Shien just felt the mad siren-like warning from the [Enemy Detection] skill, and rolled to the side without any thought or attention to how he’d look.
“Boom!”
The sound of a dull impact rang out again.
The tree Shien just slammed into was shattered to pieces by the bird and turned into a flying cloud of splinters.
「Skill gained – [Dodge] – Would you like to learn?」
Shien who was rolling embarrassingly on the ground once again received information in his mind.
“Learn! Learn!”
Shien madly agreed without even needing to think about it.
In a moment of crisis, that skill is definitely something life-saving.
Thus, Shien just went ahead and learned the just gained [Physical Resistance] and [Dodge] skills without overly thinking about it.
“Coo!”
The bird that just shattered the tree flew once more into the sky. As if it’s getting mad at the failure of its attack and at the resistance Shien is putting up, after a cry, it spat out a bolt of lightning towards Shien.
That bolt of lightning acted as if to vaporize the eyes, and Shien who just managed to get up only saw a blinding whiteness and was struck.
“Boom!”
Lightning struck where Shien was, causing both an explosion and flinging Shien away and sending him rolling away once again.
「Skill gained – [Magic Resistance] – Would you like to learn?」
Again, a new skill was gained.
“Cough…!”
While the rolling Shien violently coughed, he still did as before and learned the new skill without hesitation.
And this time was just like before. Even though he was clearly struck by lightning, Shien still didn’t receive all that much damage. All he felt was some pain all around.
At this point, Shien basically understood just what is happening.
“So this is the power of the Holy Sword?”
Shien, while lying on the ground, covered in dust, turned to look that the Holy Sword he’s been tightly holding all this time.
The Holy Sword is still giving off the brilliant and beautiful glow it has been since the very start.
It’s because the Holy Sword has the effect of 99% damage resistance that Shien managed be unharmed until now, right?
“Coo! Coo!”
The bird in midair doesn’t know this at all. It just looked at Shien, who was lying on the ground seemingly near dead but not having bled a drop of blood, and continually gave off it’s enraged calls.
It must be that it never imagined. That it still haven’t managed to finish off the the prey it found after so much work.
Thus, the bird dove down once more while giving off vicious waves from it’s whole body, as it it’s trying to finish Shien off.
Watching all this happen, Shien too felt a burst of desperation from within.
“Don’t think I won’t fight back!”
Facing the vicious figure descending from the sky like a nightmare, Shien tightly gripped the Holy Sword and shakily stood back up.
“Ping!”
Upon the brilliant Holy Sword, the aura of light that was once calmly flowing around it suddenly increased and exploded outwards.
An amazing power flowed from the Holy Sword into Shien’s body.
Shien thus held up the Holy Sword towards the evil figure in the air.
And then…
「Skill gained – [Two-handed Sword] – Would you like to learn?」
Shien chose to learn it without hesitation.