Battling An Ombakti again.

After cutting the huge rock Arthur landed at one of the ramming Mammoth. With a blade in hand, he started a massacre.

Orcs left and right continuously fall at Arthur's blade. 'This mana stuff is amazing although I can only bring out a little of it every time, it sharpens my blade tremendously.'

Arthur steadily uses slash over and over, slowly getting familiar with it. He started on only being able to do one mana slash for every 10 of his attack to two mana slashes.

Arthur's unrelenting assault didn't go unnoticed as he attracted the attention of two Ombakti. They charge toward him with much ferocity.

Arthur immediately notices it and adjust his stance to combat the upcoming threat.

These two Ombaktis are unlike the Ombakti he faced in the past. They seem to be a lot weaker. There are also relatively fewer scars in their body.

Facing these two Ombaktis, Arthur didn't cower but instead, he welcomed it.

With his katana in hand, he dashes towards the charging Ombaktis.

One of the Ombakti picks up an ax laying on one of the orc corpses and toss it toward Arthur.

Arthur, without losing his forward momentum, spun mid-air dodging the attack by a hair-breath.

With the force behind his dash, Arthur swung his blade to one of the Ombakti.

[Slash] the blade cuts through the Ombakti's stomach.

Seeing his handiwork Arthur smiled.

But contrary to his expectation, however, the Ombakti did not die but like the other Ombakti before it, it started to be enveloped by a blue aura. It ignores its wound and hurls his ax towards Arthur.

Arthur is not a greenhorn, he already experienced these phenomena before. From his boo and the past Ombakti. He knows that this aura will have an unknown effect and he has to kill it quickly.

He easily dodges the Ombakti's follow-up attack and prepares to finish it by cutting off its head but as his blade is about to slice up the Ombakti's neck. He quickly withdraws it and shifts to the side.

At that moment, an ax hurled towards the place where his head was supposed to be. If he didn't react on time, he would have been decapitated.

Arthur looks at the other Ombakti who is now excluding the same blue aura as the wounded Ombakti.

"So this is how things are going to be," Arthur said preparing his stance.

Like two-piece in the pond. The two Ombakti charge at Arthur in perfect harmony.

Every time Arthur sees a blindspot and tries to exploit it the other Ombakti will come to the other rescue.

Arthur is now sustaining wounds one after another without having the ability to fight back. 'Would I have to give up the bone to get the meat?' He though but quickly dismissing the idea.

The battle is yet to truly start he cannot afford to get injured as there are many more dangerous situations up ahead. He will only do it as a last resort.

Exchanges after exchanges the situation is starts going downhill for Arthur.

He has to think of something fast or else.

It was at this time that he unconsciously activated his special skill. [Perceived Duration]

Everything around him turns to a halt. It was amazing its like the whole world stops, aside from his thoughts nothing is permitted to move, not even himself.

'Astonishing!' Experiencing the same feeling again fills his heart with joy. Unlike before when he was weak and desperately thinking of a possible way to survive amidst the millions of scenarios where he dies, this time is different.

He is strong now, strong enough to kill an Ombakti without tricks.

His mind is free, free from fear, and free from the world.

He has all the time he needs, time to imagine every possible outcome in every possible scenario.

This type of ability can only be described by one word "broken".

'With this ability, how can I lose?' Arthur thought to himself.

But the reality is not that easy.

The toll that the skill causes in his mind are not something he can ignore. It started with a minor migraine at first then it turned into someone slowly crushing his brain.

Eventually, he had no choice but to stop the skill.

Although his skill ended, the amount of time Arthur spent free from distraction is more than enough for him to conjure the perfect plan.

.....

The Ombaktis continues their relentless assault at Arthur. Powerful strikes rain down upon him but unlike before he easily dodges it. Like seeing the future Arthur moves before the Ombaktis even strike.

'Now' Noticing that his opportunity arrives Arthur dodges one of the Ombakti's attacks and steps on its ax jumping over its head.

The other Ombakti sees it and didn't miss the chance to swing its mighty ax at Arthur ready to end him but seeing this Arthur didn't panic, contrary he even smiled.

'Dumb monster' the exact moment before the Ombakti's ax can hit Arthur, the mammoths they are riding ram over the wall creating a massive shockwave.

"Booommmm" The mammoths shake violently and everyone on top of it staggered, having it difficult to hold their ground. Well, everyone except Arthur, who is in the air when the mammoth hits the wall.

Performing a somersault Arthur arrives at the Ombakit's back.

[Slash!] Arthur performs a slash while still in mid-air.

As Arthur's feet hit the ground so as one of the Ombakti's heads.

'One more to go.'

With one of the Ombaktis dead. The Aura surrounding the remaining Ombakti became noticeably deemer.

It tries to take revenge for its fallen brother but its movements have already become sluggish and without the other one to cover its blind spot, it was nothing but prey for Arthur to slaughter.

Easily dodging its ax strike, Arthur cuts one of its legs making it kneel to the ground. Arthur then proceeded to cut off its head with one fell swoop of his blade.

The whole fight might seem long but it only lasted a couple of seconds, from the 100 marks to the mammoths hitting the wall, Arthur manage to singlehandedly slaughter every orc at the top of the mammoth's back.

.....

Although the mammoth managed to successfully ram the wall. The wall was incredibly thick, due to humans' superhuman status they managed to build it half kilometers thick. The only thing that the massive Mammoth manages to accomplish is to leave a dent on it.

The orc army knows this, thus their goal from the start is not to destroy the wall but to use the mammoths as a platform for their army to ascend.

But due to Arthur slaughtering every orc on top of it. It will take time for the orc in the ground to be able to climb it again amidst the Asgard army bombardment.

.....

When the mammoth hits the wall, Arthur's follower staggers and falls. They are frightened as at any moment a massive amount of orcs riding on top of the mammoths will arrive and kill them.

They shakingly hold up their weapon as they slowly stand up. However, what welcomes them is not an army of ferocious orc they are expecting but the back of a man. A man standing triumphantly surrounded by hundreds of corpses.