My Skill Bar is Full of Monster Skills-Chapter 52: Spearhead and Guidance

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

As he spoke, Gray Dwarf Sos suddenly executed a 180-degree sweeping strike!

Except for Raine, who barely managed to shield himself, only staggering back a few steps before slamming into the rock wall, Fabian and Grande were sent flying into the air like rag dolls, blood spurting from their mouths!

But in the next instant, Gray Dwarf Sos looked shocked!

"Swish!"

An arrow struck the faint red barrier like a bolt of lightning, spinning violently, its fletching vibrating intensely, as if infused with the will of its owner, determined to pierce through.

The one who fired it was none other than Reya, sitting on the ground!

She was holding her bow upright, and at that moment, its string was still trembling wildly.

But after performing the Aimed Strike combat skill twice in succession, her left arm muscles were now involuntarily trembling.

Even though the continuous attacks targeting the barrier had consumed a large amount of energy, causing the faint red glow to dim even further, it still held against Reya’s strike.

In other words, the arrow that carried Reya’s heavy hopes had failed to penetrate.

Gray Dwarf Sos looked at the arrow still spinning in the air, a look of relief on his face.

He scanned the members of the Howling Hunter Squad, either barely standing or lying on the ground, and said in broken Common, "Too bad, just a little more."

"Victory is not yours. You’ve made Sos very angry, and I will slowly crush you like the human warrior’s bones I smashed the day before yesterday, inch by inch."

"That human warrior had a strong desire to live. It took a long time before he died. I hope you don’t disappoint me either."

Upon hearing these words, Raine, leaning against the rock wall, shuddered slightly!

He suddenly raised his head and looked at Gray Dwarf Sos.

And after Sos finished speaking, his expression became even more ferocious. With a snap, he broke the arrow that nearly pierced the faint red shield!

Since Reya, as a Quasi-Class Shooter, posed the greatest threat to Gray Dwarf Sos, naturally, his gaze focused on Reya, who was struggling to get up from the ground.

"Then I’ll start with you, female human!"

Sos’s iron boots stomped on the ground, sending dust flying, as he swung his warhammer, drawing a faint red line, charging rapidly toward Reya.

But in the next instant!

Another silver arc flashed by, colliding violently with the faint red line just before it reached Reya.

The one who came was the nearly exhausted Raine!

Having just heard the Gray Dwarf’s near-victory declaration, Raine understood that this very dwarf, equipped with magic items, had killed Robin.

The phrase ’strong desire to live’ struck a chord within Raine.

Fueled by anger or another emotion, the surge of adrenaline made Raine momentarily forget his exhaustion.

And Raine’s Barbaric Charge seemed to be the last straw that broke the camel’s back. The faint red barrier around Gray Dwarf Sos finally completely dimmed this time.

It shattered into countless tiny specks of red light, dispersing into the surrounding air!

"It’s broken!"

"A great opportunity!"

Raine’s eyes opened slightly. Although his warhammer had been knocked away by the recent sweep from the Gray Dwarf, he actually had another weapon up his sleeve.

"Armor-Piercing Strike!!"

Raine immediately drew the relic spearhead from his waist, a keepsake from Robin, his arm muscles bulging with veins. From above to below, a silver arc sliced through the air.

The shiny spearhead of the short spear suddenly lodged into the unsuspecting side of Gray Dwarf Sos’s neck!

"Pshh!"

Though it was a spearhead, it was still sharp, piercing through the Gray Dwarf’s thick, pale skin, straight into the carotid artery. Blood gushed like a torrent.

"Ah!!"

With a sudden, severe injury, Sos’s gigantification effect began to dissipate rapidly, shrinking back to a height shorter than a normal human.

The Armor-Piercing Strike just executed with the spearhead was a bit of an instinctive reaction for Raine.

In that instant, Raine recalled something Master Humbert had once told him—’Even a Wanderer can execute an Armor-Piercing Strike with a dagger, but they often utilize the body’s inertia during a sprint.’

So, he did just that!

And at that moment, he seemed to have a new insight into the combat skill Armor-Piercing Strike.

No, to be precise, the recent Armor-Piercing Strike had given him a sensation of... how to put it, like a craving—’High-speed movement, sudden burst’.

As if—’due to the enhanced understanding of Armor-Piercing Strike, he had received guidance towards some kind of class.’

’High-speed movement, sudden burst, Wanderer? Could it be a special Wanderer class akin to a Shadow Hammer Walker?’

If I follow this guidance, it means...’

Some thoughts flashed through Raine’s mind!

Raine now vaguely understood the saying—’When a combat skill or magic spell is elevated to a higher level, you will feel guidance from the void.’

On one side of the arena, seeing this scene, a Gray Dwarf who had been severely injured from the start but had somewhat recovered was both shocked and furious!

It wanted to step forward to assist, but the problem was that its current state only allowed it to barely stand, so after some thought, it started to laboriously make its way towards a hidden passage, supporting itself on the rock wall.

Meanwhile, on the other side.

In pain, Gray Dwarf Sos let out a roar, swinging his hammer desperately at Raine.

"Raine, watch out!"

But instead of blocking, Raine forcefully dragged the spearhead that pierced the side of Sos’s neck horizontally!

"Shhh!" A large spray of blood splattered!

Gray Dwarf Sos’s eyes widened, his entire body trembled violently, and soon, his raised warhammer slipped from his hands, clutching his deeply gashed neck desperately.

"Huh~ Huh~"

Breathing sounds reminiscent of a bellows came from the neck wound, desperately trying to take in air!

Every breath expressed his intense will to survive!

But unfortunately, his neck was nearly severed, and torrents of foul blood poured out unstoppably, unless an ultimate sorcerer capable of performing a Ninth Rank Resurrection Spell intervened immediately, or by receiving the mercy of the Divine Beings.

Otherwise, no one could save him.

The world before his eyes began to sway and blur as Gray Dwarf Sos recalled numerous past events, the Underdark, Dark Furnace City, the thrill of reaching the Surface...

Yet somehow, his mind’s final image was fixed on the young human warrior from the previous day, his bones crushed by Sos’s hammer, and the look in his eyes.

"Hoo~ Hoo~"

Nearby, Raine was breathing heavily, his chest heaving dramatically as a near-exhausted sensation washed over him.

But as if remembering something, he brought the broken spearhead before his eyes.

Because the spearhead had just pierced the Gray Dwarf’s neck, it still had traces of dark red on it.

Raine gently wiped the spearhead with a piece of cloth, until it shone like new, just as it had when it lay in its owner’s hand that day.