Itai no wa Iya nanode Bgyo-Ryoku ni Kyokufuri Shitai to Omoimasu 134

Defense Specialization and a Sword 2

A few days later, Kasumi walked over to where the sword was with a familiar air.

Which was no surprise, as by now Kasumi had challenged the sword over 50 times.

Alright, here we go.

Kasumi walked down the steps and opened the door to meet the sword once again.

Kasumi slowly unsheathed her blade. She reminded herself of what her next move would be, as she blocked the sword that came flying towards her.

The sounds of clashing metal rang in the dark room.

A HP bar hovered above the sword, and Kasumi paid attention to it as they fought.

Leap!

Once the swords HP bar had diminished a little, Kasumi leaped forward.

In the next instant, the spot where Kasumi had been a second ago was pierced by numerous swords.

In other words, this sword would do specific actions once its HP reached a certain point.

And after witnessing it many times, it became easy for her to avoid them.

First of the Blades. Kagerou!

She closed in again after having moved back. Kasumi slashed at the sword and then took one step to the right. This was because she knew that a sword would shoot out of the ground.

While fighting the sword, she circled it, slowly taking one step at a time.

As she moved, swords would thrust out from the ground where she had been, with only a seconds delay.

It would be fatal if she stopped for a second. Furthermore, the swords that sprouted from the ground would not disappear unless certain conditions were met, so she had to think about where she moved.

It had taken a long time for Kasumi to figure out how to move in this fight.

By the time she had made a full circle around it, the HP bar of the sword had dropped to the next level, and it moved to the next phase of the fight.

The swords in the ground disappeared, and now there was purple fire raining from the ceiling instead.

If Kasumi got hit by it, her AGI would become 0 for 10 seconds.

And the sword itself had now switched to flying at an incredible speed, which made it clear that having reduced AGI would make it impossible to dodge its attacks.

The part that had frustrated Kasumi the most until now, was this fire rain.

No matter what, she could not dodge it completely until the sword moved to the next phase.

And so Kasumi reexamined the skills she had and tried to think of a way to get through this part.

Last of the Blades. Oborozuki.

Her conclusion was that she had to kill before she was killed.

12 high-speed successive attacks hammered at the sword with ferocity.

Its HP bar was dropping at a shocking rate, but still, Kasumi showed no pleasure on her face.

Those 12 attacks allowed her to skip 3 phases and jump straight to the final one.

The swords HP bars was at one millimeter now, but that was inevitable.

No matter how much HP you took, it would always have just a little remaining.

Kasumis trump card was Oborozuki, but it also halved her stats for a fixed period and made her other Blade skills unusable.

And she had to enter the final phase in that situation.

Kasumi had not been able to pass this phase and had died dozens of times.

The sword teleported to the back of the room. Its body was now shining brighter than before.

A wall of fire stretched up to the ceiling as if surrounding her. The walls of fire created a straight path towards the sword.

It was 10 meters long. And 3 meters wide.

Kasumi would have to run through here and strike the final blow.

Hah!

She let out a short breath and ran on her now slower feet.

Not only were numerous swords flying towards her from the front, but the walls of fire were spouting flames from both directions.

If she stopped for even a second, swords would shoot from the ceiling.

The 10 meters looked short but seemed so long.

Hahh!

She blocked the flying blade with her sword, barely dodged others, and continued forward.

She had to dodge the fire no matter what, as it would take her AGI. She also had to avoid the swords from the ground, but the flying swords were a different matter.

As long as she had not been hit until this point, she could survive three hits now.

Kasumi was now halfway across, and she understood it through all of her senses.

Super Acceleration!

She had been saving Super Acceleration until now, and she used it here to try and get through this area where the attacks came harder.

Yesterday, Kasumi had taken a break from fighting it, and she had asked Sally and Shin to help her improve her skill in dodging flying swords.

Perhaps that had proved effective because she could now see the course of the swords more clearly.

Still, as she was much closer now, she did not have enough time to deal with them, and so she was hit.

Go!

She felt the shock through her whole body as her left shoulder, stomach and left thigh was pierced.

The painful-looking red effect resembled fresh blood as it splashed.

But Kasumi did not stop.

She thrust out her right hand. The sword that she gripped touched the sword that was floating.

In the same instant, the floating sword lost its brilliance, and it quietly fell to the floor. Then it slid into a sheath that had materialized.

The fire and blades in her body now disappeared. The room returned to its usual darkness.

Kasumi reached out a hand to the f