Chương 74: Chapter 74
Then the spears were upon him. Although slowed down slightly by his [Force Reduction Field], they were still blindingly fast. He was lucky enough to avoid two by moving back a step, but the others struck him squarely in the chest.
"Gaaah!" Issei choked out as he was thrown back skidding several feet. It felt as if he'd just been kicked by a horse!
You have lost 265 HP!
'Crap on a stick! That's the most HP I've lost at once, ever!' Issei winced as he pressed a hand to his cuirass. There were dents where it had been struck, but it was still in serviceable condition.
Armârôs was staring at him hard. "That armour…it's more than a disguise…" she said in sudden realisation. "It was forged with magic!"
"Only an idiot would confront a Fallen while wearing regular steel." Issei informed her tartly. "Now it's my turn…[Earth Shot]!"
The sudden appearance of a large missile made of rock aimed right at her didn't shock the Fallen too much; she simply summoned a curved sword of Light and smashed it into gravel. As she did that, however, Issei was charging at her.
He didn't have a hope in hell of beating her; that was what conventional logic told him. She was too powerful, too resilient. All of his best spells barely irritated her. Even presuming that he could force her into a close-range duel, she was still physically his superior and she had a mastery of those Light weapons of hers that likely far exceeded his own burgeoning skill with his swords. Plus who knows what else she had up her sleeve.
That was the limit of being a basic human. At least it was without the intervention of the gifts of the God of the Bible.
"Come forth, [Twice Critical]!" Issei shouted, mentally apologising to Ddraig for misnaming his Gear. In a flash of red light, the [Boosted Gear] appeared on his arm.
[Boost!]
"A Sacred Gear?!" the Fallen exclaimed.
The rush of the [Boost] was even more intoxicatingly powerful now, with his physical stats all over 100. It felt like he could do anything!
Leaping into the air with a shout, Issei soared towards Armârôs like a bullet. Drawing his gladius back, he filled it and his arm with more of his power before slashing at the Fallen, who tried to block with her Light sword as she had done before.
Issei's [Bloodmetal Gladius] cut through the weapon of Light easily, shattering it into motes. Despite her very obvious shock, Armârôs still managed to mostly dodge the attack, the sole exceptions being a long cut across her cheek and a chunk of her hair.
"You DOG!" she howled and lashed out with a Light spear she just created. Issei blocked it, but she managed to disarm him of his Swordbreaker, such was the force of her strike. His weapon clattered to the ground below.
[Boost!]
Feeling the fresh invigoration of another [Boost], Issei flipped around in mid-air to land feet-first against the wall and immediately kick off again, heading right back at the Fallen.
"What. ARE. You?!" she demanded as she flung spear after spear of Light at him. "No human should be this powerful, even with the aid of a [Twice Critical]!"
Issei didn't bother to answer. He had no intentions of letting her live. She had killed too many people to allow her to escape. He smashed Light spears aside with lightning-quick slashes of his sword, his attention focussed solely on his opponent.
"You can't kill me, human! I am a Fallen Angel! I'm over five-centuries old!" Armârôs raged. "I was slaying lowly humans before your grandfather's grandfather was a lusty look in his father's eye! You will fall like they did!"
A feral snarl came over him. Like hell he would.
Slamming into Armârôs, he stabbed his gladius into her left shoulder, actually managing to overpower whatever form of defence the Fallen had. Sinking the blade in up to its hilt, Issei yelled as he was suddenly grabbed by her right arm and thrown bodily through a wall and into the floor just in front of the door to the third floor.
You have lost 300 HP! You have just over 100 HP left!
He had also left his gladius embedded in his enemy's body, which really, really sucked. It was a good thing that his [Boosted Gear] doubled his Stamina as well as his Strength, otherwise he was fairly certain that last attack would have been a TKO for him.
"Owwwwwwww…!" Issei gasped and then coughed. He was certain that he'd just spat out some blood there.
Forcing himself to sit up, he looked up, meeting the enraged and incensed glare of Armârôs as she stalked into the lab area, blade still jutting out of her shoulder.
"You! You…you scum! You so beneath my contempt you deserve not a name!" the Fallen shrieked. "You dare spill my blood?! You dare harm one who stands farther above you than you do over the lowliest bug?! Crawl on the ground and beg for forgiveness, human!"
'Seeing as how I'll get none, there's no point.' Issei thought sarcastically. He strained and then stood up shakily, stumbling a couple of times, but managing to get to his feet nonetheless.
"More futile effort!" The Fallen snarled, although there was a surprisingly unnerved expression on her face. "How?! I've beaten and broken your body! You shouldn't be able to move, let alone stand up! So how are you standing!?"
"Ha-ha…you know…all this time, I've never actually had to fight all out." Issei chuckled wetly. "Nothing and no-one has been worth it. You don't fight all-out against weaklings, after all."
"Humph. And so what?" Armârôs snapped irritably.
"I'm saying, Armârôs the Lesser…that I am now going to fight you with everything I have." The Sekiryūtei replied simply, noting the twitch in one eye at her much-despised appellation. "What do you say, partner?"
[BOOST!]
"Three Boosts…? No, that's not possible…!" the Fallen narrowed her eyes at the crimson gauntlet in suspicion. "That's no [Twice Critical]! What Sacred Gear is that?!"
"You aren't going to find out….because I am going to kill you." Issei stated, power surging through him once again. "[Gamer's Gear]!"
[Game On!]
"That…what is that Sacred Gear?!" Armârôs blinked in stupefaction as the blue armour of the [Gamer's Gear] appeared on Issei's right arm before her thought processes restarted. "No, before that…two?! You have two Sacred Gears?!"
"All the more to pound you into the ground!" the Sekiryūtei snarled as he charged forwards. Even as he ran, he reached into his [Inventory] and pulled out another pair of Mana Potions, shattering them without even breaking his stride as he charged forward.
It took the bloody and battered Fallen a moment to react, such was her shock at her enemy possessing multiple Sacred Gears. Having two was an almost unheard of outside of when Azazel implanted them into people, so seeing someone clearly outside of the Grigori wielding two Sacred Gears was a shock to the system for Armârôs. And by the time she started to react, it was too late.
Issei drew back his right arm, loaded it with enough magic to power a boatload of his fire spells, and launched it forwards in a powerful uppercut that slammed into the Fallen Angel's jaw with enough force to shatter concrete. It actually took her off her feet and made her eyes roll back for a moment.
Enemy Armârôs is stunned for the next 15 seconds!
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