The transformed Shogun's tongue is challenging and troublesome. It can bind players and slowly corrode their defenses and reduce the durability of their equipped armors as well. If in case the weapon got caught instead of the player's body, the same will happen except the power of the current weapon wrapped from the tongue will slowly diminish while the durability also reduces every second.
My Versatile Weapon is currently wrapped by the Shogun's Tongue. Sticky and wet, it is getting disgusting as time goes on. But there were no changes to it. It's not getting worn down and it's not even showing signs that its attack is decreasing. I also noticed that the wetness caused by the Shogun's tongue is slowly drying, though it's not that apparent due to how it is still receiving more saliva.
I am keeping my grip on my weapon and tugged the tongue of the Shogun a few times while he also did the same thing, trying to disarm me.
This is troublesome so I decided to have the Shadow Dragon deal with the tongue/
"[DEVOUR] the tongue!"
The Shadow dragon is more than happy to do that and immediately appeared as it wraps up on the tongue, before cutting it short.
"ARGH!" the shogun flinches as his tongue was severed. He saw his remaining tongue get devoured by the Shadow Dragon before he can even recover it.
Still, in shock from that, Queen Tanya and Queen Tori took advantage of that and simultaneously catch the Shogun off guard. Queen Tori used a talisman seal, sealing all of his movements, while Queen Tanya reinforced that seal with her [Shadow Hands] before she unleashed her fury.
"You know? You are a huge pain in the ass, but since you are now bound, then let me have a taste of how punchable your face is!"
Then, a series of strong punches that every punch sends a shockwave into the air. I know Queen Tanya's punches are lethal if it was done to a human or any weak monsters but does it work well against this guy?
Queen Tanya continues pummeling the Shogun a few times but when she noticed that the seal and the shadow hands are disappearing, Queen Tanya didn't bother to overstay pinning the Shogun and retreated.
I took advantage that the Shogun is still down and changed my Versatile Weapon into a bow and arrow and fired a [Legshot] skill to cripple the guy and slow his movements. That way, his footwork will be slower than usual. It might be still fast after this, but it will definitely have a small impact and a small impact is enough to turn the tides against a speedy bastard.
He stood up immediately after I fired off the [Legshot] and thankfully, it was successful and it didn't miss. I just don't know whether it will be a big effect or not but even a small one would help.
The Shogun started running to attack us. Without its long tongue, the only way for the Shogun to do some lethal attacks is by pummeling us with his huge arms and perhaps some other skills that I might not know of.
And one thing that happened to the Shogun is that he almost tripped over and almost fell to the floor. His foot movement is also slower and he is now possible to be evaded immediately even for slow players. His speed is now standard.
Queen Tori pulled out a talisman.
"Summoning, Creatures of Myths Vol. 1, [Ubagabi]!"
A new skill that I don't know of?
She sends it up in the air and shot a mana blast to the talisman, burning it up. But the moment the flames appeared to the talisman, the [Ubagabi] that Queen Tori summoned manifested from the flames.
A large face of an old woman appeared within and stopped the Shogun from attacking. The old woman's face immediately blow a breath of fire like a dragon, but similar to a flamethrower, and fired it at the Shogun, slowly burning up the guy.
"This might be your first time seeing my sister use something else other than summoning a yokai right?"
"But that looks like a Yokai..."
"Although it looks like one, it's actually not a real yokai and is one of the creatures from the myths collections. My sis collects them and manifests them as if they are real to aid her in combat. Ubagami is just one of them."
"Then, isn't this strong?"
"Although it's an effective skill, my sister rarely uses this skill due to how time-consuming the making of the talisman is and the materials needed to make one is just troublesome to get therefore, she limits her usage to one and only use the talisman if necessary.
The shogun backs off as the flames prevent the shogun from moving. It tries to evade the Ubagami but the Ubagami gives chase.
"Don't let that man get away, Ubagami!"
The Ubagami followed the Shogun and started firing flames at the Shogun. We thought it was trying to run away but in reality...
BOOM!
The shogun was running away to make momentum and use it to his advantage to strike the Ubagami that is chasing him. In one moment, the shogun used the wall nearby to flip and blindside the Ubagami and he immediately grab that chance to punch it hard so that the Ubagami exploded to pieces.
However, while in midair, I found a perfect time that I shouldn't miss.
I dash in the direction of the Ubagami and activated [Myriad Slash] before he lands on the ground. With [Myriad Slash] fast enough, I doubt the Shogun is fast enough to deal with the series of slashes done in a different manner.
And as expected, the Shogun wasn't expecting that as he thought we will continue the attacks on land. He didn't think I can go ahead and strike him with the [Myriad Slash] which also affects flying or just airborne enemies as long as they are considered targets.
Due to the severe cuts from the [Myriad Slash], the Shogun wasn't able to land properly and fell to the floor. I took advantage of that again by changing my Versatile Weapon once more into a cannon. The shogun realized the danger of the cannon and decided to retreat for a bit in a distance but because of one trick that I learned, I took that as a way to get a lot closer to the Shogun.
BANG!
The cannon released a cannonball to the floor, ejecting me and the cannon in the direction, opposite to where the cannonball was shot. Because of that recoil, the distance was immediately closed very quickly. And as a quick thinker, I immediately changed my Versatile Weapon's form again and this time, it's a cannon.
Landing on the floor with a slide, I took a little bit of force from the landing to charge up a bit of my strike and...
"Your Majesty Tanya! Catch!"
A swing sent the Shogun's body straight to Queen Tanya.
"Thanks for the pass Bladeheart!"
Queen Tanya closed her fists, before she throws a punch, straight to the incoming Shogun, straight to the guts.
CRACK!
I heard a loud crack as the body of the Shogun lands on Queen Tanya's fist. I don't know how strong the impact was but if there was something that cracked, only one thing would crack from his current body, and that is his bones.
The shogun pukes blood and started to convulse on the floor as he started puking blood on his mouth.
"GAME OVER."
Queen Tanya then delivers the final punch and the shogun suddenly pukes out a black organism that looks like a slug slime.
We were still wondering what it was when the Shadow Dragon whom I thought was not doing much suddenly appeared and black spikes pierces through the black slug slime. It was moving before it was stabbed but the moment the black spikes pierces it, the slug slime died.
Like a kid that has found a treat on the refrigerator left by their mother or father, the Shadow Dragon didn't waste its time and devoured the creature. Chomp on it like it was food, and returned to the Versatile Weapon just like that.
Queen Tori went to the motionless body of the shogun and checked his pulse for a bit but after a few times of doing so, she sighed and shook his head.
"From the looks of it, we are too late, this guy has died. We have succeeded in the battle against the shogun."
The shogun is finally defeated. It was much easier this time around due to the black creature having yet to fully blend into its host and control the whole body. If it managed to merge, then this battle would take a lot longer and everyone might potentially die.
As we are contemplating our victory, someone started clapping.
That's when we remembered, the Bard. Although I didn't forget about her presence, we are mostly focusing on the Shogun and we barely see any chances to keep an eye on her. She didn't die during the battle due to the barrier but now that the Shogun is dead, the bard also stopped making music.
"Impressive, adventurers," then the bard removes her hoodie and revealed herself. And as I expected, the wife of the Shogun is here."
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