LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 19: Highschool from Hell Ⅲ
Skippy stared down at the demon as he read its status over the party interface, it was an extremely lopsided build, but that was probably the result of the boss monster title. That title would double the user's Constitution, Endurance, and Intelligence stat.
"Everyone assign your levels while I buy time," Tom said as he started casting.
Skippy pulled up his stats as Tom pulled out a dozen sheets of paper. He fired off a barrage of fireballs at the boss. Skippy quickly ducked under the railing and opened his skill options. Most of the [Dancer] skill options sucked. They were made for actual dancing instead of true combat, but a few were really useful. Like the footwork skill he was looking for. Something to help him stay on his feet and keep him moving.
DING!!!
Level up!
You are now a level 3 [Dancer]
+10 AGIL +9 LCK +6 PER +4 DEX +3 CON
You have selected the Skills
[Swagger] - Historic: Increase your movement speed by 3%. Increase your footwork mastery by 3% per skill level. Your footsteps are always assured, finding solid ground under your feet, allowing you to walk without slipping or tripping. When you walk, you have a 1% chance to inflict either [Taunt] or [Terror] aliments on your enemies.
[Mirage Step] - Rare: You teleport from one point to another, leaving behind an afterimage in your place, which will be destroyed in a single hit. Increase the range of this skill by 5% per skill level. Cost 20 Mana
[Gymnast Grace] - Lesser: Your unnatural balance and grace assist you in all things. +3% to your balance mastery per skill level.
Skippy shot down the stairs to where the pseudo-demon lord was. The demon fired beams of essence magic from its eyes, erasing all of the magic Tom was dumping on it.
As Skippy flew down the stairs, Abaddon launched himself from the second floor with a roar.
DING!!!
You have been affected by [Fe-Fi-Fo-Fum]. You have been afflicted with [Courage]
Abaddon slammed his fist into the demon lord's face, driving a punch directly into its eye. The demon screamed in agony, stumbling backward toward the kitchen. Skippy hit the first floor running, his legs eating up the distance as he closed in on the demon; bringing his sword around, he activated a [Piercing Strike] as he cut through the demon's heel. Then he brought his second sword around and stabbed into the demon's second heel with a combination of [Soul Strike], [Power Strike], and [Venom Strike], injecting the weak poison directed into the demon's bone. He grimaced at his pathetic strength stat compared to his agility, and it was showing he would need more levels to compensate.
The demon lord roared in pain, oblivious to Skippy's inner turmoil, though that might be due to Abaddon punching it in the face repeatedly. Ripping his swords free, he kept hacking away at the demon's heel. He avoided getting stepped on as the demon lord stumbled around. Then the demon flashed to fire, its entire body turning into a demon-shaped flame. Abaddon fell through the flaming demon before hitting the ground.
Then, the demon became flesh again. All of the damage Skippy inflicted was gone as the demon reformed. He knew the demon lord had still lost HP, but the demon had repaired the physical damage easily enough. The demon's face, on the other hand, was a mess; Abaddon had destroyed its two right eyes, and his [Siegebreaker] skill meant that magical creatures couldn't just magic away the damage he inflicted. They would have to heal the old-fashioned way. Making Abaddon the most dangerous of them all right now.
The demon lord looked down at him, raising its hand to flatten the two of them when two bolts of lighting hammered into its head. Now that it wasn't using its eye beams to counter them, Alex and Tom blasted their spells out of the air before the projectiles could even get close.
"Now this is what I'm fucking talking about," Abaddon cheered as he charged the demon lord.
Abaddon leaped at the Demon as he was distracted by the barrage of spells from their friends and punched it directly in the dick.
Unwilling to let Abaddon take all the glory, Skippy charged behind Abaddon and activated [Power strike]. His sword was covered in a red glow as he sliced through the demon's leg, chopping it off and sending the demon lord to the ground. Then the demon flashed to fire, and the damage Skippy inflicted was gone, but that's ok because it still took damage.
As the demon tried to rise to its feet on its reformed leggings, Abaddon distracted it by leaping onto the demon's nuts and repeatedly punching the demon lord's balls while Tom and Alex kept up the barrage of spells.
The demon twisted, kicking Abaddon away as it stood up. Bringing its hoof down, it stomped on Abaddon over and over again with a burning rage that consumed all rational thought.
DING!!!
Party Member Abaddon has Died.
Skippy froze as he saw the notification. Was Abaddon actually dead? The demon lord kicked Abaddon's broken corpse over Skippy's head before whipping its tail around to splatter Skippy.
All of Sudden, Skippy could feel his [Rataskurs Instincts] skill give him a metaphorical slap, snapping him back to attention as the demon closed in on him. Distracted as he was, he realized he wasn't going to be able to dodge this time. Activating one of his newest abilities [Mirage Step], he took a step forward, disappearing and reappearing out of range of the attack as the demon's tail smashed into the afterimage he had left behind.
"You missed shit tits," Skippy called back as another one of his skills activated.
[Vicious Mockery of Rataskur] - Legendary
Trading insults is a time-honored tradition. That is not this skill. While others trade insults to their enemies, Rataskur likes to mess with divine beasts born to bring the apocalypse. What do you think this skill will do to a mortal?
Your verbal insults now inflict mental damage on your targets equal to the target's reaction to your insults. Furthermore, your insults may inflict a variety of secondary effects such as [Beserk], [Terror], [Taunt] and [Madness]. Increase the Mental damage from this skill by 5% per skill level.
The demon lord roared in frustration as he lashed out at him. Skippy didn't even need to use a skill to dodge the attack.
"Skippy, buy me some time!!" Tom called out to him.
Skippy didn't ask for details. He didn't need to, Tom asked so he would give.
Skippy leaped onto and over the demon's tail letting his swords leave shallow cuts with another dose of [Soul Strike] as he ran towards the demon.
The demon ignored Skippy as he used his two remaining eyes to fire beams of essence magic at Alex and Tom. The effect was mitigated by the fact the two spell casters were far enough apart that the demon could only shoot at one of them as it rose to its feet. Skippy raced forward with another [Soul Strike] on his blade as he brought his sword directly into the demon balls. The already tenderized organ ripped under his attack, splitting open as he ripped through demonic scutum.
"Hey, look on the bright side, you weren't using them for anything!!" Skippy called out.
The demon howled in agony before flashing to fire again again, partially repairing its balls. Turning, it punched skippy, its fist rocketing towards him, forcing skippy to leap to the left as its fist impacted the wall beside him, turning the brickwork to dust.
"Holy," Skippy was about to swear when [Rataskurs Instincts] alerted him the demons were about to smack him into the ground.
He leapt to the side as the concrete he had just been standing on turned to dust behind him, then had to dive back the demon's other hand as it tried to squish him, and then his luck ran as the demon brought his hands together to crush him.
He activated [Mirage Step] again. The demon lord clasped his afterimage between its hands as Skippy reappeared on the Demon lord's shoulder, right next to its neck. Raising his sword, Skippy activated: [Manifold Strike] [Power Strike], [Piercing Strike], [Soul Strike], [Far Strike], and [Venom Strike]. His blade extended, puncturing through the demon's neck and out the other side, inflicting weak poison and soul damage along the entire length. Then the demon turned its head, and his sword's extra magical length shattered.
"Goddammit, thick dick, you broke my tip," Skippy screeched as he dodged again. Despite being the DPS, he was little more than an insect to the demon lord. All he was managing to do was piss the bloody thing off. On the plus side, the demon was completely pissed off and was now ignoring his friends in favor of trying to kill him. Yeah.
Then Skippy got a notification.
DING!!!
Party Member (Abaddon) has gone through a Skill Fusion
Abaddon's Second Wind & Immortality Skills have fused into the Skill: Second Stage
[Second Stage] - Epic: For many people, death is when you bow out stage left. For you, dying is when the battle is just getting started. Upon your death, you are resurrected, and all resources are restored, and all stats are doubled for 1 minute per skill level.
Cooldown: 24 hours
"Get FUCKED!!!!" Abaddon roared as he slammed into the demon's back leg with an even higher strength stat than the demon lord.
There was a sickening crunch as the demon's knee shattered under the impact. The demon lord collapsed, roaring in pain as it fell to all fours. Skippy took the opportunity to run along the demon's back, leaving ineffective cuts along its back as he tried to whittle away at the demon lord's health. Then he felt Tom start to buff him.
"Blades of Water, Speed of Light." Tom chanted
All of a sudden, Skippy's speed and strength shot up as his blade was wreathed in water and light magic. Swinging his swords, he began to hack away at the forest of spikes on the demon's back as Abaddon tried to fuck up its other leg as much as possible. Even with his enhanced swords, Skippy could feel how much resistance the demon lord's body was putting up, his blades weren't cutting as deeply as he wanted, and it was infuriating.
Then the demon rolled, flipping over and knocking both Skippy and Abaddon off of its body. Skippy had to leap off the massive demon's back as it rolled, his bloodline skill [Great Escape] giving him an edge. Flying off the demon's back, he bounced off the wall and brought his swords back around with a single [Poison Strike] directly into the demon's side with the meager mana he had recovered. Skippy realized he could now see green veins start to crisscross the demon's red skin as the poison started to build up enough.
"It just hit the 10% mark!!" Tom called out. "Skippy, take out the eye!!"
"Which one? The tiny one between his legs or one of the ones that looks like pimples on its face?" Skippy asked as he activated his racial skill.
[Stamina Burn] - Lesser
Consume 100 Stamina per minute in exchange for a 1% increase in all physical stats per level of this skill.
Warning!!!: Rapid stamina loss can induce side effects such as fatigue, fainting, dehydration, exhaustion
Skippy felt his stats jump up just a little yet again as his stamina started to drop. Unfortunately, he really didn't have enough stamina yet, so he didn't have long before he passed out, and then he would be truly fucked. But that just made this more fun. Now, it was a race to see which of them hit the ground first.
He flew across the demon's body, leaving shallow cuts all along its body as he danced back and forth.
Slash, slash, stab. Stab stab stab
The demon grabbed him out of the air, but with his enhanced state, he slashed through the demon's figure and leaped at its head. The demon had been trying to blast away Alex's spells with its eye beams, but Skippy wasn't having any of that. Using a combination of [Power strike] and [Soul Strike], he slammed his two swords into the demon's two remaining eyes. Disabling them permanently.
The demon roared in agony, and skippy lept off, launching himself up to the second floor of the pit, just in time as three massive lances of lighting from Alex impacted the demon's chest using the opening skippy had created to avoid the eye beams. Then, all three lances exploded, tearing the demon's chest apart as lighting arced through its body.
The demon flashed to flame to repair the damage, but that was expected at this point, and it was too little too late as Abaddon slugged the demon in the stomach just as Skippy leapt off the second floor.
The demon doubled over its neck, perfectly stretched out in front of skippy. Skippy dropped his second sword and gripped his right sword with both hands as he activated a full [Manifold strike] again. [Far Strike] extended his blade with a magical edge, [Piercing Strike] got through the demon's tough skin, [Soul Strike] increased its staying power, [Power Strike] gave him a 50% increase to his strength stat for this attack, and [Venom Strike] added weak poison to his blade.
Bringing his sword around as he fell through the air, he chopped down with everything he had as [Stamina Burn] consumed everything he had to power his ultimate strike.
His blade cut through the demon's neck like a hot knife through butter before slamming to a jolting stop as his sword impacted the demon lord's spine, stopping him cold. But not before, he had already torn through the demon lord's artery. Despite his disappointment, Skippy couldn't help it as he landed. He raised his right hand in a rock and roll sign and screamed out his victory to the world.
"DECAPITATION!!!" he yelled. It was slightly ruined by the lack of an actual decapitation and his Alvin and the Chipmunk voice, but it felt so good.
Then, he felt the energy leave him as his stamina hit zero. He collapsed to the ground, fast asleep, but not before he saw two notifications flicker in front of his eyes.
DING!!!
You and your party have killed the Deeply Crippled Demon Lord (Lair Boss)
You have gained two levels.
Title Unlocked: First: +1 Skill Point
Congratulations: Your Party has earned the Settlement Reward Demon Lord's Blood.
Congratulations: Your Skill [Power Strike] - level 24, has been upgraded to [Perfect Strike] - Level 12.
[Perfect Strike] - Epic: You spot a flaw in your opponent’s defense, instantly lunging forward to strike with all of your strength and precision to score a critical hit, inflicting triple damage as if it is a critical hit. Increase all damage inflicted by critical hits by 1% per skill level until you double all damage from critical hits. In other words, a crit will have a multiplier of six instead of three.
Quest Completed: High School from Hell
That was all he got before his vision went black, and he fell into the world of dreams.
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Name: Skippy
(Sawyer Owens)
Race: Theirinthrope
Type: Humanoid / Beast
LVL: 15
SubRace: Squirrel
Age 18
Health: 375
Stamina: 525
Mana: 300
Health Regen: 4.5 per min
Stamina Regen: 6.0 per min
Mana Regen: 3.0 per min
Titles: Beta-Tester
Immune
None
Resistances
Physical 8%, Elemental 8%, Magical 8%, Vitality 8%, Mind 8%, Soul 8%, Crit 16%, Poison 16%, Disease 16%, Insta-Death 16%
Weakness
None
Bane
Manslayer, Beastslayer
Classes: Swordsman MAX, Dancer 5
Total
STR: 15
AGIL: 195
DEX: 90
CON: 30
END: 15
PER: 105
INT: 15
WILL: 15
SPIRIT: 15
EGO: 15
CHA: 15
LCK: 135
Base
STR: 15
AGIL: 195
DEX: 90
CON: 30
END: 15
PER: 105
INT: 15
WILL: 15
SPIRIT: 15
EGO: 15
CHA: 15
LCK: 135
Personal: +4 AGIL +4 PER +3 DEX +3 LCK
Racial: +3 AGIL +2 DEX +2 PER +1 CON
Bloodline: +5 AGIL +5 LCK
Level Bonus: +1 to all Stats
Bloodline:
[Bloodline of Ratatoskr] - Legendary: The Blood of the Legendary Squirrel who runs up and down the length of the world tree carrying insults from the dragon Nidhogg at the roots to the great eagle at the top of the tree.
- [Ratatoskr's Tongue] - Level 3 >> Level 4
- [Ratatoskr Instincts] - Level 13 >> Level 18
- [Ratatoskr Vicious Mockery] - Level 17 >> Level 20
- [Nidhogg's Gift] - Level 6 >> Level 7
- [Ascending Yggdrasil] - Level 11 >> Level 15
- [Aura of the Divine Beast] - Level 6 >> Level 12
- [Defiant Regeneration] - Level 8 >> Level 16
- [Raid Boss Physiology] - Level 10 >> Level 16
- +5 to AGIL per level
- +5 to LCK per level
Skill Slots: 14/60: Skill Points: 0
Personal Skills
- [Stamina Burn] - Level 8
- [Rataskurs Pocket] - Level 10 >> Level 14
- [Mapping] - Level 10 >> Level 17
- [System Wiki] - Level 5 >> Level 8
- [Blades] - Level 22 >> Level 27
Swordsman 6/6
- [Perfect Strike] - Level 12
- [Piercing Strike] - Level 12 >> Level 26
- [Soul Strike] - Level 6 >> Level 16
- [Far Strike] - Level 9 >> 20
- [Venom Strike] - Level 7 >> Level 19
- Capstone: [Manifold Strike] - Level 4 >> Level 13
Dancer 03/6
- [Swagger] - Level 1 >> Level 22
- [Mirage Step] - Level 1 >> Level 18
- [Gymnast Grace] - Level 1 >> Level 12
- [Empty]