40 Chapter 40

Hacking off all six limbs of one of the monsters with a sweep of his sword, Toyo winced against the sharp pain from another behind him as it slashed his shoulder blade open. Spinning around to face it, he tore his blade through two more of them and received three more wounds before getting his vengeance, snapping the creature's stem-like neck with his right hand. Yet for each creature he killed, more simply charged forward to take their place.

With his health halfway gone, Toyo could feel the tables beginning to turn. Winded from the fierce and endless battle, his attacks were beginning to slow. As if emboldened by his growing vulnerability, the sea of plant creatures pressed their attacks as they thickened all around him, many toppling over each other just to strike at him with their legs.

Yelling in pain as multiple limbs began tearing through his leather armour, it was all Toyo could do to parry the attacks with his sword wherever he could. Seizing hold of one of the creature's nearest him with his right hand, Toyo made to snap the stem of its neck, only to realize he no longer had the strength.

Still holding onto the creature, Toyo suddenly saw a tongue appear from within the center of its flower-like face.

The impairment attack! He realized in horror.

Before the thing could lash out with it's tongue, Toyo strengthened his grip on its throat to keep it from escaping. Launching Silverthorne forward with his other hand, Toyo rammed the blade into the center of the monster's face.

Even as it died, a shrill shriek escaped the creature's throat, sending a chill up Israel's spine and almost causing him to drop his sword and cover his ears in pain. Suddenly, all around him, the other creatures stopped in their tracks and began to tremble, each one screaming in unison as they shuddered. What the hell…

Taking advantage of the momentary lapse in the fighting, Toyo scrambled through his menu, quickly equipping a health crystal from his inventory.

\"Heal!\" he shouted.

His HP rose immediately, but only enough to get him just back into the green.

Before he could do anything else, the creatures stopped trembling and resumed their attack as if nothing had happened. Again fighting with everything he had just to keep the skeletal limbs away from him, Toyo quickly began trying to think up a plan.

Cleaving through the body of a particularly aggressive plant creature, Toyo was dismayed to see two more of them open their faces, their disgusting tongues preparing to strike on either side of him.

I won't be able to stop both of them.

At that moment, he heard Naomi's voice somewhere behind him.

\"Take the one on your left!\"

Without hesitation, Toyo swung his blade at an upward slant as he pivoted to the left, splitting the creature, and it's tongue, in two.

Turning, Toyo saw Naomi bury her axe in the second monster's face even as she caught several limbs on her shield.

\"Get ready!\" Toyo yelled.

Glancing at him in confusion, Naomi jumped back when the remaining creatures again started trembling and screaming in unison.

\"Use your sword skills!\" Toyo shouted as his own blade suddenly exploded in red and blue flames. \"Every single one!\"

Nodding, Naomi's axe again took on a golden color as she charged forward, decapitating three of the creatures in a single strike.

When the monsters again recovered from their strange trembling, Toyo and Naomi halted their assault and switched to the defensive, covering each other from enemy attacks, all the while waiting for the creatures to attempt their impairment attack again. It was in this way that the tide finally began to turn. Each time one of the plant creatures attacked with it's special ability, Toyo and Naomi would target it, and in the ensuing helplessness of the remaining creatures, they would unleash a barrage of sword skills, wiping out dozens at a time. Again and again, the monsters attacked, and each time, the two players cut them down.

Glancing up as he mindlessly swung his sword once more, Toyo was shocked to see that there were no more monsters. Looking around, he saw and heard nothing but the ragged panting of Naomi and the choked gasps of his own breathing. After what had felt like an eternity of brutal, mindless fighting, the battle was over. Every single monster had been destroyed.

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