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Chapter 54: Strea

Clang! Clang!

Sparks flew out as Shinji blocked the incoming blades at him. As he blocked, he performed a counterattack by stabbing his spear nimbly on the skeletons' forehead. It didn't take long before he pierced through each skull, earning him a kill every few seconds.

He didn't mind the incoming arrows as he used his aura to fully enhance his legs, allowing him to dodge the most of them with ease. Still, some of the arrows cut through his armor due to his inexperience in crowd control.

Clang!

Just as he used his spear to block one of the unavoidable arrows, a small skeleton wielding a pair of daggers rushed at him. Thankfully, his instincts reacted in time and struck it with the edge of the spear's shaft.

Bam!

With a quick thrust, he promptly depleted its HP points to 0.

[Private] Shiro: "Control, Shinji-kun. Check and prioritize who you'll deal with first."

After seeing this message, he realized something and decided to change his fighting style. Even when three skeletons are around his reach, he didn't stab them first and sensed his enemies first. Once he saw that there's no skeletons that could quickly bypass his strike zone easily, he began doing what he did before.

Psssh!

He dodged the longsword that came at him and countered with his own attack, ending its life in one blow. Then, he suddenly swung it to the right.

With the momentum that he gathered and the aura enhancement that he placed, Shinji managed to shatter its skull.

'It's a little bit overwhelming already.'

Shinji thought as he slowly led the aggro'ed monsters away from others. As he did so, he attracted more skeletons, but he finally managed to lure them away to the point that no more new monsters were added to the fray.

"Thirty enemies... I can do this..!"

******

Shiro looked at the panting Shinji as he walked back to the starting point. Since it served as safe area of sorts, they used it as a resting area.

"You alright?"

"Yes, I'm good."

Shinji sat down in the floor as he tried to catch some breath.

"How's fighting against many enemies?"

"It's... hard. Sometimes, their attacks pass through my defense. There's also some unexpected moments like a small skeleton almost stabbing daggers in my chest..."

"In the end, it should be your lack of experience. Without a superior reaction time, you can only try to make less mistakes."

With a superior reaction time, their room for errors is much higher due to them being able to react quickly and fix that mistake. Meanwhile, those without it can only try their best to make less mistakes since their room for errors is lower.

Sometimes in the battlefield, the latter's single mistake could result to their death while the former would be able to avoid such deaths thanks to their fast reaction speed.

Shiro began pointing out his mistakes one by one as he'd seen him fight through the video call. Since this dungeon is far too big, he's more than a hundred meters away from the starting point when he fought.

"Shiro."

"What's the matter?"

"They've exhausted their power of darkness."