The woman released an amorous gaze as she held out her sword with both hands.
Her stance was perfect.
「 Defeat the following 1/3 Heroes. 」
「 Defeat the First Opponent: 3rd Generation Hero - Diana Grace. 」
"This is too much."
「There are ten concurrent spectators watching the stream. 」
"Hm?"
I realized that the stream was running with people spectating.
"Welcome everyone!~"
I waved to the status screen where I was being recorded from.
"Oh-"
Diana launched another attack which I dodged and continued looking at the stream.
—HolyEmo99: LOL. Did he just dodge the attack while speaking to us?
—VengefulMaid22: Why is he wearing a mask like that? Does he think he's the Main Character? LOL
—Strawberryhouse: Everyone, what did the vampire drink in the morning?
—FunniestMan5: What?
—Strawberryhouse: Kopi-Hahahaha
—VengefulMaid22: ...
—FriendswithUn: Old man, I think you wandered onto the wrong site.
My cheeks immediately turned red as I quickly read the messages while fighting, underneath the mask.
'I should've tried seeing if I could customize the mask instead..'
Swish!—
"Hmph!"
My spear applied a mountain worth of force to counter her attack.
However, it wasn't going to be that simple.
"Ugh!"
The strangle gold aura covered her sword.
It felt as if I was being parried by a hard rock which required lots of manpower to destroy.
The only difference was that the rock was in a state similar to the outside gas and torrential water that travelled in far more chaotic movements.
Leaving that aside...
"There's not much to it."
My spear despite having a disadvantage in close range with addition to her golden aura,
Pierce!—
The low abdominal part was pierced through as my spear skiffed by her blade.
The hero immediately felt the recoil, sending her back a couple metres.
She held her injured area in place.
'If there's one thing I'm confident in then that's..'
Swoosh!—
I almost met her body before she launched an unexpected move, slashing towards my neck.
I smirked.
Diana immediately saw her faults but I twisted my body and launched my boot into her waist.
Wheeze—
She gasped prior to meeting the floor and falling onto the ground.
My opponent was seconds away from regaining their composite, although,
Sqwelp!—
It was too late.
The spear caused her body to eventually vanish into blue particles.
"Your attack patterns were way too similar to the previous opponents."
「 You have defeated the first opponent. 」
—King_Of_Tragedy: Where is he right now?
—SeoulPark11: Damn, cool name... I'm jealous :(
—AnimalsRule: Yes, I thought it was a dungeon but I haven't seen anything like this before in any forum.
I glance at the notifications of the streaming chat.
I was about to tell them but I looked to where the first opponent fell.
It had been turned back to the original wooden humanoid shape—though,
That was just the beginning.
The creature had been formed as well.
'It's not human?'
The being revealed was female again,
With long pointy ears.
Her eyes were green and white hair flowed down her head and shoulders.
There was no weapon in her hand and only the minimum amount of armor.
This could only mean one thing..
'She must be a mage.'
Considering the fact that she was an elf,
It had to mean she had some sort of special magic.
She lifted her feet up and got into stance.
「 Defeat the Second Opponent: 27th Generation Hero - Alyssa Hillwood. 」
Straight away, she summoned wind blades.
The sharp cuts almost hit me as I somehow dodged.
She may have been a mage, but there wasn't a single chance for me to close the distance because of her attack patterns.
'These patterns aren't unpredictable.'
In fact, it felt easy to predict.
But dodging the attacks was another whole question.
Slit!—
My arm felt one of her wind blades.
It was odd.
By each second, my body was getting tired-
"Wait."
What if that was her goal?
I knew that our strength levels were matched.
'If she's trying to drain me and finish me off with a final large attack..'
It would be over.
So that's why.
My arm instead endured the painful cuts which felt like my skin was being torn apart.
I got closer and closer.
My legs were getting worse as well.
'Since I can't get close by the usual means..'
I reached her even closer as the attacks transitioned to be even more difficult to maneuver.
But I was already close enough.
「 You have activated the skill 'Absolute Precision(B)'. 」
My eyes were in their own world.
No other distractions could change where I left my gaze.
The entire world was in slow motion.
Bzzztt!—
「 Lightning Manipulation lvl.2 activated. 」
The damage was centered into one singular place.
Boom!—
Her magic, my lightning and spear all reacted.
Smoke was created and eventually cleared up.
I was about to relish my victory.
Though, it wasn't even close to ending.
'Huh?'
She had completely neutralized my attack with a circular barrier, including the checkered patterns.
Immediately, I sent my legs flying backwards till we were at least twenty metres apart.
'What is that?'
At first glance I thought it was a regular mana barrier.
Nonetheless, I gave it my all in that attack.
"That's not a normal mana barrier."
I knew that at the very least it had special properties to it.
So I needed another plan in place.
'What to do..'
I was forced to exit thoughts by the hero as she used another distinct attack.
Large tornados of wind stirred towards me.
"Tch."
I dashed around the twirls of wind effortlessly but there was a catch.
The wind blades emerged behind the small whirlwinds.
'I know I can't make a plan or use the environment.'
Which limited my ideas but I knew one thing from my countless hours of research before buying the game.
While sending blades, she flinched.
I continuously ran towards her while getting hurt by the vigorous wind blades.
An X-shaped blade tried to stop me.
'Mages are weak to almost any kind of close range attacks.'
I jumped above her like an orangutan and sent my spear flying downwards.
She tried using the special barrier-
"Not so fast."
I grabbed the water bottle out of my inventory and threw it at her while,
「 You have activated the skill 'Absolute Precision(B)'. 」
This time the bottle hit.
The head of the opponent felt the bottle and flinched which was a huge mistake.
Only a couple seconds after,
I was above her.
Flying in mid-air before kicking her jaw and doing a backflip.
Stab!—
Alyssa fell on her knees as the spear helped her leave the world.
Then, blue particles took over her body.
In time, she turned back into manikin.
「 You have defeated the second opponent. 」
"Hooo.."
—VengefulMaid22: 0_0
—UnwiseMaster: I'm speechless.
—BiggeztZimp: His movements are like a pro players. Are you sure you aren't on a second account?
"Ahaha, I'm very grateful for your kind words."
I laughed as I bowed down once.
—JimboThePig: And he's so humble. I'd say this deserves a request.
「 JimboThePig has sent a request. 」
「 Request - Do not attack for [Five minutes]. 」
「 Reward - 50 Silver Coins. 」
「 Do you accept this request from JimboThePig? 」
「 Y/N? 」
—VengefulMaid22: Crazy bastard, that's basically suicide. Even if he's good, he barely managed to hold up last time.
—JimboThePig: Well, he doesn't have to accept. It's his choice.
"Accept."
There was no hesitation in my voice.
Nor did I tremble.
I had to take every opportunity I could to earn the treatment money for my father.
It was the bare minimum I could do.
—HolyEmo99: Crazy bastard, keke.
—HomelessGodman: LOL.
「 You have accepted JimboThePigs request. 」
「 Healing critical injuries. 」
"Woah.."
My body returned to having fewer injuries.
Although I still felt aches all over my body.
My eyes rolled to the front again.
The manikin began transforming for the last time.
Within a few seconds it ended.
The opponent who stood opposite me had red messy hair.
The inferno eyes were glowing just enough to make me sweat buckets.
My hands shuddered in nervousness.
'I can't just quiver in fear, can I?'
My body calmed down.
Just like I had done a previous number of times.
"This is like breathing for me."
I paced forwards.
The man's red cloak and perfect build were astonishing.
The serious look on his eyes combined with the molten red sword.
「 Defeat the Final Opponent: 10th Generation Hero - Aodh Lance. 」
「 You will be timed for Five Minutes starting now. 」
「 04:59 」
Fume—
He wasted no time as the greatsword created a trail of flames.
Subsequently, he met his sword with my spear.
Clang!—
I managed to parry the attack.
Just from that single attack I could tell that this man's strength was on a completely different level from the previous two heroes that I fought.
「 04:37 」
The match-up was fire versus lightning.
Both elements don't have any direct correlation in terms of which is better to each other.
For one fact this was about to be an extremely difficult battle.
Probably even harder than any other challenge I had faced the past exhausting few hours.
I didn't even know how long it had been since I entered the dungeon.
Blaze!—
He cut his sword through the air sending a wave of flames towards me.
It traveled through the air and almost burnt my clothes with its unimaginable speeds.
「 03:57 」
I still had way too much time left on my hands.
I needed the seconds to turn into minutes at a burning hot pace.
The opponent pulled his sword back as if he was preparing to burn me to ashes within a single swing.
I rolled over to another side a split second before he unleashed a single volcanic flame covering twenty metres ahead of him.
I ran in circles around him as he observed my movements with a calm eye.
「 03:04 」
He faced the place where I was going to run into and weaved the flames into me.
'Shit..'
I slipped and fell on my back.
The flame burnt the bottom of my shoes.
The greatsword was lifted up again.
I dived to the side again.
Fume!—
I continuously dodged by moving side-by-side and diving into a forward roll.
The tumbling worked.
My attempts were not futile.
「 02:46 」
—Even so.
Drrrrffume!—
Scorching red heat enveloped the sword.
The flames wrapped around the sword and bonded.
The two became one.
His eyes were like mine, not a single squidge away.
'This isn't going to be easy to dodge.'
The energy wasn't the same.
He slowly built up the immeasurable amounts of energy.
I couldn't attack him yet.
「 02:12 」
The heart energy had become silent.
FUUUUMMMEE!—
I rolled to the side but it was too late.
"Ahh!!"
The pain released a sinister grin as half my leg was completely burnt.
The man dashed at me forthwith.
In a hurry I struggled to the side.
It worked.
Even if the sharp wide blade was on my bridge between life and death.
Smash!—
My body rolled over again to dodge the sword.
Again and again.
Left, right and top.
「 01:47 」
My leg hurt worse than the flames of hell but I endured.
The boss slashed diagonally so I couldn't get lucky like the previous few stamps to the ground.
I rolled again behind him and ran to the other direction
He sent the sword towards my back which I ducked.
「 00:59 」
'Last minute..'
An increased number of attacks were constantly unleashed.
I managed to dodge and parry them all since somehow the attack patterns were all very similar to the manikins before transforming in the first two rooms.
「 00:42 」
「 00:27 」
I was getting closer.
The longer leg of the clock was slowly making its way to my rewards.
A large sword spun back to my neck, reaching the man's hands when the attack failed.
「 00:16 」
Stop.
All movements were stuck in place.
No sound waves were formed in the unknown room.
Tick. Tick.
'Another attack.'
Ten seconds were left.
Aodh's sword suddenly was enveloped with flames which he blasted towards me in a huge storm of fury.
The haywire storm was incoming,
However.
「 00:01 」
「 00:00 」
My suffering would be turned around.
「 You have completed JimboThePigs request. 」
「 As a reward, you have earned '50 Silver Coins'. 」
A small smile shaped my lips.
Keep collecting and collecting :D.
Made the chapter extra long for the milestone.