Althea’s solo fight with the intelligent level 9 monster naturally wasn’t as smooth.
Although the aborigines helped and discounted another one of the monsters’ legs, it was a level stronger than the Lord.
But what could they do, the Lord asked them to stay put unless real and lasting damage to any of them was about to happen.
The two of them could only watch the fights with bated breath.
Meanwhile, Althea chewed on her mana cookies as she swung her sword to weaken the thing. Eventually, her mana managed to recover enough to use a skill.
It was called Triple Shot, and she got it from one of her grinding sessions in the Training Hall.
[Triple Shot (D), -10 Mana!]
The Bellagio Bow let out an odd sheen, releasing three shots at the same time, congregating on a single sensitive shot. It was so strong that the monster was pushed back a by a feet or two.
ROAAARRR!!!
It roared in anger, lunging at Althea in rage. She avoided it with a smile, knowing the attack had successfully taken away a good portion of the monster’s life.
Meanwhile, the two aborigines gaped. Oslo couldn’t stop himself and manifested a large earth wall between them so they could ask.
"W-Was that the triple shot, my Lord?" It was Rowan who threw the question, and Oslo nodded as he looked at her.
"You’re an archer as well?"
"Yes?" She seems to have been using the bow and arrow since the beginning, right? "And put down this wall."
What she didn’t know was that, even if the skill was a level D skill, it was an archer-exclusive one. That was to say, normal archers would never be able to use it.
"But… aren’t you a pharmacist?"
"Yes, and…?" She asked, "And like I said, put down the wall."
How could she have known that, for some reason, indigenous people generally only have one.
Anyway, Oslo did eventually take down the wall and Althea avoided the monster’s maul by shifting her center of gravity, using the inertia to turn.
She managed to hit the monster’s eye. It did a minimal damage due to her lack of mana, but it was accurate enough to cause some damange, making it even angrier.
The two of them went to and fro like this and, although the monster’s life had been greatly discounted at this time, Althea still didn’t feel the momentum shifting completely to her direction either.
In fact, she felt the damage to her side was increasing. As time passed, her clothes got more and more torne and bloodied.
It was fortunate that her defense equipment was fabulous (especially with her Class A Underwear), otherwise she’d have teared up her layers of clothing—a sight that would make Garan want to stab the eyes of all men there.
Anyway, she still underestimated a monster a few levels higher than she was. Not to mention one with a bit of brain, so it always managed to get out of a pinch whenever she felt like she could get a good shot.
Unlike the others that attacked head on despite falling into disadvantage, this one knew when to back off and bide its time.
For instance, because half of its legs were painful, it wouldn’t attack when she was on his weak sides. It would just guard, ready to bite her head of if she dared to attack.
It had to be noted that, even with its legs in pain, it wasn’t slow and its bite was still just as strong.
The fight became stagnant and they just continued to send attacks and defend, attack and defend, and so on.
This went on until she lost her balance due to its strength and was almost mauled.
The monster’s feet were sucked into the ground before it could reach her, with her back supported by strong arms. It was Oslo, looking at her with a very worried look on his face.
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