Masteria Online: Shattering the Dark God's Grand Scheme-Chapter 172 - Overpowered

The orb of perfect equilibrium between Light and Dark began forming directly in front of him, right in the pixie’s path.

By the time the pixie noticed the orb materializing, momentum had already carried it forward into the spell’s area of effect.

In truth, if the pixie had seriously committed everything to an evasive maneuver at that exact moment, it probably could have dodged at the last second. The margins were tight, but it was theoretically possible.

But warriors operated on a different combat philosophy than magicians.

Warriors were a class built around trading blows and coming out ahead. They could take hits that would kill a magician and keep fighting. A big fighting philosophy revolved around accepting damage to deal even more damage in return.

If Lumi was casting a spell, then he wasn’t casting a teleport spell to escape.

Therefore, the warrior could afford to take the hit from this unknown spell and use that opening to deal massive damage to the exposed magician.

That was the pixie’s thought process, and it wasn’t entirely wrong under normal circumstances. The issue was that Torment was overpowered. The orb completed its formation directly on the pixie’s position.

Squish.

There wasn’t a loud boom. In fact, it was barely audible over the sound of the battle surrounding them. Only the wet squish of flesh being torn was heard.

As the spell landed, it obliterated a significant portion of its body as its chest burst open. Blood and gore splattered outward in a violent spray, with several internal organs being clearly visible.

The pixie fell from the air, crashing hard into the branch below. It was heavily injured but somehow still alive, its incredible warrior constitution keeping it from dying instantly. That was the thing with warriors. They could survive damage that would kill anyone else.

Lumi didn’t waste a single moment. "Void Sphere."

The dark purple orb materialized and shot forward, consuming the downed pixie entirely. When the sphere dissipated, the only thing left was a bloody meat pile, and several scraps of metal.

[EXP +589]

After disposing of that waste of time, he returned his focus to the crowd of pixies. "Lance of Light!" He needed to get back to farming EXP. He could already see the tide of battle shifting, turning against Seyen.

Of course it was. That was how it always ended up. At the end of the day, the loyalist faction just had more members, more incentives, and was headed by a stronger pixie. It was only because of him and Lena that they had held on this long.

His eyes flashed. Seyen wouldn’t recklessly die here. Likely, she’d organize a retreat soon. Despite the massive losses on her side, nearly half her pixies dying, it was good news for her. Pixies didn’t fear concepts such as the mortality rate of an army.

All that pixies would hear was that a pixie had challenged the queen, and didn’t die. Every other pixie died within the hour. This one fought for hours, plural, and lived to see another day? Then there really was hope of a revolution! That only meant they should join her!

Wait.

A thought came to him. He was gaining so much EXP... he didn’t want it to end. If he could stall today out longer, that would be for the best. Plus, he was still in Convergence mode. The power would last for a while longer before the energies depleted.

So his mind began to wander slightly, contemplating possibilities.

If he still had Torment available, could he use it to perhaps take out key targets, thereby equalizing forces, drawing out the fight? Not to mention, the more he took out from the queens side, the more pixies would show up tomorrow.

Still, he had to do this in an unnoticeable way. Not that it was entirely possible, given they were out in the open, but there were ways to do it where everyone’s attention would be on him, and ways to do it where it would be brushed off as natural.

His gaze shifted rapidly around the battlefield. The pixies who really mattered were those above level 30. His eyes eventually settled on a pixie singlehandedly taking on three others and winning.

"Got you."

He pretended to shift his aggression to a random nearby pixie, and teleported closer to it. He began running, and as often as he could, teleporting.

"What the- why!?" The pixie felt aggrieved. It was just a small player. It wasn’t interested in a side, it just wanted to cause chaos and disruption. If it died, so be it, but it still didn’t want to! Especially when it hadn’t caused enough chaos! 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

"Hold on-"

"Torment." Lumi spoke coldly.

"Gah!" The pixie instantly teleported away, beginning to fly away fleeing on the spot. But that pixie never mattered. It was merely a cover to get closer to his real target without causing suspicion.

Now that he was close enough to his real target...

There was a level 32 pixie effortlessly dodging spells from three opponents simultaneously. She moved with practiced ease, her movements fluid and precise as she weaved between magical projectiles.

Her face was wicked with a grin as she clearly played with her foes. "Is this really all you’ve got!? How dare you join a rebellion with such meager skills? You’re an embarrassment to our kind!"

She lashed out with a quick curse, striking one of her opponents and forcing them to retreat. She puffed her head up in pride. "Running from just that? Pathetic!"

She beckoned them closer with a gesture. "Come forth, cowards! Try to kill me!"

"...hm?" Her gaze noticed a human approaching from the side. A random magician, apparently engaged with some fleeing pixie. Who cared? It was obvious that the human was occupied with their own fight. She dismissed them entirely and returned her attention to her current prey.

Suddenly, she sensed the mana shift in the air around her. Some kind of spell was being cast on her.

Obviously, it had to be from one of her pixie enemies. They must have finally worked up the courage to try something actually dangerous. She didn’t take them seriously. They’d been pathetic this entire fight. Whatever they were casting, she could handle it.

Only one problem. What spell? She thought her enemies didn’t have spells with this type of targeting.

Then she suddenly noticed it wasn’t coming from them at all.

Her eyes widened in realization. The spell was coming from behind her. From that human. "T- ch?" She choked on her own voice and tried to teleport away immediately as her confidence gave way to panic. She should have noticed a new enemy!

Wrong answer. Wrong answer on both counts.

First, her late reaction time was a critical issue. She’d wasted precious fractions of a second on incorrect assumptions.

Second, she should have physically flown away instead of attempting a teleport, which required a moment to cast and complete. In that moment, she was a stationary, vulnerable, perfect target.

The orb of equilibrium materialized directly on her position.

Pop!

Like a balloon, she exploded on the spot.

Unlike the warrior pixie who had at least survived for a moment with his incredible constitution, this magician pixie had no such luck. The spell reduced her body to a spray of bloody bits.

[EXP +512]

"..." The three pixies who had been fighting her stood frozen in midair, completely baffled. Their overwhelming enemy, the one who had been toying with them, who had been moments away from killing them all, had just exploded. Just like that, with absolutely no warning of her ever being in danger.

But what exactly had killed her? From what or where? They looked around frantically, trying to understand what had just happened.

The only person nearby who seemed potentially strong enough to do something like that was the random human who’d been chasing that fleeing pixie.

Was it them?

Had that human just casually killed their enemy while passing by?

...

And this was exactly what Lumi had calculated would happen.

Even if these pixies knew it was him, even if they told others about what they’d witnessed, they wouldn’t be taken seriously. Not by any important pixies, not by anyone who actually mattered.

They were insignificant. Low-level fodder in a chaotic battlefield. Who would believe them?

Lumi had no time to waste, his convergence only lasting a few more seconds. He had already moved on, teleporting away to resume his Lance of Light spam as if nothing had happened.

...

Across the battlefield, another engagement was reaching its conclusion.

A level 34 pixie with crimson wings was locked in combat with a pair of pixies from Seyen’s faction. The crimson pixie was clearly winning, having already severely injured one of its opponents.

"You should have stayed out of this!" it shouted, launching a barrage of fire spells. "The queen will reward me well for killing traitors like you!"

Its opponent tried to respond with a curse, but the crimson pixie was too fast. It dodged easily and countered with a blade of compressed air that sliced deep into the other pixie’s wing.

The wounded pixie screamed and began falling. The crimson pixie grinned, preparing to finish both of them off in one final attack.

Then it sensed something approaching from below.