Is this really a Game?!

[Battle has been concluded, distributing experience…]

– Lvl 15 Cursed Tree killed, 400 exp gained

– Lvl 13 Cursed Tree killed, 300 exp gained

– Lvl 16 Cursed Tree killed, 450 exp gained

– Lvl 14 Cursed Tree killed, 350 exp gained

– Lvl 15 Cursed Tree killed, 400 exp gained

[The players have earner 1900exp and 70S coins, distributing …]

[The player has earned 380exp and 14S coins.]

Continuing deeper inside the forest everyone was tense and on top of their toes, they knew now that nothing in the forest is as it seems, even freaking trees wanted to kill them.

Passing through thick bushes and moving slowly they fail to see anything of notice, the forest was deathly silent, the chirping of birds, the sounds of insects, there was nothing, just the occasional sounds of the wind blowing through the forest and shaking the many leaves.

Above the heads of everyone shadows were moving slightly, humanoid figures were observing them silently.

“I have a bad feeling about this, Beast, can you use your skill to check the area?” Wolf stops moving as he turns to Beast who nods in confirmation.

Kneeling down on the ground he calms down his breathing before using his skill to fuse his sense of hearing with his wolves, apart from the sound of wind and his teammates breathing he hears nothing for a bit, focusing more to make sure he doesn’t miss anything he hears sounds coming from above, shallow and slow breathing was heard by him in multiple locations.

He jumps back in haste as he yells out

“Above us!”

A dark shadow swoops down from the branches above them, hitting the ground where Beast previously stood on, with it 2 more get down and observe the party in silence.

[Lvl 11 Shadow ]

[Lvl 12 Shadow ]

[Lvl 11 Shadow ]

[Skill Inspect used ]

[Lvl 11 Shadow]

Strength: ?

Agility: ?

Endurance: ?

Vitality: ?

Willpower: ?

Spirit: ?

Description: Undead beings that resemble dark exaggerations of humanoid shadows. The shadows lack any formidable characteristics but they can follow their prey anywhere with stealth. Lurking in the darkness they feed on the vitality of living creatures.

“Dammit, I can’t see any of their stats, seems like this is also one of their specialties” Reign cusses while looking at the stat screen in front of him, the creatures in front of them weren’t high leveled but their aura alone was incredibly dark and unsettling.

“It doesn’t matter, based on their levels alone they won’t be too big of a threat, their danger level probably comes from their stealth, and luckily or us Beast managed to find them out before they attacked us,” Wolf adds in from the side, fire coating his sword as he prepares to fight the enemies before them.

“I guess.” Reign sighs in agreement with Wolf’s words, drawing out his sword he makes it burst with lightning before attacking them together with everyone.

Beast shoots an arrow while Shadow throws his daggers as he runs towards the shadows, wanting to fight at close quarters for once.

Both of their attacks hit but don’t seem to deal much damage as the wounds on the shadow’s bodies slowly close.

“Try coating the attacks in mana!” Wolf yells out as he slashes at one of the shadows, it manages to dodge the sword but not the fire that was on it, part of its arms catch on fire and make it scream.

Reign attacks another shadow that simply runs away from him, seemingly deathly afraid of the lightning on his sword.

“They’re scared of lightning?” Reign asks with a low tone as he watches the shadow that attacked Tank while fleeing from him.

“I remember that lightning and thunder were supposed to be able to destroy ghosts and demons in some mythologies, most usually in Asian ones, maybe they were right?” Shadow tells Reign as he dodges a couple of attacks from the shadow he was fighting against, Reign nods in agreement before going to Tank, wanting to hit the shadow at least once to see its reaction.

Shadow was having an easy time against his opponent, dancing around it he managed to inflict a couple of wounds. The shadow suddenly stops fighting him and draws some distance before pointing at him. Dark foggy mana could be seen at its fingertips, before Shadow could attack again he stops as his feet get tangled in shadows that were found on the ground.

“Using shadows to attack me, idiot.” Shadows scuffs as he uses his skill, making the shadows nearby obey him, they let go of him and tangle his opponent. “I’m the only one that gets to do that.”

Shadow suddenly turns into a black blur as he gets to the shadow with incredible speed.

[ Shadow Form ]

Description: By using his ability the player can turn his own body into a ‘shadow body’ for a split second. The ‘shadow body ‘ is invulnerable to physical attacks and has great speed

Twisting the daggers in his hand and plunging them deep inside the eye sockets he yells out

“Shadow burst!”

[ Shadow burst ] 𝒃𝙚𝙤𝙫𝒆𝒍．𝙘𝒐𝙢

Description: By stacking shadows on one side of the weapons the player can add a bonus dark damage to his weapons, by activating the second phase of the skill the shadows burst out from the weapon, exploding and turning into numerous small shadow blades.

The back of the shadow’s head explodes as the shadow blades burst out from it, continuing on for a bit before vanishing completely. Shadow nods happily after seeing the power of his new skills, with the previous battles he mostly had a supporting role and couldn’t fight as he wanted, with the addition of the two new skills he could now join in the battles as well, without being a burden to everyone.

“Wow.” Beasts gives Shadow an admiring look, he was always fighting from a distance together with him, thinking that was Shadow’s strong point as well, only now does he see that he was wrong. Looking at the bow in his hands he can’t help but think he took the wrong path, shaking his head he immediately extinguishes the thought while telling himself

“No, long-range is where I’m good at, fighting at close quarters like them is impossible to me, I would only be below average at best, this is the only way I can help out in battles for now.”

Nocking another arrow he aims it at the shadow fighting with Wolf. The arrow shines a bright green light as it gets released, leaving a gust of wind behind it and blowing Beast’s hair back.

[ Arrow of Wind ]

Description: Infusing mana to the arrow the user makes it ethereal, having strong physical penetration and dealing additional nature damage to the enemies. The arrow can damage both physical and ethereal objects.

The arrow arrives at the shadow in a moment, passing through its stomach and leaving a big hole in it. Wolf seizes the chance and slashes down with his sword, cutting the shadow from head to bottom, cleaving it in half.

On the other side, Tank was having some difficulties with the shadow, his attacks only dealt physical damage, only his skills could somewhat damage it, but it wasn’t suitable to use it in such close quarters, and drawing distance wouldn’t work as the shadow would be able to simply dodge his attacks.

“You little bastard!” Tank suddenly yells as a small shockwave forms around him, passing through the shadow it stuns it for a brief moment.

[ Knights Roar ]

Description: By infusing mana into his voice the knight is able to roar out and form a shockwave that will stun enemies around him, the enemies will have their hostility raised against the knight after the stun duration ends.

“Great job Tank!” Reign yells from behind the shadow as he slashes down with his lightning sword, the lightning attacks the shadow, shocking it and making it convulse greatly. The stuns duration runs out and the shadow yells out in pain, not being able to move because of the lightning lingering on its body, damaging it every passing moment.

“They really are weak to lighting!” Reign yells out in happiness before slashing the shadow again, cutting off its head that gets burnt from the lighting, ending its life.

[Battle has been concluded, distributing experience…]

– Lvl 11 Shadow killed, 230 exp gained

– Lvl 12 Shadow killed, 280 exp gained

– Lvl 11 Shadow killed, 230 exp gained

[The players have earner 740 exp and 45S coins, distributing …]

[The player has earned 148exp and 9S coins.]

“These guys were tricky to fight against, luckily they were not at higher levels and there were only 3 of them, otherwise we would have been in a problem.” Wolf looks at the body of the shadow he killed, the two halves were dissipating, turning into something similar to dust.

“Well maybe, my lightning seems to work extremely well against them, a single hit was enough to incapacitate it for a longer time,” Reign tells in a happy voice, seeing his ability scare his opponents gave him a small boost to his ego.

“Alright, enough of you two, let’s move on, maybe there are more enemies around, we don’t want to get ambushed right after finishing a fight.” Shadow berates the two a little bit before they all continue exploring the forest.