Like a grenade detonating in mid-air, the dazzling flash of fire ford a crimson fla cloud that churned continuously.
"Huh?" Noah frowned slightly, realizing this attack was a little different from what he had imagined, because not just the speed, but the explosive power was way too dispersed.
It looked spectacular, but the destructive force wasn't focused enough, aning it probably couldn't deliver a fatal blow in one hit.
"It still needs so refinent."
Thud!
From within the fla cloud, a figure wreathed in fire plumted to the ground like a teor, revealing it was Tsubaki landing on both feet and cracking the ground beneath her.
The two massive weapons were held firmly in her hands, not letting go for a single mont.
Upon closer inspection, you could see so scorched marks on the side of the two-handed great axe, which was still smoking, making Noah notice this and exclaim in amazent.
"She actually blocked the damn thing."
What kind of bullshit reflexes were those?
His earlier thought was correct, because if he used re gunpowder for propulsion, the speed would definitely not be enough to keep up with a high-level adventurer's movents, which was exactly why a special launcher was needed to solve this problem.
"Whoa, what the hell was that? Can the Spell-Weaver skill even do sothing like that? That's practically cheating."
Tsubaki knew the effects of his three skills and also knew he had no magic, so that being the case, it was pretty easy to understand.
"If you didn't know about that skill, you probably wouldn't even know what the hell happened the first ti you saw it," Tsubaki remarked with a heavy sigh.
If used properly, the Spell-Weaver's ability could indeed beco an unfair "first-encounter killer," and coupled with Truth Seeker, the amount of information between the two sides was on a completely different level from the very beginning.
In other words, you couldn't expect any semblance of fairness when fighting Noah, since the scales were already tipped before the battle even began.
"Evasion and offense, not bad at all. More importantly, your movents... you don't look like so greenhorn who's never been to the Dungeon, so is that also because of that skill?"
Tsubaki didn't hold back her praise, but she showed absolutely no signs of stopping.
'Is this crazy girl getting carried away?'
"Alright, Noah-boy, let's pick up the pace a little! The rhythm of the deep floors is way faster!"
The mont Tsubaki's voice fell, she burst forward with astonishing speed, launching a direct charge right at him.
Noah raised Raven Feather, his five fingers spread wide and aid at the oncoming Tsubaki, realizing this Bombardnt needed to be more focused into a beam rather than a wave.
"Bombardnt!"
A dazzling beam of light shot out from Noah's hand, aid straight at Tsubaki's head, packing a power that was seventy percent stronger than the last one, putting the destructive force on a completely different level.
"You idiot, Noah-boy! How could you aim for a girl's face!" Tsubaki roared, swinging her greatsword in a horizontal sweep that cut across the lower part of the Bombardnt before lightly lifting the hilt, leaving Noah in utter astonishnt as he watched his Bombardnt get deflected by Tsubaki and veer completely off target.
"Wh—"
"Haha, too naive, Noah-boy!"
Having deflected the Bombardnt, Tsubaki appeared before Noah in the blink of an eye.
Noah took a deep breath, focusing intently on Tsubaki's every move with the appraisal effect of Truth Seeker continuously active to observe the movent of her every single muscle, until suddenly his entire body relaxed and he seed to be falling forward, a movent that instantly made Tsubaki's expression change.
Noah's seemingly slow movent suddenly accelerated as he ducked his body, evading Tsubaki's attack by the slimst of margins and slipping right into her guard, pushing off with his feet to activate the Anti-Gravity.
The very next second, a massive burst of propulsion erupted, allowing Noah to grab Tsubaki's shoulder with one hand and use the instantaneous burst of force to halt her forward montum, knowing that at point-blank range, she shouldn't be able to deflect this hit!
"This ti, it's not a Bombardnt, it's an impact! Resonance Detonation!"
BOOM!
A massive explosion erupted right between the two of them.
Noah had activated Anti-Barrier in advance and interfered with elents like repulsion and pressure to mitigate the backlash on himself as much as possible, but even so, Raven Feather couldn't withstand the excessive load and developed cracks, furthermore leaving Noah's arm completely unable to be lifted again for a short ti.
At that final mont, he had dispersed all his strength to make his movents unpredictable, surpassing Tsubaki's judgnt and seizing a golden opportunity to land a point-blank Resonance Detonation, which was the most destructive technique he could currently produce, so it should have so effect, right?
"Oww—that hurts," Tsubaki's voice ca from within the dust and smoke, followed by a powerful gust of wind pressure that swept away the smoke from the explosion, revealing the half-dwarf woman having swung the greatsword in her hand.
Noah looked at her and imdiately activated his appraisal while muttering,
"Bruise... burns, and a barely perceptible minor bone fracture?"
Plop.
Noah spread his arms and fell backward onto the ground, completely out of tricks, knowing Tsubaki had probably only used a tenth of her strength yet had already forced him to use every trick up his sleeve.
He had gone all out while she was off guard, but the damage he inflicted was barely a scratch, and for her, an injury of this level didn't even require a potion since a night's rest would probably be enough to fully recover.
As a half-dwarf, Tsubaki's strength and endurance were naturally far superior to adventurers of other races, and moreover, as a smith, those were her primary stats, making it completely inevitable that she was way tankier than a typical Level 5.
If this attack had been used on Jura, the bastard probably wouldn't have escaped unscathed, but the conditions to pull it off were too demanding, aning.. relying on Bombardnt alone had a very limited threat.
However, Bombardnt was a standard offensive tool for him, and as his level and magic stat increased, he could weave even more powerful techniques to compensate for the lack of power.
"Hey, hey, what's with that look? Are you dissatisfied with the power of that last attack?" Tsubaki seed to have seen through his thoughts and complained.
"Give a break, because for a low-tier Level 2, you actually managed to inflict a minor injury on , aning you're not just a regular monster anymore, you're a total cheat. If the mages from other Familias found out, they'd treat you with the exact sa hostility as they would their father's killer."
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