Chapter 35: Misunderstanding


    Ractron hastily tried to catch up with Shinto. However, the disparity between his agility and with Shinto''s was big. He had ced most of his points into strength and only sparred a little for agility. As a thief, that was a stupid idea. Who knew what kind of thoughts ran through his mind at that time when he ced his stat points into strength?


    "Grrr! Stop moving around and stay put!" Ractron roared out as he used a thief skill, [ Speed Step ]. A sudden burst of wind flowed behind him as he pushed himself forward, quickly allowing him to close the gap between Shinto and himself.


    Shinto quickly noticed the oing attack and swayed to the side. Ractron''s attacks were too slow to the point it gave Shinto the urge to provoke him but he prevented himself from doing so as he continued with his trail of thought.


    ''Unless... I create a misunderstanding.''


    His eyes glinted at the thought. Quickly he nced over towards his skill list as he began taking certain aspects of the skills he had into ount.


    ''If it''s like that then I can use these skills... But how should I go about it?''


    His eyes narrowed onto two skills. [ Shadow Fields ] and [ Hallowed Crest ]. Two different types of skills. One support while the other an attacking ability. What could he do to create a misunderstanding with them?


    ''If I remember correctly... These skills share simr animation to Dark Cloud and Silencing Purity.''


    [ Dark Cloud ] was a ck mage skill, in which the user casts a cloud of darkness over towards an area. Anyone within the area which the mage used Dark Cloud on would be blinded. This was a good escape skill used by ck Mage''s when they wish to run away from the enemy or it could be used as a support skill for when they have party members.


    On the other hand, [ Silencing Purity ] was a priest skill, where the user sends a blinding light towards the enemy, along with that light was silence for up to five seconds.


    Both skills shared nearly the same effects and animation as Shinto''s [ Shadow Fields ] and [ Hallowed Crest ] skill. The disparity, however, was that Shadow Fields had a debuff and a buff on it and Hallowed Crest had a higher damage multiplierpared to the skill used by the dark mage and priest.


    ''So with that... I can let them think I''m either a priest or a ck mage.''


    This was a good thing for Shinto, as with this way of ying, he could now freely use his Shadow Diviner skills in public view and no one would think too much of it.


    ''But the problem is... Which do I choose? To fake as a priest or as a ck mage...''


    He thought to himself as he continued ignoring Ractron''s attempts in catching up with him. However, his attempts weren''t all futile, he was slowly gaining an advantage over Shinto.


    ''If I fake being a ck mage... Then I can only use one skill. If however, it''s the priest...''


    Thinking about the current situation as well as the usages, it was basically a no brainer.


    Shinto looked up at the thief slowlying into range with him. Quickly, he diverted his attention over to Frey, where he noticed her HP was dropping significantly. Frey was beginning to struggle against the assault of the swordsman and thief.


    Quickly, Shinto leapt forward as the distance between him and Frey shortened. While doing so, he prepared to use a skill.


    Chanting something, he began to turn to his status window where he murmured,


    "Put 15 points into Intelligence."


    Soon after, Shinto sent out blinding light over towards the thief who was constantly attacking Frey,


    [ Hallowed Crest ]


    The sudden light that protruded out from his staff quickly arrived towards the thief, [ Roron ]''s face as it collided with him. Enhanced by his day attribute and his increase in intelligence stat, the damage he dealt was almost one-third of the man''s health.


    "Argh...!" He yelled out from the sudden blinding light.


    In the next moment without any dy, Shinto shouted at Frey, "Frey! Hurry and take that thief down!"


    "Ahh...! Got it!" Frey who was targeting the swordsman earlier quickly switched her mark onto the thief who was silenced.


    "Oh no, you don''t!" The swordsman took notice of Frey''s target switch as he prepared to disrupt her with a skill. However, Shinto intercepted as he wielded his staff and sent a basic attack over to him.


    Following after, Shinto reached towards the front of the swordsman as he took the blow from his skill, [ Crossing Arc ]. A skill in which, the attack blows away the enemy with two arcs intertwined together. It dealt considerable damage as well as has a decent knock-back effect.


    Taken by the blow, Shinto was pushed back over towards the thief that was after him previously. Ractron who was satisfied with hispanions attack, followed up with a thief skill: [ Thursting Dagger ], which with his high strength, dealtrge amounts of damage towards him.


    Thebined forces of Crossing Arc and Thrusting Dagger quickly made Shinto''s health drop into a dangerous percentage, where he only had 20% HP left.


    Despite therge amounts of damage, Shinto endured. He had expected this when he took the blow from Crossing Arc, otherwise, if he hadn''t Frey would be the one to be the receiving end of the attack.


    Although he could use Shadow Fields instead to prevent the swordsman from being able to attack a target urately, he was a priest. And with being a priest, he could use Hallowed Crest, as well as Divinity Point.


    And although the skill animation for Divinity Point was unique, with Frey''s barrage of attacks on Roron as well as the two other members of the opposing party focused on killing Shinto, they would overlook the skill animation. Thus, he could sneakily use it to attack one of the two enemies in front of him and then regain back portions of his health from the damage he dealt.


    But currently, with his divinity gauge still regenerating, he had to stall for a little bit of time more. As soon as the thief had attacked him, Shinto quickly regained his bnce as he jumped back, going back with ying a game of tag with the thief. The difference this time was that the swordsman had joined in as addition of another case.


    "Get him! He''s almost!" The thief cried out as he chased after the dodging Shinto.


    "I''m on it!" The swordsman followed up with another skill attack on Shinto, however, he narrowly evaded it and kited with a mana spark from his staff.


    "Ugh...! Persistent piece of-" The swordsman angrily clicked his tongue as he hurriedly closed in on the distance between them. The moment he tried doing so, he had received a notification.


    [ Roron has died! ]