Limitless by John Gold (best e reader for android txt) 📕

Idzumi’s laughter. Yes, the keeper of the portal is having as much fun as a kid playing one of those old shooters. But right then, he takes a hit from a club wielded by a giant who, judging by his musculature, dumped all his attribute points into strength.

As Idzumi flies through the air, he throws up a magic shield capable of blocking anything. But he lands right in the middle of a group of expectant space mages. They open a reverse protective dome, erecting four stationary mana storages and local gravity enhancement, at which point magic attacks begin to rain down on the spot where Idzumi fell into the trap. Nobody notices, but in this moment a cat appears on the cube and instantly switches into a semimaterial battle form.

Kiir, Malik the Only (Eye of the God), non-level, non-rank

 

Almost invisible, the cat dashes toward one of the magic weapons. And as soon as he gets close enough, Idzumi teleports over to him. Okay, so the cat can function as a portable teleportation device. Idzumi’s pet then switches to a different form, in which he starts hurling bolts of lightning at the weapons and their operators. Just a couple attacks are enough take out each of them. The cat moves so quickly that he can only be hit with charges and area spells.  Lightning spells can’t touch him in his current form. I check on that myself. The residual charge sizzling through the air is enough to kill all three of the players chasing him.

Idzumi moves around the same way I do. Moving above the earth with enormous speed, he kills all living things in his path. A werewolf dashes after him, even managing to knock him down. And while it takes Idzumi just a second to dispatch his assailant, it’s long enough for six cherub blades to bury themselves inside him. Wait, we found a second Akashi to convince the angels to join the battle? The keeper’s health bar drops to 30%, and he loses his right arm. Again, he’s pinned inside a reverse force dome; again, he ports over to his pet. But right then, the two of them are caught together in a diamond fortress that creates a kind of Earth Magic prison. The four transparent walls, as hard as diamonds, are just the beginning of the well-designed trap. Light mages blind the opponent, water mages fill the box with water, and the gods build a seal in the air to bring the whole of their combined power to bear. A Brynhildr spear is the perfect choice for an opponent of that caliber. The bolt of light slams into the diamond fortress from above, only stopping when it hits the ground. The second part of the spell creates a small area where everything is incinerated by Light Magic doing maximum physical damage. This phase continues for as long as there’s still charge in the spear.

The diamond walls let light through, meaning they don’t take as much of a hit as a nontransparent material might. Quite a few players die during the second phase, while the survivors see the dead body of Idzumi’s pet lying where the strike hit by one of the corners. There’s a small crack that, judging by the trickling water, has been there since the beginning. It looks like the poor thing tried to escape the trap that way. But where is his master? We find out the answer to that question when a red mist forms over the body of the cat. It spreads so quickly that, ten seconds later, it’s engulfed everything, forcing me to switch over to my magic vision. Part of the mist compacts into the form of Idzumi. His health is a quarter of what it was thanks to the gods working him over, though he’s already starting to regenerate himself. The arm he lost appears suddenly. Wait, how? He didn’t use a healing spell! Cellular instability? His body grows slightly smaller, proving my hypothesis. Basically, he sacrificed other cells in his body to create an arm, the red mist having something to do with the process.

But the excitement rippling through the crowd doesn’t last long. The portal keeper drains health from the players, using the mist as a vampire conductor, and activating that ability stops me from being able to see him with my magic vision. But that doesn’t stop the gods. Everyone starts to fall back from the area where Idzumi is hiding, and rushing out after them earns him maximum Fire Magic and Mind Magic spells. A mental hammer leaves a hole in the mist. Soon, the keeper’s health starts to drop, the mist serving as both his strength and his weakness. Idzumi quickly realizes that he’s been discovered. But the fact that he’s running blindly around the circle means that the mist is blocking his vision, as well, though he can still sense the players. As soon as the mist collects in one place, he fires away with Space Magic, pinning everyone against the stone ring. At this point, groups of saints start to join the battle. Several battle formations combine their spells to control Idzumi’s movement and whittle away at his health, and this time, he can’t teleport away or hide in his dead cat’s body. A minute later, he’s dead.

Global message: Interworldly portal unlocked

Greeting ceremony for humankind beginning in 9 minutes and 59 seconds… 58… 57… 56…

Global message: Tenth astral layer unlocked

 

Something changes in the magic field. Right above it, groups of different creatures start to appear—draconids, ancients, dwarves, elves, humans, humans, humans. There are far more humans than anything else, making up at least thirteen of the twenty-four groups. And they’re all at least as strong as Krash! They’re weaker than death, weaker than the devil, but still much stronger than any of the other players here. They’re different, too. Their strength isn’t the same as ours. It looks much denser, which means that our traditional means of evaluating opponents have always been