Towards the 10th Floor 2
Year 7446, Month 10, Day 28
The Minotaur in front of me raises it's hand axe up, then just as I think it's about to swing down it hides behind the small buckler on it's left arm and changes the trajectory midway to mow me down.
Since I was learning from all of the combat up until now I was barely able to succeed in avoiding the axe.
However, thanks to that my stane collapsed and I ended up taking a kick from the Minotaur to my side.
It wasn't a kick with any momentum behind it so I was somehow able to endure it.
I haven't taken any attacks from it's weapon yet but I've been hit by that small buckler twice and this is the second time I've taken a kick.
My body is creaking warning me of the danger.
However, at the same time as I took the kick from the Minotaur I succeeded in stabbing a throwing needle into it's thigh.
Just now was the third throwing needle I've been able to stab into the mino.
Of course, my throwing needles have the numbing poison smeared on them.
Different from the cheap product used for ogres, it's the highest quality poison made at the high-end adventurer medicine shop Misshizu.
It's an extremely powerful poison which if I were to get hit by it my entire body would be paralyzed in less than 30 seconds.
However, even then the movements of the mino aren't getting any weaker.
Up until now I've been able to land four attacks on the mino.
One thrust to the right flank with my bayonet, just the same a slash with my bayonet to it's right forearm.
And then the two stabs from throwing needles I've thrown at it.
This time is the third stab.
With this it's the fifth hit.
All of the attacks other than that were blocked or parried by it's small buckler or evaded.
However, it's my first time facing off against an opponent that was completely composed even after taking a total of five attacks.
It's only obvious for the Minotaur that protects the 8th floor but whether it's ogres, trolls, or even the horned bear, if I landed a good hit on them their movements weakened a bit.
If I were to land two clean hits then it was normal for their movements to visibly weaken from the pain.
This fellow is completely miraculous.
It's frightening to even imagine exactly how much HP it has.
This time, I had all of the members of the {Slaughterers} smear high-quality numbing poison on their weapons before we charged into combat.
Just from what I was able to observe even when I'm shitty busy, other than this Minotaur that it's in front of me, the numbing poison doesn't seem to be having any effect on the one wielding a trident that Angela and Gwine are up against as well.
Putting aside the large 3 that we blinded at the start, it seems to be reasonably effective against the rest.
The mino is swinging down it's axe again.
This time before it could make any sort of cheap tricks, it was only several tens of centimeters but I was able to put some distance between us and it's completely hit air.
Making use of that opening I tried I thrust at it with the tip of my bayonet but was blocked by the small buckler.
I had already read that.
I predicted that it would block me with it's small buckler.
This time, I had my left hand just before the magazine area of the bayonet around the trigger(if it were the normal model, then it would be around the hand guard curve or top part of that), but at the same time as I thrust it I moved it along the curve of the magazine.
It's faster to push it forward from the trigger than to pull it back from the hand guard and easier to put in more strength.
The moment I was blocked by it's small shield, in the form of pushing up from the magazine area I twisted the bayonet vertically and at the same time body slammed into the buckler with my left shoulder.