Chapter 35: 33. Attack on titan-ic crabs.

"Guys, trust me! I didn't mean any of that! It was just a stupid script!"

"..."

"Why won't you talk to me?! Weren't we friends?!"

"I'm not associating with a toxic person like you."

"Neither am I going to."

"Sorry sweetheart, but you need to fix your personality first."

...

"Lisa? Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine."

"Are you sure? You didn't leave your room for a hell of a long time, and I'm seeing all kinds of shit about you on the internet. Are you really completely fine?"

"I'm fine! Just stop bothering me!"

"... Alright, I'm sorry."

...

*Crash!*

Huh?! What happened? Oh god did the explosives explode?! Damn you Murphy's law! Wait, if the explosives exploded I would have been dead, good thing I didn't jump to conclusions eh?

I removed a part of the stone barrier and peaked outside, from between the crystals, I could see the legs of the giant crab, and it was slamming its claw on something.

Oh crap, I didn't realize it would be this close when I woke up, I need more time to prepare damn it, and I don't even have time to properly freshen up!

Also, what was that dream I had, uh, I don't really remember now, ah damn it, stupid crab made me forget! Ah well, I'll remember it later.

Ok, first of all, I need some more defensive capabilities. Dragon scales and physical damage resistance are pretty good, but it would be better if I could find another skill for defense or maybe something to help me dodge. Wait a moment, I've now realized it, but what does dragon scales even do?

[Dragon scales]

[Scales from a sub species of the dragons, increase resistance to energy and physical attacks. Provides minor regeneration. This is an extremely rare skill.]

Woah, that's a lot better than I thought, and here it says, "extremely rare skill" now that is just getting my heart pumped! Why didn't I appraise it a lot earlier?! Guess I didn't really get the chance.

But that isn't what's important now, I'll level up this skill for this battle. Hey level up my dragon scales!

[Not enough skill points]

...

What?

No no no, this must be a mistake? I have 32 points y'know? You do know how large of an amount that is right?! Man this is freaking dumb.

Well, the crab has a low amount of energy strength, meaning it won't have much energy attacks so I can just level physical resistance right? Man, this is pretty hard to do, there is so much I can do with these skill points.

No, I know what to do actually, I need to get a skill that'll help with 3D movement. Aka I'll level up flight.

[Level up skill "Flying" for 15 skill points?]

Ugh, do I really need to do that? You know what, fine, just level it up.

[Proficiency of skill "Flying" reached the required amount. Increasing level of skill "Flying" to lv. 4]

Well, might as well level up physical resistance.

[Level up skill "Physical resistance" for 8 skill points?]

Yeah, just do it!

[Proficiency of skill "physical resistance" reached the required amount. Increasing level of skill "physical resistance" to lv. 4]

Ok, strengthen my muscles.

[Would you like to strengthen "Muscular system" for 13 Evolutionary points.]

Yep.

[Strengthening "Muscular system"]

I lost all feeling of my body again. The numbness was interrupted by a shock, then tension. I bit into a rock from the tension, the rock immediately crumbled from my bite, then I started moving my neck like mad.

Haah, it's finally over. God, that was awful. Well, for the rest of my points. Upgrade my skeleton.

[Would you like to strengthen "Skeletal system" for 8 Evolutionary points.]

Uh huh.

[Strengthening "Skeletal system"]

Eeee, it feels like I hit my damn funny bone! But the sensation is everywhere!

Haah, alright then boss, strengthen my claws.

[Would you like to strengthen "Claws" for 7 evolutionary points.]

Yeah.

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[Strengthening "Claws"]

Ooh, it's weird, like putting my claws into something that vibrates.

Ah, it ended, well whatever that it for now, I'll save the rest of the skill points for later, but it's time for action!

I remove the stone barrier around me, and face the pile of explosives, yup, still as imposing as ever. Now I just need to actually move it, which is gonna be the hard part.

I try to carry it with telekinesis, but it was just too large and I could only hold up an amount that was similar in size to me at a time. That means I'll need to take roughly 5 trips to move all of them.

I try to lift some with my eye of force, but my eye of force can only push or pull something, so I just ended up putting some crystals in my eye.

Ow ow ow, this is like putting soap in my eyes, except a hundred times worse! Yeah, I really should have expected that.

[Proficiency of skill "Pain resistance" reached the required amount. Increasing level of skill "Pain resistance" to lv. 6]

I can't believe that I hit my eye so hard that I leveled up pain resistance, should I be impressed or disappointed? Ahh, it doesn't matter gotta get there quickly!

I took the explosives into a walkway that was a turn and a straight run from the crab, it took several long runs and the crab had started traveling elsewhere by the time I moved half of it, but I placed all of it in that place.

Ok, now to cover it with my flammable poison.

And there! A good ol' Lisar bomba, just like how mama Lisa used to make.

Now I gotta bring the crab to it.

I climbed up high, and started to look around, eventually, I did find the crab, but he was further away than I wanted it to be.

Ah whatever, I just need to make it follow me.

As it was digging with its claws, trying to hunt down some of the smaller crabs, I jumped down next to it, close to the path where I needed to run.

I shot him with a fire bolt to get its attention, and surely enough, it was now focused on me.

I started running away from it, but that was slightly overkill as I nearly got it out of my sight instantly. So I slowed down into a jog.

Nice day for a jog isn't it? I think the giant hulking crab that is after me also agrees. Either that or it wants to kill me.

The crab started doing something that I slightly expected, it started shooting crystal bullets at me, I kept jumping from side to side to dodge them, the crab was simply just too slow and dumb to hit me with those attacks.

Then crystals came out of the ground to impale me. I jumped and twisted around to dodge them, but more crystals started growing from those pillars that were created, they twisted and turned to stab me, I flew in a zigzag pattern to try to stop them from attacking me, and then I suddenly stopped in mid-air when they got close. The crystals had smashed into each other and broke each other.

Looking back on the ground, I saw that the crab kept furiously approaching, smashing through all of the crystal structures that it had created.

Hey now mr. Crab, no need to hate your own work that much. Keep trying! You'll hit me eventually.

I was now half way to the trap, and the crab had used up about 30 EP. Not bad considering that it didn't have too much EP.

I kept the crabs status screen close to me to be able to check whenever any stat had changed. Don't want it to do anything unexpected after all.

The entire trip to the trap had gone similarly, me running slowly enough that the crab would follow me, and quickly enough to avoid the crystals, I was brushed once or twice by the crystals but the damage was negligible.

And I finally had reached where the trap was, there were a few of the small crabs sticking close to the giant pile of explosives. They're about to have the worst day of their lives right now.

The crab had chased me but I sped up to get out of the blast radius.

By the time I was far away from the explosives, the crab had gotten close to them, not yet Lisa, gotta maximize damage first.

And when the crab basically got right next to those explosives, I sent a fire bolt to the pile of explosives.

For an instant there was silence, the next instant, the sound of a spark resounded, and then a huge booming sound echoed and rumbled the cave as the cloud grew taller and wider.

The air pressure from the explosion was insane and was pushing me away, I dug my feet on the ground as I saw the nearby crystals get blasted away.

The cloud had now reached the roof and rocks started falling. The explosion started spreading terrifyingly close to me, and I felt my wings nearly breaking from the wind and getting scorched by the heat.

The status of the crab next to me was changing rapidly, its health had dropped from 900 all the way to 524.

That super attack did only 400 damage? Insane. Would I really be able to defeat it?

[Required exp amount reached. Lisa leveled up to lv. 6]

[5 skill points were added]
[Proficiency of skill "Telekinesis" reached the required amount. Increasing level of skill "Telekinesis" to lv. 2]
[Stats increased]

A level up? Fantastic timing! I'll need everything I can get for this battle.

The area around us had its crystals destroyed, and more crystals were formed from where the enemies died. Some of them had body parts frozen inside and some were pure crystal.

After the dust blew over, the giant crab was remaining there, the crystals on it's back where slightly broken, and it looked in incredibly rough shape. But it was still alive.

It looked at me then suddenly the crystals on it's back started vibrating with an extremely high pitch, the vibrations had resounded around and suddenly, the new crystals that had formed rose out of the ground.

More enemies? Before assuming that this is harmful to me, it could actually be beneficial depending on how powerful they are, you guys need an Appraisal!

[Crystal] lv. 1

Species: Crystalline Apoikia
Status: Mind control (Severe)
Stats:
Hp: 161/161
Ep: 182/182
Strength: 111
Defense: 180
Energy strength: 122
Energy defense: 81
Speed: 65

Damn, all of them have some pretty hefty stats, but with that speed you're nothing more than a walking exp pack!

As I circled around them while firing fire techniques at them all, I was closed in on by dozens of crystal attacks, the crystals had rose from the ground next to me and closed my exit way, and then crystal shards came in from the other side to impale me. I jumped up and avoided them, then I was fired at once more.

Damn, they're all perfectly coordinated! Is the crab serving as a sort of hive mind or something?! I'll need to clear their numbers slightly before I deal with the crab. But with how annoying their barrages are, this is going to be one tough battle.