Orbis Online
103. The Duel II

After Horb's high-class Equip is shocked, Reus finds it difficult to launch an attack. It is true that the speed of Horb is not high, but the Equip he uses makes Reus can not attack just like that.

Every time Horb attacked always took the lowest possible position trying to cover his lower body with his Mithril Chainmail Robe so that Reus could only dodge without counterattacking.

In addition to having high resistance to physical attacks, Items containing Mithril are also able to dampen magic attacks anyway—though not so great compared to physical attack resistance.

   "Swings!"

Jraak!

One Blackstar swing containing Swing slid towards the right abdomen of Horb, but unfortunately the attack did not cause any impact. Blackstar instead bounced off due to the hardness of Mithril.

   "Not working!"

Horb swung his huge mace horizontally at Reus on his right side with all the power in his right arm. Fortunately Horb's attack speed was not as high as Dex Reus' status so the silver-haired player was able to dodge the Snow Troll's deadly attack.

Reus did not retreat just like that, but also launched another attack in the form of fire magic from Blackstar. Honey, the fire magic instantly disappeared without leaving any trace when it touched Horb's clothes.

   'Physical attacks or magic don't work, what does this Equip want?'

Reus's expression was clearly sour, while Horb only gave a small smile at his opponent's reaction. Of course, this Equip was deliberately used to destroy his opponent's fighting spirit so that the chance of winning increased.

While Reus was looking for a gap from Horb's Mithril Chainmail Robe, the Snow Troll was exerting one of his flagship skills.

   "Burning Blood!"

As soon as the skill was activated, Horb's previously pale gray skin turned slightly reddish. The change in his appearance was due to the increased speed of blood flow that spread throughout his body.

The Snow Trolls and Yetis watching there started cheering at Horb's slightly changed appearance. Meanwhile, Reus had already raised his alertness but he was shaken when he heard the skill from Horb's mouth.

Horb took the horses running from a considerable distance, and, but in just a few breaths of Snow Troll was less than five meters away from Reus which made the silver-haired player wide.

   "Full Swing!"

Horb swung his wooden mace diagonally from bottom to top with all his might while exerting one of his skills, Full Swing.

Full Swing is an advanced skill of Swing. As an advanced skill, Full Swing had a destroyed power and a greater Energy consumption than ordinary Swing, as well as its attack speed could increase drastically in a single swing.

Facing Horb's swift attack, Reus then activated Adrenaline Mode and leapt back as hard as he could while lifting Blackstar to the front of the chest. Because his speed was insufficient, Reus could only hold the swing of the mace with Blackstar on his chest.

Thanks to the attack Reus was thrown quite far from where he was standing before, but not out of arena—although a little more out of arena— so that he has not been declared defeated.

   "Hoo, can you react to my attack even though it has activated Burning Blood?"

   "Burning Blood, huh? What is a Troll-race special skill?"

   "Hmm, you know quite a lot about our race."

Burning Blood is an innate skill of the Troll race that is able to increase the Dex status of each Troll to reach 30%, depending on how high the skill level it has. Well, the skill cannot be compared to Reus' Black Form anyway.

The silver-haired player let out a long sigh before letting out a meaningful smile accompanied by forming even more steady horses, this time looking into his eyes there was something like a blazing fire.

   "Then I'll be serious too."

After saying that, Reus then activated Black Form along with Dragon Power and Dragon Spirit, then continued by a huge pressure blow from Dragon Aura to suppress Horb.

All the spectators present there could not hide his surprise, not least Ikshan who in fact knew enough of Reus' strength.

Some of the Trolls there were exposed to bad debuffs from Dragon Aura such as Knockback, status drop, HP reduction, etc, there were even some low-level ones lying on the ground without awareness as soon as they felt the Dragon Aura—Ikshan also got a semi-transaran panel that told him to be hit by a status reduction of 17%.

   "It's...."

Horb frowned as soon as he saw the strangeness that happened to him and his people. He can understand if he is affected badly like a debuff because at this time the one who is fighting is himself, he said, but he did not expect the effect would spread on a scale wide enough to take some casualties from his people.

   "I'm sorry for some of your people getting hit, but I can't control it."

   "No problem, it's their own fault watching the fight in close quarters.

Reus gave a small smile hearing Horb's not-so-fussy response. After all, the debuff effect of Dragon Aura did not make the surrounding opponents instantly die just like that, so Reus did not want to think too much about it.

After a while, Reus shot forward much faster than before. If it had taken him a few blinks before to reach Horb's place, this time he would have only taken two breaths.

Before Horb could react to his speed, Reus had already swung the Blackstar that was already filled with Swing and Dragon Smite simultaneously. Not enough to get there, Reus rotated once first on his leg shaft then attacked Horb's stomach with all his might.

Arakk!!

Despite not being able to react to his opponent's movements, Horb was able to realize that Reus was already in front of him and prepared to attack so he still had time to drain Energy on his Mithril Chainmail Robe which he was wearing. But because of the strength of Reus's attack power, he crashed far back until almost out of the limit of the arena set.

Horb did not at all expect that his opponent's attack was able to throw himself so far, even after dampening the swing reaction using all the fat in his stomach. This was not an easy fight for him at all.

   "Heba—"

When he wanted to comment on Reus' previous attack, a semi-transparent blue blade suddenly appeared before his face. Fortunately his reflexes were able to make him avoid the attack by moving his head slightly to the right of—, even though some strands of his hair were cut off.

His eyes focused on Reus who was in a low position and after throwing a knife through his left hand with a sense of overwhelming shock.

   "Jester Knife!"

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