Infinity: Rising of the Soul Weavers

* Dead Eyes - Hallucinating *

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'Damn it I can't keep this up!' Raven thought to herself as she was already too deep into the fight to back down. And even if she did, the dark grim reaper would just chase after her group.

"Alright, plan B it is!" she said with a small smile on her face. "My strength is speed, so I might as well go for it."

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! ....

All of a sudden, the tide of the little skirmish has changed in Raven's favour.

Although she was lacking in strength, very, it wasn't her specialty so she didn't let it affect her.

Instead she activated Scanner Rings with Deadly Vision, each in one eye as both of them together on one eye would be a heavy burden on her, a burden that she can't handle at the moment.

Her right eye was using the Deadly Vision skill, while her left used the Scanner Rings.

The two abilities, coupled with Ruler's Domain made it seem as though she could read the future. She was reacting in super sonic speed to the dark reaper's movements, even before it executed them.

For a while, the dark reaper was just sitting there with its guards up covering its head which had confirmed to Raven that it's the weak point she's been looking for.

Of course, she could already see that with both her Scanner Rings and Deadly Vision.

Deadly Vision would change her surroundings into black and white, while highlighting her enemies in red. At the same time, faint red lines would flash midair indicating places where she should slash with the sword, or red circles if she had a bow or a gun.

The effect varied with the different weapons she used.

Scanner Rings on the other hand, made her see the creature's mana pathways and mana nodes, indicating when the dark reaper is going to use a magic attack.

Usually her vision would be 360 around her, with no blind spots, but now that she's only using it on her left eye, she was missing a small chunk of the 360 degree vision, mainly towards the back right field of vision.

The onslaught kept going for a while that the others, even while being busy fighting a horde of monsters, were surprised at how a C ranker (C++) could hold an A ranker (A+).

Camilla wasn't impressed though, she's seen better. Nonetheless, she kept a watch while keeping up with her nonstop chanting. Not for a second did she lose her focus.

While her attacks weren't the strongest, they were definitely the most effective. Raven's every attack was aimed at a critical point in the reaper's skeletal body.

However, the difference in skill, rank, and experience made up the difference the dark reaper needed to tank the attacks.

Since it knew its weak points more than anyone else on this planet, it has made sure everything was well protected.

After a while of taking little to no damage, the grim reaper got used to the pattern while Raven got exhausted. What made its job way easier were the sonic booms.

An sonic explosion would thunder in its mind a split second before Raven would connect a hit. That has made everything much more easier and predictable for it.

A cruel glint crept onto the reaper's red gems in its eye sockets as it reflected one of the girl's attacks. That one lucky move was followed by many others that it made the others believe it had no connection to luck whatsoever.

Rather, the grim reaper was making its comeback.

Standing up strong again, the reaper formed a dark sphere that glowed with ominous red. A huge smile appeared in its mind as it imagined the next few seconds were it would turn the little runt that was attacking it into meat paste.

Weird noise came out of its mouth at its eyes glowed with the smell of death.

Raven could understand what it's said, 'maybe it's due to Knowledge of the Ancients?' she thought to herself.

"Acting all high and mighty huh? Let me teach you your manners, kid!" The creature in front of her said as four magic circles appeared around the red sphere. Not a second after, it was thrown towards her with lightning speed.

Of course, everything had been part of Raven's plan.

"Heh, idiot-" she thought as she dodged the incoming attack. "The idiot forgot about my skill Ruler's Domain already? Anything it uses inside of it will get weaker.

A sonic explosion could be heard as Raven appeared behind the dark skeletal creature.

"Predictable!" Raven could understand the weird noises that came out of its stinky mouth.

Turning around to hit its mark, the grim reaper was surprised to see... nothing behind it.

Instead a slash cut through its facial bones from the front. 'I do have 'Stealth' now do I not?' Raven laughed to herself.

Using predictable attacks, plus keeping the sound of the sonic explosions were all part of the plan.

Using Advanced Mana Manipulation and Stealth made containing the explosion's sound like a child's play.

Activating a series of trick attacks with the fake explosion sounds made the reaper rather upset. But it could do nothing but tank the damage.

"Fuu~" Noticing that her mana levels are falling low, she's decided to infuse her mana swords with Vampiric Touch and Holy Touch.

Vampiric Touch would steal the enemies vitals while Holy Touch would add to her vitality.

Unlike the previous integrated skill: Ruler's Touch, the two separate skills can differentiate between life force, mana, and health.

If one would imagine the soul to be a flaming ball. Life force would be the structure of the ball itself, better ball would serve for better fuel for the fire, as life force would fuel one's lifespan.

Health or vitals would be like the flame itself, if the flames are extinguished, the ball is useless and so is the soul.

Mana was like the invisible limps of the soul that could control the entire body. Without it, the flaming ball would be crippled, like a trapped bird in its cage.

Although the skills weren't highly effective with a split second contact, the two enchanted, great golden swords and the rapid slash rate had made it count. Plus, Advanced Mana Manipulation did a great job at enhancing the effects of the skills.

If she could keep this up, she could kill the skeletal creature when it's at its weakest. Or so she thought.

Snatching out her enemy's health was rather... underwhelming as it wasn't much. 'Damn I have to practice this more to increase its effect.' she thought as she used a charge from her skill Invigoration.

'One charge left for today, aftert that, my body won't withstand the extra amounts of the world's energy and it would be more harming than useful. Just like over drinking water, kinda funny it can kill you huh?' she thought to herself as she evaded a blow from the 2nd king.

"URRRAAAAHH!!!" It roared all of a sudden as it bore its fangs in rage. "I've had enough with you! Dirty b*stard take this!" the dark reaper shouted in language only Raven could understand. From the group anyway.

Five magical circles formed around each of its hands as dark red light lightning danced on its finger tips.

Unleashing the lightning charge, it took a dragon-serpent form as it was about to hit Raven in the chest.

She was pretty sure the strike would pulverise her, yet lightning was way faster than sound, so she could do absolutely nothing but tank it and hope for the best.

'Maybe if I form a mana shield? Or use my Nanotech Creation to form a conductor? Maybe my enchanted armour would do the trick? No what can I do? THERE IS NO TIME!!' her panicked thoughts ended up in her trying to close her eyes and wish she doesn't die.

But with the lightning speed of the attack, literally, her eyelids moved slower than the strike.

However, just as the lightning serpent was about to hit her, a small figure stepped in in front of her.. Between her and the lethal attack.