volume 2 - Chapter 153 (1/2)
Chapter 153 – Breaking Dawn (6)
A metallic scream exploded in everyone’s ears. Brendel’s longsword smashed into Kabias’s battleaxe, forcing the Skeleton Lord back several steps before it managed to shrug away the attack. In order to balance itself, the battleaxe’s pommel was thrust deeply into the ground’s stone tile, while Brendel continued his charge into the crowd—
“What ability is that!?” The giant skeleton finally regained his balance after his body was arched backward, and roared with fury and surprise. The way how Brendel reacted to its defensive maneuver felt almost like he was seeing through everything; it was unlikely to anything else other than an ability.
“Something that will take your life away!” Brendel also regained his footing and yelled as he rushed back with his sword to attack Kabias’s flank.
But no matter how quick Brendel’s blade appeared to be like a flash of lightning which had descended onto earth, it was much too slow in Kabias’s eyes. It waited until the final moment when the longsword could no longer deviate from its path before Kabias’s torso slipped away. The latter’s foot landed onto the side heavily, sending dust and cracked stone fragments upward, its body rotating once with a heavy swing of its battleaxe towards Brendel’s body as a counterattack.
The single white line from Kabias completely changed in a single moment, weaving into an inescapable net.
“My lord!” The Elven Princess who was putting half of her attention realized the danger he was in.
Brendel had also realized the sword’s failed attack; it was too late for him to dodge the battleaxe—
But a miracle happened.
A slender figure of blazing flame streaked across the ground and burned into the crowd’s eyes.
A reverberation rattled everyone’s eardrums as metal met each other. The Spear of Lightning extended before the two fighters and cut across Kabias’s black battleaxe. The snaking fiery flame soon emerged as a girl with a red-haired ponytail trailing behind her. Her arms were trembling a little as she knocked away the enemy’s weapon, before falling into a stable stance with her hands gripping her halberd tightly.
Scarlett’s amber eyes were steady and calm.
Another thunderous clash rang out.
As it time was frozen in its place, Brendel’s sword had accurately struck across Kabias’s right chest; the rush of power erupting from Power Break extending itself into the blade and seeping into the ancient armor. The whirlpool of air in the skeleton’s chest broke its weak Aura Barrier, and cracking sounds echoed repeatedly in there.
Kabias felt three of its ribcage’s bones break before it was completely launched into the air from the impact.
[[[Impossible!]]]
Kabias, Scarlett and Medissa had this word in their mind when they saw this scene. The blade had clearly missed its mark because Kabias’s body slithered away, yet when the blade swung into its designated path—
Kabias’s body was still in its original position.
Brendel had swung with everything in his body to take advantage of Kabias’s momentary distraction. A line of white frost had followed the blade’s path and continued to a.s.sail Kabias even in mid-air, hurling it uncontrollably with countless rotations onto the ground. Meters of dust and soil were agitated as the ancient armor collided violently several times against the street’s pavement, before it finally stopped against a thick wall with a tremendous boom. A cloud of dust prevented visibility of its fate.
Brendel’s longsword cracked into multiple fragments and dropped onto the floor. He had forgotten about going after Kabias as he looked on with slight disbelief.
[I did not make a mistake by seeing things wrongly in this low-level ‘brawl’. I really did miss that attack, meaning there’s another reason why I managed to strike Kabias?]
He discarded the sword hilt and randomly took another sword out from a nearby fallen soldier. The ordinary swords were unable to handle his current power. He missed the Thorn of Light. Even though it was also a low-level weapon it was still a magic artifact. He sent a signal to Scarlett who nodded and they began to run towards Kabias.
The Skeleton Lord got up shakily from the wreckage. That attack could not be said to have given it a fatal strike, but its condition was far from optimal. Brendel had used Power Break on his attack, and there was no one in the Gold-ranked tier who could receive it directly on the chest.
It felt the armor’s dent with its hand.
Before the Skeleton Lord had a chance to complain about the ridiculous attack, it saw two figures approaching it; one red and one black.
[A good strategy, but you’re too slow to make it work.]
Kabias lightly tapped his feet forward a few steps before it leaped forward with the battleaxe rising into an uppercut to meet his opponents. The screeching metallic din pierced through the battlefield when it collided against two weapons, causing the nearby men to cover their ears subconsciously.
[Power Break!]
Brendel did not expect the Skeleton Lord to know this ability as well. When he reacted, Scarlett had uttered a groan and was hurled backward. The sudden shockwave reached him and he was also slightly knocked off his feet.