The Newbie Is Too Strong's
73. Luca Meets for the First Time with the King of Necromancers
The shaman seemed to be circling around Luca enthusiastically. Suddenly, the shaman brought his face closer to Luca's face just like that until it was less than a centimeter away. Luca did not expect it at all and was then shocked and could only sculpt.
“Hmm. Your face really makes me feel nostalgic.” Said the shaman while showing a smile on his lips accompanied by friendly eyes. It was just that the strangely patterned white mask he was wearing covered part of his face so that it could not be clearly seen what his true expression was like.
With a speed that even made Luca unable to respond, he immediately landed his hand on Luca's hair and played with the young man's hair.
“But why did you change your hair color? Don't you think this hair color is beautiful?” Said the shaman while pointing towards his own hair.
“Who are you?” In the end, Luca was able to comment while Aura was behind him would have gone berserk if it wasn't Luca who was against him.
“I? I'm Phineas.”
“I never knew that name. Besides, why do you know me and even know my real hair color?” Luca said without lowering his guard.
“Why about? Why do you think?” The figure who introduced himself as Phineas was with a mischievous smile just playing Luca's question.
There was a moment of silence between the two of them. Luca carefully observed the figure before him with great caution as the game board showed his name as,
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Name: PHINEAS (Lv 185)
Race: human
Age: error
Gender: Male
Occupation: king of necromancers
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Luca recalled that before the death of Philtory, one of the necromancers that caused the zombie disaster in Kaukau village that he had recently fought some time ago, he had muttered the name Phineas.
“Hahahahahaha. Not very long. Not much longer! Mr. Phineas will come and swallow you all up with the undead. Have fun with all of you humans until then. Enjoy this mirror world filled with falsehoods for as long as you can!”
That's more or less what Philtory said at the end of his life. With the suitability of his job as the king of necromancers, inevitably Luca so suspect that the person in front of him is what is meant by Philtory can swallow all living things with his undead army.
Plus, his race was human, but his level surpassed 99, this was obviously strange.
Luca recently realized it after learning a little about the concept of the level he learned from Nina's vrmmorpg manual. The concept of level is not much different from the concept of the quality of life of a living creature.
Every living thing in this world has a certain age limit. The age limit can be characterized by the level limit possessed by a living creature. A human who can live a maximum of 100 years, can only increase his level to 99, like his uncle, Heisel, who has been at the peak of his level.
So did other races like orcs, only able to reach up to level 199. Elf race with level 499, draconoid race with level 999, and dragon race with level 9999.
But Phineas whose identity is still recognized by the system as a human has reached level 185 which is clearly impossible to achieve by the human race. Moreover, its age designation is error. Obviously the person in front of Luca right now is a very mysterious and automatically very dangerous.
Luca should not for a second lower his guard in front of such a person.
However, as soon as the face-to-face contest between Luca and Phineas took place, suddenly the ground around them trembled and there was the cry of panicked people from the crowd.
Luca ran to monitor the situation.
How shocked Luca was to find a cow-headed monster with the body of a burly man whose height far exceeded the height of an average human, rampaging in the middle of the capital.
“Oi, Phineas! Is this all you?” Luca said to the creature behind him.
“I intend to attack the capital. But unfortunately, it's not one of my men.”
“What do you mean?” Luca, who did not believe the nonsense, then looked at Phineas sharply with a look of hatred.
“Well, as the owner of spiritual power, of course you can distinguish which energy comes from where to die and which comes from the devil. Anyway, today I just want to greet you. Let's play sometime.”
In an instant before Luca's own eyes, Phineas just disappeared.
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Name: Dojoron (Lv 132)
Age: 150 years
Gender: Male
Status: contaminated dark energy
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“Huh, that damn flea. Dare to use the energy of darkness before this graceful Aura.” Shouted Aura furiously with her teeth grumbling.
Luca simply ignored Aura's angry scream because he was focused on paying close attention to the status of the monster. Luca finally realizes that Phineas' words were the truth. It was not death energy that was contaminating the monster, but dark energy.
“But what is this? This monster is called? Especially with that level. Can I fight it?”
Monster named. Unlike ordinary monsters, named monsters have a more stable mana with a developed mind close to human intelligence so that it will be a more difficult opponent than ordinary monsters. When compared to numbers, then the level of difficulty faced between an ordinary monster and a named monster was 1 in 20 to 30.
Especially with the contamination of dark energy, the monster was currently in its berserk mode. That monster was definitely not an opponent that Luca could handle even by using his real body now.
“Master, allow me to chop up that damn flea meat.” Said Aura with her cute chubby-chubby body that was only 30 cm tall after rising to level 25.
Luca simply ignored her in a sigh.
But beyond that, Aura's spirit reached for her. This is not part of Luca's mission. There is no obligation for Luca to face the monster. However, only he is currently on the scene. The imperial army and the players who received the mission were still temporarily on their way to that place. And during that pause, tens or even hundreds of civilian lives could have been lost at any time in that place.
“After all this is not my real body. I'll only gameover if I die. There's no harm in me keeping the monster busy until reinforcements arrive.”
Luca, who cannot ignore his conscience, decides to become a shield for the civilians while in the process of escaping from the monster's rampage. Once again for Luca, they are not NPCs that are just computer programs, but real humans who have their own desires and ideals.
“Aura, focus on giving me buff strength.” Luca said with his eyes fixed straight at the monster.
Initially, Aura looked reluctant as she also wanted to face the monsters head-on. But Luca knew very well that the dangerous monster before him was not an opponent that Aura could face. If he loses then gameover, he can be resurrected immediately. But no one knew what would happen to Aura if it was her pet who was killed.
Therefore, Luca also insisted that Aura did not attack directly on the monster and focused enough as support only. That's because Luca doesn't want to feel the name of losing family anymore.
As pet Luca, those feelings were well synchronized in Aura's mind. Therefore, Aura understood very well what his master felt and finally obeyed Luca's wishes.
Luca also stepped forward to attack the monster. The monster responded by floating the large axe that became his weapon in the presence of the bully insects that blocked his pleasure in slaughtering.
Luca could only dodge the attack. The axe swing was too powerful for his current strongest weapon, the silver wolf fang dagger, to be able to withstand it. He was not sure he could use his moon scythe in his current condition while avoiding the swift and powerful swing attack of the axe.
The moon scythe is certainly the most appropriate weapon used by Luca today because it can absorb dark and death elements into his power. However, the use of the weapon will reduce the agility of its movement which is fatal to the decline of evade.
Of course this is a fatal weakness considering the very fast and powerful attack of the monster. Using the silver wolf fang dagger in the current situation was still a better choice.
“Ah.”
But instantly, Luca recalled that he still had one more weapon that was more precisely used in his current state: the weapon he obtained when completing the beginner dungeon quest, the light elemental dagger.
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Item name: light elemental dagger
Element: light
Rank: Rare
Durability: 3000
Strength: 40
Effect: neutralizing death and dark energy, 10% possibility of lifting the curse of necromancy and demons
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“This dagger is indeed much weaker than the silver wolf fang dagger, but the effect is suitable for use as the current state.” With resolution, Luca prepares to counterattack.