Chapter 509: [Fixed] Chapter 509 – Second Tournament – Finals – Part 14.
"Fuck." – said Artur.
Arthur rushed at Phantasia, unleashing flying slashes of fire and sword energies at the monstrosity, forcing Phantasia on the defense.
"[Acid Magic: Acid Tide]!" - Phantasia counter attacked by unleashing a tide of acid at the hero.... But the tide itself was easily destroyed by the [Sun Blade: Path Ahead], cutting the acid that was about to get the swordman and causing Phantasia’s attack to only hit the area around the man.
"!"
(Shit! Plague is infecting area again!) – thought Arthur as he tried moving from the area that started getting slowly infected, but as he did, a hail of bones blades came his way, forcing the man on the defensive, as he was cutting down the projectiles while just using simple fire enchantment on his sword.
(Huh. Interesting!) – thought Phantasia as he used his claws to pick up the dying trees, before then throwing them towards the man.
"!"
(He is throwing shit now?!) – thought bit panicking Arthur, who somehow managed to avoid the trees without having to need use any skills.
However, as he dodged the trees, Phantasia’s tail came next at the man, aiming straight at him.
"[Sword Art: Defensive Stand]!" – Arthur tried in hurry activating his skill, but even after activating it, he was still send flying by the massive long tail.
And right after getting sent flying, the massive monstrosity quickly rushed at the man and swung down his fist.
"[Redeemed Sun: Heat Point]!" – Arthur extended his blade forward, gathering a massive amount of hit on the top of his blade, which in the next second as the sphere of gathered hit made a contact with Phantasia’s fist, it ended up causing a massive eruption of fire, which not only stopped Phantasia’s attack, but also set his entire massive arm on fire.
"[Cursed Necromancy: Body Is My Suffering]!" – but Phantasia didn’t bothered dealing with the negative effect, as he created cursed bones which instantly destroyed the flames.
(Oh, what the hell dude?) – thought Arthur as Phantasia swung down his fist again, but failed to land a strike as Arthur agility allowed him to easily dodge the strike.
However, in the next moment, both the dragon heads and the tail came at him, alarming the man.
(SHIT! I HAVE TO USE IT!)
"[Sun Magic: Sun Bright]!" – Arthur unleashed a devasting blast of sun fire, which ended up stopping Phantasia attacks, while also dealing noticeable amount of damage to the monstrosity.
After countering the attacks, Arthur quickly leaped away, dodging the second set of claws.
"Tch!"
"Slippery fucker!" – said annoyed Phantasia.
(I maybe big and stuff, but I’m no by means slow.... No.)
(He is too fast to me.)
(If it wasn’t for my big body, I think I would have hard time hitting him at all.... Fuck me.)
(Not only that... But he started using some more dangerous skills.) – thought Phantasia as he stared at his scorched limbs, which already started somewhat regenerating... But nowhere near fast enough to deal with the burn marks.
(...But still.)
(The fact that he used that kind of power to defend himself says one thing.)
"You are getting pushed into corner, aren’t you mate?" – said Phantasia with a smile.
"Common."
"Aren’t you suppose to make a big comeback or something?"
"Why are you like this?"
(Something isn’t right.) – thought Arthur.
(Phantasia is an all-rounder build user.)
(Not only his stats, but also his classes are focused all over place.)
(His main specialty is brawler type and production type.)
(That is what I know for certain.)
(His body must had been made to counter some of his weaknesses... However, there is no way he could had gotten rid of all of them, especially while being the all-rounder.)
(Builds are usually focused on one thing.)
(Swordman build focuses on the sword using classes and warrior classes.)
(Summoner classes focuses on the summoning oriented classes.)
(And so on.)
(Because some classes can power up the user in specific areas. [Fire Mage] can power up fire oriented skills, meaning that it is good to have if you are using fire oriented classes.)
(The more classes that you obtain that focuses on specific theme, the stronger all the classes in that category should become.)
(However, if you are making multiple builds, it will be obvious that each build respectfully will get weaker.)
(But it won’t be like 1/2 split in power, if you have two builds. More like 1/3)
(The chain effect.)
(Each class provide power to specific category buff as mentioned before.)
(And the more you stack it, the more each class of that category will become.)
(However, if you were to split the number by half, obviously not only you would lose the power from the classes, but also their enchantment effects that affect other specific classes.)
(And from what I know, that bastard Phantasia has several builds all at once.)
(Meaning that his power up should be barely no existing.)
"..."
(So.... WHAT THE FUCK!?)
Arthur was standing in the middle of the desolated wasteland, as the massive monstrosity which could not be really called player was standing right in front of him, while the plague started again infesting the area around the monster.
(It seems the plague got slower.... Is it because we are killing all the life near us?) – thought Arthur as he was quickly catching his breath while also instantly assessing his current situation.
(But still, I can’t stay in one place. If he throws me into area that was completely taken over by the plague, I will be it thought situation.)
"Hey.... Are you breaking? Are you breaking for real?" – asked Phantasia.
"Weren’t you talking big just now? What the fuck mate?"
"SHUT UP!" – shouted Arthur as he used [Sun Magic: Sun Nova].
"!"
[Cursed Necromancy: Suffering Wall]
Phantasia quickly deployed a wall of cursed bones in front of him, which swallowed a massive sun, negating the attack... But at the same time destroying the wall.
[Sun Magic: Sun Power] + [Redeemed Sun: Star Sun]
(CRAP!) – Phantasia was caught off guard by yet another sun attack, which was this time way more powerful as it unleashed a golden flames which blasted the entire giant with golden fire.
"YOU SON OF A BITCH!" – shouted Phantasia as he used [Dragon Fist: Drake Claws], swinging down his massive arms and unleashing a claw shaped shockwaves in all directions.
(Dammit! He was able to tank that?!) – thought Arthur as he managed to avoided the shockwave attack by leaping away.
(I know his defense is monster like, but it shouldn’t be THAT high if he is all-rounder! I became way stronger compare to before!)
(But why is his growth way bigger than mine!?) – thought Arthur as Phantasia swung down his [Lion Fist: Lion Claws], aiming to cut to shreds the entire area around him... But not hitting Arthur who used [Sun Magic: Nova Run], causing a teleportation explosions which teleported away Arthur to safety while also unleashing explosions at the start and end point.
"[Battle Art: Pure Jab]!" – however, Phantasia was expecting counter, so he unleashed an instantly fallow attack, causing his to instantly chase after Arthur and don’t even give him time to rest, as his entire body was hit, which resulted in him getting sent flying and then smashing straight into the ground.
"[Gorilla Fist: Gorilla Drum]!" – Phantasia didn’t even wasted any time as he swung down his fist, unleashing his [Gorilla Fighter] ultimate skill, which ended up smashing the entire area, straight up smashing it into the oblivion.
"..."
"Hey, hey, hey.... The fuck is this?" – asked W.W as she was observing the fight.
"The fight with Magnus was already crazy, but this one is.... No! This is way more crazy!" – said W.W as Arthur suddenly appeared from the light, seemingly teleporting in time, before then climbing up the arm of the giant while slashing it, unleashing a divine fire which visible harmed the creature.... But did not stopped it dragon heads from attacking the swordman as they smashed into him, knocking the man away.
"Last time it was something like a fight between kaijus."
"But now?"
"It is like something from fantasy story where the hero is fighting a demon king!"
"..."
"Hey."
["Yes?"]
"Are we recording this?"
["From the start."]
"Good."
"THEN KEEP IT UP! THIS WILL MAKE FOR A FANTASTIC VIDOE!" – shouted W.W.
The fight was.... Monstruous like.
It was just like W.W said.
Before it was something like a fight between two massive monsters.
But now?
It was truly a "heroic" fight.
A warrior who wielded the power of the divine sun.
Verus the monstrosity that was beyond twisted to the point it could never be called human again.
However, it appears that the one that is backed into the corner wasn’t the "demon lord".
But instead, the hero.
(Fuck!) – thought Arthur as he tried healing himself, only for the hail of poisonous arrows to come after him, forcing the man to unleash his golden flames to get rid of the projectiles.... But as he gotten rid of them, the dragon head came next.
"[Sun Blade: Sun Halo]!" – Arthur swung down his sword, unleashing a bright light which instantly cut the dragon head, stopping it in the place.... But as he stopped one attack, another one came from the side as the massive claws slashed Arthur and send him flying.
"..."
"Hey."
"The fuck is this?" – asked Phantasia as he stared down at the Arthur who was slowly getting up.
"I thought you were protagonist wanabe."
"So why the fuck are you getting wrecked so easily?"
"Even Magnus wasn’t as boring as this."
(No... If anything, Arthur should had counter to some of my builds.) – thought Phantasia who was keeping his guard up while at the same time mocking Arthur.
(Arthur should had been easily dealing with negative type attacks.)
(That would definitely but me on the disadvantage... Which is partially did.... However.)
(However....)
"I honestly would grow way more than this." – said Phantasia.
"Arthur.
"Tch!" – Arthur stood up once again.
(What the hell do you mean "grow"?!)
(THERE IS NO WAY THERE IS A SMIPLE GROW INVOLVED?!)
(His weakness should had been shown by now.... And yet.... And YET!)
(NOTHING!)
(WHY?!)
Arthur assumption wasn’t wrong.
Phantasia whole build was all over the place.
It didn’t focused on just 2 or 3 specific characteristics... Nah. It focused on way too many, making the "benefits" received from the combos straight up extremely minimal.
However... Phantasia’s build wasn’t at the same time random.
It was made in such way that it could cover all the weaknesses.
But again, this kind of idea build would make him weak.
So... What gives?
Well... To be more precise, his build is focused around something.
[Chaos Researcher]
The class that made Phantasia into the "Doctor".
All his classes.
All his builds.
They are all about that single class which can create other classes.
And the current Phantasia’s form?
It is abomination created from that build.
Something that even Arthur never understand, even when Phantasia straight up revealed his secret right in the "protagonist" face.
"AREN’T YOU SLOWING DOWN THERE MATE?!" – shouted Phantasia as he swung down his claws once again and again and again, smashing the area around him and causing even more parts of the swamp to get turned into the death land.
Arthur tried counter attacking and keeping up his defense... But half of his attempts were not working.
Even if he blocked off the magic attacks, the giant’s fists were landing a hits.
If he tries to keep his distance, he gets bombarded.
If he doesn’t move, he gets crushed.
If he doesn’t attack, he will ger overwhelmed.
If he doesn’t defend, he will end up swallowed.
Arthur mind was filled with countless coruses of actions by all the chaos that was happening around him.
"You know what is funny?" – asked Phantasia as he extended his two dragons heads who tried devouring the man, only for him to dodge their attacks and counter with the sun fire.
"A hero that failed."
"A hero that fights desperately but ultimately fails like a fool."
"That is the interesting story plot!"
"KEEP TALKING!" – shouted Arthur as he unleashed his [Fire Sword: Raging Inferno Sword], unleashing a massive column of fire from his slash, which did harmed Phantasia.... But not fully, as his barrier of grey poison and acid was able to somewhat reduce the damage taken.
"..."
(Even with the double barrier I wasn’t able to block it.) – thought Phantasia.
(He still has some cards up his sleeve.)
(But why isn’t he using them....)
(Ah.)
(I get it.)
(HE IS AIMING FROM THE VERY START TO TURN THE TABLE AROUND!)
(Do you really think I’m arrogant enough to not see a simplest plan like this?)
(But go on.)
(Try it.)
(IT WILL BE FAR MORE FUN WHEN IT FAILS AND YOUR FACE IS CONSUMED BY DESPAIR!)
