Congratulations Your Skillset The River’s Three Bends (Un) can undergo a change Would you like to allow this to happen
Warning this will require a large quantity of energy If you possess insufficient fuel weakness or death may result Do you wish to proceed
Of course Helen didn’t even think about it She didn’t know of anyone who truly was willing to pass up the opportunity to have their own created skill set or to expand it Because it was a path to a future that you forged for yourself Helen thought yes and she was filled with a rush of inspiration
Congratulations Your Skillset has become The River’s Four Bends ® You have learned the skill The Fourth Bend Surging Rapids (Un) Lvl 1
With blazing eyes Helen surged forward passing the thrust of the pudgy man and her spear ripped upward knocking his weapon upwards so it was pointing towards the sky and the pudgy man’s body was completely unprotected His eyes widened in horror
The huge man launched an attack towards Helen’s back but she was already bursting forward filled with the strange ferocity of her Fourth Movement Surging Rapids She brought her spear across and smashed the pudgy man so far that he hit the railing of the boat and tumbled over
Fucking perverts Helen said gleefully turning to face the larger man whose expression was quite ugly
Wincing Randidly once more dodged to the side His spear flicked out and ripped a small gash in Jacktat’s cheek but the man was a furious god of war now ignoring the damage and smashing forward with his spear once more It was appropriate that this man had a thunder related style He definitely had the power and delivery to back it up
Also Randidly’s earlier statement that he had the strength to stand up against an Artisan was slowly becoming more and more hollow Sure he had survived and he had inflicted quite a few small wounds but It was becoming increasingly clear that he couldn’t stand up to the power of Jacktat’s strikes and the opposing spear user had enough rhythm to make it very difficult to land any hits that would inflict real damage
Roaring Jacktat advanced smashing back and forth with his spear Randidly retreated using Phantom Half Step and Footwork of the Spear Phantom to maintain a pretty solid grip on the distance between them Once more Randidly slashed outward hitting a few glancing blows on Jacktat’s arms but that didn’t slow him down at all in fact it seemed to incense him further and he rushed forward his heavy spear raised
Grimacing Randidly leapt to the side He definitely would have preferred to have a lighter spear at times like this when he was completely eclipsed in terms of power Someday Randidly vowed to himself someday he would bully others with the power of his strikes But for now
His control that approached 200 was making itself very known in the way Randidly was able to easily maneuver his body to where he wanted keeping Jacktat from being able to find his footing in his attacks Randidly knew he could probably get an advantage and pressed forward with it with spells but he was hesitant to use any of them while everyone was fighting so chaotically on top of the boat His fire spells could burn the thing to a shell of itself and Randidly didn’t want to create a root that would eventually trip up one of his spear attendants
After leaping to the side and rushing under Jacktat’s guard slashing his spear and ripping a pretty sizable gash in the man’s side Randidly glanced around looking for the status of his spear attendants
Helen seemed to have already beaten one of her enemies and the second one was retreating away in a very sorry state With a pleased smile Randidly looked at Teliph who had also defeated one of his opponents the man with 6 spears and was now clashing in a flurry of blows against the wispy man who had a strange unpredictable style of fighting Although it seemed that this battle was less settled than Helen’s it was still even and Randidly wouldn’t have to worry about them gaining victory anytime soon and harassing him
But the male spear attendant Randidly sighed He really should just learn the man’s name because he was no longer the only male spear attendant he had but Randidly just had this weird suspicion that asking the man his name would end up encouraging him to go on a long monologue about himself when Randidly simply wanted something else to call him
The risk was too great the benefit was not worth the cost of failure
A smashing overhand blow from Jacktat caught Randidly by surprise due to his meandering thoughts and Randidly was forced to block it directly His arms trembled and the planks of the boat underneath him groaned from the force
Following up quickly Jacktat twisted and brought the spear around in a horizontal sweep Randidly made to dodge but just staggered barely managing to get his cramping legs to obey him It wasn’t just strength it was also a mild paralysis effect to Jacktat’s attacks that made it very dangerous to continue to fight directly against him Randidly was forced to use Phantom Half Step and blow quite a bit of stamina to fuly dodge the attack
Randidly instantly sucked all the stamina he had stored in the rings on his hands replenishing his stores very quickly But his chest was still heaving and only now was feeling slowly working its way back into his legs
Jacktat sneered All you can do is run This is a disgrace You still dare claim you have the strength to resist me
All you can do is swing wildly at the air Don’t act like your successes are anything but the result of blockheaded repetition Randidly snapped He immediately regretted engaging Jacktat mostly because of the interaction with such a detestable stranger but the words did seem to fit another purpose
Jacktat’s face because twisted his eyes somehow narrowed and overly opened at once so his eyes looked wide like a goats Good Good good good
Then Jacktat rushed forward a strange new energy crackling around his body So far Randidly had simply dealt with the man’s superior skill levels and likely stats But now
Randidly had a feeling that he would find out what the man had used to earn himself the title of Artisan
In the darkness of his cabin Shal breathed slowly So slowly that there were several minutes between breathes He did not do this because he needed to breath his Vitality and Endurance were far above the levels where it was necessary to engage in such things Shal continued to breath in order to keep time
He had sensed the clashes beginning above and he had sealed away his senses so nothing would distract him Even that much was a small burden on his pitiable amount of Aether which he couldn’t afford It was a frustrating situation
So Shal continued to breath counting the minutes passed He had to have patience Necessarily Shal couldn’t accomplish this himself That was why he had even allowed this to happen Randidly would be carrying most of the weight in the next portion he would need to make it to the top 4 of the Regional Tournament After that
Then then was when Shal needed his strength For now
He simply breathed waiting for the Regional Tournament
Chapter 180
Helen snorted raising her blood covered spear The large man who was so lustily looking at her body minutes ago had collapsed in a puddle of his own blood the large wounds that Helen inflicted on him completely robbing him of his will to fight
Unbeknownst to that man Helen too was very close to her limit She felt a creeping weakness in her limbs likely an aftereffect from creating the new move for her Skillset But even though standing without the support of her spear was difficult she was filled with a manic excitement To improve a Skill Set’s rarity was exceptionally rare Usually an individual would create the Skill Set while they were young train for years and only once their body had a significant enough amount of pure Aether embedded in it would they enter an isolation chamber and cause their Skill Set to evolve But of course Helen hadn’t done that