like a book. Right after, she quietly asked.
”Does... it show?”
”Are you serious?”
”Guaaaaah.”
Prince blushed. Her necklace allowed her to disguise herself as a man. Although she was disguised, she was slender and beautiful enough that even he was affected, causing him to softly groan. She was beautiful enough that she wouldn't lose to an elf's (Erian's) beauty. Seriously...
”So why do you disguise yourself as a man?”
”There's something I need to protect, even if I were to lose my life... Ueu.”
”You have it tough.”
Lee s.h.i.+n Woo thought it wasn't any of his business, yet Prince still asked for his help.
”...Could you give me some tips? Once the battle's over.”
”Of course. So please get off.”
Since Prince was still clinging to him, he picked her up by the back of her neck like a cat, and lowered her next to Kratia, who had approached with short and quick steps.
”Kratia, look after her until the battle ends.”
”Ok. Leave it to me.”
”Keuk, don't toss me around like baggage... Ah, by the way, Junior, you said you met with the Heaven Defying General. Are you really ok?”
”Yes. He was a good skeleton. So much so that I can trust each and every one of his soldiers.”
”...”
Lee s.h.i.+n Woo lightly replied. Although Prince looked displeased, she reluctantly nodded her head.
”I don't trust the undead, but I do trust you, so... Since you trust them, I'll keep an eye out for them. But you still have to be careful, ok? Since they're still undead.”
”Haha. Let's do our best for just a little while longer.”
Maybe the more he stayed in contact with her, the less she'd consider the undead enemies? Unlike Retadane, Prince had responded positively, so Lee s.h.i.+n Woo was slightly pleased.
He softly swung his blade and cut down the slowly approaching undead. Then, he left Prince and Kratia behind and turned around.
”Then, let's keep at it for just a bit longer.”
He wanted to test it out. The special pa.s.sive skill, Thorn Shadow that he'd gained from the Vulture General's death.
Considering the fact that it had neither an intermediate or high rank tag attached to it, it was an incredible skill, just as Pleine had guaranteed. Lee s.h.i.+n Woo realized how genuine Pleine's skill book recommendation was. She had robbed him, but this skill was worth ten times, no a hundred times more than the Perium spent.
'Moreover, the skill's effect changed a lot too. Originally, Shadow Horn was a special pa.s.sive skill which buffed all my lunging attacks, but this...'
A special pa.s.sive skill possessed the traits of several pa.s.sive and active skills simultaneously, and unlike other skills, could be applied in a variety of ways... They were skills that essentially had no limitations. And the Thorn Shadow skill was an amazing skill that included that offensive capability.
'The ability's simple. I can drag any shadow and turn it into thorns. I can use it even without mana, but the more mana I use, the more powerful the effect. I can even focus that ability into a single point and create a giant horn lance as well...'
If a 'shadow' element existed, then this skill would be representative of the element. It was that amazing.
Lee s.h.i.+n Woo converted his and Jin's shadows into thousands of thorns and even fused them together, shocking Jin. It was originally a good skill, but the level was completely different now. This skill would improve both his offensive and defensive capabilities significantly.
”You're already so strong, yet you just obtained a cheat skill like nothing again...”
”Let's try it out, Jin.”
”Yeah, yeah. I'm going, boss.”
Lee s.h.i.+n Woo dragged their shadows, covering both him and Jin with countless thorns, and charged into the battlefield. It didn't take long for the battlefield, which had been filled to the brim with the undead, to become silent.
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