Chapter 45 - 15th Wave
My 'Blizzard' was less effective than I wanted it to be. The ice still easily broke if it hit wrong, and the number of projectiles could use some work. I was spinning them as fast as I could while keeping them under control and that led to less-than-stellar results.
If it hit a weak spot, it would cut deep and leave a bleeding wound, but if it hit heavily defended spots the ice would shatter. I tried to pick them up and reform them when I could but that was something I couldn't afford to split my attention on very often.
My melee skills were suffering to compensate for the ice show and against anything stronger, it would be detrimental.
It was my first time using the skill so there were still kinks to iron out.
Seeing how the technique wasn't as effective as I wanted it to be, I dropped it. No use in splitting my attention on something that wasn't as good as me fighting normally.
I went back to my tried and true method, wholesale slaughter. It was the main reason I liked my axe so much. With the augmentation from [Sweeping Slash] extending the blade, I had a large radius around me where things spontaneously died.
My new steel axe held up a lot better to the strain but I could tell it would fail after repeated stress. It would last this wave and maybe the next wave, but probably not the third.
Thinking about it made me sigh. Yes, in the middle of battle surrounded by beasts, I was sighing about the futility of my axe.
With the upgrade to village, we got an increased assortment of profession materials and better metals were available to use. It would just take a long time to learn what they were and how best to forge with them.
[Metallurgy] would help and I was close to getting another professional skill. It was just an effort I didn't want to make. I could feel my drive diminishing after the days of pushing myself as hard as I could.
It had been weeks of spending every waking hour doing everything I could to improve. It was starting to feel hopeless.
Every time we got a handle on something, it changed. I was staying ahead of the waves and could fight them off, but then they changed to double in difficulty, outpacing me.