Chapter 86: Emergency Item Craft, Paper-Thin Armor Part 1
「Hey, Break! Something is about to come out of this thing! It doesn’t look good!」
「That much I can see myself! No need to rush me! It looks kinda tough, but this should do the trick…… Just swing it at this thing a few times and see if it works properly. And if you happen to break it, I can just fix it again on the spot.」
With those words of advice, Break handed me the Dullahan sword. There was no visible change to it, but just by holding it in my hands I could already feel the difference.
「So light? And what’s with the blade? This feeling is rather good if I do say so myself……」
「Since I don’t have my furnace or anvil with me, the only thing I could do on the spot were some emergency repairs and sharpening. Because of that its durability is not all that great, but it should still pack a nice punch.」
Ah, I see. The blade had the additional effect of “extra sharpening” to it, now that I see its status. I can see that she managed to get the blade in shape in just a short amount of time she was given, but there were still specks of rust and dried blood on the sword’s blade. Still, its feel was way better than before.
「Low durability…… Limited number of swings…… Seems like one heck of a challenge quest to me.」
I’d say about eight swings or so…… Will this be enough to defeat that boss?
Just how much damage can I dish out with a single swing? And how do I calculate the damage needed to bring the spooky skeleton down? Remaining ever-vigilant, I start to analyze all the information I had on me to see if a pattern would emerge that would lead me to victory.
「Think you can do it, boy!?」
「Yes, we sure will!」
Now, looking at the Humming Rich, there were some nasty-looking black flames that were starting to accumulate inside of its staff. And it wasn’t just burning inside of it. It was leaking outside the staff, covering the ornaments on it, making the whole thing look like a giant jaw of some scary monster.
「GUGI, GAH, GIGIGIGI……」
「KUKEKEKEKEKEKE! KEKEKA! KAKA!」
「IIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!! GYAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!」
「GEGAGAGA!!! GAGAGE! GAGAGAGAGA!!!」
「GUOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!」
「AAA, GAAAH ––––––––– GAAAAAAHHHHHH––––––!!!」
What was that? Whispers, screams, moans, shouts, groans, gurgles…… All of those sounds were currently coming from within the Humming Rich. …… Ah, I see now how it is. It’s not coming from inside of it. There were about six jaws growing out of its staff at the moment, making noises like that.
「E-even more enemies!?」
「…… No, this might actually work in our favour here.」
The black flames started to turn into clouds of smoke. Then the smoke started to solidify as it was dividing itself into six parts. What emerged from that were six copies of Humming Rich, except they didn’t have the magic staffs, were a whole lot smaller, and each of them carried a different type of weapon…… I could see this fight go into three basic directions from here.
Pattern one: they would attack interchangeably whilst teleporting all around the place. And since the main body started to shrink to adapt to them, they would probably try to mix it amongst them, making it harder for us to find the main body and damage it. It wasn’t helping that the bodies didn’t have any distinguishing features.
Pattern two: there would be no alteration, but rather attack pattern involving all of them attacking all at once. In that case we would have to focus all of our effort on the main body whilst ignoring the fake ones, which would be really hard to do in and of itself. …… However, I don’t really think that the game would really go with that pattern.
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