Chapter 52: 51.5: Chimeras And Arcanists.

'What the f**k!' Marcus looked around trying to find whoever was responsible for impaling the chimera woman. If the rock stakes were the work of magic, then the thaumaturge must have been in the room.

At that moment, Marcus' empty eye sockets locked onto a figure across the room.

It was a middle-aged man wearing a simple blue and white robe, he was thin, no more than 1.7 meters (5.5 ft) tall, and in his left hand he carried a white wooden staff with a blue jewel embedded at the top.

"By the gods, but what a bunch of good-for-nothings! They seriously weren't able to take down a single intruder that I had to go out and take care of him? F**k, I haven't slept in days and now I have to take care of this?! Are you serious?!" shouted the robed man as he raised his staff.

*Weng Weng*

A small earth-colored magic circle formed at the top of the staff, causing the air around the man to shake and tremble.

"Sharp rock rain!"

*Crack Crack Crashed*

At that instant, two columns in the room began to fracture and crack until they broke into hundreds of pieces. Then, the rock fragments took the shape of small 30 cm (11.81 inches) long sharpened stakes that immediately flew towards Marcus at high speed.

*Xiu... Xiu... Xiu... Xiu...*.

The rock projectiles were so fast that they caused whistling sounds in the air as they flew towards him.

Marcus almost instinctively put all his strength into his legs and began to run in different directions, moving his body at different angles dodging and blocking all of the wizard's rock stakes with his sword.

Although in his past life he had no combat training or experience, after his reincarnation Marcus found himself in multiple dangerous situations and faced dozens of different monsters and deadly creatures.

Thanks to all those incidents, (and with the help of the system) Marcus' techniques, movements, senses, and instincts had become much sharper than when he was human. In addition, his stats had already reached the point of being superhuman.

So dodging a few rock stakes didn't present much of a challenge to him and even less so now that he had activated all his boosting spells.

'I see. So this must be one of the vice leaders of the Black Lions' He thought as he tilted his head to the side to evade a stone stake.

From the information he had gathered over the past two days, Marcus was able to understand a little of how the gang hierarchy was organized.

Aside from the head of the Black Lions, who was a warrior with multiple special skills, the gang had a total of six vice leaders (two for each city), multiple officers, sub-officers, and squad leaders.

Currently, due to the imminent arrival of the Eastern Lords, the Black Lions had been forced to move almost all of their forces to the other cities.

Except for the leader, the wizard of the 2nd realm, and the chimera soldiers, all the high-ranking members of the gang had already left the city.

*Rumble Rumble*

But while Marcus was still dodging the stone stakes, the robed wizard raised his staff creating multiple glowing magic circles which produced sparks and arcs of electricity.

"Lightning chains!" The blue-robed wizard finished reciting his spell and swung his staff forward. At that same instant, the magic circles began to glow with great intensity and multiple strings of blue lightning shot out towards Marcus.

Marcus immediately jumped backward to evade the wizard's attacks, but although he managed to evade most of them, one of the lightning grazed the left side of his body. Fortunately, his Jörmungandr enchanted armor was quite tough and he only lost a little HP.

*Boom!*

The rest of the lightning that failed to hit Marcus continued its trajectory and impacted against the walls, floor, and columns of the room with a great boom. In the areas where the lightning struck the rock had been destroyed and melted.

Marcus immediately took cover behind a rock column and began casting a spell.

'Dark arrows.!' At that moment Marcus raised his left arm and a black magic circle formed in the palm of his hand. A few seconds later, about twenty black arrows shot out from the circle in his hand.

Although Marcus could have used his necromancy which was much more effective against elemental magic he had decided to use that spell to increase the mastery of his [darkness magic] which was still stuck at level 2.

*Xiu...Xiu...Xiu...Xiu...Xiu...Xiu...Xiu...Xiu...*

The black arrows flew across the room reaching within a few steps of the wizard in the blink of an eye.

*Tack!*

However, before the arrows could pierce his body, the wizard slammed his staff on the floor and a blue magic circle almost a meter (3.2 ft) long appeared in front of him.

"Hmph, pathetic. Water wall!" The moment the wizard finished reciting his spell, large amounts of water began to emerge from the circle creating a thick transparent water barrier in an instant.

*Fiu...Fiu...Fiu...Fiu…*

When the dark arrows hit the wall of water, they slowed to a stop and were suspended in the water. Then, the dark arrows began to disintegrate into shadows until they disappeared.

*Splash*

When the twenty arrows vanished, the blue magic circle disappeared and the wall of water collapsed, scattering a pile of water on the ground.

Lightning, water, and earth? ..... Is he an arcanist? thought Marcus as he watched everything that had happened from behind the column.

In Genaerrsis there were many ways to use magic. Whether it was borrowing the power of an entity from another plane or simply learning to control the power of the natural elements of the environment. Therefore, there were multiple categories for magic users.

But the most common magic users among humans, and the most numerous in the world, were the wizards.

By definition, a wizard was one who obtains his power by forming a connection with the natural elements of the environment using their internal energy and then manipulating them.

However, wizards used to be divided into two types according to the amount and type of elements they controlled. These were known as Elementalists and Arcanists.

Elementalists were those wizards who manipulated a single element or some derivative of the primary element with which they were most compatible.

On the other hand, Arcanists formed connections with multiple primary elements and derived elements even if they were not related to each other.

This had its advantages and disadvantages.

On the one hand, being able to use more elements, Arcanists tended to have a larger repertoire of spells, making them much more versatile than Elementalists. But practicing multiple elements also had a disadvantage.

As she or he ascended to a higher realm, the wizard also had to increase her or his mastery over the element she or he manipulated. At a certain level of mastery, the Rehi rings and the wizard's elemental bond would begin to assimilate allowing him or her to better harness the power of the element.

However, by having multiple elemental bonds they would begin to reject each other causing an imbalance in the wizard's internal energy and causing difficulties when cultivating. Therefore many Arcanists found it very difficult to move beyond the 4th realm and their elemental mastery rank rarely exceeded rank 2.

Usually, the only wizards who became Arcanists were those who were incredibly talented or those who after being stuck in a bottleneck for too long chose to master other elements to increase the number of spells they could use.

The vice leader of the Black Lions probably belonged to the second type. However, that didn't mean he was to be underestimated.

From what Marcus could tell from the few minutes they had been fighting, the arcanist was very skilled when it came to using magic, being able to cast spells and respond to his attacks with incredible speed and accuracy.

His reaction speed and casting speed were even faster than Aylinor who had been a wizard of the 4th realm for a long time.

"Sigh... First the attack of that crazy priest, then the arrival of the Eastern Lords, and the fact that we have to move to other cities... I've had so much paperwork and work that I haven't slept in days, having to drink elixirs to stay awake.

Reassigning tasks, checking inventory, reorganizing transport routes, organizing supplies and weapons for the new bases... Everything was almost ready...

But just when I think I might have some time to rest, some asshole breaks into our base, massacres all our members, and kills the chimera soldiers we worked so hard to raise...

Tell me, do you have any idea how much work it will take to clean this up?.... Do you have any idea how much work I'm going to have because of you? BECAUSE OF YOU I'LL HAVE SO MUCH WORK I WON'T BE ABLE TO SLEEP FOR ANOTHER WEEK!!!"

'What is this guy complaining about? I haven't slept since I reincarnated and I don't go around bragging about it.'

*Tremble*

At that instant, Marcus sensed a slight tremor in the rock pillar and immediately jumped to the side several steps away from where he was.

*Bam... Shik Shik Shik Shik Shik Shik Shik*.

In a split second, dozens of pointed rock stakes over a meter (3.2ft) long sprouted from the column simultaneously. Fortunately, Marcus was able to avoid the attack.

Then, he rolled on the ground, stood up, and charged towards the arcanist at full speed.

If the battle against the arcanist went on too long, even if he won the fight Marcus would lose much of his MP. If that happened Marcus would be unable to engage the leader of the Black Lions and would be forced to retreat.

At that moment, the arcanist raised his staff and a magic circle appeared at the top of it.

*Plaf*

Just when he was a few meters away from the arcanist, Marcus' feet suddenly got stuck and made him fall to the ground which was covered with water.

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"Watery spherical prison." The moment the arcanist finished reciting his spell, all the blood-tinged water in the room began to swirl around Marcus.

"Hum. You're quite skilled, I'll admit. But no matter how good you are, I don't think you can breathe underwater!" As the arcanist said this, his spell was completed and a huge sphere of water, almost 2. 5 meters (8.2 ft) high formed in the room and Marcus was trapped inside.

"You know, from what I heard normal humans only can hold their breath for five minutes. A person from the 3rd realm could hold it for like twenty minutes. On the other hand, I can hold this spell for another forty minutes. So I wonder, what do you think will happen first? I run out of mana or you run out of air?" Said the arcanist with a smile on his face and in an indifferent tone.

Marcus struggled desperately to break free. But no matter how hard he tried he wasn't able to break the water sphere.

Furthermore, the water in the sphere was so dense that Marcus was unable to move properly and also unable to concentrate to cast his elemental spells or use his necromancy.

"Hmph. It's useless. This spell changes the tension of the water making it denser. It doesn't matter if you can cast your spells without reciting them, if you can't move then you can't form the runes and magic circles needed to activate them. Now stop resisting and just f**king die!"

Time passed slowly and Marcus' jerky movements became lighter and lighter as the minutes passed. After almost 20 minutes had passed, Marcus stopped moving.

*Splash*

30 minutes later, the huge sphere of water burst, and Marcus' body fell to the floor completely motionless. A triumphant smile formed on the face of the arcanist, who began to walk towards him.

"Sigh...F**k. How careless of us. How long will it take us to recover from this...Sigh, goodbye to my precious sleep time. "The arcanist looked from one side to the other, observing the corpses of all the gang members and the bodies of the three human chimeras." Now how am I supposed to clean up this mess?!"

*Slash!*

'Eh?' At that moment, the arcanist saw a faint flash out of the corner of his eyes and his point of view changed completely. In an instant, he went from staring at Marcus' body to looking at the ceiling of the room which was getting farther and farther away and for some reason, he felt his body become extremely light.

*Pack!*

As his head fell to the floor, the arcanist saw his decapitated body collapse to the floor with a thud and saw Marcus who was holding his sword covered in blood.

Finally, the arcanist was able to comprehend what had happened. A split second later, his vision blurred and his eyelids closed to never open again.

Ding!

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{The skill [Automatic MP Recovery] leveled up}

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{The skill [Sword Technique] leveled up}

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{The skill [Melee Combat] leveled up}

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{The user has killed a [Human Chimera] for the first time. An additional 1,870 experience points will be awarded}

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{The user has killed a [Warrior] for the first time. 935 additional experience points will be awarded}

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{The user has killed a [Elemental Wizard] for the first time. 2,550 additional experience points will be awarded}

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{You earned 75,310 xp}

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{You leveled up}

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{You gained 68 stat points}

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'Sh*t! Now I'm all soaked. Perfect, just perfect!'Marcus complained as he wiped the arcanist's blood off his sword and wrung the water out of his clothes.

Fortunately, as an undead, he didn't need to breathe, so the arcanist's plan to drown him to death was futile. So after faking his death, Marcus only had to wait for the right moment when the arcanist would let his guard down and kill him with one blow.

Immediately after draining the water from his clothes as best he could, Marcus checked his status and began distributing his stat points.

[INT 463»497];[MP:4,630»4,972]

[STR 115»124]

[DEF 107»114]

[VIT 140» 150];[HP:1,400»1,503]

[AGI 112»120]

When he was done, Marcus opened his [Storage], prepared a couple of things, and started putting away all the valuable items and stuff that might be of use to him in the future.

Then, he took out the map of the tunnels, closed his [Storage], and started walking through the tunnel network. After walking for a few minutes, Marcus arrived in front of some wooden double doors.

However, Marcus could sense that behind the door was an extremely strong creature. The pressure emanating from the room was even stronger than the one he felt when he met the leader of the Giant Clan, Hadrif Treikar.

Perhaps, the person behind that door was on the same level as Aylinor.

'Hmph. I guess this is it.' Marcus was ready to kick down the door and break into the room of the Black Lions' boss. But the moment he touched the door it opened without any hitch.

After opening the door, Marcus entered into a carpeted room illuminated by the light of chandeliers and decorated with a variety of valuable paintings and artwork.

At the far end of the room was a large wooden desk and a picture hung on the far wall. A man was standing with his back to the door, looking at the picture on the wall while drinking liquor from a highly detailed crystal goblet.

He wore a simple white cloth shirt, a pair of black pants and was barefoot. But he had a tail, horns, and parts of his body were covered in bright red scales.

"So Kristoff and those three idiots failed eh?" The dragon-like man took a swig of liquor from his goblet and turned around. " Couldn't you dry off a bit before you came in? You're getting the carpet wet."

The moment the man turned around, Marcus used [Analysis] on him. But even without using his skill, he already knew what kind of race the man belonged to.

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Name: Velector Warburn.

Titles: [Brutal Warrior] [Slaughterer].

Race: Draun

Profession: Draconid Blood Warrior (Gang Leader)

Rank: 5

Level: 53

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HP: 7,200/7,200 MP: 6,380/6,380

Strength: ??? Stamina: ???

Defense: ??? Intelligence: ????

Vitality: ??? Wisdom: ???

Agility: ???

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