BXBX NOVEL Chapter 230 Sole Target
Henry\'s eyes searched for where the attack had come from so he could aim at the caster only to find multiple daggers, all formed of red violent mana charging at him from all sides. It forced him to kick off into a run and a series of dodges…
"Ah!"
One of the blades cut across his side and after letting out a little cry of pain, Henry leaped to the side to take cover behind a tree.
[You have lost 20 Hit Points]
[Hit Points: 180/280 Hit Points]
The barrage of blades cut across the tree and hit so many times that they were ripping it up to the point where the size would not even be enough to provide Henry with cover. Before that happened though, Henry spread his Perception to pick them all out and when he reached the limit of his Perception range, he decided on a target, bent low, and leaped out from behind the tree.
He ducked low to throw off the enemy\'s aim and he was already sliding toward his first target before any of the others could change the direction of their aim or stop aiming at the tree at all.
The muzzle of \'Cudgel\' flashed and an Orc Caster\'s head was forced to kick back as a bullet had been fired right into its forehead.
[Kill-Reward: 400 Exp]
"The little bastard is out!" Another Orc caster yelled before the body of Henry\'s victim even hit the ground.
\'Little?\' Henry wondered to himself, \'Well, I suppose it fits. I am still Nineteen.\'
The \'real\' reason Henry was called \'little\' was his size. With his lithe physique that focused more on agility, he was indeed little. At least compared to the Orc Casters who stood above six feet with the width to match despite their focus on spell casting as opposed to physical ability.
Anyway, Henry went after the one who had yelled out next. He did this because that Caster was closest.
The Caster had a shield of red mana erected and before he got too close, Henry was already firing multiple shots at the shield.
*Crack*
Cracks formed across the shield and it shattered. Before the Caster could conjure another, Henry had appeared in front of it, oozing the aura of <Raider\'s Intent> that instilled fear into the Orc\'s psyche and slowed down its cast ability so Henry could fire a shot into its forehead to kill it and move on to the next.
[Kill-Reward: 400 Exp]
A wall came charging at Henry. He dodged it before it could slam into him but his eyes widened when a chain formed of red Mana wrapped around his leg and yanked him toward the Caster wielding the chain.
Being suddenly pulled into motion threw Henry off and he struggled with straining against the chain to attempt to break free. When he finally managed to swing \'Cudgel\' at the chain, he was met with a slam of an Orc fist formed out of red Mana. Henry assumed it was an Orc fist because no human fist could be that huge.
*BAM!*
The Fist pommelled Henry into the ground at the same time he infused Mana into \'Cudgel\' to increase its weight. Cudgel broke the chain around Henry\'s leg at the same time the conjured Orc fist struck him so, dazed, he was unable to withdraw his Mana from \'Cudgel\' before its increased weight forced it out of his hold.
[You have lost 50 Hit Points]
[Hit Points: 130/280]
"Ugh," Henry groaned as the notification of his Hit points loss flashed in his peripheral vision and his eyes widened when a chain formed of red Mana swung down at him like it aiming to whip him.
He rolled away just in time and pointed \'Violent Retort\' at the Caster with the chain to fire a few shots that were blocked by an erected red shield.
Before Henry could focus on breaking that shield, arcs, orbs and daggers formed of red violent Mana came charging at him from the other Casters. Reminding him he was not fighting against one opponent.
He dodged most of the orbs but one managed to strike him in the chest and sent him flying to hit his head so hard against a tree trunk that his sight blurred and he heard an intense ringing.
[You have lost 60 Hit Points]
[Hit Points: 70/280]
"Fuck—" Henry let out but more attacks were incoming. He dove to the ground quickly to avoid a barrage of blades stabbing him all over and rolled to his feet before an Arc of Red Mana could slice him in two.
His eyes were still blurry but fortunately, he didn\'t really need to see.
<Quick Thinking>
Time froze and Henry spent that five seconds of stopped time picking his next few targets so that once time resumed, he was retrieving \'The Hydra\'s Sting\' to fire it and \'Violent Retort\' at the targets he had picked out.
One of the targets had erected a shield and survived. The other had let down its guard and when the bullet fired from \'The Hydra\'s Sting\' hit it, its head turned an even more horrid green than it already was before it exploded and splattered a nearby Orc caster in its sizzling bits.
"Argh— what by Kroa is this—?!" The Orc asked with a yell as the Acid burned through its thick hide. Henry took advantage of that moment of confusion and pain to shoot and kill the unprotected Caster.
[Kill-Reward: 400 Exp]
[Kill-Reward: 400 Exp]
Before Henry could rejoice in any of the two kills, a chain wrapped around his arm and yanked him but before it could get him too far, another wrapped around his other arm with the two pulling at him in opposite directions.
Henry\'s eyes went wide as he looked from one of the chain-wielding Orc to the other and he realized they were both too far to be affected by <Raider\'s Intent> but they were within range for another card he had in his arsenal.
*Extra Arms!*
The large spell circle appeared behind Henry and out of it thrust two tentacles that smacked the two Orcs on the side of the head so hard they were knocked off their feet and hit the ground headfirst.
The chains melted from around Henry\'s arms and since he already had his fingers on the triggers of his guns, he fired shots at the two downed Orcs.
[Kill-Reward: 400 Exp]
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Even before the two Orcs succumbed to his shots and died, Henry was already stretching out the tentacles almost to their limits to wrap around the neck of two others and pull them close or hold them in place to be shot.
Acs of red Mana cast by another set of Orc casters sliced through the tentacles and destroyed them to free their fellows while they all now banded together more than they already had with Henry as their sole target.