"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
A thick bolt of lightning descended from the sky above and struck both Arran and the undead knight.This was the same move that Arran had used when he was dealing with the Charybdis. At the time previously, there had been a thunderstorm which Arran had used to draw a bolt of lightning to lightning to strike the Charybdis using the power of the World Essence Pulse Bracer as support. Naturally, it also helped that the air had been fully charged with lightning elements making it easier for Arran to gather.This time, things were a little bit different.First of all, unlike the first time, the sky had originally been clear with not a single overcast cloud in the sky. Naturally, there would have been no lightning for Arran to draw upon. In order for Arran to do this, he had to create a situation where there was an abundant amount of lightning for him to control.Arran had first gotten the idea for this plan when the undead knight had entered stage two. At the
"Ha... ha... ha!"Arran panted heavily after the barrage of lightning strikes had ended.Hovering in the air inside the pit of his own making, Arran looked down on the ground where the undead knight had previously stood only to see nothing but a pile of ash on the ground.The undead knight was nowhere to be found. It had been completely destroyed under Arran's lightning barrage until nothing but its ashes remained. The only thing that was still around which showed that the undead knight had been here until a moment ago was the black bone spear that was standing tall in the ground.After suffering the constant barrage of lightning, this black bone spear was the only thing to come out relatively unscathed. This told Arran that the black bone spear was anything but ordinary itself."Argh!"Arran felt his body ache as he was hovering in the air.For a moment there, Arran lost control of himself and he fell down from the air towards the gr
"What high-grade undead core?""What are you even talking about?" Arran asked Renee in confusion.Renee did not answer Arran immediately. Instead, she turned towards a corner of the pit and started making her way over there.Arran watched what Renee was doing. That was when he realized that Renee was actually walking towards the pile of ashes that belonged to the undead knight.Arran was confused.He didn't know what Renee wanted to do with those pile of ashes.Suddenly, as Renee reached the pile of ashes, she suddenly did something that baffled Arran leaving him speechless.Renee, after coming to a stop in front of the pile of ashes squatted down before digging her fingers into it.This action was one that left Arran stunned and astonished.He couldn't believe that Renee was actually going through the ashes of a dead creature.He didn't know that she had this kind of hobby.'Could this be considered as a k
"It's over huh..." Terrence mumbled.Looking into the distance in the direction where Arran and Renee battled the undead knight, you could clearly see that everything had quietened down.There were no longer any sounds of fighting and the explosions that followed had disappeared. it was already clear that the fighting was over. As for who had won, that was not difficult to guess.'Those consecutive bolts of lightning that fell from the sky must have been the doing of Arran right? to be able to summon such powerful attacks, his power is much greater than I had imagined.''Since the fight is over, this means...' Terrence was thinking of different things.As he was thinking, Terrence snuck a peek at Daphne who was still trying to recover her strength as well as Brianna who was still unconscious.'Now that the fight is over, it means that they will be after me next. without anything to distract them, Renee and Arran will definitely not let me of
'Damn it! I failed.''How did he get here so fast?'Terrence cursed furiously in his mind.Seeing as Arran had appeared out of nowhere and saved Brianna from his attacks, Terrence knew that he was done for this time. He wondered how it was that Arran had been able to make it in time to save Brianna.Last he knew, Arran and Renee were still a distance away from where they were to they should not have made it in time.Terrence turned to look at where Renee was and he could see that she was still far away. She should be reaching their side in three seconds at the speed she was running.This told Terrence that there had been nothing with his prior judgment. This meant that the problem lay with Arran. He must have used some hidden method that he had left behind just for situations like this.'So that's how it is eh? Sly bastard, he really had me there!''Since things have already gotten to this point, I have no way to turn back now.
Daphne was definitely out of the option.If Terrence dared to try to break through the encirclement through Daphne's side, then Renee would be the first to stop him and she would definitely cut him down without any mercy at all. Besides, it was a bad idea to turn your back on the enemy. Everybody knew that.that left only Arran's side for Terrence to consider.To be honest, Terrence felt that the most troublesome person to deal with here was not Renee but instead it was Arran. This was because Arran was a complete mystery to Terrence.He did not know what kind of abilities or trump cards Arran had in his arsenal besides the ones he had already shown.Not only was Arran also good at turning a desperate situation on its head but he was also sly and cunning. Unlike the straightforward Renee that would cut you down at the slightest Disagreement with you, Arran held his thoughts to himself and he was the type to scheme against you.You never know