Isekai Journey Of The Magic Archer

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A blue smoke started coming out of the minotaur's body, the high walls started vanishing, the valley started turning into a rocky hilly area, and… the body of the giant minotaur started shrinking down.

The blue smoke coming out of his body mostly vanished after the mountainous creature had taken the size of a simple, three-meter-tall creature, and there was a new glowing blue mark on his chest that resembled a key.

The monster had used its special skill [Blue key]. A rare ability that appears in a few creatures who have the major characteristics of a (Guardian).

It was a skill that they can only use once in a long time and after using that absurd skill, the skill granted them the ability to use any physical skill they understand.

This enraged minotaur of ours chose to use something similar to [Strength burning], another rare skill of a guardian.

He had become smaller, the area was now a calm rocky place where they had nowhere to hide, and just becoming smaller wasn't the end.

-Boooooooooooooom!

-Zazazazazazaza…!

Pillars of flame, not lava but just fire, shot out from the holes in the ground.

And there was one hole in every other meter of the land now, making the eternity of this rocky land almost like hell.

-Zaaaaaaaaaaaa…

The fire was shooting up now, a few parts of the land were also shooting up sharp spikes of rocks, the minotaur was still just standing there calmly, and Eon and Rein were looking at him from a very distant place.

They knew from the calmness this ever-angry creature was showing that it had already entered its berserk mode.

It was peculiar but different from usual, as when creatures like minotaurs used their berserk skills, they would enter a calm state, think more than their usual self, become calculating about their next actions, and use more of their powerful skills.

Both of them were to blame for that previous mistake but it had already happened and they can't change that thing. They could only do something and stall for time until the duration of that absurd blue key ends.

There was no freaking way they could deal with the natural physical power of a minotaur in its full form; a smaller form with even greater power was a big no already.

Eon knew the duration of such skill was three minutes at best, so they had to do something for at least three minutes… which was almost impossible!

It wasn't only about the berserk, the minotaur before them had just eliminated its biggest weakness: the speed.

Its size had gotten smaller too, which directly meant it could now turn and move unlike before his transformation.

It was calmer, which meant it could use its skills better than it was able to do before and it also meant that it could use its [Distraction blocking] and [Focal navigation] skills at once, targeting just the two of them and not the other useless things flying around them.

It was also going to use all its offensive skills in the time it was in this smaller state and its healing power was increased in this new state, meaning the wound they had worked their ass off to create was already gone now.

Their hours of work had gone down the drain and now, there was an almost impossible creature before them that they had to stall for three fucking minutes and still be alright to deal with its 'weakened' state.

"For fuck's sake…" Rein mumbled under her sigh and used her shadow travail skill while holding Eon's hand.

-Swish!

They vanished from their places but this time, it was different from how they reappeared somewhere faraway every time.

-Shick–bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuh!

They had reappeared somewhere near and Eon was stretching his bowstring at this moment but the previous place they were standing on had been demolished by a strange red slash of energy.

-Swish!

-Shick–bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuh!

And the two of them vanished from that place too when Eon had materialized his arrow on the pulled bow string as that place also fall victim to the wreath of the minotaur.

He was using his [Arc of destruction] while calmly standing in his place.

His actions of moving his hand and brandishing his axe in a simple manner were fast but as he was using this skill, the area he slashed towards was first illuminated by a sudden ray of light, and then the earth in that straight line was disintegrated by the sudden burst of energy that traveled through that straight line in the shape of an arc.

Everything the arc touched just vanished into thin air and that included the flames of the minotaur too.

It was strong and it happened two more times, but then Eon finished his spell and another unique arrow was shot toward the creature, an arrow of light this time.

It was a special arrow but the minotaur perceived the incoming arrow even though it was too fast for spectators and slashed the arrow with his red aura-covered axe.

-Buzzzzzzzzz!

But sadly for him, as Eon wanted, the magic from the arrow was still activated and a bright light blinded not only his vision but also took away all the senses of the creature for a brief moment, rendering him stunned for exactly six seconds.

And that much time was enough for the two of them to finish all the preparations for their three-minute-long struggle that would decide the winner of this fight…

-Swish!

-Swiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiish~!

Eon and Rein were going to attack the creature from different angles to divide its attention and have the best effect of their new plan.

They knew things would be the same even then and they would be pushed back the same but they only had this one chance.

Their plan this time was to skip to the ending part of their plan directly but that was it.

There was no elaborate explanation of how the two of them would do what they were going to do.

But they trusted the other and had deep faith that things would be alright.

So, Eon was on the left end, and Rein was on the right side.

The creature was in the middle and it was still calm, but his enraged eyes were glancing at the two of them one by one.

They had become sharp like some predator bird and it was as if the minotaur was making judgments based on their current situation.

It knew the boy would use long-range attacks and the girl would attack from a distance and now that they had separated from each other, there was no way they would be able to protect the other one.

So, it chose the boy and moved from its place at a speed that wasn't fathomable even to the spectators.

-Shwash!

It closed in in an instant and stood before the boy with his axe slashing down at him, ready to slash the little insect in two.

-Bong!

-Booooooooooom!

But even before the axe could touch him, he had vanished from his place, and the axe only managed to slash the afterimage he had left behind. The increased force behind his axe also shattered everything around him and created not a crater but a freaking pond size hole in the ground.

The axe edge had also created a deep crack in the ground but still, the thing that happened after his attack was the more surpassing one.

-Swiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiish!

An arrow came from the very left side from where he was standing at an alarming speed and straight up passed from a distinct green spot on his left leg.

The minotaur had gotten smaller but that was at the cost of his unbelievable defensive abilities.

It was easier for them to hurt him now but that easier still didn't mean a single arrow could dig a hole in his skin.

The hole was created to become the special enchanted arrow that Eon had used this time. And that was one of the arrows that he had brought from his forest home tower.

That shit was strong and right now… there were sparks of white flashing in his eyes, signifying the advent of a very unique ability only a few of them possessed and everyone knew about. Yes, the zone.

He was in the [ZONE] right now and Rein was the same as when the arrow of wind had dug a hole in his strong skin, which healed in a blink of an eye of course, she vanished from her place, got before the bull with pink sparks in her eyes, slashed at the same spot that had healed just now with her unique bloody red aura covering her scythe, and slipped away from the area that the minotaur suddenly covered with sharp spikes while dancing, and vanished from the area.

Both of them knew they were no match for the bull in a game of strength and the bull also knew even with his enhanced new gained speed the two of them were faster than him.

This one interaction was expected to the smart berserk creature and it also grasped the new hit-and-run strategy of the two peasants.

So, when Eon was visible to him again, even with his ZONE boost, the creature used his [Earth-fire sovereignty], blocked all possible reappearing points, erected a few burning walls that they can't climb while in a high-speed combat, and even activated his some of the strongest but costly skill [Magic nullification].

It was smarter than Eon expected… or should we say the headmaster's magic was more special and better than they had predicted?

Eon was in the ZONE and his thinking, processing power, cognition, and recovery rate had increased drastically. But still, now neither his enchanted arrows nor the magic ones were having that great of an effect on the creature.

But Eon continued using them and Rein also continued using her physical attacks to injure that marked spot. They were near the end. They knew it when the creature had used almost every skill it possessed.

The end was near and all three of them knew it but the fight of the last three minutes seemed like a fight of eternity to all parties involved.

Things were first going well at the start with Eon's ranged and Rein's close proximity attacks but after that, the minotaur started pushing back with his absurd strength.

The two of them managed to avoid its attacks thanks to their ZONE boosts but when it seemed that the minotaur was about to push back completely… it made a mistake.

[[ "Ouch! That hurt!" ]]

[[ "What happe-..." ]]

Eon glanced at her when she reappeared on the very opposite side from him and saw the small cut that must have appeared because of the wind current from the minotaur's axe attack.

After more than a few hours of long tedious fight, it finally managed to hurt one of these shit peasants.

There was a pleased smirk on his face right now and a stark contrast of that…

[[ "Eon…?" ]]

There was a dark stoic expression on his face. An expression so stoic and sharp that neither the witch of blizzard nor that crazy slime tamer would ever even come close to this deadly expression.

For the first time since the examination started, they were seeing this expression from him for the first time. And even some of the spectators felt a weirdly dark feeling as they saw him.

"You made a mistake, dear illusionary minotaur." He mumbled in a low voice that strangely reverberated around the surrounding area.

"You made a mistake."

The world strangely froze, everything stopped, a grave pressure suddenly dominated all the space and Rein shook her head with a sigh and a helpless smile on her face.

She knew this was the end and it was time for her to deal the final blow.

She knew they had won this long, fucked up battle at this moment. After all… there was no way this little minotaur could ever resist her darling's silver eyes.