YM778.TV Chapter 161 - Unknown Move
When Yuki managed to counter most of the attacks which were getting directed at him by the goblins, he was still left with an army of them which all continued to attempt to kill him even though it was impossible for them to do so due to the power gap between Yuki and them. Even though Yuki knew that he could slaughter them all in the matter of seconds, he chose to extend the duration of the battle for the simple reason of him wanting to improve his technique. He knew that pure strength would eventually not be enough to take down his opponents. At some point, he will have to face someone who has equal or more strength than him. At that point, all he would be able to rely on was his skill. Due to him losing most of his fighting techniques during the 1 year break he took from dungeon raiding, Yuki needed to make up for it by making his journey harder on the early stages of the dungeon.
Still in battle, Yuki could feel himself getting in the zone and his blood began to boil. His heart racing as if he had started exercising for the first time in a century. For a split second, Yuki\'s pupils became smaller than a dot made by a pen. At that moment, a goblin began to charge towards Yuki head on. Time began to move slowly as Yuki stopped hearing everything else around him. Within a blink of an eye, Yuki moved his right fist at the speed lighting and landed a direct blow on the goblin\'s head. However, that wasn\'t it. Once he first made contact with the goblin, Yuki turned his fist downwards as he slammed the goblin\'s head into the ground while creating a small crater on the stage ground.
"What happened?" Yuki asked himself as he came back to reality.
He began to breathe heavily as he tried to understand what he had just done and how he could do it again. Something had allowed him to place his body in the perfect condition for him to land a hit which completely annihilated his enemy without trying. There was no guarantee that Yuki could do it again, however, he still wanted to try as the concept of it intrigued him.
Yuki once again stood still as he tried to calm himself down. He tried to imagine his blood rushing to his brain and putting his body in a state of hyper focus. Yuki knew it was nearly impossible for him to control his mind to force his other body parts to obey him; however, it was worth a shot as there weren\'t a lot of other places such as this where he could experiment with the potential as he pleased.
Yuki tried to concentrate as hard as he possibly could and once a goblin came to face him once again, Yuki punched the monster down however it didn\'t feel the same. Seeing this, the goblins which had moved away from Yuki in fear due to the possibility that he might\'ve been able to duplicate the first concentrated punch began to come back as they had no reason to fear Yuki anymore. They could attack him as many times as they wanted and almost nothing would happen to them, or so they thought.
To the goblins, it seemed that Yuki was weak because he wasn\'t trying to injure them. In doing this, Yuki allowed the goblins to grow arrogant which made them underestimate Yuki. If he had truly used his full power, not a single thing in the stage would\'ve been alive which also included the trees.
"I hope it will work. I guess it was just a lucky shot," Yuki said to himself as he was bothered that he couldn\'t replicate the move he had done previously; however, it wasn\'t like he was going to beat himself up over it. He knew that he had the time to perfect all his other techniques. He had no reason to stress about a single move which he couldn\'t repeat.
Even though all these facts stood to be true, Yuki chose to go the harder route as he continued to try and replicate the move even though he couldn\'t guarantee that he would be able to do it ever again. However, attempting to redo that move came at a cost. That cost being that Yuki would be bombarded with hundreds of attacks per minute as he tried to stand still and concentrate. While he could\'ve used his ability to create a flame contracted wall which would keep the goblins out of his way for a while, Yuki refused to use his ability as the battle would end too quickly if he did. This was due to the possibility that the goblins would still charge into the flames in the hunt for Yuki in turn dying from the flames.
As such, Yuki\'s only hope was to either take on the attacks of the goblins and still concentrate on his goal or dodge while trying to concentrate which would make his goal impossible as he couldn\'t concentrate on two things at once.
At first, Yuki opted for the choice of taking on all the attacks which the goblins threw at him. While they barely hurt him, it didn\'t mean that they weren\'t obnoxious. Each attack of theirs felt like an ant bite. While 1 ant bite would\'ve been nothing, having to face hundreds of ant bites per minute was unbearable.
"I\'m done with this. I knew that the move would be impossible. I should\'ve just continued to train my body like I was doing before," Yuki said as he began to finally dodge the attacks which were getting thrown at him. However, the goblins weren\'t going to allow that to happen without a fight.
The goblins began to swarm Yuki and once he took a few steps back to create a distance between him and his enemies, the goblins began to leap towards him as they attempted air attacks while the other sprinted and attempted ground attacks which would corner Yuki and he would have no choice but to get hit by their attacks. Although that did seem like a fool proof plan, they forgot to account for a small detail. They forgot the possibility that Yuki would strike back.
Yuki quickly leaped in the air and grabbed a goblin which was headed right for him mid air by the leg and brought him back down before using him as a bat and attacking the ground goblins with his body.
Even with all his counters, Yuki still wouldn\'t have defeated the goblins. After all, his goal wasn\'t to kill them, all he sought was to gain experience from them. As such, Yuki wanted to focus on the one aspect of fighting which he had trouble with. That aspect being, dodging attacks. While he could easily dodge a couple attacks from enemies which were weaker than him, Yuki had to deal with constant bombardment of attacks when he was facing stronger opponents. A lot of the time, Yuki had to rely on pure instincts to dodge attacks which was the reason he wanted to train himself in the aspect of battle.
Once Yuki had reestablished himself as the clear superior of the battle, he began to relax himself as he tried to focus on dodging his enemies\' attacks alone. Since Yuki made sure that the goblins knew that he was the alpha, they were hesitant to attack him at first but would eventually do so since they were programmed to attack and only attack. They didn\'t have a choice of just letting Yuki pass through to the next stage. Their only mission was to defeat and kill anyone who stepped onto the stage. That being, either they would die or the challenger or challengers of the stage would die. There was no other option.
While dodging the attacks of the goblins, Yuki tried to move away from them at the last second as it made it more challenging. In doing so, Yuki\'s eyes began to see things faster as his body would only move the moment his enemy was close to landing an attack. Of course there were the usual lucky hits which landed on Yuki, however, other than that, Yuki was able to move away and evade any attacks from the goblins.
"Man, this is getting boring. Should I just kill them all here and move on to the next stage to see if there\'s a harder challenge?" Yuki asked himself.
However, right as he thought that, Yuki dodged an attack from the front back moving his head back so the attack would go right past his head. However, as he moved his head back, Yuki was greeted by another goblin which aimed to hit his face while he was open.
Within those few moments, Yuki leaped in the air before doing a spin and catching the goblin which was attempting to do a sucker punch in a head lock using his legs. Yuki couldn\'t tell if what he had just done was a lucky move or if he had it in him to maneuver like that.