Overpowered Reincarnation Perks! - Chapter 7.3
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My vision was blocked and I couldn’t see anything, but I heard something burst with a thud, and suddenly all the monsters started screaming in unison.
Kieeee-
Kieeee-
Kieeee-
Screams of different pitches rose like waves. The strange cries merged into one, and then the monsters began stomping their feet. No, it sounded more like running.
What’s happening?
“Aaaaargh!”
The death throes of the two remaining investigators were heard.
“Ju-in, please!”
“You’re the one who needs to let go!”
I shook off Senes’ hand pressing on the back of my neck and peeked over his shoulder, only to see an unbelievable sight.
Another monster was biting into the monster that had swallowed the investigator’s corpse.
The monsters were devouring each other.
‘…No, they’re not just devouring.’
The monsters that were tearing into each other as if swallowing one another began to merge into one, growing larger.
Just like kneading several pieces of clay dough into one.
“This can’t be happening.”
Dozens of monsters merged into one, and with a gurgling sound, began to reconstruct its body.
Its shoulders heaved as arms stretched out. Black fur sprouted over the skin riddled with holes.
The monster with arms longer than its body swung its hand down.
Towards us.
Kwabang!
“…Ugh!”
Piiiiing.
Along with the ringing in my ears, the system window turned red.
[Warning! Critical situation]
Your fortification has been destroyed.
Your life force will be consumed by the amount of destructive power that your fortification couldn’t withstand.
For a moment, I felt dizzy and one eye became blurry. A metallic taste spread in my mouth.
The impact was greater than when I used the healing skill. Fortunately, I didn’t die.
Right. The fortification skill could be destroyed by physical attacks.
When the monsters attacked individually, it could certainly repel them, but when they became a collective, it broke in one hit. Did their strength increase exponentially as their bodies reconstructed?
“Ju-in! Brother!”
Callion, who jumped down from the roof, slashed the monster’s eyes and landed in front of it. His usually smooth silver hair was disheveled.
“Callion…!”
“Hurry and take shelter!”
Before Callion could finish speaking, the monster raised its hand again.
It was a relatively slow attack, so Callion nimbly dodged it, but where the monster struck was dug out deep enough to build an underground structure.
If hit by that, there wouldn’t even be bones left to gather.
“It seems there’s no answer but to dodge.”
“Senes. Let me go!”
At this rate, Callion is in danger.
I closed the warning window and opened the skill window again.
Even if it gets destroyed again, I need to buy time with the fortification skill.
Even if it keeps getting made, broken, made again, and broken again, I have to do what I can until I die.
But the button on the skill window wasn’t activated.
Your current fortification is in a destroyed state. Time is required for restoration.
You can construct a new fortification after a certain time has elapsed.
Waiting time: 2 hours
‘What?’
Waiting time? There was nothing like this before!
Previously, when the skill was canceled because conditions weren’t met, I could make it again right away, but this time because it was completely destroyed, is there a cooldown applied?
What should I do now?
“Brother, take Ju-in away!”
Seeming to judge that I wouldn’t be persuaded, Callion shouted not at me, but at Senes.
I felt dizzy for a moment as my body was lifted up. Senes, who had slung me over his shoulder, started running.
Leaving Callion facing off against the monster.
“Senes, no! Callion!”
“He’s not a hunter for nothing. He can buy time for us to escape.”
He can buy time for us to escape. That’s what Senes said.
He didn’t say he could win.
“Callion is in danger!”
That monster collective is far more threatening than a group of monsters.
It’s strong enough to destroy my fortification in one hit, which had repelled all the monster groups.
“Callion! Please run away!”
Even though its eyes were slashed, the monster swung its long arms towards Callion as if sensing him. The long silver hair drew an arc as he leaped into the air.
The roof of the two-story building where Callion had briefly landed caved in, and the chimney flew off and stuck into the plaza floor.
The attacks are getting faster. He’s really going to die at this rate.
“Run away, Callion!”
Don’t try to save me. You’re going to die anyway.
I should be the one saving you, why are you trying to save me?
Today, you will save 1 person and die.
Please. If there’s any force in the system, I wish it would switch my position with Callion’s.
I should be the one to save Callion and die.
“Callion!!”
Even though I screamed Callion’s name until my throat tore, there was no answer.
Instead, with a ding sound, the system window popped up.
[Acceleration buff activated!]
This damn system. That’s not the skill I need right now.
Please, let me switch positions with Callion.
“…Ugh!”
My body bent in half and I couldn’t breathe, but I kept calling Callion’s name.
As if to show me that my scream-like incantation was meaningless, I suddenly felt dizzy and both my ears went numb.
The surrounding scenery distorted as if being sucked in.
Senes ran as if he was flying. With the acceleration buff added to his already fast speed, I felt a pressure that seemed like it would tear my ears.
“Heurk… Ah…!”
I squeezed my eyes shut. Unable to withstand the acceleration, my head drooped, causing me to bite my tongue. It didn’t hurt, but something metallic filled my mouth. I felt droplets of blood spraying through my tightly clenched teeth.
Like tearing paper, the scenery of the destroyed village was ripped away, replaced by a landscape full of tall trees in the mountains. Black ink was spreading across the inverted sky.
The black sky devouring the sunset like a spreading stain spun round and round. Cool air entered my chest which had been tight all along, making me cough.
“Ju-in. Come to your senses!”
“Uh… Senes, cough!”
Senes held me upright after I had been hanging upside down, tilting my head back to help me breathe properly.
“Where is…”
“It seems we’ve moved far away from the village. I’m not sure how we managed to come this far.”
Senes also looked puzzled about how he was able to run so fast. It was thanks to my acceleration buff, but I didn’t explain.
‘I didn’t expect it to be used for my own escape.’
It would have been better if Senes and Callion had used it to escape.
