Single Spell Sorcerer-Chapter 69: Two Strikes

Even as Jax’s awareness of the outside world began to degrade with each passing second, he still knew enough to know that there was something very wrong about the boss he was fighting.

It was acceptable that the boss guarding a 3-Star ticket would be strong. It was even expected. However, this was way beyond the point of what one should have to face in the very first trial to the next realm.

Jax knew he wasn’t the strongest person out there. There had to be many warriors that were physically stronger than him with their skills and spells. But even so, thanks to his great starting strength, and the incredible weapon he used, he should have been close enough to them that his strikes did something to the boss.

But other than the chink in his armor, he had been able to do nothing at all. Even his furious swing on the back of its knee had resulted in nothing other than the boss kneeling on the ground for a bit.

’There is no way a boss should both be able to defend and attack with such strength. It’s just unfair at that point,’ Jax thought. With his mind a dying light, he did his best to consider all the possibilities, the first of which was that the boss had other weaknesses that he wasn’t considering.

There was more than just strength and defense in a fight. There was speed, reflex, stamina, skill, etc. Jax immediately knew not a single one of those four were the issue. The boss had a good enough speed, great stamina, good reflexes, and no doubt had good skills too.

The other possibility was that while he was physically resilient, he might be vulnerable when it came to other forms of damage, mostly magical ones such as his poison threads.

Since he had already wrapped the poison threads in multiple locations around the boss’s body, that was not something he had to consider any further. If that was the case, then the damage was being dealt steadily and the boss was dying.

The boss tore through his threads again with the orange glow that came from his axes.

Jax hurriedly tried to use his spell, but he was once again cursed, unable to use his spell. His mind, a fog at this point, failed to immediately recognize the lack of spell being activated.

The boss jumped at him, swinging down his two giant axes.

Jax stepped away from the boss, but wasn’t quick enough. He only belatedly felt the pain that came from two skin-deep cuts that had landed on him.

One went from his left biceps to his left pecs, and the other split a piece of his chin before landing around the middle of his chest. Fresh blood spilled out at that moment, with Jax feeling the pain blossom at that moment.

The pain jolted him awake from his failing mind, allowing him to quickly step out of the trajectory of the next strike. He barely managed to dodge it in time.

Jax stepped even further back from the boss, holding his hand up to his chest. The pain was intense, an aching sensation on just a small part of his chest. The leather armor he wore had been torn in half, the two sides flaying open on either side, revealing the two wounds with blood gushing out of them.

Jax pressed on the wound, trying to stop the bleeding. He dodged another one of the boss’s attacks, and then another one before finally striking back.

The boss didn’t bother to dodge at all and took the attack entirely with no issue at all. Once again, Jax’s attack did barely anything to the kobold’s metal armor. Aside from a blunt force that pushed the boss back, there was no damage.

Jax wanted to bring out a healing potion to drink, but the boss was already back next to him, attacking. All of Jax’s attention was on protecting himself at that point, barely anything left to find the potion in his Inventory and pull it out. ƒreewebɳovel.com

The boss’s strength and defense were in full view for Jax at that moment, as he quickly realized that even if he was right about the poison threads working on him, there was something else going on with him.

Jax looked at the Kobold Mage next to the throne and back at the boss. A thought came to his mind, one that he surprisingly managed to think about in spite of his failing mind.

’What does that mage do when it’s not restricting me?’ he thought. ’Could it perhaps be helping the boss in some way?’

There was a very high chance of that being the case.

Jax was quite glad of himself for managing to come up with such a thought in his current situation. In fact, he only then realized that the fogginess of his mind had disappeared a decent amount. He was as good as awake now. The pain had a hand in doing that, certainly.

Jax waited for the moment the restriction on him disappeared and immediately used his threads on the boss. The boss seemed to have been ready for it, but despite reacting to it, Jax’s spell still landed. Since Jax just needed to see the target, the boss didn’t have any opportunity to dodge at all.

Instead of attacking the boss this time, Jax ran for the Kobold Mage.

The kobold saw Jax coming in its direction and immediately used another spell. Two serpents made of fire flew toward Jax. Jax swung at them, destroying one of the serpents, but the other one managed to hit him in his right shoulder.

The force of the attack nearly dislocated his shoulder while leaving a nasty burn on it. It gave another incredible pain for Jax to handle, but it wasn’t enough to stop him.

Jax still ran up to the beast, and even as it tried to stop him, he used his spell to constrict the beast entirely. Then, he swung down with his axe.

A single strike was all that Jax needed to kill the Kobold Mage.

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