Chapter 39: Defense and Dodge

"Haha!"

After swinging the spear in his hand and beheading the little demon in front of him, Amed gasped loudly in exhaustion.

"It's really endless."

"Yes, it seems that the dungeon is determined to keep us!"

Meli on the side also said faintly.

At this time, the place where Amed and Meli were located was the passage leading to the rock chamber where Micah was.

From the other side of the passage, monsters still appeared in front of the two from time to time, wanting to go to the rock chamber behind to join the monster feast.

Originally, Amed and Meli planned to wait for Micah here quietly, and then help him when he really couldn't do it.

But the sudden appearance of the monster interrupted their plans.

The two who didn't want to make the situation on Micah's side worse were sniping the monsters who were going to pass through here.

"Roar!"

Controlling the orcs to kill the little demons, Meli said with some worry: "Although we can help snipe the monsters, we can't stop the other side."

"That means, will Micah have to deal with more and more monsters?"

"Yes!"

Meli said helplessly: "Now Micah can only rely on himself."

"Ah!"

Stepping on the orc's stick and running up, cutting off his head on its shoulders.

Then jumping to other places, Micah kept repeating this battle method to deal with the threat brought by the orcs.

After continuous fighting, the number of little demons has obviously decreased.

But as time passed, Micah became more and more difficult.

Slowly, he had almost no space for him to move around.

The monsters that originally surrounded him on all sides have completely surrounded him and merged into one.

In this situation, even if Micah used magic to clear a piece of open space, it would be filled back soon.

And as the space for moving around shrank, the frequency of Micah's attacks began to increase.

"Dang!"

Although Mika noticed the attack from behind, he was knocked out in an instant without any reaction.

After flying backwards for only a few tenths of a second in the air, Mika was hit by other orcs and then forced to stop.

"Oops!"

As soon as his body landed, Mika stood up and completed the defensive posture.

This was a conditioned reflex that he had trained under the training of Urokodaki Sakonji.

Spitting the blood foam in his mouth to the ground, Mika parried the attacks of the half-giants around him while thinking calmly.

Now, Mika, who was completely surrounded, was constantly attacked from all sides.

Although Mika could judge the attacks of monsters in the blind spot of his vision through hearing, his position was too narrow to avoid all attacks at the same time.

Therefore, Mika could only choose to avoid or resist the attacks of the orcs with stronger attack power, and slow down the attacks of other little demons.

This made Mika scarred, but he was never defeated.

Instead, he killed more monsters.

But things often don't go as planned. As Mika targeted the little devil, the number of orcs around him began to increase.

Although the number of monsters around Mika was reduced due to the size of the orcs, the frequency of his attacks was reduced.

But in this way, the damage he received from the attacks was increased.

He could withstand the attacks of the little devil several times, but he would be directly knocked out by the orcs' attack.

Feeling the shock of his internal organs, blood kept flowing from the corners of Mika's mouth.

"No, if I endure such attacks a few more times, I will definitely die."

Feeling the state of his body, Mika's brain turned rapidly.

"The reason why I was able to completely avoid the attacks of the orcs before was that I relied on my eyes and ears to predict their attacks and seize the intervals between their attacks to fight."

"But now there are more orcs, so even if I seize their intervals, I can't dodge smoothly. This is the limit of what my body can do."

Realizing this, Mika's heart was extremely heavy.

With the complete disappearance of the space for maneuvering, the swordsmanship that Micah had practiced for two years was no longer effective.

Now, Micah's fight with the monsters was only the simplest attack and defense (avoidance).

As for the attack, Micah naturally had no worries.

The monster corpses scattered all over the grassland were his masterpieces.

His killing never stopped.

But defense was his most important thing at the moment.

If the orcs were allowed to attack, Micah would probably be beaten to pieces soon.

In order to block the attacks of the orcs, Micah almost took all the attacks of the little demons.

Now, Micah had almost no intact parts on his body, and his body was covered with claw marks of the little demons.

If he hadn't used some high-level recovery potions he carried with him to stop the bleeding, Micah would have bled to death.

But even so, Micah would not have the slightest idea of giving up.

Using the greatsword to block the stick coming from the front, Micah twisted his body and rushed in, swinging the greatsword to cut off the thigh of the orc. Before he could behead him, Micah turned around to deal with the attack from behind.

"Now, my body has reached its limit. No matter how hard I squeeze it, I won't be able to use any more strength. So, I need more reaction time."

Defense and dodge.

This is the most important problem that Micah needs to face now.

Facing attacks from all directions, Micah needs to plan in advance when to defend and when to dodge.

Otherwise, Micah's agility and flexibility alone cannot achieve this level of defense and dodge.

From the attack intentions and trajectories of the monsters being "seen" by Micah, to their attacks falling.

In this less than a second, Micah needs to plan defense and dodge in his mind first, and then complete it in reality.

Before, Micah had been relying on this state to defend and dodge.

But now, the increase in orcs has made Micah need to deal with longer planning time, while the defense and dodge time that originally needed to be increased has been reduced.

This is the situation Micah is facing now.

"So, now I need to see the attack intentions and trajectories of the orcs earlier, so as to increase the defense and dodge time."

Stopping the attacking action in his hand, Micah put all his energy on defense.

Letting go of all his senses, Mika used everything he had to feel the world around him.

The world seen by his eyes.

The sounds heard by his ears.

The air flow felt by his skin.

Through these three senses, the world around Mika began to become clear.

It was as if everything around him was imprinted in his mind.

But this was not enough.

Since the appearance of the Monster Feast, Mika's skill "Danger Sense" has been warning.

It was as if the malice of the entire dungeon was looming over him.