Chapter 158: A Sword Battle Between Two Monsters (1)

The Dragon King released his possession over my body so I was now in control of my own body. I was no longer in my mind space since my consciousness was brought into my body.

After the Dragon King released possession of my body, the Dragon King's consciousness was transported back into the Dragon King's dragon body which was stored in the system inventory.

I witnessed the level 77,000 great forest spirit wielding its grass sword on its right hand.

I performed some stretches before going against the level 77,000 great forest spirit in a sword battle since I still needed to get used to moving my body.

After that, I used some of my mana to create a sword made out of space magic since any other elements except for space and time wouldn't be able to harm a being from the forest spirit race.

The level 77,000 great forest spirit didn't have any physical body so even if I used my strongest spell against the level 77,000 great forest spirit, the level 77,000 great forest spirit still wouldn't be harmed.

I only had 2 magic skills that had the time affinity and two of those magic skills weren't offensive-based magic.

The [Time Save] and [Time Reset] skill was only a magic skill that provides me with time-related buffs so it wouldn't do any damage towards the level 77,000 great forest spirit since it wasn't an offense type of magic but instead it was a support type of magic.

Since the Dragon King was inside the system inventory, the Dragon King could still support me in casting dragonic magic if I ever needed his assistance.

The level 77,000 great forest spirit wasn't that much of a threat for me considering it was dumb enough to battle me using the weapon that was good at.

So, I didn't need any support from the Dragon King right now but I might need it for later considering there were still some of the high-level monsters that I had yet to kill.

I didn't delay any further and made my move against the level 77,000 great forest spirit.

I deactivated the [Dragon Wings] skill to reduce the amount of mana that I would consume per second since I didn't need the [Dragon Wings] that much and the [Flight] skill was all I needed for flying towards the level 77,000 great forest spirit.

The level 77,000 great forest spirit wasn't that fast so it wasn't a problem for me to deactivate the [Dragon Wings] skill since the battle between me and the level 77,000 forest spirit wasn't a battle between speed but instead, a battle between swordsmanship.

I was quite confident with my sword technique since the sword was one of the weapons I mostly used in this world.

I had honed and perfected my sword techniques to the point that I could cut a mountain and split the clouds in the sky without using any mana.

There was almost no flaw in my sword techniques so I was confident that I could defeat the level 77,000 great forest spirit as long as the level 77,000 great forest spirit wouldn't resort to using its natural magic.

The level 77,000 great forest spirit had noticed that I was heading towards it using my [Flight] skill so the level 77,000 great forest spirit quickly pointed its grass sword towards me and waited for me to enter its attack range.

I didn't mind whether the level 77,000 great forest spirit would attack me first or not. Regardless of who will attack first, I would still win since my swordsmanship attainment should be higher than the level 77,000 great forest spirit.

I zoomed towards the level 77,000 great forest spirit and appeared in front of the level 77,000 great forest spirit in an instant due to using a burst of mana in my [Flight] skill.

I was now only several meters away from the level 77,000 great forest spirit and it seemed that the level 77,000 great forest spirit had not noticed that I was already in front of it.

I took this opportunity to slash the right hand of the level 77,000 great forest spirit that was holding the grass sword.

The effects of the mana sword that I had wielded with the space attribute had allowed me to easily sever the right hand of the level 77,000 great forest spirit.

The right hand of the level 77,000 great forest spirit along with the grass sword was currently descending into the ground.

The level 77,000 great forest spirit had found out that I was in front of it after I severed its handoff.

The level 77,000 great forest spirit quickly used its mana to create mana vines that were protruding from level 77,000 great forest spirit's right arm.

The level 77,000 great forest spirit used the mana vines to grab its right hand that was descending towards the ground and fortunately for it, the level 77,000 great forest spirit caught its severed right hand before it landed on the ground.

The mana vines from the level 77,000 great forest spirit's right arm pulled the severed right hand towards it.

I would be able to interfere with the level 77,000 great forest spirit from pulling its right hand but I decided not to since it wouldn't be entertaining for me if the battle ended quickly.

Also, I needed to stall time for my teammates to arrive and since the level 77,000 great forest spirit was fighting against me, the other high-level monsters waited for an opportunity to interfere the battle between me and the level 77,000 great forest spirit but my battle against the level 77,000 great forest spirit should delay the other high-level monsters from teaming up against me.

It would be troublesome if all of the high-level monsters would team up to attack me at all at once so it was much better for me to deal with the high-level monsters one by one.

Although it would waste my stamina since I would be dealing with the high-level monsters one by one, it was still a better option because my survival rate was much higher if I fought against a high-level monster one-on-one.

The level 77,000 great forest spirit reconnected its severed right hand into its right arm using the mana vines that it had created before.

The level 77,000 great forest spirit used its mana to heal its severed right hand into its right arm to the way it was before.

The level 77,000 great forest spirit finished reconnecting its right hand into its right arm and was now wielding the grass sword in his right hand.

The level 77,000 great forest spirit pointed the grass sword towards me and gathered mana towards the grass sword to reinforce the grass sword.

After the level 77,000 great forest spirit finished reinforcing the grass sword, the level 77,000 great forest spirit slashed the grass sword towards me which caused a huge compressed air blade to go towards me.

I held the condensed mana sword tightly in my right hand and directed it towards the compressed air blade.

I gathered the surrounding mana in my condensed mana sword and slashed the condensed mana sword towards the compressed air blade attack of the level 77,000 great forest spirit.

Since I had gathered a moderate amount of mana in the surroundings towards my condensed mana sword, the slash that I had performed earlier caused the surrounding mana that was stored in the condensed mana sword to be released towards the compressed air blade attack of level 77,000 great forest spirit.

The slash from my condensed mana sword that was filled with the mana from the surroundings caused a compressed air blade to materialize and it was almost similar to the compressed air blade attack of the level 77,000 great forest spirit.

The only difference between the compressed air blade attack of the level 77,000 great forest spirit and my compressed air blade attack was the surrounding mana that I had infused with my compressed air blade.

It was natural for a skilled swordsman to materialize compressed air blades from every slash of his since that skilled swordsman would have enough strength and control to force the air in the surroundings to strike towards the direction where that skilled swordsman had launched at.

Although the level 77,000 great forest spirit had sloppy swordsmanship skills compared to my swordsmanship skills, the strength of the level 77,000 great forest spirit made up for the level 77,000 great forest spirit's lack of control over the surrounding elements using the sword as a control medium.

The level 77,000 great forest spirit had the advantage of having more mana than me but since I am at an advantage towards the level 77,000 great forest spirit in terms of swordsmanship, then I might be able to win against the level 77,000 great forest spirit.

I only needed to keep in mind that I needed to conserve my mana and used my mana when it's only necessary.

After I steeled my mind and boosted my confidence, I materialized another condensed mana sword and held it in my left hand. There were now two swords on both of my hands.

It was time to get serious in defeating the level 77,000 great forest spirit.