Chapter 124 - Zwahelios
It was always fun smashing around the beasts of the wave but this one was going to be different. I could feel it.
The difficulty level was in for a sharp incline but I didn't think it would be out of my reach. All the different Paths of Power that I had stepped down added up to a substantial differential between the beasts and me. It was a divide between normal E-ranks and ones who had stepped down every avenue. Well, almost every avenue. At least that was what I thought before the wave started.
What ended up spawning in created an oppressiveness that closed in from all sides surrounding the camp. A weight that started to close in on me. Even from as far away as I was, the feeling was clear. I was in for a fight, a bloody one.
The sun was high in the sky casting light down without a cloud intercept it, yet it somehow managed to get brighter than before. The light got so bright I had to squint to make anything out. The monsters were somehow producing it and it was focused on the walls lining the camp creating a nasty glare that I had to shield my eyes from.
With a bit of maneuvering, I managed to get an [Identify(C)] on one of the leading monsters and I was finally able to see what I was up against.
[Zwahelios: Level 50]
They looked like avian velociraptors. Well, more avian than normal velociraptors. The birds reached my chest in height but they were longer than they were tall. Bird-like beaks protruded out of their head with sharp spikes of teeth jutting out of their mouth.
Feathers led down their short arms and ended at their pointy elbows, accentuating the corner. Taloned feet thundered on the ground as the hundreds of Zwahelios closed in. Their tails counter-balanced them letting them run upright on two legs and were thick in both muscles and feathers.
Now that I was in E-Rank myself, the level and name of the monsters were no longer blurred or filled with question marks. The rank difference not being there let me see what was approaching clearly with the skill.
That was something I had meant to change but never had the time to get around to it. Upgrading the rarity of my [Identify(C)] skill would let me see more information than what I was being given and wouldn't fail when there was a high-level difference.
Some upgrades even gave insight into the stats of the thing being identified. Some went broader and gave more detail about what the thing was while others gave deeper insight into the skills a beast had. There were a bunch of different variations that [Identify] could upgrade into but I hadn't gotten around to doing it yet.
The same was true for picking up an [Identify Block] skill. While we were still in the tutorial I hadn't thought it was necessary. I knew, roughly, the people that were in here with me and what strength they held and they knew mine.