Astral Online: Cursed by the Demon Lord to Become the Strongest Beautiful Girl, I Rapidly Grow and Dominate with Cheat Skills Despite Being the Weakest Profession - Chapter 35
Chapter 35: Those Immune to Poison
There’s supposed to be an announcement regarding Astral Online and us at the Prime Minister’s press conference, but there’s no time to watch it.
Sora checked the time and confirmed that the update was complete.
After finishing the data download with a high-speed wired connection, she logged into Astral Online with the fastest operation.
“??Whoa!?”
As the view switched, Sora found herself face-to-face with the sleeping face of a girl with jade-colored hair.
The distance was so close that they were almost about to kiss, causing Sora to feel a slight flutter in her heart.
However, she seemed to be in a deep sleep, and despite Sora’s presence right in front of her, she showed no signs of waking up.
Sora glanced around the tent.
It seemed that Kuro hadn’t logged in yet, as her presence was nowhere to be seen inside the tent.
Just to be sure, she checked the friend list and confirmed that she was indeed logged out.
So, Sora turned back to Aria.
Hmm, should I wake her up?
Aria was sleeping soundly with her head on a pillow and covered by an expensive-looking blanket.
The fatigue level that had been at about 40% seemed to be at 0 now.
While there was no real issue with waking her up, Sora hesitated, feeling reluctant to disturb her since she looked so peaceful.
“Still, when she’s sleeping, she really does look like a princess…”
As the daughter of royalty from two different races, her features were breathtakingly beautiful.
If such a beautiful princess existed in real life, she would undoubtedly be quite popular.
Thinking this, Sora muttered quietly to himself.
“…It’s such a strange game where even NPCs need to sleep to recover fatigue.”
What kind of artificial intelligence does it take to create NPCs that are so indistinguishable from humans?
Moreover, she undoubtedly has a clumsy personality.
Yesterday, she caused trouble twice.
Almost got killed by a skeleton once.
Tripped over tree roots and fell ten times.
Remembering their journey so far, Sora smirked as she looked at her sleeping face.
She might be a nuisance, but she’s a princess who keeps things interesting.
She has been diligently guiding her to recover the ring that distorts the barrier.
Her earnest attitude is quite admirable.
Sora loved people who took everything seriously.
Though Sora didn’t know what awaited them ahead, it was certain that things would be different from before and not easily resolved.
That’s why Sora made a vow to herself.
She would protect her.
As the strongest ?Enchanter?.
Suddenly, someone hugged her from behind.
“Whoa, it’s Kuro.”
When I looked back, the black-haired swordswoman who had logged in without me noticing was somehow clinging to my back with a slightly pouting expression.
She looked at her with a disapproving gaze, not even trying to hide her irritation, and questioned her.
“Sora, were you mesmerized by Aria?”
“Well, I thought she was beautiful, but what’s the big deal?”
“Hmph! Sora, you pervert.”
“W-What?”
Sora was puzzled by Kuro’s words.
Is just looking at a girl’s face considered perverted?
Was Kuro’s standard particularly strict, or did she have a face that made her look like that?
Either way, if Kuro found out she was bathing with her sister after changing genders, she might face an evaluation far worse than just being labeled a pervert.
Although she didn’t think she’d have the chance to discuss it, she decided to be cautious going forward.
With a bitter expression, Sora sent a party invitation to Kuro and then said, “I’m going to check outside!” before quickly exiting the tent.
“Wow, so bright…”
Stepping out from the dim tent into the bright light, Sora instinctively closed her eyes against the burning sensation.
However, she soon adapted and saw the forest landscape against the blinding white background.
“Looks like it’s daytime.”
Confirming the bright sun high above, Sora then scanned her surroundings.
No reactions from her detection skill.
She couldn’t see any monsters with her eyes either.
But the forest was unnervingly quiet.
It was her first time seeing the ?Forest of Spirits? during the day, and it was clearly abnormal.
The cause was undoubtedly the ?Leviathan? of the Great Disaster of Envy.
“I might not have much time to spare…”
Her detection skill now showed multiple new reactions that hadn’t been there before.
They appeared to be monsters.
Moreover, their forms didn’t match any of the monsters she had encountered in the forest so far.
Sora tried activating the ?Perception? skill, overlapping it with the ?Insight? skill.
Information about the enemies located 10 meters away flowed into her mind.
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?Leviathan Army?
?HP?: 500
A one-meter-long serpent.
A minion created by the Great Disaster of Envy.
Its hard scales reduce all physical attacks by half.
Its attack, ?Poison Breath? with 100 attack power, inflicts a level 2 poison status when hit, dealing 2 damage per second.
Weakness: ?Wind?
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…They have poison breath that inflicts status effects and reduces physical attacks?
They seem like a rather troublesome enemy.
Sora glanced at the tent.
Aria showed no signs of waking up yet.
So, she decided to assess the threat level of these creatures first.
The enemies use poison more potent than that of a level 1 ?Poison Bee?.
As a level 24 character with a newly acquired enchantment skill at skill level 20, they were a perfect opponent to test it on.
With that resolve, Sora used ?Sonic Turn? and disappeared from the spot.
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In response to Leviathan’s resurrection, the eggs that had been sleeping underground hatched.
Their bodies were covered in purple scales.
Toxic poison dripped from their sharp fangs, withering the grass and flowers that it touched as it fell to the ground.
What they were given by their mother upon awakening was the eradication of the wind spirits that had sealed her.
However, it was not for the sake of revenge.
The wind spirits have placed five powerful seals on the Leviathan, sacrificing a portion of their souls for each seal.
To restore her power, they had no choice but to destroy the physical bodies of the sealing spirits.
Thus, this is a battle for their mother, who is a ?Great Disaster?, to regain her strength and dignity.
“Now, let the minions that have hatched across the lands unite our power and restore our mother to her former position as a ?Great Disaster?!”
The small serpents could sense the presence of the wind spirits from the traces of the seal.
Fortunately, they sensed a presence close to the Wind Spirit Queen who is a key part of the seal.
If they could kill it, the seal might collapse all at once.
Thinking so, they prepared themselves.
And then, in the next moment…
??They were overwhelmed by a tempestuous sword dance.
“What… What is that?”
The cries of their kin echoed from ahead.
The most powerful ?Poison Breath? was all evaded.
Even the poisonous fangs were severed before they could bite.
Though they tried to overwhelm with numbers, but the storm’s wind blades cut through them all.
It was an unreasonable strength, truly like that of a ?Demon Lord?.
They’ve never seen a monster like this.
Don’t mess with us.
We’ll kill you.
Each time a blade was swung, It slaughtered one after another of the brave Leviathan Army that dared to challenge it.
And finally, the wind storm reached them.
A monster that effortlessly slays the minions of Envy.
When they saw its true form, they were so shocked they was rendered speechless.
“Impossible…”
What they saw in their sight was a single adventurer with silver hair.
?Silver?
To the inhabitants of this world who know the meaning of that color, ‘white’ is a symbol of the God of Creation. The closer a part of one’s body is to ‘white,’ the higher their status in this world.
And there was only one person in this world who had silver hair.
The Angel of Light, ?Lucifer?.
The leader of the angels who was defeated by the Demon Lord.
“Impossible! You were supposed to be dead!”
The commander of the Leviathan Army shouted and, together with his comrades, unleashed the deadly ?Poison Mist?. Unlike the ?Poison Breath? attack, the mist doesn’t deal damage directly but spreads deadly poison over a wide area.
There’s absolutely no way to avoid it.
She should definitely be poisoned.
All they had to do was wait, and they would surely be able to kill her.
One of his comrades shouted, “Did we get her?”
And then…
“Hmm, the combination of ?Status Ailment Resistance II? and the ?Status Resistance Boost? granted by Skill Level 20 is insane. Just stacking it three times cuts even Level 2 deadly poison by 100%?”
There stood a girl, unaffected by the deadly poison, as if nothing had happened.
Impossible, that’s the deadly poison of the Great Envy’s minions!
There should be no one on this starting map who could nullify it.
The monsters were so shocked that they froze in place.
The adventurer, who was acting more monstrous than the monsters themselves, smirked confidently, readying her sword enveloped in wind, and charged forward.
“This was a good experience, and it was great to learn that Leviathan’s poison doesn’t affect me. I owe you guys for that.”
With a brilliant golden light, the adventurer unleashed a ‘Four-Strike Attack’ and cut down every last minion of Leviathan, leaving not a single one alive.