Re; Hell Gate

Chapter 13 : Myriad Of Puppets

13 minutes or so later, Leiu stood up and finished the shaking puppet, his Stamina was fully recovered, so is his Health. Fortunately, his idea worked, maybe the system or the trial host let him do so as it was simply not possible to finish it without recovering Stamina, anyway, like this, he had more chance win to pass the trial.

128 wooden puppet appeared, this time, even more types were added, they held wooden bows and had a set of arrows at their back, Leiu's gaze turned serious as he gazed at them, his previous happiness seemed to disappear and his face turned uglier than it already was.

'How is this fair? At least give me a companion or a pet tsk tsk!'

While leaping at the enemies, he tried to limit the contact between his sword and their shields, so as to not drop its durability even more, but even despite that, it already dropped to 3, some cracks appeared on it, Leiu was sure it would not hold on much longer.

While using some of the wooden puppets bodies to cover himself from the rain of arrows, which managed to kill some of the puppets, he dashed at the archer wooden puppets and finished them one by one, he only relaxed a bit when he finished them all. The next problem was the ones holding swords.

His Level already rose, considering every puppet gave 2% then he obviously leveled up, moreover, the archers and sword wielder puppets gave a bit more, not a huge difference but it was welcomed, nonetheless.

20 minutes, that's how much time it took him to finish 127 puppets, unlike the last one, he was panting excessively, only 7 stamina left, this time, there was much more sword wielder puppets, which were troublesome to deal with, even more than the archers.

They were more resistant and had shields that can block, for Leiu, the archers were more like a gift as he defended against their attacks while using their comrades' bodies, they were a bit taller than him and by ducking a bit, he easily avoided the arrows. Plus, it's impossible to be wide open in this place as there were too many puppets swarming around him, so the archers can't accurately aim at him.

If they were composed and used strategies, it would be easy, but like this? It's impossible for the arrows to hit him, it's just a matter of perseverance. If his Stamina does not run out then he can deal with them all.

He left the last puppet and did the same and started resting, but just as he sat, his Steel Sword shattered and metal pieces fell on the floor, he was only holding a hilt right now.

As he was going to curse his luck, a message popped up.

Due to not having a weapon, you will be given a standard weapon of choice.

'Give me a one-handed sword.'

As he said that, the space distorted for a bit before a Steel Sword fell on the floor, unexpectedly, it was exactly the same as his Steel Sword, maybe it gave him this weapon on purpose.

Well, it's not like he cares, the problem of weapon durability has been solved and the stamina problem was also solved, which is good enough for him to pass!

Leiu equipped the sword and rested to regain his Health and Stamina, his health decreased by 10 too, he managed to dodge most of the attacks but there are some that are impossible to dodge unless he can teleport so he had to grit his teeth and take those attacks head-on.

What's good is that he only let the fighter puppet attacks land on him, them and them alone, no attack from the sword wielder puppets or archers did touch him or else the damage would be more fatal.

After half an hour of resting, he fully recovered so he finished the poor wriggling puppet, a 30 seconds 'resting' time was given, something appeared which contradicted Leiu's guess, it wasn't an army of 256 puppets, but something else.

To be honest, him dealing with 128 puppets is basically impossible, to anyone who is a beginner it's impossible, it's just that the puppets can be one-shotted, excluding the sword wielder puppets who only needed 2 slashes, all others needed 1 strike from him.

Maybe they made it easier for him because he is low leveled, but it's a class quest for the love of God, so no matter how difficult it is, it shouldn't be impossible for players.

If anyone heard about the trials, then they wouldn't believe it, but seeing the A difficulty, then it's to be expected. However, unlike normal A difficulty quest, which didn't appear yet as the game was just launched, the normal A difficulty quests CAN be done with a party, unlike this one, which seemed totally unfair.

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Leiu smiled helplessly as he gazed at what's in front of him, 5 meters in height, rusty metallic armor and a huge black axe in its hands, it was a big wooden puppet, it had a helmet, shoulder and knee guards and last but not least is an armor.

It excluded some pressure as it wielded its huge two-handed axe.

'Of course, it's a boss...'

Wooden puppet Lord Lv20

As he gazed at the enemy, Leiu felt a bit of despair, throwing a boss at him when he was a beginner, what's up with this trial, moreover, this was only the second Trial, what about the last one, it surely won't send him to hell and tell him to defeat the devil, right?

Looking at the good side, Leiu gained a bit of stats, some messages popped up when he was fighting, and when he previously rested, he checked them all along with his status window.

Invisible Strike(Rare) levelled up! Lv1 => Lv2 :
You can slash a second time with a fast speed naked to the eye, an invisible attack : the attack would deal 130% the damage of the first slash.

Cost : 3 Mana / Cooldown : 15 seconds

Showing flawless movements and exceeding humans limits, from countless fights and experiences, you managed to surpass what others called unsurpassable : Strength +1 / Intelligence +2 / Dexterity +2

TITLE : Invincible
Level: 17 Class: NONE
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Strength: 33
Intelligence: 31
Agility: 37
Wisdom: 28
Vitality: 30
Dexterity: 33
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Health: 30/30
Mana: 32/32
Stamina: 33/33