Chapter 432: Through Broken Bones
I messed up. I let the slime get close to me while its stats are overwhelmingly higher than mine. What makes it worse is that in a close-quarters fight, the battle can be decided in an instant. I can’t take the path of fighting while slowly chipping away at its MP. In the first place, because of the stat difference, I can’t win a direct fight.
No, it coming to this was inevitable. In the first place, I don’t have enough long-range skills to fight an opponent that's equal or stronger than me at a distance. All my ranged attacks are wholly blocked by that shell shield, so my only way of dealing damage is at close-range. If I can’t endure this, then it means this fight was lost the moment it started.
The slime raises its three swords high. As I look up to focus my gaze on them, the owl in its chest cries.
“PooooOOOOh!”
A bright red sphere of flames appears in front of the owl’s beak, immediately shooting towards me. It's the [Fire Sphere] skill! I hold my left wing in front to block. A pillar of fire rises from the surface of my wing.
As the left half of my vision becomes blocked by my wing, the slime swings the sword in its right hand into my blind spot. I raise my left foreleg to block, and manage to catch it with my forefoot. The blade sinks into the flesh between my claws as I break it to pieces.
The two other blades swing down towards me. I raise my right foreleg in preparation to block them, but stop myself. Unobstructed, the swords stab deep into the base of my throat.
My consciousness recedes. Immediately, my partner’s [High Rest] reaches me.
『Why didn’t you block!?』