SSS Awakening: I Can Class Change at will

Chapter 308  Fighting an Evolver

With little time remaining, Moon turned toward Selene, then said, “Selene, why don’t we show him winter’s death?”

Selene’s ears perked up at Moon’s words. She didn’t dare turn around to look at him—the enemy was far too dangerous to lose focus for even a moment.

Still, without needing to see his expression, Selene immediately understood Moon’s message. She gave him a subtle thumbs up while maintaining her defensive stance, then began channeling her own abilities in preparation.

The Evolver overheard their exchange but remained dismissive of it, “You’ve been quite the annoying bugs, I must admit. Instead of discussing winter’s death… why don’t we talk about yours instead?”

His aura began flaring intensely as he nocked two arrows simultaneously instead of one. He was no longer holding back against them.

Before the archer could release his attack, Moon hurled the same blinding rune he had used earlier, toward his position.

The inscription activated with brilliant intensity, but unlike his previous encounter, this Evolver merely flinched momentarily without even squinting as his eyes adapted instantly to the sudden illumination.

“Such weak tricks can never stand in front of absolute power,” he scoffed with contempt.

Immediately after deploying the flash, Moon and Selene both released their elemental attacks—water and fire combining to create an enormous cloud of thick, concealing mist that instantly blocked all vision across the battlefield.

For the first time, the Evolver’s expression showed annoyance. He tried to look for their bodies in the mist, but the vapor cloud was significantly denser and more persistent than he’d initially expected.

As he looked more intensely, he spotted a silhouette—

Whoosh!

He released his nocked arrow towards it at a glance. The arrow struck the figure in the head, sending it crumbling to the ground a second later.

“Bullseye.”

Grinning, the Evolver walked towards the figure he had shot down, expecting a dead body in the arrows position—

“Damn it, that’s an earth decoy.” The Evolver grunted, “No matter. You cannot hide forever,” he muttered, his eyes scanning for positions that would provide better view of the battlefield.

His gaze settled on a nearby building’s rooftop. Without hesitation, he made his way towards the building, before leaping upward to claim the high ground, seeking a superior vantage point over what he expected to be their grave.

The moment his feet touched the roof surface, two concealed runes activated simultaneously.

BOOM!

A massive explosion erupted beneath him, sending debris and flame in every direction.

Although the blast was powerful enough to level the structure, the Evolver sustained only minor injuries—a few superficial scratches rather than anything significant.

His expression grew dark as he realized he’d fallen into a prepared trap. As his body plummeted from the collapsing building, his heart skipped a beat.

From his right came a devastating pillar of high-pressure water. From his left streaked a crackling blue lightning wolf and directly ahead, an arrow slowly flew straight at his feet.

The attacks had been timed with care, waiting for the exact moment when the Evolver would be airborne and unable to maneuver effectively.

The Evolver’s heart rate returned to its previous rhythm, as he quickly realized he had time to escape the incoming attacks. He would have been in deep trouble if the attackers were Evolvers with many acupoints unlocked, but they weren’t…and it showed in the speed and power of their attacks.

He hurriedly nocked an arrow and drew the bowstring back with tremendous force until the weapon began trembling from the stored tension.

WHOOSH!

The arrow exploded from the bow with such velocity that the recoil propelled the archer upward through the air, seemingly allowing him to escape the converging attacks below—

Except the attacks didn’t miss—at least not all of them.

To his absolute shock, the crackling Lightning Raiju was already streaking toward his new position, as if it had somehow predicted his evasive maneuver before he’d even executed it.

“What the—” The Evolver managed to let out.

CRACKLE!

The fully charged Lightning Wolf that Moon had conjured using nearly 90% of his mana struck the Evolver with a devastating force that would have fried S-Rank First Order Beasts with ease.

‘This attack has the power of a newly advanced Evolver,’ the archer thought with growing alarm as he temporarily lost muscular control. The attack wasn’t exactly powerful, but its effects on the body were numerous.

Before he could regain his composure or restore control over his paralyzed body, two arrows and a thin but powerful water lance—far stronger than the previous attacks—came rushing toward him.

“Wha—”

The barrage struck him at full speed, unlike the seemingly sluggish attacks he’d easily dodged moments before.

One arrow embedded itself deep in his left kidney while the second punched through his armor to pierce his liver. But the pressurized water pillar was most damaging.

It severed his left arm from the shoulder down with a force that cut through his bone. What remained of his arm from the shoulder joint became a mangled mess of flesh.

In that moment of agony, the Evolver finally understood he’d been completely manipulated.

The previous arrow and water attacks hadn’t been slow because he was too powerful to hit—they had been deliberately paced to force him into dodging the initial attacks. By the time he’d dodged those decoy strikes, the Lightning Wolf was positioned to paralyze him precisely when the real attacks reached his predicted location.

Before the crippled archer could even complete his fall, additional arrows and concentrated fire blasts came streaming toward his descending path, dealing more damage to his already heavily wounded body.

BOOM!

BOOM!

WHOOSH!

At death’s door, the Evolver’s mind worked like never before. ‘Is this my last moments…why is everything happening in slow motion.’ The man couldn’t help but think as he continued to fall down.

His mind replayed every aspect of the engagement, which he believed had been orchestrated—From the initial misdirection through the mist to the building trap to the final attack. One of the three attackers had predicted his responses, and engineered a sequence that transformed the Evolver’s own speed into a liability.

At that moment, a few words began to ring in his brain as it began to shut down forever—’Winter’s Death’

‘Was it him…?’

This was the Evolver’s final thought as his broken body crashed to the ground, defeated.