The minotaur was bewildered.
It had fought a variety of shield users throughout its life. A tower shield set on the ground might have been able to block its attacks, but there was no one who could block a full-strength attack from the minotaur with a kite shield held in the air. That should have been impossible.
Furthermore, people who fought with kite or round shields used them to weaken their opponent by messing with their timing and by scattering and diverting the direction of their opponent’s attacks.
But this knight was using his kite shield to block full-strength attacks from the minotaur. Directly in the center of his shield.
Nothing about that made any sense.
Actually, wait.
I’ve seen this shield technique somewhere before.
I was impressed by their skill.
It was there!
In that strange place with those nasty enemies.
It was that whelp I fought with during the final fight.
That whelp used its shield like this.
The minotaur looked at the knight one more time. It did not use its eyes but instead used its body to try to feel the presence of the opponent in front of it.
It then became aware of the opponent’s identity.
This man!
This man is the whelp!
Where did you go?
You weren’t there when I searched for you.
The minotaur’s heart was full of joy.
It activated a certain skill.
Humans called this skill Indomitable Spirit. It was a skill possessed by the highest class of ogre-type monsters, which were called ogre gods. It increased the hardness of the user’s body, resistance to magic, and also restored health continuously at a set rate, all in exchange for the consumption of energy. The minotaur had obtained it by defeating the boss of the eighty-fifth floor. It then ranked up the skill, and it had proven useful when fighting the metal dragon.
The minotaur then quickly grabbed a red potion from its Bag and drank it.
The knight saw that as an opportunity to attack and slashed his sword.
He’s fast!
His feet and his sword were astonishingly quick. The minotaur remembered that the kobold warrior’s movement and attack speed had surpassed its own.
The minotaur decided that it could not dodge by jumping back, so it jumped up. It could not fly, but it could jump high without any preparatory movement.
The jump was also performed for the purpose of an attack. It was planning to take control of the battle by jumping into the air and using Burning Breath from a distance that the knight’s sword could not reach.
But the knight was too fast. He pointed the tip of his sword at the minotaur.
Shoot!
The minotaur called off its attack, got into a defensive stance, and prepared for impact. The knight performed a short incantation, and then a comet hit the minotaur directly.
The knight was able to release extremely powerful magic attacks without the need for a preparatory incantation and without showing any signs of gathering magic power.
The comet dug into the minotaur’s back and greatly damaged it internally. The movement of its right shoulder had been impaired.
The knight raised his sword overhead and waited for the minotaur as it fell. Before it hit the ground, the minotaur blew Burning Breath on the knight. The knight raised his shield and blocked it. Burning Breath was absorbed into the shield and disappeared.
But the minotaur got what it wanted. The minotaur’s goal was to get him to lift his shield and obstruct his field of vision for even a small moment.
The minotaur kicked the knight’s shield and used the recoil to jump backward.
As it did so, the minotaur reached into its Bag with its left hand, pulled out some immortal flesh, and ate it.
The knight recovered instantly from the recoil of being kicked by the minotaur and then pursued with incredible speed. He swung his sword down from above, aiming for the head of the slouched minotaur.
His attack had extreme force behind it from the use of some skill.
The minotaur still could not move its right shoulder.
It caught the sword with its bare left hand. The knight then forced the sword in between the minotaur’s index finger and middle finger and drove it into its elbow.
The mysterious effect of the immortal flesh then manifested, and just as if time itself were being reversed, the minotaur’s sliced-up arm returned to normal and its back, right shoulder, and internal organs were all restored.
The minotaur lunged forward with the greatsword in its right hand. The knight diverted it diagonally upward with his shield and then performed an angled upward slash with lightning speed.
The minotaur quickly drew a circle with its sword and repelled the knight’s attack. The knight’s sword then changed trajectory in midair and raced for the minotaur’s neck.
The minotaur may have been in a temporary state of immortality, but it could not allow its head to be cut off. It lifted its sword from below and drove away the opponent’s sword.
The knight skillfully used the momentum from his sword being deflected to trace a circle with his sword and swing for the minotaur’s neck from the right.
The attack was very natural and very quick. The sword cut halfway into the minotaur’s neck.
Fortunately for the minotaur, the immortal effect had not yet expired. The injury healed immediately.
The minotaur swung its sword down from the left toward the enemy’s neck. The knight just barely missed it with his shield, and the sword penetrated through a gap in the armor. It cut a fourth of the way into his neck.
Given the fragile bodies of humans, that injury was close to lethal. However, the knight quickly knocked aside the minotaur’s sword and slashed its right side. The blood that was starting to spout from the knight’s neck then stopped, and the injury healed in an instant.
The minotaur’s right side also healed immediately, and then the effect of the immortal flesh ran out.