Corruption Wielder 2: A LitRPG Apocalypse Adventure by Aaron Shih

Author:Aaron Shih [Shih, Aaron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-08-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26: Gestalt (again)

You have marked [Devouring Gestalt] for death.

Will’s initial assessment of the gestalt came through Sen. With his familiar, Will now had a much better idea of what he was going against than he had at any time back on the surface.

The gestalt’s most advanced skill was already high gold. Devour enabled it to grow quickly by simply eating other Users, incorporating elements of their skills into its own.

Had this monster been another human, Will would have complained about it being blatantly overpowered.

Okay, that was a lie. Will was going to complain about its skills being blatantly overpowered anyway. That was kind of the pot calling the kettle black, but the gestalt’s magic expanded far beyond just the standard skills that a human User could make use of.

It hadn’t been given a class, which should have limited it by a lot, but its attacks were all infused with another one of its skills, Death Echo, which allowed it to use the signature skill of a devoured enemy one time after killing it.

Granted, it wasn’t like Will didn’t have his own broken abilities to compensate, but even as he sent the hunger phantasm out, threatening a powerful Decaying Touch, he saw that the gestalt was also capable of learning.

It separated limbs off into thin tentacles instead of the powerful, broad arm-like appendages Will had gotten used to seeing. Rather than immediately attack him, they started slicing through the air, tearing through the trees that had risen in place of rocks in this battlefield. All of their strikes were empowered with different kinds of magic.

It’s learning quickly. Will sent the hunger phantasm sailing towards the gestalt, cloaking his own position with Wraith Cloak and staying low to the ground to avoid inadvertently taking one of those tentacles to the face. Sen’s eyes, which were functionally immune to physical damage, revealed how sharp the spikes marking each of those tentacles was.

The gestalt proved Will’s errant thought doubly true as Will’s shadows drew closer. It tore the forest apart to stay away from the phantasm, and its tentacles were infused with so much power that even despite the phantasm’s semi-solid state was torn apart by the whip-crack of the tentacles.

Every time Will solidified part of the phantasm, it would be smashed apart heartbeats later. He used those opportunities to afflict it with his Decaying Touch. The resistance it had picked up was actually just one part of a larger skill—which, again, Will found to be utterly bullshit, but it did mean that it wasn’t on par with Will’s rank.

[Decaying Touch] has been cast through the [Hunger Phantasm].

You have inflicted a level of silver-rank [Corruption] on [Devouring Gestalt].

[Devouring Gestalt] has attempted to resist [Decaying Touch].

[Devouring Gestalt]’s [Corruption Resistance] (Bronze) failed to negate the effects of [Decaying Touch] (Silver).

Sticking it with corruption was hardly a complete victory, though. The last time he’d done it, the corruption had spread so far that it had been forced to shed a massive chunk of its body.

The fact that it could shed corruption hadn’t been lost on the gold-rank monster.

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