Chapter 242: Can’t Even Sit

Seeing the fully healed hobgoblin stand back up as if nothing happened annoyed him.

That wasn’t fair, he was the only one who could heal like that. That was his thing and this monster was stealing it from him.

He let out another breath of air. The seventh wave was proving to be the hardest wave so far, still, that was within expectations. He didn’t think he would be able to finish the tenth wave without exerting himself a little bit.

Regardless, he narrowed his eyes as he glared at the beast. Okay, you want to show off your healing in front of me, huh? Let me show you how it’s done.

Cracking his neck, he focused his gaze toward the archers who had released another volley of arrows at him as he stood by and observed the hobgoblin heal.

The arrows were fast, but they weren’t as powerful as some of the other attacks he experienced from other Tier 3s. They had some sort of penetrative skill empowering them, but compared to his [Armaments of the Arcane] they were lacking in many things.

He casually created a barrier of mana in front of him and blocked all of the arrows without trouble. They weren’t even able to make a scratch on his barrier. His Sharpness Concept cut away the arrow’s connection to the archers, making the power behind them lessen considerably.

Seeing that, made him pause in excitement.

His Sharpness Concept, Severing Will was something that he hadn’t been paying much attention to lately. At least when he compared it to his Will Concept or his Phoenix Concept, it was clearly at a level below them.

If he were to rank Concepts, he would say that his Sharpness Concept was around the upper echelons of the low tier or a weaker middle tier Concept, whereas his Will Concept was around the top of middle tier. His Phoenix Concept was easily in the high tier, it was in a class of its own.

It was just hard to use compared to his other Concepts.

His Sharpness Concept, on the other hand, was quite easy to use. It had one simple ability. To cut anything in his path.

Whether that was the defenses of his opponents or to cut apart the mana making up their constructs or skills, Julius would be able to use Severing Will to do so.

So why couldn’t he use the same thought process to cut away the connection that bound the single hobgoblin and the archers?

With a new idea in mind, he smiled and dashed toward the hobgoblin once more. He completely ignored the rain of arrows coming his way and only had the single large hobgoblin focused in his eyes.

It tried to block Julius with its shield, but it was slow. Even with the empowerment from all of its comrades, its speed wasn’t impressive. Most of the empowerment was in the form of healing and aiding willpower.

Julius suspected that the hobgoblin wouldn’t be able to handle such an increase in speed, with its limited body in addition to what was already flowing through it.

He grabbed a corner of the shield and used a large pulse of kinetic energy and attempted to rip the shield away from its body. While the monster’s speed wasn’t impressive, its strength was quite noteworthy. It took him considerable effort to overpower the monster. But in the end, it wasn’t able to hold onto the shield and protect itself.

Julius crushed a fist covered in [Aura Burn] and [Armaments of the Arcane] into the liver of the monster, sending it staggering back several feet.

[Aura Burn] did its job and he heard the beast roar out in pain as the flames burned its aura without mercy.

However, the real attack, the one he used with [Armaments of the Arcane] was the one he most interested in.

He had pumped a lot of his Severing Will into his attack and focused on severing the connection between the hobgoblin and the fourteen archers off in the distance.

The combined willpower of the fifteen of them tried to stop the attack. But Julius wasn’t attacking the hobgoblin directly. He was attacking the thin connection between it and the rest of them. That meant he didn’t have to compete with the combined willpower. He only needed to deal with a single side of the connection.

If the archers and hobgoblin were the two anchors on a mountain, the connection was the wire that linked them together. And Julius shredded that wire with brutal precision. The connection fell apart and the empowerment the large hobgoblin was experiencing faded away like nothing ever existed.

He saw the astonishment in the creature’s eyes as the glow surrounding its body dimmed to nothing and then fear appeared in its eyes as Julius stalked toward it.

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The monster looked back toward the archers with panicked eyes and Julius watched as a massive volley of arrows headed toward him, this time though, not a single one got close to the hobgoblin.

He smiled as his plan seemed to have worked perfectly and went on the offensive once more.

A surge of kinetic energy had him in front of the lone monster and he smashed a front kick at its shield. The strike was so powerful that it was staggered back once again, not being able to deal with such a strong blow.

Julius then used [Flash Step] to get behind the hobgoblin and brutalized the beast with an endless swarm of blows. Each one had [Aura Burn] damaging it and he even used [Barrier of Severance] on the skin of his body to give him even more damage.

He didn’t bother to use any of his constructs, this was more mana-efficient, and for some reason, he really wanted to finish this thing off with his own two fists.

[Kinetic Augmentation], [Thermal Empowerment], [Aura Burn], and [Barrier of Severance] all worked in perfect tandem.

One enhanced his overall explosiveness and power, the other helped his body handle this power, one burned his opponents aura, and the other shredded the skin and defensive layers of the monster.