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The roar of the Jezails firing galvanised Issei into motion even as the Warpstone-infused bullets left the barrels of the long rifles. Bringing his swords forward in a cross block, he deployed a [Lesser Barrier Shield] using each blade as a focus, layering them so that when the first shield failed, as it would, the second would catch the bullets.
It worked exactly as he intended it to. The two bullets pierced through the first layer of the shimmering red and green barrier, shattering it easily but not before robbing them of enough power so that the second barrier managed to stop them…barely. It was covered in cracks and the points of impact were noticeably indented.
Still, they'd done what Issei needed.
Before the warped bullets even hit the ground, the Sekiryūtei was already charging forward forwards, shattering the remnants of his barrier as he broke his block and charged forward. Issei refused to give the Jezailiers enough time to reload, and once he was close he could eliminate both teams quickly before focusing on the warped Warp-tech specialist.
However, his plans were significantly derailed when Teeksqueak reached into his robe with his normal hand and produced a long-barrelled pistol version of a Jezail before quickly aiming it in his direction.
'Aw hell.'
Using every bit of his strength, Issei leapt forward just as the Warplock Engineer pulled the trigger. He was just lucky and fast enough, as the bullet screamed over the top of his head, scraping away shards of his helmet as he dived below the shot.
Still, rolling back to his feet, he was steps away from the Jezailiers, who were frantically trying to bring their weapons to bear after reloading them. Before they could, Issei was in amongst them, striking out with both swords in a flurry of flashing metal. Up close, neither set of ratmen had a chance against him, neither carrying any form of melee weapon they could draw in time. Even when one of his swords broke after decapitating the second rat, the other two still fell with a single strike each, one with the jagged remnant jammed into their throat and the other with their throat cut open.
You have slain X2 [Warplock Jezailier Teams]! You gain 850 EXP!
"[Warp Lightning]!" Teeksqueak screeched as he pointed his crude cybernetic arm at Issei. Several small blades suddenly sprouted from grooves going down the arm before sickly green electricity seemed to surge through them, dancing down the limb and filling the room with an eerie glow. An instant later, the lightning later seemed to coalesce along the tips of the limb's clawed finger before firing at Issei.
There was a reason why the phrase 'lightning fast' was a thing. It takes less than a second for electricity to travel between point A and point B and that meant Issei had next to no time to put up a defence after the attack was fired, though thankfully the build-up gave him just enough time to raise his remaining sword in front of him and deploy another [Lesser Barrier Shield].
It wasn't enough.
The shield barely managed to hold off the attack for a second before shattering into motes of light, the eldritch lightning slamming into Issei's chest and sending him flying back, over the circular table and into one of the corpses resting in its stone throne.
That was very gross, he had to note.
You have lost 105 HP!
That was the most amount of HP he'd lost at one time ever! What the hell kind of spell was that?!
With a grunt, Issei scrambled to his feet, drawing a knife from his inventory with his free hand and throwing it at Teeksqueak, who was wrestling with his arm, which was still sparking, and cursing. Apparently using [Warp Lightning] messed up his arm for a while? Good to know.
The blade sank into the flesh of the shoulder of the Warplock Engineer's wholly flesh and blood arm, making him screech in agony. The sadistic rodent didn't seem to have much of a tolerance for pain.
"DIE!" the Engineer snarled, grabbing a length of wood from his waist. It had a wavy blade on top of it…a knife? No, knives don't extend by half a meter. A bladed staff then, because that was not a spear. Spears did not have blades growing all over its length.
Hurriedly pulling a second sword from his inventory, Issei clashed with Teeksqueak. He ground his teeth as a residual charge from the unnatural lightning spell crackled across Teeksqueak and down the blades. It hurt like hell, but he could push through it.
You lose 30 HP!
Compared to Issei, Teeksqueak was clumsy and downright amateurish when it came to armed combat, almost as if the ratman had never done more than learn how to carry the thing without cutting himself.
Which, Issei realised as he easily batted aside a clumsy swing, might be the case. The Warplock Engineer seemed to be a spellcaster first and foremost, and thus expected to blast his enemies from afar. More than that, Teeksqueak's every action in the few times they'd met before had screamed pure arrogance, and someone who believed themselves an invincible spellcaster would never bother learning how to defend himself up close and personal.
It would be like admitting that an enemy could possibly get through their magical attacks and traps, something that their ego would never accept.
[Gamer's Mind] was very useful for making well-reasoned deductions.
'That's going to be his last mistake.' The Sekiryūtei thought with a savage grin. Wielding both swords in a flurry of cuts and stabs, Issei slowly chipped away at the Warplock Engineer's health bit by bit while dodging and parrying the erratic flailing of the bladed staff.
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