Arran was feeling indignant...
He did not know what it was but he had been having a streak of bad luck lately. Not only had been suffered a huge loss when facing the undead knight previously but even now, his life was being threatened once again when he had only been trying to save the damsel in distress.
For the past fifteen minutes that Renee and the others had been fighting the undead knight, Arran had come close to losing his life a fair number of times.
When Arran had been occupying the undead knight so that it would not have had the time to care about Daphne and the others... for such a simple thing as that which Arran could even do with considerable ease, it turned out to be a close call no a number of occasions. Then there was the time when Arran had taken to the air leading the undead knight to pursue him... at the time, Arran had thought that he would be able to successfully get away but no the undead knights mount just had to have the ability to fly i
While Arran was watching Renee and Daphne display their sibling love so blatantly even though they were still on the battlefield and fighting a tough opponent, Terrence had already gotten to their side.Terrence had rushed over as soon as he could and when he finally got here, he only asked a perfunctory question."Are you guys alright?"That was all.Arran looked at Terrence with a hidden glint in his eyes.The truth is that Arran disliked Terrence very much. This was not only because Terrence had been giving him a hard time but it was also because Arran didn't like the kind of person Terrence was fundamentally.Terrence was the kind of person who liked to look at results very much and he was able to do anything to achieve his goals. At the same time, he was a person that was very prideful and didn't like to be faulted. Both of these in themselves were not bad, that was when singled out on their own but when it a person came to both traits,
"Sorry... thank you!"Suddenly, the place turned quiet...Renee was no longer madly scolding Arran, instead, she looked straight into his eyes as she said to him."I'm sorry you had to put yourself in danger just to save my little sister and at the same time, I'm very thankful. Thank you for risking yourself to save my precious little sister."Renee's words were firm as they fell into Arran's ears as was her gaze which unwaveringly stared straight into Arran's eyes.Arran saw clearly that Renee was really sorry and thankful to him and it made him calm down from all the retorting he had been doing in his mind.Knowing full well that she was being sincere, Arran could not bring himself to fault her in any way.Nodding his head seriously, Arran said, "Hmm... it's alright. That's what teammates are for, right."There was a serious air in the current mood and just as it seemed like this was how it was going to be for a while, sudden
"It's coming!"Renee reminded everybody.At once, they all reacted.Arran no longer hesitated and he immediately handed Brianna over to Daphne. Since Brianna was not really in any danger from the death energy in the air, all Arran had to do was to make sure to destroy the undead knight right here, right now so that she would be safe from further harm.Speaking of death energy, the surrounding death energy that had been burned away by the explosion previously had once more returned.Although it was still not as heavily concentrated as it was in the beginning, it was still enough to hinder the abilities of everyone here. one of these was the natural healing ability that all seekers possessed.Normally, if a seeker was injured or had used up too much energy, apart from consuming pills and elixirs to recover, in dire situations they would have to rely on the powerful natural healing and recovering ability of their bodies. Although it would be mo
Arran and the undead knight were in a frontal clash.Weapon against weapon... sword against spear.The undead knight had used its black bone spear to pierce towards Arran from above and in response, Arran had parried the strike with his sword. By using the side of the blade, Arran stopped the spear from piercing downwards and shifted it to the side while at the same time he trailed his sword along the length of the spear as Arran tried to close in the gap between himself and the undead knight to strike its exposed body.In a battle, there is a saying where an inch longer was an inch stronger. The meaning behind this saying is that the person with a longer reach in a battle would be able to with by striking the opponent first and keeping them at a distance.When fighting in close quarters, wielders of long-handled weapons like the spear or staff usually had the advantage of reach. their attacks were always able to hit the enemy first and they could keep th
Arran and Renee stood side by side as they looked at the small cloud of dust and smoke that covered up the body of the undead knight, preventing anybody from seeing how it was doing.There was a constant roar of pain and madness that came out of the fog and it was the only way to tell what the situation inside the dust was like.Judging from the constant roars, it was clear that the undead knight was not doing too good.It had been completely enraged.As Arran and Renee observed the situation, Renee took a sidelong glance at Arran and said to him."How are you feeling. You took a good hit from the undead energy back then and a lot of it went into your body. How's it... can you still hold up?""It's alright," Arran responded to Renee."I'll live and I've still got enough in me to fight.""That's good," Renee said."Speaking of which, I didn't realize that we worked so well together. You're one of the few people whom I hav
"Eh!""What do you mean stage two? Is that some kind of combat state I don't know about?" Renee asked confused."Oh, don't worry about it. It's just a term some people use where I'm from to describe when a boss enters an empowered or berserk state other than its normal combat state. There's nothing to it." Arran answered."Well, if that's the case, then I guess you can say that the undead knight has indeed entered stage two." Renee thought about it and agreed.Then she asked, "so, what do the people where your from do at this stage?"Hearing Renee's question, Arran smirked and replied, "Heh... of course, we also enter stage two and beat the hell out of the boss!"Saying, Arran's body immediately exploded with energy.Just like with the undead knight, Arran had become the center of a storm and intense waves of essence energy swirled around his body causing winds to rise up.Unlike the undead knight though... Arran was not attrac
Arran and Renee looked at the undead knight which was still undergoing its transformation.Arran's transformation had only lasted for about a minute so not much time had passed. For the undead knight to still not be done with its transformation even until now, it could be seen just how much death energy it was siphoning from the surroundings.At least now, Arran and Renee could see what was going on with the undead knight clearly.Looking at the undead knight, Arran and Renee could see that it had undergone some drastic changes. the most obvious of them being that it was missing one of its arms.Currently, the right arm of the undead arm was missing leaving it with only one arm in which it tightly clenched its black bone spear. The missing arm had most likely been blown off by Renee when she had struck it with her daggers. The resulting blast followed by Arran's sword slash had probably resulted in it losing its arm.Right now, with the black bone
"Oi, oi, oi... are you serious! What kind of battle is this? There's no room for me to do anything at all. Look at you hogging all the spotlight... that's not handsome at all."Renee silently complained to herself as she watched the battle between Arran and the undead knight.Watching Arran running circles around the undead knight as he flashes up and down and suppressed it under a barrage of nonstop attacks, Renee let out a wry smile. She was the one who said that she would support Arran from behind but in the end, under this kind of fast-paced battle, Renee had nowhere to lend her support.She could only awkwardly stand aside and try to pay as much attention to the battle's progression as possible. She didn't want to take any chances in case there came a time when Arran really did need her support.Looking at the progress of the battle, Renee knew that Arran had the upper hand.In this battle, Arran was faster than the undead knight and he could