“Xeno, ti to switch with Garm,” Tsutomu commanded.
“Understood! !!” Xeno shouted out as if to boost his own morale, and unleashed his silver aura.
And just as Xeno noticed the Winter General set its sights on him, the blade on its left hand had already opened a cut on his arm, prompting him to contort his boisterous grin.
“ — a skill that granted resistance to the Dungeon’s environntal effects, which was highly useful for layers with extre temperature differences such as the Volcano and the Snow Field.
And in terms of the Attackers, Amy possessed comndable abilities, her personality aside. All in all, Garm had no complaints about Tsutomu’s choices for the team.
But then, during their training sessions on the Snow Field layers, and even more so during mock battles with other Clans’ mbers, Xeno’s lack of prowess had beco evident. Additionally, Garm had seen Xeno’s performance against the Mount Golem through the Monitor, so he had anticipated himself being the one spending more ti drawing the attention of the Winter General.
As it turned out, however, Xeno had already managed to engage the Winter General for roughly the sa amount of ti as Garm. Of course, Xeno had Amy’s help, so the comparison was not quite fair, but in Garm’s opinion, his performance still was quite astonishing.
What one could not achieve in training, they would not achieve in an actual fight either — that was what Tsutomu had once said to Amt, and Garm had secretly believed that. However, it seed that those words did not hold true for Xeno. His performance in the current situation was significantly better than in practice.
“!”
From the perspective of the God Eye, Xeno’s
appeared significantly weaker compared to Garm’s — so much so that if Daryl were to unleash a similarly weak, Garm would certainly feel a strong urge to intervene. That aside, though, it was clear that Xeno’s movents had improved thanks to the presence of the God Eye.
“HAHAHA! I’m starting to get the hang of this! Co on, co on! !”
“You’re noisy.”
“Don’t get carried away — that’s how you get yourself killed!”
“Hahaha… .”
“Thanks for the healing, my man!”
The more Xeno talked, the more the team’s morale seed to improve. In the current circumstances, the battle against the Winter General was technically not going particularly well. Though everyone had watched the battle from the Monitors, this was their first ti facing this enemy — Xeno took far too many risks than a Tank should, and the Attackers were not dealing as much damage as they wanted. In a way, they were all beginners trying to figure things out together — and as such, their morale would likely be lower when the result-oriented Garm inevitably switched in again as the main Tank.
[…I just have to do my job.]
As Garm cut off such thoughts and continued to observe the Winter General and the team’s actions, Tsutomu issued an order for the Tanks to switch soon. Garm quickly re-checked his equipnt and perford so preparatory stretches to loosen his muscles.
“I’m counting on you!”
“Mm-hm.”
And so, Xeno, smiling despite being covered in blood, stepped back to switch with Garm, who proceeded to blast out a
to generate aggro and wait for Tsutomu’s
while positioning himself in front of the Winter General.
“Thanks for the support! Bring it on!!”
Garm’s sudden change in tone prompted everyone except Diniel to blink in disbelief.
As the fight went on, Tsutomu observed Garm’s performance, eventually narrowing his eyes as he noticed that sothing was off.
“Xeno, could you…” Tsutomu turned to Xeno behind him, and saw that the latter was still struggling to catch his breath. “…Uh, guess not. Diniel! Amy! Sorry, but could you switch with Garm for a bit!?”
Tsutomu closely monitored not only the Winter General’s movents but also his allies’. He recognized that Garm’s focus on the battle was sohow not optimal, which was why he had wanted him to switch out. Hearing Tsutomu’s instructions, Amy complied with a smile, while Diniel, despite her apparent annoyance, launched intense attacks on the Winter General to accumulate aggro.
“Garm. Co here for a sec.”
“…All right.”
Amy shot Garm a smug grin, prompting the latter to give her a discontented look as he turned and jogged toward Tsutomu. Both Amy and Diniel were so of the best among Absolute Helix when it ca to anti-personnel combat, so they were sure to be able to hold their own against the Winter General at least for a while. Their compatibility with each other was also outstanding, making it unlikely for them to be done in quickly.
Tsutomu looked at Garm as the latter approached while looking slightly flustered, and his gaze wandered as if searching for words. Garm, noticing that, hastily wagged his tail and held out his hand, as if telling him to stop.
“…I know what you’re thinking. Sorry about that. But don’t worry — I know what I’m doing.”
“Oh, okay… Well, let
just say that you don’t have to ham it up like Xeno or anything. Just do things as you usually do — that’ll make things easier for , too.”
As Tsutomu was still surprised by the way Garm had just thanked him, he nodded awkwardly just as Garm did. Then, after their brief exchange, Garm was put back on the task of pulling the boss monster’s aggro.
“Man,
and Dini could’ve done that all day~~! Bring it on!!”
“Sure, go get yourself killed, and we’ll see if you can still say that.”
While Amy teased him, Garm successfully managed to draw the Winter General’s aggro back to him.
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