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- Tower Climber
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The minotaur groaned and was picking itself up off the ground. Behind her was the kid with the torn up legs.
“Are you some kind of idiot?” she asked, not even turning around to face the boy, keeping her eyes focused on the minotaur. “What are you doing out in the middle of a monster wave? You should know better.”
“I...uhh...”
The boy was too shocked to reply properly.
There was something fishy about all of this, Sakura thought. A minotaur—most likely a copper or silver-ranked monster—had broken through their defensive line and had almost made it to the wall of the tower-zone? Something wasn’t adding up here.
She shook her head. She would piece the reasons behind this debacle later. She needed to focus on the fight.
The minotaur was back on its feet now, glaring at her.
She pounded her fists together, hyping herself up. “Alright, tough guy, your little jaunt through our city is over.”
Based on the fact that she was able to send the monster flying with a single punch, Sakura figured she was higher ranked than this monster or, at the very least, it just had a very low endurance stat. Either way, there was no way the defense climbers would have allowed for any monster higher ranked than silver to make it this far.
RARGH!!
The minotaur charged at her.
The kid behind her screamed.
Oh crap, thought Sakura. The dumb teenager behind me. Now I understand the rules of this fight. This kid is my handicap.
“Get out of the way, kid!” she yelled over her shoulder.
Sakura had to rethink her strategy on the fly. She stretched out her hand and triggered her slice skill.
A bright golden shard of energy stretched out before her.
The minotaur kept charging towards her, roaring with all of its might.
One hit should do it, thought Sakura.
She stretched out her arm and, as if she was manipulating the bright shard of energy in front of her, the shard stretched out further as well.
The shard of energy grew in length at such speed and velocity it had become a deadly projectile like a throwing spear.
The bright shard of energy dug into the minotaur’s chest.
The minotaur screamed in pain.
Sakura waited for the creature to fall to the ground, but it didn’t. Any moment now there should be a big gaping hole of blood and flesh in the minotaur’s stomach.
The glowing energy shard of her slice move dissipated in the air, revealing a large bloodied wound on the minotaur, but no hole through the flesh from one end to the other.
Impossible!
Her slice ability had broken through the monster’s hide and wounded it a little, but nowhere near as much as she was expecting. The ability should have easily torn through the monster’s flesh.
Unless...
A red aura surrounded the minotaur’s body as it glared at Sakura once more.
ROAR!!!!