Episode 52.9 (1/2)
With the activation of <Leg Bands of White Devil>'s Grace, Lecan teleported within the melee range to Carrion King.
He swung down <Sword of Toron>.
Magic doesn't work on this foe, but physical attacks will probably go through.
It should be dead once its head is crushed.
However, Carrion King vanished as Lecan's sword hit empty air futilely.
Lecan turned around.
Carrion King stood further apart from him with a mana thread connecting its fingertip to Lecan's chest.
(What?)
What is this skeleton doing anyway.
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(It's draining my mana!)
(This thing's even able to suck mana off humans!)
Lecan furiously moved to the left and right, but of course that did nothing to the mana thread.
(No!)
(My fighting power's gonna get reduced to a pulp without mana.)
(No way to stave off more attacks in that state!)
”<Gaspario Raaf>!”
Lecan recited a spell.
(Did it work?)
However, Carrion King only tilted its head.
Could it be <Talisman of Darkness Demon>'s Grace get sealed, that thought crossed Lecan's mind, but that was probably not the case. The Grace did activate.
The Grace which is <Living beings within 20 steps distance will stop moving for ten inner heartbeats after activation>.
This skeleton probably does not fit the 'Living Beings' condition of the Grace.
Lecan raised his sword overhead once again and attempted to recite a spell.
”<Zoruas Kurt>”
Then the Carrion King suddenly warped right in front of Lecan. Something flew out of its open left palm.
Aimed at Lecan's raised right hand. The only part that was free of his heavy armor.
Pain ran. That flying object dug into Lecan's right hand.
Carrion King's opened left palm is missing its index fingertip.
It just shot out its fingertip.
Lecan lost a bit of momentum but he continued to swing down his sword.
Right before <Sword of Toron> crushed its bizarre head, Carrion King warped away.
Back in the back of the room.
However, Lecan couldn't give a chase.
He was assaulted by an intense sense of dread, strength left his entire body as he dropped <Sword of Toron> off his hand.
Lecan involuntarily knelt down as his will to keep fighting disappeared from his mind, replaced with a welled up terror and sense of defeat. He felt as if his thought process had been bound.
But then, a moment later, the terror, sense of defeat and the sensation of being mind controlled vanished as intense fighting spirit flared up from within him once again.
Lecan instinctively understood what just occurred.
It was akin to the sensation he experienced in Dungeon Yufu.
The instance he inhaled some sort of powder a magic beast scattered around, his mind wavered and got wrapped by terror as he lost control of his body. Lecan guessed that powder was loaded with poison and mind magic.