Novel Boss
Chapter 127: Well, That Was Hell
"Aaaah...well they're weak, very weak indeed. Fire might work, but I don't want to burn the whole building down. Do you have something in mind Miracle?" said James suddenly, the little girl was looking at her father with blank eyes.
James shook his head and then asked, "Ummm, Nemesis...I can't say the others are trying to help me much, do you have anything in mind?"
After a few seconds of waiting, a message from the person he had been waiting for appeared in front of him:
[Pure power. You don't need an element or anything else. The reason you can kill the first Weeping Angel you come across is because you find the spot on the statue where your soul exists. So you were lucky enough to land an attack on the spot that could partially break the statue. Be careful, just because you killed one, you'll be fighting against dozens of them, not just one].
After Nemesis' words, James paused for a few seconds and then asked, "But how am I supposed to find the point where I can break the statue?"
[They're statues, James, are you crazy? You will feel the presence of the mana that binds the souls inside, it's as simple as that.]
"Huh...So that's it..." James said and then nodded and stood up, took out a bottle of water from his inventory and after drinking it, he cut the door of the terrace floor and entered back into the building.
He could hear the rattling coming from the lower floors, still chilling. On top of that, he could hear them getting closer and closer:
"THUD!"
"THUD!!!"
"THUD!!!!"
"THUD!!!!"
"THUD!!!!!!"
The sounds were getting closer and closer and with it James' heartbeat was increasing insanely, it was like a combination of fear and adrenaline, thanks to his Calm Mind ability James was alive right now and he was sure of it himself, he knew that what he had to do now was to stay calm but it was not that easy.
In other scenarios, he could dodge the monsters he was facing, or rather he was fast enough to dodge them. The Goblin King, Fallen God, and the like were all able to avoid him in one way or another, but not this type of monster.
Weeping Angels could break his neck when he wasn't looking, and without him even realising it. The creator of the Weeping Angels would have been shocked to see what had happened, these perfectly frightening beings with the ability to send him back in time, only to be turned into killers.
Still, James knew he had to remain calm, he had somehow managed to get his breathing back to a fairly normal pattern.
Once he was sure that Miracle was resting, he slowly waited where he was. His eyes were closed, trusting his little girl Miracle.
"THUD!!!!!!!"
An enormous number of too-heavy sounds echoed in James' ears again, and then a single normal voice reached him.
"THUD!"
James was completely sure that when he opened his eyes, he would see one in front of him.
He opened his eyes quickly and then he saw the statue that had managed to come right in front of him, with angel wings but with a facial expression even more horrible than the devil, and dozens of statues standing behind it.
These statues were truly frightening as they moved down the stairs, dozens of them standing where they were, most of them with their faces covered.
James suddenly added the magical energy in his body, the mana itself, to his eyes. The world he saw began to change, he could see the spirits of the beings in front of him.
The spirits standing inside the statues were screaming, they seemed to be begging for help, James could feel all the hairs on his body standing straight up.
He began to see the mana traces, the locks, standing on the statues. Glowing with a blue light, James chose to use Selene's Throwing Knife instead of approaching them with Clarent.
After all, even if the stairs were not very narrow, there were quite a lot of statues, he needed a large area to make his slashing attacks, and he did not want to do anything wrong, the attacks had to be precise.
James took a few steps back and leaned his back against the door to the penthouse, then threw out the knife he was holding.
"CRUSH!!!"
There was a sudden burst of average sound and James saw the spirit in front of him fade away with a smiling face, the statue shattered into pieces and then vanished into dust.
"Well...That was flipping cool!" James said suddenly, he was out of breath but he was sure it was the adrenaline in his body, all his fear was gone.
"Miracle, tell me when you can't take it anymore," said James and then one by one he began to attack the mana points of the statues in front of him.
Each time he could see the laughing spirits being released and the statues crumbling to dust.
He quickly descended the levels, releasing as many souls as he could. Occasionally he would let Miracle rest and they would take turns destroying the statues.
They had reached the ground floor after almost 15 minutes, and James and Miracle were exhausted.
The two stopped for a few seconds and listened to the sounds around them. Neither Miracle's superior senses nor James' hearing could hear anything, it was as if all the Weeping Angel statues had been destroyed and the spirits inside had been released.
"Thank you Nemesis, I don't know what I would have done without you."
Then he realised that the door of the building was opening with a thin sound, and James, who walked towards the door after this ear-splitting sound, realised that there was no problem and passed through the door.
[Congratulations!
Congratulations on cleaning the 13th floor!
You have earned 500,000 gold for fast clearing!
Since the level gain is blocked on this floor, you earn 1000 gold per soul you release!
536,000 gold!]