Right in front of Skullius was a terrifying figure.
It was eerily similar to the creature with the odachi that he had seen at the beginning when he had entered the labyrinth with Denille.
A large creature with its head hung low, its upper torso uncovered while it donned so dark, old pants on lower body was what he saw.
Half of the creature’s arm was a bunch of yellowish, dirty bones that looked to have accumulated a unreal amount of dust while the other was covered in dry flesh that looked to be millennia old!
Its head was akin to that of a mummy, hollowed eyes and the outline of a skull was visible through the thin layer of flesh that covered its face.
As it sat down, visible waves of horrid energy radiated from its body, causing the surroundings to look like they were twisting around it.
It released a burst of hot air from its mouth, and uttered incomprehensible words.
“Ah… ah… ukhufaijei….huesajipaa….Ah..Ah…”
Skullius didn’t dare approach any closer. He didn’t even dare speak out loud.
What was with facing powerful creatures at every turn?!
Where was the slow progression?!
Where was the hero’s journey?!
This monstrosity was beyond powerful!
He took a few steps back and shuddered.
‘What… the… hell?!’ Skullius thought.
He had expected to see a powerful enemy but this was ridiculous!.
With his especially flimsy level of mana discerning, all he sensed was the mash of power that threatened to explode from this thing.
What made it worse was that while he couldn’t sense the exact tangling of mana that ford the strength of this individual, he sensed the terrible powerful amount of [Evil Darkness] and [Just Light] that oozed from its body!
‘What’s going on? Why does it have such a large concentration of both elents? Is it a challenger who has both of them like ? No, that can’t be. It must be sothing else!’
As Skullius backtracked, he stepped on a pile of bones that cracked under his feet.
His vision shifted to the remains of the challenger he had stepped on.
‘Is that a…’
In the remains of the challenger’s fingers was a key!
The sa kind of key as his own was in its possession!
Skullius looked around with the ball of light to search the other skeletons and found so of them to be in possession of the sa key!
‘Just as I thought! These guys probably found the key like I did, but under different circumstances! I guess having the two elents gives you a big advantage after all,’ Skullius couldn’t help but have an ‘I was right’ mont even in the middle of this situation.
The creature that stood before Skullius suddenly raised its head and gazed at him with its hollow eyes, a chilling sensation running through Skullius and for a mont, he felt like he had been shredded to pieces!
His mind gave him the impression that he had finally t his end for a split second but his senses told him otherwise!
The creature didn’t do anything other stare at him, but this was enough for the Discount Human to remained glued to his position and he began to pant incessantly!
A few minutes passed with Skullius stuck in this state.
He only tore himself out of it when the creature once again spoke incomprehensible words and hung its head.
‘What the hell was that?! I couldn’t even do anything for a few monts!’ Skullius thought as he took the chance when the creature was not paying attention to him to rush a few ters away from it.
It was only when he was far that he breathed out, a sigh of relief from his fake body and stumbled to a fall.
‘Am I really going to have to fight that?!’ Skullius thought. ‘Wait! Why is that creature just sitting there? Won’t it attack? Did I miss sothing?’ Skullius thought.
The mont he had seen the creature, his full attention had been on it and it alone.
He hadn’t checked if there was sothing else of note.
Was the creature guarding sothing?
There was a high possibility. Skullius turned to look at the remains of the many various warriors.
‘If they all wished to find this place by using the key there must be sothing here for sure. Maybe that thing isn’t attacking because I haven’t shown any desire to take whatever it is that its guarding,’ Skullius assud. ‘I should…’
Skullius took one step forward.
And that was it.
When he tried to move the other one, he felt stuck. It just wouldn’t move.
He tried multiple tis but his body just wouldn’t heed his command.
Skullius grimaced.
He was afraid.
Even though he was a distance away, the ridiculous waves of power that the creature was releasing still reached him. His legs were as if made of stone!
In this situation, there didn’t seem to be sothing that would make his mission a little easier.
It really felt like the endga.
And he was on the losing side.
Would he just stand here for eternity then?
‘I’ve co this far already. There’s no way to exit this place on my own and if I don’t do sothing, I’ll just be dood anyway. I should at least try to see what the thing it is guarding is, right? Co on you sockethole! Move already!’ Skullius pushed himself, a milligram of courage added to his 10000 kilogram capacity tank.
His leg finally moved, but his costic body started to released a rather loud sound from his chest.
BA-DUM! BA-DUM! BA-DUM!
Skullius ignored the noise and crept forward.
It was such a pity that the previous challengers’ weapons and armour weren’t things he could use anymore but he doubted they’d be much help.
His best bet was to use the new weapons in his arsenal.
In particular the Basic Evil skills.
As Skullius moved, inching his way towards a doom inducing terror, he activated [Basic Evil Weaving] and began to test it out.
The mont it beca active, the darkness in his imdiate surroundings began to shift aimlessly. They coiled, uncoiled, roiled and turned, these movents being strangely vivid to Skullius.
‘This skill really makes it easier for to control this darkness. I wonder if this creature is weak to [Evil Darkness] and [Just Light] like the others.’
Skullius doubted the thought imdiately.
The reason why, was the fact that this creature had a trendous amount of both elents visible in its body unlike Sila or Dezrael.
As Skullius moved with the light he had made before, appearing before the creature’s presence again, he shuddered once more.
However, he didn’t tear his eyes away from it.
A discount man who had nothing and everything to lose at the sa ti was a terrifying existence with an atrociously good amount of ntal tenacity after all.
His eyes started to see other details he had missed before.
Wisps of darkness that were darker and thicker than the darkness in the surroundings rose from the creature’s body.
Additionally, tiny spots of light were visible on the skin on its head and flesh arm!
…!
Skullius was taken aback for a mont. Did this an that it was similar to the individuals in the hall?!
Did it have so form of skill manipulating it?
Furthermore, on top of all this, Skullius finally found what this creature was guarding.
A massive double door was behind the creature after the short flight of stairs that it sat on!
The colour of the door and the walls matched to such a scary degree, making Skullius miss it the first ti, especially when his mind was occupied with panicking from the sheer difference in strength between him and his opponent.
Spiral groves were dug into the door, spinning in a disorienting way until they reached a spherical hole in the centre.
Skullius moved the light with caution towards the door, and an important detail was revealed to him when the visibility was increased.
The groves had faint residuals of both [Evil Darkness] and [Just Light] barely noticeable to his perception of the elents.
‘Does this door lead to the legacy then?!’ Skullius thought.
He took another step forward after feeling a rather faint rush of excitent in the mont, but the guardian of this door raised its head and muttered another set of incomprehensible words with a choked and cracked voice.
“Mir… asira..dekim…arlot…”
Skullius stopped as he found the creature’s attention on him, its overbearing power beginning to crush him.
His body lowered and he felt weak to the point of kneeling.
He even felt the remains of the ArchLight Generation Keeper crack under the power and slowly tried to draw back.
Then, it happened.
Sothing that would answer one of his questions and provide him with a sense of overwhelming powerlessness.
Sothing began pouring out of Skullius, the Discount Human feeling a great sense of loss.
He didn’t understood what it was exactly at first and made several guesses.
Mana?
Health?!
But it was none of these!
The answer was revealed by the guidance field, dealing a rather lethal ntal blow to Skullius.
[You have lost a portion of ‘Evil Darkness’ to a Higher level existence. ‘Evil Darkness’ has been demoted to D rank]
[You have lost a portion of ‘Just Light’ to a Higher level existence. ‘Just Light’ has been demoted, stripped of any rank]
‘…what?’
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