Arthur wasn't just a normal knight fighting for his king, he was Athrad's right hand man.
Jerry was starting to get a little bit tired while his enemy didn't seem to be affected, however the Metal Sword was stronger than the normal sword that Arthur was wielding, as little bits of pieces broke off the weaker sword, almost not visible sparks were sent up.
Jerry had 3 Attribute Points and decided to send them all into Agility, it went up to 29.
Arthur wondered how Jerry was getting stronger in the middle of the fight, seeing Jerry get faster and faster, this made Arthur also decide to push beyond his limits.
But then a notification sounded, the Slimy effect had been activated and a bigger chunk flew off the frailer sword.
With the eyes of someone who also enjoyed fighting Jerry activated the skill Slash, Arthur froze for a second, he felt a weird ominous energy coming from the Metal Sword.
Without any time to react Arthur instinctively put up his sword to guard, as the pieces of metal collided a crack grew on his sword, it was almost entirely broken down the middle.
"What tremendous power." a thought flashed in Arthur's mind. "No one has ever dealt such damage to my weapon." another thought.
No words were uttered the entire fight. Jerry had to think of a plan on how to take down this powerful enemy, their swords confronted with clashes more and more until the inevitable happened and Arthur's sword broke.
"Ah, so this is it, I've lost." "..No! I will fight with everything I have." the dungeon mini-boss held up the broken sword by the handle.
"That's the spirit!" Jerry thought and got in the fighting position, waiting for his enemy to make a move.
The dungeon was now pouring some more energy into Arthur in order for him to win.
Arthur made the first move and he ran very fast in Jerry's direction, much faster than what the world record for fastest running was, the thin layer of water splashing under his heavy stomps, and residually turning into waves. Slash would be recharged in just 30 seconds.
Jerry's fingers wrapped around the sword with all the strength he could muster, his skin blanching, the palmaris longus of his flexed arm turned visible and Quast could also see it, because of Jerry's decision to pull the sleeves of his hoodie up, almost completely disregarding safety.
Even though the blade had mostly broken off, Arthur's imposing aura made it feel like it was a completely fine weapon.
A beautiful display of swordsmanship was seen from both sides as 15 more seconds remained until Slash was available for use.
A wide swing cut across the room, the air pressure so great the water below it was affected, ripples were sent through the liquid.
A great deal of stamina was sucked out of Jerry during this entire fight, but his saving grace was almost there, just 5 more seconds until it could be used.
Considerable strength seemed to be coming from Arthur as he was slowly but surely drove Jerry into a corner. It was a close call as Jerry just barely managed to evade a swing from the broken sword that would've cut his arm.
However it was time for the common skill Slash to be set on the playing field. That sinister energy coming off of the sword was felt again as Arthur couldn't help but freeze for a split second, even though he didn't want to.
But there was considerable delay with him guarding, and the Metal Sword hit Arthur's iron gauntlets as a notification sounded that the Slimy effect had been activated, Jerry didn't know that he could slice through iron, but he saw Arthur's hand fall to the ground and yet when he looked, there wasn't any blood, nothing.
Of course Jerry still felt bad, because the one he had just cut the hand off of could speak and communicate and also showed human-like emotions, obviously since he was once human. Yet Jerry also knew that this would happen, he was getting mixed emotions.
But it seemed like the one who had no hand now wasn't feeling any pain as he continued to viciously attack.
Arthur's balance was out of place a little bit though, and he was missing some cuts that he would've been able to perform when he still had hand. This made it easier for Jerry to evade attacks.
Jerry wanted to end the battle as soon as possible as the Metal Sword was tried to be aimed at the vital spots of which he knew, that included the neck and heart.
Arthur also wasn't wavering on killing, even though he had almost no chance of cutting anything with his broken sword, but with enough intrepidity he managed to get a few cuts on Jerry's arms. The cuts were much more painful than the hit from the horned goblin, but Jerry's cuts on his arm released blood unlike Arthur's.
Slash was once again pretty close to being fully charged. The Metal Sword was also making do with cuts as the iron armor of the orange haired man was being damaged away at, it was a matter of time until Slash was charged, and that meant the battle could be won.
The all too well known glow appeared on Jerry's sword and Arthur once again couldn't move for an instant, in this time however no guard was put up as the Slash imbued sword cut the torso of the mini-boss. The armor had been completely rendered useless as the metal just was gashed through, a large cut on Arthur's torso, he had now offically lost as he fell to the ground, all of the dungeon energy was now draining out of him.
"Seems like you won, Jerry Dankworth." sat on the watery ground Arthur said.
After a little bit of debating Jerry said "Fuck! I just can't kill you!"
"But you won, and if you don't do it now all the energy will drain out of me slowly." all of the commands that the dungeon had imbued into him were vanishing, and after a little pause Arthur decided to also add "It's okay, I was already dead once, and I don't feel any pain."
That feeling of when one is about to cry gathered a faint bit at Jerry's throat as he made his decision, and although Jerry had only known this Arthur Adewin for just over 5 minutes, some nostalgic energy was emitted by the person sat on the floor with his hand over the cut.
"I'm sorry." Jerry had the Metal Sword behind his back now preparing a large swing.
"It's fine, you won after all." Arthur said as his head was cut off and he dissapeared, turning into dungeon energy.