Strongest Superhuman System - Chapter 397

Chapter 397: These Skill’s Won’t Cut It
“If we win here, promise me you’ll have dinner with me.”

Eh?

Mark turned around to Luna with a raised brow, and Luna smiled at him while repeating herself. Mark was stunned by her forwardness, but he didn’t allow it to bother him too much. Mark had already told Luna that he didn’t want to do anything that would hurt Arit, so he knew that she wouldn’t push too much if he declined, but Luna already told Mark that she was not giving up on him. This was probably just another one of her attempts to get closer to him.

But who the hell would start asking for a date in the middle of a damn battle?

Mark chuckled at how easygoing Luna was right now, and he turned back to the battle as the monster roared again.

“I don’t know about dinner, but maybe we could get a McRonalds to celebrate! Let’s beat the shit out of this bastard!”

BOOM!

A loud sound echoed through the air as the eldritch sent a tentacle into the ground and slammed it into the spot where Luna and Mark were standing! Luna and Mark both flashed away from that spot faster than anyone could follow, and suddenly Mark was running up its tentacle! The eldritch roared in anger as it saw this, and it sent another tentacle at Mark, trying to throw him off its body, but an ice lance suddenly appeared from a distance and slammed into its tentacle!

BOOM!

SHATTER!

Luna clicked her tongue in annoyance as she ran across the pier! The ice lance was only able to divert the hit away from Mark, but she wasn’t able to puncture the Eldritch’s skin even with that much power. It was as if her ice lance was only a piece of chalk that broke once it slammed against the eldritch’s thick skin!

Mark immediately tried to activate his [Achilles Heel]!

[Achielles Heel] has been activated!

[Achielles Heel] has been forcefully deactivated!

[User does not possess sufficient stamina or durability to withstand this skill]

[Recommended Stats: Stamina > 5000, Durability > 4000]

[If the user activates the skill using his current stats, the user will lose his eyesight for [10] seconds. Does the user still wish to activate this skill?]

What the fuck is wrong with this shit!?

Mark was pissed off once he saw that message! What kind of skill doesn’t even allow him to use it!? Although ten seconds might not seem like that long, in a fight like this, losing your eyesight for ten seconds was one of the worst things that could happen! You were basically signing your death warrant if you allowed that to happen! There was no way Mark would survive against this anima if he couldn’t see for ten seconds!

Since Mark just used up most of his stat points before coming here, he didn’t have any points to add to his stamina and durability. Even if he did, why the fuck does Mark have to add that many points to stamina and durability!? In order to get his points up to the level that the system wanted him to, Mark would have to use up almost five thousand stat points on stamina and durability alone! Where the hell does the system want him to get points like that from!?

‘I’ve been so focused on strength and mana that I completely neglected stamina and durability recently! Maybe I should have put some more points in there!’

Mark knew that he had been neglecting his stamina and durability stats a lot. Mark hadn’t run into any situation that would require him to improve those two, so he didn’t think they needed improving for now. Mark had all the stamina that he would ever want. He hadn’t run out of breath in a fight for a very long time, and whenever he gets hit by attacks during a fight, he barely ever feels any pain from anything lower than a high-level calamity. As far as Mark was concerned, that had been enough for him, so he didn’t think he needed to add even more points to those two stats.

Mark realized that he would have to finish this battle without using the [Achilles Heel] on the eldritch monster. Either that or Mark could put Luna on the front line for a few seconds and just activate the skill while damning the consequences. No, that wouldn’t do. Luna isn’t a front-line fighter. Making her switch to the front right now when the monster was still at its strongest was like sending her out to die. I’ll weaken the monsters a little first, and then if I still can’t find out its weakness, I’ll put Luna up front so I can use the Achilles Heel!

Mark immediately forgot about trying to find the weakness of the monster for now and focused on trying to use another skill to get an upper hand against the anima.

[Demonic Killer’s Aura] has been activated!

[Due to the vast difference in strength, [Demonic Killer’s Aura] had failed to inflict fear on the opponent.]

[Void Slash]!

[Demonic Void Apostle’s innate skill [Void Slash] cannot be activated because the opponent possesses more than 50% of the user’s mana]

Mark was stunned by this message, and he immediately asked the system how much mana the Eldritch had. The system responded immediately.

[The opponent possesses 500% of the user’s mana.]

Five hundred!? This fucker has more mana than Luna!

What the hell is up with that? Are anima meant to have this much mana?

Mark was still racing up the eldritch’s tentacle, and the eldritch rose that tentacle into the air! It was going to slam it into the ground to try and crush Mark, but Mark had already predicted this, so he picked up the pace and jumped just as the monster was about to drop its arm!

Mark couldn’t believe how much mana that monster had! Even after using all those skill points and stat points to boost his properties, he still didn’t have enough mana to use the Demonic Voice Apostle. If Mark knew that this was how it was going to be, then he would have used those stat points on stamina and durability instead. At least that way he would be able to use the Achilles Heel right now. But it’s just like they say: hindsight is twenty-twenty.

Mark decided at that moment that he was going to start keeping points in reserve so that he could use them during fights in case of moments like these. If Mark had reserve points that he could use in a fight saved up, then he would have just used them to boost his stamina and durability right now!

ROARRR!

A loud roar from the Eldritch drew Mark’s attention back to the fight in front of him and Mark shook his head as he decided to forget all about the skills he couldn’t activate and he came up with a new plan on the spot!