volume 2 - Chapter 109 (1/2)
TL: Some important stuff that I want to talk about after the intro notes.
TL: As you know, I tl TSTBGAM along with TAS regularly. The reason why I tl TSTBGAM is mainly because I wanted something to distract myself from TAS ‘serious’ plotline. In the past TAS took just slightly more than 3 hours, because I didn’t really need to worry about the format of the skill names or search for continuity checks.
However, like I have explained a while ago, the time to TL has gone up. Not only do I have to make the sure the action scenes are making sense, I have to check the skill names in the past and (future) to make sure there’s no TL errors, squash redundancy lines and format stats descriptions. Now one chapter takes 4-5 hours.
As for TSTBGAM, the recent chapters are killing me. It used to be around 1k words per chapter, but it suddenly ramped up to 3.5k to 4.5k words. What used to be 2 hours per chapter, turned to 7-8 hours. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still fun to watch Sue making life miserable for a bunch of people, but I’m pretty much sitting on the chair without a break for that 7-8 hours.
For those of you who always wanted more TAS chapters, well, you’re probably going to get slightly more for the near foreseeable future. Note on PROBABLY, so don’t get excited.
In the mean time, I want to TL a R18 JP series (the series is probably targeted towards the female audience? Haven’t really read it…) that’s going to replace TSTBGAM. If I’m going to spend 7-8 hours to TL then I’ll want to do to improve my kanji dictionary instead.
How long will the hiatus be? Probably 1-2 months, with a freeze on donations too. Right now it’s at a pretty good point for me to stop because the plot won’t move till a few chapters later.
Finally, this chapter is brought to you by donators. Thanks for your constant support. Next regular update will be on next wednesday.
Chapter 109 – Looting the body and an accident
“Mana Arrow!” The Dark Bishop screeched as he launched it towards Brendel.
Brendel clenched his teeth and evaded the arrow by twisting his body, letting it slide across his chest. The h.e.l.lfire scorched his skin and he felt like his whole body was set ablazed. Even though there was damage done, the outcome was much better than having a few of his ribs broken.
[d.a.m.n it. Even though I was on my guard against the Dark Bishop’s Cast Invisibility spell, I still got damaged.]
In the game, the tanking professions would usually take this damage, but Brendel was certain that he would not get caught by it with his reactions and was not disappointed by his agility.
If he failed to evade it, then the next few attacks would be a set of combination spells from the Dark Bishop. He would not get killed by that, but would definitely suffer for the next few days.
[But this is the only time where I can get full solo XP, since the Nightsong Tiger and the others will probably rush to help me out. In any case, now that the Dark Bishop has failed, it’s going to be my turn for a counter-attack.]
Brendel leapt and immediately got behind the Dark Bishops’s back with another swing of his sword.
As he expected, the Dark Bishop flung his arm in an arc and allowed the black s.h.i.+eld to intercept Brendel’s sword, while a pile of black flames appeared on his left hand again.
[Although my attack only took 1/3 of the durability away, do you really think I can’t break your s.h.i.+eld of Darkness that only has 10 points?]
Brendel scoffed as he jumped backwards to avoid the second Mana Arrow. There was no need to be impatient.
The exchange of attacks took place during Brendel’s Charge ability. The Lizardmen realized their target had disappeared, and paused for a moment blankly before they started to search for him. When they spotted him again, they saw him attacking the Dark Bishop with a sword that was s.h.i.+ning brightly—
He had called out the Stats Window during his retreat, and raised Frontal a.s.sault to level five. At that level the defenses would be weakened by 10 OZ, and was effectively the bane of warriors who wore Heavy Armor as well as wizards with high level barriers.
Brendel’s sword started to vibrate intensely as the blade reflected the moonlight, and making it seem like it was clad with light.
The sword went in a straight line.
[Power Break, Frontal a.s.sault, activate!] Brendel felt as though all his strength leaving his body and poured into the thrust.
The results did not disappoint him. The Dark Bishop stared at his s.h.i.+eld which was breaking into a shower of fragments in great disbelief. That ordinary looking sword emerged past his abdomen and back without stopping, and once it did so, Brendel immediately released his sword and went behind his back.
When he did so, the Dark Bishop screamed loudly as excessive quant.i.ties of dark flames poured out from his eyes, nostrils, mouth and injuries. The strength of the flames which were more than ten times stronger than the Mana Arrow, caused Brendel who went behind his back to feel the Dark Element boiling in the sky and made his skin p.r.i.c.k painfully.
Burning life points and converting them into Mana. This was the last defense of any Elementalist. It could be used instantly, but only someone like the Dark Bishop was insane enough to use every bit of his life force to kill Brendel along with himself.
Brendel had suffered this suicidal move in the past so he made sure to avoid it. If he took that head on, he was most likely going to be dead or at the very least near death.
That well made Whitesteel Longsword was probably destroyed. Unless it was a magic artifact, most of the normal artifacts would be destroyed from the Mana Explosion. He was not even sure if there was anything going to be left from it.
He then turned around and smiled at the Lizardmen who were planning to surround him.
He felt that his smile was quite sincere and friendly, but the Lizardmen looked at him like he as though he was a horrifying monster. Even someone as strong as the Dark Bishop was killed by the youth in an instant, while they were just insignificant minions who would not make a difference in this battle. They could not help but look at each other with doubt, then quickly turned around and ran away.
Their actions certainly fit the actions that stereotypical bandits would make.
They were able to relish that the fact that the youth did not go after them. The truth was Brendel was actually in a weakened state. The combination of Power Break and Frontal a.s.sault had used up fifteen times the Stamina required to use a full swing. Even though he still had stamina remaining he felt quite exhausted.