The Doomsday System

Chapter 42 Half a Month and Two Months

"What do you mean by a little trouble?" Mike looked at Miss Elyana with eyes full of question marks. He didn't see anything wrong with Gried's body, but he also didn't know for sure how the boy was doing.

"Not seriously, it's just..." Miss Elyana's words stopped. The woman couldn't help saying it, because she knew Mike would get angry if he heard that.

"just only? Say it right!" Mike rebukes. For him Gried was like a family member. Not only Gried, all party members had been considered like his own family. Hearing there was a problem during the Gried experiment, of course Mike felt very worried.

"Gried's body showed abnormalities during receiving follow-up experiments. At first I thought such a reaction would not have much effect, but he still hasn't regained consciousness until now. I'll do a re-check if the boy stays awake for the next hour. Sorry, I should have stopped the experiment when I found out there was an abnormality." Miss Elyana had a very natural sorry expression.

He does regret what happened to Gried, but he still feels happy to see Mike as his masterpiece.

"Why wait an hour?"

"Because it's likely that he'll be aware of about forty-five percent. If the checking was done while he was conscious, then the damage that the Gried would receive would be fatal. A one-hour delay is enough to be a benchmark Gried will realize or not." Miss Elyana explained with a slow tempo, giving Mike time to digest each of her sentences.

"All right, I'll stay here until Gried wakes up. If anything untoward happens, you'll be responsible for this." Mike stared intently at the woman who was his interlocutor.

She couldn't just blame Miss Elyana for Gried also volunteering to be the subject of the experiment.

"I've been at the Academy for half a month. What about other players?" Mike tried to shift the conversation rather than let the awkward atmosphere continue.

"They've improved a lot thanks to night classes. Most already had new skills and some had also leveled up. No time is wasted. I want to say it like that. But in fact the existence of the academy is not to make the strongest players become stronger. The existence of the academy is part of the scenario so that the show becomes more fun."

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Heavy air circled the earth at this time. No more beautiful scenery with various advanced tools like before. Life now seems to go back to a few thousand years ago where humans did not know civilization.

Nomadic life, erratic food menu and obtained from the results of the hunt, to the environmental conditions that have approached the actual word 'apocalypse.

It had been about two months since as many as sixty-one strongest players went to the academy. With the absence of such a great power, the calamity that befell the earth was like it could not be withstood. There were many casualties when the dimension break occurred. Not a few players who give up on their tasks and choose an easier way to die. All of this happens because the earth loses the strength that sustains its balance.

In the presence of a giant snake with its head at each end of its body, three familiar players were putting on faces full of anger and annoyance. Not for the circumstances, but for yourself who are still too weak.

"Will Mike come back? Goddamnit! Just this time I wish I could die sooner." Martha said in the middle of her hunting breath. The two men who fought with him did not give any response. It was obvious that despair was eating away at their consciousness and swallowing them.

Over the past two months, nearly half of all players have ended their own lives. It certainly has a huge impact on the survival of life on earth. Those who were still alive could only hope that the players who were in the Academy would soon return carrying strength comparable to what had been sacrificed so far for their 'loss.

Basically an ordinary human was on par with a level one goblin. So, to deal with this amphisbaena monster required at least a level twenty or so player. It was also with a narrow victory.

"Balth, I leave the diversion to you. Then Geoff, help me with your duplication skill!" Martha looked at her two comrades with confidence who were then reciprocated by a small nod of the two.

The three of them mounted the horses perfectly, preparing to launch a combination attack with their respective tempos.

Martha started with her transformation skill, changing to mimic the monster before her at this moment. Since his transformation skill level increased, the copying requirement was also further simplified. Now he only needed to imagine what kind of changes he would have, then the skill could be activated without touching the target.

Since Martha does not have any information about her current enemy, she imagines herself to be the exact same creature physically, but the power possessed by the two is very much different. Martha could add her own strength to her transformation, making it easier for their attacks to adjust their respective skills.

Geoff started with the {Duplication Gap} skill, doubling Martha in her tranformation mode. After that Balth launched an attack with two skills at once. He used the {Ice Storm} skill to lower the view of monsters and the {Ice Area} skill so that the target could not move from its place.

Martha also started by surrounding the monsters, then launched a burst of fire on one head and a burst of poisonous gas on the other. The duplication itself did the same, making the raging snowstorm monster melt instantly.

The monster squirmed in pain. His skin felt extremely burnt by the fire as well as blistered by the poison. In this case the amphisbaena monster had no chance of winning against the three equal players.

"Good, Martha! Maintain the formation in a few minutes!" Balth shouted with the rest of the voice sounding extremely hoarse. Martha needed a lot of mana to maintain her current form. Where is left is a little more. The girl continued to hope that the monster in the middle of her siege could fall when she had run out of mana.

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\[SYSTEM\]

The use of skills consumes too much mana.

Where is left at this time: 0

The activation of the skill will be forcibly stopped.

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"No!" Balth shouted as he saw the entire duplication of Martha falling down simultaneously. That way, the {Duplication Gap} Geoff skill was also stopped by force because the target was unconscious.

Even so, the amphisbaena monster could still move. Its skin layer was even harder than an ogre and it regenerated faster than a troll. He was the strongest monster they had faced to date.

"Geoff, how many more times can you use the skill until it runs out of nowhere?"

"I'm not sure. Probably only about five times the attack with the skill {Dragon Clow} and three times {Duplication Gap}."

"I can't convince myself that we're going to win."