"It wasn't supposed to go this way." Azzy was frustrated to see his plans go awry because of Claire's tenacious fighting spirit and bad team play.
Even though they never worked together, still, Azzy felt that she can't fight the robot as if she's alone.
Adding on top of that, the Berserk mode robot seems to be ignoring him even though he was the one that broke its arm, earlier.
Seeing that it was completely focusing on Claire, Azzy felt he should do something to gain its attention on him. Only that way, his plan would be a success.
Meanwhile, Claire, who doesn't know what's going on in Azzy's mind, was in an illusion, thinking that she needs to battle a higher grade perfectly controlled opponent to break through.
With such intention, she unleashed her soul skill but what she didn't expect is the durability of the red shield is a lot stronger than she thought at first glance.
Not only the attack failed but even her soul skill, which was supposed to last for ten more minutes, was also wasted.
The thickened holy aura that was filled with her soul energy was completely absorbed by the shield making the sword revert to its original state.
"I guess this is where I need to surpass my limits and breakthrough," Claire mumbled to herself while looking at the robot that was staring at her.
Right then, suddenly, she felt pressure and her spirit started to behave wildly in rage.
*Grrr*
A growl was heard from behind.
She turned her head and glanced at the source of the sound only to see a black wolf appeared right beside Azzy.
Black lightning sparks were generated from all over its body as it stared at the robot.
"You decided to summon Vajra?" Claire seemed surprised. Azzy explained vaguely, "we have no choice."
Meanwhile, Barbara was taken aback in surprise. From what she knew, Azzy had a death scythe and legendary black lightning orb.
However, what was in front of her is completely a new beast that seemed very stronger compared to her own.
At first, she wondered whether she was misunderstood that he inherited the Arcana spirit of Aelius Crescent.
But then, looking at the black sparks and remembering the name Claire called it out, she theorized that this so-called Protos energy might make that lightning orb mutate into the beast just like how her kitty was mutated into a sabertooth tiger.
She felt it was quite possible.
"Claire, follow my lead."
The black wolf and Azzy rushed towards the robot at an unimaginable speed. In a split second, Azzy appeared before the robot and throw out a punch.
The robot defended the punch with the red shield while a loud sound reverberated all over the room. A small crack appeared at the spot his punch landed but it disappeared quickly.
At the same time, Vajra also arrived and lunged at it to tear off its head.
However, the robot was able to react to it and raised its shield to slam it into the wolf's face.
"Wow… So fast," Claire exclaimed as she saw how quickly both of them reached the opponent and attacked.
If not for her superior eyesight, she would have mistaken that they teleported to the opponent.
As for Barbara, she doesn't seem that surprised. She knew that those who trained at the Violet pavilion will be fast on the normal grounds.
Soon, Claire joined the fight.
Azzy, Claire, and the black wolf… The three of them started to attack the robot in three different directions. Strangely, even though he got an opportunity several times, Azzy never hit its weak spot.
All he focused is on one thing. That is to shift its attention from Claire and the wolf to himself. So, he went all out.
However, due to his imperfect control over his soul energy, his soul power started to diminish at a rapid pace whenever his soul energy-powered fists landed on the shield as it would absorb the soul energy when it blocks the attack.
Usually, for an expert with perfect control, when they wanted to strengthen their physical body to the limit, only 5% of their overall soul energy is needed at most.
The soul energy will not only strengthen one's bones and organs but also improve the recovery rate of the injuries. If healing skill applied, then, the soul energy that was outside the soul orb will speed up the process.
Of course, a person can pour all the soul energy to strengthen his physical body too. It will make his body studier for sure but not the attack power.
Coming to Azzy's situation, he kept half of the soul energy inside his soul orb for Vajra to use one soul skill with maximum strength or several soul skills if it suppresses its soul to rank-4.
Meanwhile, the other half was spread all over his organs, bones, etc…
Of the 50% soul energy, Azzy's hand and legs take 20% of it, leaving the remaining 30% for defense.
So, whenever Azzy's fist lands on the shield, 5% of his soul energy will be absorbed as a result, which will be replenished by taking away 5% of the soul energy that was kept for defense.
And right now, he was even forced to leave only 20% of the soul energy in his soul orb for Vajra, which will be enough for only five attacks of its peak-rank-4 level, which is equivalent to a peak-rank-5 attack of a platinum grade beast.
With no soul energy present in his legs, he only continued to fight with fists. On the other hand, Claire was doing fairly better with the sword in her hand.
This is the difference between a barehanded fighter and a swordmaster. If Azzy had the death scythe in his hand, this troublesome situation wouldn't even arise.
Alas, with Claire's presence, he wasn't able to take it out.
Back to the battle, as the robot is defending against Claire and Azzy while aiming to kill the skillfully dodging wolf, the Reaper no longer sat in silence.