Chapter 1748 - 1032: Abyss Wanderer Has Invaded You_2

This thing is obviously some kind of defense magic, isn’t it obvious?

However, this barrier is slightly different from the defense magic everyone imagined. Whether it’s Blood Slash or explosive Crystal or other magic, when they attacked the barrier, they passed right through it. Artorias swung his Great Sword against these spells swiftly, exploding them all at once, although some did fall on him.

But the injuries caused by the spells that fell on him seem not too severe. Some even just left a few marks on his armor.

Something’s not right; the magic they cast shouldn’t just have this little damage.

"The barrier weakened our magic!" the magician shouted.

He clearly saw just now that the Crystal he released initially seemed normal, but when passing through the barrier, it suddenly shrank in size, even the power decreased by several levels.

If Artorias keeps such a barrier permanently, it undoubtedly increases the challenge difficulty by several levels, which adventurers certainly don’t want to see.

The luminescence entwined on the Barrier Shield started to dissipate. After receiving a round of attacks, the barrier automatically vanished. Artorias also launched a new round of attack towards the nearest Tami.

Tami kept dodging, only using his shield to block when desperately needed. Every time he took the attack directly with his shield, it made his arm numb, and the King’s Soul that was activated during the fight with Young Wolf Shif was about to run out of time, which put him in an increasingly unfavorable situation.

"The barrier isn’t permanent; that’s great!"

The group, especially the magician, expressed their joy.

"Change tactics, don’t focus fire!" Tami found time to shout.

Given that focusing fire on Artorias would weaken the attack power due to the Barrier Shield, not focusing fire was better. Everyone initiated attacks in gaps, leaving no opportunity for the opponent to deploy his shield.

Tami rolled sideways to dodge Artorias’s vertical strike. The Great Sword hammered the place where he had just stood, instantly fracturing the stone slab on the ground.

Even before the stones hit the ground, Artorias used the momentum of the strike to turn around, sweeping the sword blade, along with stone fragments and dust, towards his waist. Tami didn’t have time to raise his shield, only managing to hold the Straight Sword vertically against the strike. At the moment the sword met the Great Sword, his wrist was numbed by the shock, making his whole arm lose feeling. The Straight Sword was knocked out of his hand, flipping several times in the air before clattering into a pile of stones several meters away.

"This doesn’t seem right... cough cough..."

Tami turned into the man rejected by reality, feeling off about the situation.

Artorias’s strength now seems on par with others who hold the King’s Soul, maybe even slightly stronger.

Am I really battling one of the Four Knights Under King and not Gwyn disguised as him?

Artorias at this moment displayed strength beyond imagination. What he faced now wasn’t an invasion encounter battle, but a proper Boss Monster battle!

His left hand was still holding onto a shield, but it was useless now, as Artorias’s next sword already swung down.

Immediately, people came to the rescue, successfully forcing Artorias to deploy the Barrier Shield to fend off their attacks, interrupting the blade aimed at Tami.

Maru rushed in from the side, her speed increased so much with the King’s Soul activation that she was invisible, leaving no residual shadow.

Her toes lightly touched Artorias’s sword arm, using the momentum to flip onto his shoulder armor, crossing Mercenary Dual Blades to stab at the gap in his neck armor.

This position is a common weak point for armored knights; the connection between the helmet and chest armor always leaves a gap just enough for a blade to penetrate.

The blade certainly inserted into the gap, she even felt the penetrating sensation, but only a little less than an inch deep as the armor was too thick, coupled with Artorias stepping forward suddenly during her strike, bumping her off with his shoulder.

"Whoa!"

Facing the weight challenge right here, having an assassin engage in direct combat with a numerical monster, this kind of matchup mechanism is somewhat too advanced.

Maru spun half a turn in mid-air, only managing to stabilize herself by pushing off the wall, yet Artorias had already turned to face her.

The Great Sword swept over, the sword wind sweeping all the dust up behind her before the blade even arrived. She didn’t have time to dodge, only managing to cross her blades in front to block, getting struck out by the impact.

The King’s Soul consistently provided some enhancements to everyone, but the base foundation made it impossible to transform Maru from an assassin into a Tank.

Magicians’ Broom Stars shot simultaneously from different directions, the blue Luminous Stone drawing arcs in the air.

Artorias didn’t dodge, hatefully raising the Barrier Shield again. The semi-transparent shield expanded, the Broom Stars visibly decreasing in size as they passed through, originally bigger than a human head, shrinking to fist size, coupled with his sword interception, they only scattered tiny blue fragments on his armor.

He moved simultaneously with the Broom Stars hitting him, directly rushing into the magicians’ formation, sweeping his Great Sword across the crowd. Three magicians were simultaneously swept away, their Magic Wands let go, the Magic Shield in front of the sword blade tearing like paper.

Chaos’s Illusion Magic covered the entire alley, purple light curtaining starting to distort the surrounding space, walls, floors, stone piles overlapping in the illusion, while Artorias...

Artorias symbolically paused for a moment within the illusion. Still, Illusion Magic has weak effects on Boss Monsters in the Sain Dungeon.

"Huh?" Realizing his specialty illusion magic also wasn’t too effective, Chaos promptly fled, giving no chance for the enemy to charge and strike him.

Tami picked up the Straight Sword from the ground, the Thunder Attribute enchantment wrapping around the sword again, he rushed behind Artorias for another strike at his side.

The latter, as if predicting it, issued a Slashing attack, yet Tami ascended with Hidden Mist Fierce Bird, sword tip aimed at the enemy’s neck.

There were Armor Break injuries left by Maru earlier!

The blade fell, piercing the neck, hot blood instantly splashing his face; it was a temperature that involuntarily made one want to avoid.

Wanting to just behead the opponent, yet at that moment the blade was abruptly grabbed, leaving it impossible to free it.

Artorias clutched Tami, with a push of his foot, wrapped against Tami thus soaring into the sky, performing a Wolf Jump in the air!

"Ugh ah ah——"

The King’s Soul effects vanished right then, Tami was spun down to the ground, only hearing the rumbling sound as he was smashed several meters deep underground, with no sound from below for a moment.

"Tami, are you still alive?"

Maru groggily crawled out from afar, her injuries recovering rapidly; just now, she was dealt quite the blow, barely getting herself together.

But raising her head, she saw both Chaos and other adventurers swiftly fall at Artorias’s feet.

Yet the latter was now focusing his gaze on her, his fiery red figure zooming swiftly into view.

"Well, what’s there left to say then."

Maru resignedly shook her head but then charged towards the enemy’s attack, engaging in a desperate gamble.

"Boom!"

Some time later.

The crowd restarted at Ulashiro’s bonfire.