Chapter 290: Ch 293: Reaching the Depths
As soon as the infiltration started, one of the UR grade blesseds used his ability to create a barrier around everyone. This man who was responsible for this barrier was Mark and his ability was quite powerful if used properly.
He was not included amongst the top UR grades of the world because his ability was not really good for fighting along. But in a group, especially if that group had powerful people, his ability was broken.
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So what his ability did was to create a barrier based on the total combat power of his team. As for who he could consider to be in his team, the people needed to directly tell him that they were willing to join his team and had to think positively about it. Only then Mark would be able to create a super strong barrier.
So the people who were a part of his team this time around were all super strong and all their combat powers were off the charts. So the barrier he was able to create was also extremely powerful.
Actually this ability had a limit to how many people Mark was able to consider to be a part of his team. That was why Rein was limiting the numbers by this much. Actually he wanted to bring a few more powerhouses but if they could not join Mark's team, he would not be able to cover them in his barrier and that would be too dangerous. That was the reason why Rein restricted the team size to only be this much.
After getting covered in Mark's strongest ever barrier, all of them continued going deeper. They knew that this area was at the heart of the danger zone, so the will was definitely able to see them. So even though a huge number of monsters were trapped at the frontlines, Rein and his team were still definitely going to face hordes of monsters who were still in the backline.
Just as they expected, as soon as they started going deeper inside, many bug monsters started to appear before them. And the way they were attacking, it was clear that they were trying to buy time. The sense of danger that Rein was feeling started to get stronger and stronger at a rapid pace. From this Rein guessed that after this started their infiltration, the will of All Chaos had increased the speed of whatever it was doing.
Rein immediately told everyone about this so they all decided to not waste their time on these weak bugs. So while getting protected by the barrier, they all started to run toward the deeper areas without paying much attention to the bugs. While rubbing, Rein and Hana released a few area of effect attacks to clear some of them but nothing more. This did not affect their speed of progression at all.
Then after some time slightly stronger bugs started appearing which were resistant to heat and cold. These monsters were barely able to survive Rein and Hana's attacks because of their specialisation so they were not able to clear their path as effectively as before. Then Kasumi came to help them and with her mind controlling ability, she had no trouble in controlling these weakened monsters and ordered them to move out of the way. That was how they were able to keep progressing without slowing down too much.
But as everything was looking for them, a needle suddenly hit their super powerful barrier that had managed to withstand all the attacks so far without any problem and a crack appeared on it. Soon everyone noticed the monster who was responsible for doing it. It was a small bee like monster whose stinger was three times larger than its own body. This monster was also not alone and it had brought a large army of bugs to stop Rein's group.
This time just going away while believing that the barrier would keep them safe was not possible, so everyone engaged in their first proper battle. As no one was doing the battle in one on one nature and everyone was going all out, in no time, all the bug monsters including the bee with strong stinger were eliminated. Rein's group did end up wasting some of their time on this incident but it was not that big of a deal.
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After this first major battle, everyone continued their expedition. For the next hour, no monsters attacked them which was very surprising but instead of worrying too much about this, Rein decided to push on with his fastest speed and tried to cover as much distance as possible in this span of time.
But they also stayed cautious for the whole time as there was a high possibility that the will of All Chaos was doing this to make them to lower their guard and it could take advantage of that. But still in the absence of all obstructing monsters, Rein and his team did manage to make a lot of progress.
But that advance did not last for too long as very soon, a large group of monsters attacked them again. And this time there were several super powerful monsters who were leading a massive army of weaker bugs. From what Rein saw, he guessed that the Will of All Chaos was trying to send all its available forces to take care of Rein and his party.
Even in the face of this massive threat, no one was scared. All of them got ready for an intense battle. Not only did they all need to defeat all these monsters, they also needed to do that without spending much time. That's not all and everyone was feeling that their abilities weakened significantly. Most of the people here had resistance to this weakening as their skills also depended on other factors which were not weakened. But still this lessening power of the ability made the battle even harder.
After a five hour struggle, finally Rein and his team came out on top. Rein was the one who was most injured in his fight as he was continuously using own body to prevent others from getting hurt. He was doing that not because he was a masochist but because with his self regeneration ability, Rein believed that he was the most suited person to take the role of a tank or defender.
After this battle everyone was very tired but they did not have the time to take any rest. So immediately they continued going even deeper. Then finally after just half an hour, they finally came across an area that was giving off a terrifying feeling. Hana immediately told Rein that she was able to feel the presence of the will of all chaos from that area.
So everyone became extra cautious and entered the super terrifying zone to finally come face to face with the Will of All Chaos and to see what it was trying to do.