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Chapter 1156 - Crushed
🕑 Added 2023-05-04 08:57:30 +0000 UTCHonestly, even I’m impressed by the spell I’ve created. The Gravity Well is as dense and packed full of mana as I can make it, emptying out what was left in my gravity mana gland, as well as whatever I could gather and push through the construct.
Every drop of energy that had gathered in the Altar was also sucked into it the moment I opted to empower it. The new mutation gives even more power to gravity spells, really kicking the effect up a notch.
The end result is a pillar of pure darkness, crushing the three heralds with a truly mind-boggling amount of force.
All I can really do is stand and watch….
Unlike the gravity bomb, there isn’t a need to fear for my life, since the strength and force of the well is controlled by me, but it isn’t like I can just throw stuff into it willy-nilly either. Goodness knows what would happen if I tried… certainly not me since I’ve never tested.
[How’s it going in there?] I decide to fish for a mind bridge connection, but I don’t find one, so instead I just broadcast toward the pit in which the demons are currently being flattened.
I don’t get a response… so I assume they aren’t feeling as talkative as they were a minute ago. I can still sense them in there though, so I know they’re still alive.
I have a worrying feeling that even this isn’t going to be enough. My mind-constructs feel limp, as they’re all slumped over a table with their faces buried in lukewarm, microwaved curry, but I kick them back into action.
Stupid my-own-brains, we can rest later! Besides, all of your fatigue is being washed away by the pure energies of the Colony, and all the other weirdos who wound up in the Nave. Time to stop feeling sorry for myself and start pumping out more mana!
With so many ants around, even the Altar is refilling with power at a steady rate.
I quietly amass power and mana while I wait. Watching this happen is kind of cool, but also… sort of boring? It’s not like the Gravity Bomb where the wind is howling and everything is going nuts…. The pillar of darkness just… stands there… and the demons are stuck at the bottom of it, being squished by the force.
After a while, I let my legs splay out and rest my carapace on the ground, idly triggering a fresh wave from the regeneration gland to patch me up. I’ve noticed the repairs from the fluid released by the gland take a lot longer to fix up my new carapace when compared to the old one. Presumably the issue is with density. Thankfully I have some mutations on the plating to help pick up the slack, but I may need to look at other solutions.
[Come on now…. How are things?] I broadcast again.
No response.
[Arconidem is a butt!]
[YOU DA- Arrrrrgh!]
Oho! Still kicking in there, just not enjoying himself very much. I almost feel sorry for the three of them, or I would if they hadn’t come so close to turning me into Biomass.
[I put everything I had into that spell. You’ll be lucky to make it out.]
[But when I do, you are FINISHED!]
[I guess we’ll find out….]
Yup, all three of them are still kicking. I’m impressed. Also… when the heck is this spell going to end? Surely soon….
I better work a little harder gathering mana.
As I do, I decide to pick myself up and skitter a little closer to the pillar in order to get a better sense of the demons. The closer I get, the more the gravity sense in my antennae goes absolutely bonkers, which is a bit distracting, but I manage to channel it out.
All around, the thousands upon thousands of demons and ants watch from a safe distance, barely moving as they wait for the result.
I feel a little self conscious.
Probably, somewhere out there, a damned ant is already working on a prototype sculpture to capture the moment.
“No statues, dammit!” I roar with my pheromones, but there’s nobody close enough to smell it.
Oh, the spell is ending. I can see it flickering a little at the edges. Over the next twenty seconds, the force of the spell drains away and visibility returns. As the last vestiges of the spell fade away, I tense, but I sense no movement from the three demons.
After another few seconds, I step forward and peer down into the hole created by the well.
About ten metres below me, atop a packed and super compressed surface of rock, the three demons glare up at me… from their positions wedged into the stone.
[You good?]
More glares.
They don’t look all that good. The three of them may have survived, but not by much. I have to give it to them, they’ve been significantly tougher than I expected them to be. Good for them.
[Alright then, here comes round two!]
Well, the first spell lasted long enough that I’ve managed to put together another one. It isn’t quite as dense, and I don’t have quite the same oomph from the Altar, but it should do the job.
For funsies, I invert the direction of the force and extend the pillar all the way to the ceiling of the stratum.
After a few moments, the three demons are yanked from their sconces on the floor and then whipped upward with truly shocking speed until they slam into the roof.
[You have slain level 601 Unique Monster ‘Torrifex’]
[You have slain level 615 Unique Monster ‘Somonax’]
[You have slain level 698 Unique Monster ‘Pyrixan’]
[You have gained XP.]
[You have reached level… ]
[You have reached level… ]
[You have reached level… ]
[You have reached level… ]
[You have reached level… ]
Ahhhh. Precious levels. Haven’t had such a rush of these in quite a long time. And three unique monsters? Even more delicious.
[You have reached level… ]
[You have reached level… ]
[You have reached level… ]
[You have reached level… ]
[You have reached level… ]
[You have reached level… ]
But that’s… seriously a lot of levels….
Comments
Celeria Rosencroix
Indeed, that is very much correct. It would be better if they were labeled as "638," instead.
ManguKing
That ought to be an achievement of sorts
DigginaTrench
That was friggin hype. The Colony prevails
Gopard
Thanks for the chapter!
Quinton Thornes
The last one is too high level to still be a Tier 8. Please correct.
PlumBum
Lmao! What a way to die hahahaha
Grey Knight Lord
Unless you happen to be Anthony with a gravity stomach.
alt31415
Then you eat it and the intense compressed density makes it tear a hole in your stomach.
Gonvas
Nah, that's way too many levels. IIRC, Anthony has killed monsters above his tier since T1/2. At T5/T6, he gained like between 7-15 levels from killing a higher tier monster. Garralosh who was almost T7 and Anthony was T5 level 1 gave him 13 levels. I think that's the most levels he gained from killing a single enemy. IMO, all 3 demons combined should give Anthony around 50 lvls.
Grey Knight Lord
Those are Anthony’s cores. No one else deserves them.
taukid
Wow, I didn't think he'd get all 3 at once. I thought 1 or 2 of them would get away. Nice, though, that might've dragged thing out too long
Soro Nir
Galaxy brain idea. Anthony could use gravity to make biomass hover off the ground, then a weak gravity bomb to compress it all into pill form.
Dan K
Wonder if Anthony is going to use their cores for himself or give them to his pets for their next evolutions.
M Afxarr
Take THAT Arconibutt!!
Isiah Debarros
Under the right conditions
Grey Knight Lord
This is more like it. Those Demons better only belong to Anthony. Also, they are Tier 8 Mythic Demons, this better give Anthony a HUGE amount of levels if not all of them.
Nathan Quitugua
...If he can freely shape that pillar as well as invert the gravity, i think he could use it defensively to catch people and fling em sideways as if they were falling. Or even better, make a pillar of gravity to propel him towards an enemy.
Marter
Every one say it with me now for funsies!!!!!!
Forrest Ogden
First off I'm sad I was one like short of being 69 and secondly I love the inverted gravity well to finish them off. Yet another great chapter you genius 👍🏻
Buck
I think that their being classified as “Unique” monsters is due to their titles as Heralds of Arconidim.
Artemis Entreri
Give me more... Biomass!!
alt31415
It's not a tier at all, I don't think. Garralosh was 'unique' and she was high-Rare tier, after all.
Icharris
They don’t eat things like carpace and blades unless you are specially evolved to eat that type of thing. I think usually they just eat the fleshy bits and leave the rest
Danidreye
Is unique the same as mythic or higher?
fity0208
The entire worm cult is gonna go bonkers once they find that a fresh T7 took down 3 archonidem chosens lol
Koala Man
Oh 3 unique t8 monster cores for 3 cute pets
Moonspike
That one has been a thing for a while, he has just never juiced it up that high.
Koala Man
Ooh nice they didn’t get mooshed up into a little ball of solid whatever , he will be able to feast on t8 monster mush
alt31415
"They don't look all that good."
guvvuf
Well, that was anticlimactic. Interested in knowing how Arconidem is going to react.
Faolen
"You good?"
CentaureHeart
Wooooh, suck it Demon God
Arillius
Woo! New gravity ability! And I like the reasoning. He probably could make a stronger gravity bomb if he threw all that power in, but it would probably also get too big and kill him. Finding a non-lethal gravity solution for himself is great.
Thunderhoof
Will they use the biomass as food or equipments?? They could really benefit from those blades and whips
Thunderhoof
Bruh. Anthony bodies tier 8 now.
RinoZ
Did I stuff my math again.... Tier one maxes at 5 2 at 10 3 at 20 4 at 40 5 at 80 6 at 160 7 at 320 and 8 at 640. Right? RIGHT?!!?!?!
alt31415
Wait, how is Pyrixan lvl 698? For Tier 7, Anthony needed to hit 160. For Tier 8, you'll need 320. For Tier 9, Pyrixan will need 640, so how does she have 698?
alt31415
I mean, weren't the pets ripping and tearing a bunch, too?\
Icharris
I was hoping he’d let each pet last hit them and reach max level to evolve. Now it seems the pets will never catch up 🤦♂️ thanks for the chapter!
Kenneth
MY BOY ANTHONYYYYYYY
