Infinite Paths: The Raging Phoenix-Chapter 1481: Falling apart

However, at the last minute, Rain moved his left hand and grabbed the enemy’s sword... the blade sliced through his hand, but not that much... while blood was falling from the hand, Rain smiled.

Level 20: Intangible Sword - It is a mystical ability that allows its user to imbue their weapon with the power of intangibility. When activated, the blade of the sword becomes incorporeal, able to pass through solid objects and barriers as if they were mere illusions. Cost: 1000 mana per second.

Rain learned the technique immediately since it was the last skill used on the weapon... at the same time, the ominous sword cut quite deeply into the neck of the copy, and blood gushed from the wound, but the copy didn’t react in any way. It just jumped away to avoid Rain.

"This isn’t a technique from the information path..." Rain thought. "It must be from one of the species that the machine gods defeated. Well, it is time for the second part of the plan."

As the copy of Rain paused in its movements, a sense of unease settled over the battlefield. It was as if some internal program within the creature had engaged, prompting it to reassess its strategy before proceeding further.

During this brief interlude, Rain couldn’t help but feel a glimmer of hope. The previous exchange of attacks had worked in his favor, leaving the creature momentarily vulnerable despite its formidable regenerative abilities. Though the wound in its neck had already begun to close, the delay bought Rain precious seconds to plan his next move.

But even as he contemplated his next course of action, Rain remained wary. He knew that the creature’s apparent hesitation could be a prelude to a more devastating assault, and he needed to be prepared for whatever came next.

"Come and get it, jackass," Rain said. "I will show you that my handsomeness, intelligence, and skill can’t be replicated by the likes of you."

The copy understood the words but ignored their meaning despite charging at Rain... In the end, they mirrored each other’s sword attacks, and then the weapons passed each other... until they touched each other’s skin. However, Rain soon disappeared after turning into static for a moment, and the ominous sword sliced through the shoulder of the monster.

The creature flinched for a fraction of a second thanks to the damage... even if it wasn’t a real living thing, that kind of response wasn’t unexpected. After he stopped the activation of Spatil Evasion, Rain’s hand suddenly appeared, grabbing the neck of the creature and beginning to smash it. At the same time, Rain activated Information Absorption.

That kind of skill shouldn’t work on living things, but the copy wasn’t a living thing, even though it was a perfect copy of Rain... so the activation worked.

Lvl 15: Information Extraction - Extracts pertinent data from complex sources, distilling relevant information from vast datasets or encrypted archives. Cost: 1500 mana.

Lvl 25: People Profiling - Constructs detailed profiles of individuals based on data analysis, including psychological profiles, behavioral patterns, and social connections.

Lvl 30: Information Transfer - Transfers data between disparate systems or individuals securely and efficiently, facilitating the exchange of knowledge and insights across networks.

Rain felt his head like it was about to split... blood began to run down his nose as he obtained all the information of those skills instantly... he thought that he would be able to delete the copy or something... he didn’t expect that he would learn the skills necessary to create it.

At the same time, the copy began to behave in a weird way. It began to flinch every second as if it was about to glitch completely. Rain was surprised. The copy was truly behaving like a real-life program that was about to crash... before long, the pixels that made the monster’s body began to fade away slowly.

"It appears that you have some skills of the aspects, including mine. A brain like yours shouldn’t have enough processing power to analyze and obtain all this data, but it seems that my information about you is incorrect. Such an species shouldn’t have developed this fast naturally... a third party must be involved in this."

Rain ignored those words and then just charged at the glitching copy before slashing it from up to down with a single and powerful swing that had been almost invincible since it had been so fast.

The Skill Limit Breaker received 5.000 experience points. freewebnσvel.cѳm

The Skill Apex Furty received 5.000 experience points.

The Skill Swordsmanship received 5.000 experience points.

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Rain took a deep breath... that wasn’t going to work. He was planning to help the others as fast as he could, but he wouldn’t be able to do that if he took so much time dealing with the minions of the enemies. Still, at least it looked like Rais took a bit of time to analyze the situation.

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After Rain left the others, the group began to check the area to decide how to proceed. They were used to letting Rain decide, so they were a bit hesitant to do that for the first time.

Still, after teleporting around for a bit... they sure were forced to stop, and Iori opened several exists of his pocket dimension... as soon as they landed on a planet with countless islands and a vast ocean in all directions, they suddenly saw the blue sky changing colors and moving like it was a bowl of milk... even though they didn’t have access to the spiritweaver’s path, they were able to see that... a large concentration of spirits surrounding that planet.

"It is an automatic response... Lidos isn’t aware of us yet, but he should be soon," Sakaki explained. "If the spirits can be seen by you guys, they can be attacked."

Everyone nodded... even though the spirits were pretty high in the sky, they still could reach them with magic. However, soon, the spirits began to change again...