299 – Demon Knight (2)
It defends itself with three huge shields in front, and attacks by freely swinging its long, sharp whip.
Approaches are hindered by the sharpness of the protrusions raised on the armor, and any attacks that might penetrate the defense are simply hit, trusting the hardness of one’s armor.
The devil’s strategy was simple. He simply pushes his advantage to the limit and prevents his opponent from doing anything.
The Chester family currently has two long-distance means. There are only Monia’s starflower and Rex’s throw. Chester’s catapult might be useful under normal circumstances, but it is useless against demon knights.
“This is difficult. Can you access it?”
“No. All you have to do is swing the whip randomly and quickly…… “The whip itself is this sharp and fast, so it’s difficult to deal with it alone.”
After striking the whip with his axe, Urgo moved his body widely to avoid the whip’s subsequent movement.
It is difficult to block the whip like this. The whip is a flexible weapon. Like a sword or an axe, if you block one part, the whole thing doesn’t stop moving.
The moment one part is blocked, the entire whip moves as if wrapped around it due to the impact. If you get caught up, that’s it. My whole body will be cut into pieces and I will die. So, you have to dodge with all your might as the whip attacks you at an incredible speed.
In addition, a whip that long would normally be difficult to handle on its own, but the Demon Knight was able to move much more freely and flashily by manipulating the long whip itself as if it were armor.
A whip flying from the side suddenly changes direction and sharply bends downward, then suddenly surges upward and stabs in, or it coils like a snake aiming for its prey and then stabs in at once.
If you deal with it with the sense of dealing with a regular whip, you may be caught off guard.
It was actually dangerous a few times, but fortunately, we were able to stay safe thanks to Chester, who had his senses turned on by concentrating all his attention on ‘dealing with the whip’.
No matter what strange way the devil knight uses the whip, Chester, who has absorbed all his senses into the movement of the whip, is able to respond. The training I received from Urgo paid off.
“Inhale!”
Chester moved reflexively and blocked the tip of the whip sticking out of the ground with Anubis.
“It even penetrates the ground!”
The moment the tip of the long whip went behind the devil knight and was hidden from view, it dug the tip into the ground and launched a surprise attack.
“How did you know that?”
“I noticed that the whip was moving a little strangely.”
“…… Indeed. It seems to be moving a little bit. “If it sinks a little where you can’t see the whip, watch out for the ground.”
As Urgo spoke, everyone nodded.
When Chester reacted in this way and said how he had noticed the attack in advance, Urgo noticed and relayed it to the party, informing the party how to respond.
“Then let’s go again.”
Chester began to run forward, fully aware of the whip’s movement through his eyes and ears, and Urgo and Lorwan followed.
Rex made a sharp turn to the side, lifted the tree that had fallen on the ground, and threw it towards the demon knight.
The demon knight blocked the tree that flew away like a javelin with his shield, and Urgo, who swung his ax at the opportunity, hung a shield on the ax and used all his strength to destroy the shield.
Immediately after Urgo removed his shield, Chester, who stepped on Urgo’s back, aimed at the gap revealed by the disappearance of the shield and stabbed Anubis.
When Anubis, with the power of the ingredients added to his running momentum, was pierced, a loud sound was heard, and the Demon Knight, who reflexively moved his armor to block Anubis, followed and found Lorwan digging in from below.
Lorwan stabs the spear. However, the Demon Knight used his remaining shield to block the attack and moved his whip to kill them. But.
“uuu!”
Before that, Rex rushed in, holding a chopped log in each hand, and stuck the log into the protrusion of his armor, protecting his hands and pushing the demon knight, causing him to lose his balance.
“Ha!”
Immediately after, Senna, who had been waiting behind Urgo’s back, jumped out and thrust her spear straight into the gap in the armor created by Anubis’ collision.
Instead of the sound of blades colliding and rubbing against armor, the sound is heard as flesh and muscles are split and torn by blades.
“Inhale!”
Sena pulled out the spear she had stabbed in one go before it could be caught in her muscles, and dark red blood spurted along the spear she had pulled out and then spilled onto the floor.
“I’m backing off!”
While shouting like that, Chester spread Anubis and created a curtain, and the whip wielded by the demon knight was blocked by Anubis’ curtain.
While the whip was blocked, the four ran quickly and widened the distance from the demon knight. The demon knight tried to chase it down, but was unable to pursue it and had to retreat because of Monia’s wind arrows aimed at the wound.
“Sena! “Is your wrist okay?”
“Yes! “I guess only the armor is hard, but the body inside is not that hard!”
When Monia gets worried, Sena swings her spear and says she’s fine.
“Really? “Thank goodness.”
After hearing Senna’s words, Urgo looked at his torn hands and bleeding. As I continued to hit the hard shield or armor with the axe, the impact caused Urgo’s grip to be torn apart.
‘How much is this?’
When I was young, my grip was often torn, but once I became an adult and my body was complete, there was nothing to stop Urgo.
Even huge rocks and thick steel could be smashed and torn apart with a two-pronged sword or this giant axe.
But look. That demon knight was perfectly blocking Urgo’s attack with a single piece of thin armor.
The more I hit, the more the ax made a twisting sound, and the repulsive force that my muscles could not absorb reached my bones, causing a sharp pain in my wrists and elbows.
There were other victims as well. It is not easy to move while avoiding the bumps on the armor while paying attention to the shield or whip. Moreover, it doesn’t stay still and moves all the time, so if you make a little mistake, you will get cut.
Everyone had excellent skills and prevented deep cuts, but Rex, who was aggressively attacking, as well as Chester and Lorwan, had several wounds on their bodies and blood was flowing.
“I’d like to have at least a cannon.”
Everyone agreed as Chester spoke in a slightly tired voice. If there was a cannon, I think it could destroy that armor.
The whip flies. Monia’s wind arrow struck the whip, and Chester, who saw it, took his stance again.
“Still, I think I can take it down without shooting light.”
“Yes. “Unless I might have to deal with a lot of people later, I want to win at least one without it.”
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Lorwan heard the conversation and saw Anubis in Chester.
I don’t know much about Lorwan, but from the conversation we had before the demon knight arrived, it seems that a beam of light powerful enough to destroy the castle wall is shot from the end of the golden sword staff.
‘Do you want to see it sometime?’
They keep saying it’s amazing, so I want to see it, and I’m really curious, but for some reason, the story is being told with the premise of saving it, so Lorwan can’t say anything.
‘Let’s ask to see it before we kill almost everyone.’
After making that decision, Lorwan started running as soon as Chester started moving.
I felt pain as blood spurted from my calf and side where I had been cut by the projections of my armor, but I gritted my teeth and moved my leg.
Among the group, the one who was most focused was Sena.
Rex is not a horse. He runs around wildly on his two arms and two legs, sometimes stepping on trees or obstacles and even flying around.
In addition, Senna was not controlling Rex’s movements.
He maintains his balance on top of Rex, who moves freely and cannot be read, and avoids attacks that might come at him. After seeing the power of the whip, he gave up blocking it with a shield a long time ago.
While dodging, you must accurately identify the opportunity that everyone has opened up, the single gap, and stab it in at once.
Senna was physically gifted enough to show her hope and her excellent fitness, so she didn’t have bad sense. No, she was great. You can tell just by looking at her that she rides Rex brilliantly.
However, the problem is that the body cannot follow the senses. Sometimes she playfully complained that her body was moving too slowly.
‘When? When? When… ….’
You must read one step ahead. Only then can you follow the movements of others.
Rex. Chester. Urgo. Lorwan. All four people live in a world a few steps ahead of others in the same amount of time.
The devil knight was also like that.
With such people fighting, it was natural, but when I watched from the outside, there were times when I felt like time was passing a little faster or space and time were distorted.
Chester moves beyond the speed of his body’s vision and brain perception, so when he comes to his senses, he moves around as if he was teleported.
Urgo simply uses its enormous body to attack by moving four or five times while others only move once or twice.
Lorwan uses his flexible body to show off his ridiculous movements and fights by easily performing impossible and unbelievable acts.
That’s why Sena focused on Rex.
When it comes to living an extraordinary time, Rex is the most outstanding.
So, if you work with Rex and step into the time he lives in even just a little, you can do what you need to do in this terrifying fight.
‘Gap!’
Clearly, the demon knight will show an opening in the next few seconds.
After Sena quickly judged where there would be an opening, she aimed her spear towards it.
As Sena expected, a gap appeared there. And Sena’s spear pierced there.
However, there was one thing she had not thought of.
The demon knight decided to reduce the number to one person first.
At the same time that Sena’s spear penetrated the demon knight’s body, one of the projections of the demon knight’s armor shot out like an arrow and flew towards Senna.
“What?!”
“What!”
The never-before-seen attack method of shooting off part of the armor caught everyone off guard.
And after a while, the sound of Senna falling to the floor helplessly was heard.