The Novel's Draft

Chapter 87: 159

Collapsing to my knees, I winced.

"Scales, stop the bleeding." Flying back to me, some of the scales wrapped tightly around my lower abdomen.

A moment or two, I snapped out of focusing on the bleeding and noticed that the spider demon had stopped attacking, the sounds of it’s legs clammering against the dragon scales had ceased...

Looking up, the spider demon was looking into the distance.

"Help!" A faint voice screamed in the distance.

It’s going to go after the person who shouted just now.

Forcing my body to stand up, I collapsed to the ground, my face sinking into the mud.

Even if it was less than thirty minutes, I’ve already exhausted myself.

’Your body is in tatters boy, take this time to rest. Even if you continue to save lives, your death will be the consequence.’ The fore armor whispered in my head.

Maybe the force armor is write... maybe I should just give up on whoever screamed and just rest.

Gritting my teeth, the mud seeping into my mouth I forced my bruised and wounded body to stand upwards.

"No... Alleus would be disappointing in me if I didn’t save a life." I said, my throat dry with figments of dry blood.

Using the fire hero’s sword to support me, I slowley started making my way to the screaming voice but the spider demon was running there at full speed.

Damn it...

Straining my muscles, I forced myself to run.

My thighs and calves were on fire.

Especially the lower part of my left leg, it was as if multiple daggers were stabbing at it.

Every step was agony, the hole in my abdomen was pouring out blood. freёwebnovel.com

"Screee!" Raising itself higher up into the air with two legs, the spider demon retracted the rest of it’s legs.

It’s preparing to launch an attack!

Stomping my right foot forward I swung my blade.

"Excaliburn!" A blazing flame projectile shot out at the spider demon in the form of an arc.

"Scales, focus on attacking the spider demon!" I shouted, the dragon scales that werent on my left leg shot out at the demon from every angle.

The flame had pushed the demon away just before it’s leg’s fulling extracted from it’s body.

At the same time, the flame and dragon scales had engulfed the spider demon.

I can’t spare anything back.

Despite it’s main body being weak enough for my blade to tear through it’s flesh, it’s legs are surprisingly tough.

"Ahhh!" The screaming voice had reappeared.

Running straight at where the vocie came from, I turned a corner.

"...What the hell..?" My eyes widened, as my face grew pale.

The screaming voice wasn’t a person at all, it was a demon that ripped a person’s head off and used the corpse’s voice box to lure people in.

Turning around, the spider demon had closed in on me.

Damn it, it was a trap!

"Hahaha!" The grotesque demon speaking through the corpse smiled with a creepy look across it’s face, "What a fool you are, this place is going to be your grave... I knew that humans looked after each other but this is just unexpected! I could kill you myself without much effort! Hahaha!"

Stepping in closer, I scowled.

Not only am I completely surrounded but the dragon scales had began vibrating... I’m straying too far from Incus.

Where the fuck are the knights damn it!

"Force armor, I need your help." I said with a raspy voice.

’Finally, you’ve agreed to submit to me! To you’re anger!’ The force armor then grew intimidating, ’The amount of anger that had been supplimented by you over these days had made me quite full, the power I will be able to grant you will surpass even the force armor... but you must end this battle within five minutes at the least."

With a grin forming across my face, I snared.

"Five minutes is all I need."

Dodging an attack by the spider demon, I shouted:

"Scales, focus on supporting me with defense and offense!" Like a whirlwind, the dragon scales immediately took action.

"Check status." I looked at the other demon.

==[Status Window]==

「Information」

[Name: Skin wearer demon]

[Class: Mage]

[Equipment]

◈ N/A

[Weapons]

◈ N/A

[Description]

...

「Attributes」

[Physical | lvl: 3.5]

[Stamina | lvl: 4]

[Intelligence | lvl: 5]

[Mana | lvl: 5]

「Skills」

[Mastered Mana control]

[Advanced Enhancement]

[Advanced body reinforcement]

[Advanced Mana sense]

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So it’s name is the skin wearer demon, I’ll just call it the skin demon.

In any case, the demon doesn’t have an elemental skills unlike other mages that I’ve come across so far.

What’s so different about this one?

It said that it can take me on by itself, meaning that it has a way off attacking me.

But it’s grotesquely fat, and it only has two tentacles that it uses to talk through the corpse in its hand... but I can’t be too lax, it has that enhancement and body reinforcement skill.

Gripping the handle of my sword, I lunged at the skin demon.

"Body reinforcement, strength and speed!" With a blast of mana, the skin demon had disappeared.

’Behind you!’ The force armor shouted.

Torquing my body to spin, I swung behind me.

"Impact line!" Slashing horizontally, my blade tore through the skin demon.

"How dare you!" The grotesque demon turned slowly turned into something resembling a centipede with muscular arms, not legs but arms.

"My time spent honing my mana control had allowed me to be able to shape my body into anything I want!" Crawling skin demon then began crawling towards me, thrusting it’s large muscular arms at me.

Jumping to the side, the scales had intercepted and countered a punch from the skin demon.

But because it left the spider demon’s side, multiple legs were piercing at me.

Stepping to the side out of the way, my foot sank akwardly into the mud, making me fall too much to ground forward at the skin demon.

"Damn it!" I winced, raising the sword in front of me.