Single Spell Sorcerer-Chapter 71: A Strange Swiftness

Jax saw the attack at the end and tried to dodge. He got out of the way of the axe, but a foot came, kicking him in the chest.

Jax felt his breath leave his body as he flew in the air in an arch before coming down to the ground again. His entire body was in pain, struggling to even breathe.

Jax’s mind screamed at him to get back up as the situation was too dangerous to stay down.

He got halfway up with trembling palms when he saw the boss’s shadow next to him. He rolled without looking at him and heard the thud as the boss landed.

He turned, staring at the boss, and used his spell.

However, the spell didn’t work once again, just like last time. His spell had clearly not been blocked, so the boss had something going on with him that made no spell land on him.

Jax quickly got up and moved out of the way as the boss came for him. He was missing his axe after the explosion, so he searched around for it and saw it behind the boss.

He had to go through the boss to get to it.

The boss ran for him and this time Jax had nothing to fight it with. He ran a short distance, but the boss was faster than him too, arriving right behind him.

It swung down with its axe, landing a nasty cut along Jax’s back. Jax felt the stinging pain of the cut flare behind him in that moment as his vision blurred for a moment. Specks of black and white flared from the attack.

He saw the boss attack, and was barely fast enough to dodge it. His axe was still too far away for him to go get to it.

Jax’s mind raced to find a way to get to his axe, but the boss kept him from doing so. His spell wasn’t working, and he continued to bleed out. At this point, he didn’t even know if he had any healing potions at all.

Jax tore away the useless armor clinging around his torso at this point and dodged another attack. Without the axe, he could more or less dodge quite well, but dodging alone wasn’t going to help him.

He was bleeding so profusely that he was surprised that he hadn’t died already. On top of that, his Navi was getting low as well. If this continued on for too long, either his blood or his Navi would run out, at which point death would be inevitable.

After dodging a few more times, Jax was ready to use his technique again, but that would only give him enough time to go grab his axe. Would that be enough?

If he used his technique, the boss would just explode with energy again, making himself untouchable with spell. That would bring him back to this same situation.

’Restricting spells are bad,’ Jax thought. ’He will only become untargetable if I do that.’

Jax dodged another attack as his mind got faster, information racing all across. He was getting to something, he knew of it.

’Every time I used my spell since its phase change has been triggering its skill,’ he thought. ’So, I can’t use my spell on it directly.’

He stepped to the side, letting the axe slide down next to him. As the other axe came diagonally, Jax crouched and spun, dodging it as well.

’Slow,’ he thought in surprise. He hadn’t noticed it for some reason, but the boss was slower now. As the boss came for another attack, Jax dodged again, only to notice something.

The boss wasn’t slow at all. Instead, he was the one that was faster. He was somehow easily dodging the boss’s attack that he had been having trouble with beforehand.

Jax’s thoughts weren’t the only thing acute in that moment. His senses were getting better as well. His kinetic vision was much better than it was at the start, now able to see the boss’s attacks as if they were being telegraphed to him beforehand.

Jax saw the incoming swings and weaved in between them, arriving next to the boss before punching it square in the stomach. The boss stumbled a few steps backward before stopping and coming back to attack again.

Jax was surprised.

Had he grown stronger?

What was going on? Why was it that when his body was on the verge of death, he had grown stronger? Had his Navi quality improved for some reason? He couldn’t see that being the case as he couldn’t recall hearing any notification.

Jax saw the Kobold boss coming for another attack and his brilliantly fast mind thought of something. If using a spell that targeted him was the problem, then he would simply use a spell that didn’t target the boss.

Five singular threads of a decent thickness with great durability spewed out from the tip of five fingers in his right hand. He grabbed the threads with his other hand, wrapping his hand with it.

When the boss came down with a swing, Jax barely got out of the way while letting the handle of the axe fall into his strings. The moment it landed, Jax looped the threads around the axe.

He moved to the side when the other axe fell, wrapping it in the threads too. The boss tried to pull back the two axes, but Jax’s threads kept them down.

Jax moved, his threads spilling out of his fingers as he began encircling the boss, each step looping more threads around the beast. The boss tried to exert its strength, but Jax’s threads continued wrapping him.

Even though it was just 5 threads, together they were too strong for the boss to just break out of them. Jax moved in and out of the boss, wrapping his body more and more in the thick string until the boss was wrapped so tightly that it couldn’t move at all.

At that point, Jax finally stepped back, watching the boss fully wrapped in his threads, completely immobile.

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