Bob was once again sent flying by the Behemoth's repeated attack pattern. Despite its predictability, Bob had to exert all of his strength just to dodge, which delayed his thinking and made it difficult for him to improvise a counter attack.
Bob decided to take a risk. He charged toward the Behemoth before it turned around.
"This time, I charged toward it before dodging right, the Stone Lances should be behind me now." Bob analyzed the situation. "The Behemoth always turns around to its left after charging. Let me try to get to its right side and see if I can attack."
As Bob expected, the Behemoth charged toward him as soon as it turned around. Bob attempted to jump to the Behemoth's right to dodge his charge. However, as if the Behemoth had predicted Bob's plan, it cast Stone Lances on its right to protect its blind spot.
"Uh oh." Bob was going to jump into the lances and skewer himself. He immediately used all his strength to change his left dash into a right dash. As he was a split second slow, Bob was going to be hit hard from the Behemoth's charging attack at this rate.
"Divine Spell: Stone Wall!" Bob's Stone Wall slightly lifted the Behemoth’s left leg. Because the beast turned its head to its right before the tusk swing, this caused it to lose balance and turned to its right. Although this delayed the Behemoth's tusk swing, Bob was still struck by the attack.
Bob flew away from the swing. His back hit and fell a tree. Immediately, he felt a sharp pain in his left arm from blocking the tusk. In this exchange, he took a risk charging forward, but it did not work out. However, if not for the Stone Wall, it could have been worse.
"Close one." Bob thought. The Behemoth growled again. Bob did not know whether the beast was complimenting him or if it was telling him that this battle would end with its next attack.
"Activate the Advanced Skill: Danger Sense." Bob suddenly heard a man’s voice in his head.
"It has been a while." Bob said.
"Focus on the fight." the voice replied.
Bob then said, "Advanced skill: Danger Sense."
The Behemoth growled again and the ground began to shake. Bob felt the ground beneath him starting to liquefy. Stone Lances, this time, came from all directions except his front.
Bob had an urge to jump to his right because of the repeated Stone Lance attacks from his left. However, before the Stone Lances even appeared on the ground, Bob saw a vision of him getting skewered by jumping toward his right.
"So, this is Danger Sense." Bob realized what this skill does.
Bob dashed forward even before the Stone Lances appeared on the ground. "I can't dodge its next attack because of the liquefied ground anyway. I will attack."
The Behemoth appeared taken aback, but it made no difference. Instead of swinging its tusks, the Behemoth charged straight toward Bob with the intention of ending the fight.
"Divine Spell: Stone Wall." Bob cast a wide wall to block the Behemoth’s eyesight.
"Without Danger Sense, this would have been a direct hit," Bob thought, "but not anymore."
Right now, Bob could clearly feel and see multiple ways he could have died or been injured in the next 2 seconds. With this information, he could tell where the Behemoth would come through from the Stone Wall, and where it would step on. He took one small step toward a tiny safe spot that the Behemoth would miss, crouched down, and pointed his long sword upward. Throughout the fight, he had been pouring Mana into the blade. Bob’s sword was now way sharper and stronger than when he stabbed the beast on its forehead.
The Behemoth was sure that it would win. It planned to trample everything behind the Stone Wall as its charge shattered it. However, surprisingly, Bob was crouching in a tiny gap between its nose and its tusk. At this moment, Bob stabbed the Behemoth from below it. With the momentum of the Behemoth's charge, Bob slashed through its chest by simply raising his sword, which wounded the beast badly and it bled profusely.
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"How did he do this?" The Behemoth growled, turned around and fell. Bob remained alert for another minute, during which the beast stayed on the ground without moving. "Phew... That was close. Danger Sense drains so much Divine Power." Bob thought and sat on the ground, breathing heavily.
At the same time, the tsunami arrived. Bob led the Behemoth uphill onto the mountain, so the water did not reach him. He jumped onto a tree and went to the river side on tree tops. He looked toward south east and saw that his family’s stone house was doing fine. However, when he cast Appraisal on the stone house, Adrian, Winnie and Tiffany were not there.
More importantly, Bob felt a powerful Aura coming from the south, arriving within half a minute. Bob picked up his shield and sword again and flexed his injured left arm. Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain coming from his left arm and chest and let out a sound in pain. "Oww..." However, he had no time to check his injury. Instead, Bob tried to keep breathing to restore as much Divine Power as possible.
"Found you!" Boom! A woman in her thirties landed around 20 feet away from Bob. She had blue hair, Sapphire eyes and fair skin, similar to Julie. She coldly stared at Bob just like a hunter eyeing its prey.
"My name is Bob. May I ask who you are?" Bob initiated the conversation. If possible, he would like to avoid fighting such a powerful opponent with an injury.
"I am Saint Levi. Good job defeating Travis. What happened to him and his follower? That blue haired girl." Levi said as she focused her gaze at Bob.
"Um…" Bob paused for an instant before answering. "They are dead. What do you want?" The opponent was a Saint. Telling the truth would mean betraying N and expose his location.
"Finish the job." said Levi as her face darkened. She extended her Divine Power to the vicinity as Bob also extended his.
Levi’s Divine Power was at least a magnitude more powerful than Bob’s. Bob had to concentrate his Mana into a much smaller area to prevent Levi's Divine Power from penetrating into his area. "Appraisal." Bob said. However, his aura could not reach Levi and the spell failed. Levi confidently walked toward Bob and chanted. "Divine Spell: Water Dragon." A dragon made of water from the tsunami emerged and charged toward Bob on his right. Bob charged toward Levi to avoid the dragon, and at the same time attacked with his sword. Levi blocked Bob’s attack with her shield and kicked him toward the dragon. The dragon knocked Bob back and he fell several trees before falling onto the ground.
"Your Stoneskin and Elemental Shield are pretty solid." Levi commented, her gaze fixed on Bob.
"Thanks for noticing, but your Water Dragon was rather underwhelming." Bob stood up and answered. He felt a sharp pain in his abdomen and back, but he acted like he wasn't injured.
"I don’t believe in overkill. You see, I usually test out people’s strengths before deciding how to kill them." Levi said with a hint of anger and confidence.
"Octa-cast Divine Spells: Kill Zone." Tiffany chanted from her hiding spot.
Six high pressure Water Guns mixed with Stone Bullets surrounded Levi and shot at her. She dashed back and a Stone Wall Trap appeared behind her. A few days ago, Julie was trapped by this Stone Wall and had to defend against the attack. However, unlike Julie, Levi effortlessly shattered the Stone Wall with her elbow and dashed through it. Using a combination of Stone Walls, acrobatics and flying slashes, she quickly destroyed all of the glyphs composing the Kill Zone spell. Lastly, she sent a flying slash in Tiffany's direction, but Tiffany skillfully dodged it.
"Octa-cast? Are you Tiffany?" Levi was very surprised. However, Tiffany did not answer.
"Damn the Royal Family. They never mentioned Tiffany in their report. This is why Travis is..." Levi gulped as she thought. "In any case, I must bring this fight to an end."
"Tiffany, stay back and cast another one. I will hold her off for a little longer." Bob urgently said to his wife.
"Okay!" Tiffany understood how dire the situation was. However, she was not going to abandon her husband.
"For you, this should suffice." Levi said. " Divine Spell: Ice Lance." Water from the rain raised and gathered to form lances. Then, they were frozen at an incredible speed before launching toward Bob from his left.
"Lances on my left again?" Bob thought as he charged toward Levi. Levi attacked Bob using her sword. In just a few seconds, they exchanged multiple hits.
"Nice swordsmanship. They say that the Death Blade School counters the Thousand Blades. Let’s see how you try it." said Levi.
"Advanced Skill: Danger Sense." Bob whispered to himself. "I see." Bob thought as he saw Levi's plan.
"Divine Spell: Water Slicer" she whispered quietly. A glyph appeared at Bob’s blind spot on his right side from 2 meters away. While doing so, Levi tried to slash across Bob’s left shoulder from above.
Using Danger Sense, Bob realized that both attacks could have been fatal. "Divine Spell: Stone Wall." He swiftly created a Stone Wall at an angle to the Water Slicer, altering its path. With this, he then blocked the slash to his left shoulder with his shield and promptly countered Levi.
Bob delivered a slash toward Levi’s right shoulder. His Aura focused on the tip of his sword, creating a Crescent Moon in the air. "Death Blade School: Crescent Moon Slash."
Despite Levi's superior strength, Bob managed to strike her shoulder. This surprised both Bob and Levi. "Thanks my ancestors. The Danger Sense skill is very useful."
"Focus on the fight. It's not over yet." the voice from earlier replied.