BXBX NOVEL Chapter 828: Raging Selica
Chapter 828: Raging Selica
Selica threw her hand and grabbed his sword, exploding it in a burst akin to a grenade, shattering his wrist alongside the blade.
"You\'re the ones trapped with me." She quickly followed with a jam to the nose, blowing his head to pieces with a single explosive punch.
All the bandits panicked, "We\'ve got Jordan\'s protection! Swarm her!" A mage yelled as he pointed his staff at her, "I call a thunder of flashing light, strike from the clouds with magnificent brilliance." [Lightning Bolt] He unleashed his magic with a chant, aiming to kill Selica in a single strike.
Using a powerful explosion from her palm, Selica propelled herself out of the spell\'s path, flying at a bandit with a flying kick and hitting him in the stomach. As her feet had no spit, they didn\'t explode.
One of the bandits pulled his bowstring from behind everyone and sneaked a shot at Selica, hitting her in the back, but she immediately turned around and spat at him. For a moment, he thought that was an insult and was about to jump at her, but his life quickly vanished as the spit on his face burst into a blast.
"He was almost ten feet away from her!" A wizard cried, "She has range on that spit, close her mouth shut!"
Besides Mira, Roberta, and Tina, Selica was the weakest even though she had an innate magical ability. Her slime-like spit was highly flammable and volatile, exploding upon receiving and impact, after a certain time while exposed to air or when in contact with her sweat.
Besides the explosions and the durability to withstand them, she was nothing more than a normal woman. She had neither the strength nor speed to rival even C-rank adventurers; she\'d most likely lose to a random guy on the street if they fought without magic or her explosions.
The explosive creation of Sena, compared to her creator\'s powers, Selica is awfully mundane, this is what Selica thought her whole life.
She took a knife to the back and growled in pain. Since her back wasn\'t exposed to her explosions, it wasn\'t as durable as her forearms.
Selica ground her teeth through the pain and grabbed the bandit who stabbed her by his side, unleashing a crimson explosion at his liver.
"You bastards work for Jordan, don\'t you?" She shouted at them, taking a pained step back with tiny explosions crackling from her teeth and palms. The skin around her forearms had already begun turning purple.
"Less of work for him and more of sharing mutual benefits, we get to do what we want as long as we pay him a bit, and he\'ll provide us with safe land and healing magic." One of the bandits, a tall and thin man wearing old leather armor replied as he pointed his sword at her. "Your wound hurt, doesn\'t it? Surrender and we can spare some of that healing for you."
"Don\'t need that!" She growled, lunging forward with a clenched fist. He took a step back and swung his sword down, but she dodged to the side and punched his blade from the side, shattering it in an explosion. Due to how weak she\'s compared to most people, her strategy was to always charge forward, taunt the enemy to attack, and then counter, and for bandits lacking official training, this seemed to work nicely.
The bandit suddenly pulled a dagger from his waist and swung at her, cutting her across the nose. "Dodged it?" He smiled, "You\'ll be fun." He dashed forward with a closed fist, hitting her in the stomach with a gut-wrenching punch.
She wrapped her palms around his wrist with a grin on her face. "This is mining now." He tried to pull his hand away, but it was already too late. She blew his wrist into pieces in a fiery explosion.
The bandit screamed at the top of his lungs, and she lunged forward with a fist, "You\'ve had formal training, a deserted guard probably?" She punched him in the face, blowing his skill into pieces.
"Is she a monster? I\'ve never heard of such ability." One of the bandits called to the wizards in the back. It was indeed strange; the closest thing to what Selica was doing was the orange dragons who could breathe sodium, but that white dust only exploded upon contact with water.
"I don\'t know, but who cares? She makes explosions, just kill her." One of the wizards yelled. It really didn\'t matter when dealing with Selica as her ability was quite obvious and simple.
"She probably got in a freak accident with magic, or it\'s an ancient bloodline." Another wizard added as he pointed his staff at Selica, "I\'ll tell you later after I examine her corpse. For now, do as Liam said and kill her."
"What am I?" Selica looked straight forward with a puzzled face, the red glow in her eyes flickering. "That\'s right, there is none like me...I\'m lady\'s creation..." She started drooling and green mucus started forming around her wrists and head.
"I\'m her sole creation..." An explosion formed beneath her feet and propelled her forward. The newly appearing green mucus around her arms seems to be explosive and forming around her feet as well, allowing her greater usage of her explosive abilities.
Even though Selica looked like a human, she was far from that. Technically, she was created by Sena who mixed a rock and slime, bringing her to life with magic. She was a unique monster, what would be classified as a monstrosity, a horrid beast brought to life by magic. Now with her moving faster thanks to explosions, and with the bandits avoiding her bursts, she started running between them and punching anyone who got close, sending them flying into the small room. If she was a normal woman, ganging on her would\'ve worked, but since he\'s dangerously explosive, approaching her all at once was deadly.
Several bandits tried to pin her to the wall using their shields and the rest moved to the back to get ready to fire arrows and bolts. "We\'ll turn her into a pincushion."
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{Name: Selica}{Race: Selica}{Class: none}
{Level: 8/20}{Exp: 1200/48000}{Sub-class: None}
{Stats}
{Available stat points: 0}
{Available skill points: 8}
[Strength: 14] [Agility: 12] [Constitution: 16]
[Magic: 6] [Intelligence: 9] [Wisdom: 11]
{HP: 54/88}{MP: 42/42}{SP: 32/52}
[Volatile Slime] Selica\'s saliva contains a highly volatile slime that explodes upon impact or
by prolonged exposure to oxygen.
[Cartilage Skin] Selica\'s skin around her forehead, forearms, and fists has grown tough due to withstanding her explosions many times.
[Explosive punches: By applying her spit to her fists, Selica can punch with explosions, dealing 5-30 impact damage and 5-30 fire damage. One application last for three punches, doing less and less damage as follows; 3-18 on the second hit and 1-6 on the third punch.]
[Spit: By spitting on a target, Selica deals the full damage of an application at once, but will delay her next spit application. 9-54]
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Even though Selica\'s stats looked decent, the only useful thing she has in a fight is her explosive punches that deal a tone of damage, they hit with as much damage as if someone was punching with hand grenades. They could easily one-shot an unarmored bandit.
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{Name: Leon Lube}{Race: Human}{Class: fighter}
{Level: 12/20}{Exp: 1200/48000}{Sub-class: swordsman}
{Stats}
{Available stat points: 0}
{Available skill points: 0}
[Strength: 15] [Agility: 15] [Constitution: 12]
[Magic: 10] [Intelligence: 10] [Wisdom: 10]
{HP: 80/80}{MP: 30/30}{SP: 58/72}
[Sword Arts]
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Selica rushed at the bandit with closed fists, Left hook {54/80}, straight right punch {32/80} followed by a spit {0/80}, good night. She blew a hole in his chest. No one could approach her with such damage output, as anyone who got close was obliterated.
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Back in the dorms, Sena was sitting on her bed with a worried face. Selica\'s magic signal
slowly faded after she got out of the city and she couldn\'t track her from where she is. This had never happened before and she was about to go out looking for her.
DING! As Sena stood, a white flash appeared before her and a tall woman with pure white hair and glowing eyes stood there with a passive face. "Selica\'s stats are flickering."
"Aria!" Sena gasped, "Where is she? I need to get her back."
"She\'s in a demi-plane, I don\'t know who created it as the system wasn\'t used. I can forcefully
pull her here, but that\'ll probably cause a massive explosion at the demi-plane\'s entrance if
one exists."
"How big?"
"Wipe the whole city if it was near." Aria replied, "I\'ve come here as that option won\'t work.
But I have a suggestion for you, the one who made her."
"What can I do?"
"Finish what you started. Selica has some unused stat points, and since you are her creator
and the daughter of Cain, you should be able to empower her a bit, won\'t you?" Aria waved
her hand.
"I\'m not a god."
"Said the daughter of Cain, stop joking and get to work. Your cells are in her body, make them rapidly evolve and I\'ll do something about stabilizing her." Aria clapped her hands.
"Fine, I\'ll rip your wings off if she dies from this. It was my father who said she\'s too unstable
to grant any massive power."
"I and Cain are one and the same; she wasn\'t ready, but now she has a small chance to
survive." Aria replied with a smile.
"Father...I\'ll kill you if this doesn\'t work, I\'m not joking."
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Selica took several arrows and bolts and finally stopped moving, standing in place while
bleeding. Her vision rapidly faded and her limbs felt lighter and colder. She wiggled to the
side, dodging a sword swing like a drunkard, and punched the bandit in the face, sending his blood splashing to the wall.
She could barely hear anything from how many explosions she unleashed, and her arms had gone numb, the pain from her broken knuckles already disappeared.
Finally, a bandit managed to stab her in the chest with his sword. "For fuck\'s sake! Fifteen of
us died." He growled.
^Ah...this is it...I\'m dying...^ Selica was about to fall, the last thing in her head was Sena\'s face. Her hand moved, and she grabbed the bandit by the neck.
"I\'m not going alone," in a desperate move, she forced his head up and puked blood into his mouth, exploding his body in a flare of fire.
"She could still fight! Be careful!" A wizard shouted as he tried to charge a spell.
Selica screamed at the top of her lungs, her body spazzing and shaking violently as her blood splashed everywhere. On the ground, the walls, and the bandits themselves. Her human scream rapidly shifted into a deep beastly roar, and the whole room burst into an inferno.
What makes Selica\'s spit explosive starts in her blood before getting secreted from the saliva glands in her mouth.
As the bandits screamed, the whole room was consumed by explosions and inferno, Selica
grabbed one of them by the face. Her skin had turned black and cracked from the lack of blood and burns of fire.
Selica punched the bandit in the face and sent his burning body rolling on the ground. With all
of her stored explosives splashed across the room, she can\'t use explosions. But, every single
bandit was set ablaze.
Unable to use magic, let alone an expansion to take on a lot of enemies. Selica had used the room\'s small size as a barrier that kept the bandits together so she managed to coat them and everything in her blood, which resulted in an expansion-like hellish room where everyone was forced to fight her barehanded while burning as their swords and weapons are too hot to
lift.