Chapter 265
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Chapter 265: Isn’t It Good to Lower the Difficulty by Finding Bugs?
Angela’s words made Rin very alert.
The dark spots became denser, and it was easy to be distracted just by looking with the eyes.
Fortunately, Rin’s senses were heightened, and both his vision and hearing were exceptionally sharp.
Soon he caught a faint "clattering" sound, like the noise made when a tap is turned on after the water has stopped.
Without saying a word, Rin threw a large Explosive Inflammation Art, and at the same time, Emilia’s wind blade flew out with her sword.
The flames burst open with the wind, blowing away a large area of dark particles.
A shadow hidden in the darkness was suddenly hit by the flames, letting out a brief cry.
Both of them clearly saw what it was—a mass of irregular black shadow.
The shadow had no solid form, sometimes twisting into a cloud shape, other times turning into a circle, which was very strange.
"I can’t see the data."
The waste hero said expressionlessly and charged forward with his sword, his body as quick as a fairy in the wind, skillfully avoiding the shadow’s attack, and with a sweep of his sword, it grazed past the shadow’s body.
But that sword strike felt as though it had cut through air, having no real effect.
Rin observed closely and quickly said, "Physical attacks are ineffective."
After saying that, he immediately began chanting Fire Aura, casting it on Emilia.
Flames surrounded Emilia, and as the shadow got closer, it recoiled as if shocked.
Miss Hero decisively turned her sword, covering it with Wind Element, causing the wind to blow away the flames and spread outward.
By the time Rin’s fire wall was finished, the whirlwind had merged with the fire wall, and the scorching wind, along with the hero’s sword light, instantly engulfed the shadow’s body.
After a sound like plastic burning, the shadow vanished without a trace.
But before they had a chance to take a breath, two dark shadows formed, floating up from the ground, as black particles stuck together.
Rin checked his magic and found that the two spells used twice the amount of magic he usually needed.
Fortunately, his magic was full and had not been used much before, so the Magic Ring that stored his magic was still overflowing.
He was ready to follow his previous strategy and cooperate with the waste hero, but he noticed that the shapes of those shadows changed.
They changed very quickly, transforming into human shapes in the blink of an eye.
Although they still looked like shadows, the outlines of the figures were very clear, resembling three-dimensional human shapes.
Moreover, one was the same height and size as Rin, and the other matched the waste hero.
Rin thought it was strange that these beings could actually imitate humans.
Even more surprising was that they wobbled and swayed, beginning to mimic Rin’s spells.
They do not need to chant.
Rin saw the Spell Pattern appearing above them and realized the danger, so he quickly ran to the right.
An Explosive Inflammation Art exploded right where Rin had been, and the shockwave passed just by him; he was unharmed.
At the same time, another shadow appeared, holding a black sword-shaped shadow, rushing towards Rin.
Its speed was too fast, rivaling Emilia’s speed without the wind field enhancement.
Emilia quickly moved in front of it, her sword filled with wind power blocking the black sword.
After a moment of standoff, Emilia pushed it back and leaped a few steps to stand in front of Rin.
Two shadows faced off, one with a Fire Aura Spell Pattern above it, while the other had the same starting move as the "Wind Thrust" sword of the waste hero.
Emilia hurriedly raised her sword to release a sword skill, but Rin stopped her, shouting, "Don’t use the sword skill yet!"
After speaking, Rin quickly stepped back. Emilia swiftly changed her stance, first charging forward to block an attack, and then dodging while trying to create distance.
As expected, once the enemy focused on Emilia, they ignored Rin.
After a few moves, the shadow mimicking Emilia stopped, holding the black sword straight, and wind began to rise from the ground, while the mage behind started to create a wall of fire.
"Just as I thought."
Realizing that the enemy was truly copying both her and the waste hero’s skills, and considering the doubled mana cost, Rin had already come up with a plan.
He initially wanted to work with Emilia to quickly defeat the two shadows, but then changed his mind.
Who knows if a third enemy might appear and learn even stronger skills, making things more difficult.
With a quick thought, Rin suddenly had an idea and started to chant "Fire Crow."
Angela, who was watching from afar, was munching on seeds and surprisingly began to comment with interest.
"Using the power of the Intermediate Fire Crow combined with the hero’s Wind Sword can indeed deliver a fatal blow. But does this brat think that these guys can only imitate low-level skills?"
Angela shook her head as she tossed the sunflower seed shell on the ground. "Are they still testing? Tsk, the intermediate spell uses double the magic power. How many rounds can you last?"
I thought the two would work together again to take out the mage at the back, but I didn’t expect Waste Hero to ignore Rin’s chant and continue confronting the shadow with a sword.
She never expected that the firebird would fly away, tracing a curved line upward.
As it flew away, it covered a Magic Book that seemed to aim by itself and smashed directly towards the shadow.
Well, that really was a hundred percent hit on that big head.
The shadow, seeing the huge firebird, tried hard to dodge, but when it saw the firebird fly away, the book came flying at it as if it had eyes, causing it to freeze for a moment.
Until the book passed through its body without causing any real harm, it remained in place like a program that had failed to calculate.
Also attracted by the firebird was another sword-wielding shadow, who, distracted for just a moment, found its arm cut off by Waste Hero using the Wind Sword.
At the same time, Rin’s second round of Explosive Inflammation Art was released, and he skillfully defeated the sword-wielding shadow with Emilia.
Next, dealing with a shadow mage became much easier.
Angela was surprised by that strange method. After a while, she came back to her senses and fell into deep thought.
Rin was clearly using a clever trick, finishing off his opponent with a low-level skill he had already used.
The problem was that she could see at a glance that the Fire Crow spell was only one-third complete and the Spell Pattern was very chaotic.
Such a poorly constructed skill used very little magic power, and it was pointless for the opponent to try to imitate it; this method could not sustain them until their magic power ran out.
These creatures only had the ability to mimic and the simplest combat thinking; they wouldn’t learn and evolve like intelligent beings. This meant they would make the same mistake again after making it once.
Thinking about it again, Angela shook her head.
This was a characteristic she had observed many times before; it was unlikely that Rin could find out so quickly after only using his skills twice. That would be too genius.
So he should only be testing things right now.
She wasn’t wrong to think that.
However, Rin was not only looking for the enemy’s patterns, but also doing another experiment.
That is, whether some strange skills rewarded by the system can also be imitated by these shadows.
Those rewarded skills clearly do not belong to this world.
Rin had checked the information, hinted at Suyu, and not long ago, he even showed Angela his sword-drawing technique.
There was certainly no way to find anything out, and from the reactions of the Demon King and the witch, it seemed they had never seen the related skills either.
Not to mention bizarre skills like smashing dog heads and the Sword Hidden Skill, even the seemingly normal Thorn Trap and other known no-chant spells were completely different.
Not to mention the structure of the techniques, even the written symbols are entirely different.
The system gave it to him, but he couldn’t understand it at all.
To make an analogy, it’s like the ancient Romans, the Indians, and the Chinese writing their number symbols at the same time; none of them could understand each other.
Since these skills are not from this world, how can these shadows imitate them?
Rin was calculating this in his mind.
Bugs in games are something his lazy sister likes to use when playing.
Oh, he used to criticize the useless Lin Wuyue for no reason, and now it’s happening to him.
Dragon Slayer will eventually…
Pah! If I can avoid trouble, why would I get in there and fight?
Of course, his strong confidence is based on the assumption that his reasoning is correct and that he can successfully exploit the bug.
The real argument is still in the third round.
In the third round, only two dark shadows appeared again.
Just as Rin guessed, the reason the magic consumption doubled was that the dark particles absorbed all the magic, turning it into the magic of the shadows.
Since Rin and his friends used only a little magic in the second round, the remaining magic in the shadows is from the skills they didn’t use in the second round.
Understanding this made it much easier to deal with.
The opponent tried to copy Rin’s style to summon a Fire Crow, but as soon as the Spell Pattern lit up, it instantly failed, and the spell stopped before even summoning a fake firebird.
"Haha, just as I thought."
Rin confirmed what he was thinking, his spirit high, looking confident and ready for victory.
With the waste hero assisting him, Rin became the main attacker on the spot.
This time, he used the Sword Hidden Skill, but instead of pulling out a metal sword, he randomly selected a water element sword from four elemental swords: wind, fire, water, and light.
Yes, this is from a system reward, and now he has three kinds of swords hidden in his book.
While Angela looked confused, Rin and Emilia easily achieved a double kill.
The beautiful kill effect of the Phoenix lasted for five or six seconds before fading away.
The witch was almost blinded by the dazzling "skrskr" electric effect of Phoenix.
When Phoenix appeared, she thought it was the ultimate skill Rin talked about.
But then this thing appeared for a few seconds and disappeared, leaving her feeling completely disappointed.
Angela felt like she wanted to say a thousand complaints, but they got stuck in her throat and she couldn’t express them.
"What the heck is that?! Is the Phoenix just an illusion?! Is the Phoenix bloodline just for show?"
Is this kid really sick or something?
How annoying, I’m so jealous! If I could have that effect, I would look amazing when I show up!
Soon, the Phoenix effects started flying everywhere.
Angela decided not to watch the battlefield anymore and pulled out an old pocket watch, focusing on the hands moving.
"When will this end? How long will this last?"
Rin shouted in complaint as he pierced the last monster on the field with both the fire element sword and Emilia’s wind sword.
"If this goes on, I won’t have enough magic left!"
After saying that, he glanced at the calm waste hero.
Even if his magic ran out, he could still replenish it by kissing the waste hero.
However, fighting with just the card made it lose its challenge and become boring.
"Now is the time."
Angela put away her pocket watch and looked at the sky.
Rin and Emilia followed her gaze and looked up together.
The sky originally looked like black flakes gently falling like snow, but with the naked eye, they transformed into light particles and slowly drifted down.
Soon, those light particles gathered around Waste Hero and Rin, circling them a few times before diving inside.
The Magic Ring, which was nearly depleted, suddenly received a boost, replenished by about the same amount that had been absorbed by the black particles.
This means that by defeating these creatures, the extra magical power used would be restored.
Unfortunately, these creatures did not give enough experience to let him level up directly.
Angela jumped down from the roof and walked up to the two people, clapping her hands.
"Not bad, fighting them for the first time, you didn’t panic at all, and you quickly found a solution. It really surprised me."
She remembered something and let out a soft laugh, "Back then, it was much harder for them; one was a pure physical Rank, and the other was a light mage."
"Ah, physical attacks are completely useless against them. What about that one?" Rin asked curiously.
"Her sword is enchanted. Although the extra elemental attack is not as strong as a mage’s, when combined with her unique talent and presence, she can still fight."
Rin imagined a scene of a battle, picturing it like a scraping therapy fight.
However, to be fair, Holy Light mages and dark-type mages are quite rare compared to other types of magic, but they do have many branches.
Light mages mainly reside in the Holy Empire, and each light mage is registered with the church, with no more than one hundred people.
Dark-type humans are uncontrollable and are specific to certain demon races.
If we arrange mages according to the pyramid of rarity.
Fire, water, earth, and wood mages are everywhere, while ice and lightning mages are fewer in number compared to the basic five elements.
Next are therapists, mental mages, summoners, and those who use black magic and necromancy. Although they are non-traditional, they are still considered mages because they all require meditation.
Black magic is somewhat related to dark-type magic, but they are still quite different; they belong to a distant branch beyond the sixth generation, yet they can still be countered by Holy Light.
There are not many of the various kinds of mages, but because there are so many types, together they outnumber the light and dark mages.
Below that are the Holy Light mages and dark sorcerers.
Space mages are even fewer than light and dark mages; there are only twenty-three known space mages, but among humans, Holy Light mages are still regarded with great respect.
Uniquely special ranks, like Elise’s, are not included.
"Hmm? Wait a moment."
When Rin thought of Elise, he remembered her mother, Queen Gualarrap, whom everyone respected and trusted. Isn’t she a light mage?
"Um, Teacher Angela, one of the people you mentioned must be Her Majesty the Queen, but who is the other one?"
This time, Angela did not give a riddle; she replied directly, "One of the two Sword Saints of the continent, the well-known one."