Elemental darkness began to envelop Sonia's shield, and the darkness seemed to form a large shield. The bones of the skeleton monster instantly smashed into the shield in front of Sonia, and a loud crashing sound was heard when it hit. However, the bones that came out of the skeleton monster's body immediately shattered into pieces.
Sonia put her feet back on the ground. This time, the two skeleton monsters attacked simultaneously, swinging their swords at Sonia. Sonia quickly backed away to avoid the incoming attacks.
The ground scattered again as two bone swords hit the ground, one skeleton monster suddenly collapsed to the ground after the bone near its thigh cracked. Hayato, noticing this, ducked down immediately, clutching his sword tightly.
"Sonia, I'll try to knock down one of the skeleton monsters. Then you can approach it and make it die!" Hayato shouted.
Sonia just seemed to nod as she dodged other attacks from the skeleton monsters. While Hayato seemed to focus his mana on his sword, his mind imagined a very thin wave of fire resembling a sword slash.
"If that fool can do it, so can I," Hayato muttered as he continued to concentrate for quite a while. Slowly, the flames began to surround the sword in Hayato's hand. "I only have to use half of my current power."
"Fire slash!" Hayato shouted while he slashed his sword forward.
At that moment, the flames from Hayato's sword began to dart and condense, the flames now resembling a thinner sword slash. Hayato's attack sliced right through the skeleton monster's already cracked femur. The body of the skeleton monster that Hayato slashed began to float down due to its loss of balance.
"He made his attack as thin as possible?" muttered Sonia who was shocked to see Hayato's attack different from before.
"Now Sonia!" Hayato shouted.
"You are indeed interesting, Rank F," Sonia muttered with a smile. "Yeah!" replied Sonia as she jumped at the body of the skeleton monster that was floating down. "This time you'll be destroyed! Darkest Shield!" Sonia shouted as she swung her shield forward.
Thick black waves began to surround Sonia's shield, forming a large black shield shape, the skeleton monster's body again created a large number of bones that shot towards Sonia, the skeleton monster seemed to be trying to prevent Sonia from approaching its body.
But all the bones that hit Sonia's black shield instantly crumbled and shattered, Sonia quickly clung to the backbone of the giant skeleton monster that fell. In the blink of an eye, the light in the giant skeleton monster's eyes seemed to be extinguished, and all the bones of its body began to break off from every joint.
The spine that Sonia was clinging to even cracked before finally breaking into pieces. One of the remaining giant skeleton monsters tried to swing its sword at Sonia. A loud cracking sound was heard as Sonia used the skeleton monster's bone to deflect the other skeleton monster's bone sword.
Elsewhere, lightning continued to strike in different directions, and the sound of thunder and loud explosions could be heard several times. Raff seemed to be jumping in different directions, dodging every lightning strike that came his way.
"Tch. He didn't even give me room to get close," Raff muttered as he planted his feet on the edge of the hill. "The lightning on his back is too much trouble," Raff said as he leapt into the air to avoid the lightning strikes coming his way.
Raff picked up a handful of gravel that flew into the air and threw it up. A sword slash flew toward Raff's body, but Raff's form had vanished from sight.
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Now that Raff's form was floating higher in the air, Electro Skullix swung his two swords again. This time, two long-distance slashes shot towards Raff. But Raff's form was already floating somewhere else, and Skullix's attack only hit the roof of the dungeon.
Chunks of earth began to scatter from the impact of Skullix's slashes. Raff threw the pebbles in his hand at Skullix's body again. But a bolt of lightning struck the pebble and it crumbled into dust. Lightning continued to shoot towards Raff, but Raff's figure was now standing on the ground again.
Skullix jumped up this time and slashed at Raff with his sword, causing Raff's body to disappear again until all of Skullix's attacks hit the ground and dissipated.
"Tch. There's no other choice but to go straight for it," Raff grumbled while slapping his palms together.
Black bolts of lightning appeared in both of Raff's hands, and slowly, the black bolts of lightning solidified into a black lightning knife. This time, Raff moved quickly toward Electro Skullix's body, which had its feet planted on the ground.
Skullix seemed to open his mouth wide, and hundreds of small, sharp bones shot out of his mouth. Hundreds of bones rained down on Raff like rain. But Raff continued to move quickly towards Skullix, and the bones aimed at him were immediately slashed to pieces.
Electro Skullix immediately slashed his sword at Raff, who managed to escape the rain of bones, this time Raff's form disappeared from view. Raff had planted his feet on the edge of the hill again, without wasting any time he stomped his feet, his body shooting back from behind Electro Skullix.
But the lightning on Skullix's back quickly shot back at Raff, and that's when Raff realized. The lightning on Electro Skullix's back only reacted when Raff tried to attack him from behind and at close range. Raff's form disappeared again so that he wouldn't be hit by the lightning directed at him.
"I see, I need to get him close to where my active skills can be used," Raff muttered as he looked at Skullix from the front.
The Electro Skullix monster took another step forward, swinging his sword at Raff. Raff immediately smashed his lightning-covered foot into the ground, instantly creating a hole where his foot had struck. Raff jumped back, grabbing a pebble that had scattered from the ground and throwing it precisely into the hole his foot had made.
"Looks like he's in the middle of it," Raff muttered after backing up a few times. Skullix now stood directly over the pebble he had placed where he had stood earlier.
The lightning knife in Raff's hand seemed to emit a flash of black lightning. In the blink of an eye, Raff's form disappeared from the Skullix monster's view, and now attacks from nine different directions appeared on the Electro-Skullix monster.
Black lightning strikes from nine directions aimed directly at Skullix's body, suddenly the lightning on Skullix's back responded to the attack that appeared from behind Skullix's body. Meanwhile, the attack from the front managed to hit the armor on Skullix's body, which had no time to block it.
The impact of Raff's black lightning attack seemed to puncture the armor on the front of Skullix's body, but slowly the armor recovered until the holes disappeared. All that was just a distraction, now Raff's form was right at the feet of the Electro-Skullix monster.
Raff plunged the two black lightning knives in his hands into the armor protecting Skullix's leg bones. Suddenly, the Skullix monster could be heard roaring in pain as Raff's lightning knives pierced its armor and leg bones. Not only that, but the black lightning that surrounded Raff's knives began to spread through the Electro-Skullix monster's bones.
Skullix's roar echoed, but Raff's attack didn't seem to have much effect. Electro Skullix tried to stomp his foot, but Raff quickly moved to avoid Skullix's swinging foot. The lightning blade on Skullix's leg slowly disappeared.
"Tch. Even armor has a regenerative effect," Raff grumbled as he saw the armor pierced by Raff's knife return to its original state.
"It seems I really have no choice, facing monsters that are many times stronger is not enough with active skills alone. Besides, I don't know where the monster crystal is in his body," Raff said as he stretched his hand and body muscles.
Raff stomped his foot on the ground and his right hand caught small stones that flew into the air. Raff's gaze was now fixed on Skullix, who looked at him angrily, and at that moment Skullix also seemed to open his mouth wide, both hands also seemed to be ready to release his two swords.
The lightning bolts on the back of the Electro Skullix monster began to form seven layers of bright blue magic circles in the air, at the same time, Skullix slashed his two swords, thousands of small sharp bones also shot out from his mouth. Meanwhile, a giant lightning dragon emerged from the bright blue circle and took aim at Raff.
Raff immediately looked down, and his legs seemed to be enveloped in ordinary lightning elements, as was his left hand. Raff started to run to meet the incoming attack, but Raff's form had instantly shifted to a different location using his active skill called Plot Twist. Now Raff's body was right next to Skullix's.
Continued...