Chapter 204: Bad Luck

The monster's hooves looked so sharp in the depth of the night to create sparks of fire with each hit to the ground. Jim felt dreaded by this, yet he didn't stop his steps.

It was either a matter of do or die.

"Let's test my current strength then," as he was facing such a behemoth he couldn't find any option but to use all of his strength from the head start.

And so after activating the lightning orb spell, he headed directly towards augmenting it by using the dance spell.

'You need to be extra careful with that,' the old man warned, 'this big monster here uses a field of gravity that would affect you.'

"Gravity?" Jim was surprised, "Is it so strong?"

'Not to paralyze you at least,' the old man said, 'but your speed won't help much here.'

Jim was busy jumping around while dancing weirdly in front of the monster.

"Roar!"

The monster met these weird moves of him in an aggressive way, as it roared it finally got enough of warning his prey and decided to teach Jim a lesson.

And it darted out like an arrow, so fast that it created a series of after images in the depth of that night.

"Not too easy to hit me," Jim was ready and the moment the monster moved he also moved. Despite jumping around and dancing, he could do that by expanding out his reach and widening his steps.

And that was exactly what he did back there.

"Swoosh!"

The monster bypassed him in a very fast way, barely missing him by a few meters. The next hit came from that strange tail, which howled towards Jim's face, aiming to directly knock him down.

"Hey there, I'm an ace in the ace league," but Jim was ready for such a hit despite it coming all of sudden without warning.

He simply bent both knees down and let his body pass below the tail, stood up and jumped once more to complete the spell.

"You were right," he muttered, "that gravity thing sucks!"

As he was trying to move and evade the hit of the monster, he was subjected to that gravity field and felt its effects immediately.

His speed lowered and that allowed the monster to get near him, but not near enough to hit him directly with its charge. In normal circumstances then the monster wouldn't get that near or get the chance to hit him with the tail.

'But it's not that bad,' the old man sneered, 'you managed to adapt to it.'

"It still sucks," Jim waited for his aura to ascend further while his energy went berserk. "I hope this won't drag on long enough for others to come here."

'The monsters?'

"And the other people," Jim said before holding his sword firm, "let's see how that Seson pet will help."

Despite saying that, he already felt the difference made by the pet. His spell got enhanced before using the dance spell as if he already used it. adding the dance spell made his energy hard to control, and he was eager to test it out.

"Roar like you never did before," he waved his sword from tens of meters away from the angry monster, missing his prey, "let it scream."

The sword wave traveled the distance in no time and instantly hit the monster head on. The monster was about to start running wild, and when it met the sword it was forced to stop, and even retreated a couple of steps.

"At least it can put you in bay," Jim wasn't dejected with such a low result as he launched another strike and another, really keeping that monster in check.

'This way you won't be able to kill it.'

"I don't want to," Jim said before correcting himself, "I want to but in fact I doubt I can do it by myself! Even my mightiest hits can't cause more than superficial scratches over its armored body. I just want to delay it and other monsters until others run away."

The old man went into silence and didn't comment, letting Jim keep raining the monsters with his sword slashes.

The fight seemed intense, while Jim kept slamming hard over the monster with booming strikes, pushing it further backward with each hit.

"Raor!"

And yet the Seson monster had another opinion while roaring strangely towards that giant monster.

"What are you doing?" Jim couldn't help but say, "retreat, we aren't going to kill it…"

Yet before he could continue his words, he saw a very amazing scene he never thought before.

As the Seson per roared at that giant monster, strangely it hit a big rock on the ground that was so hard to miss and fell over. The bad luck didn't end there as the monster fell in some sort of small pond, a piece of water that strangely was situated there as if it was made only to fit the giant size of the monster.

And then the lightning sword slashes of Jim arrived.

"Roar!"

Jim didn't know why but the sword strikes he landed at the monster at this moment made it roar in extreme pain. He almost saw arcs of lightning dancing around the monster, coming forth from the water it was sitting in.

It could get out if it just stood up and took a step to any side, but the pain seemed very intense to let it even be able to move a muscle.

"Hahaha, that bad luck of my pet is legendary!" Jim laughed in extreme joy and instantly he shifted his aim.

Instead of trying to keep that monster in check, he decided to go all out and try to kill it.

'The Seson monsters are very famous for that,' the old man couldn't help but laugh, 'that monster had back luck to fall inside a very condense water.'

"What does that mean?"

'It's water that has some affinity with magical power and could absorb it for a long time,' the old man said, 'so basically your attacks are only triggering the enormous amount of energy stored in them. Keep hitting it, you've a chance here to kill it.'