Chapter 208 - Volume 2
Chapter 153 – Breaking Dawn (6)
A metallic scream exploded in everyone’s ears. Brendel’s longsword smashed into Kabias’s battleaxe, forcing the Skeleton Lord back several steps before it managed to shrug away the attack. In order to balance itself, the battleaxe’s pommel was thrust deeply into the ground’s stone tile, while Brendel continued his charge into the crowd—
“What ability is that!?” The giant skeleton finally regained his balance after his body was arched backward, and roared with fury and surprise. The way how Brendel reacted to its defensive maneuver felt almost like he was seeing through everything; it was unlikely to anything else other than an ability.
“Something that will take your life away!” Brendel also regained his footing and yelled as he rushed back with his sword to attack Kabias’s flank.
But no matter how quick Brendel’s blade appeared to be like a flash of lightning which had descended onto earth, it was much too slow in Kabias’s eyes. It waited until the final moment when the longsword could no longer deviate from its path before Kabias’s torso slipped away. The latter’s foot landed onto the side heavily, sending dust and cracked stone fragments upward, its body rotating once with a heavy swing of its battleaxe towards Brendel’s body as a counterattack.
The single white line from Kabias completely changed in a single moment, weaving into an inescapable net.
“My lord!” The Elven Princess who was putting half of her attention realized the danger he was in.
Brendel had also realized the sword’s failed attack; it was too late for him to dodge the battleaxe—
More and more people started to believe in that notion as the strikes kept landing on the undead general. The morale of Graudin’s men was completely gone when they saw Brendel’s ‘frightening prowess’. A Gold-tier fighter without an Element Power could still be taken down using numbers, but once they unsealed their Element power, they would become an inhuman existence.
Nobody wanted to fight this hopeless battle, and become cannon fodder for delaying these monsters, especially when they are just soldiers who came for merely money and authority.
Brendel’s dagger finally broke with his final attack as he watched Kabias fly into a building like a punching bag. He exhaled with relief and threw away the hilt.
He was careful to distribute the stress to every part of the blade, but it merely lasted twenty-odd attacks before it finally broke. He finally had the time to reflect on the odd attacks. Every single one of them had supposedly missed its mark but it still somehow landed on the skeleton.
His thoughts were interrupted as Kabias bellowed: “What kind of fucking Element power is this, you damned living creature!”
Brendel gave a thoughtful nod as he picked up another sword as he agreed with Kabias’s words.