Kapitel 12: ch. 12 Duel
After defeating those monster, the group recuperated for a few minutes and carried on, however after five minutes of walking, John saw a very familiar looking enemy.
From out of the darkness and into the light of the drone, eight dull and dirty looking armoured men appeared guarding the boss door, except it wasnt men, just armour!
John furrowed his eyebrows we he saw the Living Armour, as these monsters didn't comjured up fond memories. The living Armour stayed in place as the group didn't enter the Living Armours activation range.
"Hey Bryan, do you know how to use Aura?" John felt like he knew the answer already, but had to ask.
"Sadly I don't" hearing this, John felt his a small amount of dread course through him. The Living Armour we're incredibly durable, and while your able to pierce through it with a high quality weapon, Aura is almost a necessity.
Of course John wasn't surprised by this, as in his past life, Roukel had had spent close to a decade of training until he had figured out how to use his aura, it would be incredibly rare to find Aura users.
While John could use aura, he didn't have the same god like physique as Roukel, making such a mana demanding technique like aura hard to handle.
"I can only do it for a few seconds," John said humbly. He never tested the limit, but John reckoned he could last for thirty second of continuous aura before running out of mana.
"This means that me and Janel will have to take care of the Living Armors, you have to defend and keep the Armours off of me. Janel your going to have to trust me and Bryan to not let one slip pass us." The living Armour we're incredibly durable to physical attacks but we're quite weak to magic.
"I understand! I'll more than likely have to use two firebolts to take down one Living Armour, please don't rely too much on my backup." Janel warned the party to prevent surprise.
"That's good enough, just leave the rest to me and Bryan." John said as he gave Bryan a nod.
"Then, lets start," Janel said as the trio stealthily stepped just outside of the range of the living Armour. She raised her staff up in the air as 6 firebolts hovered in the air as Janel started to angle and aim them, before ultimately firing them. "Fire Spear!" she chanted, completing her spell.
The fire spears paired together and pierced threw of the Living Armour in the front.
"Three down!" she yelled out as the five remaining Living Armors were attracted.
Running forward, John coated his Aura and slashed at the closest Living Armour, cutting its blade off. Just as he was about to follow through and destroy it, he jumped back narrowly dodging a sword aiming for his skull.
'Dang, these guys are harder then I remember. Haven't I grown stronger since I've first awakened Roel, why am I struggling fighting even less of them now.'
What John didn't know was because of the sudden influx of thousands of memories clashing with his own memories when he first drew Roel, John didn't think he imitating Roukels, he thought he was Roukels!
It was only after his memories settled above his past lifes that he remembered that he wasn't Roukels and that he was John Jackson, subconsciously limiting himself.
Changing up his strategy, John got behind Bryan as he was blocking the incoming sword and immediately cut off the sword at the base. Without a blade the Living Armour sluggishly tried to punch, which was easily dismissable.
Continuing with this strategy, John started to target the blade of their swords in quickly succession, not going for obvious openings in fear of being sneak attacked.
"Bryan fall back" John said as he back stepped away from the Armours.
Looking at all of the weaponless armour slowing lumbering towards them, John knew the fight was already over.
With quick stabs, Roel coated in Aura accurately pierced their cores and turned them back into inanimate armour and quickly fell apart.
"So this is the Boss Room." Aftering absorbing the living Armour'e mana and picking up the crystals, John looked at the giant door and could help but think back to the C ranked boss.
While the C ranked boss wasn't overwhelmingly strong, it was very tricky to defeat because of the grease magic.
It's true that the troll Scholar was one of the hardest C ranked bosses, but it was still just C ranked. He imagined that if he had such a hard time with that boss, then he'd be in big trouble If the B ranked Boss had the ability to use magic spells.
"I just hope the Boss has nothing to do with Living Armors, I heard horror stories about how powerful they are" Janel said.
A Living Armor-type boss would be a pain to deal with for multiple reason. John could only smile bitterly at that and tap the door to open the door.
The giant steel gate creaked open with a rusty sound as Johns light drone flew in and illuminated the room, revealing the Boss.
"Welcome uninvited guests! I, Velonin, greet you with my sword!" An artificial magic-made voice spread throughout the clearing, while this voice Spoke the otherworlds language, John could still understand it!
Hearing the talking boss, John felt his body start to sweat at the implications of that.
"It's a Living Armor, not to mention it just spoke in that Gibberish language" Bryan said sourly.
John nodded bitterly. "It's an intelligent variant that has an ego, so it'll be quite a pain to deal with,"
A Living Armor with an ego was much different from a normal Living Armor, as it possessed superb skill with it's weapon of choice. The Living Armor-type Boss, Velonin, drew its rusty black sword and slowly approached them.
"We have to figure out its patterns before trying to go all out against it. I'll leave the tanking to you, Bryan. Janel please use highly accurate Magic to restrain its movements. I'll be attacking and give healing support, just shout if you need a heal!
They both nodded in understanding as they got in position.
"Uninvited guests, receive my sword of judgment!" Velonin rushed them without waiting.
Janel threw Fire Spears at the running armor but Velonin, unlike a normal Living Armor, nimbly dodged them and aimed for Bryan at the front with a vertical slash. Bryan raised his shield in an attempt to block, but john saw that Velonin's sword had a very familiar glow to it.
"It's aura, dodge!" John warned.
Bryan didn't have time to dodge but he did quickly ducked his head out of the way, as his steel shield was like paper against an aura-clad blade.
The blade was quickly cutting through the shield and threatening to bisect Bryan in half, when halfway through the shield, it was met in kind with Johns own aura covered sword.
Jumping back, Velonin started analysis his opponent who he previously thought was just a healer.
"Thank you John!" Bryan croaked out as he collapsed backwards, desperately crawling away from the boss.
He already struggled to damaging a normal Living Armour, but to fight a boss one without a shield is akin to suicide, he had to leave it to John and Janel
Janel threw a Fire Spear once more but Velonin swung its aura-clad sword, splitting the Fire Spear in half.
"Impressive magic woman! But even that is meaningless in front of my sword!" Velonin began running towards Janel. It was much faster than any ordinary Living Armour could move, so fast that Bryan and Janel could barely see them.
"You think I'll allow you!" Blocking the charging Velonin slash, John felt his legs start to buckle under it's strength.
'Can I win?'
John thought were in disarray from this simple slash, as he and the boss were struggling for dominance a bloodthirsty smile suddenly appeared on John's face.
'Who am I trying to kid! Of course I'll win this fight! I've slaughter godlike being in my past life, THIS PIECE OF TRASH IS NOTHING!!' More sleeping memories of his past life awoke and fused with John, as he slid the bosses sword past him and cut the bosses forearm!
"Doesn't matter if your a boss or not, you look like the same shitty armour to me." John spat out and threw himself at Velonin.
Operating on instinct, the very instinct that had the experienced dozens of years surviving on the battlefield, John started attacking and defending without restraint.
Shifting his body to the side, Velonin sword just barely passed by his body and just narrowly missed his heart. Lifting Roel up, John was just about to counter attack when he suddenly dropped to the floor as Velonind sword chopped off a lock of his hair.
Johns sword stance made his attack and defense look quite careless and sloppily put together but were highly calculated, however that's not what caught Velonin off guard.
"This is Sword Saint Roukel's…!" Velonin shouted out.
Despite hearing this, John was completely unperturbed that a rusty tin can knew of his past life, as his only thought was on kill it.
"It's no use!" Velonin parried John's sword and immediately began its counterattack, landing a cut on John's left thigh, causing him to bleed from the injury.
"Heal!"
John swung his sword defensively in order to buy time for his heal to work . As it wasn't too severe, it was able to heal quickly.
After 3 minutes of passively defending against Velonin, John went back on the offensive once again clashed sword with Velonin.
Velonin raised his sword in the air, but John's experience told him that it was a feint! Velonin sword attacked right but turned left, and John thought he was ready for it, when out of nowhere the Sword flung back to the original Side!
'A double feint!' using every ounce of willpower and strength, John manage to slightly deflect Velonin's snake like sword, as John was sent sliding back.
Looking down at his slasher stomach, John knew that his inner organs were fine but it was his right thigh had been deeply cut. However, Johnn didn't lose his composure.
That was because unlike in his past life where this would've meant death, John was a healer!
"Heal!"
'This armours swordsmanship heavily favors crippling the legs before going in for a fatal attack, Ill need to watch out for it from now on!'
Athough they didn't fully recover immediately, his Heal was enough to stem the bleeding and close the wound enough that his organs didn't spill out.
"Fire Spear!" Janel yelled out as multiple Spears made of fire flashed towards Velonin at insane speeds.
"You cockroach! Don't be a coward, this is a duel!!" Slicing the fire spears in half, John looked up and saw that Living Armour about to charge Janel and Bryan.
"Velonin! Wait!" Hearing the human speak to him in his language, the living Armour Intrigued had been raised and temporarily stopped.
"I never agreed to a fair fight, but if you want one, I'll agree to a duel." John said in the otherworlds language.
"Guys do not interfere in me and this boss's duel!!" John yelled out. Raising his sword, John nevered stopped healing himself.
"Thats more like it you cockroach!" Velonin gave the duo one final look before move back to John. John smirked at the Armour's cockiness.
"You said you recognized Roukels swordsmanship? That means you should already this technique." No longer holding back, John went all out and through any and all precaution to the wind.
And so, the The Swordsman descended onto the earth.
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TomTucker777
TomTucker777 I genuinely don't understand that Chinese MC in this. For the beginning half of the fight, all he did was sit in the back, heal and give orders while the Chinese version of Bryan gets his arm chopped off. He still does nothing as armless Chinese Bryan starts getting shredded but the sword except to heal him???
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