Worthless Skill Escape (WN)

Chapter 86

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Chapter 86 – Escape Prevention Battle

I used Summon Phantom Beast to summon a phantom dragon from another world.

Guooooooooooooooo!

Kudave seemed to be in full throttle from the start.

The gryphon carrying Clovis stiffened at the roar suddenly hurled at it.

It was about to fall, but Clovis kicked it in the stomach to get it back on its feet.

“R-ridiculous! A phantom dragon? Why would the ruler of the phantom realm follow a human?”

Clovis’ face was pale, though he seemed to have withstood the roar.

Haruka-san’s face, being held by Clovis, is also pale.

“Bwahahaha! My turn has finally come!”

“I feel bad that you’re so excited, but please don’t kill her by mistake.”

“Huh? Don’t be silly! I don’t have the skill to do that!”

“Then stop being so arrogant. Just be intimidating and don’t let the gryphon escape.”

“Tch! I have no choice!”

I think Kudave is very quick-witted, even though he seems self-centered.

After casting Fathom on Clovis, he reluctantly obeys my orders.

“Damn it! I didn’t expect a phantom dragon to appear…!”

Clovis tries to flee with the gryphon.

But the gryphon, frightened by Kudave, is ready to run away without a second look, even before Clovis orders it to do so.

Then Kudave opens his mouth to roar.

“Spirit of the Wind, blow my enemies away with the storm!”

Clovis commands the spirit to unleash a storm.

The wind will likely be used to block Kudave’s roar.

“It’s lukewarm!”

Kudave’s roar disperses the storm.

But it is also true that the roar is blocked.

Kudave turned his huge body and quickly circled in front of Clovis.

Meanwhile, I had finished chanting Advanced Lightning Magic.

“”Thunder Strike!””

I also used Strong Strike Magic, Ancient Chant, Magic Crit, Attribute Amplification, Double Chant, Magic Barrage, and Knockout, and I heard two voices.

It wasn’t my imagination that my voice sounded double.

Two spells came out of my mouth at the same time.

It was the effect of Double Chant.

Since I cast two spells in a row, one of them had the effect of Magic Barrage on it.

The lightning I shot hit Clovis in the air.

It also hit Haruka-san, but that was why I added Knockout to it.

I could think of no other way to keep Haruka-san alive and neutralize Clovis without killing him.

“Guooooooo!”

“Kyaaaaaah!”

Kukieeeeeeeeee!

Clovis, Haruka-san, and the gryphon’s screams echoed.

I don’t know if I was able to defeat it.

I cast more spells and――

“Tch! You lowly human is getting in my way…! Shit, I can’t end it like this!”

Clovis said in an impatient voice, pulling what looked like a cube out of the empty space.

“This is a cursed world! For the soul of this thing, spawn a dungeon in this land!”

Clovis threw the cube into the air and held out his hand.

I intuitively knew what he would do.

“Kudave! Collect it without destroying it!”

“You’re an unreasonable master!”

While complaining, Kudave created a gust of wind with his wings and pushed the cube away.

He quickly turns and catches the blown-away cube in the gap between his fangs.

However, when Kudave retrieves the cube, there is a large gap in the sky.

“Spirit of the Wind, be my wings and carry me swiftly!”

Clovis uses spirit magic to speed the frantically fleeing gryphon.

“Thunder… damn it, I can’t reach it!”

I couldn’t cast my magic in time for the chase.

From the looks of it, neither the gryphon nor Clovis had 1 HP.

If the Knockout had worked, they would have been incapacitated.

This means that the initial Double Chant and Thunder Strike couldn’t finish them off.

I’ve been focusing on weapon skills lately, so my magic skills haven’t been as strong as they should be.

Clovis has a +40% Mental Strength correction from Human Objectification, and his Mental Strength is over 590,000.

In addition, Clovis has

Skill──────────────────

Pride 5

Reduces the damage you take from opponents of a lower level than you by (S.Lv x 10) %.

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He also had this skill.

Of course, at level 1, I’m lower than Clovis.

This means that my damage is reduced by 50% overall.

The reason I couldn’t kill the Thunder Gryphon was also because of its magic attributes.

It’s no wonder that Lightning Magic is so difficult to use on the Thunder Gryphon.

Advanced Fire Magic would have done more damage.

So why didn’t I use it?

Advanced Fire Magic has a slow bullet speed.

It is difficult to hit a fast-moving Thunder Gryphon from that distance.

“Kudave, can you chase it?”

“Hmm, I’m afraid I can’t! The Thunder Gryphon is the fastest of all gryphons! They can also make small turns! When even the spirits of the winds are desperate to lend their strength, even my wings can’t keep up with them!”

Kudave comes down as he says this.

“Damn, can’t we go after him…”

For what it’s worth, that guy seems to be obsessed with Haruka-san.

He won’t kill Haruka-san right away.

But not the explorers in the Human Objectification Item Box.

As the name of the skill suggests, he sees people as nothing more than objects.

Haruka-san will try to buy some time, but…

Kudave lands in the precinct and sticks his giant head out at me.

Behind me, I heard Honoka-chan stifle a scream.

“Here, I’ve retrieved it. Take it off quickly. I don’t want to have that creepy thing in my mouth forever.”

“Thank you, Kudave.”

I pulled what looked like a cube from between Kudave’s fangs.

It was indeed a creepy thing.

In appearance, it was a cube about 10 centimeters on a side.

About the size of a Rubik’s cube.

But unlike a Rubik’s cube, which has colored pieces on each side, each side of this cube has… human parts.

On one side is a face.

The other side has shoulders and arms.

On the other side is a chest or a back.

They are drawn flat as if they were being forcefully pressed against a glass plate.

It feels like a Picasso painting in which the body parts are forcibly pressed into the surface, ignoring perspective and a sense of three-dimensionality.

It also moves slightly in real-time.

“W-what is that…?”

Honoka-chan looked into my hand from behind and asked.

“It’s a human being who was transformed into an object with his skill.”

“A-a human? But yes, there is also a reaction to Divine Response.”

“Divine Response?” Kudave asked.

“Ah, yes. During my training, I awakened to my unique skill. However, the essential Spirit Magic was still not good enough.”

“No, awakening a unique skill… That’s great enough.”

“But it’s a skill that allows me to understand the feelings of others or to communicate my feelings to those close to me even if they are far away, and that’s all.”

“Then you can tell where Haruka-san is now!”

“Don’t panic, Yuto. Things don’t happen all at once.”

“Uh, that’s right… First of all, this cube. Maybe they know something about Clovis.

If he has some sort of base of operations, it’s possible that the objectified explorer might know something.

But how do we get this back?

If Clovis has to disarm it to get it back or something, there’s nothing we can do.

“Um… can I borrow it?”

“Honoka-chan?”

“Somehow, I think I understand. The skill turned you into an object, didn’t it? Then I think it would be good if they could remember that they are ‘human.'”

Honoka-chan got the cube from me.