35 Chapter 36: Stuck (1/2)

”So, what's the plan?” Asked Serena

The death knight was preparing another orb to fire at any second, so I had to think of something quick.

”Honestly, we're already at a huge disadvantage by not having a priest, The only thing we can do now, is weaken it,” I replied

The two girls nodded at my reply

”I'll go fight in close and fight it, you two prepare strong range attacks to hit it. Weak ones won't have any effect.” I said

”Huh?! Are you crazy? That thing's strength is on par with A-Rank monsters! I'm sure even rose had difficulties fighting it!” Serena said

”I agree with Serena, I don't think you should enter his range. I can feel it from here, he's a lot stronger than the spider...”

”It's fine, I may not be stronger than Rose but I can use magic at close range, now the problem is his armou-”

I was interrupted by a bigger version of the previous fire Orb heading my way, it was twice the size of the previous one.

”Furtim, Velox!”

With Velox, I managed to propel the three of us to the other side of the room so that the blast wouldn't reach us. I also cast Furtim in hopes that he wouldn't notice.

”Anyways, That's the plan,” I said

I could tell that despite being invisible, the death knight could see or sense us. It didn't charge another orb instead it faced our direction as if it was waiting.

I deactivated furtim and descended to the ground along with Serena and Ariel

”If it gets too dangerous, We'll retreat. Velox!”

I put a lot more power on Velox and increased the wind pressure to increase the speed and distance of when it would propel me. After it was ready, I propelled myself straight at the death knight with my daggers at hand.

The Death knight who saw me coming pulled out his longsword from the scabbard on his back. The sword was shrouded in black flames.

While midair, once I was finally 3 meters away from it, I simultaneously swung both of my daggers diagonally at the death knight. He easily blocked both swings with his sword and with a single push, he sent me back 2 meters.

Despite being pushed back, I remained balanced, but I had lost all my momentum. Seeing it as an opening, the Death knight swung at me diagonally but I dodged it by taking a jumping back.

I was sweating heavily due to the pressure and with my gloves, wiped a bit of it off my face, In the corner of my eyes I noticed a bit of red on my gloves.

”Blood?” I muttered

I hadn't been able to completely dodge his swing. If I was a second slower I could have died.

”If I keep holding back, I might die. I'm not sure I wanna kick the bucket yet so...”

I looked over at the death knight and he stood there as if he were waiting for my next attack.

”Triple Cast: Ignis, Glacies, Ventus.”

”How about we start round 2?” I asked as I lept at him.

I swung my right dagger vertically and he parried it by swinging his sword. The parry made me lose balance and sent me back. Faster than before, he took the opportunity I had lost balance to slash me in the air.

The moment he was about to swing his blade, I propelled one of my ice spikes at his shoulder. He easily broke the spike by swinging his fire sword, the swing was heading straight at my head. Before it reached it, I Propelled myself straight to the ground and aimed at its open torso

I propelled all the of the Spikes, blades and flames I had remaining at his torso in an attempt to blow him off, but because of that, I was open. Before my attacks reached him, he had already swung his sword vertically at me.

Death, that was the only word that could come to my mind. I was confused as to how he could change the directions of his swing that fast. As his sword was aimed with the intent to kill me, approached my head, I could feel time slow down once more.

Even if time had slowed down, there was nothing I could do. I was going to die.

As I saw his sword, slowly get inches closer to my head, I noticed him slow down after getting hit by my magic barrage. A small frozen hole was formed on his chest-plate and I could see his magic core inside of his skeletons rib cage.

The second he slowed down, A thought went past my head. 'Not yet', and at that moment nearly all my magic power subconsciously burst out as if it were trying to protect me. Everything within my radius was frozen.

The death knight and his sword were completely frozen. A split second later, A Flaming Wind Spear came flying out of Ariel and Serena direction and pierced the Death right in its core.

The core's colour changed from red to purple and the glow in its eyes died out.

Seeing this, I let out a relieved sigh and walked up to Ariel and Serena.

As I got closer I noticed that both Ariel and Serena had tears flowing down their faces

”Idiot! I thought that you were going to die! I told you that it was a bad idea!” Shouted Serena with puffy eyes as she lightly punched me

”I thought we weren't going to make it...” Said Ariel as tears continued to flow down her face

”Hey, It's fine, you were able to make it and that's all that matters,” I said

”Only because you managed to freeze it. Since when did you have a spell that strong?” Serena as she wiped her eyes