Reset: DPS to Support?!

Moving through the darkness of the caverns, Kiara silently appeared behind the back of the Nightcrawler Bats as she held up the dagger within her hands. Soon after, she effortlessly slit her enemies, swiftly bringing their health down to the red in one attack.

"..." Moments after doing so, her eyes glanced over to the bats that were beginning to surround her. However, she didn't care for the encirclement as she gripped her daggers and soon tore through the enemies in the red—turning them to grey ash.

"...wow," Shinto mumbled out in amazement as he noted the abilities of Kiara. Although he knew that the enemies were no match for her, he didn't expect that the level of their playing field was far beyond the margin. "Her combat prowess is overwhelming the bats even if they have the number advantage. Just what level is she?"

Due to the previous shadow diviner's protection on Kiara's stats, Shinto wasn't able to get an exact detail of all her abilities nor her level. However, given that the bats estimated level was around the 60s or 70, he reckoned that Kiara was shyly around the same level or much higher than that.

Though, even with that consideration, Shinto was still surprised by the fact that he had the ability to summon someone who was over level 70 at any time he wanted unless the cooldown was in effect. Despite being around the level of 30, he seemed to have the abilities, or presumably had the ability to borrow from those above his level.

"Hmm... Since the Blood Queen said that aid would come to help complete the quest, I guess it was natural that they'll be around the same level as this place," Shinto reasoned. "But even then... Was I supposed to be around this level to be able to summon Kiara and the Black Bird's Darkness?"

He pondered. There was a lot of ups and turvy during the past week in the game when he first became the Shadow Diviner. He wondered whether or not he was supposed to even gain such abilities at this level if it wearn't for his luck at stumbling upon places that were far beyond what he and his party could do.

"Perhaps I'm thinking thing's in a linear sort of way," Shinto tilted his head. "Since my progress in terms of my swordsman class was reinstated to the Shadow Diviner, I guess the growth of a class relating to Altric is fast so that you'll be able to catch up with the player base."

It was a reasonable thought to think of. It was in a way, unfair to lose one's progress that had been made throughout the years just for a class and then falling behind the player base whilst trying to catch up with them. Even though the class was considered top tier or powerful to be on par with higher levelled players, the fact lies that having to start all over because of a reset didn't sit well with many.

"..." Still on the line of thought, Shinto's eyes glanced over towards Kiara who seemed to have finished up her battle. In the next moment, he opened up Kiara's skill window as he began scrutinizing the abilities.

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[ Stillhoute Enshroudment Lv 2 ] [ 75 MP ] [ Cooldown: 5 Minute ]

The Shadow of the Serpent silently moves over to an area at a 10m distance whilst creating a shadow clone from within the darkness that stood in the previous place of the user for 33 seconds. While the clone exists, enemies are more than likely to target onto said clone if the user had been the main focus of attention during the usage of the skill. Otherwise, the user can freely change places with the clone at any time until the end of the skill.

*The shadow clone cannot attack and it has 32% of the user's stat.

*Skill can only be used while in the Shadow Serpent's [ Human Form ].

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[ Midnight Edge Lv 2 ] [ 40 MP ] [ Cooldown: 44 Seconds ]

With the moonlit night stored away within the dagger of the Shadow Serpent, the user leaps forward onto an enemy, quickly dealing dark physical damage of 230%.

*Skill can only be used while in the Shadow Serpent's [ Human Form ].

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[ Viper's Sting Lv 2 ] [ 75 MP ] [ Cooldown: 30 Seconds ]

Blessed by the poison of a serpent, the user silently reaps behind an enemy, quickly dealing physical damage of 175% whilst having an 80% chance of inflicting poison on them. If the target has already been inflicted by poison, the skill instead deals physical damage of 270%.

*Skill can only be used while in the Shadow Serpent's [ Serpent Form ].

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[ Serpent Mark Lv 1 ]

Under the guise of the Shade's Shadow, the Shadow Serpent may transform into two beings—the Serpent and the Human form. Upon switching forms for the 3rd time, the user cannot switch forms for the next hour.

*While the Shadow of the Serpent is in [ Serpent ] form, poison damage and movement speed are greatly increased by 50% and 20% respectively whilst enhancing the vision of the user to seek out prey much easily.

*While the Shadow of the Serpent is in [ Human ] form, physical damage and movement speed while in darkness is greatly increased by 30% and 40% respectively. Upon killing an enemy while in this form, [ Killing Instinct ] has a 30% chance of activating.

*[ Killing Instinct ]: Health is slightly recovered by 3%.

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Whilst viewing the four abilities out of the seven that Shinto could see and making continuous note of them, Shinto was soon interrupted as he heard a loud voice coming from his front.

"Master!" Kiara shouted out as a soundwave protruded out towards Shinto. "Watch out!"

"...?!" Shinto hurriedly turned towards the direction of the voice and soon to the attack as he quickly swayed himself to the side, narrowly dodging the attack. "The battle was still ongoing?" he was careless to think that the battle was done just because Kiara was here. He should've face checked the area before going deep into the thought. Though, he had a bad habit of doing so. "Ahem... My bad."

"No, no... I apologize. I hadn't managed to kill that last bat and it came running to you..." Kiara muttered out. "It seems that my abilities didn't catch his attention... Or perhaps he was trying to run away."

"It's fine. It was my fault for letting my guard down while we were still in battle," Shinto slightly coughed out. "In any case... Is this place cleaned out?"

"Everything's cleared out from what I can see," Kiara confirmed. "All that's left is... The Nightcrawler Bat King's chamber."

"I see," Shinto nodded his head as his eyes now turned to the wide-open area by the front of him. "Looks like we'll be greeting the boss far mini-boss far sooner than I thought."

Shinto wouldn't have known that there was a bat's den within the area if it wearn't for Minister Yer's cry for help. Though unbeknownst to him on the reasons as to why Yer went alone through the darkness and got caught up by the colony, Shinto didn't care as he only wanted to finish up with the quest that he had received from the divinity side, and what better way than to go to a den filled with monsters that could be easily done in by Kiara?

"These bats are nothing," Kiara stated. "But... For the monsters outside-" Whilst continuing on with her sentence, her words cut short as her dagger soon raised in instinct. "Master... Get behind me. There seems to be an intruder."

"...?" Shinto raised his brow in confusion. He had already scrutinized the premise, however, he hadn't found anything out of the normal. "An intruder...?"

"He seems to be invisible..." Kiara closed her eyes as her senses soon began with their job. "Ahem... Come out now or I'll force you out."

"..." Upon her statement, silence protruded out in the air. However, not a second later, a figure of a slime soon revealed itself.

"U-Uh... Hi?" The slime who seemed extremely familiar spoke out. "I don't mean any harm..."

"...huh? Minister Yer?" Shinto raised his brow. "What the... What are you doing here?"

"I haven't noticed until now due to the bats... But he seemed to have recently arrived here, or perhaps... He had been following us," Kiara clenched her dagger as she pointed it over to the trembling slime. "Speak. Why are you here?"

"E-Eek! Human! Shinto!" Minister Yer cried out. "I'm sorry for whatever I said, but please please please ask that woman to put their knife away! I didn't hear anything! I was just here by coincidence!!"

"Hah..." Shinto sighed. "You still haven't answered her question though. Why are you here? Shouldn't you be back with the group?"

"Well I could be asking you the same-" Minister Yer hurriedly closed his mouth as he saw Kiara raising her dagger. "Ahem... I'm here because... I needed to find something that I dropped before we arrived here..."

"Something that you dropped? Around a bat's den of all places?" Shinto raised his brow in doubt. "...we didn't go to this place yet though? In fact... This is the other passage we didn't take."