《My second chance is as Dungeon Master?》Chapter 5 - Clash
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Dungeon masters — a higher existence who caused human extinction. In his previous life, they always hide in their dungeon and command their minion to collect their points. There no official records about their amount, but it confirmed from the last war that their number didn't reach two hundred.
Their appearance similar to a human, but they have mana-core as their heart, this heart is their power and weakness. It increases their talent and perception towards mana while they will die when someone destroys their mana-core. In some aspect, they are like humans who will die when their heart got destroyed.
Even though human know how to kill them, that didn't mean it easy. Most of the time they hide in their dungeon, protected by their monster. So there just a little humanity knows about dungeon masters, for example, nobody knows how a dungeon master born. However, humanity knows that they weren't born easily from how little of their amount.
Nevertheless, even with those little quantities — their ability is top-notch and they have many skills as their arsenal. They can control many monsters and even have some access to world-will, which tell them that human is coming from another world — the world that peaceful and lack of danger. They understand what that means — the arrival of many weak creatures that will give them free points.
With this knowledge, those dungeon masters go out from their dungeon to slaughter as many humans as they can. For them, this is just an event — a bonus event to increase their points.
Elias is gazing that dungeon master, a white-haired man alone, riding a creature like a rhino. There a red metallics chaplet covered by blue jewel on his head — a sign of dungeon master. T obvious that dungeon master’ rank isn’t high from his appearance but still — he is a dungeon master.
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Their eyes meet for some time, that dungeon master surprised about how a creature from a peaceful world can perceive his incoming attack. Usually, this kind of creature will die after getting hit by his potion without knowing how.
Elias, on the other hand, is gazing at this dungeon master while thinking about his next step — he brings six short swords he got from those dead goblins, but even so, he still doubts this even enough to kill that man.
'Am I need to gamble with the world-will game?' he thought for a moment, but he shakes his head and tries to find another alternative.
He wasn’t sure how strong dungeon masters in the first years — but they are killable.
Some of heroes candidate can kill them after transmigrates to this world — like Tsiolkovsky Radoslav from Russia, Kim Hansoo from Korea, or Ye Mo from China. They use their martial arts from earth, each one of them kills a dungeon master after got attacked by them.
Each one of them is a killer prodigy.
They never use a firearm when killing their prey on the earth, lucky for them, every type of firearms and explosives won’t work in this world.
However, even those prodigy got killed in the end, because of dungeon masters.
He’s staring at the dungeon master, he recognizes that kind of expression — a hunter expression, someone who won’t let go their prey. That man already marks him and Emily as his target. It’s impossible to run while protecting Emily while there only a small chance that he can kill a dungeon master with his current status.
‘Is there no option other than fight that man.’
He doubts that he can kill that man, but he can't find another choice.
If he with other people than Emily, he probably will run and use that person as a bait. However, when his master inserted into the equation, there is no way he would do that — running isn’t an option.
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He sighed after thinking whether bringing Emily with him earlier is a mistake.
However, how can he know that this route will lead to a dungeon master?
“Hear me out, run towards the south as far as possible while I distract him,” he says with a determined expression — he doesn't want to die, but this time even if he dies on dungeon master hands, it still worth it as long as Emily can escape.
She opens her mouth wants to say something, but after seeing his resolute expression, she let out a weak affirmative sign.
He smiles, “Good.”
After saying that, he immediately rush between the trees while throwing a sword toward that man. However, that man effortlessly moves his body to avoid Elias’ sword, and then both of them let out a mysterious smirk.
They are gazing to each-other while try to assess his opponent situation.
Elias thinks about how that dungeon master avoid his attack earlier, ‘is it means that he still can get hurt by swords?’
He put that into consideration into his battle, but after noticing a grin on dungeon master’s face, he treads his strategy more carefully. He checks his stamina is less than half — but it’s enough.
He rushes towards than man while bringing a sword on his hand and four swords on his back. His muscles started squirming around at a minuscule level, his sense starts focusing on this foresty battlefield and the strong opponent in front of him.
Elias throws away all his doubt and charges with a little zig-zag, he makes feints while throwing two of his swords to that man direction. A dungeon master already set his eyes to him and his master, so what the point of him to run?
His attacks are focusing towards that man head — hoping the best outcome, one-hit kill. However, that outcome didn't happen, the man seems casual when avoiding his attack, but his movement becomes faster when Elias closing their distance. He tries to counter-attack with a black-liquid — a lethal poison — which comes out from his hand, but Elias evades it naturally like a fish swimming in the river.
As the last survivor, Elias won’t let him get attacked by those sloppy skills. Even though he can’t follow that man movement, he can predict where he will attack. It’s become his instinct to avoid those kinds of skills.
Finally, after he got close enough, that dungeon master let out his weapon — a blue spear. Their weapon clashes and let out a small spark of fire, their glare meets for a while — try to gauge each-other intent in real-time.
However, their gaze soon was broken by a loud sound.
*Craang*
Elias sword is broken and left its hilt in his hand. It’s what happens when a sub-par sword used against proper weapon — a dungeon master’s spear.
“F*ck,” Elias let out a curse from his mouth.
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