336 A Hard To Clear Zone
So the next world… Those toxic monsters would greatly change or what?
“Come,” as I had to face new species in my eyes, I had to fight using everything I got. I summoned the twenty toxic monsters before taking out my heavy glaive.
“Keep hitting them,” I ordered before summoning the bull monsters, “keep them safe.”
I knew if I had to release those bull monsters against the current ones here, things would end up bad. The difference between the two was simply too obvious to neglect.
So it was better to use these as a shield to protect the far attackers of my little force here. In return I’d act as the tip of the spear.
I held my glaive and simply waved it towards the first monster I faced.
*Clang!*
Like I was hitting a giant rock or something. Before, my glaive never failed to hit a monster and sent it flying.
But now? I felt my two hands shaking fiercely from the impact, and all it did was push that monster backwards for a few metres before stopping on its feet.
Damn! This wouldn’t work!
I squeezed the shaft of my glaive while looking at the upcoming monsters from all fronts. “Screw it! Come forth now!”
Dire times required urgent solutions. I instantly summoned my shield, held it on the ground with one hand and with the other I held the glaive.
Both were heavy, damn heavy, but I had no time to complain. If I didn’t push myself this far, I’d fall here!
“The Great Palm!” I shouted without any hesitation before adding, “The Mighty Defence!”
*Bang!* *Bang!* Bang!*
The monsters were stopped by my shield. A great palm shadow enveloped me and managed to stop all the incoming monsters.
At the same time, a faint glow of aura appeared on top of that palm. What the glaive failed to do, my shield managed to execute it.
All the monsters hitting the shield were sent flying backwards. But the number of monsters here was simply too much. Besides, the duration of my skills were limited.
But I waited till the two skills ended and then the payback came.
My Mighty Defence skill paid half of the total damage taken to each monster in a flash of dark red light. Each monster got a hit, roared fiercely before it was sent flying once more.
“Great!” I didn’t expect the extra pushing attack that came with the skill. As I looked at the big bodies flying like meteorites everywhere, it was time for me to act.
“Please work… Sword Dance!” I swapped my glaive with one sword, while still holding my shield in my hand. ρꪖꪕᦔꪖꪕꪫꪣꫀꪶ
I couldn’t risk losing this shield. Who knew if this tactic would work or not. I was moved forcibly under the effect of the skill, and I aimed not at any standing monster.
Instead I aimed at one of those flying ones. If the monsters showed such resistance against my glaive before, then I hoped this was thanks to their life force.
Dealing with alive monsters and dead monsters must be different, or that was what I hoped. As my body flashed at one of the flying monsters, I hit it with my sword before decisively recalling the sword, and taking out my glaive again.
“Work dammit!” I roared while feeling the immense pressure over my two arms. Holding such a heavy weapon and shield at the same time was really taxing.
But I endured the pressure and pain, moved the glaive to hit that monster midair.
*Bang!*
And it worked! That dead monster moved like a wrecking ball towards the direction I aimed towards. It crushed all the monsters it faced in its path, and it was time for me to kill them.
“Shocking Glaive!” I roared, using this AOE kind of attack from the start. I used the dead monster as a vanguard, crushing and paving the path for my skill to shine.
My glaive sent a crushing wave that fanned out and covered an area of five hundred metres. The damage taken was so good, enough to kill most of the monsters or leave them heavily wounded.
The only drawback of this was the cooldown time. I had to wait for two minutes to use it again.
So as I landed, I started to run towards another dead monster. I now had three skills on cooldown.
*Bang!* I sent that monster flying, but it didn’t move as far as the first flying monster did. Yet I didn’t hurry to use any skill.
I kept running, dragging both weapons while enduring the pain. I hit the monster successively while moving it in a specific path.
After five hits, I managed to clear an area in front of me. I had to run in a circle to make sure I’d hit the largest possible number of monsters.
“It’s all set… Rising Might!”
I moved my glaive in an arc under the effect of my skill, then it released a cone shaped attack that covered almost all monsters I just hit before.
The hit wasn’t enough to kill anyone, but it left all of them roaring in deep pain on the ground.
“Time to run,” I took away my glaive and replaced it with my sword, “Sword Splash!” I turned around, and released this attack to stop all the monsters coming at my back.
Then I started to run.
I placed the heavily injured monsters between me and the ones I just hit. I checked and found that over a minute had passed. One shield skill could be used, but there were still two more skills on cooldown.
“Little more,” I looked fast at my warriors and they were doing good at killing and slowing down the bull monsters. But this was only effective at certain points.
“Time to summon more then,” I didn’t hesitate to run towards one end. I wasn’t that far away anyway. I just paved the path using one dead monster, and finally arrived there.