Sky World Vol 1 Chapter 3.02

VOLUME 1

Chapter 3: Team Battle
Part 2

While going up the sloped road, they saw a large open s.p.a.ce on the mountain. It was lush with vegetation amidst the reddish soil.

Ahead of this school campus sized open s.p.a.ce was the temple they had been looking for.

Well, primarily, they wanted to be able to take out the Veil Guardian.

However, Jun was going to take it out himself. Ten days had not yet pa.s.sed since the other two died. A second death would mean getting dangerously close to disappearing. They weren’t about to tack such an immense risk.

“I’ll go pull the Veil Guardian and fight with it. You two should go watch from a safe location. Don’t, under any condition, get any enmity. If either of you die, our plan will have failed. I’ll give up on you two and leave the island alone.”

“Even if you didn’t say that, I wouldn’t even &h.e.l.lip; So, whether or not we win is irrelevant, right?”

“You’re making me feel awkward. Shush.”

“You’re annoying, you dummy &h.e.l.lip; Look, Kasumi’s also cheering you on.”

“Uh&h.e.l.lip; Please try your best!”

Hearing the sound of Kasumi’s encouragement and seeing her cheer by pumping her fists, Jun turned towards her.

At least he had some of Eri’s buffs to help him out. A few buff icons were in the bottom left corner of Jun’s field of vision.

Once he familiarized himself to the open s.p.a.ce a bit, Jun fixed his eyes onto the temple.

They had come here the whole way on one road. On the left hand side of the three-meter wide road was a huge wall, and on the right hand side, a cliff. In taking that road, they had made it all the way around the mountain.

Furthermore, losing your footing here meant falling all the way back to the beginning head first.

This was the temple on the furthermost tip that was forgotten to everybody.

The stairs were decorated, on both sides, with gigantic pterodactyl-like statues, made by the Great Liu, with their wings spread, as if about to take flight. Because it was said to have been created, nearby, by the G.o.d of the Sky , surely there was some good reason for being in such a remote place&h.e.l.lip;

“&h.e.l.lip; This is a pretty annoying place to have this.. This stinks.”

Still walking along, with no end in sight, Jun couldn’t help but utter that spitefully.

After slowly inching through the wide open s.p.a.ce, they finally made it to the front of the temple.

At the top, about twenty stairs up in the entrance to the building, a huge steel statue lay resting. It was about 50 meters tall. It had some metal armor, a bit rusted, typical of a medieval knight, a large sword, and a giant s.h.i.+eld. It was completely motionless.

Jun, looking with his half-closed eyes, saw its name, Veil Guardian, appear above its head in green. It still was not in active mode. However, if they got any closer&h.e.l.lip;

“First of all, let’s establish how far we can be without it detecting us.”

Not wielding his two-handed great-sword, Jun went up the stairs, one step at a time. The golem, which seemed almost like an enormous robot, appeared bigger and bigger.

When he was almost halfway up the stairs, the statue began to slowly raise its sword. Its name became red. It noticed Jun, who to it, was trespa.s.sing, and went into active mode.

“It’s here!”

Jun turned back and went down the stairs as if rolling down them. He wasn’t able to use the stairs for much added mobility. At any rate, even if he lost, at least he would have been able to gather a very important piece of information.

The steel knight statue chased him, making a huge ruckus in the process.

When Jun made it back halfway through the open area from earlier, he turned around quickly.

He glared at the Veil Guardian.

“Well, let’s have at it!.”

This was a new enemy. One that he had not seen before. It was a fierce enemy, and it was right in front of him. He was excited. It was a challenge. In games, Jun always loved the prospect of new and unknown challenges.

Jun happily decided to challenge the Veil Guardian.

The Veil Guardian looked back at him, moving casually. It could swing a longsword two times the size of Jun with ease. It would not be very easy to approach between its attacks. It could block weak attacks with its s.h.i.+eld and take no damage.

Furthermore, even though it was slow, it had regeneration capabilities. The idea of frantically attacking just to have all damage done recovered again was very disheartening.

“This guy’s a nasty fellow&h.e.l.lip;”

Even if he tried avoiding, his health would still slowly decrease since the damage he took would be increasing while it would remain unhurt.

In spite of that, he was able to figure out his enemy’s attack pattern. It had a main three hit attack, and a three hit attack in which it would use its s.h.i.+eld to push. Then when the monster spins his backside around , it would be very difficult to avoid that spinning attack&h.e.l.lip;

Suddenly, his HP went down to 50%.

“I won’t be able to hold this for very long.”

Although he considered of the prospect of losing, he had a feeling inside him that he might still have a chance. His misgivings were dispelled, he smacked his lips, and felt refreshed.

“It can’t be helped. Lemmie quickly get some more attack data!”

He tried releasing one of his spells. It wasn’t the best of circ.u.mstances for it. It was possible that the monster could have had full resistance to it.

As for his current confusion, earlier, when Eri and Kasumi’s guild members were fighting, he managed to get information on that monster. Just as he had feared, that information had no use here. Of course, that was natural, as this was a golem he was fighting. Quick stun, which was useful on normal monsters, was now unusable. Even though it was a spell that could not be used on regular raid monsters, as far as Jun was concerned, that was good news .

Since he did not have information on the golem’s weak points, Jun had to try out everything.

First, he tried enchanting his weapon with flame magic. It wasn’t very effective.

Next was ice. That wasn’t useful either.

Then he tried electric. His enemy flinched. &h.e.l.lip; That was it!

“It’s weak point is electric type attacks! ”

Using the strongest electric attacks he had, he continued striking the golem until his MP bar became empty. He continued to avoid his enemy’s fierce attacks. While that wasn’t terribly effective, its regeneration was not able to keep up. He was able to take off more than 10% of its HP.

But now, Jun had no more MP.

His HP bar was at 20%, and it was flas.h.i.+ng red as a warning sign.

[Dangerously low HP. Dangerously low HP. Dangerously low HP.]

That yellow warning message was a very unpleasant sight.

“Well, I was able to get a lot of information. It’s fine if I die now&h.e.l.lip;”

Jun looked quickly at Kasumi and Eri. They were following his advice, staying in a spot outside of the enemy’s attack range and watching the battle carefully.

Eri, folding her arms and grinning, as if the situation at hand was not dire at all, and Kasumi, staring with her arms together as if she were praying, saw how the battle was looking.

“Yes!”

Grinning broadly, Jun began fleeing from the Veil Guardian.

“Hey you, what are you doing?!”

“Shush. I’m trying to prevent myself from dying.”

Later, when Jun looked back at the Veil Guardian, he ran straight towards the cliff. Three more steps left. Two more steps. One more. Zero.

Jun jumped.

Jun’s body went into the air at a very high height.

The golem, confused, stood still.

Seeing the golem’s face, Jun continued falling all the way down.

At the moment he touched the ground, he took damage equal to more than ten times his max HP and instantly died.