The Archangel of Death - Chapter 142

142: Shapeshifter (1) 142: Shapeshifter (1) Chapter 142 I felt two feet on my chest.

Uh-oh.

I was pushed with quite a force that my ribs cracked and I got flung pretty far away.

[Critical hit] [HP 3411200] My eyes widened at the extent of damage that I had received.

A little more and I was done for.

The good thing was that the shapeshifter was also equally damaged so it didn’t follow up with an attack allowing me to use another HP potion.

“Adrian!” Asmara came closer to me yelling my name.

“I’m fine,” I said to quell her worries while I stood up with a minor pain in my chest.

Most of the pain was gone but the strike was still very strong and my HP wasn’t fully recovered yet so my chest was still stinging a bit.

“Stay away from it!

It’s fast and strong.

No one is to go near it.” I ordered because most of the students were moving in.

They heeded my warning and stepped back.

The focus of the shapeshifter was mostly on me because I was the strongest person there.

Even Sasha’s earlier water cannon had at most halted its run.

Other than that, I doubted it even took five points of HP off of it.

So that means it would remain focused on me so the others should be safe.

But there was no harm in being careful for now.

If it decided to go after the students, they wouldn’t even last one attack.

There was no other option, if even Sasha and Asmara were hit, their survivability would be pretty low and they had the plot armor protecting them.

I crouched forward and took a stance of a dash.

It saw me and prepared itself as well.

It was strong, very strong but even then, I had a feeling it was doable.

[Don’t just run in like a barbarian] I halted my advance at Allison’s advice.

I didn’t want to take too long because just like me, the shapeshifter was also recovering albeit very slowly compared to me.

‘What do you mean?’ Still, I decided to listen to Allison because Allison was the only person on my side even if she couldn’t be trusted.

[Since it was planted, something must be keeping it bound to the dungeon] ‘Even if I release it from the bond of the dungeon, it’s not like he would disappear.’ [Time until evolution >14:31<] It suddenly clicked in my head what Allison was trying to tell me.

This thing was connected to the dungeon and the dungeon was slowly growing, and it was growing along with it.

If I remove the connection it had with the dungeon, the problem of it evolving would disappear.

Even now, while we were recovering, it was using every second it could get to advance its evolution.

"Don't engage in the battle in close range.

Use long-range attacks and station physical warriors to protect the long-range attackers." I barked another order before I engaged this headache again.

He was strong, strong as hell but he was doable.

We collided once again, this time he was the one on the defensive while I tried to deliver a few strikes at its blind spot.

The shapeshifter was good and it made sure to show me that.

Each and every hit of mine was being either deflected or blocked.

It wasn't more experienced than me but it was sure as hell stronger than me.

"I don't get it, where do you come from?" I asked as I stopped to take a breather.

"I don't get it, where do you come from?" It repeated after me.

Word by word, same exact tone, the same gestures of my body, and the same expression.

My eyes widened as I understood the matter at hand.

It wasn't a shapeshifter but a fledgling.

What was in front of me was a new shapeshifter, recently born and given the image of someone strong enough to possess that person's skills or maybe several but it was new and it was confused.

[That said, engaging in conversation might not be a good idea] Yeah!

I wouldn't want it to learn my intelligence.

Not that it could but it would be able to do it to some tiny extent and that was enough for this world.

I jumped once again because the timer for its evolution had resumed and decreased by ten seconds while I asked it the question and analyzed the situation.

This time it blocked me with its forearm but I had also stopped playing around and gathering information.

[Sacred blessing] With the newly empowered strength, I struck its forearm with full strength, making it my target instead of anything.

If you cannot get past the shield, break the shield.

My fist collided with its forearm and I felt an equal force striking me back.

Haa… would you look at that?

It was already learning.

It also strengthened its forearm to the limit to withstand my attack.

But it forgot about one thing, didn't it?

[Eclipse] [A random sense has been taken from your opponent] [The sense of touch has been taken away for eleven seconds] [Magic cannon] I had many tricks up my sleeve.

With it not being able to sense where the attack would land, it couldn't defend itself from the attacks it could see.

So it's back was wide open.

I concentrated most of the magic cannons there and tried my hardest to hit it from the front as well.

It blocked the attacks from the front while it endured the attacks from the back with gritted teeth.

Ha!

It didn't have a defense skill.

[Not yet] 'Don't jinx it.' But jinx or not, she was right.

Now that it knew what its weakness was, it would work on it, and with it being what it was, I wouldn't be able to engage it as I could right now.

And what I feared happened, my relentless assault stopped because I ran out of MP but I wasn't going to let it go so easily.

I slashed with my dagger which it was able to dodge but from the looks of it, it barely dodged.

[Watch out] My senses along with Allison warned me and just in time I dodged because I didn't know where and how, a red sphere appeared in its hand and a ray let it, almost hitting me.

I didn't know what the extent of damage would have been if I was hit by it but I knew what race's skill that was.

Dark elves which validated my first theory that it had taken more shapes than one already because its ears weren't long yet it was using a dark elf's inherent skill.

The distance between us was created and I tried my best to shorten it but it started to run away from me as well.

The game of chase again started only the roles were reversed this time.

However, I noticed that the time for evolution wasn't decreasing again and it didn't seem to be recovering from its wounds too so it wasn't using its regeneration skill.

All that was left would be one possibility, it was trying to take another's shape.

Soon, its hair began to turn long and not long after, the other features of it started to change.

Its height began to shorten, hair longer, and skin paler and beautiful.

The color of the hair was black so it wasn't me and with how long the hair was, it belonged to a woman.

It was taking an image from our party.

'But… Wait a minute.

That's a very feminine look, right?' [Right] 'So didn't I damage its shirt in an attack before?' […] [That's where your mind went] 'Where else it should have?' [Point taken] "DON'T!!!

DON'T LOOOKKKK!!!!" Sasha screamed from behind me and when I turned, I saw the male students knocked out with water coming out of their mouth.

Seriously?

Is it that big a deal?

[It is] 'Then I should burn the image in my mind to do it justice.' I replied as I turned around with my eyes wide open to burn the image deep in my memory.

But then?

What am I doing?

What have I become?

How could I do something so wrong like this?

This wasn't right.

This wasn't the correct method.

I shouldn't do this.

Even with an eidetic memory, this image would only be truly beautiful if seen by the eyes.

So… Take the highest definition screenshot.

[You're hopeless] [Picture has been saved in glossary] Just in time, I was hit by a water cannon.

Was it worth it?

Was doing something wrong justified my decisions.

[I know the answer already] 'Hell YEAH!' I ignored the damage from the water cannon and pierced the shapeshifter with my dagger while it was still stationary.

Unfortunately, water curtain formed in front of the shapeshifter which not only blocked my attack, but also blocked the splendid view in front of me.

This bastard was getting used to Sasha's skills.

It tried to pierce through the water curtain but my advance fell a lot in intensity.

Still, I managed to shot through the water curtain only to find a boy, one of the extras.

Tch.

[Did you seriously do that?] 'Yeah I did.' But wait a minute!

'Ready all cameras.

Be prepared to take a picture from every angle.

This bastard was going to shapeshift into Asmara soon.

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