A clear hand stretched out in front of him and grabbed the wendigo. Although it recovered its spirit and body, the size of the wendigo had diminished. The wendigo became smaller with every attack of Ark’s. He also confirmed that the damage decreased when the size became smaller.
“It is following my expectations. Next…..Soul Extortion, Soul Extortion!”
Ark rampaged with the skill and struck the wendigo. Soul Extortion decreased the defense by 15%. Moreover, Soul Extortion had no cool down time. And it didn’t take longer than 30 seconds to use the skill once. So he managed to take care of 5 wendigoes.
-Your spirit has risen thanks to Soul Extortion!
“As expected!”
Ark was convinced once the message window popped up. In RPG games, the damage wasn’t just decided by defense and attack power. The attack and defense power displayed in the information window was just an average figure. How it was applied depended on the situation. It was commonly known as attribute. The wendigo was a soul monster while invalidated physical attacked by 50~80%. Yet Ark had overlooked one important fact. Soul Extortion was literally soul magic. And he was dealing with a monster with a soul body. When used on a normal monster, the amount of damage and soul absorbed wasn’t that much.
‘Soul Extortion is a skill which shows its primary effect when hunting soul monsters!’
Once confirmed by the experiment, Ark’s attitude changed 180 degrees. Before now Ark had only thought about heading to Dragonian. He had thought it was a waste of time to hunt the wendigoes.
“But if I use Soul Extortion on the wendigoes then I can extract dozens of Spiritual Power. Then……”
Ark’s eyes widened. The quest wasn’t a problem anymore. It wasn’t necessary to say but the amount of Spiritual Power wasn’t something to be disregarded. Yet he couldn’t put stat points into Spiritual Power and he hadn’t seen an item to increase it. In the end, Soul Extortion was the only way to increase his Spiritual Power. Although it had seemed inefficient, he used Soul Extortion in his desperate situation.
“After changing to my 2nd profession, my skills require even more Spiritual Power. But Soul Extortion only increases by 1 so it would take several days to increase it by one hundred…..”
So this place was where he could get the maximum effect for Soul Extortion. Furthermore, there were so many wendigoes in the chaos space that it was almost tedious. If he hunted all the wendigoes here using Soul Extortion than how much would his Spiritual Power increase by?
“I need to grind to raise my Spiritual Power.
Amazing…..this is a jackpot!”
Ark felt like dancing. He could solve his problem of increasing his Spiritual Power here.
“If it is 3~4 opponents like now then hunting won’t be a problem……”
The problem was when dozens of wendigoes emerged in a wide place. If there are 30~40 in a limited space then he could use Blade Tempest but it would still be difficult. It wasn’t necessary to say but he had to use Soul Extortion in order to increase his Spiritual Power by 1.
“Should I reduce the number and then absorb the rest of them?”
But the wendigoes were similar to cockroaches even if there was a limit on their numbers. Of course, he could be killing wendigoes forever. When he killed 5 wendigoes he only received 1 spiritual power.
‘That absolutely can’t happen. Despite these monsters giving a bonus, he couldn’t just rush in to kill them. He had to squeeze even 1 Spiritual Power using Soul Extortion. But to deal with 30~40 wendigoes in a limited space……”
Ark looked at his summons. Racard could only lure 5 monsters using Taunt. That left 25~35 opponents left. Ark wouldn’t be able to deal with the remaining wendigoes even with Razak helping. He had to think outside the box.
“I need to have Racard somehow lure half of them…..”
Ark murmured until he had a brilliant flash in his mind. He stared at Racard for a moment before smiling.
“Aha, why did I forget about that?”
“What? Why? Why are you looking at me with those eyes?”
Racard averted his gaze with unease at Ark’s expression. Then Ark turned his head and showed off his neck.
“Racard, suck my blood!”
“Eh? Really? I can eat? Really? It’s not a joke?”
“Don’t talk nonsense and just suck!”
“Ohhhhh, understood. I definitely won’t be in trouble later on?”
Suck, suck, suck, suck.
Racard instantly flew to him and bit his neck.
‘Ugh, this dirty feeling….. But…..Huhuhu, today’s suffering is tomorrow’s prosperity. Slaughtering a huge number of wendigoes won’t be a problem if I follow this plan. These damn monkey ghosts will die. I’ll catch you and devour you all!’
Ark’s face became pale as blood drained from him.
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“Oh, I’m dizzy…..”
He naturally frowned as he experienced dizziness. He had anaemia because Racard sucked his blood thirteen times.
“Still, it is lucky that he succeeded on the thirteenth time……”
Anyway, Ark’s accomplished his purpose on the thirteenth try. Ark brought his preliminary preparations to an end and started his wendigo hunt.
“Now shall I begin?”
Ark looked at the approaching land and laughed. As soon as he stepped on the land mass that was 50 metres, black energy started to rise from the ground. With a black form and red pupils, it was the wendigoes! The space soon filled with 30 wendigoes as they surrounded Ark. At any other time Ark would be filled with tension. But this time his mouth overflowed with saliva from the anticipation.
“Huhuhu, give me Spiritual Power!”
Ark instantly showed his teeth when the wendigoes appeared.
“I’ll grab and eat all of you!”
Kukyakyakyakya, kukyakyakyakya!
The 30 wendigoes shrieked as they responded to his voice and ran up to him. Ark wiped at the saliva on his teeth and smiled.
“Racard, it’s starting! Use your Blood-sucking skill!”
“Ohhhh, Blood-sucking skill activate!”
Racard opened his wings and flew from behind Ark. Then he was wrapped in a blue light as he used the skill. Then the ring of light moved up and down Racard’s body before it turned into the shape of a bat. The ring of light split into three. Then four bats flew around the wendigoes and shouted.
“These trivial boogeymen, if you’re hungry then eat my shit!”
The wendigoes flinched and stopped moving. Their eyes followed Racard before the shrieked and started running after him. Then Racard laughed and flew upwards before laughing.
“Cherish your life and run away!”
The three bats scattered at Racard’s order.
While some ran away, others shook their hips and laughed before running away. The wendigoes scattered as well and started running after the bats.
“Huhuhu, this is an easy method……”
Ark watched the scene with a warm expression. This was the method Ark devised to deal with the wendigoes. Just use the ‘ Vampire ‘ skill card, ‘ Moon illusion ‘ is a way to light fires.
‘There is no place to hide from the number of wendigoes here so all I can rely on is Racard’s Taunt. But Racard could only lure 5 monsters with Taunt. Racard wouldn’t be able to draw all the wendigoes away.’
Then Ark came upon the idea of using Moonlight Illusion. Wouldn’t it be different if he could increase the number of Racard? If it was to lure the wendigoes then it didn’t matter if Ark was the one who used Moonlight Illusion. But the problem was there was no place to run away from the wendigoes. The alter egos created by Moonlight Illusion didn’t have any battle ability. If he tried to go around in such a small place then they would be caught by the wendigoes and destroyed. However, Racard’s alter ego could fly so it was different. It was possible to avoid the attacks from the wendigoes without worrying about the limited space and terrain.
‘If I use Racard’s Blood-sucking skill then there is no need to wait for the cool down time!’
Originally Moonlight Illusion was a skill that was only available once a day. But just like when he used Slime’s Time, the restrictions didn’t apply with Racard’s Blood-sucking skill.
“If I use this method then I won’t have to suffer.”
He thought as the stupid wendigoes ran after Racard. However, Ark still didn’t take anything for granted. If he just went directly to Dragonian that he wouldn’t need to devise such a strategy. The game was a place where some laws of reality still applied. When Racard and his alter egos flew around the area, 20 wendigoes chased after them so 10 were left. It was still a lot of opponents even when the numbers decreased by 1/3rd. If the 10 of them turned into one solid mass and rushed him then he would risk being pushed off the cliff like before. However, Ark already took precautions against that.
“They’re surging! Razak, defense stance! Prepare for impact!”
Clack clack clack, clack clack clack clack!
Razak stood in front of Ark with his shield in front of him and took a stable stance. With one foot forward and the other back, it was a stable stance. The 10 stampeding wendigoes ran into that stance and there was a loud ringing sound. While Razak flinched, he wasn’t pushed back by the charge. His stance had taken the impact.
Clack clack, clack clack clack clack!
After Razak fended off their assault, he then swung his shield. There was a clanging sound and 5 of the wendigoes were thrown. Thanks to the affection stat Ark poured on Razak, his Shield Stroke had risen to Advanced level.
-The level of your pet Razak’s Shield Stroke has increased.
Shield Stroke (Intermediate, Passive): your ability to handle the shield has become more precise and you can now push the enemy more effectively. You can also use Shield Stroke to strike five enemies at the same time. If all five attacks succeed ten the distance pushed back will increase.