3844 Little Shields

Puch Puch!

I had killed the two who came at me when I felt the powerful gaze locked one, that raised all the hair on my body.

I immediately looked in the direction and saw Scarlet Horned Bullman coming toward me.

'Fuck!' I cursed.

It is powerful, more powerful than I could fight. I wanted to run immediately, but there was nowhere to run. I am near the end of the battlefield; it will catch me before I reach the closest powerful native.

As for escaping the battlefield. It is not an option either; the deserters will get killed, not to mention I couldn't escape.

The Bullman is much faster than me; it will catch me before I can run far.

Burst 100%

Soon, there was only a mile of distance between us. I could feel its aura clearly; it was a High-Sky Sovereign with the bloodline.

It crossed the distance between us at an incredibly fast speed and appeared in front of me, before swinging its massive red sword.

I moved my sword forward to defend. Could see its lips curving up in mirth; it didn't think, I could defend against it.

Still, despite that, the bastard had increased the strength of its attack midway.

CLANNNNNG!

Our swords clashed, and I felt like a massive fiery mountain clashed against me. It was powerful and shook me from up to down, before sending me back, like a broken doll.

Puh Puh Puh

I begin to vomit the blood, which begins to get vaporized by the fiery energies covering my armor.

I knew it was powerful, but I thought I would be able to defend at least a few moves before it would send me back like this.

It is too powerful. I didn't want to fight against the enemy like this. I wanted to fight someone who had 30% to 50% higher strength than the Bearman, I had fought earlier, but the Bullman had far higher strength.

I am no match for it.

It wanted to finish me off as soon as possible as it appeared in front of me and attacked again.

There was no mercy in its eyes. The attack is twice as powerful as the one earlier. If I tried to defend with my sword, I would have every bone of my body broken and internal organs crushed.

This is not an attack, and I did what I should have done with the first attack.

BANNNNNG!

A loud noise rang out and a big surprise appeared in its eyes as my shield stopped the attack. Handily, I might say, there was only a faint ripple that appeared with the attack and it quite disappeared after traveling a few centimeters.

It didn't immediately attack like before, it kept looking at my shield for nearly three seconds, before it disappeared.

It appeared behind me and attacked again, with it being more powerful than the last. Sending, the ripple across the shield.

BANNNNNG!

Its sword clashed against the invisible shield behind me. Which becomes visible as it absorbs the attack, while the first shield disappears.

It looked at the shield in front of it, before disappearing again and appeared above me, bringing down its sword.

BANNNNNG

A shield appeared and stopped its sword once again. This time, its expression changed, and anger appeared in its eyes.

It remained there only for a moment, but it was intense.

"You should fight me like a man instead of hiding behind the shields," it said finally. To that, I smiled. "So, you could kill me. No, thanks," I replied, and its eyes blazed again before a smile appeared on its face.

"You think, these little shields will save you from me?" it asked with mirth in its eyes. "Absolutely," I replied with the confidence.

It seemed to make it angry as its eyes blazed again in anger before it smiled.

"I like this confidence. You natives of the celestial inheritance are filled with them, till I crush, the thing you are proud of. Then you become, like every other native," it said, and I smiled back.

"Say those words to me, after you crushed my shields," I said. "I will and it won't take me long," I replied, and a fearful aura blasted out of its body.

It didn't immediately attack instead its smile, before bringing down its sword at incredible speed.

As it did, the change began to change on its sword. The blade of it started to get bright red, with the temperature around us increasing. By the time, it was stepped away from clashing against it, the air itself started to burn.

Hun!

It didn't clash against it. Instead, it disappeared and appeared in front of me, with a grin on its face.

BANNNNNG!

Its word clashed against the shield, and the grin on its face vanished, replaced by the blazing anger. It became intense when it looked at me, grinning back at it.

I may have limited shields, but I have placed them strategically. They could also move fast around, giving me greater mobility to manipulate them.

Still, it might not be enough, considering it hadn't revealed its power.

It is really terrifying Grimm. There is a reason, why I didn't want to fight it dispute having shields.

They are not perfect and not in full numbers. If they had been, I wouldn't have been so scared, but now I am. To finish me off, it just needs to be fast enough and lucky enough.

I hate these chances, but there is no other option to defend.

BANNNNNG BANNNNNG BANNNNNG

It begins to attack from all directions and angles. I only have four shields, which are far from enough.

The twelve is the number I need, but I have six, but using only four, since the string worth of two shields is being used somewhere else.

I desperately want to use those strings to defend, but I need to survive, not just defend, and the strings worth two shields will help me with that.