Chapter 126 - How To Survive A Reaper Queen First Half (2/2)
I didn't fall for her taunts. She likes to taunt a lot and once you get taunted by her words, she will shred you to pieces without a second thought about it.
As the attacks of the queen get harder to deal with and each defends no longer works as my Health Bar is slowly decreasing every hit she makes, I have to make a distance from her.
Flicking my spear, I transformed it to a Hook and Chain to use it as a grappling hook before my shield disappears completely. As the hook and chain materialized, I throw the hook to the ceiling and attach it to the scaffolding and let it pull myself up to the ceiling, avoiding the Queen's barrage of attacks. Of course, I am not safe above. It is only an evasive maneuver and not something I can exploit to attack her as she can easily take down flying foes with her chains.
”Ha! Do you think you can escape? That isn't possible for me!”
She waved her scythe upward and heavy black energy materialized and came out from her scythe, it quickly flew towards my direction after it was fired from the scythe. I barely dodged it due to the large area of damage it inflicted on the ceiling. Anyone who didn't know about the structure of the palace would think that the ceiling will collapse but someone who is very familiar with it like me did not get shocked when I saw the broken ceiling restructure itself back to its former appearance.
After dodging that, I jump from the scaffolding and changed my weapon into the magic sword, and ignited it using the [Flaming Sword] ability. She turned around and blocked it off with her scythe before deflecting me.
”Ugh!” I was sent flying and crashed to the wall, reducing almost all of my HP. Thankfully, not all of my HP got drained. Before I was able to move, she appeared and raised her scythe. Her scythe extends and it became a toothed maw of blades before it fell down to its target.
I quickly went off from where I crashed and dodged away before pulling out a potion and drank it, allowing me to regain my lost HP. The problem is that my armor has already reduced half of its durability and one more similar attack will reduce all of my armor to dust.
”Are you sure you are a Pioneer sent by the goddess? From the looks of it, you are far too weak!” Queen Tanya said while sighing.
”You are just too strong for me to compete, your majesty. However, I am not going to go down without a fight. Even if you try to beat me down, I am not going to just stay still and die! My life and my reputation are at stake here!” I answered while gripping the Versatile Weapon.
”Heh, I like that determination! Then, be sure to survive for another five minutes because I will be unleashing my full power!”
A pop-up appeared again and this time, the questline updated.
Pioneer's Responsibility
[A Pioneer's Task II]
Type: Pioneer Questline
Objective Updated: Survive the Attacks of Queen Tanya[Unleashed] for five minutes.
Penalty: Upon your Death, Queen Tanya's Friendship rating will drop to -100 and the next questlines will be set to Nightmare difficulty.
I almost want to curse hearing what she just said and smash the pop-up that appeared before me. Her full power is enough to obliterate a whole army of enemies and she can easily destroy the Raid Boss with her attacks. I have seen it personally and that is not a scale of power I can easily compete with. This might be the longest 5-minute gameplay I might experience in my whole life.