YM778.TV Chapter 150: Sub-Skill: Guiding Shot
However, despite the sounds of pain(?) it made, one thing was clear,
"It\'s not yet down."
Along with this realization, Henry pulled two Mana recovery potions from his inventory and downed them.
[You have recovered 120 Mana Points]
[Mana Points: 122/320]
As he tossed the empty potion bottles aside, he spiked Nyx\'s reins and had her ride closer to the downed Monstrosity.
When the massive fist hit the ground, it erupted a forceful wave and with Eloise being in front of the creature, she had been forced to slide away many steps but now she turned around with both her hands gripping her sword while the Monstrosity\'s violent eyes remained locked on her.
"RARRRRRR!!!!"
With a massive roar, the creature raised both its arms and brought them down in a powerful double-fisted slam that cracked the ground and destroyed many squares while rocking the very foundation of the hall and probably the very structure of the Dungeon.
The forceful wave that was created was akin to a massive wall oozing with the sickly deadly mana that was prevalent in multiple creatures within the Dungeon. The wall never got lower no matter how far it traveled from the epicenter. In fact, it seemed to get increasingly higher and slammed into everyone in the Hall.
Those who had the foresight to stab their weapons into the ground to avoid getting were not spared. The wave forced their weapons out of the ground and slammed them as far away as possible. Striking into surfaces and getting knocked out due to the impact.
Nyx let out a distressed whinny as the wave lifted her off her legs and tossed her aside to slam into the wall. The jerkiness of the throw forced Henry off her saddle and of course, he wasn\'t spared from the wave either.
Henry\'s head slammed the wall harder than any other part of his body and as he felt a painful throb from the impactful hit, he also lost all his senses and blacked out. For how long, he wasn\'t sure.
When he opened his eyes, lying on the ground, notifications from the System welcomed him;
[You have lost 55 Hit Points]
[Hit Points: 59/210]
[Nyx has lost 45 Hit Points]
[Nyx\'s Hit Points: 60/155]
Henry looked away from the notifications and to the side where he found Nyx lying down on the ground. Her breath came out raspy and slow and her eyes were closed but she seemed alright besides that.
About five feet away from him, Henry saw Louis and Andor with their backs against the wall. Blood streamed down the side of Andor\'s head and by the blood stain against the wall, Henry guessed the injury was caused by the recent slam that everyone in the Hall just suffered.
There were Mummies still around but they had all suffered the slams of the forceful waves like the humans. However, since they all lacked any sentience or concept of pain, they were not kept down for as long as any human would.
The odd angles that some of their body parts got stuck in due to the forceful slam were the only things that were keeping the Mummies down and with a few bandage-muffled creaks, they stood up, shuffled to where their weapons had dropped when they got slammed away.
The Mummies picked up their weapons and now turned toward Andor and Louis who they had been battling against before the Wave interrupted.
"Ugh," Henry groaned as he rose off the ground and pressed a hand to his head, only then realizing he wasn\'t holding his guns.
His eyes widened and he cast them around in search only to find both guns lying on the ground many feet away and even more feet apart.
The Mummies were getting closer to Andor and Louis who were both still unconscious when Henry kicked off the ground and charged toward \'Violent Retort\'. The only one of his guns that did not require Mana to fire despite being capable of magical shots.
He ran for a few feet and then turned it into a slide as he scooped his gun off the ground and turned around to aim the weapon at his first victim.
*Bang*
The shot hit and not only blasted a hole through the Mummy but slammed it into the wall right beside Andor\'s unconscious self where it promptly slid to the ground as it was rendered a useless bandaged bag of bones.
In the second the Mummy took to hit the ground, Henry fired the second Mana-infused Slug in \'Violent Retort\' and eliminated another Mummy.
[Kill-Reward: 400 Exp]
The System combining his Kill-Rewards into a single notification was bound to become a trend because the moment Henry used <Reload> on \'Violent Retort\', he was already pointing the weapon, and in a flow of shots, blasted holes through two more Mummies.
[Kill-Reward: 400 Exp]
The Mummies seemed to have finally taken notice of Henry\'s presence but even as a bunch of them paused their attacks on Louis and Andor, Henry shot and eliminated two more.
[Kill-Reward: 400]
[You have Leveled Up]
[You are now Level 22]
[Hit Point Maximum increased to 220]
[Hit Points: 69/220]
[Mana Point Maximum increased to 330]
[You now have 6 Stat Points to Allocate]
Henry swiped the notifications off the front of his face as he ran toward where \'The Hydra\'s Sting\' was lying on the ground. He swooped it up and sent it into his Inventory with the bulk of his attention still on the Mummies.
Whether or not they had the sense to delegate roles was a bit unclear but the Mummies that were not yet eliminated separated into two groups.
Three stayed behind to continue their so-far-foiled attempts to run Andor and Louis through with their weapons and aimed to try again while four charged toward Henry.
Henry constantly kept moving to avoid their attacks with his attention on the three trying to attack Louis and Andor. He made to shoot but one of the Mummies charging at him leaped into the line of fire, taking the attack instead.
[Kill-Reward: 200 Exp]
"Fuck!" Henry said through gritted teeth as even the others started to block his sight as well.
"-NYX!-" he yelled out to her through their telepathic connection.
The horse\'s ears perked despite the call sounding in her head. She rose off the ground just as Henry yelled to her again through their telepathic connection,
"-HELP THEM!-"
Nyx\'s head turned toward Andor and Louis and even as she answered…
"-Right!-"
… Her body was already letting out the dark shadowy mist of <Shadow Dash> and she moved. She galloped faster than the Mummies could attack with their weapons and went right through them like a battering ram.
When she had knocked them away from Louis and Andor, Nyx made sure to stomp on them until she was absolutely certain they would not move again. Which was almost immediately after just two of her stomps.
[Nyx has made three kills]
[Nyx has received 750 Exp]
While Nyx was stomping away on the Mummies, Henry used the second shot in \'Violent Retort\' to blast away one of the now-three Mummies charging at him.
[Kill-Reward: 200 Exp]
Somehow the remaining two Mummies managed to get close enough for the one wielding a Spear to extend the weapon as far as its long shaft could allow and stab into Henry\'s shoulder.
[You have lost 10 Hit Points]
[Hit Points: 59/220]
The attack was not too deep but Henry still gritted his teeth at the sting. Right before he reloaded \'Violent Retort\' and blasted shots into the heads of the two Mummies, of course.
[Kill-Reward: 400 Exp]
[Skill Level-Up!]
[Marksmanship is now Lv.5]
[You have attained Marksmanship \'Synergy\']
[You have acquired a Marksmanship Active Sub-Skill: Guiding Shot]