Chapter 592 A curse ?
The shaman was preparing his best death curse to afflicate Rudra . However contrary to his expectations of Rudra's elven sword melting inside his purple liquid , the elven sword shone with power and caused the black boiling pot to explode.
BOOM!
The shaman's hut was blown to smithereens as he himself was puking green blood from his mouth after his chest took the brunt of the impact of the exploding pot , knocking the wind out of his lungs.
" What the ..... Impossible , only Hades has a greater hold over the power of death than me , how did the spell backfire? ". The shaman could not beleive his eyes , as he questioned this world's reality.
Only a select individuals in this world still remembered the God Of Death Hades and one such person was the shaman. Being a practicioner of death magic himself he had came across ancient texts and scrolls that displayed death magic to its full glory , but those spells usually needed one to be able to channel the power of Hades.
With Hades no longer the ruler of Hell , there was no-one on middle earth who still wielded his powers , or so did the dark shaman think . But reality came crashing down on him once his curse magic failed.
" The blood merchants , those bastards lied to me ... The enemy is not a simple one! How dare they decieve the dark one , they will pay for this ". The shaman said with anger , his eyes were bloodshot.
Going back to his hut he found the body of the dead blood merchant warrior who had delivered Rudra's sword to him and he pierced his hand into his ribcage and plucked out his heart.
Although the man was dead , his heart was still fresh and had not yet suffered any degradation , hence the Shaman took it and started to imbue curses inside it before he packed it in a box and sent a carrier vulture to send it to Scar-face.
Although it was petty , the shaman decided to get back at the blood merchants for destroying his hut , however he did not go overboard.
If Rudra was really who he thought he was then he could not be allowed to live under any circumstances and that meant that the shaman needed to co-operate with the blood merchants in the coming war .
" Emissary of death , you have just earned yourself the biggest enemy you could have ever made .... Your death will be my life ! Hahahhehehehehehehe ". The shaman laughed frantically as he glowed with green power as his injuries healed at a rate visible to the naked eye.
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( Meanwhile in Purplehaze city )
Rudra was sitting in his office scratching his head over how he was going to conceal the massive troop influx inside his city , without having the forces of the church or the empire feel dissatisfied with his treatment of them , when a system notification baffled him.
[ System notification : Someone is trying to use dark blood magic to imbue you with the sleeping death curse .
Curse failed because of the player having the mythic class the ' Death Knight '.
No Death Curse can afflicate the player.
Congratulations Player for having Successfully resisted a deathly curse.
All stats +20% for this month ]
Rudra was confused as to what just happened , however he found it hilarious that the death curse just backfired and instead ended up providing him with a buff. But he was surely not going to complain about it , as he smacked his lips and said " Thankyou for the blessing ".
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( Meanwhile Karna )
Karna had worked hard in the last few weeks as a realization struck him that he was no longer at a level that was acceptable to be the vice leader of the elites.
In his mind he could only be second to Rudra and that was not because he did not want to surpass Rudra , it was because he respected Rudra and genuinely idolized him to the point , if Rudra was number 2 he would not want to be number 1.
However while number 2 was his goal , the current situation meant that the current number 2 in the guild was Sir Jhonny , followed by number 3 being Neatwit while he was number 4 at best.
Even at number 4 he was kidding himself as he did not take Medivh's mage tower buff as a part of his own strength otherwise he would come out as number 5.
This gravely aggreived Karna as his pride as the vice leader of the elites was damaged.
Everyone had their own cheats and while the eyes of mind that Karna had were a cheat of their own , it was not nearly as effective as Yume having a Buff around him or Jhonny being able to turn formless.
This made Karna extremely frustrated as he constantly struggled to find a worthy treasure to improve his fighting style by leaps and bounds however even when he struggled so much , he thought about Rudra and how he was fighting with only one sword at the moment and decided to go find a sword for him first.
This was the reason why Rudra made karna the vice guild master above everyone else , as Karna's innate character was pure gold . While he put his personal pride extremely high , he put the welfare of the guild even higher , which was why he deserved to be the heavens chosen .
As chasing one such mythical sword , karna landed on an completely unexpected treasure that solved all of his immediate problems.
[ Heaven's Chosen Armour Set ] ( Semi Divine ) - Only those with a luck value of over 97 can wear this armour.
Armour effects - Weightless and Aerodynamic. Equipping improves speed by 5%
Effect 2 - All damage on the armour reduced by 99% , critical hits are impossible
Effect 3 - It stores one charge of mana blast that can be used once a day to attack !
Karna's jaw dropped when he looked at the item set . The 7 piece armour set only left a bit of his chin exposed while everything else was perfectly covered . With no critical hits being possible and there being 99% damage reduction from every attack it was akin to him gaining 99% HP bar boost!
This meant that If there was a hit that could kill him in one move, that same hit would now need to be delivered to him 100 times to defeat him. He had suddenly became a tank class without the restrictions of a tank and the attack power of a swordsman.
This was his way to make a comeback! Satisfied Karna smiled for the first time in many days.
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( Meanwhile Neatwit )
There was one thing that Neatwit understood after having the duck as his pet , and that was every other class in this world was useless . The pinnacle of the game Omega was the class ' Duckmancer '.
His ducks were just broken , as everything someone killed them a calamity would befall on them. It was like all that Neatwit needed to do was send the small eldritch ducks out to play in the forest and sleep , as he would level up once he woke up.
Zombiemancer ? Necromancer? Nobody could hold a candle to him , as not only did he not expend any shred of mana , he also destroyed his enemies without batting an eyelid.
Although he looked thoroughly stupid when he rode a duck , his heart had already been solidified as he began to call himself " Neatwit the Papa Duck ! ".
He was the ultimate big boss of this world and his ducks were a force that needed to be reckoned with.
With the war drawing near , Neatwit figured that it would be the best time to show his brilliant ducks to the world , as he spend his weeks trying to grow stronger and find a tailor to make a nice duck dress for him!
Yua who accompanied Neatwit ,started to think that her boyfriend had lost it , however after she saw the effects of the ducks she began the first devout beleiver of the duck worship relegion as she declared herself the ' Mama Duck '.
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( Meanwhile Jhonny )
Jhonny was more chill than the others when it came to having an intense competitive drive to improve. However his bad luck made it so that anywhere he stepped turned out to be a trap and he was forced to fight hordes after hordes of monsters consistently , till the point where he levelled up everyday.
Gaining 20 levels in 21 days setting an insane record.
However , only he knew how hard the last 21 days were for him , as the dark circles under his eyes did not make him look kindly at anyone.
Nonetheless his progress really improved his overall battle strength as when the elders finally returned back to the guild for the final preperations of the war , they were incrementally stronger than when they had set out .
Now with the armies assembling and the elders returning it could truly be said to be the start of the final push for the war preperations.
/// Bonus chapter daily as promised. I see the support in the GT department , but somehow we still can't reach number 10!
Nonetheless I'm truly grateful for it . With this chapter
The countdown for the war has officially started , the next chapter onwards will formally be the start of the biggest war arc ". ///