Itai no wa Iya nanode Bgyo-Ryoku ni Kyokufuri Shitai to Omoimasu 189

Defense Specialization and Inside the Darkness 3

Huh?! I-I cant see anything!

Maple tried to use the lantern again, but the result was the same.

Wh-where? Woah?!

While Maple looked around frantically, a cold hand grabbed her from the back.

It had a temporary effect of taking away her STR and AGI. Thankfully, that didnt mean anything to Maple.

TskUghh! I cant get away

Of course, not having any STR meant that she could not escape from the ghosts grasp either.

For half a minute, the hand slowly rose and lifted Maple up into the air.

The damagewhat?!

Maple closed her eyes in preparation, but this time, the pain did not come.

Instead, Maple lost all of her HP. Indomitable Guardian activated, and Maple was thrown to the ground.

While there was no fall damage, Maple would not be able to survive if she took another hit.

Uh, what? Oh, wha-what should I!

While Maple was confused, there was one thing she knew very well. She could not allow herself to be hit again.

Thr-throne! Where!?

Maple ran through the darkness and searched for the throne she had left somewhere.

It would take some time before she would be able to use it again if she deactivated it, and she wasnt sure she could survive that long.

However, Maple was not even thinking that far ahead. She was mostly just running from the present danger.

And that happened to be a good thing for her.

I cant find it!

Maple sensed that something was coming up behind her, and so she ran in a zigzag.

After a while, she began to calm down enough to consider her various options.

Maple thought of using her self-destruct flight in order to gain some distance, but since she couldnt even see anything, there was a possibility that she would fly straight into the enemy. And so she gave up that idea as something that sh