Psychokinetic Eyeball Pulling

Chapter 202: Tower of Dimensioners

Astrid wasn’t given the chance to care about what created the explosion above as whatever was currently leering at them vanished. It was obviously a shadow dimensioner, but something told Astrid this wasn’t the normal kind.

She had been in plenty of fights up until this point, so Astrid had a sixth sense when it came to feeling the differences in monster’s abilities.

The monster moved, tearing past her Matter field. Astrid, alongside the other ranged users in the party, blasted the air. The walls of the residential corridors were blasted apart, tearing them down, revealing the bedrooms of the previous hotel.

Yet there was no blood. No sign that the monster was wounded. It all happened in a split second, as the monster arrived in haste. It emerged. Like the other shadow dimensioners, this one was at least double in size, and had thick plated armour around its body.

With sharpened, black blades attached to its arms, it tore through the frontline.

Level ??? - Shadow Dimensioner Warrior.

One man belonging to Havel’s pirate group was bisected in two. It was about to attack again, but Havel roared. Twin axes in hand, his eyes shone a red hue.

Symbiote? Astrid thought, but shot down that idea in the next moment as she retreated down the hall to create space.

It was just a skill from a rare warrior class: the Berserker. Havel stomped in front of the monster, not letting it travel any further.

Unlike the other shadow lurkers, this one didn’t seem too bothered that it was no longer camouflaged. Instead, it proudly displayed its figure as it growled. A white glow emerged from the bladed edge of its natural weapons, then it dashed toward Havel.

If Havel wasn’t a Berserker, Astrid would have expected the unarmoured man to dodge, but he didn’t. Instead, he offered his bare chest to the blade, and bone, or whatever organic material the monster’s blade was; met flesh, and clanged against Havel’s bones.

A deep, carnage fueled roar left his mouth as his twin axes transformed into a blur. The dual axes smashed into the monster’s exoskeleton, sending sparks flying. His weapons tasted blood, which only seemed to make Havel descend into madness.

The battle raged on. Both primal beings were too stubborn, or too prideful to let the others help. Maybe that’s why Havel wasn’t fully in command, Astrid thought.

However, it was the maddened maniac that was coming out on top. He had chopped a limb off the monster warrior, and with it, compromised its mobility. A monster on an even playing field, once injured, the tides would turn.

Even without that, Havel would still win. He was too durable, and his attacks were too powerful for the dimensioner to win.

Havel seemed to have reached a damage threshold, as the red hue around his shoulders turned physical. From spiritual, to real fire. It blazed, tumbling the temperature to a peak. It stripped the wallpaper in the hall, or at least what was left of it, and it continued until it covered his twin axes.

In a blaze of movement, he dashed forward, disappearing. Axe blade met the monster's skull, and then swiftly turned into a wet crunch as it fell powerless to the floor.

Covered in wounds, each dripping with blood, yet he was at his peak strength. He turned around, and said, “We’ll pick up the speed, clear the floors, and reconvene with Noah. I don’t know what the hell that explosion was, but no-one in that group is capable of something like that.”

Astrid nodded along with the others. Just as Havel had said, they picked up their speed. No longer worried about mana conservation, Astrid made use of her vast amounts of mana, and regeneration, and began blasting.

Explosions rocked the hallways as they made their way up. The reason they didn’t just ignore the floors, and just head up without fighting, was that Havel was concerned about having enemies at their back. It was slower, but the casualties would be lower.

The higher they went, the stronger the dimensioners became. Everyone, including Astrid, had to be careful. They were stealthier, faster, stronger, and more durable. They were a nightmare of an enemy, but Astrid was able to deal with the weaker ones in one shot, while Daniel, and the others killed the stronger monsters.

You defeated a Shadow Dimensioner - Level 283!

You defeated a Shadow Dimensioner - Level 289!

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| Extra experience is granted for defeating an enemy many levels above!

You have Levelled up!

| Oculus Witch Level 202-> Oculus Witch Level 215

| Voidmare Level 202 -> Voidmare Level 215

You have gained 130 stat points.

| You now have 1916 Intelligence.

Finally, they walked into a hallway, and noticed a bunch of dead dimensioner corpses. They were brutally murdered, and enchanted ice covered their bodies. Some of them were even encased completely, like ice sculptures, their eyes were still open, staring in horror.

They must have witnessed the power of the strongest pirate king. Astrid thought.

“Come on, we’ve reached where they started.” Havel huffed. Not because he was tired, but it was a result from the numerous wounds that were scored into his flesh. “Now, keep up.”

His words finished, and he blasted up the staircase without so much of a look at the other floors. His destination was the explosions that rocked the building. And it was far.

Instead of running, Astrid levitated all the way up, faster than the agility users could climb the stairs. She was right behind Havel, and alongside her in the darkness was Brett who was shifting between the shadows.

Astrid couldn’t detect her shadowed friend no matter how hard focused on her Psych Domain. Brett was just like the shadow dimensioners, and that was most likely the main reason that he could detect them so well. He was within their space. However, when he looked back, Astrid’s neck tingled. A pair of lifeless eyes gazed into her soul.

She noticed the change in his behaviour ever since the jungle dungeon. Is it because of the shadows?

Astrid didn’t know. But whatever it was, it couldn't be good.

Ignoring the fact that her friend looked like an emotionless darkness demon, they were fast approaching their destination. Only for the walls around them to explode, sending broken bricks toward them like shrapnel.

Astrid immediately formed her Mind Barrier, blocking the hit without much problem. An indirect attack like shrapnel, or debris couldn’t possibly damage her shield anymore.

Using Psychokinesis, she pushed the dust cloud down. Her vision returned to normal, displaying a frightening creature.

It looked like a shadow dimensioner, yet this one was at least twenty feet tall, and what appeared to be a shadowed cape was attached to his back. However, the next second the cape hardened, and split down the middle. It wasn’t a cape; they were wings.

Fire flickered within two holes planted in its chest, and then the mana within the room turned into chaos as they funnelled into the holes.

“Get down!” Noah warned, and Astrid listened.

She didn’t dare attempt to block the hit. Instead, she forced herself back down the middle of the stairway. Freefalling, an enormous explosion ripped the building in half. Buzzing in her ears, the fighting seemed to continue. But it was only muffles amongst the shrill alarm scraping against her eardrums.

Grimacing, Astrid knew she had no chance of helping with that monster. Instead, she placed her focus on the monsters that were arriving from below, to the side, and above.

Thankfully, there was nowhere for them to hide in the narrow stairwell. Above, there were no stairs. The entire building was severed. Gone. Astrid didn’t know how, considering that the top should have fallen, but the evidence was right in front of her.

Astrid wasn’t able to admire the handiwork of the evolved dimensioner as her own opponents arrived. Standing on what was left of the stairs, the ranged users in her team fired their skills with no mana spared. Tripping against her Matter Field, they were able to see where the monsters were, and kill them.

Rob stood near the top of the stairs, shield at the ready as he blocked hit after hit. Losef, on the other hand, was currently near the bottom, covered in dust.

Did he fall? Astrid wondered, then, as if she could feel his anger, he squatted, and a beautiful pair of blazing wings sprouted out from his back.

Losef leapt up like a comet as he crashed into one of the incoming shadow lurkers. His fire spear tore through its body with minimal resistance.

Oh, so that’s why he was happy before? Astrid was right. Along with Brett, he acquired a new skill.

Astrid stood behind Rob, and although she had her own Mind Barriers, she focused on offence instead. The dimensioners were like insects as they roamed toward them.

Splitting her body, forming her clone, she channelled a void lance in her palm. The air groaned in protest, splitting, the purple spear formed far faster than all the previous times.

Astrid fired it upward. The purple glow was overpowering, drowning out any other colours in its surroundings. Splitting the air, it ravaged any monster in her path until numerous notifications entered her mind.

Finally, she had done it.

Milestone reached - 2000 Intelligence.