NABC Volume 6 - Ch 2.10
Volume 6 - Ch 2.10
But it is your fault for acting like such an idiots. This is a Labyrinth, a place where people might die at every corner if they are not careful enough, so is should have been obvious that you or your comrades in crime might as well die while delving into them, be it at the hands of the Labyrinths native inhabitants, the monsters, or at the hands of a Party that you have considered to be weak and incapable of holding their own to such a degree that you have designated them as targets for robbing without running any further checks or investigations. But now, serves you right, you made a mistake and you are going to die because of it. Idiots! Shitheads! Worthless dimwits!
No, I should not be getting so toxic and calling them names like that. Maybe my MP did decrease considerably, enough for me to start having these negative thoughts again? Either that, or I am on the precipice of stumbling into that awful depression again, but it is not too late for me to actually do something about it.
All that I have to do in order to immediately make myself feel better. Is to slay these guys with Durandal, so I stepped forward and shook it in the direction of the first of the two low-levelled Bandits. My swing decapitated him and send his head flying cleanly into the air as he was still standing still, too stunned to do anything after witnessing his companion disappear in such a brutal fashion that did not even allow him any space to defend himself.
Okay, on to the second chump who is about to go meet his maker.
The second Bandit was a little bit better than the first one, because he actually collected himself enough to move around when the initial shock of losing two of his comrades in rapid succession has finally subsided, and he was even smart enough to attempt to block my initial attack with Durandal with his own sword, but as soon as the blades of our weapons collided with one another, his weapon got snapped in half as if it was nothing but a dried-up twig instead of an actual weapon.
So now, with my MP recovered to a sufficient degree, I should have more than enough measures up my sleeve to manage fighting the Bandit Leader Lv.40. He might be of higher level than me, but as long as I stay composed and shower him with a barrage of strikes from Durandal, I should be able to win this battle without getting myself damaged at all.
Fully recovering from his state of bewilderment at seeing his cronies disposed off like they were nothing more than the pebbles at the side of the road, the Bandit Leader Lv.40 has assumed his battle stance and brought his sword down towards us.
Although his swings definitely packed quite a lot of punch behind them, they were still relatively slow and easy to avoid, just like the entirety of his movements. I though that he was going to turn out to be one of those encounters where even though the enemy is big and you would think that he should be slow and easy work around he was actually going to be deceptively fast, thus creating quite a difficult combo to overcome, so I am glad that this does not seem to be the case with him here. Like I said, each of his attacks must be packing enough of a wallop behind it to actually cleave a man in half or inflict pretty grevious wounds, but they are all pretty telegraphed, so I can see where they are coming from without any issues, so the rest should just be about me reacting fast enough to jump out of harms way whenever he is going to come swinging at me, and even though I am not an expert dodger like Roxanne is, I should still be more than capable of pulling something like that off.
But then. Something has suddenly occurred to me. Why am I even worrying about whether this guy is going to be attacking faster than me or not, when I have access to Overwhelmingsince I am using Durandal? Have I really just went and forgot about something so obvious? I really did, which must mean that the loss of MP from that one Equivalent Exchangemust have affected me more than I initially though. Damn, talk about annoying! But since I have Overwhelming, I can just employ the same strategy as I did with the Rapid Rabbit on the seventh floor of Quratars Labyrinth: wait until he goes in for an attack and then activate Overwhelmingfor his movements to practically grind into a halt so that I could go in and counterattack with my own flurry of attacks that would slice him up into ribbons and chunks of meat before he could even realize what has happened to him.
When the next attack of the Bandit Leader Lv.40 came my way, instead of dodging it, I have took it head on and blocked it with Durandal. Bandit Leader then pushed onto his sword with the weight of his entire body placed behind it in an attempt to push me back and break my posture which would leave me completely opened for an attack, but I managed to withstand it and started pushing against him on my own, however, it did not look like any of us was going to get the upper hand in this peculiar tug-of-war. Could it be that our power and STR stat are about equal?