Second World

His opponent was rather crafty as well, Jack never expected it to hide itself beside the door waiting for him to come out. He lost his balance and staggered backward due to the ambush, but found that the blow was not as heavy as he remembered it. The boost was indeed impressive, he would have flown away if he was still in his previous condition.

The Lizardman executed its fierce consecutive slashes again, but Jack had studied this move since his last tussle with this creature. This move must be one of its offensive skills. It was extremely fast and left no room for counterattack nor evasion once the first slash connected, he could only continue to block it. But it would usually slow down after the sixth slash, that must be when the skill ended.

Jack counted each blow he had blocked, once it reached six, he dropped his shield and executed Power Strike. His gamble paid off as his strike caught the monster off guard and hit its body. He scored an 82 damage on the monster, which was more than double from his last endeavor.

In his thrill due to scoring high damage, he got careless and got a slash to his waist. He lost 23 damage. But with the Godly Might regenerating his HP even during combat, his health quickly returned to full. Even though his HP was only one-tenth of the monsterʼs, he was still at an advantage.

With the boost, he really had a much easier time dealing with this guardian boss. His speed was also now slightly faster than it, enabling him to cope with each swift assault and even making a counter-attack from time to time. He continued to grind the monsterʼs HP. Sometimes he broke from the melee scramble and used his range spells to land a few hits.

Due to Godly Mightʼs cooldown decrease and stamina/MP increased recovery, he could practically spam all his skills. However, the Lizardmanʼs fast speed and response combined with its dense skin proved to be very resilient. Added with the round shield on his left hand which nullified damage from time to time, it took him quite a while to wear the monster down to 30% of its health.

Jack looked at the time of his boost, there was just a bit over ten minutes left. He made some quick calculation and was worried that he might not make it in time to defeat the Lizardman before the boostʼs duration was up. He hastened his pace by sacrificing his defense to frantically attack the monster. They were basically trading blows for blows now without bothering to evade and block. This was still bearable due to the HP regeneration and decreased damage received from the Godly Might buff.

When the Lizardmanʼs HP was less than a quarter. It suddenly gave off a deafening roar. Jack was stunned by the abrupt roar and couldnʼt evade when the monster twisted its body and had its tail rammed onto him. He was thrown almost eight meters away before landing on his back.

As he hastily got himself up, he saw the Lizardman stayed rooted at its place. Its red scales further reddened into blood-like color. He could feel the aura around the Lizardman changed. It threw down his round shield and gripped its scimitar with both hands. He then made a pull and the weapon magically separated into two identical scimitars. It revealed a savage grin before charging forward.

Seeing the monster also had its own buff, Jack didnʼt dare to be careless, he brought out his Magic Shield again. The Lizardman performed its trademark skill, the six consecutive slashes, using both hands, resulting in twelve lightning-fast attacks. Jack had to relied on both his defensive skill, Magic Shield and Parry to content with the assault. Even with that, he still suffered hits from five slashes. He lost a bit over 20 damage from each slash.

Strange, he thought. The damage was not much different than before. The Lizardmanʼs buff seemed to be not as imposing as it looked. It only added an off-hand weapon which gave it double attack counts, but with its round shield gone, it would have a more difficult time defending. With that in mind, Jack went back to his previous reckless style, to trade blows for blows.

He used Power Strike and scored a 24 damage.

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