[Instant level up received]
[You are now level 70]
[Stat point has been gained]
[A top tier blood crystal has been rewarded]
'Is that it?' Was Archer[Quinn]'s first thought. However, the system notification served as confirmation that Blake[Jim] was indeed dead.
During the fight, a figure had popped up in front of Blake[Jim] that looked identical to Archer[Quinn]. When attacked with the blast from the shield, it had turned into nothing but shadows, while the real Archer[Quinn] had managed to sneak behind Blake[Jim] for a successful attack.
Archer[Quinn] hadn't known what the shield had been capable of, but in his mind, he only had one chance to attack Blake[Jim], so he had looked for a chance to finish it in that one shot. He wouldn't get a second chance after this one, not if his trick was found out.
Before, Archer[Quinn] had learned of a skill called the Shadow clone. He had already used it once during the fight with General Robin who had been Marked by the Demon tier tree. There was a difference in what Archer[Quinn] had used this time, though.
The previous version of the Shadow clone had been less complete. The Vampire Lord had only been able to create a shadow of himself and allow it to stay in one place temporarily. There was no way he could control it or imitate it to do actions similar to his own, but he was able to this time.
His shadow had naturally grown stronger under the influence of the Shadow overload skill, and he had unlimited points to create a complete clone. It didn't matter how long it lasted or what actions it needed to do. This was how he had been able to completely trick Blake[Jim].
Not only had it worked, but Archer[Quinn], using his inspect skill, could see it.
Pulling his hand from his chest, Archer[Quinn] saw Blake[Jim] fall to the floor. He was no longer moving, he didn't say anything, and unlike Justin[Hilston], he wouldn't have to worry about him having hidden some means to revive.
'Is he really dead?' Odom[Vincent] asked, not quite sure himself what had just happened. Archer[Quinn]'s quite desperate attempt at making the one who had been responsible for the Oregon[Dalki]'s creation and everything that followed after pay for his sins had actually worked.
The leader was dead. Looking at the body, Archer[Quinn] felt conflicted. There was no real happiness since he had known this wouldn't bring Pestile[Wevil]. If anything, Archer[Quinn] felt like he had defeated the final boss in a game, only instead of a 'Happy ever after', there was still an army of Oregon[Dalki] left for him to deal with.
Part of Archer[Quinn] had been longing for everything to be over with Blake[Jim]'s death. Now that the Oregon[Dalki] had the Dragon, couldn't they just let them find a way to extend their life and stop this pointless war?
But at that moment, a message appeared that brought him back to the reality of everything.
[Shadow overload skill has reached its limit]
[Shadow overload will now be deactivated]
[-500 MC Cells]
The drawback was the worst that Archer[Quinn] had ever seen before, but his total MC cells were still in a better position than when he had first gotten to the island. At the same time, the walls of shadow started to dissipate, his shadow body was disappearing, and now he could see all the others.
The Oregon[Dalki] with the six spikes were all perfectly standing there in place.
'What did killing Blake[Jim] actually solve?' Archer[Quinn] thought at that moment. The Oregon[Dalki] were still alive, and they now had one half of the Demon tier Dragon. William[Arthur] was still out there probably plotting or enacting his own revenge, and the war was still going on.
If anything, Archer[Quinn] had only been able to satisfy his anger a little in vanquishing Blake[Jim].
'I at least was able to achieve that. Now it wasn't a complete waste coming here.' Archer[Quinn] thought.
The Oregon[Dalki], seeing Blake[Jim] dead on the floor, almost roared in anger and immediately went on the offensive. Although Archer[Quinn] no longer had any MC points to use his shadow, his armour set's Nitro accelerate was still active. The first thing Archer[Quinn] did was pick up the shield lying on the floor by Blake[Jim]'s side and lifted it up.
The Oregon[Dalki] soon stopped its hand before it touched the shield, knowing full well what would happen if it struck.
'As long as I have this shield, it looks like I can protect myself from the Oregon[Dalki].' Soon though, Archer[Quinn] could sense and hear that another Oregon[Dalki] was coming from behind. They were smart enough to surround him, looking for a chance to attack.
Each time, Archer[Quinn] needed to move in place, stopping their attacks by bringing up the shield. He did this repeatedly, but now the two sides seemed to be in a stalemate as Archer[Quinn] couldn't afford to attack them either, not that he was sure he could injure them without using the shield either.
'This is bad. The six spiked Oregon[Dalki] are fast. When the Nitro accelerate cools off, it takes away that stat points from my Legendary tier armour, which will slow down my speed to even slower than them. When that happens, what do I do then?'
"Boy, I hope you will never stop defying common sense and crushing my expectation!" Francis[Richard] shouted from the other side. It looked like the Oregon[Dalki] had stopped focusing on him and were now all trying to attack Archer[Quinn].
"Soon, your speed will run out. We both know that. I asked you to get out of here before, and you need to do the same now."
Hearing these words, Archer[Quinn] couldn't believe that Francis[Richard] was being selfless for once. With the amount of six spiked Oregon[Dalki] there was no chance he or Hudson[Brock] would survive. They would both die in an instant.
The only reason why they were okay now was because the Oregon[Dalki] had deemed Archer[Quinn] to be the biggest threat, that or they had some semblance of loyalty towards their creator.
'If only I had MC points. I would have been able to put them both in my Shadow lock and then used my Shadow link to travel and get them out of here, but shadow lock still requires me to have MC points.' Archer[Quinn] thought.
Thinking like that led him to another realisation. The truth was, if he hadn't focused solely on Blake[Jim], he could have made use of Shadow overload's duration to save both of them by doing exactly what he had just thought of. It was because of his selfish desire for revenge at that moment that he had missed his chance to save them.
"I know I have made mistakes, I know I might not have treated you well, but I am happy to see how much...one who carries the Ryo[Eno] bloodline has grown. I want to thank Odom[Vincent] as well, he was a great mind, and it was good working alongside him on the system. It seems that perhaps leaving Earth, the system will be one of my greatest creations because it was able to create someone like you." Francis[Richard] said.
None of the feelings Archer[Quinn] had for Francis[Richard] had been positive, despite or perhaps because of them being related. This made it all the more bizarre that, of all times, he was shedding tears for the man. Was it because he felt guilty? Guilty, that unlike Pestile[Wevil] he had been there to save someone, but had ultimately failed?
On his timer, Archer[Quinn] could see that the Nitro accelerate skill was near its end. He had no choice. It was time for him to leave.
"Francis[Richard], I will save the human race!" Archer[Quinn] declared there and then.
Placing the Demon tier shield in his dimensional space, Archer[Quinn] activated his Shadow link. Sinking his body into shadows, and before he knew it, he was appearing by Joseph[Sam]'s side.
Part of him had felt that it would have only been proper to witness the fate of Francis[Richard] Ryo[Eno], but the logical part of him had accepted the fact that staying there would have just added to the body count.
"Archer[Quinn], " Joseph[Sam] said. "You made it back."
Looking up, Archer[Quinn] was happy to see the familiar metal hull of the teleportation room he was in. Even more so, the rest of the Cursed faction looked to have made it off the island alive. Although, from the wounds and blood on their body, it was obvious that it couldn't have been easy for them.
"You guys, this is the teleportation room. What are you still doing here?" Archer[Quinn] asked, looking around, but his head soon fell on her. A person that stood on the other end of the teleportation room, away from the others alone.
"We only just got here a little while ago, but you see, the reason we haven't left is because of that strange woman that's standing over there." Joseph[Sam] pointed.
On a closer look, it looked like some of them had tried to move, and there was a scorch mark on the ground. Archer[Quinn] could guess that they had been attacked, but why wasn't she continuing to hurt them, and who could be strong enough to hold this group of people back.
"I see you have a lot of confusion on your face." The female spoke. " I knew you would be coming here and since I didn't want to repeat myself I asked your friends to wait for your arrival, because that is what my prediction stated would happen. My name is Bliss… although from what I saw, Kenobi[Ray] has already introduced me to you."
To be continued........
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