CH 225

Data.215 – Old Bowman, Cannot Win

So many skills, charge attacks, and strategies would not work here.

Macoco would use her experience and instincts to reflexively deal with all manner of attacks…!

However, it was difficult for me to continue to rely on my reflexes.

Eventually, I would not be able to keep up with the much younger Macoco and Necoco…

I had to find some way to turn the tide.

But Macoco’s attacks wouldn’t even give me time to think…!

If this continued…

“Not yet! Don’t give up hope, old man!”

“…Of course!”

Necoco was more calm than I thought.

Well, it wasn’t so much calmness, but a kind of ultra focused state… You could say that she was ‘in the zone.’

Right now, there was no fear or adoration towards Macoco.

Everything was about defeating the powerful enemy that stood in her way!

“I’m not going to hold you back!”

That’s right…!

The battle was going in the direction that we had predicted.

First, we would defeat the other players, and then take on Macoco with two players or more…

That’s what we were doing now!

It was 2 vs 1…!

The only surprise was not being able to get rid of Crowkus Jr., but time would fix that.

After all, this boomerang effect was from a combination charge attack.

And those always had time limits…

In other words, the mere fact that time was passing without either of us being hit, was in itself, a great counter attack.

In any case, if we could only survive, that most dangerous black boomerang would disappear…!

And so I told myself that I just had to get through this part. And like this, I supported my spirit that was breaking.

Not yet… The fight wasn’t over yet…!

Even if these skills, charge attacks, and strategies weren’t effective, I would use them to buy a little more time!

I couldn’t give up when Necoco hadn’t! That would look bad…!

Old men always wanted to look their best around youngsters…!

This battle of surviving by sheer will. How many seconds, minutes, did it last?

But the black boomerang…would not disappear!

Surely, it was supposed to disappear…!?

Was it just that the effect lasted for a very long time…

Tsk… I wouldn’t be able to attack back unless her amount of moves decreased…

“Shenron Boomerang!”

“…! Old man!!”

“Ah…!”

Wanting the black boomerang to disappear so much had caused me to focus on it and little else.

And now, a boomerang with the aura of a golden dragon was so close to me that I would not be able to dodge it.

It was over…

“I’m Arrow!”

I turned into an arrow and shot high up into the air!

While Shenron Boomerang scratched my body, as I was also enveloped by a charge attack, it was not a lethal wound.

However, since it had been an emergency evacuation, I didn’t know where I was going…!

Not only did I’m Arrow make my entire body spin rapidly, but it was very difficult to tell where I was and adjust my trajectory…!

Furthermore, since the field was covered in mist, I could barely see. Not that it would have mattered much, as this was my first time on this map, and so I didn’t even remember the terrain well.

But it made everything a lot more difficult.

Still, I wanted to fall as close to my original spot as possible!

I couldn’t leave Necoco there alone…!

Gann! Gari-gari-gari-gari…!

What? I was falling while scraping against something hard…?

Eventually, my rotation slowed down, and I was able to see my surroundings.

This was…

“I’m on the central clock tower…!”

So the clock tower had stopped I’m Arrow!

The clock tower was like the symbol of this map, and so it was more durable than the other buildings.

Thanks to this, I wasn’t as far away from Necoco as I feared!

Now I should be able to…!

“What!?”

It appeared while slicing through the mist.

The black boomerang that I had been so concerned with was now even bigger as it shot towards me.

This must be a ‘Big’ type charge attack, much like Big Arrow.

They had short cooldown times and were powerful. But more than anything, their appearance was overpowering…

And so the enemy would always recoil.

Just like I was doing now…!

This was bad. It was those times where your mind moved rapidly right before death…!

I should not be thinking about pointless things now, but figure out a way to avoid death. But I couldn’t think of anything…!

I’m Arrow’s effect had ended.

I was falling.

As for Warp Arrow or Floating Cloud Herd, skills that would help my mobility, I had used them during the fight with Macoco.

In that case, I would use Whirlwind to make myself lighter, and the Wind Blast to push my body…!

It was no use…!

The giant boomerang was creating wind currents of its own!

Making my body lighter would just suck me in…!

As for a charge attack that could cancel it…I had none!

Even if I used a similar skill like Big Arrow, hers was made with a combined charge attack, which meant it was much stronger.

The only thing I had that could match it was Southern Cross Ballista, but I couldn’t use that while falling in the air!

The only thing I could use now was…!

“Inferno Arrow!”

Hit the boomerang with exploding arrows and use the blast to move even a little…!

Compared to death, the explosions were nothing. But my body barely even moved away from the blast…!

I had only delayed my death by a fraction of a second at best!

The blade of the boomerang was right in front of me…

Just then, the boomerang suddenly stopped.

At the same time, Charin’s voice echoed through the field.

‘Time up! As 30 minutes have passed, the victor will be decided by how many players remain! AURatoria, 1! Ghost Guild, 2! And so Ghost Guild wins-nyon! Congratulations on making it to the final battle-nyon!’

It ended in a surprising way.