Chapter 19: The Tutorial - III (2/2)

The skeleton released a haunting battle cry before charging towards Merlin, sword drawn, Merlin followed suit Eventually the twosparks into the air The skeleton's face got really close to Merlin's, he could so from the skeleton'shis shi+eld at the skeleton, to which it broke away fro his attack, the skeleton's bones rattling as it ing the gladius at the skeleton oncethe two in yet another stale its shi+eld at Merlin,theand ducked out of the way in time

Merlin was at a loss of what to do, the skeleton was equipped with his equipher than him, so he couldn't overpower it

Merlin rushed the skeleton oncelocked into yet another staleer and thrust it at the skeleton's skull, wedging it into the skeleton's eye socket

It did an ale, and it didn't seem to have any adverse effect on the skeleton If anybody atching right now, they'd have the impression that it was overall a pointless action

Merlin pulled away from the stalemate once more, Merlin took a few steps back and quickly scanned his surroundings, his eyes narrowing in on a group of goblin corpses Merlin ran away frooblin corpses

Merlin swapped his sword to his offhand and quickly bent down to pick up one of the clubs Bludgeoning daards to skeletal creatures It dealtabsorbed bytowards Merlin, the htly faster than his own, so the monster ithin combat distance by the time Merlin stood up and faced towards it

The skeleton slashed down at Merlin with an overhead swing Merlin easily dodged it by stepping to the side and responded by atte to whack the skeleton's sword ared to force the shi+eld in the club's path, but the force of the blow sent it staggering for a h for Merlin to strike the skeleton oncethe skeleton's shi+eld arm to the rest of the body

The club connected and the shoulder shattered into tiny fragments of bone The skeleton's shi+eld, and the arly offended by this action, the skeleton released another harrowing battle cry before taking another slash at Merlin

Merlin parried the blade with the gladius in his offhand, and swung his club at the skeleton's face

The clubit further into the skeleton's skull, cracks formed on the blade, it see to an end

The sound ofechoed within the hollow skull, followed by the sight of cracks for on the skull itself as the handle was pushed in further

The club's blow had sent the skeleton tu it with his shi+eld and knocking it prone The skeleton atte its blade at Merlin in a futile attempt to defend itself, but its blade was knocked aith ease

Merlin stood over the skeleton, he brought the club down on its skull, sending h the skeleton was still alive and helplessly struggling, Merlin spent the next fewthis skeleton's skull with the crude club until it was a pile of bone frag, and a le played as a notification box appeared within his vision

「Congratulations, you are now level 1」