The Insider System

Chapter 228: Putting On A Show Pt.1

Lake wanted to know how they had been able to find him and since the fight hadn\'t started yet he asked. "How were you able to find me?" Lake had always figured he couldn\'t be tracked because of Trespasser but this might not be true since it said magic which might not include skills.

Trespasser (U) Lv.1

Magic can\'t be used to locate, or sense you.

"I\'ll answer if you answer one of my questions first." Lake had no problem with this since he planned to kill them, meaning anything he told them wouldn\'t go any further, plus he could lie. "Ok, deal."

"Were you the same person who attacked the base or is there more than one of you?" Lake could understand why they would be curious about this since it would help them plan to fight him and since he didn\'t care if they knew he told the truth. "There\'s only me. Ok answer my question now."

"I saw the flaming arrow and followed you when I saw you move." It was good to know that they had just used their eyes to find him and not some fancy skill. "Ok it\'s time to start the fight."

"No, wait one more thing. Would you be interested in joining our side? Even if it\'s just for the rest of this altercation we can offer you more than whoever you\'re working for." Lake wasn\'t surprised to get a job offer because he would try it as well if he had seen what he could do with a bow. It was too bad he had long decided to stay away from the Demon Lord because he was sure he would make more by working for them instead.

So like the last time he had been offered a position by them he said. "No thank you." With that out of the way Lake moved in on them at a speed slightly faster than a normal person could move with maxed Agility. This was his normal speed without any skills affecting how fast he was moving.

Throwing a punch at the Demon Worshipers stomach, Lake watched as they were able to get a basic defense up in time for his punch to land. This in itself was a pretty impressive feat and it meant this person had their Agility near 100. It made him wonder if this was the bigshot in this tier because how they were dressed Lake was pretty sure Agility wasn\'t their focus.

He was dealing with a mage that had their agility maxed or almost maxed so their intelligence would have been maxed for a long time. This would mean they were going to have some magic tricks up their sleeves that he actually needed to be wary of. Getting some distance from them because Lake decided killing them from a distance would be safer for him, Lake pulled out the arrow again.

Deciding he was better off not using the bow to launch it or any fire Lake just let it go flying it towards the Demon Worshiper. Lake didn\'t want to go over the top in this fight and to let it last a bit longer since this one seemed more important. He felt killing them in one hit would cause the other Demon Worshipers on the other floors to treat him like he was their top priority.

He was hoping he could keep that from happening for at least a few tiers. He knew killing everyone here was going to cause a stink but he was hoping they would underestimate his abilities if he didn\'t win this fight until there had been a struggle. He needed anyone watching to think they could beat him without sending everyone they had at him at once.

Lake wasn\'t stupid enough to think he couldn\'t be killed if someone hit him with a good sneak attack because once he was in a fight and The Sight was active he lost his only early warning that he was about to be hit. That\'s why they had been able to hit him this time because he was already fighting with his bow and The Sight had already been active.

Thankfully he was extremely tough because a few of his skills that made his Endurance act like it was over 100. He also had The Best Stat which made him take 90% less damage from anyone who had less Strength than him. This made the weakest part of him his armor which he only needed to cover his face when he was him and because his bag was part of his chestpiece.

He needed to upgrade again but he was pretty sure the gear at his level would be a lot more than he could afford if you could even buy it. He guessed it might be a good use of all the money the insider was making him gather once he completed his mission. He was sure you could get something good with 1,000,000 gold and with his connections to the Alchemist guild he should be able to find something to spend it on.

Dodging eachothers attacks a few times Lake saw that this fight would take as long as he wanted it to if he stayed at this level for a while and started to gather up some Fire Mana. They had seen him using fire with the bow so they might find it odd if he didn\'t use it during the fight and he didn\'t want them to be able to tell he was holding back.

Firing off some spells whenever he saw an opening Lake and the other guy fought like this for over ten minutes until they tried to open dialogue again. "My offer is rescinded, you aren\'t as strong as I thought you were. It seems you can only deal with large amounts of small fry and are almost useless against someone like me."

Right after they got done talking Lake felt something hit him in the back hard enough to send him flying towards the Demon Worshiper. When he felt his bag start to get lighter he knew he had just sprung a leak in his bag so he probably got hit with the same attack that had hit him earlier.

This meant this Demon Worshiper had some skill or spell that struck you in your back. It was probably their go to kill spell but it didn\'t seem to do any actual damage to him because he was still at full health. Stopping himself a few steps away from the Demon Worshiper Lake acted like he was in a tough spot and threw as many fire spells at them as he could without killing them.

Hitting them with a few of ten he launched Lake fell back without a problem only to be hit from behind again. Lake was able to stop himself much sooner since he had been expecting it but it seemed the Demon Worshiper noticed he didn\'t seem to be hurt at all. "I thought it was your armor keeping you from getting hurt. Do you have an Antimagic job, no that wouldn\'t make sense you\'re using Fire magic.?"

Lake also noticed something around the time the Demon Worshiper had started to talk his Ward Ring hadn\'t activated once during this fight which was odd since it was supposed to block magic. He guessed this settled the debate over if it was a spell or a skill. It also made him think skills weren\'t always considered magic depending on how they worked.

"It\'s a skill, it makes me invincible." Lake wondered what the odds were someone would actually believe what he had just said. "Oh, for how long though?" Lake smiled when he heard how sarcastic the Demon Worshiper sounded when he asked him how long he was invincible for. "Two more minutes."

After he said this the fight went back to how it had been with him getting hit in the back every few seconds. All his stuff had already fallen out so there was no harm in playing the part because he didn\'t have to worry about any of his stuff getting hit or destroyed with it laying on the ground.

There was also no difference to him if the entire back of his armor was gone since he had decided to get rid of it as soon as he found something else as soon as the first hole had been put in it. There was plenty of armor and bags here in the Metal Domain just lying around in the houses that he could take to replace the one he was wearing.

A lot of people here seemed to treat armor as normal clothes so most houses had a set just sitting in a bedroom so all he had to worry about was finding one that fit. A lot of the armor would belong to dwarves so at most he would be able to take the shoulder guards off of most of them other than that a lot of the armor would be too tight.