Chapter 207: His Power (1/2)

”I hate regenerating bastards like you!” Herold's incredibly huge armory was seen here as he was switching out weapons every now and then trying to find the right one. He has a dagger, a longsword, a spear, a rapier, lance, mace, flail, sickle, greatswords... Basically anything that identifies as a weapon type, Herold has it.

The most effective one on him is that greatsword. It was a perfectly balanced sword but its imbued with wind magic. A single swings knocks back that giant hunk of stone a couple of meters and breaks the armor surrounding its body.

But its insane regeneration and reforming is nearly impossible to damage it. Its stone armor changes depending on the situation.

”Holy Arrow!” The arrow on my Hou Yi's bow took form into a bright yellow light. As soon as I shot it, hundreds of the same copy appeared, raining down on its body. Every single arrow pierced its body. The arrows stayed there for a second, then all simultaneously exploded. Revealing the disgusting flesh that was behind it.

But that giant stone monster begins to regenerate itself. The color of its armor changed from a brown colored look to a more white one. ”Just keep doing that! I'll strike its flesh once you break it again!” Herold commanded me.

I readied my bow and took aim. ”Holy Arrow!” I short it and it multiplied itself to hundreds of itself. The moment it went and hit the monster, it didn't pierce. It... reflected?

Herold was already running in the moment I shot my arrows, but since it didn't pierce, ”Sh-” the golem's floating hands clapped Herold as soon as he got in the monster's range. The moment the monster took apart both of his hands, Herold fell on the ground below.

”Let me try!” Yefa rushed in, ”Explosive Fists! Change Stance, Tai Chi!” The hands of that monster was swinging and flailing around as it tried to catch her. But Yefa's smooth movement managed to dodge every single one of it. She finally landed on the monster's chest and a giant explosion ensued. Knocking the giant beast down on the ground.

”She's powerful as always.” Precia flew next to me to watch Yefa's rampage.

Yefa began to pound on that monster's chest. Several debris were flying throughout and flaming explosions were happening each time Yefa punched. Her sheer power was enough to create a massive quake followed by digging the giant into a ravine that she created from her power. The horde took notice of this and began to pursue Yefa. But she didn't care at all. ”ARGH!” She punched and punched the monster even when its regenerating its own armor. But then suddenly, her punches stopped. We can't see it clearly from here but from where Yefa was, there were lots of blood surrounding her.

”Arrow of Retrieval!” I readied my bow and shot it straight to Yefa's back. The arrow latched itself to her and pulled her back to us. Yefa's front body was filled with burns and blood was spurting out of her black gloves. ”Yefa! Hey! Snap out of it!” Seems like she's also unconscious. I remember that the Explosive Fists damages the user also. But she should've dealt enough damage to dig the monster's body to lessen the impact... So why is she in this state..?

”Look!” Neco pointed at the distance. The monster's armor was fully healed back again to full. But this time, the armor its wearing changed into a color red.

”My... attacks didn't... work.” Yefa's last words as she fell unconscious again.

”So does that mean that the debris that was flying wasn't the armor but Yefa's f-...”

”...Maybe.” Precia replied. ”But this gave me an idea. The way the armor is changing, there must be a pattern.”

”What do you mean?” I asked.

”When Herold struck this monster with his greatsword imbued with wind magic, its armor turned into a color green. You then hit it with your Holy Arrows, the moment that you destroyed its armor, its flesh was seen and the monster was preoccupied with regenerating the armor. And then it changed into a white armor. But the next time you tried to hit it with the Holy Arrows again, it bounced off of it. And the attack that worked was Yefa's flaming fists that destroyed the armor. But when its armor began to regenerate in another armor, her attacks didn't work.”