This vast battlefield spans a major part of the dungeon.
Nearly 45 percent of the outer area is the bloody battlefield into which Rio got teleported, and nearly 37 percent of the inner area is also a part of this major battlefield.
The whole area is littered with thousands upon thousands of corpses. Everywhere one may look, only death and rotten corpses could be seen.
'This place is horrible… If I had emotions, I would have fainted in this place… rotting innards… organs… This place is filled with gore…' (Rio)
'It's a good thing only I got teleported here… wouldn't want Lia to see this horrifying view…' (Rio)
With his sword in his hand, Rio stood atop a huge pile of corpses; horror and fear were still visible in the eyes of the dead bodies.
'This place is quite big… it's been half an hour since it started wandering around… (Rio)
'Moreover, this place is called a dungeon… but there are no monsters in sight… All there are the dead bodies of various demons…' (Rio)
Rio tilted his head and glanced at the giant corpse of a demon lying on the ground.
"That must have been an S-rank demon…" (Rio)
The corpse was so huge that its eyeball looked bigger than Rio's whole body.
'Fear… Even a demon felt fear… well, death is indeed the scariest thing for any sentient creature…' (Rio)
Rio shook his head and stopped paying attention to that giant corpse.
'If this place is an imitation of the ancient Maya continent… then it means that the perfect bomb was dropped by the demons when the 'Thousand-year demon extinction war' was still ongoing…'
Every other race believes that demons do not care about their fellow kin; they only kill for pleasure and pure destruction.
Demons don't have a proper civilization; they are like wild beasts who hunt for food and spend most of their time seeking pleasure through various means.
'They dropped the perfect bomb and directly killed thousands of their kin along with the enemy… demons really are a heartless race…' (Rio)
Rio shrugged his shoulders and stopped thinking about it.
"Hmm…" (Rio)
Rio tilted his head a bit to the left, and an arrow covered in thick purple flames passed by his head. If he hadn't dodged it beforehand, his head would have exploded like a watermelon.
"Is there someone still alive even after that mana bomb… it must be a lucky fellow then…" (Rio)
Although perfect mana bombs are very effective killers, which can wipe out everything on a whole continent and not even leave small insects alive for thousands of kilometers, there are always some exceptions.
There are always some lucky survivors who somehow make it out alive. (That Bear Link killed was also a lucky survivor… it was originally a peak S-ranker… now reduced to a dead body…)
Due to being here for more than half an hour, Rio had already adapted to the chaotic mana, which caused him to be able to barely use his mana detection skills again.
With his amazing instincts and this weakened mana detection, now Rio could dodge blows from a peak-A ranker from point-blank.
'Unless the other party gets serious, I feel like I can at least dodge a few casual attacks from an S-ranker at my peak state…' (Rio) The origin of this chapter's debut can be traced to N0/v3l--B1n.
With his terrifying talent, Rio used this rare opportunity of being in chaotic mana to train his mana detection even further, and thus his sense reached a new height.
While Rio continued to contemplate in his mind, several more arrows came at him flying with speed much faster than the speed of sound.
Rio just slightly tilted his body every time and dodged the arrows by an extremely small margin.
After the third arrow, Rio had already determined the exact location of the attacker. (Yes, he was trying to locate the archer, that's why he didn't rush directly and continued to play the role of a stationary target…)
Rio jumped down the corpse hill in a single go, and he started to walk towards the attacker in an unhurried and slow manner. He kept dodging the arrows and slowly moved forward.
'It seems these arrows are just mere warning shots; the other party is not really trying their best… (Rio)
'Moreover, I can't detect the individual at all…' (Rio)
Although Rio was able to easily detect the arrow and the bow, he couldn't detect the archer who was using the bow.
'It's as if the bow is firing automatically and there's no real individual behind it… this is quite strange…' (Rio)
Rio suddenly put some pressure on the ground and launched towards the opponent like a cannonball. He was so fast that it felt like he directly teleported in front of the bow.
[Elemental Sword Art: Moon Cleaver!]
With a horizontal strike of his sword at insane speed, Rio split the bow in two directly. The air pressure from that sword slice split several corpse hills behind the bow.
"Hmm, is it an evil spirit?" (Rio)
Although Rio's attack landed on the bow, it seemed to have done no damage at all. The two split pieces of the bow reunited and changed the shape of its body. The spirit being took a humanoid form, and a spear rested in its palm.
'Now we know why it survived the chaotic mana until now… it's not a living creature in the first place but a spirit being….' (Rio)
Spirit beings have excellent control over mana. In the first place, the whole body of a spirit being is made up of mana; they don't have a proper physical body.
Spirit beings have to consciously try to keep their body together all the time, which trains their mana control every single second, and that's why their mana control is insanely good, which in turn makes them capable of surviving in chaotic mana too.
But this only applies to strong spirit beings; weaker ones can't survive here.
Seeing that the spirit was about to attack him again, Rio raised his sword above his shoulder and took his stance.
[Sword Intent!]
[Elemental Swords Art: Descending Moon!]
Rio's sword intent burst forth and covered his whole sword; with a downward strike, Rio split the spirit in two again.
The spirit beast didn't even get the chance to land a single attack on Rio before it started to disintegrate into nothingness. Yet a smile could be seen on the spirit's humanoid face.
(As explained earlier, sword intent is an extremely deadly attack against spirit beings; even Kai, who is an SS-rank spirit, fears 'Sword Intent'…. This proves the fact that low-ranked spirit beings couldn't withstand a single attack from the sword intent.)
Seeing the disintegrating spirit smiling at him, Rio shook his head.
'It must have been someone's residual hatred that must have created this spirit being… May your soul rest in peace now…' (Rio)
While Rio stood there watching the spirit disintegrate, the Spirit stretched its hand out all of a sudden, and a black orb appeared in its hand.
It seemed the spirit wanted Rio to take that orb; Rio hesitated a bit but then decided to take it in his hand.
After handing the orb to Rio, the spirit eventually disintegrated into nothingness, but Rio was paying attention to something else at the moment.
[Ding! True Immunity has been triggered…. Negating the effects of the 'Soul Orb'…]
[Ding! True immunity has nullified the 'sacrifice' of the 'Soul Orb'…. You are unaffected by it now!]
"Hmm, what just happened?" (Rio)
'Since 'true immunity' got triggered… doesn't that mean this orb was supposed to be a malicious thing….' (Rio)
The only reason Rio accepted that orb was that he knew he had 'True Immunity'; otherwise, he wouldn't even want to touch something given by an evil spirit. Evil spirits are created by intense hatred or killing intent of a dead individual.
It is extremely rare for a spirit being to be born; the circumstances of the birth of a new evil spirit are extremely rare and difficult to meet. This is the reason why there are not many spirit beings in the world.
If some ordinary hatred could create an evil spirit, then this world would have been filled with spirit beings. They would have been so common that they might have already been considered a separate species altogether.
'But what is this 'Sacrifice' thingy… It sure sounds quite weird and suspicious…' (Rio)
Rio shook his head and put the black orb in his space ring. Just when Rio put the orb in his space ring, his instincts screamed at him like crazy; he felt death incoming.
Rio saw a giant axe striking him from the corner of his vision; he immediately tightened his stomach and shifted his body back as much as possible.
'Sh*t!, can't dodge it!' (Rio)
Even with his amazing reaction speed, Rio couldn't properly dodge that attack; the attack landed on Rio's left hand and directly cut his hand off.
Rio immediately jumped away from that spot and dodged the follow-up attack. Blood flowed out of his sliced arm like a fountain, but there was no emotion of pain on his expressionless face.
'Should have been better to keep the shadow armor on… tch! How did I make such a newbie-like mistake, sigh~' (Rio)
Rio had worn that shadow ring on his left hand, and now that it was cut off, he couldn't use that robe anymore either. The relaxed situation seemed to have become dangerous all of a sudden.
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Author's Notes
Yo! It's your beloved author here! Now this is what we call the situation going from 0 to 100 extremely fast! Now let's see how Rio will survive this sudden unexpected crisis.
Question of the day.
Would you like to visit this bloody battlefield if given the chance?
1. Yes (You should reconsider; this is not a game…)
2. No (Yes, this is the logical and best answer…)
3. Other (Tell me in the comments..)
By the way, don't forget to use those power stones and also leave a review if you like the story. Comment your opinion about the chapter. Your support is my motivation.
This vast battlefield spans a major part of the dungeon.
Nearly 45 percent of the outer area is the bloody battlefield into which Rio got teleported, and nearly 37 percent of the inner area is also a part of this major battlefield.
The whole area is littered with thousands upon thousands of corpses. Everywhere one may look, only death and rotten corpses could be seen.
'This place is horrible… If I had emotions, I would have fainted in this place… rotting innards… organs… This place is filled with gore…' (Rio)
'It's a good thing only I got teleported here… wouldn't want Lia to see this horrifying view…' (Rio)
With his sword in his hand, Rio stood atop a huge pile of corpses; horror and fear were still visible in the eyes of the dead bodies.
'This place is quite big… it's been half an hour since it started wandering around… (Rio)
'Moreover, this place is called a dungeon… but there are no monsters in sight… All there are the dead bodies of various demons…' (Rio)
Rio tilted his head and glanced at the giant corpse of a demon lying on the ground.
"That must have been an S-rank demon…" (Rio)
The corpse was so huge that its eyeball looked bigger than Rio's whole body.
'Fear… Even a demon felt fear… well, death is indeed the scariest thing for any sentient creature…' (Rio)
Rio shook his head and stopped paying attention to that giant corpse.
'If this place is an imitation of the ancient Maya continent… then it means that the perfect bomb was dropped by the demons when the 'Thousand-year demon extinction war' was still ongoing…'
Every other race believes that demons do not care about their fellow kin; they only kill for pleasure and pure destruction.
Demons don't have a proper civilization; they are like wild beasts who hunt for food and spend most of their time seeking pleasure through various means.
'They dropped the perfect bomb and directly killed thousands of their kin along with the enemy… demons really are a heartless race…' (Rio)
Rio shrugged his shoulders and stopped thinking about it.
"Hmm…" (Rio)
Rio tilted his head a bit to the left, and an arrow covered in thick purple flames passed by his head. If he hadn't dodged it beforehand, his head would have exploded like a watermelon.
"Is there someone still alive even after that mana bomb… it must be a lucky fellow then…" (Rio)
Although perfect mana bombs are very effective killers, which can wipe out everything on a whole continent and not even leave small insects alive for thousands of kilometers, there are always some exceptions.
There are always some lucky survivors who somehow make it out alive. (That Bear Link killed was also a lucky survivor… it was originally a peak S-ranker… now reduced to a dead body…)
Due to being here for more than half an hour, Rio had already adapted to the chaotic mana, which caused him to be able to barely use his mana detection skills again.
With his amazing instincts and this weakened mana detection, now Rio could dodge blows from a peak-A ranker from point-blank.
'Unless the other party gets serious, I feel like I can at least dodge a few casual attacks from an S-ranker at my peak state…' (Rio) The origin of this chapter's debut can be traced to N0/v3l--B1n.
With his terrifying talent, Rio used this rare opportunity of being in chaotic mana to train his mana detection even further, and thus his sense reached a new height.
While Rio continued to contemplate in his mind, several more arrows came at him flying with speed much faster than the speed of sound.
Rio just slightly tilted his body every time and dodged the arrows by an extremely small margin.
After the third arrow, Rio had already determined the exact location of the attacker. (Yes, he was trying to locate the archer, that's why he didn't rush directly and continued to play the role of a stationary target…)
Rio jumped down the corpse hill in a single go, and he started to walk towards the attacker in an unhurried and slow manner. He kept dodging the arrows and slowly moved forward.
'It seems these arrows are just mere warning shots; the other party is not really trying their best… (Rio)
'Moreover, I can't detect the individual at all…' (Rio)
Although Rio was able to easily detect the arrow and the bow, he couldn't detect the archer who was using the bow.
'It's as if the bow is firing automatically and there's no real individual behind it… this is quite strange…' (Rio)
Rio suddenly put some pressure on the ground and launched towards the opponent like a cannonball. He was so fast that it felt like he directly teleported in front of the bow.
[Elemental Sword Art: Moon Cleaver!]
With a horizontal strike of his sword at insane speed, Rio split the bow in two directly. The air pressure from that sword slice split several corpse hills behind the bow.
"Hmm, is it an evil spirit?" (Rio)
Although Rio's attack landed on the bow, it seemed to have done no damage at all. The two split pieces of the bow reunited and changed the shape of its body. The spirit being took a humanoid form, and a spear rested in its palm.
'Now we know why it survived the chaotic mana until now… it's not a living creature in the first place but a spirit being….' (Rio)
Spirit beings have excellent control over mana. In the first place, the whole body of a spirit being is made up of mana; they don't have a proper physical body.
Spirit beings have to consciously try to keep their body together all the time, which trains their mana control every single second, and that's why their mana control is insanely good, which in turn makes them capable of surviving in chaotic mana too.
But this only applies to strong spirit beings; weaker ones can't survive here.
Seeing that the spirit was about to attack him again, Rio raised his sword above his shoulder and took his stance.
[Sword Intent!]
[Elemental Swords Art: Descending Moon!]
Rio's sword intent burst forth and covered his whole sword; with a downward strike, Rio split the spirit in two again.
The spirit beast didn't even get the chance to land a single attack on Rio before it started to disintegrate into nothingness. Yet a smile could be seen on the spirit's humanoid face.
(As explained earlier, sword intent is an extremely deadly attack against spirit beings; even Kai, who is an SS-rank spirit, fears 'Sword Intent'…. This proves the fact that low-ranked spirit beings couldn't withstand a single attack from the sword intent.)
Seeing the disintegrating spirit smiling at him, Rio shook his head.
'It must have been someone's residual hatred that must have created this spirit being… May your soul rest in peace now…' (Rio)
While Rio stood there watching the spirit disintegrate, the Spirit stretched its hand out all of a sudden, and a black orb appeared in its hand.
It seemed the spirit wanted Rio to take that orb; Rio hesitated a bit but then decided to take it in his hand.
After handing the orb to Rio, the spirit eventually disintegrated into nothingness, but Rio was paying attention to something else at the moment.
[Ding! True Immunity has been triggered…. Negating the effects of the 'Soul Orb'…]
[Ding! True immunity has nullified the 'sacrifice' of the 'Soul Orb'…. You are unaffected by it now!]
"Hmm, what just happened?" (Rio)
'Since 'true immunity' got triggered… doesn't that mean this orb was supposed to be a malicious thing….' (Rio)
The only reason Rio accepted that orb was that he knew he had 'True Immunity'; otherwise, he wouldn't even want to touch something given by an evil spirit. Evil spirits are created by intense hatred or killing intent of a dead individual.
It is extremely rare for a spirit being to be born; the circumstances of the birth of a new evil spirit are extremely rare and difficult to meet. This is the reason why there are not many spirit beings in the world.
If some ordinary hatred could create an evil spirit, then this world would have been filled with spirit beings. They would have been so common that they might have already been considered a separate species altogether.
'But what is this 'Sacrifice' thingy… It sure sounds quite weird and suspicious…' (Rio)
Rio shook his head and put the black orb in his space ring. Just when Rio put the orb in his space ring, his instincts screamed at him like crazy; he felt death incoming.
Rio saw a giant axe striking him from the corner of his vision; he immediately tightened his stomach and shifted his body back as much as possible.
'Sh*t!, can't dodge it!' (Rio)
Even with his amazing reaction speed, Rio couldn't properly dodge that attack; the attack landed on Rio's left hand and directly cut his hand off.
Rio immediately jumped away from that spot and dodged the follow-up attack. Blood flowed out of his sliced arm like a fountain, but there was no emotion of pain on his expressionless face.
'Should have been better to keep the shadow armor on… tch! How did I make such a newbie-like mistake, sigh~' (Rio)
Rio had worn that shadow ring on his left hand, and now that it was cut off, he couldn't use that robe anymore either. The relaxed situation seemed to have become dangerous all of a sudden.
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Author's Notes
Yo! It's your beloved author here! Now this is what we call the situation going from 0 to 100 extremely fast! Now let's see how Rio will survive this sudden unexpected crisis.
Question of the day.
Would you like to visit this bloody battlefield if given the chance?
1. Yes (You should reconsider; this is not a game…)
2. No (Yes, this is the logical and best answer…)
3. Other (Tell me in the comments..)
By the way, don't forget to use those power stones and also leave a review if you like the story. Comment your opinion about the chapter. Your support is my motivation.
