Chapter 707 Completing the Sequence
After killing the guardian for five separate occasions, Shiro had found out that the first key belonged to the fifth pillar.
Marking down the first key as the fifth pillar in her mind, Shiro looked towards the second pillar for the second key.
[Guardian of the Second Pillar – Corvik]
[Restriction of Close Distance]Pressing her palm against the pillar, the pieces transformed themselves into a bird roughly 200 meters away from her.
The moment she tried to walk closer, the bird would flicker back.
"So I can’t get closer than 200 meters? Tsk, troublesome." Shiro frowned but this was fine since she could fire her sword from her bow.
Summoning her bow, she felt danger as the bird flapped its wings. Widening her eyes, Shiro quickly ducked behind the third pillar.
*BANG!!!!! KRRRR!!!!!!
Watching the sharp of ice slam into the pillar and attempt to freeze it, Shiro furrowed her brows. If the third pillar wasn’t close enough then she would have been frozen into an ice statue.
Summoning both her sword and bow, she peeked around the corner and drew back on the bow.Firing the sword/arrow, she watched as the sword stabbed into the bird golem’s leg without any problems. While it wasn’t a deep stab, it was much better than the shallow wounds that she could only inflict into the golem.
’Compared to the last golem, the bird’s defence is definitely weaker. Though normal arrows from this bow might not be as effective as the sword.’ She mused to herself while ducking back into cover.
*BANG!!!
Right after she ducked into cover, another blast of ice collided with the pillar.
Furrowing her brows, Shiro saw that there was some ice already wrapping around the pillar so she should probably look around for some more cover.
Checking around her current area, there were only a few one time use covers that would be destroyed with a single hit thanks to the bird. To make matters worse, she’d only be able to use them once meaning she couldn’t use them when she fought the bird again for the right combination.
Meaning her most reliable source of defence was probably the pillars.
Narrowing her eyes, she decided to find out how many shots the pillar could take.
Just as the hem of her dress touched the ice, a part of it froze up and broke off in an instant.
Widening her eyes, Shiro understood that even touching the ice is a problem.
"Tsk, why does every one of you f*ckers have to try to kill me in one hit? This lady is offended." Shiro muttered while guessing that the pillar can only take one more shot before the ice wraps around to the other side.
Firing her sword, she ducked back into cover as an ice blast followed soon after. With the ice closing in on her, Shiro dashed to the second pillar and fired her sword on the way there.
Repeating this process until the final pillar, Shiro had acc.u.mulated 27 stacks so far. One more stack and she’ll be able to have a 6% chance of Soul Steal along with a 10% increase to her physical parameters.
After a few short moments of firing and dodging, Shiro finally reached 30 stacks but most of the covers had been frozen so unless she can kill this one in one shot, she’ll need to be careful of her next steps. Taking a deep breath, she consumed all the stacks and shot the sword at the bird.
However, just before the sword flew off the bow, Shiro felt Error 403 stir and latch itself onto the sword.
"Ah wait! You stupid element don’t waste yourself on a weak mob monster!" Shiro shouted out but the sword was now halfway towards the bird.
Slamming her foot against the cover, she dragged the chains and tried to bring it back to her.
*BANG!!!!!
Feeling the tension of the chain shoot up in an instant, Shiro gritted her teeth and tried her best to pull it back to her.
Thankfully, she was successful, and the sword returned to her.
Looking at the Error circuits which seemed to be pouting with its arms crossed, Shiro felt like a vein was about to burst.
"Listen here, you can go for big boss but that is not big boss. It’s a mob enemy, you don’t waste yourself on mob enemies." Shiro lectured as the Error flickered for a moment before retreating back to her hand, clearly upset.
Shaking her head, Shiro decided to talk to this Error of hers at a later date.
Notching the sword once more, she was about to fire when she felt resistance from the blade.
"You complain too and I don’t mind pulling you off the chain and breaking you in half!" Shiro warned as the blade settled down instantly.
"Tch!" Clicking her tongue at the two disobedient children, Shiro fired the empowered shot at the bird and managed to kill it in one go.
Jogging over, she claimed the key before glancing back at the towers. Now that the bird was dead, the ice had now thawed and the pillars returned to normal.
Sighing in relief, she was worried that the ice would remain. If they did, it would have been a pain to have to find new covers.
Trying the second key on the first she watched as both the keys were reduced to ash.
*Sigh...
Sighing deeply, she massaged her shoulder and challenged the pillars once more starting with the first pillar.
