162 Dual Kill
Bzzt. Screech. Zoom.
Eren’s other hand along with the ax he was holding disappeared when he used his mana-based martial arts. The next thing Geer knew, his broadsword-holding arm had been chopped off from his torso right at the shoulder joint.
Eren’s disappeared hands reappeared when the attack was finished. He was seen holding Geer’s chopped arm by its wrist. The hand was still holding the broadsword as if it had retained its muscle memory. Something that was about to happen.
But Eren didn’t wait for Geer’s hand to drop the broadsword he was holding. He spun around and threw the amputated arm at the approaching Shar, who had a confused and horrified expression on his face.
Eren had coated the hand with the Blitz Shards and Igni Shards. That way, the arm was bound to explode in a few moments before it hit the ground.
Geer was still trying to process what had happened to him. Eren had chopped off Geer’s arm with seamless perfection. His previous attack on the guy’s chest was to trick his body and his subconscious mind into believing that his chest needed an extra form of protection.
As a result, Geer subconsciously fortified his mana defense layer around his chest. However doing so, he weakened the defense layer around the other parts of his body. Especially the region that was closest to the attack’s impact.
Eren had used that small window very well. He chose to display his true agility at the right time, taking Geer by surprise. When the lecher Spider realized what had happened to his arm, it was already too late.
“Aaaaaaaargh!”
Geer cried in pain and agony. The veins around his neck and face popped up and showed their presence when he did that, indicating how much pain he had suddenly found himself in.
Eren knew Shar was taken care of for the time being. But two more potential dangers were approaching him from two separate directions. And they were sure to attack him right away once he got in their striking zone. The only reason they hadn’t used long-range spells was that he stood too close to Geer.
However, he didn’t want to lose Geer now that he was wide open. The guy was so overwhelmed by the pain that he had forgotten to keep his emotions in check during the battle.
Eren wondered how an unqualified guy like Geer could become vice-captain of any party. Killing Geer had suddenly become too easy. Not something Eren would let slide.
Swoosh. Swoosh. Swoosh.
Eren retrieved his axes from the Igni Chains and used them as chained weapons. When he used them with his martial arts a second time, Geer’s remaining arm was chopped off before it flew into the air.
The blood and gore spilled everywhere when Eren’s attacks landed right on Geer. the latter never stopped shouting after Eren had chopped off his first hand. But he lost his voice when his remaining attacks landed on him. It seemed that Geer’s vocal cords had given up on him due to excessive pressure on them to overperform.
Eren sensed a dangerous sensation coming from right behind him as he was about to finish off Geer with his last attack. But that wasn’t enough to make him retreat his attack.
Something flickered all around Eren’s body as he concentrated all his attention on Geer. when Tohir and Yako closed the distance between themselves and Eren and landed their attack right on Eren’s back, they felt a strong resistance.
Eren didn’t even turn around as he lifted Geer by his neck. Tohir and Yako realized that their precise attacks had been rendered null by something impregnable.
The Bear’s Creed Armor set.
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Meanwhile, Shar finally realized that the thing that was zeroing in on him at breakneck speed was his vice-captain’s arms. And since it was coated with fire and shards of lightning, it had retained its form, not allowing the broadsword to get dropped off in the process.
“Un fucking be…”
Star stopped his movement spell abruptly, causing him to dig the ground with his feet. He then raised both his arms and deployed a water-element shield just in time to clash with the incoming heavy projectile.
Swoosh. Crash. Boom.
The water-element shield was partially obliterated when the lightning and fire-element shards started detonating. They also blasted off the skin on Geer’s amputated arm along with it, causing the water-element shield to get mixed with the red color.
When the lightning shards detonated, a few wild lightning tongues formed which climbed over the water shield due to its inherent conductivity and dispersed the water. Foreign mana was injected into Shar’s spell manifestation, forcing it to break down from its basic building block.
Eren’s attacks were so powerful because of the momentum they had gained. That throw itself had incredible power contained within it, courtesy of the mana-based martial arts Eren had used to throw it with.
The upper portion of the Shar’s deployed mana shield vanished as soon as the clash took place. This was enough window for the broadsword the arm was holding to pass through it.
Swish!
Driven by the state of momentum acting on it that hadn’t been completely killed off, the broadsword passed through the shield while spinning around horizontally. The next thing it did was aim for Shar’s neck which was right in its path.
“Fuuuu….aaaaaagh!”
Shar realized that he had underestimated the incoming attack launched on him. He was too busy to realize that the weapon could somehow break through its shield like it was nothing. While it breached the shield, the broadsword that was still being empowered by the explosions of lightning and fire shards behind it also gained momentum.
All these things happened in a fraction of a second. But by the time Shar could realize what had happened, his head was chopped off of his torso which was still raising its hand and controlling the almost-gone water-element shield in front of it.
Eren had killed off two of the Spiders at the same time. One’s head was chopped off while the other’s neck was squashed to death.