BXBX NOVEL Chapter 339 - Trial Of Pride
"Yes. That is right."
"However, I don\'t have my weapon right now. How can I even fight you?"
"In this space, your weapon is considered connected to this place due to the main reason it devoured my weapon whole. If that is the case, you can pull it out to aid you in this battle. I am not giving you a disadvantage. This is a trial to see whether you are worthy of using my weapon and carrying the curse."
I see. A trial. Does that mean King Goliath also did this thing before? Maybe so. However, since the Versatile Weapon is currently devouring the Weapons of Pride, the only thing I can do is win this.
Since I am familiar with conjuring the Versatile Weapon in my world, it seems it works the same way here.
"[Materialize]!"
A surge of my mana has been sucked dry and the Versatile Weapon materialized in my hands. From the looks of it, it seems the Versatile Weapon I summoned in this place is the one that has not yet devoured the Weapons of Pride.
"Looks like you also noticed it. Yes, the Weapons that have been devoured have not yet been applied to your weapon. Before it can even apply, the trial must be completed."
"So in short, I just needed to defeat you right?"
"Basically, yes."
"Then, bring it on so that I can rest," I changed the Versatile Weapon into a Magic Sword. However, I realized that I can\'t use my abilities here like the [Flaming Sword]. Perhaps the only thing I can use is the skills I learned in real life. Not a problem.
"Heh, you are a gutsy one."
When I blinked, he disappeared from my field of view.
\'So fast!\'
He was quick and before he can even do anything to me, I immediately used my Versatile Weapon and blocked his incoming attack.
BANG!
He bashed his shield straight to me and although I managed to fully block it, that doesn\'t mean I am out of danger just yet.
"You are wide open!"
I quickly move to the side allowing me to dodge the spear but I didn\'t fully dodge it since it managed to graze a bit of my left cheek.
The pain stings and despite the fact that I am not in the real world and it still is painful means all the injuries I am obtaining right now can also transfer in the real world if I am not totally careful.
Quickly kicking him to the abdomen, I managed to get out of his range. With the new distance, that should be fair enough I think, and changed the weapon\'s form into a Cannon. The gun would be too underwhelming and a bow and arrow, or maybe a crossbow are also out of the question. The only way to penetrate the shield is by either brute-forcing the shield off, or by going head to head.
I will lose if I do the head-to-head right now. Compared to King Goliath\'s fighting style which is pretty boring, this one is already pressuring me. Not only that, but I can\'t use magic and some of the skills I have in the game. The only thing I can do is to at least make sure to defeat him before he can do anything to me.
He slams down the shield to the ground and he started to sprint towards me. I thought he will be doing a shield bash then charge so I fired the cannon but before I knew it, the cannonball didn\'t even managed to do a single thing as it breaks the cannonball to pieces. HIs advance didn\'t stop and when he was near me, the spear he is using is thrown straight and is coming towards my area. I was surprised that I immediately dodged away from the spear but little did I know that was just a distraction.
When I dodge away from his spear, the shield is immediately incoming to my face.
BANG!
It was a square hit to my face. I felt like my whole head has been stomped by an elephant or something by just that alone. It\'s much different from the attack that King Goliath did. And before I can recover, he kicked me on my chin. My lower jaw felt like it has dislocated. But thanks to that, the dull pain from the bash of the shield stopped and I managed to recover my stance immediately. I used my hand to stop the advance of my body from slamming to an invisible wall and immediately dodge the incoming attack of his spear once more.
The shield almost returned to my face but I was quick and changed the form of my weapon into a bo staff, allowing me to escape the attack of his shield. While I was sent mid-air using my bo staff, I used this opportunity to deal an attack against him. By changing the form of the Bo staff into a hammer and using the height between me and him to unleash a strong hammer slam.
DENG!
But the hammer slam I expected to be impactful once it lands didn\'t even do a jack sh*t on it and ended up very weak in the process as it landed to his shield.
"Nice work trying to utilize the hammer slam power but unfortunately, that isn\'t nearly enough to pass an attack to me."
He then swings his shield and I was also swung away from him. Thankfully, it didn\'t do any damage to me but just by that, it was clear that his shield is as same as the unbeatable shield that King Goliath did on our battle but differently done as this was the most aggressive attack stance I have found while fighting against someone who has the weapons of a paladin. Not only does he use the shield for shielding against the attacks but he uses it to fight back and bash enemies with it.
"Looks like your skills are speaking indeed. I am even holding back since I know you can\'t use your full potential just now but I can tell that you are indeed capable of doing what is needed."
"Your flattering me but I know that isn\'t enough. Enough crap! Let\'s continue!"
"Heh, being gutsy can bring trouble but that means you are brimming with confidence!"
Then, I saw him put the shield on his back.
"Despite the fact that you can\'t even penetrate my shield, I will make an exception and fight you with my spear. However, don\'t even think my spear is not enough to end your dreams, right here, right now."
He disappeared again and this time, he appeared beside me and tried to cleave me with his spear. I quickly stopped it, but it isn\'t enough to barely block it. Once I managed to block the spear, he rotated the spear and used the dull end of the spear and remove my blocking sword off. I am wide open so I immediately back away from a distance before he can even unleash the spear\'s stabbing mode.
He struck his spear to the ground and using the long length of the spear, he used the force from the slightly bent spear to vault towards my position. He brought along his spear so when he landed, the spear is also there and is currently in cleaving attack.
That\'s when I activated Parry with my katana in an iaido style. Who would have thought the teachings of the old man in parry would come in handy against the cleaving attack of this guy using his spear.
He was taken aback since I managed to sent back a response against him but that only made his blood pumping.
"Heh, you are making quite a good amount of good moves, boy. Entertain me more."
I can tell, from his movements, he isn\'t even trying at all. He is just toying me, checking whether I am even worthy of the spear at all. However, he shouldn\'t also underestimate someone who lasted long in a hellish katana training that the old man did for me.
Focusing my senses, I grip the hilt of my katana, I waited for a little bit before I slash the katana up in the air, prompting the guy to stop in his tracks.