The Hellknight Goblin jumped backwards from the hit and Rong believed that he was going to win this…until he found out that there was going to be a phase 2 to this particular fight. The Hellknight Goblin picked up his sword and shoved it into the ground again, causing a wave of Unheavenly Slash to emerge, directed at Rong who was on the floor.
"Shittttt!!!" Rong was definitely not able to stand up to evade the attack in time and he took the slash point blank, only to remember that he still had two Protection Inscription Charms against the Unheavenly Slash. Well, he left the last now that the previous one had been destroyed.
"No no no!" The Ox Demon Cultivator saw that the Hellknight Goblin did not leave his sword alone, instead, he lifted it up and pointed towards Rong. "This game is fucked up!" Rong said when he imbued his wooden club with chi and used it to block the attack.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtNeedless to say, the wooden club was cut into two, becoming something more worthless than firewood. "Think! Rong! Think!" He tried to remember if he had picked up anything useful when he fought against the Goblin minions and remembered that he still had an iron dagger and a rusted iron gauntlet.
He thought that both of them were useless but considering the situation right now, it beats having nothing at all. He still had one more Wooden Club with him but he knew that if he wanted to smash the Hellknight's head, he needed to wait for the stone to emerge from the ground and there, he gained the fire elemental power up to give the Hellknight one more hit.
Thus, he summoned the iron gauntlet first and fitted it to hit his right hand while he tried to evade the attack. "Learn the pattern! Learn the pattern!" Rong told himself as he knew that the sword swings would have a pattern too but he did not expect there to be a second strike, a third and lastly a consecutive four and fifth strike.
If not for his iron gauntlet infused with some chi, he would not be able to get out of the sword range for the last two hits. But just as the gauntlet had proven to be useful, it broke down after defending Rong from the Hellknight Goblin's strikes. "At least let me get a hit in damn it!" Rong complained as he also took out his iron dagger and held it in a unique dual wielding position. The dagger was pointed at the Hellknight Goblin while his other hand kept the wooden club away from it.
"Four more minutes…" Rong said as he paced himself, hoping to see other attack patterns but the Hellknight Goblin did the five sword strike again which made the Ox Demon Cultivator make sure that he had enough space to evade and not get hit by the Ring of Blue Flames that denoted the edge of the arena.
But what he did not expect was that the fifth sword strike became different as it hid the sword within its cape as if it was charging it. "Wait for it.. wait for it…" Rong focused hard on the Hellknight Goblin's movement and the moment he unleashed it, it was undoubtedly an Unheavenly Slash but this time it was a horizontal one.
Rong quickly dropped himself to the ground, barely avoiding that slash and started to rush into the proximity of the Hellknight Goblin. It was at that point, the boss finally started to summon the stones within the clearing once more.
"Yes! Yes!" Rong screamed as this was the time to prepare for the huge strike. He activated his enhancement technique, Ox Stamina one last time as he visually checked the stone emergence pattern so that he could hit as many as possible while moving towards the Hellknight Goblin.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmSoon, almost every stone pillar that had been raised out from the ground was destroyed by Rong, allowing him to gain enough power within his club. It looked like he was dragging around a flaming torch behind his back while he rushed forth with his knife.
The knight went into a defensive position waiting to parry the knife attack only to be countered with Rong sliding through the clearing and sending a low swiping kick, causing the Hellknight Goblin to fall. At this point, Rong had the upper hand to send his dagger downwards and the Hellknight Goblin had to protect itself by dropping the large sword and putting its palm out and be pierced by the dagger.
"This is the end!" Rong shouted as he did not use his club to hit the Hellknight Goblin. Instead, he used the club to hit the hilt of the dagger that he was holding. He did not know whether it would work or not but this move sacrificed his hand in the process but will definitely push the dagger down.
To his surprise, the fire element was being transferred from the wooden club and into the iron dagger, enchanting it to be strong enough to give a final blow to the Hellknight Goblin. A loud explosion ensued causing Rong to be knocked backwards.
However, at that point, he did not have enough energy to manoeuvre himself away from the Ring of Flames. "Shit, am I going to lose this dungeon instance, just like that?" Rong thought until he noticed that he had been thrown to the nearest house with the ring of flames inactive.
The Hellknight Goblin did not die and instead screamed in agony as he released a series of random Unheavenly Slashes across the entire village before calming down. "Shit…if I did not have that last inscription charm, I would really have been dead," Rong said as he struggled to keep an eye on the Hellknight only to see it pointing its sword at the Ox Demon Cultivator before walking backwards and later towards the bottom of the lake.
"Congratulations! You have cleared the Dark Days Dungeon Instance #1! Unfortunately, because you are an employee of Dungeons and Pandas, there is no price for being the first and your title would be invalid too. Apologies!" A cute sounding female voice said and he could roughly figure out who that was before he fainted.