132 Battle Royale Part 5 (1/2)
The Ratman had been fighting against the Fabled Midas all this time while the Sword Slave was waiting it's chance to benefit from their battle.
It didn't take long before the Sword Slave found an opportunity to hasten the defeat of this Ratman.
The Ratman, after being unsuccessful in utilizing a surprise attack by burrowing underground, changed it's tactics and was now using flight in order to avoid it's opponent's attacks.
Fabled Midas at least dealt some damage on the Ratman's scale armor. But this also meant that it exhausted a considerable amount of it's mana reserves. It now had to sparingly use it's magic spells while waiting for its Mana Stone to recover bit by bit.
This Fabled Midas was specially made to be a dedicated Mage-Type Automaton.
Flame Arrow!
Wind Blade!
Mana Explosion!
The Fabled Midas doesn't have a good close combat skills so it could only try to throw some spells to the Ratman whenever it tries to close their distance. But the Ratman can still avoid and take some spells head-on so the Fabled Midas had no choice to use Mana Explosion to gain itself some distance and to throw off the flying Ratman. But this Mana Explosion was a huge burden on it's mana reserves.
Although the Ratman can send projectiles or throw magic spells, the Fabled Midas has been dodging it everytime.
The latter doesn't possess heavy armor and only has a very thin defense as it heavily relies on it's Magic Spells. The Ratman, although balanced, has better chances of defeating Midas if it manages to destroy the brittle armor that this Midas uses. Unfortunately, the last Mana Explosion brought it very to close to where the Sword Slave was hiding.
Jun Richardson noticed this as well as he saw his automaton slicing down it's Mana Blade to cut apart this Ratman.
”A chance came! Ratman will now have to fight against Fabled Midas and Sword Slave.” Nina exclaimed seeing the opportunity for the Sword Slave.”
”Can it still avoid this?”
”Hold on... It managed to forcefully use it's flight ability to avoid the Sword Slave's attack! What a luck, but it wasn't completely unscathed as the Mana Blade still grazed on the Ratman's left wing. It seems that the latter could no longer control the flight trajectory! This won't end well!”
”That was very close for the Ratman... look where it will landed.”
Splash! The Ratman dropped at the center of the artificial lake as it could no longer control it's wings and continued flying until it's flight's power source was either exhausted or it's program decided to cut it off instead.
”Lucky one. It was still showing in our detectors that the Ratman was still active at the bottom of the lake. It may still have some chances later on if it persevere and be in the top three!” Nina announced after confirming it using their Mana Artifacts that was overseeing the whole fight. She was closely monitoring any signs of Mana Fluctuations whenever an automaton take a massive hit. In Turtleback Wolf's case, almost half of this automaton was obliterated so even if she didn't look on it, anyone could tell that it was done for.
Schneizel squinted his eyes as he noticed the excellent maneuver of the Ratman to escape its predicament. Not only did it escape from being taken advantaged by the Sword Slave, it even lead for the Fabled Midas to fight against this undamaged Sword Slave.
Yes, this Sword Slave hadn't engaged in any fight yet. Its first attempt was even dodged by the Ratman. Compared to the Fabled Midas who had shown all of it's skills in front of the unknown Sword Slave, the latter will surely gain an upperhand in this battle.
Sword Slave utilized all its movement enhancements magic spells and activated the Sharp Mana Blade as it pursued the weakened Fabled Midas.
Mana Explosion!
Ice-Fire Fog!
”Wow! It used the explosion's impact to gain some distance away from the mantis... and even added the fog to cover it's escape. What a quick reaction... ”