Tale Of Unknown: Hero From Zero

9. The Heavy Battle Next

Zraatts! Zraat!! The devil!

Time and time again, Riyan managed to evade the physical attack of the monster, [Chimera], while simultaneously attacking with the sword he was holding. While dodging from successive attacks, occasionally advancing and swinging his sword injured the monster bit by bit.

'Although his body is huge, his movements are too fast for a monster of his size.'

While complaining about that in his heart, Riyan kept dodging and continued to dodge attacks after attacks launched by the [Chimera] before him. His stamina was drained faster than hunting with Faleon because he was always on the move, but this was his must. If he did not dodge, then he would immediately be finished.

With a big step, Riyan jumped backwards taking a safe distance once again. Indeed his breath was breathless, but thanks to the training that Faleon had given him, he was able to endure to this day. If only he was still the previous Riyan, maybe his life would have ended two minutes ago.

Riyan ducked down and picked up some small stones with his empty left hand. A moment later, he ran as fast as he could forward while looking down to speed up his run. [The Chimera] realized that Riyan had entered into his attack range instantly wagging his snake tail vertically to attack the challenger.

Due to reflexes, Riyan dodged the attack with just a twist in his foot shaft, but he did not stop his run. Indeed, Riyan is not someone who is an expert in the field of sports, even though he has pretty good reflexes.

He raised his left hand, then threw all the small stones he held together into the ceiling of the labyrinth. He threw the rocks not without reason.

"[Distract]!"

Traakk!

The stones hit the ceiling of the labyrinth made of stone and make a sound that is quite loud. Instantly also the attention of the [Chimera] was captured by the sound of the collision between the stone and the ceiling. The creature seemed confused by what he heard.

This was the most useful skill Riyan had, [Distract]. This skill can divert attention from others to its users in just an instant regardless of the condition of the surrounding environment. The effect of this skill is greater because of the existence of Riyan that is difficult to realize.

Not wasting this golden opportunity, Riyan came forward and thrust his sword into the opponent's arm. Half his sword instantly entered as he exerted all his strength to stab at that [Chimera]. He stood still while adjusting his breath that had not been due since.

A few seconds after that, the monster finally realized what was going on. He looked at Riyan who was thrusting a sword into his arm. He instantly opened his jaw and took out the [Fire Breath] skill to repel the intruder man. Because of the fire, Riyan inevitably drew his sword and kicked the ground to avoid the attack directed at him.

Evading him, Riyan, who was about 7 meters away from the opponent, smiled for some reason. He looked at his left hand with a slight wry smile.

'It looks like with this I can use that.'

Then he looked back at the [Chimera] that was in front of him and began to concentrate the mana on his left palm. The monster walked up to him with bloodthirsty eyes. His saliva dripped, his eyes reddened, his body trembled wanting to eat the prey he had long craved, a human.

Without further ado, the [Chimera] reopened its jaws and took out the [Fire Breath] once again. Instead of dodging, Riyan remained standing upright in place as if he was about to receive a fire-breath attack that pointed at him.

"I've always wanted to try this skill."

While saying that, Riyan showed a smile that he never showed anyone. A smile that is only obtained by a human being who has achieved his personal desires. He raised his left hand forward, right leading to a wisp of fire breathing from the [Chimera].

A blue ball in front of his hand. Slowly, the ball gave off a bright white light and expanded slightly larger. At the same time, Riyan released the mana in the ball.

"[Where Burst]!"

After the two words were spoken from his lips, the blue ball exploded and formed a light blue pillar like a laser that destroyed the [Fire Breath] belonging to the [Chimera]. Penetrating the breath of fire, the blue light instantly struck his opponent.

BLAARR!!

The sound of explosions filled the labyrinth hallway after a while. The explosion was the result of Riyan's [Mana Burst] skill and the monster's body from the fifth floor. Riyan was thrown because of the inevitable blast wind and hit the hard maze stone wall again. Fortunately, he was able to withstand the speed of his body with a sword that he put on the floor.

[Mana Burst], a skill that came from [Mana Manipulation]. This skill he trained without the knowledge of anyone, including Faleon. [Mana Burst] is a skill that focuses pure mana in one place into a ball where and when the user releases it, the collection of pure mana in the form of a ball will explode. The direction of the explosion depends on the user.

Where it takes for this skill depends as you wish, it can be big can be small. In the case of Riyan, since he only had a parameter where 5 points, only a small explosion could he create. But with the help of the temporary status-enhancing pills, the explosion from the [Mana Burst] was many times larger than usual.

"Ukh. [Status]."

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Name: Riyan Klaint

Race : Human

Class : Residents

Level : 6

Life: 68/24 (50)

Size: 0/5 (50)

Physical Strength :0 (+4) (50)

Magic Power :0 (+6) (50)

Resilience :0 (+12) (50)

Attribute : Hamp

Skill: Appraisal, All Zero, Distract, Nothing Eye, Mana Manipulation, Comprehension, Auto-Counter, Mana Shield, Mana Burst, Mana Slash

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Because it uses all it has, the explosive power of [Mana Burst] is much greater than previous experiments a few weeks ago. Riyan who was sitting on the floor tried to stand withstanding the pain.

"[Record]"

After standing up, he deployed [Appraisal] to see just how much of an impact [Mana Burst] had produced with all of his mana. He hoped that the parameters of the [Chimera's] life were reduced by about 1/38 of his, but his estimates were wrong.

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Name: Chimera

Race: Hybrid Monsters

Grade: Crusher

Level 76

Life: 35700/38000

Life: 6970/7800

Physical Strength: 1300

Magic Power: 970

Resilience: 790

Skill: Dark Force, Gale Burst, Fire Breath

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Riyan was surprised to see the results that were far from his expectations. Although he did not expect it, he smiled. The skill that he had been training secretly by himself, was hiding a powerful force. Indeed it was all because of the status-enhancing pill that added to his magic power as well as mana parameters so that it differed greatly from his original status.

'Well, I must thank General Faleon for giving me this pill, but I also cannot forever rely on him. Moreover, the effect of this pill is only temporary, this method will inhibit me in developing, as much as I can not use, of course except in times of emergency.'

While watching the [Chimera] that collapsed on the ground, he ran with his sword like he was about to stab the monster again. As he dashed closer, his ferocious opponent rose to his feet with all four of his big feet. Riyan was surprised, but he kept his rhythm and kept running.

The [Chimera] condition looks less good, like confusion. Perhaps the monster was surprised to receive such a big attack. Riyan himself was also surprised to see his attack which he thought was very weak, apparently injuring his opponent to more than 2000 points.

Seeing that the monster had not been able to move properly, Riyan directly thrust his sword once again into his large front left leg. Riyan exerted all his vigilance while letting his sword suck as much mana [Chimera] as possible.

'With this, the possibility of [Mana Burst]'s attack power will also increase. Even so, it was unexpected that the impact would be that big. Just imagine if the others knew, how shocked they were.'

While saying that inwardly, Riyan smiled wryly imagining the incident. It would be a big blow at first, but just like [Auto-Counter], the hatred of his friends would be more developed and cause something bad.

At that very moment, inexplicably, suddenly the veins all over his body bulged out so that it could be clearly seen. Riyan was a bit surprised to see it happen to his body, but he remained as usual. Moments later, he was attacked by intense pain.

"Akhc!! Wh-what's this!?"

Because of the terrible pain, his expression showed that he was in a lot of pain. Despite the pain, he did not release the handle of his sword, even loosened it not. He tried to remain standing with great difficulty, with all his might.

A moment later, the [Chimera] realized that there was a human who stuck a sword in his body deeply. That person is Riyan. The creature instantly swung its front left leg and blew away Riyan.

But unfortunately, Riyan reacted a little faster so that he could pull out his sword while avoiding the surprise attack from the [Chimera]. He dodged it by setting his right foot and jumping to the left, more precisely under the monster's body.

While grimacing withstanding the pain, he stood upright under his opponent's body with the help of the sword he thrust into the labyrinth floor. He looks worried when under the giant body of the monster. Of course, his opponent this time was not an ordinary monster, but rather a monster from the fifth floor in the Hexaphilia labyrinth that could even repel the forces of the Alivonia kingdom, even the army led by Faleon himself, one of the people who had a class of holy knights.

'What is this pain!? Is this a special kind of magic possessed by that [Chimera]? Or is it a special curse magic as a trap in this passageway?'

Confused, Riyan wondered at a question no one would answer. He remained silent under the monster's body while concentrating the mana in his left palm, this time he exerted more mana than before.

"[Status]"

When he said the word, his status screen instantly emerged from the iron bracelet he was wearing on his left hand. He looked around and saw what was really happening to him and felt the immense pain.

'Wh-what's this? Is this why I feel pain?'

His eyes widened as he looked at the parameters that indicated where it was. The pain he felt earlier slowly disappeared, but still felt, although it subsided. Its mana parameter shows 84/5 (50), which makes it very surprised.

'I don't know what happened, but I've read the side effects of excess mana.'

Muttering that in his heart, Riyan looked up, precisely the stomach of the [Chimera]. He got an idea that he thought was good. He raised his left hand as high as he tried to reach the monster's stomach. Due to the intense pain he felt, his hands trembled, even his elbows could not be straight.

The pain that Riyan was currently suffering from was the effect of an excess of mana. When where a person reaches the highest number of his limit on which parameters, then his body will stop collecting mana automatically. Every creature in this world has the ability to absorb mana from the environment so that it can be used as mana for yourself.

There was a skill that could cause one to gather more natural mana than others, but this skill was extremely rare. As for some of the objects that possessed this ability due to being manipulated using magic by magic researchers, one of them was the sword that was grasped by Riyan at the moment.

If one were to absorb beyond the limit he had, then the effect would be like that of Riyan right now. This pain will also attack if the parameters of where reach zero, but not as painful as the effects of excess mana. Having gotten used to it during the practice, Riyan did not feel the pain.

Riyan closed his eyes and exerted all his concentration onto his left palm ignoring this pain he was receiving. A blue ball re-formed in his palm that was and this time was slightly larger than before. After feeling enough, he opened his eyes.

"[Where Burst]!"

Right after the two words were spoken, the mana ball hovering above his left palm exploded into the stomach of the monster.

BLAARR!!

As with size, the explosive power is also stronger. The sound of the explosion sounded very loud, the floor also shook as a result. The body of the [Chimera] raised slightly with a roar that shook the air.

GRAAA!!

A moment after Riyan released the mana ball, the pain he had suffered from earlier disappeared in an instant. Since his mana parameter re-touched the zero, he was freed from the shackles of the pain. Aware of his body returning to normal, he immediately ran away from his opponent's giant body.

After making it out of there, a few seconds later the huge body of the [Chimera] collapsed onto the floor with a very loud vibration to shake its steps. Because of the shock, Riyan had fallen.

He immediately turned to the dust that covered his opponent. It was blocked by dust, but some of its body like the head and tail remain visible because it is too big. He noticed the creature's body using [Appraisal] to see how much impact the skill had.

From the looks of it, the life parameters of the [Chimera] changed to 30240/38000. Seeing what his [Appraisal] skill showed, Riyan was again taken aback. Of course, given that such a severe status could cause such a large wound, it was quite the opposite, even though it was mostly due to status enhancing pills.

'This Skill turned out to be much more powerful than I imagined.'

While saying that in his heart, he rose to his feet like before, only this time he did not feel the pain like that. He looked at his left hand with an amazed expression of not expecting the branching skill from [Mana Manipulation], the skill that was considered to be very detrimental to its user could reduce the life of the monstrous monster by more than 5000 points.

At that instant, the body of the [Chimera] moved, the monster had not fallen down and was trying to get back up. Riyan who saw that instantly took out the fighting horses with his sword, but there was something different about him. Whatisit? That is his expression.

Due to seeing the results of the [Mana Burst] skill, he was more confident in facing this one-sided battle. His lips curled up forming a confident smile. Before his opponent stood up straight, he put his feet out first as quickly as possible.

[Chimera] realized that Riyan was running towards him with a sword that was once again pointed at him. He opened his jaw and gathered mana. A grayish blue mana ball that resembled Riyan's [Mana Burst] was formed in front of his jaw.

'That...is that one of his skills? Let me guess, [Gale Burst]? What kind of coincidence is this?'

Looking at the ball where it was, Riyan was a little surprised and confused, but he kept running while concentrating ahead. Perhaps he was thinking why his [Mana Burst] skill and [Gale Burst] belonging to [Chimera] had something in common that was almost exactly, only slightly different in size and color.

Moments later, the mana ball exploded and released a blue laser towards Riyan. Seeing that, he was surprised. To his surprise, he was unable to react to the attack from the [Chimera]. He knew the laser would hit him, but his body didn't move.

"Damn..."

He said the word closing his eyes as if he had resigned to the very unfortunate situation. But just as he started to surrender, a pair of stacked white shields suddenly appeared before him just like that. Automatically, both shields held the laser from the creature to reach its target.

Riyan, who realized that his body had never received an attack, opened his eyes slowly and found both shields stacked right in front of him. His eyes were wide in disbelief seeing what he saw with both of his eyes at this moment.

'What's this?'

He wondered at the confusion watching the two white shields that appeared suddenly. When he was confused, a human voice was caught by his ears from behind. Hearing the human voice, he immediately looked back to see who it was.

""[Holy Aegis]!!""

Along with that voice, Typhania and Gilbert raised their right hand towards Riyan, followed by Rizu, Johan, Layla, as well as the other disciples from behind. Seeing his friends coming, Riyan was really surprised, his eyes were wide again.

'Tifania!?'