Chapter 19,
Monstrous Spirit
Third Person's POV
Koshiro, who was barely conscious, tries to stand up from the blow he just received. This guy who just attacked him was extremely strong as hell. Who would've thought that someone as strong as this exists?
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Seeing a notification come out, Koshiro felt himself gradually gets weaker than anybody he was with.
The guy attacked once again, but before he could kill Koshiro, he suddenly teleported near Gin, and Goro and Hiruki was also near.
"So, you wanna fight using tactics?" The guy asked as he misunderstood things.
Suddenly, he snapped his finger and a magic circle came front and appeared there, was a lady with a black blindfold in her eyes. Everywhere has black hands floating not far from her and the girl, despite not having a pair of eyes, emits a presence of a killing intent behind her expressionless face.
She wears a black long version of a gown that pairs with a veil where you can see through and she carries a cute black small umbrella that makes her stunning, overlooking the fact that she's a little scary.
"This is no good. It's hard to stop a fight when someone's misunderstanding the situation, unless there's someone to mediate us," Goro said wisely.
"Hang on," Gin spoke as everyone of us disappeared, not leaving a single trace of them.
"That one's no joke," Hiruki was slightly trembling in fear. Seeing those guys was probably taking a toll on him.
"Will we be okay? If we stop here, we won't be able to earn a penny and our risk will be in vain. Moreover, Koshiro is a target of his. If we go back now, he might follow us and might as well, destroy the place we're staying at, and at worst case scenario, he might destroy the whole city," Gin explained as he was looking drained after teleporting them all from a far place.
"Anyway, that one's no joke? What does that mean?" Asked Goro.
"That character can use a strong spirit. That one's called, 'The Hands of Hell'. That lady can summon hands almost infinitely and can affect the strength of the Master," Hiruki replied while he was sweating by buckets.
"I didn't know such things." Koshiro's words surprised them.
That was unexpected, indeed, but at the same time, it wasn't. Why? Koshiro was a game freak, but he was not the Creator. He's just great at playing a game after getting to play it for a few times. Hiruki, on the other side, almost knows anything, tries to give as much as information he can recall with his memory.
"We have no choice. If he wants to play using a brain, then we should fight him with ours. Two heads are better than one but four are better than two," Koshiro smiled as he gave a plan completely.
his expression changed immediately, "but, thinking back, I feel less confident now. . ." he fell silent.
"Don't sweat it. Enjoy it like always. To add up, we wouldn't be able to reach that far without your tactics!" Gin cheered up his best friend knowing he will feel positive hearing it.
Koshiro regained his posture, "logically speaking, we don't have a chance in that spirit. Spirits are born strong, and they are ranked from the spirit god to dead spirits. Looking at that one with my instincts, that one's probably just below the Great Four Elemental Spirits."
"Well then, what shall we do with that brat? Why is he even here?" Goro calmly asked.
"This must be a hunting ground or. . ." Hiruki paused.
"Or?" Koshiro also questioned.
"There's a possibility that he's a Master. Those characters didn't took long before they were launched in the game. The are those who aren't restricted by the guilds and can do anything they pleases with their power. But what's odd is that most masters are knights," Hiruki said, him hands on his chin.
"Now for the plan. I can't think of anything else and I can't guarantee that this one will pass for it has a lot of holes with it, so. . ." by Koshiro's words, they nodded knowing what's he's gonna say.
"The first thing to do is either kill or restrain that thing. To do that, I have to memorize the place easily. Since I won't be able to do that faster, the solution will be Gin and Hiruki. Gin will use a spell to shrink Hiruki and Hiruki will stay close to me to transfer the map he memorized and also, to protect me with light magic, since the spirit uses dark magic." They all nodded in agreement.
"After Hiruki transfered the map he memorized, I will be restraining the spirit with my spirit's magic. If you can't defeat a Spirit using a beast, use a Spirit," he added.
"After restraining it, what's next?" Goro asked.
"This part is the core and the most vulnerable part of our plan" Koshiro's eyebrows furrowed and he sighed continuing, "If we are able to restrain it, there's a possibility that the Master is the one to attack next. We need Goro and Gin to stick together. Gin will be attacking from a distance and Goro will be defending. But not just a normal defending, instead of defending using a shield, he should attack incoming attacks with shield and use body strengthening to enhance your defensive skills." Goro seemed confused.
Once again, Koshiro explained, "If Goro defend, he will be pushed back causing Gin to lose his view by the big shield covering his front. But if Goro used body strengthening, and instead of defending, he pushed the Attack back, these a possibility that it will get bounced off," Goro answered nodding realizing what he meant.
"So, what will happen if we defeat him?" The whole place fell silent along with them after Hiruki asked.
Not long, Koshiro spoke, "We'll decide it by then," the all nodded in agreement.
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The scary spirit, The Hands of Hell, or the one called Fei Guan, was standing in front of here master and she seemed to be looking for Koshiro and his group. Her blindfolded eyes cannot let her see, but she has a knack at sensing using shadows.
In a sudden, Koshiro appeared out of nowhere and starts running around the area they're locked in and doesn't seemed to be looking at anywhere, other than the enemy at near sight.
Without permission, hands came out of Koshiro's Shadows, but immediately disappeared after Koshiro's body emitted light shocking the other party.
Paying back, fireballs were shot to the enemy continuously, but stoped after a pause of one minute. Seeing what's there, Koshiro was shocked that the spirit was unharmed that even just a small scratch couldn't be seen form it. I'll be really hard to ward off such strong entities even by just using a fire magic that emits light that wards off darkness.
Breaking back to reality, Koshiro heard Hiruki speak, "I'm done here, are you prepared?" he asked a little worried.
Koshiro nodded, "Anytime, ready," he said in a confident tone.
Shocking everyone, Koshiro stopped in motion and he glowed more outstandingly and screamed in agony, "ARGHHHH!!!"
As he stops at place and screamed, louder than he ever did, the place fell silent and the scream was emphasized as if a beautiful song was played and everyone who heard it was stunned by the melody's beauty.
Calming down, Koshiro pants heavily like his life was almost taken away by the reaper, but was returned immediately before it was completely taken.
"Are you okay?" Hiruki, on the other hand, whispered once again on Koshiro to check up on him.
"I'm f-fine," he answered, still panting.
After he fully calmed down, he chanted, "I summon forth the Great spirit of the Forest of Death, Siber. The Fairy overflowing with beauty, Kao. Answer my call for your soul," after chanting, the master was shocked himself.
He was able to shot fireballs seemingly without an end, and know he summons two spirits at a time?! Anyone would be shocked with this power of his. About the chanting, every chant differs even in the same spells. What the knights chant are the words that naturally comes out of their mouths that they can't even tell properly where it came from. Is it from the game, or is it from the player? No Knight can answer the simple question even if the answer itself showed itself in the Knight's front.
Charging front, Siber deflected the attacks from Fei Guan using lightning magic which is a component wind magic. Next to it was Kao who summoned other faires and it surrounded Fei Guan and created a barrier of magic that retrained her.
Before the master could attack, he was shot by a stone, "you aren't going anywhere," Goro said in a cool tone after he and Gin made their great appearance.
"Oh, you have business with me?" He asked with a scary look wiping off the aura emitted by Goro and Gin.
Whispering unknown words, Gin pointed his hands on the master and lightningballs appeared and continuously attacked him, but unlike Koshiro, it doesn't seemed to end.
After the strike, smoke covered the place and a wall was seen after that, "Is that all you got?" The master asked audaciously as the earth walls came crumbling down.
"Here, catch,"he chuckled and threw a lightningball on towards their direction.
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