I became a legion lich

274 Curse Master

Surrounded by so many attacks and unable to dodge, Kian wasted no time trying to defend himself and instead fled, leaving the demihumans a surprise.

Kian activated the teleportation crystal ring on one of the fingers of his right hand, being enveloped in a purple sphere and disappearing, the blades of aura and black lasers reaching where he was a second later.

The mountain shield spell fell in the next moment, the incandescent rock turning into magma and exploding in all directions like magma bullets, hitting several orcs and ogres.

The magma bullets hit with the force of a cannon and burned the orcs’ skin and muscles. The ogres also suffered injuries, but the water element quickly lowered the temperature of the magma until it solidified and the light began to heal the injuries the moment they were made, restoring the ogres to perfection in a matter of seconds.

Kian appeared above the formorian furthest from the ruin, smashing his ax against the demihuman’s nape. He prepared to hunt the formorian, considering them more dangerous because of the evil eye, but it was unnecessary.

The black lasers started to fade until they disappeared and the formorians grabbed their heads feeling a headache. The evil eye had a fatal weakness, the formorian themselves were not entirely immune to the curses cast and would accumulate a small portion of the darkness the curses would accumulate in their eyes.

The effect was temporary and would wear off after a few days of rest, but there had only been a few days since the battle had started and the formorian had not rested at all, so the remnant of the curse was still present.

‘Without those annoying mermans and the formorians’ lasers, I don’t have to worry about anything.’ Kian thought as he abandoned any sort of strategy and just went in for the kill.

He moved faster than any demihuman and struck harder than anyone, killing anyone who came within range of his axe. Every time Kian stepped on the ground, a crater formed and every time he swung the axe, the simple movement generated enough wind pressure to sweep the debris around.

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Kian tried to conserve his mana as much as possible, only casting the occasional spell when he was surrounded to kill as many as possible and avoid attacks from blind spots.

Whether orcs with their absurd strength, minotaurs with high resistance or trolls with their regeneration that bordered on immortality, they all dropped dead after Kian passed them by.

Those with special abilities lasted a few seconds longer, but died anyway. Solars weren’t much more powerful than mermans and without eye abilities, formorians were just big and clumsy.

Kian slaughtered them all, leaving no corpse upon corpse.

Less than 30 minutes passed before every demihuman in the city’s ruins was dead.

‘I think I’m done here.’ Kian looked around using mana vision to make sure everyone was dead and not just pretending to be dead. After making sure no one was alive, Kian took a communication cube from his dimensional ring and contacted Florence.

“Florence, I’ve already finished the battle here. I’m going to the next point after I eat something and drink a mana recovery potion. How’s it going with you?” Kian asked as he leaned on a troll’s severed arm and picked up the dimensional ring items.

“The battle is still going on here! We managed to eliminate all the mermans before they reached the ocean, but the power of the formorians was stronger than expected and the battle dragged on.” Florence responded between gasps as she cast different wind spells.

Kian noticed that Florence was flying above the ruins of the city, conjuring cyclones of wind blades to sweep the demihumans below, but she was busy flying back and forth, dodging a dozen black lasers that vehemently pursued her.

The demihumans on the ground were desperately attacking Florence to try to knock her down and stop the spells, but she was faster and dodged most of them, activating the armor’s mana barrier.

Several groups of adventurers were on the ground and faced the evolved demihumans head to head. They were parties of S or SS ranked adventurers that existed in the Mirkor realm, the most powerful of the entire adventurer guild.

S-ranked adventurers were at least at the ninth tier while those ranked SS at the very least would have to break through the second barrier of progression at the tenth tier.

The only SSS-ranked adventurer was Kian himself and no one had come close to reaching him since the founding of the guild. The difference between a warrior who had just broken through the tenth layer and Kian who had reached the twentieth layer was absurd.

“Do you need backup? I can go there if you’re having trouble.” Kian got to his feet and picked up his axe, preparing to leave. He had never been to where Florence was, but he could teleport to a nearby location and run the rest of the way, catching up in a few minutes.

“No, just go to the next demihuman camp. We can handle something of that level, it’s just going to take a little longer.” Florence responded with difficulty and with perfect timing, the black lasers weakened and disappeared in seconds.

The evil eye’s time had reached its limit, allowing Florence to move unimpeded and increase the number of cyclones.

The adventuring parties were also slowly turning the tide of battle in their favor, making use of teamwork to keep the demihumans at bay while killing them off one by one.

Adventurers had several spells focused on immobilizing large monsters or slowing down their movement, something hard to find among order mages. Order mages normally only trained in offensive or defensive spells, so it was rare to find a mage capable of interrupting enemies without barriers.

“You seem to have things under control, so I’ll hang up and confirm the situation with the other two before heading to the next camp.” Kian briefly said goodbye to Florence and called Elish afterward, but she was even busier than Florence.

“I don’t have time to talk right now, Kian! I’m busy right now!” Elish screamed anxiously and Kian could see that she was surrounded by huge waves that tried to crush her, along with the surrounding adventurers.

Elish had led teams of adventurers from the Belaster Kingdom to attack one of the islands taken over by the demihumans, but they were unable to stop the mermans from reaching the sea and the battle dragged on.

They had already managed to eliminate half of the demihumans, but the other half was strongly resisting the adventurers’ attacks. Elish and a few stronger adventurers among them teleported to ambush the mermans and took out a few, but more than half survived with serious injuries and surrounded the humans.

The humans were only able to defend themselves thanks to the items that allowed flight and Elish, who weakened the mermans enough to resist. Elish was a curse master and spread different curses on injured mermans, causing negative effects such as dizziness, diarrhea, extreme pain in random places on the body and disrupting the mermans’ mana circulation and consequently their control over water.

Curses were a branch of dark magic just like necromancy, but they were far less developed in comparison. Curses were spells of darkness that accumulated in different parts of the body and disrupted or disrupted the functioning of certain parts of the body, rather than just rotting flesh like darkness would normally.

Normal curses would only cause temporary effects that could be corrected with mana circulation, but some more complex curses would cause damage that would permanently alter the body, to the point that even light magic would not be able to heal and a skilled healer would be needed.

Kian was about to offer to help, but Elish snarled and teleported away with the adventurers, escaping the mermen’s water prison and appearing on the other side of the island, on top of a group of ogres who had isolated a group of adventurers and pressured them with their tri-elemental spell-like abilities.

Elish and the adventurers hit the evolved ogres from above before they could react, crushing the ogres’ skulls with spells and abilities, killing them instantly. Ogres were able to heal themselves thanks to the light element flowing through their bodies, but it wouldn’t be enough to regrow a lost head.

The adventurers used the same trick to teleport across the island and ambush the evolved demihumans when they were distracted. None of the demihumans had teleportation crystals, so they couldn’t do the same to surround and ambush the humans.