Chapter 76 - INFINITELY REPLENISHING HP (1/2)

CHAPTER 76: INFINITELY REPLENISHING HP

Here it is, last chapter.

If you haven’t seen the other post, go and check the reason this is the last one.

Oh and, I changed “Sala country” to “Kingdom of Sala”, not that it matters much at this point.

Thanks for everything until now.

The words jumped right into the middle of our field of view and the machine like voice read it out loud.

Zelos (Grado Empire) & Jalousie (Grado Empire) vs Yumir (Kingdom of Sala) & Hind (Kingdom of Sala)…READY…FIGHT!

「I’ll crush you!!」 (Jalousie)

With a scream as if to erase the voices of the audience that were chanting 「Yumir」, the vanguard Shinto priest Jalousie rushed towards me as the announcement ended.

His weapon of choice was a big mace that he wielded on his right hand, for defensive gear, he had a metal armor and a shield on his left hand, quite the heavy equipment.

I had already told Yumir the plan before the fight started.

「You understood it right, Yumir!?」 (Hind)

「Yeah!」 (Yumir)

As usual, Yumir went to the front and I stood behind her at a reasonable distance.

Yumir intercepted Jalousie’s charge in a flash with her longsword, and a sharp metallic sound echoed throughout the arena.

Seeing this exciting clash right after the fight started, the excitement in the arena rose up.

「I’m your opponent!」 (Yumir)

「Nugah!? Damn you, don’t get in my way!」 (Jalousie)

While confirming that she was able to stop his charge like that, I stood still at that spot and charged my MP.

I glared at Zelos who was charging his MP like me on the other side of the vanguards…and it began when we both finished our chants.

「Shut him up, Yumir!」 (Hind)

「Crush her, Jalousie!」 (Zelos)

『Attack up』 and 『Guard down』 activated on Yumir at the same time.

He’s a dark type mage, so him using a debuff was something I already took into consideration.

Debuffs are not a status ailment so it’s not possible to recover from it with 『Recover』, but it’s possible to erase them with 『Dispel』.

However, since what he used was 『Guard down』 let’s ignore it, it doesn’t matter.

Let’s recover more MP and prepare for the next move.

「Nuoh, I’m automatically in a state of Act of Desperation!? However, I can use Act of Desperation on top of it! Uooooooooooooh!!」 (Yumir)

「Guh, gah! Nuuh, big bro! Use attack down first! This girl, her offensive power is on par with a heavy warrior! At this rate I’ll get hit and lose!」 (Jalousie)

「Calm down! Having both Act of Desperation and Guard down, her current physical defense is low! …In that case, I stop her movements!」 (Zelos)

Zelos used 『Slow』 on Yumir.

With the debuff, Yumir’s movements were about 2/3 slower.

「My body feels heavy! Ah, ah, and the damage I took from a single hit was really high!?」 (Yumir)

「Gahahaha! I can win, I can win like this! I can do it, big bro!」 (Jalousie)

Those two at the front are noisy…in her current state, with both 『Act of Desperation』 and 『Guard down』, her defense is at 30%.

If it wasn’t for the defensive gear that Selene-san made, Yumir would have already died.

However I did nothing, and patiently kept charging up my MP until it was close to full.

With that, I should have way more MP than Zelos, who had used 『Slow』.

Jalousie had already used a vanguard Shinto priest skill called 『Holy Shield』, that increased both physical and magical resistances, so it was quite hard to shave off his HP.

On the other hand, I compensated for it quite a bit with the skills 『Guard Up』 and 『Resist up』 that only I could use, so it will take quite a while until she becomes incapacitated.

Their strategy is to have the vanguard Shinto priest sticking close to the opponent and stacking debuffs on them, while the way they do it is different, the way they make it a battle of endurance is similar to ours.

Therefore, disrupting the opponent’s pace is key to deciding victory or defeat here.

Yumir’s HP drastically decreased and when Zelos started chanting a spell I used 『Shining』.

「-Tsk! Such impertinence!」 (Zelos)

The damage was minuscule, but I was successful in stopping his actions.

Then I started casting 『Revive』.

While I was casting it, Yumir and Jalousie continued exchanging blows, they continued moving in the space between me and Zelos.

「That chant is long…is it a big spell!? Jalousie, get out of the way! -Take this!」 (Zelos)

In an act of desperation, he shot the elementary spell with a short cast time 『Fire Ball』 towards me, but with both of them in the way, his aim was shallow.

I easily dodged it and cast the 『Revive』 I finished chanting-

「Supeh!?」 (Yumir)

HP 0, I used it on Yumir, whose body was falling from being hit by the mace’s swing.

Once I did, she didn’t fall on top of the stage, she stood firm on the ground with one leg and immediately counter attacked.

「The heaviness is gone…Taah!」 (Yumir)

Since she became incapacitated, the buffs and debuffs on Yumir were all gone.

Jalousie was unable to deal with the abrupt resurrection and change in speed, and took the swift attack directly.

Because of that, Jalousie’s HP was at 60%, however, he wasn’t given the chance to heal due to Yumir’s relentless attacks.

「Nuah!? W-Wait, I’m pretty sure her HP had hit 0…? Big bro, what’s going on!? Wasn’t it going to be fine even if we didn’t deal with the rear guard as long as we shut down the vanguard and interrupted the casting from the rearguard!? This is different from what you told me!」 (Jalousie)

「I-Impossible…you telling me…he revived her as she died…? It’s even faster than in the previous fights too…? For…for something like this to…」 (Zelos)

「B-Big bro…?」 (Jalousie)

Zelos seems to be confused, but the truth is, I was hurrying to make it barely in time.

I thought I casted it too early…however, I definitely can’t let that show on my face.

In fact, I’ll act calm and smile.

If they keep charging towards us in a hurry, it’ll turn into our advantage.

「-Guh, it’s definitely just a fluke! Jalousie, we are going to destroy them again!」 (Zelos)

「Y-Yeah!」 (Jalousie)

The casting time for 『Revive』 is long.

It’s true that usually if you defeat the vanguard, you’d be able to crush the rearguard easily, however that doesn’t matter if you predict the time they die and cast it on them.

It’s true that if you cast it too early, it would definitely lead to your defeat, but that’s another case.

Anyway, a single Shinto priest can’t do anything, so it’s enough to target them while barely making it in time.

In the interval they were focusing their attacks on Yumir again, I first used 『Healing』 on Yumir.

Furthermore, I erased the CD on 『Revive』 with 『Quick』, after that, I used 『Healing』 again since it has a short CD to heal Yumir’s HP a bit more.

I started chanting the spell before Yumir got incapatitated due to her tendency for kamikaze attacks to shave off Jalousie’s HP.

She’s filled with debuffs, so it’s about time she reaches her limit.