The Third Return of the Necrotic Magic Swordsman

[14th Everdusk 2103], CGA branch, Dyna Crest country.

I plunged my blade straight into the chest of Hobgoblin who was just standing on his place while holding the totem which I needed to destroy as before I can snatch it from him, I feel a sense of threat coming from him. 

As I moved back not to get hurt as maybe it was a good plan as what happened next made my eyes pop out of my sockets.

As the smiling Hobgoblin who was holding the totem, raise it in the air and something extremely creepy happened.

As what I can see that those goblins who just died, their bodies now started to shake as something whitish come out of their bodies and got pulled toward the totem and got absorbed in it.

As even more white energy came from outside the village and got absorbed in it.

A few minutes later, something started budging inside of me, and I felt that something was pulling me away. But I didn’t budge. However, something inside of me budged, and it was my soul.

As I started to feel immense pain like someone was forcefully pulling my soul out as I was trying to resist, but I didn’t know how to as just my eyes were about to get full of darkness and my life about to be swept away with my soul. Something happened.

The force which was pulling me stopped as I fell down on the ground to find that I was good as fine as even my HP was good as okay just an effect of tiredness occurred on me which was for about one hour in which my 10% stats were reduced for the time.

While I have just caught some breath, my eyes fell on my surroundings which was quite baren as all the goblins and my summons were lying on the floor without any speck of life in them.

As my skeletons bodies were scattered into pieces while the goblins eyes were lifeless like their souls were sucked out of their bodies.

As then, my eyes fell on the culprit who was kneeling before the totem like some believer.

His eyes were closed as he was chanting something that wasn’t something I could understand. But things started changing as some kind of energy started pouring in from the totem toward the Hobgoblin, and I clearly understood what it was.

The energy transmitted through the totem was a special type of energy that only a few races are capable of harnessing it. While some are bestowed with it in which bestowed race are human.

The energy that the Boss was getting was a higher unique energy called Demoic energy which was too much powerful that it can rival most of the high-level energies except for some chosen few.

While what was here was just a degraded version, Demonic Mana, a less demonic essence contained mana which increase the mana potency high. Maybe this guy offered the souls of all the being here expect him to give the being connected to another place to get this mana.

And even if this is quite of low in rank but still in comparison to my mana, it was several times higher, this much higher that it can make a normal Lv.10 monster to turned into Lv.20-30 monster. Which going to make my work much more difficult with this debuff.

As I tried to rush toward him and interrupt the ritual for some gain of help, but it didn’t work as the mana covering him was too high to bypass as even my enchanted sword durability was damaged in the process.

I backed away and only waited until the process was finished as I can do anything else in here.

As half minute later, the energy barrier starts disappearing and I can see what was happening inside, the totem which was okay till now was turned into ash while the whole look of Boss was changed into something else. As even the damage I caused him was healed and even his armor was in great shape.

As it was also enhanced to the point where it become high good enough to hold the ground like some new one while the mace has holding onto was looking quite imposing now. Much dangerous than the normal mace he first hold.

Like now the scene was like main character of a novel is getting a boost to defeat the enemy while here it was reversal. But is it a novel, I don’t know what my mind was distracted toward the notification appeared right now.

[The host and his summon are exposed to a high soul level spell.]

[Host advises the guest to leave the range.]

[Host soul is protected by the {??????????? ?????????? (????-GRADE)}, {????????? ????????? (????-GRADE)}

{Your summoned soul is retrieved from its body.]

[Dungeon difficulty risen above the host level.]

[Dungeon boss, Hobgoblin Warlord {Common, Boss unit} (Lv.13) --> Corrupted Hobgoblin Warlord {Mutant, Boss unit} (Lv.19)]

[The dungeon completion objective has been changed. Kill the boss and destroy the totem --> Kill the Mutated Boss.]

I didn’t understand the protection part as I didn’t have something that may help me, but what changed was the objective and the boss strength and rating was immense change as it was that moment, I knew I f*ck*d up!

I was distracted when my mind returned to reality when a scream capable enough to kill low-level awakened was heard. As I instantly responsively covered my ears.

My ears were bleeding as my eyes were shaken for a while but it got recovered as I saw that the Boss who was now looking at me with deadly eyes.

I looked at him, he looked at me, then I again looked at him but this time he didn’t just looked at me but even move as his speed was very high, maybe a normal awakener won’t be even able to see it but am I normal, hell nah.

I blocked his attack by moving away side but then the mace hit the ground as from my imagination, the ground should have some cracks and rock flying over but what happened next was much more than I can anticipate.

Yes, the whole area around the ground where the mace hit was destroyed. As many huts as possible around us were destroyed with a single hit.

This shook my belief that I could kill him, and my grip loosened a little, but I am not going to lose hope here as I was already making plans on how to kill him.

As I took advantage of the dust and smoke that occurred here, I closed the distance between us and slashed my blade toward it.

Which hit him clearly on his armor and even pierced it, but just a small edge of it as the blade was still stuck on the outer area.

But some blood oozed out of the mark as some HP above the boss’s head was reduced.

But the look boss was giving me was quite menace as he looked at me and when I was about to backed away, he quickly grabbed my hand which I wasn’t able to get back from him and without doing anything I was thrown toward one of the houses.

I destroyed many huts while crashing, and only after crashing into 8 huts did I stop. As my HP was dropped by one third almost. [-143 HP]

Even moving my body was difficult for me and I lost my consciousness before even doing anything.

I, whose condition was unknown, was now lying in the debris of the huts while the culprit responsible for it was moving toward me after looking around the area to see if anyone else was alive or not.

-- To be continued --

Hello guys hope you like the chapter and tell me do you think MC would be able to win this match or some new power out of nowhere is going to come and help him like it did in soul spell.