Chapter 65: A wandering boy.
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"Well well... I shouldn't waste more time in this path toward the fifth floor. It's time for me to go all out and speed run this fucker."
With both my daggers out and complete drag resistance, I set my feet straight toward the entrance of the fifth floor. Right away, I notices that this path that I took is a lot longer than the first time I went here. It seems like the devs know that I'm here and decided to make it harder for me. Which is fine in my case. More map to explore just means more monster for me to practice my crafts once again.
Without hesitation, I dashed straight toward the end and s*******r every single thing that dares to stand in my way mercilessly and quickly. There was a total of one hundred and fifty enemies. Every single one of them died in one swoop of my daggers. No skills required. Just precise and quick attack that eliminate everything.
"No problem. Now the problem is that."
After getting everything killed... Now I'm face to face with what I can assume a mini boss... We're in a very tight space. My opponent is on top of me, dangling down with what I see is a cannon. What's dangling on top of me is some sort of armored being. It's very big so I cannot dream of getting past him without killing him.
"Tch... What do I do know with you?"
I cannot rely on Phantom Flicker here, because the chance of my feet clipping the cannon ball that he shot is very high, making it harder for me to safely get across. I have no time to hesitate though. So I took my shot and jumped as high and as fast as I could.
When I jumped, the mini boss gets aggroed and immediately peeked its head beside that cannon.
"Hm?!"
I see a bug like creature peeked its head from beside that cannon. Then, that cannon shoots a massive cannon ball with tons of spike on it...
"I have no way whatsoever to dodge this... With the space around me that is tight, I cannot afford to deflect it either... So, the only way is to burst the cannon ball with my attack!"
I twirl my daggers around and wait for the perfect moment to strike the cannon ball at a perfect time so that I can hopefully force it to explode early and then use my Phantom Flicker to perfect frame my way out of this attack...
I looked at the cannon ball with the time slowed a bit. I started to look at things differently now. With me being in the zone, it's much easier for me to do something that I never otherwise do. I see things a lot more clear.
"I see it... The weak point that will lead me to victory!"
My body immediately centered itself to the cannon. I see a center line on the cannon ball. With that, I swing both my daggers vertically along the center line of the cannon ball. I didn't try to force my daggers to go through the cannon ball. Instead, I just push the blade alongside the cannon ball. With that, I just screamed with the massive grin on my face.
"Godspeed!"
With the speed of light. I s***h, s***h, and s***h at the center point of the cannon ball and the pressure is building up because my attack is so fast that it didn't register to the cannon ball. After I finish around thirty two s***h seemingly simultaneously... The attack finally registered and immediately, an orange flash immediately appear on the center...
"BLAST OFF!"
At the same time as I screamed that, I use Phantom Flicker to perfectly dodge the explosion. Using frame perfect technique, I went past the explosion completely. I was safe and perfectly in front of the damn bug.
"With this, it's the end."
As the bug once again try to shoot its cannon ball looking panicked and horrified, I immediately use Intimidation. The bug cowers in fear. With that, I throw both my daggers straight toward the bug who cannot move.
"Judgement Drive!"
Triple Dash was used and the mini boss died without any problem... I notices that my vision is a lot better. Meaning that I'm not in the water anymore... It is dim though. So my eyes can't really see anything. Night Vision was automatically turned off when I jump out from the water. So annoying.
I did skip out on the reward because of that, which is pretty annoying as well, although, I don't really care about a reward that is coming from a mini boss. First of all, I cannot level up for a while anymore. Anything other than level up and skill is useless.
Anyway, from quick observation using nothing but my eyes, I can easily determined that this place that I'm on is a massive crossroad that leads into four different path. West, East, North and South.
"This is very... Interesting... Which road do I need to take to reach the shortest time possible for reaching the fifth floor."
It is at time like this where I would rely on my instinct... First thing first, Let's go North.
I set my way toward North. As I expected, my heart started to begin feeling uncomfortable... I immediately thought that West, East and South might be a better option than the North. The best option in my opinion is West because it is the first thing that I thought.
So, I make a turn around and immediately sprinted West of the crossroad.
"Oh?"
The first thing that greeted me when I went West is something that makes me all fluttery inside...
"A trap!"
I notices that there's a trap that cannot be dodged in front of me. It's a crusher. A mechanical crusher that all goes in different tempo that definitely f***s with everyone who tries to go this way. Meaning only one thing. The hardest path to take is the fastest path to take. Unless the Devs really f****d me right now.
The Mechanical Crusher is really a b***h to go through. It's like music tempo. But it's not like I cannot do anything to finish this Crusher. In fact, I have a lot of things that can be used against this Crusher...
Started with me using Judgement Drive perfectly toward the third crusher which crushes thrice in a second. During that free time where the crusher is at the top... I followed up with Phantom Flicker toward the next part of the Crusher. Which is a reverse. Arriving at the second to last crusher where it goes down twice every second.
"With this, I'm done!"
I finish it with a perfect Judgement Drive that went through the rest of the crusher...
I dropped my guard and what greeted me is a floor that falls down. Revealing tons of nasty spikes with no footing.
"Oh s**t!"
I tried to Phantom Flicker my way out of this danger but the distance is too far. With my current limit being ten meter... I barely able to reach the edge of the spikes...
"Garbage!"
I cannot use my Phantom Flicker anymore because it would be too late against this instant reset spikes... Which mean, I'm in a lot of trouble~
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