Chapter 247: Just Keep on Hitting It

The big scary stone giant decided that it wasn’t just going to sit there and let Julius do what he wanted.

Julius sensed mana converging around the giant in a powerful swirl and a second later a stone slab the size of a car zipped toward him.

Julius managed to sidestep it, but doing so left him directly into the charging giant’s sword. He created a construct barrier in front of himself just in time to deflect the sword upward and Julius snuck under the massive shield.

Since the monster was so large, the only realistic place to hit it was the legs, so he blasted a fist into the thing’s kneecap.

Unfortunately, its defense was not as weak as the other Tier 3s he had been fighting so far. And the only response he got out of it was a loud thud.

He quickly dodged the kick from its other leg and blasted one last strike to the same kneecap before he used [Flash Step] to get away, only barely avoiding the sword that struck where he had been only a second prior.

How was he going to deal with this massive thing? So far even his increased physical abilities weren’t able to deal any significant damage.

This thing wasn’t as fast as Dustin, but it had the strength and mass to compensate for that. It also knew how to use its weapons pretty decently too.

It might be a battle of attrition at this point, which he suspected the rift was going for by choosing this particular opponent.

The rift might have been planning to waste his resources fighting the previous waves and then send him an opponent that would force him to get into a prolonged battle, hoping that he had little mana left.

Unfortunately for the rift, he didn’t think it really knew just how large his mana pool was. While it may have thought he used a lot because of the prior wave, in truth, he only used about half.

That means he should have enough to take this giant down. Or at least, he was hoping that was the case.

He needed to find a better place to attack if he wanted to continue fighting up close though.

Or perhaps not. Continually bashing its kneecap might not be a terrible idea.

He doubted that this thing had a regeneration skill like he did and if he tore one of its legs off, it might just topple over like a skyscraper.

You knew what they said. The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Let’s see if that works in this case.

With his mind made up, he stepped back prepared what he needed to accomplish such a goal. Instead of creating a bunch of spikes to throw at the monster, he decided to create a large wedge.

It was packed with a lot of kinetic energy and he knew exactly where he was going to put it.

With a smile, he tore right back toward the giant with a [Flash Step] and cranked both of his physical enhancement skills to their limit. When he did, he felt his speed increase dramatically.

He slid under the slab of stone that rocketed toward him and jumped over the sword that followed it with a quick application of kinetic energy. The practice he had with the training course helped a lot. He was able to change his direction and accelerate to his maximum speed at the drop of a hat. This meant that he was able to pass the sword with little trouble.

The real trouble was what was behind the sword.

The shield was an annoying thing and probably one of the biggest issues he faced. With that being said, he had an idea.

He quickly created several strong spikes and shot them point-blank at the giant. The monster instinctively protected its exposed face with the shield. The blast was hard and knocked the giant a step back. The explosion covered its vision in smoke.

That small opening was enough for Julius to use [Flash Step] and a huge surge of kinetic energy to slip around to the side of the giant without it noticing. And when he did he slammed a fully charged leg at its knee.

He didn’t stop there, he kept on hammering the kneecap with half a dozen other strikes. Eventually, the giant realized what he was doing and was swinging his sword and shield at him. Trying to swat him like one would swat an annoying mosquito.

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But Julius was a tenacious and stubborn mosquito and the monster would find he wasn’t so easily brushed off.

He did end up taking a few grazes which fractured a couple of bones and one blow which almost took his entire arm off. But he stayed close and didn’t let the giant get any distance.

He did get caught by a backhanded blow he wasn’t able to dodge in time, but he managed to heal himself in the blink of an eye before throwing himself back into the fray.

After a few tricky maneuvers, he was able to get back within its guard and continued to hammer away at the same right kneecap he had first struck with stubborn ferocity.

He was aware that he had two real choices. One was to either fall back and use his long-range skills or he had to get really close and make sure its large weapons weren’t able to use their superior reach on him. His current plan was the latter.