Ashley
“Course,” Chaos comments, sounding rather happy.
I go ahead and analyze the new weapons.
Knives of Chaos
Description: A set of knives with an affinity to chaos energy that grants the wearer an extra 25 points to PHY. These knives were personally crafted from feathers of the Primordial of Chaos himself and contain a minor version of the poison contained within Chaos’s blood.
Affects: +25 PHY, Chaos Energy Affinity, Poison of Chaos
“They have the same poison that the blood within your wings contain,” Chaos explains, making my smile grow ever so slightly.
Once again, thank you.
I go ahead and fasten the sheaths to my waist before grabbing the blades and holding them in my hands to test their weight. At which point I quickly find them to be perfectly fitted for me.
And if they have the same poison as our blood… then cuts from them should mutate the target.
I turn to look down at the ground, only to find all of the monsters down there already dead from me and Blake’s barrage. Then I turn to look at the still-approaching kobold lord and his forces.
Well, guess they’re good enough test subjects.
“If you infuse your Chaos Energy into the knives, the effects of the poison will grow stronger,” Chaos says to my surprise. “You can also use the knives for basic chaos magic, which you’ve still yet to learn.”
Right. Because Secondary Energy magic is far more difficult than mana-based magic to use.
“You should learn it before fighting the King of Destruction,” Chaos states without hesitation.
Probably should.
That aside, I do feel stronger simply from holding these knives. A much larger effect than the one my old knives would give.
I look up at the approaching horde again as they finally begin to get a bit closer. Close enough that Blake begins to attack with his ranged spells. Sending one bolt of purple energy after another at them, blasting apart some of the kobolds following the lord.
But the kobold lord himself doesn’t pay even a single wink of attention to his forces. He just keeps glaring daggers at me through the fractures in his armor. Fractures large enough to actually make out his form underneath.
Not that it’s very recognizable though, considering the fact that he’s still covered in wounds beneath his shattered armor.
After a few more minutes, the kobolds end up entering my range as well. So I send my own wave of attacks at them using various different affinities of magic. From fire, to decay, to lightning, and even water.
Then I start launching feathers and dropping silver spikes when they finally get within the range of our traps, joining the traps themselves as they slaughter the kobolds without much issue.
With the exception of the kobold lord who simply tramples over the traps and knocks my attacks out of the way with his bare flesh without a single care in the world.
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It’s not just my attacks either, as the kobold lord knocks away Blake’s attacks as well.
Although our attacks are at least leaving some scratches and dealing some minor damage. But that’s only on the areas of the kobold lord nor covered by armor.
Proving just how durable that armor really was.
At the end of the day, though, I don’t care about my attacks themselves.
What I care about are the effects being racked up within the kobold lord from them.
I find myself rather surprised by the fact that the kobold lord seems to be resistant to some of them. To the point that when I get a paralysis effect that should paralyze him, he just ends up stiffening up for a few seconds before returning to normal. And an effect that should lock down his mana usage shatters almost right away as it’s devoured by his destruction mana.
Most importantly, those damned crimson cracks keep flashing all across the kobold’s body with our attacks. Proving just how strong this guy’s destruction resistance is.
I grit my teeth as I send more and more attacks at the kobold lord. All the way till the kobold lord himself finally makes it to us and jumps straight up into the air.
But none of my attacks prove to do much to him. Barely more than scratches even when I’m attacking his own wounds.
Which honestly makes me a little terrified of just how strong a destruction resistance the King of Destruction himself may have.
“Ashley, cover me for a moment!” Blake suddenly shouts, drawing my attention to him to find him closing his eyes and beginning to float upwards while murmuring a chant under his breath.
A little bit more of a heads-up would’ve been nice.
I turn towards the mini boss again before glancing at my blades.
Well, now’s as good a time as any to try them out.
I teleport straight to my shadow on top of the kobold lord himself before swinging my blades at a gap in his armor. Pushing my Chaos Energy into them at the same time. And to my surprise, they actually sink into his flesh.
By about two centimeters.
So not much.
But it’s a lot better than what our previous attacks were doing.
Any satisfaction I had from that attack vanishes though when the kobold lord swings his own blade faster than I can dodge at my side and it slams into me through the flat side of the blade. Which only happens because I managed to move a little bit, avoiding the sharp edge.
Either way, the attack sends me flying to slam into the ground over a hundred meters away before coughing out blood. Finding it difficult to get up from the ground.
I push myself to turn and look at the kobold lord, only to find him moving over towards me again. Clearly ignoring Blake despite his chanting.
Guess he isn’t very smart.
Or he’s just blinded by…
Huh.
“Your thoughts are correct,” Chaos says as I narrow my eyes at the kobold lord and slowly push myself up a bit with my wounds healing from my health and Minor Regeneration. “That kobold lord is using a berserk skill with you as his target.”
Thought so.
I glance at the kobold lord’s left arm, where I struck him with both of my knives. And while the wound does seem to be mutating a bit, it’s not as much as I’d like.
Which also doesn’t prove to be a very good test for the knives, but whatever. My old knives likely wouldn’t have done squat to him.
Might be a good idea to test them on regular monsters after this.
Assuming I survive.
I glance at Blake to find him still chanting. Then I turn back to the approaching kobold lord before pushing myself to stand up rather weakly while raising my blades to block his own raised sword.
Just to teleport back into my shadow the moment he arrives. Leaving him to slash his sword straight into the ground instead before I move around him and slash one of mine into his arm wound again while thrusting the other into his gut.
Then I quickly teleport back again.
The kobold lord stands up straight again and matches my gaze, the crimson energy flaring within his eyes. And after that one brief pause, he rushes straight at me again, making me hurry to raise both of my blades to block his attack. But my blades are forced back towards me, making me teleport backwards again to avoid the rest of the blow even if I’m still sent crashing to the ground due to my imbalance.
Fucking hell, this is stupid.
Why did I even think I could fight him?!
This same process repeats itself several more times, with me occasionally getting my own wounds here and there from failing to dodge or block his strikes. But the only damage I manage to give him is a few more cuts and nothing else.
And right when I’m beginning to wonder if I should just take Blake and retreat, Blake raises his voice, shouting, “And to this one, I call forth chains to bind resistances!!!”
Then dozens of purple and silver chains shoot up from the ground to bind the kobold lord. Only for the kobold lord to break them in an instant.
But that’s not all that happens.
Because the biggest change catches my eye immediately.
The glowing crimson cracks on the kobold lord’s body are fading to a very faint light.
My eyes narrow at the implications of that mixed with the end of Blake’s chant.
Okay, I take it back.
It looks like I may be able to kill this thing after all.