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Darkbound noticed us immediately after we took off into the skies, reaching him quickly after. His eyes flared with phantasmal flames as he activated his strongest skill [Phantom Weapon Creation] and created hundreds of floating blades made of phantom, firing them at us like a storm of slicing attacks! I had to quickly conjure a barrier over my allies to defend, these weapons were deadly even for me because they counted as physical and magical attacks, my poor defense would easily get pierced by them and my low HP would easily go down like that.
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
The Shadow Barriers I had created materializing them through Materialization were plenty strong and durable, the phantom blades sliced through them and then exploded into phantasmal explosions, sometimes the barriers cracked slightly but I used more mana to repair the cracks. When we got close enough, Lucifer covered his body with an armor made entirely out of scales, as his claws slashed the empty air furiously..
CLAAAAASH!
And then, two cross-shaped energy attacks came out of his hands, destroying the phantasmal weapons being fired towards us and then reaching Darkbound directly, impacting against him and pushing him down strongly. His armor easily fended off the attack of a Death Dragon though, as he seemed to have received little damage to his large HP pool.
“KAKAKA!”
Darkbound laughed wickedly at Lucifer’s attack, calling it “feeble” even. Lucifer was a dragon so he would be way stronger if he transformed, but because we are in front of Julia, if we do anything weird like that we’ll be found out and she’ll have way too many questions. Already bringing hundred of undead with me is big enough, she’ll begin asking me a lot of stuff later. Well, I hope she respects my privacy a bit more as she said previously!
“AXE STRIKE!” I grabbed the Axe I stole from Leon long ago, the enormous and beautiful Axe with the shape of a lion on it, which granted me an insane Bonus to Attack, and threw it towards Darkbound by infusing it with an insanely large amount of Mana and shadows.
CLAAAASH!
Darkbound raised several layers of phantom barriers but they all broke apart by the might of my Axe, reaching one of his arms, which he used to protect his chest. His head wasn’t the weak point but the chest, where he had his Magic Crystal, the core that most monsters have. Breaking them is often an instant kill. Usually monsters have them deep inside their bodies and you can’t really see them well, but Darkbound is a skeleton and you can easily see the big crystal inside his ribcage. Breaking that jewel should either weaken him or outright defeat him instantly.
For some reason Partner, Lucifer, and I don’t have magic crystals, my raised Undead don’t have them either aside from the spiders, which I left them have their crystals without extracting them as they seem to enhance their magic powers. I guess some have it and others not? I am sure that the Wisps didn’t had them either. Perhaps I should had developed it or never did, or maybe only those that emerge from dungeons have them or through miasma… I don’t know, it seems to be a big variable, but all the Undead until now that we have slain have been dropping these purple-colored crystals after being converted into ashes or torn apart into pieces.
My axe ended clashing tightly into his arm, as he tried to grab it and use it as his own weapon. But that’s not going to happen! I have possessed my own Axe using my Phantom Clones and I moved it through telekinesis. The axe evaded his claws and continued attacking him from all sides, I was able to use Axe Strike, a nicely leveled skill I got to deal even more damage with each hit, slowly chipping away little HP over time. Darkbound had a massive HP pool but no automatic regeneration, it seems.
Lucifer quickly clashed against Darkbound while my Axe was slashing around him, his fists hit Darkbound’s arms, which the skeleton used to defend himself while I stealthily used my axe to hit him in the back. I was trying to see if it could be possible to break through his armor, although that seemed quite hard to do!
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
Lucifer clashed against him, loading some mana into his throat to unleash a powerful phantom flame attack against him. His flames encompassed Darkbound entirely but barely dealt any damage to his vast HP pool. Lucifer was super strong now after evolving but even then, without being given the permission of shaping into a dragon, he was not at his full potential.
However, he was pretty strong nonetheless, he was catching the phantom weapons from Darkbound with his bare hands and kicking him in every part of his body to take down his armor. The armor wasn’t able to regenerate either so with my axe, we were chopping it down nicely. I was trying to get his back to have an opening so I could later bomb him in the back and break his magic crystal in one shot, Lucifer was our main tank, so he had the duty of distracting the big Undead for us.
Of course, Partner quickly joined him, she was insisting on fighting in the frontlines and I was quite afraid that her frail body would fail her at the time of taking the intensity of Darkbound power. Therefore, I had also included her in my army of buffs, well, I included everybody in it. The Soul Grimoire showed every ally that was below my protection and that included raised undead as “cards”, I was able to upgrade these cards and increase their power either permanently or temporarily. I had explained this before, but using this power, I can enhance stats directly!
For some reason the power of the Soul Grimoire really feels like I am a playing a tabletop role playing game, or TRPG for short. It is not only an upgrade from the Soul Blook everybody has, but something even better.
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