Skill Creation in the Fantasy World

Felix stood within the dome barrier summoned by the Elemental Talismans, blocking all the attacks from the Rank 3 Deadly Spider.

But from the continuous attacks he was facing, the five talismans were getting rapidly worn out.

'I should escape now!', was the only thing he could think of.

Without any hesitation, Felix used the skill that had saved him from many situations.

'Earth Swimming!'

His legs started to sink into the ground slowly, while he continued to keep his sword raised for keeping the barrier on.

As his torso reached the ground, Felix heard a cracking sound that made the colour of his face go pale.

'Oh fuck....'

The barrier covering his body broke apart into several parts when the Spider stabbed with four of its legs, and the five talismans floating around him started falling onto the ground.

"Whoosh!"

He saw the spider attacking him from four different directions with its legs, it had even opened its mouth to shoot its acid at him.

Holding the sword which could block only one of those attacks, Felix was in no position to even move from the spot as half of his body was into the ground and the other half outside.

As the four sharp legs loomed over his vision like the scythe of a death god, Felix became stunned to take any action.

The only thought remaining in his mind was the consequences of getting stabbed by the unavoidable attacks that he was facing,

Fortunately, a bright light suddenly engulfed the tunnel from behind him, followed by a loud shout.

"Radiant Lance!!"

The Rank 3 Deadly Spider froze in surprise as the several eyes on its body narrowed at the blazing light moving towards it from afar.

It only took less than a second for the monster to realize that its life was in danger, forcing it to fall back from its position as it stopped attacking Felix.

"KRIEIEEHKKKHH!!"

The spider screeched in extreme wrath as a thick concentrated rod-like arrow surrounded by pure white-colored mana flew towards it with accurate precision.

Felix, who thought he was about to die, felt a powerful force of energy arriving near him before he saw a glowing lance whiz past his right shoulder from behind and shoot toward the spider.

"What-!?"

The entire process took only a few seconds as Felix escaped from his imminent death and saw the spider being struck down by the powerful lance-shaped arrow of the light attribute.

"KRIEKHHH!!"

The Rank 3 Deadly Spider tried dodging the attack, but as if the lance had eyes of its own, it changed its trajectory during motion and pierced into the spider's body, cutting off two of its legs and a part of its left abdomen.

Turning around in confusion, Felix saw that half of his scouting team had come to save him.

With Sir Evan at the front, who was breathless, Roven looking concerned, and Selena....with a weird expression, the scouting team including the others hurriedly rushed towards him.

"Huff...Everyone! At your counter positions! Now!", Evan ordered while looking a bit pale after using 40% of his energy reserves in that one attack.

At his orders, everyone moved without hesitation, even Felix quickly recovered himself from the shock and stood at his position in a defensive stance.

The Rank 3 Deadly Spider looked at the damage it had received and glared at the humans that stood in a strict formation before it.

"Can you fight, Felix?", Evan asked seriously with a hint of concern.

He had wanted to ask the boy if he was hurt, but knowing it would demoralize the team and unsettle their nerves, he wisely chose his words differently.

Taking a deep breath, Felix eyed the monster in front of them with a grave face and narrowed his eyes.

"I can."

Selena who was standing beside looked at the change of emotions in his eyes and raised the corner of her lips. Explore stories on мѵʟ

'Interesting....'

She knew more than anyone how it was to feel yourself being one step closer to death, as she had experienced so during many of her lone missions.

Roven glanced at Felix in concern but didn't voice out anything as he knew the situation was tense.

"The spider is injured and all alone, but it's still at the Rank 3." Evan muttered calmly, "It has the Sharp Screech and Acid Rain ability which are dangerous. So be careful of it."

"Also, the Rank 1's do not need to participate in this fight.", he said as Felix furrowed his brows while the others let out a relieved breath.

"But I-", Felix tried convincing him when the man continued with a smile.

"Although I'll be counting on you, Felix."

His words made the boy pause, who then nodded with a serious face.

"Alright then. As soon as the spider moves, we split up. Rank 1s handle the rear and clean up the leftover spiders. The rest stick to the counter strategy. Understood?"

Everyone nodded gravely and acknowledged him as they stood fixed at their spots, waiting for the monster to make its move.

A few more seconds passed by as the two sides stood against each other in a standoff.

Seeing that the humans were not doing anything, the Rank 3 Deadly Spider couldn't hold itself back any longer as it climbed on the wall and advanced towards them angrily from the side.

"Now!", Evan ordered loudly.

Six out of eleven members of the team quickly turned around and retreated backwards.

Roven, who was among them, gave a last intense glance at Felix as he ran away, feeling dejected and helpless that he couldn't join him in fighting the spider.

'Why am I so weak....', Roven sighed.

On the other hand, including Evan, Selena and Felix, there were two other Rank 2 team members, a thin Swordsman named Leon and a muscular Shieldbearer named Keith, left to handle the Rank 3 Deadly Spider.

As the monster neared them, the five swiftly moved in tandem as they took a battle formation; Evan at the rear, Keith at the front and the other three in a triangular position in the middle.

"KREIKKHIRKK!!!"

Now that the huge red spider had lost two of its legs, it was slower compared to before when Felix had gone against it, but it had instead turned more crazier in return.

The spider crashed into their formation as Keith raised his shield to block, a glow appearing on his body as he was forced to take a few steps back.

Similarly, the three damage dealers followed right then as they rushed ahead and attacked with their weapons and spells.

"Dominic Chains!"

"Earth spikes!"

"Razor Strike!"

The joint attacks launched towards the spider were easily halted as it let out a sharp screech which blew them away.

"KKRRIIEHRKKKKHH!!!"

The earth spikes broke apart before they could emerge, the metallic chains were flung away and the sword attacks couldn't even touch the spider.

"What!?"

"No way..."

Selena and Leon were stunned speechless at the difference in power, while Felix remained silent as he glanced at the monster thoughtfully.

The spider stepped around in anger as it started attacking using its legs, all the while throwing acids in the air.

"Get away!", Evan shouted as the five of them separated to avoid getting shot by the acid.

After dodging the acid rain that could melt the ground by a few centimetres, the five of them moved about and surrounded the spider from different directions.

The Rank 3 Deadly Spider knew that Evan was the most dangerous among them, so it angrily jumped towards him.

"Attack!"

With the spider's attention diverting towards him, the other four made use of this chance as they rushed to attack.

But before they could arrive, Evan faced against the monster which had appeared right above him.

"Luminous Darts!"

Evan took out a few triangular objects from his pocket and scattered them around him, which upon landing on the ground shined in a bright mixture of colourful rays.

"KRIEHKKHH!!"

The spider having many eyes on its body screeched in wrath as it narrowed its eyes and paused for a second.

At that chance, Felix and the other three jumped upon it from behind, before unleashing their attacks on it as it had become stunned.

"Assault Impact!"

"Lunar Ironfall!"

"Razor Strike!"

"Shield Bash!!"

Four attacks from different directions were targeted on the spider's body which stood immobilised in its position.

Just as their joint attacks were about to land on the spider, they heard an ear-piercing screech that made their brains go blank.

"KKKRRIIKRKHHHH!!!"

The four of them felt a buzz ringing inside their heads as they suddenly paused in the air, unable to move their bodies as they fell down helplessly.

'Shit! We lost a very good chance!'

Felix gritted his teeth when his mind quickly calmed down due to his passive skills, as he maneuvered his body and landed on the ground, unlike the others who tumbled a bit.

"No! Get away!!"

Evan shouted anxiously all of a sudden, raising the tension in the air as the four reacted.

But before they could even move, two thick and long black legs of the Rank 3 Deadly Spider pierced through the air and attacked the two of them.

On the opposite side of the spider's two scythe-like legs stood Keith, the Shieldbearer, who had his shield always raised in defence, and then there was Felix who felt his heart pound faster.

'Fuck! Not again....'

As he eyed the pointy leg stab towards him, he hurriedly stepped back with an Agility Burst and cast a few Earth Spikes between him and the attack.

'Earth Spikes!!'

His efforts seemed to have worked as the spikes quickly emerged within seconds and made contact with the spider's leg, creating a small wall in front of him.

But before he could sigh in relief, his eyes widened in shock as the spikes shattered apart and the spider's leg pierced straight through it.

'Oh.....I remember it...',

At that moment while looking at the incoming attack, Felix remembered it was the same leg of the spider which had tried to kill him previously.

It was a ridiculous thing to be thinking about when you were about to die, but Felix knew.....that he couldn't do anything in that few seconds to save himself.

A clinking sound echoed in his ears before the spider's leg could reach him, and then something shined at the corner of his vision which quickly moved towards him.

"Swoosh!"

Time returned to normal as the spider's leg suddenly paused a few inches away from his chest, now with a metallic chain coiled around it which trembled to contain the attack.

"Ghah-"

Felix gasped as he looked at Selena standing behind the spider, who was struggling to hold onto her metallic chains which stopped the spider's attack.

He realized that she had saved him from death, while he couldn't do anything to save himself.

On the other hand, Keith had blocked the attack and rolled down back on the ground due to the force of the attack, but he didn't seem to be injured much.

The Rank 3 Deadly Spider saw that its attack wasn't able to hurt the humans, making it angry as it thought to go frenzy and attack them without any constraints.

Suddenly, the tunnel brightened and everyone including the Spider turned to look at the source of the light, where Evan was pulling back the string of his bow.

"Glorious Impact!!"

A huge sphere of dense white energy gathered at his arrow spot, which left the bow in a zap and flew towards the spider.

The huge sphere-like attack hit the spider who couldn't dodge the quick light-attributed shot, which pushed it off from the ground and hurled it a dozen meters away.

Selena who had let go of the metal chain breathed tiredly. Felix and others gathered around her while remaining cautious.

"Thanks....", Felix muttered gratefully as he stood beside her.

Selena paused for a moment and nodded, before she turned to look at the spider that had been pushed away from them, which gave them some time to breathe.

"This isn't working. We'll have to change the way we fight, or else we're going to die here....", Leon urged seriously.

Evan nodded with a grave face as he responded.

"I can severely wound that monster if I send another of my Radiant Lance attack. But it'll take time for that attack to get ready, until then you guys will have to keep it busy. Can you do that?"

They frowned upon hearing it, before reluctantly nodding as there was no other option left for them.

Meanwhile, Felix finally had some time to gather his thoughts and calm his mind, which started to think of a way to help their situation.

'This is it.....I'll have to create a combat skill now.'