Chapter: 222

– 10 Second cooldown.

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– A soldier of the Helvetian kingdom, turned to stone. It stands guard, waiting for it’s chance to exact revenge on those who would harm its kingdom.

“Oh, they’re basically the same as the level four spearman outside except for the different weapons… but the spearmen fought more aggressively even when they were the same level, so this might be harder than I thought.” acting quickly, he put his orb down gently before pulling out his hammer as he prepared himself.

What cautioned Jay was that each of these soldiers were both dual-wielding stone daggers – each dagger about the size of his ossein arming swords.

They would have been considered swords if a normal human was holding them, but in the hands of the large statues, they appeared to be daggers suited to them.

“Those things could really mess me up…” squinted Jay, thinking if these statues were holding his blue ossein arming swords, they would perhaps be twice as deadly – the stone daggers and his swords had incredibly similar proportions after all.

Unlike the stone statues which brandished massive stone swords and spears outside, their daggers were well suited to fighting in this enclosed space; well suited to the environment.

“It’s a shame I can’t use bladed weapons too.” he thought, glancing at his hammer “Well… I guess I could, but they wouldn’t do much to their stone bodies.”

“Even though these hammers have less damage than my swords, the statues’ natural resistance to swords and weakness to the hammers make the hammers the obvious choice.”

The stone wall finally stopped sliding down, forming a flat part of the floor surface. The stone soldiers each stepped forward, readying their weapons. The time for thinking was over, and the fight had begun.

Suddenly, each soldier stepped forward with a double-slash strike; one soldier aimed at Jay and the other aimed at his minions.

“There’s that double-strike skill again.” he pursed his lips as he began counting in the back of his mind.

Jay backstepped towards the entrance while his skeletons jumped deeper into the pyramid, both groups successfully dodging the first attack.

“Huh, these guys are pretty fast for stone statues.”

Jay decided not to counter attack, as he was still in striking distance of both statues. After a moment, one of the statues turned to face his skeletons while one turned to face him.

The statue made a fighting stance, holding one dagger low above it’s knee, and the other high above its head.

“Hmm?” Jay raised a brow “they look like veterans”.

Jay stepped forward with his shield first, blocking a dagger and bringing a dagger down towards it’s stone head – *ting*

The hammer didn’t connect with its head, but made a ringing noise as it was swatted away by the statue’s second dagger.

Jay backstepped, “I guess these ones are well trained compared to the others; they are pyramid entrance guards after all.” he tilted his head to the side after not being able to land a hit.

“How am I going to get past its defence…” Jay wondered for a moment – though before he could think more, the soldier stepped forward and thrust at Jay.

Sidestepping immediately, he noticed the next dagger was coming at him straight after the first one.

*Boongg* He quickly raised his shield, blocking it before retaliating with a hammer swing. This time, the strike landed – a powerful strike right on the soldier’s shoulder pauldron.

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