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Hinu or rather the abyss charges at me wildly. Without fear and only pure calculation in my brain, I dash at it.
The main effect of Undying Focus seems to be that it rewires 99% of my brain to only focus on one thing and leaves the last percent for anything else.
As I was dashing at it, I imagined his anatomy by using his height and width to recreate his past body, I also use the shadow of its body to know where the abyss was moving since it has a tiny bulge indicating that a large and concentrated amount of abyss was there.
This was thanks to the skill, the undying focus which was making full use of my art background.
This bulge was going towards the right palm of its body and as I notice that, the abyss stops in its tracks and shot its right hand forward which shot an abyss spike at my head.
I slightly tilt my head to dodge it, then duck when the spike turns into a blade that slashes at me horizontally. Since I position my body forward, I immediately dash for the abyss with my right hand gripping my katana firmly.
The abyss spike retracts and three shorter spikes come at me at the same time. Thanks to my agility I jump forward past them and then spin my body around slashing the three of them at the same time.
Using my left arm as a crutch, I catch myself and soon came face to face with the abyss. Before it could dash back, I slash it with a quick and light slash which begins to disintegrate, and while that was happening did I backflip to dodge an incoming attack from my leg, waist, and back.
I did not care about what it was and only trusted in my death perception which worked well for me when I saw three small puddles of the abyss with small spikes coming out of them.
It joins the abyss that took over Hinu's body and restores itself. Though, I did notice that the abyss wasn't completely restored.
This changes, however, when some of the abyss surrounding me joins it and was completely back at its previous form.
The abyss surrounding me got smaller and the humanoid abyss starts to form two pairs of arms.
'It seems the abyss surrounding me, wasn't the very last of them.' I thought to myself.
I dash at the humanoid abyss before it could finish its transformation but it jumps away from me.
I have been noticing this but when I fight that humanoid abyss, it starts to retreat first so that it could attack me from a distance.
'I beat that thing at close range back in Bellken so now it's trying to kill me at long range, It does recognize me as an actual threat!' I click my tongue.
'Tch, but that also means, that it will get smarter and learn whenever I beat them.' The humanoid abyss finishes producing its arms and I notice a tiny bulge going at its palms.
Without any moment to spare, I quickly dash to the humanoid abyss while dodging all six spikes with as little movement as possible.
I easily came face to face with it again and thus, I begin my assault. I get as close as I can and slash at it twice before it could dash back. I couldn't do any more than that because of my lack of strength and the fact that I only have one arm to grip it.
As it was dashing back, the abyss spikes turns into sickles as it retracts back at its arms. With a combination of undying focus and improved death perception, I step to the left dodged two of them then did a short jump while spinning around to slash the three spikes, lastly, I backflip to dodge the last one.
I raise my head and look at the humanoid abyss before running at it while leaving a trail of faint yellow light where my eyes were.
When I approach the humanoid abyss, not only do its arms shoot out the abyss spikes but the abyss surrounding us shoots their spikes.
My death perception sense death everywhere in my body meaning that there was no way, I could dodge it. I wave my katana around my body, not trying to hit them but instead, I was just parrying it.
I was hit in the neck and leg before the abyss spikes retract preparing for another assault.
As the abyss consumes my flesh, I feel the effect of undying focus being less effective.
'Undying focus my ass!' I thought to myself as I swiftly cut myself, killing the abyss.
Becoming more aware of things around me, I hear the shouts of the people up the hill, they seem to be being pushed back.
I hear Astoria's desperate cry, something about her coming to me and how I'm going to be safe.
"Astoria watch out!!" Freya screams.
Upon hearing that, as I was running to the humanoid abyss, I reversed my grip on my katana and threw it forward which split an abyss spike in half.
I jump high and balance myself at the handle of it in a squatting position so that I can pull my dagger from its sheath.
I quickly drew my dagger and looked where Astoria was. She seemed to have fallen over and was about to be consumed.
Seeing that, before even a second could pass, I threw the dagger at it in a desperate attempt which thankfully hit them before the abyss could stop it.
It gives enough time so that Freya can push the abyss off and save her but unfortunately for me, even with the help of my death perception, I was still pierced in the side of my stomach, leg, and left shoulder.
The effectiveness of undying focus lowers again as I stab myself which pierces through my skin but it kills the abyss.
I lost a lot of blood by now so I was feeling a bit dizzy but I stay conscious thanks to my undying focus.
The abyss attacks once again and I have no chance to hit them so I had to dodge.
As if its instincts, I opened a menu in my mind which appeared in front of me.
The floating rectangle was a transparent dark blue background with transparent white text.
*****
๊ฑแดษชสส๊ฑ ( ? ) :
[๐ฃ๐ฎ๐๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ] ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป - Sense when something is about or will kill you.
>Lv.1 - Sense when something is about or
will kill you.
>Lv.2 - Know the direction where
death will come.
>Lv.3 - ???
>Lv.4 - ???
>Lv.5 - ???
Cast Time - 0 seconds
Cooldown - 0 seconds
Range: 5 - 15 meter radius
Scaling:
Strength -
Dexterity -
Constitution -
Wisdom - A
Intelligence -
Charisma -
๐จ๐ป๐ฑ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ผ๐ฐ๐๐ - Gain [Focus( ? )] for 5 minutes.
While it is active, any damages will only decrease the effectiveness of [Focus( ? )] instead of destroying the effect completely.
>Lv.1 - ???
>Lv.2 - ???
>Lv.3 - ???
>Lv.4 - ???
>Lv.5 - ???
Cast time - 0.2 seconds
Cooldown - 10 minutes (0:6:49)
Duration: 4 minutes
Scaling:
Strength -
Dexterity -
Constitution - C
Wisdom - B
Intelligence -
Charisma -
*****
I dodge three spikes after reading the cooldown.
'Seven minutes before I can cast again?!' I thought to myself but I readied myself to stall that long.
Since I was hesitant to charge at the humanoid because of the nature of how I fight.
'If I want to survive, then I'll have to stall!' I thought to myself resolutely.
As I continue to dash, jump and roll so I can dodge the enemy's attacks.
'To survive. That is why I'm desperately fighting and I will not let anybody stop me!' I dodge another attack from the abyss.
*****
แดแดแดษชแด ษชแดส สแดษข
...
: Skill (Undying Focus) unlocked.
: Skill (Undying Focus) activated.
[NEW]: You have gained the buff [Focus( ? )]
[NEW]: The buff [Focus( ? )] effectiveness has decreased by 70% due to the debuff
[Bleeding ( ? )]
สแด๊ฐ๊ฐ๊ฑ:
Undying focus ( ? ) - (36%)
Duration: 49 seconds
Focus ( ? ) - (30%)
Duration: Until forcefully interrupted.
แด แดสแด๊ฐ๊ฐ๊ฑ:
Weak ( ? ) - (49%)
Duration: 9 days
Bleeding ( ? ) - (26%)
Duration: Until all of the wound where blood was spilling is healed or patched up.
*****
I dodge and dodge for three minutes until the pain becomes unbearable and I become slower but I still manage to dodge them all.
The effect of undying focus has run out at this point and I was slowly going to bleed to death.
Suddenly like an angel from the sky was a health potion.
"Himura, catch!!" Freya shouts.
I immediately catch making sure to dodge all of the attacks from the abyss.
As I drink it, the bleeding stops completely after some time passes and I quickly and easily dodge the attacks of the abyss.
I wave my katana around my body as the abyss fires a barrage of abyss spikes I finally got the hang of it so I easily dodge it.
And after 7 grueling minutes, the real battle starts. I opened the skills menu and activated undying focus and with its effect, I ran towards the humanoid abyss without fear or hesitation.
I mercilessly stab and slash the humanoid while leaving a trail of faint yellow light where my eyes were.
The abyss gets smaller and the people on the hill start to push them back. Multiple spikes emerge from the ground and I quickly dash back in a zig-zag pattern then as I zig-zag, I stop myself halfway and dash towards the humanoid abyss again.
I cut down the abyss spikes in front of me killed him stabbed him once again.
The damages that I have done have caused the humanoid abyss to be the only one left and the people on the hill watch me at a distance.
Astoria fires arrows trying to protect me but the abyss consumes the arrows.
With its defenses broken, I decided to go all him.
With a loud battle cry, I assault the humanoid abyss mercilessly and in turn, the abyss did the same for me.
As my flesh was consumed my katana broke and seeing that, the abyss put everything in one attack.
Its jaws became big and it tries to consume.
'Shit!' I screamed internally.
Am I gonna die here? When I finally admitted that I don't want to die?
Suddenly the jaws cut in half and I saw a finely made blade beside me stuck to the ground.
I drop my broken katana and took Jin's sword and slashed the humanoid abyss.
I slash in an upward diagonal motion first then a flurry of light slashes before finally slashing the abyss vertically, almost cutting it in half.
The abyss was reduced to a mere puddle which was beginning to become smaller.
"Don't think you can escape that easily!" I stab the blade into the ground.
"Haaaaaah!!!" The entire blade became stuck to the ground leaving only the guard and handle above the ground.
"Hah..hah..there...hah..hah..fuckin eazy."
I grip my broken katana and finally finish off the little amount of abyss in my body.
The effect of me losing too much blood finally kicked in and I start to lose consciousness.
I only hear loud mumble before everything became silent and I enter a peaceful sleep.
"Heal that kid! He pretty much finished off the main source of this war." The commander said as he orders the rest of the people to find the remaining abyss.
Astoria, Alice, and Freya carefully carry Himura to heal him. Jin tries to pull his blade out of the ground but couldn't.
"How the hell did he do this?" He said laughing slightly, relieved that the battle was over for now.