“One out of ten …” I mumbled, Irminsl floating effortlessly by my side in a dark circular room. In the middle of it, a tall undead swung his axe wildly, protected by very thick armour and quite tough flesh.
“Wow, you are even grading your own attacks now?” She asked in a stunned voice, clearly not expecting to be unsatisfied with myself. But yeah, I didn’t think my last attack was great.
I had stuck that demon from behind by jumping up a little and ramming my dagger right between the helmet and chest plate, but that didn’t seem to do much to it.
Instead, I had lost one of my two daggers in the attack as I failed to pull it out again.
Dropping down onto the floor like a wet potato sack, I felt the turbulent air above me as the axe swooshed past me at incredible speed.
“Louis! Do something!” Schwarz shouted angrily as his black sword clashed against the exposed armour, not even denting it.
“I’m trying!” Louis shouted back, strangely occupied with the few skeleton mages firing at us from above with ice magic.
“Go for its eyes! If it can’t see anything, it’s as good as dead.” I complained, not impressed by their planning at all. All they could come up with most of the time was ‘to bash it until it’s dead’.
“What? It’s protected by a visor? How do you want me to hit it?” Louis asked, clearly not thinking creatively. Sighing quietly, I evaded to my right as an ice spear was flung into my direction. Annoyingly though, Irminsul was hovering right there, showering my soul with heart wrenching pain right away.
“Why does this have to hurt so much?” I whispered a bit giggly, and retreated away from the axe swinging demon slowly. “Ellie, catwalk!” I swear I didn’t name that technique like this just because she was a cat girl. Sliding across the gravely ground a bit to come to a halt, I noticed the first barrier appearing right in front of me around my hip. It wasn’t there to protect at all, but rather to improve my mobility. Jumping onto it, I propelled myself forwards further until my feet touched the next barrier and I was basically hopping from one to the next in the air.
Her placement was horrible as she hadn’t really done that before, but I somehow managed nonetheless and stepped onto the second last one, a few centimetres in front of the boss of this level … or however they called that thing. Spinning forwards, my free hand touched the last barrier and I pushed myself off it a bit, my hairs nearly being cut by the axe.
Gripping the dagger as tightly as I could, I rammed it into the visor of the demon and used that as a handle to swing around and push my feet onto his back.
An animalistic scream erupted from its mouth, drawing even more small fry towards us. As he was trying to shake me off quite brutally by smashing his back into a wall, I didn’t have any other chance but to put my feet against the wall vertically and jump off him, landing right in front of the monster without any weapon in my hands.
“Another zero …” I mumbled quietly, and honestly quite shocked as the axe came swinging for me so soon. Once again, I ducked as low as I could, but that couldn’t save me another time. What did help though was the angled barrier, reflecting the axe off its course by putting its own life on the line.
“I honestly expected more of you …” Irminsul commented wryly.
“Try fighting when your body is sluggish, you can’t see shit and your ears are filled with cotton.” I said, pushing the ground to get way from the thing.
Thankfully, Schwarz and Ellie got its attention immediately afterwards by striking at his neck and his side respectively. Walking backwards warily, I soon found myself in the back line where Schwarz flung fireball after fireball at the mages who did have a surprisingly large amount of mana reserves. But luckily, Sofie took care of their defence with a big magical dome around them, serving as their barrier. Hopping into it, I kicked the legs of an approaching skeleton warrior, took his sword out of his hands and rammed the blade into its skull.
“Any idea?” I asked, looking at the vanishing weapon and skeleton in amazement. How they got matter to vanish was simply fascinating, even though nobody could explain why, or even how it was done.
“Can you bring Louis close to the boss? He might be able to do something by setting the inside of the amour ablaze.”
“And …” I said, right as the axe slammed into Ellie’s shield loudly, forcing her to kneel down from the pressure. “That’s a rather reckless approach.” I answered not happy to bring the guy who had the stamina worse than a dead snail closer to that thing.
“It’s the only chance I see. His armour isn’t penetrable from far away.” She explained, her shield shining brightly as it was hit by ice shards.
“Do it Lucy!” Ellie screamed from the front, slowly backing away from that demon. Sighing quietly, I took Louis’ left hand with my right and started running towards the knight once more.
“Step onto the barrier when I say so.” I told him a bit annoyed about being pulled into this fight. “Ellie. In front of his right knee!” I said and she backed up right away to prepare her spell. “Schwarz, restrain his left arm and Sofie? I need your help with this.” I shouted, still running towards that boss monster and holding up my left arm, grinning at the monster wryly.
Thankfully, he really let him provoke himself rather easily and and started swinging his axe from the left to the right. Pushing Louis a bit out of the way, I concentrated on the approaching weapon and noticed a bright light surrounding my hand.
Within milliseconds, a glowing gauntlet appeared on my hand, thankfully only irritating my skin horribly for the first few seconds. I constantly felt the need to scratch myself as I swung it downwards with everything I had, jumping up at the same time and pulling my legs towards me.
The gauntlet shattered right at the impact, leaving my fist with no protection at all as it crashed onto the cold metal which had its course already altered. Feeling three of my knuckles break right away, I smiled wryly and forced my mouth to remain shut, all while the axe embedded itself into the ground below.
“Barrier.” Ellie chanted, creating a glowing step right in front of the demon. Louis immediately used the chance he was given, jumped on top of it and placed his hand right on the knights visor.
“Flame thrower!” I didn’t know when shouting out the spell you were using became trendy, but he still did it. Flames appeared on his palm, shooting inside the creature and cooking it alive in its own cooking pot which was indeed surprisingly sealed up as no fire escaped the amour.
Slowly, the demon fell backwards, steam coming out of its visor and clashed onto the ground right away.
“We did it!” Ellie shouted out happily, right as the boss monster vanished, but she still turned around to face the small fries without issues.
“Well … that was surely a ten?” Irminsul asked curiously while I picked up my daggers right away.
“Do you watch any sports?” I whispered, scooting towards the skeleton approaching Sofie from behind.
“Football. Rarely though.” She admitted, floating beside my target and watched how I rammed by dagger into its spine and bisected it.
“… which you play with a foot, right?” I asked, curious if we were speaking the same language.
“Obviously? Otherwise it wouldn’t be called football, right?” She said, scratching her cheek amused.
“Yeah … so Louis merely stepped on a barrier and cocked that thing. That’s basically the same as hitting an open net from one metre distance.” I said, looking back towards him in wonder. He wasn’t bad … but he also didn’t progress as much as the others did.
“But he did give his best?” Irminsul asked, now placing her index finger onto her lips.
“Sometimes it is just not enough.” I said and strolled back towards them as they had dealt with all the others. Hiding both of my hands behind my back, I smiled brightly at them right away.
“Lucy! You were totally amazing! I never thought you could use barriers like this! You were basically flying! And these moves? No wonder you are so good without any magic whatsoever. How do you train that?” Train that? It was more like doing what I could to escape torture … and then it was because I wanted to get better.
“Train? Hmm … I’m honestly not training much. A hundred push ups, sit ups and squats and then a ten kilometre run. That’s all I do daily.” I said, even though that was a flat out lie. I simply didn’t have the time to do anything in that direction. Not that I needed though.
“All of you were amazing!” Schwarz girlfriend who had hid behind a rock the whole time. Well, I didn’t blame her for that though. She would get killed pretty fast otherwise … or maybe I should ask her to do exactly that, because she didn’t look very well from just looking at us.
“Thank you! But I think the star of the day is Ell-“ I started, but stopped as soon as Chloe threw up onto my chest.
“One out of ten …” I mumbled, Irminsl floating effortlessly by my side in a dark circular room. In the middle of it, a tall undead swung his axe wildly, protected by very thick armour and quite tough flesh.
“Wow, you are even grading your own attacks now?” She asked in a stunned voice, clearly not expecting to be unsatisfied with myself. But yeah, I didn’t think my last attack was great.
I had stuck that demon from behind by jumping up a little and ramming my dagger right between the helmet and chest plate, but that didn’t seem to do much to it.
Instead, I had lost one of my two daggers in the attack as I failed to pull it out again.
Dropping down onto the floor like a wet potato sack, I felt the turbulent air above me as the axe swooshed past me at incredible speed.
“Louis! Do something!” Schwarz shouted angrily as his black sword clashed against the exposed armour, not even denting it.
“I’m trying!” Louis shouted back, strangely occupied with the few skeleton mages firing at us from above with ice magic.
“Go for its eyes! If it can’t see anything, it’s as good as dead.” I complained, not impressed by their planning at all. All they could come up with most of the time was ‘to bash it until it’s dead’.
“What? It’s protected by a visor? How do you want me to hit it?” Louis asked, clearly not thinking creatively. Sighing quietly, I evaded to my right as an ice spear was flung into my direction. Annoyingly though, Irminsul was hovering right there, showering my soul with heart wrenching pain right away.
“Why does this have to hurt so much?” I whispered a bit giggly, and retreated away from the axe swinging demon slowly. “Ellie, catwalk!” I swear I didn’t name that technique like this just because she was a cat girl. Sliding across the gravely ground a bit to come to a halt, I noticed the first barrier appearing right in front of me around my hip. It wasn’t there to protect at all, but rather to improve my mobility. Jumping onto it, I propelled myself forwards further until my feet touched the next barrier and I was basically hopping from one to the next in the air.
Her placement was horrible as she hadn’t really done that before, but I somehow managed nonetheless and stepped onto the second last one, a few centimetres in front of the boss of this level … or however they called that thing. Spinning forwards, my free hand touched the last barrier and I pushed myself off it a bit, my hairs nearly being cut by the axe.
Gripping the dagger as tightly as I could, I rammed it into the visor of the demon and used that as a handle to swing around and push my feet onto his back.
An animalistic scream erupted from its mouth, drawing even more small fry towards us. As he was trying to shake me off quite brutally by smashing his back into a wall, I didn’t have any other chance but to put my feet against the wall vertically and jump off him, landing right in front of the monster without any weapon in my hands.
“Another zero …” I mumbled quietly, and honestly quite shocked as the axe came swinging for me so soon. Once again, I ducked as low as I could, but that couldn’t save me another time. What did help though was the angled barrier, reflecting the axe off its course by putting its own life on the line.
“I honestly expected more of you …” Irminsul commented wryly.
“Try fighting when your body is sluggish, you can’t see shit and your ears are filled with cotton.” I said, pushing the ground to get way from the thing.
Thankfully, Schwarz and Ellie got its attention immediately afterwards by striking at his neck and his side respectively. Walking backwards warily, I soon found myself in the back line where Schwarz flung fireball after fireball at the mages who did have a surprisingly large amount of mana reserves. But luckily, Sofie took care of their defence with a big magical dome around them, serving as their barrier. Hopping into it, I kicked the legs of an approaching skeleton warrior, took his sword out of his hands and rammed the blade into its skull.
“Any idea?” I asked, looking at the vanishing weapon and skeleton in amazement. How they got matter to vanish was simply fascinating, even though nobody could explain why, or even how it was done.
“Can you bring Louis close to the boss? He might be able to do something by setting the inside of the amour ablaze.”
“And …” I said, right as the axe slammed into Ellie’s shield loudly, forcing her to kneel down from the pressure. “That’s a rather reckless approach.” I answered not happy to bring the guy who had the stamina worse than a dead snail closer to that thing.
“It’s the only chance I see. His armour isn’t penetrable from far away.” She explained, her shield shining brightly as it was hit by ice shards.
“Do it Lucy!” Ellie screamed from the front, slowly backing away from that demon. Sighing quietly, I took Louis’ left hand with my right and started running towards the knight once more.
“Step onto the barrier when I say so.” I told him a bit annoyed about being pulled into this fight. “Ellie. In front of his right knee!” I said and she backed up right away to prepare her spell. “Schwarz, restrain his left arm and Sofie? I need your help with this.” I shouted, still running towards that boss monster and holding up my left arm, grinning at the monster wryly.
Thankfully, he really let him provoke himself rather easily and and started swinging his axe from the left to the right. Pushing Louis a bit out of the way, I concentrated on the approaching weapon and noticed a bright light surrounding my hand.
Within milliseconds, a glowing gauntlet appeared on my hand, thankfully only irritating my skin horribly for the first few seconds. I constantly felt the need to scratch myself as I swung it downwards with everything I had, jumping up at the same time and pulling my legs towards me.
The gauntlet shattered right at the impact, leaving my fist with no protection at all as it crashed onto the cold metal which had its course already altered. Feeling three of my knuckles break right away, I smiled wryly and forced my mouth to remain shut, all while the axe embedded itself into the ground below.
“Barrier.” Ellie chanted, creating a glowing step right in front of the demon. Louis immediately used the chance he was given, jumped on top of it and placed his hand right on the knights visor.
“Flame thrower!” I didn’t know when shouting out the spell you were using became trendy, but he still did it. Flames appeared on his palm, shooting inside the creature and cooking it alive in its own cooking pot which was indeed surprisingly sealed up as no fire escaped the amour.
Slowly, the demon fell backwards, steam coming out of its visor and clashed onto the ground right away.
“We did it!” Ellie shouted out happily, right as the boss monster vanished, but she still turned around to face the small fries without issues.
“Well … that was surely a ten?” Irminsul asked curiously while I picked up my daggers right away.
“Do you watch any sports?” I whispered, scooting towards the skeleton approaching Sofie from behind.
“Football. Rarely though.” She admitted, floating beside my target and watched how I rammed by dagger into its spine and bisected it.
“… which you play with a foot, right?” I asked, curious if we were speaking the same language.
“Obviously? Otherwise it wouldn’t be called football, right?” She said, scratching her cheek amused.
“Yeah … so Louis merely stepped on a barrier and cocked that thing. That’s basically the same as hitting an open net from one metre distance.” I said, looking back towards him in wonder. He wasn’t bad … but he also didn’t progress as much as the others did.
“But he did give his best?” Irminsul asked, now placing her index finger onto her lips.
“Sometimes it is just not enough.” I said and strolled back towards them as they had dealt with all the others. Hiding both of my hands behind my back, I smiled brightly at them right away.
“Lucy! You were totally amazing! I never thought you could use barriers like this! You were basically flying! And these moves? No wonder you are so good without any magic whatsoever. How do you train that?” Train that? It was more like doing what I could to escape torture … and then it was because I wanted to get better.
“Train? Hmm … I’m honestly not training much. A hundred push ups, sit ups and squats and then a ten kilometre run. That’s all I do daily.” I said, even though that was a flat out lie. I simply didn’t have the time to do anything in that direction. Not that I needed though.
“All of you were amazing!” Schwarz girlfriend who had hid behind a rock the whole time. Well, I didn’t blame her for that though. She would get killed pretty fast otherwise … or maybe I should ask her to do exactly that, because she didn’t look very well from just looking at us.
“Thank you! But I think the star of the day is Ell-“ I started, but stopped as soon as Chloe threw up onto my chest.
