"Alright, let’s do this!" With that declaration of mine, Peyton and I started moving. Four High Goblins, as if in response, simultaneously launched downward slashes towards . In an attempt to block all of them by positioning my fire blade horizontally, I was instantly surprised by the sight of all four of the High Goblins’ swords being cut in half at the sa ti. The High Goblins, still in a state of shock, much like myself, stopped to look at their now cut clean in half swords. As I noticed that, I snapped out of it, deciding not to waste any more ti, then went on to behead each one of them. All the other High Goblins were keeping a small distance, as if wary of , only attacking head on if they deed it necessary.
"Fine then, if you won’t co to , I’ll co to you."
I ran straight towards them, opposite from Peyton, who had already slayed her fair share of them. Her mastery of the blade was outstanding. With a single swing, she took down a large number of them effortlessly. Noticing their wariness, she had also decided to attack them all head on. As she approached them, they all responded in kind to gang up on her, but to no avail.
Swing after swing.
Slash after slash.
She had them dropping like flies. None of their blood spilled on her clothes, not even a single drop to speak of. In addition to the onslaught from the High Goblins, a nearly countless number of arrows and spears kept flying at us continuously, she made sure to deal with them accordingly, parrying and slashing them one after another while taking out as many Goblins as possible. In almost no ti at all, she had already eliminated over a third of the High Goblins present. I wasn’t going to allow myself to be beat. Bladework had been activated, Cultivator was also in full gear, all that was left was for to start getting serious. I concentrated more Mana to the fire blade while dashing towards my side of the High Goblins, all the while allowing the nurous arrows and spears flying at to pierce and then yanking them out afterwards. The blade slightly changed colour. The luminescent yellow from before started to give birth to a light reddish glow. A large group of High Goblins were infront of , raring to attack, their swords raised high, spirits looking almost indomitable. The reality, however, was far from what they could ever imagine.
I beheaded the first.
~Ting!~
Cut the second in half.
~Swing!~
Pierced the third through his chest.
~Swoop!~
Started using him as a human-shield, or...’Goblin-shield’, then ramd through the other ones’ forces using his now lifeless corpse.
~Thud!~
~Bam!~
~Pow!~
Swear I was on a roll.
"Damn, I’m on a roll."
See?
Anyway. I found myself surrounded afterwards as ten High Goblins jumped at in unison. Yanking my fire blade out if the dead body of the High Goblin from before, I launched a rotating slash taking all of them down along with an over twenty extra that stood behind them. I looked at all the High Goblins I attacked afterwards, all their bodies sparked in flas and burned to ashes.
"An aftereffect? Narly."
I had created so significant space between and my attackers. Taking advantage, I jumped upwards. While in midair, I launched a large number of continuous differently positioned swings. Slashes in the form of fire appeared from the blade and imdiately flew straight to my targets. All the High Goblins that were left burned in flas as a result of the slashes perating through their bodies. Peyton and I quickly regrouped afterwards, and returned to our back-to-back position, continuously parrying the arrows and spears flying at us. As we did that, the spear Goblins started charging at us to attack us from up close. Noticing their onslaught growing more intense, I acted.
"Peyton, I have a plan. You might have to hold off the spear guys on your own as result though."
"Oh yeah? Well I’m sure I can handle that much, if for a little while. Let’s hear it."
"Firstly, do you think you can throw like, a hundred tres up high?"
"I can launch you at least a thousand tres up high."
"Yeah uhm...don’t do that. I just need about a hundred."
"Sure thing. What are you gonna do?"
"I wanna take care of the archers, they’re not exactly making anything easy for us right now, I might be able to draw their fire away from you too."
"That’d really decrease my load a lot, thanks. How about we make so space then!" As she declared that, she grabbed my left hand, pulling close then wrapped her left hand around my waist. Slightly bewildered, I couldn’t help but jest.
"Eh? Hell of a smooth operator, aren’t ya?"
"Be quiet please."
She then did a rotating slash, taking down all the Goblins that were surrounding us within a ten tre radius. After that, she let go, stuck First Dawn in the ground and joined her hands together as she squated down a little.
"Whenever you’re ready." She said.
"Heh." I dashed towards her then hopped on to her joined hands as she pushed upwards, launching very high in the sky, exactly as much as I wanted her to.
"Her control over her own strength is impeccable." I thought as I flew up.
"Okay, let’s get this show on the road."
With that, I surveiled all the archer Goblins in the area. They had instantly noticed the mont I flew up and had all directed their attention towards . Even a few of the spear Goblins situated way back were now focused on as a bonus. I took that as a good sign as Peyton was holding off a fair share of them on her own, so I used Cultivator and Ifrit to change the fire blade to a a bow. I then conjured ten fire arrows at once and pulled them along the bow, the arrows started spinning, the flas growing more and more intense each second, so even forming around my body as I felt a calming warmness envelope entirely. I launched the arrows at so of the archer Goblins. A large amount of arrows and spears were flying at while I was in midair but with Bladework bettering my maneuverability, I was able to evade the ones that aid for my head and heart, letting the rest hit with expertise. The arrows I fired, however, went on to take the lives of what looked like over two-hundred archer Goblins, burning them all to a crisp. Surprised at the attack’s efficiency, I conjured ten more arrows and shot them quickly then did it again three more tis in a row. Right before losing altitude as my body started dropping back down, I noticed Peyton, who was doing her best to hold off the spear Goblins, was slightly and slowly getting overwheld.
"That doesn’t look good." I thought as I was falling down.
"Alright, ti to try sothing new."
Adding to Ifrit, I activated both Tetrax and Marid automatically activating the Trigon Elent King Skill then activated the Fury of Dantian Skill. From my Dantian, I circulated Mana throughout my entire body and on to my hand. With that, I changed the fire bow to one of water, then added a water arrow. I then ford a wind bow over the water bow, as if coating it with wind, then did the sa with the arrow. Finally, I repeated that process again, only with the fire elent this ti. The combination of all three elents gave off an almost srizing aura to it. It was a single arrow, but it felt more powerful than at least a hundred arrows of any one elent. It’s no secret that I was pleased with the results, however the synergy still felt a bit lacking. So I activated the Astral Unification Skill.
"Oh yeah, this is it. I can feel it. The sensation....of a Special Attack. The more I develop these things, the more I start to understand them. Special Attacks. I get it now. Whether a Skill gets a Special Attack or not isn’t dependant on its Rank, the concept is entirely random. It doesn’t happen consciously, so it’s completely out of our control. They’re like a manifestation of our subconscious desires and wills. You never know when you’ll get a Special Attack, it just happens when it happens, but when it does, everything just suddenly becos clear. The attack’s na, what it does, how to use it, everything....heh, let’s see this through then."
"Peyton!" I shouted as I was free-falling. Peyton then looked up at , so I added.
"Jump up towards . now!" She didn’t hesitate for a single second and did just that. As she did, I pulled the single three-elental arrow I had created back along my bow. The arrow started spinning. Faster than all the other ones from before. I then uttered:...
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