Chapter 450: 450
When Uno landed in the midst of the monsters, many were flattened beneath his weight and sheer force, while others were blown away by the sharp shockwave that erupted .
Hard Landing was an Epic skill that made the user jump into the air and angle down to smash the ground with extreme force, converting the character's weight and Strength stat into the raw damage values with an x10 modifier .
So the heavier your character and the higher the Strength stat, the more powerful this skill . Uno had decent Strength, but his current weight was ungodly . When both were multiplied together then modified by the skill's base modifier of x10, the damage dealt was over -500,000!
Uno and co were fully Aether-Imbued so they were able to ignore the various resistances . After Uno opened up the battlefield, the other core members smiled and entered the fight .
Sublime Notion was one of the first to begin, as she didn't need to directly head into the battle . Unfortunately, the Seneschal class was built for political administration of a state, so all her passive and active class skills were geared towards that end .
However, the class yielded a shocking boon .
「Seneschal - Legendary Class
Class weapons: Any non-physical
Class skills: Any non-physical」
As such, Sublime Notion held a Legendary staff in hand that boosted her magical prowess, and she had learned literally every spellbook she could get her hands on . Her skill list was so long that it would cause anyone but this evil loli who was extremely blessed with the ability to make order out of chaos .
Sublime was still crazy . With gleeful laughter that showed that this absolutely cute girl who every man would slaughter a whole nation for her to whisper 'big brother' once was not mental firm, she equipped ANOTHER staff in her off-hand .
And as one expected, she was double-casting two different spells with two different weapons! This was obviously impossible - as why wouldn't literally everyone else do this? - but her class's loose restrictions had created a monster .
From one staff emerged a super large fireball and from the other, a crackle of scary lightning . Still screeching with laughter, Sublime cast these two spells into a mass of void monsters, watching as they dealt over 300,000 damage both as splash and focused targeting .
Right after, her left staff spawned a shot of acidic water and her right staff grew a large ice lance, both of which were fired out the next second . Not satisfied with this, Sublime spawned a ray of gravity that tore through all her targets from, one staff, and a beam of light that edified all targets, incinerating parts of them with ease .
Both higher tier Epic spells deal almost 900,000 each .
Deployed Soldier sighed and unsheathed his ornate sword . He largely stayed out of battle ever since he got his new class, as she had been through enough fighting in the pocket world he was sent to during the class change quest .
His passives were already active, both Commander's Aura and Commanders Wisdom . The former buffed his troops and the latter made all tactics useless against him . That was how the allied army under his banner had largely survived the battle, though it was not enough .
You could buff trash all you want, it just made them slightly less disgusting, but not a useful item . Since he was directly fighting now, he turned off all his Commander buffs . It would not work on the core members of Umbra anyway, as they could not be made into troops under his banner .
His class skills didn't state that 'all allies would benefit from X', it specifically said that 'all troops under his command would benefit from X' .
「Great Commander - Legendary Class
Class weapons: Any non-magical
Class skills: Any non-magical」
He also used his class's crazy freedoms to learn a bunch of physical skills of all types . Spear, bow, sword, and more . Of course, Deployed Soldier, preferred the blade due to his own character and due to his skill with it .
He had been of average skill, but years spent in that class change quest fighting on battle non-stop without the ability to use skills as he wanted made him become a swordmaster slightly lesser than Draco .
As such, the moment his Legendary Rank ornate sword came out, he disappeared from where he stood as the eye of onlookers traced him to a spot in the middle of the battlefront .
Deployed Soldier was calmly staring into the glowing red eyes of a humanoid void monster, his blade impaled in its neck . It received over 1,500,000 damage due to the severity, but it was Deployed Soldier's sudden appearance that spooked the monster .
Well, it was the work of an Epic skill called Seek and Destroy . It was basically a sword thrust + blink skill with high accuracy . A definite sure-kill skill in any fight, but here, only shaved off 10% of this monster's HP .
As the void monsters sought vengeance by clawing at Deployed Soldier, he simply withdrew his blade and stepped back . Then, with shocking speed, he brought his sword and parried the claw strike of the void monster with disgusting ease .
Unlike Draco, Deployed Soldier did not dual wield . Dual-wielding was for ambidextrous swordsmen with extremely high Dexterity and Strength . Deployed Soldier preferred to have stable control over a fight, not too fast, not too slow .
Powerful, steady, deliberate . Methodical, sharp, and to the point . No need for flashy acrobatics or overly exaggerated somersaults . With one hand folded behind his back, he continually controlled the void monster before him with ease and shaved away its HP over time .
He would block, parry, or distract, then slash, pierce or bisect the enemy during the lapse in the response . It was a beautiful thing to watch for actually skilled combatants compared to jumping about with two swords like a monkey then shouting names of sword techniques like they meant something .
Deployed Soldier was always in control .
Happy Saint was quite overwhelmed by the fervor of battle . He was an old man and quite refined at that . He was actually one of the few remaining French nobility in modern France, so he had grown up cultured and well-groomed .
This was also why he preferred crafting, specifically Blacksmithing and Alchemy, because combat wasn't really his thing . However, his new Legendary Class afforded him the power to be a crafter or fighter at will, with a flick of the finger .
「Combat Form – Active skill
Effect: Switch to the Combat mode of this class, which increases the defensive and offensive power of manipulated metals by 30% .
Duration: continuous .
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