Rexar and Elena stood in stunned silehen their faces suddenly twisted in e. With a ferocity that frightened even the vile demons, the duo desded upon the fiends like a hunter’s bde toward the throat of a ered beast.
The jurer swiveled his head back around with a ing giggle, eager to relish the expression Daisuke would make at the sight of his fallen rade. But instead, the man captured a blinding white streak of light in his periphery and a blur of movement.
, he heard a low thud at his feet before he felt an excruciating jolt of pain surging from his arms throughout the rest of his body. Finally, he saw it—both his severed hands ying at his feet, already growing cold and pale.
The man tilted his head bad let out a wailing scream as blood dribbled from his wrists. Then his expression shifted from pain to horror when Daisuke spoke from behind him and the cold kiss of a bde could be felt on his throat.
“I bet the effects of ths are useless now that they’re not in tact with your body,” scoffed Daisuke as he pressed the on closer.
“Y-You…” the man muttered, his voice trembling as his body slowly slipped into shock. “How you… still move like that with your injured leg?”
“You mean this leg?” said Daisuke, flexing the limb that was st seen with a three-inch-thick projectile wedged in it.
The jurer was dumbstruck.
“I allowed myself to get injured because I wanted you to let yuard down,” admitted Daisuke. “It hurt like hell but it was worth it. While you were busy watg the others and gloating, I used a potion to heal my leg. It’s kinda shog you didn’t expect us to have any recovery items with us. I guess you got pretty used to beating up and harassing regur people.”
The man grinded his teeth i, as the male and female Beastkin rushed to the human’s aid and urgently began feeding him a red liquid from a slender gss vial.
“If you kill me,” he began threateningly, “you’ll simply earn yourself the wrath of the Mhale—”
SWOOPP!
Daisuke watched with a stoic expression as the decapitated head fell and rolled on the ground before ing to a stop, its visage frozen in shock. “I swear you people are like a broken record.”
DING!
[Keith has beeed!]
[Jet-bck Garment has been acquired.]
[Jet-bck Boots has been acquired.]
[Invisibility Ring has been acquired.]
[Perseverance Ring x5 has been acquired.]
[Small MP Recovery Potion x5 has been acquired.]
[Sparkling Elixir x1 has been acquired.]
[35 Gold has been acquired.]
Ign the notification windows, Daisuke shifted his gaze in time to witness Vernie casting a spell, seizing trol of the giganti before it could crumble away following its master’s demise.
“You’ve done me a great service, thanks,” Vernie remarked with a weary and somewhat twisted smile. “After a few months of living with the guy, he had bee quite a bore. Once I get rid of you nuisances, I’ll recover the footstools and begin the arduous process of ing up this mess.”
Rexar and Elena carefully helped Milo sit upright, their gazes pierg the heartless vilin with unbridled pt. Vernie seemed entirely unfazed by their undisguised hostility—in fact, he appeared rather amused.
“I think I’ll need more hands oo get this pce spid-span, so I’ll likely be paying a visit to your vilge real soon,” Vernie decred with a dark promise.
A muscle worked in Rexar’s jaw, and Vernie ughed mogly as the Beastkin’s fingers balled into trembling fists. “You, girl,” called the man teasingly. “You have a pretty face. Do you have any younger siblings? Their gender doesn’t matter… it’s been a while since I’ve deflowered—”
Rexar’s eyes snapped open in e. Having had enough, the final thread holding his patien cheapped, and a roar tore from his lungs like thunder. Before rational words or desperate hands could reinstate his sanity, the beast masquerading as a human shed out with cws poised to strike.
“Amateur! You’re so predictable!” roared back Vernie, his respoh an insult and a and for the golem to attack.
Rexar shrunk back, his ears sagging as the ominous shadow of the golem engulfed him in darkness. The golem’s arm swung around like the jib of a tower e, i on crushing both him and his friends. However, just as despair began to tighten its grip, Daisuke materialized with a sturdy wooden club.
With an expertly timed swing, he met the monster’s colossal arm. The impact echoed through the cavern, sending shockwaves that reverberated through the air. The sheer force of the collisioed a momentary distortion, as if reality itself recoiled from the csh.
The knockback effect of the Sturdy Club sent the golem stumbling backward, disrupted and disoriented. Yet, thwarting the creature’s attack came at a cost—a rge portion of the on’s durability was visibly eaten away, a testament to the formidable power of the golem’s assault.
Veraggered back with a frustrated growl, his eyes gleaming with malicious i. “Ideally, it would be better if you all died right here by my hands; the Mhaledictus won’t be as merciful.”
Daisuke sighed, a hint of annoyached across his face. “Spare me the cliché vilin monologue bullshit, would you?”
With a swift motion, he brandished his dagger, the bde catg the ambient light as it hummed with a feral energy. Leaning into his ary attack posture, a glint of determination in his eyes, he materialized a familiar item from his iory and csped it tightly in his hand.
[Bramble Seed]
[Damage: 150
Vicious thorned vines, unleashed from the Bramble Seed, tinuously inflict fixed Physical Damage per sed on ensargets. Adversaries caught within the vines’ AoE also suffer harm. There’s a 35% ce of causing ?Bleed? and a 12% ce of indug ?Poison? among those ensnared.]
Vernie ughed. “You’re more of a fool than I thought,” he scoffed. “Challenging the golem is futile. Its might is beyond your prehension!”
Daisuke smirked. “Well, let’s put that theory to the test, shall we?”
Without another word, he unched himself toward his t foe like a fsh, a blur of calcuted strikes upon the monster’s unfling form leaving trails of brilliant light.
Vernie, growing uneasy, g the golem that stood imposingly in the chamber. “Y-You dance all you want, but it won’t ge the oute; this golem is iructible!”
“We’ll see about that.”
Uppercutting the golem with the hilt of his dagger, Daisuke leapt high into the air. Therieved aem from his iory that exuded a golden gleam.
[Lightning Bead]
[Damage: 2,500
Deals fixed Lightning Damage to the target upon impact. The electrical charge may leap to up to 7 nearby enemies, with a 75% ce of indug ?Paralysis? and a 45% ce of causing the ?Burn? Status.]
Rexar, Elena, and Milo watched in awe as Daisuke weaved through the air like an acrobat, the gleam of the Lipanthyer’s fang painting a dazzling dispy.
Vernie’s guffaw echoed. “You think a mere nobody defy the golem’s power? I’ve seen it crush mountains and withstand magic that would ie you with a gnce!”
The st of his wot stu his throat however when barbed vines suddeed from the golem’s body, ensnaring it in a thrip.
Verunned and disbelieving, couldn’t stop his mouth from falling agape. Impossible! Did he somehow mao embed the seeds ihe areas he had attacked with his bde? But how did he even mao damage the golem?
While the man stood dumbfounded and the viighteheir grip, restrig the onyielding titan aroying its iy, Daisuke activated the Lightning Bead against his bde, unleashing a radiant force. Kig his legs against the ceiling, he unched himself downward, a dazzling bolt of lightning trag his trajectory.
SHINGG!
The Lipanthyer’s bde howled through the air, a cresdo that climaxed in a thunderous explosion. Dust and debris engulfed the chamber as the golem bellowed in agony.
Vernie’s mog ughter transformed into screams as the stoan’s body fell apart, cleaved in twain. He was so stuhat caution dawned a moment too te. As the golem’s body crumbled like a ndslide, Vernie was caught within its midst.
Courtesy of the rings on his fingers, a series of barriers erected themselves in tandem as the former was destroyed. But ultimately, the accessories failed to protect their master and Vernie’s legs were brutally crushed beh the falling rocks.
Through the veil of dust from the battle’s aftermath, a silhouette of Daisuke could be seen pushing to his feet, his dagger still charged with electricity.
DING!
[The css adva quest ?Defying the Odds? has been pleted!]
[350,000 Experience Points have been acquired.]
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