Above Your Head

Vol 2. Chapter 80: The Salvation of God (17)

The moment I got out of the alley… Thuuuuck! Something struck my shoulders at the speed of light. It was an intense blow strong enough to send me flying up in the air! I rolled back and went back inside the alley.

"A sniper?!" I widened my eyes. Absurdly, the Dragon Knight\'s armor that covered my body did not even provide any sort of defense. Something jet-black just pierced right through its steel.

Bullet type confirmed! It\'s the Death Spirit Shot! Please confirm the spiritual damage received!

"Death Spirit Shot? Damn it. It pierced through the armor because it was a spiritual attack, huh," I muttered. Fortunately, there wasn\'t any need to be concerned about the spiritual damage. My body that evolved with the Life Energy resisted all properties, so as a Life Energy practitioner, I received physical wounds instead of spiritual damage from the Death Spirit Shot.

Pressure on the affected area has been successfully completed. Please take a short break.

If I could do as I pleased, I would have wanted to shift the wound to the Unique World, but I entered the stage after transporting a lot of water to the Unique World, so I had reached the mass limit. I could only put it into the Unique World after 24 hours.

\'At the very least, there\'s still the muscular support function.\' Once I thought so, the door on one side was broken into pieces along with a loud roar. It seemed that one of the nearby monsters came charging as it noticed the indication of my presence on the floor, which I rolled upon after I was hit by the Death Spirit Shot.

Ohhh, who\'s this? Isn\'t this a human?!

"Oh, who\'s this? Isn\'t this a buffoon fool?"

Kyakyakya! A jolly fellow you are!

Project End

Level 13

High-rank Chimera, Doal

Fortunately, the one that showed up was a Chimera. It was a different type compared to the one I met at the Level 13 Low-difficulty stage, but it was on the same level of power.

It looks original.

That\'s a lot of legs, Ares casually pointed out. Oddly enough, the Chimera had eight legs that seemed rather human-like, hanging from its lower body at all angles. Regardless of that oddity, it appeared to be walking with some sort of regularity.

Boooom! I collided with the Chimera and did not avoid it. As the shield that was equipped on Dragon Knight\'s left hand collided against that eight-legged bastard\'s horns, a shockwave erupted and destroyed the surrounding buildings.

Keeeeekk!

The collision naturally offered me a more advantageous position. Brilliant Heaven Seven Lights, which was strong against physical impacts, absorbed the shock. Blue, which I had prepared beforehand, struck the Chimera’s body, which began emitting a jet-black Aura centering around it. I groaned, "A curse!"

Kyahahaha! Even if you noticed it, it\'s too late! Scream in pain! Sing a song of despair...

Puuuugaaaak. The Chimera\'s neck was sliced and its head, rolling on the floor, screamed with a twisted expression.

The Ultra-Vibration Blade that popped out from my right arm hid itself again. I then muttered, "Great. Even so, defeating a Chimera is on the easier side. Its defense is on the weaker side."

However, it wasn\'t as if there weren\'t any problems. As a subtle darkness started to swirl around my body, Ares warned, It\'s a curse. Check your status! How is your body\'s condition? What about your soul?

"A curse, huh." I raised the mirror I had kept stored away and saw my own reflection. Then, I materialized my status window and checked the curse that was inflicted on me.

- Raffley\'s Darkness

The moment the curse explodes, it will cause an Extreme Fear status ailment for 3 seconds to 15 seconds. After that, darkness will hover around the body and, when the target stays in a place below a certain brightness, the curse will gain power and cause hallucinations. If the hallucinations accumulate to a certain degree, then the Extreme Fear status ailment will be invoked again.

1. A High-grade curse that is very difficult to dispel.

2. If it is inflicted on a human with a normal status condition, it will naturally disappear in 12 hours.

3. It will overlap if the target is attacked again, and greatly increase the time it takes to recover.

“Ah, I see. It\'s a curse that inflicts fear. It\'s used to cause a mental breakdown." I nodded. However, it obviously did not have any effect on me. I was immune to all sorts of Mental-type superpowers. Whether it was a High-grade curse or not, the effect would not take place.

"Well, luckily, there\'s no such thing as a comments section. However, since there are a lot of viewers, I will give you all an explanation. The attack I was hit with just now is called Raffley\'s Darkness and it\'s..." I murmured to myself and explained the curse. "Of course, I am fine. It seems that if you have an extremely high mental power, you can withstand it. However, the endurance is not achievable by just anyone, so please do not follow suit. Please deal with the Chimera before it charges at you." It was hard to explain the fact that I was immune to all mental-type superpowers, so I roughly came up with some nonsense.

I then scanned my surroundings. "By the way, there\'s a sniper." I looked at the steeples located all over the city. In the midst of the towering buildings that were higher than the other buildings around, I saw a Chimera that seemingly resembled an eyeball. I assumed that it was most probably the sniper. "The number of steeples are... Nine steeples, huh." As I hid inside a building and stuck my head out to grasp the structure of the city...

- Kruuuwangggg--!

The Specter Dragon, Raffley, flew in from somewhere and gilded low over the city. I hid between the buildings and watched that scene unfold.

Genie then said, It\'s only been 143 minutes.

"It appeared again after 2 hours and 23 minutes. Let\'s review this step-by-step… Is this happening because of a cooldown time, or because it just wanted to come and go as it pleased?" I continued farming after saying so. Since I had to be mindful of the snipers’ firing trajectory, I planned my movements a little far back to avoid getting caught by a sniper.

The result of the farming was simple. I commented, "The main weapon is a mirror, which jewels are consumed to charge it up... The secondary weapon is a Blessed Dagger, huh." If I placed the jewels that were farmed on the mirror, the star pattern behind the mirror would radiate a gentle light. In other words, the mirror required ten jewels to be fully charged.

I also found eight daggers. Although their blessing could only be used once, each dagger was almost 50 centimeters long. Their length made them uncomfortable to wield. For my case, it would be all good if I put them in the cargo compartment of Dragon Knight, so it didn\'t matter to me. However, for others, they would be clunky to carry around unless used immediately.

"And the food I found is... This, is it okay to eat?" I tilted my head at the moldy bread and water bottle I found in the kitchen. Although it was the only food item I found, the bread was in a very bad condition. "Don\'t tell me… Is this because of the patch too? Even if that’s the case, isn’t this just crossing the line?" Just in case, I placed it into Dragon Knight\'s cargo compartment and continued farming…

Click. I unlocked a padlock with a key that I farmed. It was a familiar farming process, after all. Then, as I opened the storage box, a black energy burst forth from there. Baaaang! A strong impact instantly enveloped my face. As it was a physical impact, it could not pierce through the Dragon Knight\'s armor and scattered as it was.

However, the problem was that it exploded. I groaned, "No, wait, there\'s a trap inside the reward chest? And there was no indication?" Unfortunately, that wasn’t even the real problem…

-It hurts!!! It hurts!!!! It hurtssssss!!!!!

"Ah, damn it. It\'s here."\' I kicked the ground and jumped back.

Project End

Level 13

First-Tier Specter Spirit, Rotten Hand

A pale Specter Spirit that seemingly did not have hands floated in the air and screamed.

"It doesn\'t even have the intention to attack immediately, but it is just screaming? I should take a swing at it first then." I nodded. Brilliant Heaven Seven Lights, Violet. Dragon Knight\'s fist punched the Specter Spirit. However, the First-Tier Specter Spirit\'s body just rocked once and didn\'t exactly receive any damage.

- I said it hurts!!

Kraaaghhhh! Tablewares flowed out of it, piercing through Dragon Knight\'s armor and tearing at its flesh. Moreover, it wasn\'t a mere injury. I sensed a nefarious energy on the wound sustained. "Its normal attack contains a curse. If I don\'t have enough resistance, or the curse overlaps, then the injury would probably rot."

I struck the enemy once again with Violet. As I previously expected, it didn\'t receive any particular damage. \'Oh, I can\'t beat this thing.\'

Brilliant Heaven Seven Lights was an ability that specialized in physical power, and that applied to Dragon Knight too. As much as I wanted to defeat the Specter Spirit with my own body\'s ability, it would lead to prolonging the battle by too long a period of time. And if the battle was prolonged, it was obvious that the situation would turn complicated. It would be a foolish action to try when I knew it wouldn\'t work.

- Kyaaaaaaaackkkkk!!

As the First-Tier Specter Spirit\'s appearance was reflected on the mirror, it staggered along with a scream. The Specter Spirit turned to the side like an arrow, charging forward to attack again. However, what was waiting in front of that bastard was the mirror which reflected its appearance.

- Kyaaaackkk!!

As I repeated the same process two more times, the First-Tier Specter Spirit turned into a handful of ashes. I commented, "A First-Tier Specter Spirit was killed with four reflections huh."

The main weapons found at the stage were often like that, but the mirror was literally a cheat-key item. It wouldn\'t fall short even if it was called a Divine Object.

"The Golden Mirror can be recharged 10 times at maximum and it takes four reflections to defeat a First-Tier Specter Spirit. There\'s a risk of missing the reflection, so make sure to absolutely avoid a situation where two Specter Spirits are roaming together," I roughly said so and started to move again. Again, to avoid the firing trajectory of the snipers, I...

"Hmmm?" As I was doing so, I suddenly had a thought, "Why mirrors though?" I stared at the mirror that momentarily glowed in gold. After doing so, I looked at the steeples that amounted to nine in total.

"Ahaaa." I picked up the Chimera that was defeated some time ago with one hand. I then ran towards the square which was the widest and most accessible. It had less monsters compared to the alley.

"Uuuushhaa!" As I was running towards the entrance of the alley, just before I got out, I threw the corpse of the Chimera out in the open. The Chimera\'s corpse flew out like a shot put.

Bang bang bang bang bang! Five rounds of Death Spirit Shot fired towards the Chimera\'s body without delay!

I ran close towards the body of the Chimera which was still up in the air. Then, the Death Spirit Shot was aimed at me again. "The reload time is about 1 second." As I chanted in a low voice, I raised up the Golden Mirror. Then...

Papapapapatttt!! Streaks of light flashed before...all the Death Spirit Shot that flew towards me were reflected.

"Okayyy." I stopped running and stood in place for a while. However, the Death Spirit Shot did not fly towards me anymore, because the Death Spirit Shot was reflected back towards the eyeball-shaped Chimera that I previously located. "As expected. The mirror has the ability to reflect the power of a curse. It means that the mirror was given to take care of the snipers by reflecting their shots."

I doubt so.

In the first place, how would you know where they are aiming? The speed of the bullet is much faster than the speed of sound...

It was at that moment that the two control persona were baffled.

- 1,034,538,829 people are admiring you!

- 5,541,328,924 Justice Points have been accumulated!

"Ahhh, what is this? I told you all to give the points to those who you think can\'t clear the stage without it." I clicked my tongue. The only good thing was that the notification on the Justice Points and the admirations only popped up once. Seeing that the points granted were in the billions, if it was split up and separately announced every time I did something, it would sound loudly enough to interfere with the play.

Then, I suddenly realized a strange fact. "Why did the number of people increase?" The total number of people in the Cradle of Justice was 900 million, so how did 1 billion people send me their admiration? I put my hand on the pistol that was hanging on my waist. In that interval, the pistol changed shape once again.

- You are in the Master rank(Temporary)!

- Accessing the Cradle of Justice!

- 1,165,511,441 people are watching you!

As expected, the number of viewers had increased.

-Welcome to the Cradle of Justice.

- You currently have 0 Justice Points.

- You have been granted 10,052,452,248 Justice Points.

-(Read Bulletin Board), (Watch a Play), (Check Comments), (Settings)

-Current number of users connected to the Cradle of Justice: 933,215,566 people

-External users: 422,215,521 people

"Something keeps changing. It\'s not even a real-time update." I widened my eyes as the Check Comments and Settings appeared, and an External User clause was added. I did not have to ponder about what external users meant. \'It\'s the players.\'

Probably just like how I did before, players who went into a Hidden Point to rest used their Justice Weapon to enter the Cradle of Justice. It meant that they were watching me through Watch a Play. Just to be sure, I pressed Watch a Play…

- 1st Place: Iron Mask (1,165,511,441 people watching)

- 2nd Place: Artrang\'s Sniper Play. Proceeding while finding for points. (104,233,442 people watching)

- 3rd place: ☆S?ren\'s Wizard Play! Take a note if you are a Wizard!☆ (99,113,311 people watching)

The ranking was up to 10th place, but the number of viewers below 1st place all paled in comparison.

"No, I have never set an ID name or a broadcast title though." I checked Settings while being baffled. I saw several settings options that included changing the title of the broadcast room. What\'s more, there was even a Stop Broadcasting option among them.

"They should make it so that the broadcast is not done automatically. Only those who want to broadcast should do so. Tsk," I grumbled and closed the window. Since 1.1 billion people were watching the broadcast, turning off the broadcast right now was pretty ambiguous.

By the way, it looks pretty interesting. You cleared your way through all 12 Levels, so this kind of play where you turn on your macro is refreshing.

\'I did it properly when I was filming the strategy guide video at the Level 12 stage, okay?\'

That was hundreds of years ago for me.

\'Ah, you\'re right,\' I continued to proceed while talking about idle topics. There was nothing difficult. I dealt with the Specter Spirit using the mirror and personally defeated the Chimera. I couldn\'t go around making a huge commotion like with the Metal Alien, but it didn\'t matter since I was going to raid the stage anyway. I was the man who planned the raid for more than 10 Levels of stage as a level 3. \'The problem is that there is basically no one who has learned the strategy guide properly.\'

- The first ever Clear!

- Do you want to start the next battle? If you knock down the enemies in quick succession, your number of clears will cancel the corresponding number of Death Procession. At the end of the stage, the Death Procession that isn\'t retracted will be confirmed and cannot be reversed.

Eventually, as I cleared the stage without any problems, the phrase \'The first ever Clear!\' which I had never seen before greeted me. The unique point about this was that, despite the fact that all the users had yet to end their play, it was possible to rechallenge the stage. Following that, a new text popped up.

- 721,114,782 people are admiring you!

- 1,123,441,122 Justice Points have been accumulated!

"Ahh, come on." I stopped frowning at the text that popped up again. Given that the proportion of Justice Points had decreased compared to the number of people who sent their admiration, the amount of Justice Points granted seemed to have been reduced. Still, the points granted were in the billions. "Stop giving me points." I didn\'t know why they didn\'t listen to my words.