“ARROW BARRAGE,” Sierra sensed that something was wrong with Stark as soon as he activated [Double Assault], after all his aura just became twice as imposing, and it made even her uncomfortable.
She didn’t want to admit it, but she now understood why Malakar and Judicator had possibly lost against this human, he was strong, there was no denying this fact.
‘But I beat humans stronger than he is…’ yet she didn’t give up, after all, all the classifiers she had infected before were over level 100, and during her life out of this rift, she managed to beat some powerful foes too alongside the ‘Godless Demon’ and other apostles.
She couldn’t lose against this human, not now, it was impossible.
[9 seconds left for ‘Double Assault’]
Before Sierra could even create her first arrow and shoot it, Stark was already in front of her, his eyes burning with determination.
‘SHIT,’ this brought back memories to Sierra as the last time such a thing happened, she had been completely destroyed: she couldn’t allow that to happen again.
“TELEPORTATION!” she had the time to create an arrow with a triangle shape at its edge, then she quickly launched it to the other side of the room.
~SLAM~
Stark punched the air in Sierra’s direction, but she disappeared in a trail of smoke right as his fist reached her.
‘She used that arrow to teleport away,’ he immediately thought, but didn’t care enough to actually think too much about it as his time using [Double Assault] was counted.
And during the split second Sierra took to assess her surroundings again, she opened her eyes and… Stark was right in front of her again.
‘Too fast!’ she can use [Teleportation] repeatedly, but this time there was absolutely no way for her to do anything.
And so what had to happen happened.
~PUNCH~
Stark punched her face before she could even react.
“-58372!” the damage rose up.
Still… somehow it didn’t do as much damage as when Stark was angry, even when he didn’t have [Double Assault] activated at that time, was there the possibility that he didn’t know something about the [Domination] class…?
Sierra was sent flying for dozens of meters after that punch, but Stark wouldn’t let her go this easily.
He caught up to her while in midair using his speed, and smashed her body to the ground using his two hands.
“-38372! -11029!”
“TELEPORTATION,” Sierra, even though she was hurt, sent another one of her triangle arrows to the other side of the cave, resulting in her teleporting away from Stark again.
[3 seconds left for ‘Double Assault’]
“AURA SMASH, CRIMSON SPEARS,” Sierra was bleeding, and her body was slightly trembling, maybe she feared that Stark would be able to catch up to her again?
The two crimson fists and three spears rushed at Sierra, but yet again, she activated [Crystal Shield] to defend herself from the attacks, then quickly used [Arrow Creation] and [Shoot] to stale for time.
“ARCHER’S FOCUS,” the eyes of an archer are supposed to be perfect, and 10/10 vision is a must, which was why this skill was even able to detect for how much time an ability can go on for, and predict the enemies’ movements.
This was why she had been so confident at first: she was able to see all of Stark’s movements no matter what he did, yet when he was suddenly able to catch up to her in the surface and still manage to hit her while the skill was active, she knew that something was off.
‘SHIT, SHIT, SHIT!’ she kept shooting arrows so fast that her hand movements weren’t visible to the naked eye.
And yet… in less than a second, Stark had managed to avoid them all and was already in front of her.
“CRYSTAL SHIELD,” she shot an arrow down, creating a crystal wall to protect her.
But…
~SLAM~
Stark destroyed it instantly.
“DIE!” Sierra tried to use the chaos and momentum of Stark destroying the wall to shoot another arrow, but…
“DASH!” he flapped [Judicator’s Wings] upward, and so he avoided the arrow, looking down at the archer from above, a cold gaze on his face.
[1 second left for ‘Double Assault’!]
‘It’s fine…’ Sierra still had the guts to smile, ‘Only one second left for that shitty skill… then I can use “them” to win… he can only attack me once with that time after all…!’
She had given up the idea of avoiding the attack since Stark’s speed while using [Double Assault] was just too much, and so she was ready to get punched.
And she did.
~SMASH~
Stark smashed her head while he was in the air.
“-48372!” she almost fell to the floor because of damage and pain, but she still thought that it was possible to come back from this as [Double Assault] couldn’t be used anymore.
‘AND NOW, IT’S TIME FOR ME TO WIN’ she immediately tried to get up, a wide grin on her bloody face.
But…
‘Huh?’
[‘Double Impact’ activated!]
[Description: When using ‘Double Assault’, there is a very small chance that each attack will count as two hits (deadly), causing double the damage, but also double the status effect or knock back on your opponent.]
Sierra’s smile faltered as she looked up and saw a crimson copy of Stark, it’s eyes completely white, and a trail of white aura come out from them.
~SMASH~
The copy, which was the result of ‘Double Impact’, smashed Sierra’s head and did just as much damage as the first attack.
“-48372!”
And with all of that…
[Sierra, The Crystal Archer HP: 41101/315000]
Stark would have loved to finish her off this instant, but his stamina was depleting really fast after all of these movements, and the fact he avoided so many arrows took a toll on him, which was why he decided to back away for a few moments to recover everything.
After all… that boss was pretty much done for.
“…” Sierra was looking down to the ground, her bow still in hand, but she wasn’t moving at all, almost as if her spirit had been broken.
But no… this couldn’t be it, no way in hell such an arrogant piece of shit like her would give up.
And he was right, since even though from the outside, it looked like Sierra was giving up, on the inside…
‘HAHAHAHAHAHAHA,’ she was laughing like a maniac.
“I’M GOING TO FUCKING RIP YOU APART, AND WHEN YOU TRANSFORM INTO ONE OF THOSE BEASTS, I’LL MAKE YOU INTO MY SLAVE,” she shouted as hard as she could while getting up, a creepy smile on her face.
And so… she activated her ultimate skills.
‘Ah shit…’ Stark sensed the atmosphere of the room change, and even though it looked like Sierra was done for after everything he had sent her way, she still had the determination to keep going.
“CRYSTAL TRANSFORMATION, SIERRA’S FINAL STAND,” she activated her two ultimate skills, and suddenly, the aura around her, much like when Stark used [Double Assault], grew at least five times in size and power.
But Stark wouldn’t back down.
“Hah~” he mocked her while seeing the surrounding space distort, “I would love to make you my slave to teach you a lesson, but too bad I’ll kill you before that~” he mocked her previous statement.
And so just like that, the final showdown of this battle could begin.
