Chapter 134
Itai no wa Iya nanode Bōgyo-Ryoku ni Kyokufuri Shitai to Omoimasu 134
Defense Specialization and a Sword 2
A few days later, Kasumi walked over to where the sword was with a familiar air .
Which was no surprise, as by now Kasumi had challenged the sword over 50 times .
“…Alright, here we go . ”
Kasumi walked down the steps and opened the door to meet the sword once again .
“…”
Kasumi slowly unsheathed her blade . She reminded herself of what her next move would be, as she blocked the sword that came flying towards her .
The sounds of clashing metal rang in the dark room .
A HP bar hovered above the sword, and Kasumi paid attention to it as they fought .
“‘Leap’!”
Once the sword’s HP bar had diminished a little, Kasumi leaped forward .
In the next instant, the spot where Kasumi had been a second ago was pierced by numerous swords .
In other words, this sword would do specific actions once its HP reached a certain point .
And after witnessing it many times, it became easy for her to avoid them .
“‘First of the Blades . Kagerou’!”
She closed in again after having moved back . Kasumi slashed at the sword and then took one step to the right . This was because she knew that a sword would shoot out of the ground .
While fighting the sword, she circled it, slowly taking one step at a time .
As she moved, swords would thrust out from the ground where she had been, with only a second’s delay .
It would be fatal if she stopped for a second . Furthermore, the swords that sprouted from the ground would not disappear unless certain conditions were met, so she had to think about where she moved .
It had taken a long time for Kasumi to figure out how to move in this fight .
By the time she had made a full circle around it, the HP bar of the sword had dropped to the next level, and it moved to the next phase of the fight .
The swords in the ground disappeared, and now there was purple fire raining from the ceiling instead .
If Kasumi got hit by it, her AGI would become 0 for 10 seconds .
And the sword itself had now switched to flying at an incredible speed, which made it clear that having reduced AGI would make it impossible to dodge its attacks .
The part that had frustrated Kasumi the most until now, was this fire rain .
No matter what, she could not dodge it completely until the sword moved to the next phase .
And so Kasumi reexamined the skills she had and tried to think of a way to get through this part .
“‘Last of the Blades . Oborozuki . ’”
Her conclusion was that she had to kill before she was killed .
12 high-speed successive attacks hammered at the sword with ferocity .
It’s HP bar was dropping at a shocking rate, but still, Kasumi showed no pleasure on her face .
Those 12 attacks allowed her to skip 3 phases and jump straight to the final one .
The sword’s HP bars was at one millimeter now, but that was inevitable .
No matter how much HP you took, it would always have just a little remaining .
Kasumi’s trump card was Oborozuki, but it also halved her stats for a fixed period and made her other ‘Blade’ skills unusable .
And she had to enter the final phase in that situation .
Kasumi had not been able to pass this phase and had died dozens of times .
“…”
The sword teleported to the back of the room . Its body was now shining brighter than before .
A wall of fire stretched up to the ceiling as if surrounding her . The walls of fire created a straight path towards the sword .
It was 10 meters long . And 3 meters wide .
Kasumi would have to run through here and strike the final blow .
“Hah!”
She let out a short breath and ran on her now slower feet .
Not only were numerous swords flying towards her from the front, but the walls of fire were spouting flames from both directions .
If she stopped for even a second, swords would shoot from the ceiling .
The 10 meters looked short but seemed so long .
“Hahh!”
She blocked the flying blade with her sword, barely dodged others, and continued forward .
She had to dodge the fire no matter what, as it would take her AGI . She also had to avoid the swords from the ground, but the flying swords were a different matter .
As long as she had not been hit until this point, she could survive three hits now .
Kasumi was now halfway across, and she understood it through all of her senses .
“‘Super Acceleration’!”
She had been saving ‘Super Acceleration’ until now, and she used it here to try and get through this area where the attacks came harder .
Yesterday, Kasumi had taken a break from fighting it, and she had asked Sally and Shin to help her improve her skill in dodging flying swords .
Perhaps that had proved effective because she could now see the course of the swords more clearly .
Still, as she was much closer now, she did not have enough time to deal with them, and so she was hit .
“Go…!”
She felt the shock through her whole body as her left shoulder, stomach and left thigh was pierced .
The painful-looking red effect resembled fresh blood as it splashed .
But Kasumi did not stop .
She thrust out her right hand . The sword that she gripped touched the sword that was floating .
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In the same instant, the floating sword lost its brilliance, and it quietly fell to the floor . Then it slid into a sheath that had materialized .
The fire and blades in her body now disappeared . The room returned to its usual darkness .
“…”
Kasumi reached out a hand to the fallen sword and picked it up .
“Hehe… Hahaha! I did it! I did it! I finally did it!”
She could not hold back from expressing her happiness as she inspected the item .
‘Self-devouring Bewitched Sword . Yukari . ’
STR+ 30
Bewitched Sword
Self-repair
Bewitched Sword
Includes 5 skills that can be used at the cost of HP reduction, MP reduction, Temporary Status reduction, Constant Status reduction, and Physical restrictions respectively .
Self-repair
Its durability will recover when it’s sheathed .
“I guess I’ll try it out . Now, to go find some easy monsters to kill!”
Kasumi equipped the sword and left the room to go and search for some monsters to test her new sword on .
After walking for a while, she found an easy monster .
“Good, good . I think this one had a lot of HP . ”
As Kasumi pulled the sword out of the sheath, a purple smoke rose into the air .
“Oh…? Hmm?”
The smoke quickly drifted off with the wind, but Kasumi saw that something was clearly different .
It was her own clothes .
Below, she was in a traditional dark purple skirt, and above her chest and arms were bound in a light purple cloth . The bindings around her arms and the sword were letting off a purple smoke .
“…”
Kasumi quietly returned the sword to its sheath .
And then the purple smoke was sucked in, and her clothes returned to normal .
“I, I guess I’ll get used to it? But still…”
She couldn’t just ignore something this advanced .
Kasumi coughed and with slightly flushed cheeks, unsheathed the sword once again .
Kasumi decided to use the skill that cost you physical restrictions, as she was the least sure what that meant .
“‘Purple Phantom Blade’!”
With the help of the skill, Kasumi moved towards the monster at an accelerated speed .
Then she cut with the sword in her right hand .
She let go of the sword with her right hand, and it disappeared and reappeared in her left .
Then she gripped the sword and slashed again before it vanished and materialized in the other hand once again .
Starting from the right hand, she attacked from both sides . The monster was thrown back as she charged at it with 10 successive blows .
Finally, she let go of the blade and brought her hands together in front of her chest .
And threw 10 swords out .
The blades surrounded the monster in the air and stabbed into it all at once .
It was 20 attacks in all . A monster that merely had high HP could not survive it .
When the skill was finished, the blade returned to Kasumi’s right hand .
“Good…yes . ”
It would be perfect if it weren’t for the clothes . Kasumi thought as the purple smoke surrounded her again .
“Huh…oh, it’s gone now . I dropped the sword…?”
She reached out to pick it up, but then she noticed that her hand looked terribly small .
“Hmm…?”
Her skirt was kept up through system restrictions, but her bindings around her arms and chest were becoming loose . She was now only 120 cm tall .
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“What…oh, what?”
She tried picking up the sword, but she couldn’t handle it with just one hand .
She knew that it would be hard to swing even if she used both hands .
“This…”
As Kasumi tried to understand what was happening, a different monster came near her .
And the monster was not sensitive to her plight .
“Oh…! Hey, hey, wait! Look how cute I am! I think, anyway! Let me go! Ahh…ggg…”
Of course, it was not effective, and Kasumi was sent back to the town .
When she returned, her bindings were tightened again, but her body was still small .
Kasumi checked her status .
“10 minutes like this…”
She gave up and walked over to a step as she dragged her skirt . And there she sat quietly, eyes shut and ignoring the looks she was getting .
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