Chapter 329 - Bladeheart And Lina Vs. The Weapons Of Pride (II)

If not for the provoke skill of King Goliath, this wouldn't be so hard, to be honest. I have a few skills that can ignore defense but it's not worth it since King Goliath seems to be absorbing all the damage alone and if he ever gets damaged, Queen Glass proceeds to heal him. I may not be able to see their HP bar but seeing some of the healing effects from the undead, it is clear she is healing King Goliath.

The only thing I wanted to do for this run to finish smoothly is to kill Queen Glass before King Goliath. All of our attacks land on King Goliath so if that is the case, the way for us to proceed is to kill Queen Glass before going to King Goliath or we will be stuck in an endless loop. It would have been great if there are magic spells or attack skills that can disable or ignore provoke but there isn't anything like that at all.

"Master, there are no gaps in their defenses and whatever attacks I use whether it is a homing skill or a locked-on skill, the king with the shield always catches the attacks without fail!"

"Did he get any significant damage after your attacks?"

"They did but the Queen was quick enough to heal it. I managed to avoid the counter-attacks too but it's getting harder to dodge them as they get faster too," Lina explained.

I can see the frustration in Lina's eyes. 

If that is the case, we can't just make it simple, I have to brute force this and let Lina assist in the process. Now that I know how all of our attacks go straight to King Goliath, then I will make sure King Goliath can't cast the Provoking skill he has.

"Lina. Try attacking the queen once I started to batter up the king with attacks. Don't worry if your attack lands on the king, just keep on trying."

Lina nodded and assumed battle stance once again. As for me, I headed straight to King Goliath and changed my weapon into a Magic Sword. Unleashing the [Flaming Sword] and [Electric Sword] together, I slam it down straight to King Goliath in which he immediately blocks with his shield. The Perfect Counter takes a while. And although it takes a while, it charges up, meaning, the more we attack King Goliath, the more charges he can rack up.

I bash his shield with my attack forcing him to keep on blocking me. As soon as I noticed a gap, I didn't hesitate to use it and stab my sword at it. Of course, King Goliath will block and this time, he didn't use the shield but used the spear.

PENG!

"You thought I will just be using the sword?! A big f*ck you!"

The moment he blocked the sword, I changed the form of my sword into a gun and pull the trigger.

BANG!

The bastard didn't expect my move and staggered after receiving a powerful bang in the gun. But I can tell that it barely did any damage. But I made sure that it is a special bullet and it is due to the effects of [Russian Roullete]. Of course, I made sure that the attack can at least deal with something to him before it can be healed by the Queen.  The debuff will also be random and I don't know what debuff he will receive but I needed to make sure he will die.

-you have inflicted [Curse][Moderate!]

I grinned when I saw the message. [Curse] debuff will not be easily healed unless you are a full fledge cleric. I know Queen Glass is not a cleric. And [Curse] debuff can only be cleared by a cleric or an item, [Holy Water].

King Goliath started to charge his shield for a counter. I quickly changed my weapon into a spear and shield and barely managed to stop it as the attack hit the shield with a dull thud. It was strong enough that even though I managed to guard it, I still lost quite a bit of HP and I was moved away from King Goliath in the process. But thankfully, you can still survive and not die in one hit.

After drinking one bottle of potion, I rush forward again to King Goliath, and this time, I didn't ditch the shield form and continue to charge forward.

"YAAAAAAH!"

When I am already a few centimeters away, I activated [Shield Bash]. King Goliath roared and also performed a [Shield Bash] as he thrust his spear to me. It only grazed me but the amount of HP removed is half of my Hp bar. One more hit from it and I will die.

Now I realized the reason why this is the weapon of the sin of pride. The Sin of Pride is the sin that suffers from excessive preoccupation with oneself, one's achievements, one own's power, and only oneself. The shield of Vanagloria represents its own ability to tank all attacks without fail. And since it can tank all of its attacks, anyone who owns the shield will have the same behavior, they will rely on the shield more, trusting it more than the efforts of the user. It will keep itself as an act of selfishness.

As for the Spear of Superbia, based on the damage, this weapon can be so powerful that any wielder will only care about how much damage the spear can inflict on something. I didn't expect this to be the main reason why it is the weapon of pride. However, as much as I want to do, this is not so admirable and this ability is pretty much laziness to improve. It also implores too much reliance on the equipment. As a player who rarely relies on equipment and mainly relies on my stats and abilities, this is a bit of a troublesome thing.

I retreated and pull out another potion and drink its contents before going back to the offensive. I already see a few changes that Lina can almost hit the queen with a skill. It was just that at the right moment, all attacks will land on King Goliath since he will immediately reset the Provoke skill, still, it is better than nothing, but just seeing that there is indeed a small chance for Lina to kill Queen Glass in this process. King Goliath is tanky but it is clear that Queen Glass is just a glass cannon.

Queen Glass shoots out a few spells towards me but they are pretty easy to dodge so I didn't have any problems with it.

"Let's do this again!"

If Pride is something that is built that is too strong to be broken, then I will make sure to be stronger, strong enough to break that stupid pride.

I started running towards King Goliath once again and while I am still far from him, I started shooting [Fireball] at him. It might not be too effective but it is something that can at least preoccupy this little bastard.

When I got close, I activated [Stealth] and used the premade bombs that I made using the skills of the Saboteur and attached it to the shield of Vanagloria. I know it won't be broken by just explosives but I will use this chance to use it.

After the attachment, I canceled [Stealth] and activated one of the skills that I learned after discovering the hidden skills.

"[Blade of the Juggernaut!]"

My sword became a giant sword, capable of cleaving anything. If only it can also cleave Queen Glass, unfortunately, it seems it can't reach Queen Glass in range alone. But that didn't matter. If the small percentage proc, I can ignore the defense values of this Pride weapon and reach the protected bastard.

"DIE!"

I gather all of my strength and slam down the big *ss sword towards the king. I didn't care if the weapon is destroyed. Just screw with this bastard and yeet him out of the universe for all I care.

That was the first time I used [Blade of the Juggernaut]. I didn't expect it to be too big but I am a bit happy to know that this skill is a short AOE skill. Despite being far from being crushed by the giant sword, Queen Glass staggered and fall for a bit after the attack landed on the king. 

But still, I know that didn't deal too much for the king, I check the message and saw that it didn't proc at all. I might have damaged the little bastard but it wasn't enough. The bastard is tenacious.

"HERETICS...MUST DIE!"

I wish my Instant Death effect will proc but who knows when it will proc? That one has a pretty much RNG involved that even I couldn't predict when it will trigger itself.

King Goliath stood up. His armor and most of his body seem to have been destroyed. His left arm that has been holding the spear is already hanging on his left shoulder.. However, the guy has yet to die.