HDXD: Omni Harem System-Chapter 240: Suprise Attack

Moca's boots crunched against the wooden floor boards as she trudged back to her room, a small, curtained nook tucked within the cabin's modest looking but expanded interior.

Her breath puffed out in faint clouds, though the chill barely touched her thanks to the Heat Magic woven into the cabin's walls.

But as she makes her way back into her personal space.

She could not help but think, as she said to herself.

"I can"t believe the Prez was a Shinso monster this whole time."

She muttered, shaking her head.

"Guess that explains his power… and a few other things as well."

She slipped into her resting area, the faint creak of the floorboards greeting her. A simple sleeping bag lay in the corner, her only comfort in this spartan space.

Moca stretched, her muscles loosening as she began to unbutton her uniform top.

The cold outside was brutal, but she had long grown used to sleeping naked, a stubborn habit she couldn't shake.

Without it, sleep eluded her entirely.

"Rest is more of a luxury than a necessity for me."

She said to herself, as she continued to unbuttoned.

"But since the president is asleep. I might as well pass the hours the same way as him. Maybe tomorrow I can convince the Prez to hunting with me."

But as was about to finish, her fingers paused on the last button.

Her face went ice cold, the worry present on her face was evident.

But before she could dwell on it any further than she currently was, a familiar presence prickled at her senses, sharp and ominous, approaching the cabin from afar.

"Don't tell me it's coming here?!"

She hissed, freezing mid-motion.

"FUCK!"

In response to the upcoming danger, the shadow beneath her feet rippled, expanding like a pool of ink. In an instant, she sank into it, reappearing silently on the cabin's rooftop.

Snow swirled around her but didn't touch her, repelled by the faint shimmer of Kael's energy barrier enveloping area around the cabin.

Moca's glowing red eyes narrowed, locking onto the presence in the distance.

Searching for the being with the familiar surge of power.

And there it was, a towering figure, humanoid yet grotesque, with slug-like features.

Its elongated head and slender, muscular limbs gleamed under the chaotic aurora of the planet, that hardly bathed the world with any reliable light.

As it frame was radiating with an overwhelming surge of Blood Astrum. Behind it, an army of giant cryokinetic slugs erupted from the ground, their writhing forms stretching into the hundreds of thousands.

An invasion was coming.

Larger than any wave they faced before on this planet.

The creature's lips curled into a grotesque smile, its hands extending outward. A crimson magic circle flared to life, and a massive orb of blood began to form, compressing with terrifying speed at the casting point.

"Blood Magic."

Moca whispered, her voice trembling with urgency.

"Shit… shit!"

She leapt from the roof, her Astrum surging within her, blending with her Monster Energy, a radiant, pitch-black light that erupted outward, shattering the upper layer of Kael's barrier almost immediately.

Power coursed through her, thick and potent to the point of tangibility, yet harmless to those within the cabin.

With precise control, she wove her energy into a skeletal frame, rib-like structures encircling the barrier.

Six massive skeletal arms formed, wrapping protectively around it, until a towering, humanoid skeleton stood as a second shield.

It had no lower half, but it's ribcage surrounded the entire area.

For good measure, Moca raised her hands, summoning a series of intricate magic circles etched with multi-purpose Spirit Language.

As prepare to cast a spell to stop the incoming attack.

"Original Magic: Fade"

In that moment, Moca's magic circle flared to life, its intricate patterns pulsing like an artist's brush dipped in a pool of black ink.

The world around her, or rather, the barrier Kael had erected, became a canvas, swallowed by an all-consuming pitch blackness.

Light, sound, movement, thought, emotion, everything vanished, drowned in the void that her spell had create within the confines of Kael barrier like water filling to shape the cup within.

Even time itself seemed to halt, frozen in a great sea of nothingness.

Within this abyss, Moca's spell, <Fade> held sway.

All things ceased to exist, their essence suspended in the dark. Only Moca remained untouched, a solitary anchor in the emptiness.

Yet, in that ink-black void, Adam stirred.

His body, high resistant to magic's passively activating, as he shifted unconsciously in his sleep. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

Something tried to bind him, to drag him under, but his innate magic resistance fought back, a faint rebellion against the overwhelming tide.

Meanwhile, eight miles away, the grotesque humanoid creature raised its hands, its spell complete.

A crimson glow illuminated its slug-like features as it intoned with hoarse voice.

"Blood Magic: Fallout."

The orb of blood, compressed to its utmost limit, thrummed with the absolution of an abstract law of the universe.

This was no ordinary spell, it was an area-of-effect cataclysm, a force of pure destruction.

Without hesitation, the creature unleashed it, pouring half its gifted Blood Astrum into the attack to fulfill its mission.

BOOOM!

Fallout surged forward at Mach-12, faster than any modern jet, its sonic boom ripping through the air.

The shockwave parted the snow and sent lesser slugs tumbling backward, their forms scattered like leaves in a storm.

The attack carved a path of annihilation, obliterating trees and stone, erasing matter entirely.

It poisoned the Astrum in the atmosphere, tainting it like a supernatural plutonium core, radiating malevolence.

In mere seconds, the devastating spell reached its target, slamming into Kael's barrier with unrelenting force in that moment.

Astonishingly, the barrier held, for five fleeting seconds. The pent-up energy from the spell's casting battered it relentlessly, but the shield stood firm nonetheless as short as may had been, it serve it purpose to help slow it down a bit.

Then the spell law began to spread taking effect on the Energy Astrum with, like a creeping corruption that infected the barrier's Astrum like a disease.

The energy weakened, faltered, and shattered into a million fragments.

The first line of defense was gone, just like that.

Now came Moca's skeletal construct, a towering humanoid frame forged from her own Monster Energy.

Its six massive arms descended, seizing the blood orb in a desperate bid to halt its advance. Moca poured all her internal power into it, reinforcing the construct to keep the spell at bay.

But the feind spell was relentless, its power was a law of the universal itself. It clashed against her energy, destabilizing it, tainting the very essence of her race's power.

The strain was unbearable, blood seeped from Moca's eyes and mouth, her body wracked with pain as if stabbed by a thousand heated knives from every direction, bombarding her from within.

The infection surged through her manifested energy, racing back to its source. The skeletal construct shattered into oblivion, unable to withstand the assault.

As enemy spell seem to have the same effect on Monster Energy as it does with Astrum.

The blood orb pressed forward, striking Moca's final defense, her Fade barrier holding on with great power.

This was her strongest defense type spell she currently has, and it proved its worth.

As the orb entered her protective domain, time itself seemed to reject it. The attack's momentum ceased, its purpose unraveling, as it stop mid-air.

Its very existence faded, stripped of meaning, until it dissolved into nothingness.

The spell was gone.

And moments later Moca collapsed to her knees, clutching herself as pain seared through her body.

It felt as if she were burning from the inside out, every nerve screaming in agony.

"AHHHRGGAA!"

She cried, her voice raw, echoing into the frozen world.

"Shit."

She said, struggling to get up, as she commented.

"I burnt through all my Dark Astrum... Great, thankfully I still have two more of these."

She said taking something from her uniform skirt pocket, it was small pill.

But in reality it was drop of her father's blood.

Without saying anything else, she swallowed it, and almost immediately, a great surge of power flowed through her, as her Monster Energy instantly return, and the poison like effect she received from Fallout was cleanse.

Still her Dark Astrum was now empty, and that would not return, she could feel it. The Astrum I. The area was polluted with the same poison that weakness energy and corrupt it to the point it can kill you of you keep it in your body.

But before Moca could say anything else, she heard a familiar voice. One she has not heard in the last seven months.

[Feat Achieved: Protector of Cattles]

[Protector of Cattles: As a vampire, human are your main source of nutrients, yet you protected them out of genuine concerns for the weaker beings. As result you unlock a new Lore Ability]

[Congratulations you receive the Lore Ability <Mother of Barriers>]