Chapter 70 - 67 : One Down

"You are not allowed to kill my pets in my presence."

The black-and-green striped goblin stared at Sato and emanated its presence. Chesces and the other players had also noticed that it had awoken, possibly having completed its recovery, and was in battle mode.

"This is bad…" Old Jiro frowned.

"Don't worry about it. Focus on the two trolls first. Let them handle it." Chesces said calmly.

Old Jiro grimaced. From the way Chesces had talked, it looked like he was ready to sacrifice the other two players(Sato and Fudo). If he could do that with them, he could pretty much do the same with East Crow.

"Don't worry about it; just trust the captain."Kylian commented. "Those guys could pretty much handle it themselves for awhile plus the one-horned troll they are tasked with is almost dead. |even with the boss' interruption, they should be able to still pull it off. What we need to do is to be done here as quickly as a possible."

"Alright." Old Jiro nodded. With Kylian's explanation, even though he wasn't satisfied, Drunken Hog decided to focus on the battle in front of himself before worrying about others.

"Thank you." Chesces faced Kylian.

"You're welcome." Kylian smiled.

What Kylian had earlier said about Sato and Fudo being capable of handling the troll and the boss on their own, was nothing more than a excuse he made up for Old Jiro to focus and not be suspicious of them. Previously, the 3 teams couldn't handle the boss on their own. This time, it as a team of 2 players and to make things worse,m there was a one-horned troll among their adversaries, though it was badly injured. When you consider all this, you would realise that it is indeed impossible for Sato and Fudo to survive the assault. In order not to bring suspicion to their team, Kylian had given a somewhat reasonable excuse to distract Old Jiro. Chesces wasn't suite to do so as Old Jiro might not take it seriously but as it came from Kylian, Drunken Hog had slightly accepted it.

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"Damn." Sato cursed out. Even though they were holding back in their battle against the one-horned troll, Sato doubted whether they could beat the boss even if they didn't.

While he was staring at the boss, the one-horned troll he was previously dealing with, walked over to the boss. Sato frowned in thought upon seeing this before a sense of realisation had dawned on him.

"Don't let it get close to the boss! I think it wants to heal itself." Sato roared at Fudo before running towards the troll. The distinctive formation that was earlier beneath the boss was still active, as such the boss couldn't leave the area yet. But if the one-horned troll were to arrive there, not only would it possibly recover its health, it would also be under the protection of the boss; acting as one final obstacle in their clash with the boss.

As the troll's HP was low together with its grievous injuries it had received from the disastrous beating Sato and Fudo had given it, walking became somewhat difficult for it as its attacking speed and reaction time had a taken a dive for the worse. Due to this fact, it still had a few metres to go before it reached the boss.

Fudo pointed his staff at the troll this time not planning to hold back by much.

"Ignorant!" The boss hollered in vexation before casting another green coloured fireball and firing it towards Fudo.

"Damn." Fudo cursed before stopping his actions and getting away from the fireball's trajectory.

"Hmph." Seeing as Fudo was forced back, Sato harrumphed before dashing over to the one-horned troll. The boss noticed this and raised its hand towards him but Fudo never planned on letting it go scot-free for interrupting him.

"[Fireball]!"

A basketball sized blazing fireball darted over to the boss with an impressive speed, one far greater than the previous ones. This time, Fudo had gotten a little more serious.

As if sensing the lethality behind the attack, the boss stopped its antecedent attack and conjured a green wall beside in front, shielding itself from the fireball. But Fudo didn't just stop at one. As the [Fireball] skill had a cool-down of less than 2 seconds, Fudo spammed it whenever it became active and during the time he waited, he used the general elementalist skill, one which he hadn't used in quite awhile, the [Mana ball] spell and harassed the boss.

While this was going on, Sato had already approached the one-horned troll. Closing up to it, Sato used [Sprint] and hurriedly closed the gap between them, afraid that Fudo wouldn't be able to hold the boss back for long.

As he arrived behind it, Sato jumped and struck out with his sword, intent on dealing heavy damage to it.

"Mountain Slash [Chop]."

The one-horned troll seemed to sense someone behind it as it abruptly turned to with a buster sword in its hand slashing towards Sato. Sato, of course expecting it, directed his sword to greet the attack. Sato's [Strength] stat was at 13 points but thanks to his equipment, the Dawn Steel Armor, he received an extra 4 points in [Strength] placing him slightly above the one-horned troll's 17 [Strength]. However, if one were to count in the burst damage due to despair in the one-horned troll's attack, it would likely surpass its average [Strength] count. Nonetheless though, Sato had applied both a martial art and a skill together in this attack. Calculated with the forward momentum he had applied from his run, the resulting prowess of this attack was even more frightening than that of the one-horned troll. Sato seemed to have forgotten his initial planning of withholding part of their strength but even still, he had other cards hidden. He would rather show his current in-game strength in terms of attributes in exchange to take out this troll than to keep it hidden and leave behind a potential threat and obstacle to their goal.

As the two weapons collided, Sato, who had the higher stand both geographically and strength-wise, forced back the buster sword to the one-horned troll as his sword still came falling down. The one-horned troll, who had already lost the short confrontation, got sliced from head to toe. Even though the attack didn't kill it, it brought an even more painful and heavy injury to it.

[-51 Critical hit] (76/500)

Even though the one-horned troll's HP hadn't reached 15%, the pain and embarrassment it had continued experiencing at the hands of both Sato and Fudo had finally made it break through its limit as its eyes lightened up with a red touch to them and its muscles slowly bulged out.

Sato however never intended to just watch this happen. He retreated a few steps backwards while hurriedly placing his hands in his bag and drawing out a scroll. Swiftly, he unfurled it and faced the written side towards the one-horned troll. As he had previously used a similar scroll before, Sato had already memorized the chants and quickly read it out loud.

During this time Kylian the druid, who somehow had enough time on his hands, had been keeping tabs on their battle. Seeing the one-horned troll about to go berserk, he used [nature's enticement], which was already off its cool-down, and successfully halted its transformation just for a few seconds. This few seconds however, were more than enough for Sato who was prepared to face a berserk troll.

Sato successfully completed the chants and from the scroll, an aqua coloured spear slowly came out. Once 1/3 of it came out, it darted out with a very frightening speed, reaching the one-horned troll in less than 1/6 of a second as the distance between Sato and the one-horned troll wasn't so much.

[Sedna's spear] [1]

[-100 Critical hit] (0/500)

The spear had completely pierced through the one-horned troll's heart, rupturing it apart and leaving behind a bloody hole before ending its journey across the hall on the wall, causing a massive boom that shook the place a bit.

The one-horned troll lifelessly dropped to its knees before falling face first on the ground. The boss watched with hatred in its eyes but still didn't leave its spot as the formation was still active.

On the other side, the death of one of their own had alarmed the other one-horned trolls and though they didn't retreat, the anger seemed to power them up a little bit and the frequency and power of their attacks increased a bit, becoming more difficult for Griffin to handle.

Meanwhile, with the death of the troll, Sato and Fudo had leveled up once more, becoming even more stronger.

AN :

From a previous recommendation from a reader earlier, I used a North American god, particularly Inuit, to create a spell.