Chapter 259 - Battle For Blood (VI) (2/2)
Kazuki's screams echoed in the arena as the [Spear of Heavens] rain down the arena. As for me, I didn't hesitate to run around and remember the position of the [Spear of Heavens]. They might be big but they are not homing missiles that will follow and kill me in the process.
DANG DANG DANG DANG DANG
The arena immediately got filled with the [Spear of Heavens] and the place barely have any place left to stand aside from the area surrounding around Sigma. Sigma didn't look surprised when I came out unscathed from the rain of [Spear of Heavens]. She just remained there standing with her stoic face.
As for Kazuki? Well, his body is now crushed into a meat paste by the [Spears of Heavens] after the [Heavenly Chains] keep him from moving at all. It was an unfortunate event for him really, but with Sigma as an enemy, I don't think he even has a single chance even if he managed to defeat me and fight Sigma alone.
”Holy sh*t! Sigma-chan is just standing there menacingly while ravaging the whole arena with her [Spears of Heavens]! One of the contestants already fell from the battle which means our third placer is none other than Kaisar himself! It's unfortunate that he didn't make it far from the battle and it barely started but I can't complain about it especially since he got squashed real good from the skill and he was previously battered by Bladeheart earlier, making him a lot in lower health.”
”But enough of that, everyone looks! It seems like Kaisar is the only one who suffered the assault! Bladeheart managed to avoid the hurdle and came out unscathed of the [Spear of Heavens] assault! He did the impossible! I mean, even I would have died from that assault! The arena is full of the spears that there are barely anywhere to hide and dodge it!”
The emcee is not wrong but that is not a problem for me who has survived much more difficult situations incomparable to this which is not even that hard. It may be hard to dodge them all but it's not impossible. That is just quite an exaggeration, to be honest.
I know Sigma won't bother moving but I will make sure she will have to move away from where she is standing. I pointed my forefinger to her and activated one of the spells I bought just for this occasion.
”[Defense Down]”
Sigma who is just standing there without doing much felt the strange feeling on her body. But due to how insignificant the effects of [Defense Down] to a player who has an overwhelming defense, it's not a big problem for her. However, that is not the case for me. A small debuff is enough to at least make a bigger way to penetrate her defenses.
After the [Defense Down], I immediately went towards her location. As expected, she is going to face me head-on. And that is fine!
I quickly attacked her with a flurry of strikes from my Magic Sword. And as expected, even though the mace is a bit tad slower compared to the Magic Sword with a bit higher speed compared to a normal sword and is a bit slower than the fastest weapon which is the Katana, she managed to catch up with all of the strikes perfectly. Too bad that even if she managed to stop the basic attacks I did, it didn't stop the debuff of my weapon from activating.
The effects logs in my interface are showing fast messages that Sigma has been inflicted some debuffs.
And before Sigma can understand what is happening, she grits in pain and has to stop defending after the effects of [Corrode] proc and affected her body.
Corrode is technically a combination of Defense down+Poison+Curse. It persists and not only does Corrode become annoying, but it is also troublesome since it can even render the defense values of your armor useless as it will slowly degrade your armor during combat. Once Corrode is gone, your status returns to normal of course but this one is harder to get rid of unless you have someone like a cleric in your team or if you are a paladin yourself who has a self debuff cleansing ability.
Also, there is no class that has an ability to inflict Corrode since Corrode is a debuff that was previously exclusive to be used by the enemies. It was the first time for me to be capable of using it.
Too bad for Sigma, Holy Knight might be the combat variant of Paladin and Cleric combined but it lacked the debuff cleansing ability the two classes have. The Corrode debuff will have to stay until the very end of the battle.
”Eek!” Sigma was sent flying and landed on one of the bodies of the [Spears of Heaven]. The immovable Holy Knight that managed to terrify many players and managed to defend a whole kingdom against the assault of enemies has finally moved away from where she stood.