The Exiled First-born of the Noble house. Rising to the top with the Worthless Skill [Null Poison]

Chapter 431

Seeing Through

My sword hadn’t reached his body but, it was still a clean hit that felt very nice.

Seeing Klaus go sliding across the floor also brought a little joy to my heart.

But still……I was a bit surprised that Klaus had actually put effort into honing his basic sword skills as well.

I thought he’d have relied entirely on his powerful skills and focused on them but, I could tell that Klaus had learnt at least basic swordsmanship just from our little to-and-fro just now.

“I’m surprised, I didn’t think you’d be able to stop my attack. Looks like you actually did learn swordsmanship properly instead of just using your skills a crutch eh?”

“FUCK!!……You’re just a scrub [farmer], how dare you talk like you’re above me!?”

“If just a scrub like me can send you flying like that, what would that make you?”

“I’m going to definitely kill you!——-[Fierce God’s Spirit]”

He seemed to have completely snapped at my words, as Klaus activated even more skills.

Further mixing with the black and gold aura, a red aura began to rise and mix with it as well.

Looks like he can increase his physical abilities even further.

And I wouldn’t be surprised if he still has a couple more skills hidden up his sleeve. Once again, I was made to realize just what a monstrous job [Sword God] really was.

And while I understood it’s greatness, I didn’t just keep on watching, and started to hatch my own plans as well.

The gold and red aura mixed, and Klaus, who almost felt divine, powerfully stepped on the ground—–and rushed at me with an even faster speed than before.

Klaus’ was certainly faster now but, the faster you move, the more simpler your movements can become as well, plus I can also keep track of him with the sound and noise he makes.

I activated [Perception Enhancement] and [Sound Wave Detection] and then gauged the timing before activating [Black Mist].

Since the arena was very big, it didn’t completely cover it but, the black mist still spread enough around us to be effective.

Due to the appearance of the sudden black mist, Klaus lost sight of me completely but, I could of course keep perfect track of Klaus.

After confirming his exact location with the sound, I activated both [Strong Arm] and [Hard Hit] and launched a slash at him when…….

“[God’s Eye]”

With the activation of that skill, he was able to see through my blade through the darkness and easily deflected it, and instead, he used the darkness to his own advantage and further countered with a perfect horizontal slash, cutting deeply through my stomach.

Because I was unable to see the attack properly, he cut much deeper than the hit on the neck and I took some serious damage this time around.

I was only using the sound as my guide, but it seemed Klaus could use all of his 5 senses to grasp my position.

Until now, [Black mist] had been one of my strongest skills in terms of utility but, I didn’t think it’d turn out to be this useless against Klaus.

I know I’m the one who sowed the seeds for this but, suddenly the situation had turned into a pinch against me.

Regardless, I needed to first get out of the range of the black mist first and foremost, so I decided to retreat backwards with full speed.

[Leg Strength Enhancement] and [Gale].

I further also used [War Dance] focused only on my legs for an extra boost, and even activated [Wild Instinct] just in case.

From there, while pressing down on the wound on my belly, I ran as fast as I could away from Klaus.

Right now I was technically a bit faster than Klaus, but he could also clearly see through the mist with his eyes right now.

He tried to chase after me who was wounded and launched some precise attacks but…..

Since I could hear his footsteps approaching me, I somehow managed to avoid the rest of his attacks and finally succeeded in leaving the range of the black mist.

For now I had avoided complete disaster but, the fact remained that I had taken some heavy damage.

Leaving the [Black Mist], Klaus opened his mouth out wide as he cackled with laughter like a demon.

“KUHAHAHAHA! And here I was wondering what you were trying using a smokescreen like that, turns out, you can’t see shit inside it either!? You really unironically tried to gamble your life against me of all people. Are you seriously this fucking stupid!?”

Klaus pissed me off so much that I almost forgot the pain I was feeling but……

I kept my cool and activated [Self Regen] and [Pain Inhibition] to perform emergency treatment for now.

I did consider using one the world tree potions that Charlotte gave me but, I decided that this wound wasn’t enough to use something like that.

And now that my pain had subsided, I felt like I could move normally again. And although the blood loss was a worry, it wasn’t so bad that it’d be fatal.

“Don’t get too excited from getting just one hit in. Not like you were able to actually finish me off.”

“It was obviously on purpose. I let you run away. Because I wanted to see the dumb look on your face again Chris!”

Saying that, he began to laugh loudly again.

Man, he really knows how to piss me off. My instincts roared to rush at him and attack him right now but——-I needed to endure for now.

Now that I know [Black mist] is useless, the amount of tactics I can use has significantly reduced in number.

Since I wasn’t sure how well some of the other irregular skills would work on him, for now I decided to test out using [Effect Spread] and try and poison him.

Focusing my attention on Klaus’ movement, I got ready with the poisonous drug I bought at the royal capital’s store.

Thanks to the help from Ralf, I had a very good grasp of the exact range of this skill now, so as soon as he enters the range, I can use it just fine.

As for the not so good news, the range of my [Effect Spread] was also the range from which Klaus could attack as well.

Until now, he didn’t really show an opening for me to use it but, now that I have been wounded, I can get him to get his guard down and draw him in closer.

This wasn’t originally in my plans but, if I can properly poison him, I’ll be willing to let go of the fact that [black Mist] had been a failure.

Thinking more optimistically, i carefully calculated the distance between me and Klaus as he slowly walked towards me while laughing.

……..three more………two more………just one more step.

While pretending to be in deep pain and holding down on my stomach wound, the moment he entered the range, I activated [Effect Spread].

And at the very same instant, I swallowed the poisonous drug I had bought from [Rakanka].