Chapter 55: Bladeswalker

The trick to countering Bladewalkers, as Tom had come to grasp, was to attract it in and depart sufficient of a gap to encourage it to launch a strike. It was, by far, essentially the most daring technique that Tom had applied to this point, one which required him to grasp his personal concern earlier than he had an honest probability at besting the creature.

So when the second bladewalker made its strategy, Tom fought the very robust intuition to fireside off Water Arrows to push back the creature. His eyes flickered quickly as he tracked the Bladewalker because it leapt from the roof of the cave to the proper wall, taking a couple of steps in fast succession to shut the gap between them earlier than it lunged at him.

Time appeared to decelerate as Tom traced the Bladewalkers trajectory, his eyes quickly flickering as he strained to maintain tempo with its erratic actions. As his coronary heart hammered in his chest, Tom lastly caught sight of the phenomenon he had been ready for the Bladewalker had purchased his act, dispelling its [Spatial Focus] talent mid-air because it got here for the kill.

Tom had no grand plan as he threw himself backwards, his newly enhanced Proprioception stat permitting him to take action gracefully as a substitute of haphazardly. As an alternative, he had merely found a brand new software of an present [Deck Card] he held in his possession. The [Earth Manipulation] card was a operate of two components, specifically reshaping and solidifying the Earth, as its description in his standing display screen acknowledged.

Nonetheless, to reshape the earth was to melt it, to make it malleable sufficient earlier than it was hardened.

And the [Control Glyph] allowed him to activate the [Earth Manipulation] card a lot quicker than he ought to be capable to at his stage.

His twenty one [Proprioception] helped him time his gambit as Tom activated the [Control Glyph- Earth] as his toes have been kicking off the bottom to throw him backwards to security. The bottom beneath his toes started to quickly soften, however the [Earth Manipulation] card required fixed contact with the bottom to take care of activation.

Tom was stunned to see the Bladeswalker standing, as purple blood gushed down its thigh and blended with the quicksand that had entrapped it. He was much more stunned when it managed to pivot in time to fulfill his second cost, a wild sword slash that had been meant for its again by crossing its two blades defensively earlier than its chest.

However in the end, time was on his facet and he might afford to whittle down his opponent and simply retreat when the momentum shifted in the direction of his enemy.

A solitary blade clashed in opposition to blade arms and Tom discovered himself stunned at how nimbly the Bladeswalker might use its pure appendages to each assault and defend. He had a sense that he would achieve a deeper perception into swordplay if their bout continued on for an hour, however Tom had realized first hand how merciless and ruthless Artezia could possibly be to the weak and the defenceless.

He was not one and would by no means be the one to go up and opening; and certainly, his probability got here when the Bladeswalkers injured knee lastly buckled underneath stress from the laceration he had inflicted upon it.

His sword was pushed via the Bladeswalkers chest and Tom had managed to slay a foe that was liable for the deaths of many dungeoneers.

The explanation why Part Two of the Abyssal Lurkers Area was referred to as Destinys Path was fairly disappointingly, fairly easy. The 4 passageways that lead deeper into the Dungeon all shared the identical exit, the one distinction being within the issue of the encounter. The best passageway solely housed a meagre three Bladeswalkers whereas essentially the most troublesome one contained as many as ten or twelve, the discrepancy between conflicting accounts making it exhausting to conclude with certainty.

Tom and Aleph had ended up combating seven, which made them neither fortunate nor too unfortunate. Of these, Tom had killed 5 via his newfound ways, whereas Aleph had ended up interfering a second time when two Bladewalkers had made their strategy in unison; a attempting encounter that had left Tom emotionally exhausted and greater than a bit dazed, although the reward that he had acquired in change was virtually price a really visceral concern of shedding his life.

He was only some thousand expertise factors away from the following stage.