Skill active: Flash! Movement speed increased dramatically!
I hadn’t triggered any skills, but there it was. And not just that, my legs were moving by themselves, sending me charging forward! In the blink of an eye, I’d slipped under the beams and was fast approaching the base of the Gigantic Dragonplant.
“Mor...? Are you forcing me to move through my boots?! And you can trigger skills by yourself?!”
“Hrrr.” He responded with a self-satisfied grunt, as if to say, “Hmph. You surmise correctly.”
This is crazy. I knew I’d be able to react much faster if I didn’t have to pause to activate the skill myself. But I had to wonder about the multitude of problems caused by monsters taking control of their master’s body. What if a monster doesn’t get along with its master...? The summoner system has all the craziest features! It’s unpopular enough already. Once everyone finds out that familiars can hijack your body, no one’s gonna play the class at all! Though in my case...
“Mor, I believe in you. We forged our bond through our fists! You’re my brother!”
“Hrrr...!”
Our friendship had started with us trading blows, so I knew beyond a doubt that I could trust my body to Mor. I relaxed my legs, leaving my lower body completely under his control, then threw aside my bow and gripped all eleven arrows tight with both hands.
“You made the right choice, Mor! If we get in close, it can’t hit us with its laser beams. That is why you’re getting up close, right?!”
“Hrr...hrrr!” Mor grunted as if to tell me, “Hmph... Quite so! Fear not, wretch. I shall be the one to defeat you. But until that fateful day, my strength is yours.”
Mor and I leaped at the Gigantic Dragonplant as one!
“Don’t let me down, Mor! Arts activate: Hyper Speed Burst!”
Mor was already under the speed-up effect of Flash, so when I had him further accelerate with a speed boost art, I felt myself breaking the sound barrier. Not even gravity could hold us back. We were running straight up the towering body of the dragonplant!
“Uhrooooh!” I cried.
“Grrrrgaaaaah?!” The dragonplant roared in surprise and whipped its countless tentacles about in an attempt to knock me off, but while my brother was lending me his strength, I was unstoppable. As each tentacle got near, I swung the arrows in my hands to cut through. They didn’t even slow us down.
Running vertically up a wall should have been impossible, even with Mor’s power. But he wasn’t the only one helping. Every one of my Puffster minions was using their Navigation skill. It wasn’t enough to lift a player into the air, but it was enough to let me run against gravity for a time. I had to hand it to them.
“Nice work, guys. Now let’s do this!”
Mor drove us upward with a powerful leap that sent us sailing over a hundred meters into the air. We were even higher than the head of the Gigantic Dragonplant!
“Grrh...gahgahgahgaaah?!” A screech came from the dragonplant’s open mouth. And no wonder. This guy was over a hundred meters tall. It had to be the first time it had ever looked up at an opponent.
The surprised look on its face made me grin as I raised my eleven arrows. “Let’s see you survive this!” With my bundle of miasma-soaked arrows held tight in both hands, I sank my fists into its face!
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Skill active: Up Close and Personal! Close range damage boosted ten percent!
Skill active: Giant Killer! Damage up ten percent!
Skill active: Fatal Strike! Damage doubled!
Skill active: Absolute Zero! Damage doubled!
Critical hit! Triple damage dealt to a weak point!
Skill active: Merciless Death God! Critical hit damage increased by a further thirty percent!
I’d dealt eighteen times damage in total! And that multiplier got applied to all eleven arrows!
“Grrrh, graaaaaaaaagh?!” The dragonplant howled as the hit for 198 times damage sent it crashing to the ground with enough intensity to shake the whole boss area.