Chapter 129 - A Husband Develops New Skill Against Leaders With Many Underlings!
The leader of the adventurer party was known as 'Cero'.
He was an adventurer whose talent exceeded many floors, but what settled his future path was the fact that his belief was the same as one of the leaders in Wings Free adventurer party.
He already had someone to follow and learn just from looking at his training, but Cero's greed also went against all of this. He felt like he learned enough, and with the inventory treasures, his path would be only easier.
The same went for his friends, but they were obviously weaker allowing him to be the leader in the natural elimination process.
"So you want to go against us too? One more doesn't change anything at all."
Cero uttered leisurely, then clenched his fist. One could see the unknown belief shaking around his whole arm; then scales began to appear across his entire arm. He wore heavy clothes similar to the vest around his torso, so a lot of his skin was exposed. The same went for his short pants.
However, the scales only appeared around his arm and cheeks. Other than that, Cero stood like a human. There were a few acquaintances that did the same, but scales only coiled around their hands.
It was clear who was the strongest even more.
'It's not the same as pyromaniacs' flames or turning into belief, but this feat is extraordinary for someone around our level.'
Kyoya muttered inwardly as he looked at the changes on Cero's body. He naturally compared this to Rosa's lightning knowledge and pyromaniacs' flame bodies. Both cases were more extraordinary, but it was clear that scales around one's body replaced a need for equipment as only the material from the 'origin' of those scales would match this belief.
And other than divine help or dungeon, such material would be hard to get.
[Kyoya(A weirdo husbando): This guy is the strongest, so how about I face him? I think I should be able to kill him the fastest out of our group and-]
[Xiaoxiao: You should leave him to me, Kyoya! Everyone thinks of you as an assassin every time you use your skills, so just go for it and kill weaker enemies fast! I will take care of this guy, and if not, then you can always assist me after killing others.]
[Kyoya(A weirdo husbando): That's okay. Good luck.]
[Josef(First Friend and Disciple): Hey, wait for a second! We will split up the map to make things easier for us.]
[Maria(Josef's girlfriend): Yes, leave it to us! We can summon vast labyrinths with gathered belief. It will help us regenerate our energies and kill them effortlessly! Mrs. Xiaoxiao should just hold this leader as much as possible, though. He can rock the boat too much!]
[Xiaoxiao: I can hold him for hours! Believe in me!]
[Kyoya(A weirdo husbando): Then, I will summon the house in the middle. Feel free to rest here and get your energies replenished by Xaya. Let's do it.]
Everyone sent a 'thumbs up' emoticon, which made Kyoya smile, then he did as he said. A house appeared just slightly behind him, while massive walls began to emerge out from the ground per Josef and Maria's belief.
These walls startled the enemies, but they were still in the special pocket realm, so no way for the husband and others to run away! Their eyes also took a glance at the house, greed instantly settling itself in their eyes.
Then, Xiaoxiao looked at her minimap.
The whole labyrinths outline has been displayed here. The worst thing was that Josef's powers were too weak, so he couldn't really pinpoint the location of enemies here. It wasn't a grim situation as Kyoya's party could see themselves on the minimap well. They also remembered the location of the strongest leader, and so Xiaoxiao rushed toward this location to make him pinned down!
Then, Kyoya left Xaya in the house with a kiss.
"I will be back soon. Believe in me."
"Good luck, husband!"
He didn't waste any more time and rushed to find the separated adventurers. Just like Xiaoxiao said, if he focused everything into his execution ability, then it was either one clean kill or heavily wounded adventurer. In these narrowed labyrinths, it would be also easier to use the avatars to his advantage.
After stomping on the ground for a while, Kyoya's eyes narrowed slightly as he spotted the first enemies. Instantly the devilish golden-red color enveloped his knives but in an utmost silence.
Then, the high speed made his whole world blurred except for the one target that was within his eyes.
[You have used execution skill - Deceive.]
[You have killed a 16th-floor adventurer.]
"You damn rat!"
The adventurer wasn't alone, so the other one quickly spotted Kyoya! His eyes went blank when Kyoya's knives sunk into the flesh of his friend so easily yet powerfully. Then, he regained his focus as the loud thud echoed through his mind.
Shoving his scaled fists forward, the adventurer hoped to catch Kyoya to suffocate him to death. Kyoya easily evaded this as he turned his body to the side, then in a quick movement, his knife went forth to cut through the assailant's whole arm. Despite the equipment on this adventurer's body, Kyoya easily cut through his arm, then slithered his way closer.
Before that, Kyoya also left knife deep in the man's shoulder!
Right side was totally harmless right now!
"What the hell…"
Once closer, Kyoya's next target was actually the thigh. As he thrust his knife with red energy and concepts, Kyoya easily made the adventurer fall onto his knee without him actually reacting to any move that happened in less than ten seconds.
What was even more terrifying was that unknown laughter ringing in his mind. The laughter of the Joker was too much of a disturbance for the adventurer. Just a little of its sound was enough to make him frozen.
Then, Kyoya snuck his knife straight into the adventurer's mouth.
[You have killed a 16th-floor adventurer.]
'Great, no damage taken at all.'
Kyoya took all their equipment to his inventory, then charged at more adventurers. They were strong adventurers, but avoiding their fists and tricking with avatars was enough for Kyoya to deal with them.
However, one of them proved to be unique.
His fists managed to grab the husband's knives, so the sound of these shattering assaulted Kyoya's ears. He looked at pieces of the expensive knives with slight pain in his eyes, then went all out on this individual.
The avatars materialized themselves with the same expressions filled with anger. Using those as cover, Kyoya snuck his way, and one by one, he cut all the nerves on the adventurer's arm.
'I wasted a lot of time here.'
Such individuals were bound to happen as they came here prepared to fight with Kyoya until one side survived. They were using various means to strengthen themselves, so the husband's speed of clearing the labyrinth was not weak at all.
It was just Kyoya's expectations that were too high.
Nonetheless, the world was blurred yet again for him as he darted to end this day victorious. Kyoya was already fed up with battles and wanted to spend the rest of his time with his wife and friends.
So, his expectations went yet again up.
He pushed his limits against those people; then, the sudden message startled him.
[You have developed the new skill - Trickster God's Surprise.
Surprise your strongest enemies after killing their underlings!
Trickster God's Surprise skill gathers the belief of recent enemies to unleash one powerful Trickster God's Strike!
Requirements to gather the belief: The enemy has to die with one of Trickster God's abilities affecting his mind.
The gathered power can be used together with the execution skill - Deceive.
The gathered power lasts an hour after the last death.]
[Trickster God's Surprise becomes 'Ace's Surprise'.]
'So it's either enemies getting surprised by the avatars or the laughter ringing in their eyes for the current me… The execution skill also should affect their mind just before death, I think?'
Kyoya looked at the new skill with pleasant eyes. He felt like the more people he met, the more underlings came with them, so this skill also made his job easier. Just like Xiaoxiao said, he was like an assassin with those skills, for now, so Kyoya hummed and recollected his focus.
Now, he felt like inviting Xiaoxiao to his party on his own as she could be a strong frontline! However, the focus of the husband got disturbed once again!
[The Sixth Death God's divine energy influences the new skill!]
Ding!
[Evolution.]
[Your skill has evolved to The Ninth Trickster God's Surprise.]
[Your skill receives the special effect!
Upon killing the enemies, your skill also gathers the belief of your enemies from their souls. Your Trickster God's strike gets anti-belief penetrating powers.]
"Thank you, father in law."
Kyoya already compared this new skill with enemies surrounding him. If he killed Cero's friends with the same belief as his own, he would be strong enough to penetrate through his scales.
If not, then this penetrating power would surely make things easier for him.
Thus, Kyoya developed another ability that suited him. There was a lot of filth that looked at his wife with their disgusting eyes. It was time to build up more power on their dead bodies and souls, then surprise the leader!
However, Kyoya stopped just after killing two more adventurers.
It was because there was a huge flame descending from the red cloud.
Its destination was where Xiaoxiao was, and so Kyoya felt like the boss would actually get soloed by Xiaoxiao, which made his heart warmer.
Thus, he waited for the message while continuing to practice this surprise skill.
'I have to imbue the concept of joker's laughter first.'