Danmachi: Voyager of Worlds Ability

[22] : Breaking Limits, Mika's Evolution in the Heat of Battle

"Haha!"

With a swing of her spear, Airmid slew the little demon in front of her and then panted heavily from exhaustion.

"They just keep coming."

"Indeed, it seems the dungeon is determined to keep us here!" Mellie said quietly from beside her.

At this moment, Airmid and Mellie were positioned in the passage leading to the chamber where Mika was.

From the other side of the passage, monsters continued to appear intermittently, trying to reach the chamber behind and join the monster feast.

Originally, Airmid and Mellie planned to wait here quietly for Mika, stepping in to help only if he couldn't manage on his own.

But the sudden appearance of monsters disrupted their plan.

Not wanting the situation on Mika's side to worsen, the two were intercepting the monsters trying to pass through.

"Roar!"

Controlling a half-beast to kill the approaching little demons, Mellie said worriedly, "Although we can help intercept monsters here, we can't stop the ones on the other side."

"Does that mean the number of monsters Mika has to deal with will keep increasing?"

"Exactly!"

Mellie said helplessly, "For now, Mika has to rely on himself."

...

"Ah!"

Running up the half-beast's club, Mika severed its head on its shoulder.

Then he leaped to another spot, repeating this tactic to deal with the threats posed by the half-beasts.

Through continuous slaughter, the number of little demons had noticeably decreased.

But as time went on, Mika found it increasingly difficult.

Slowly, he had almost no space left to maneuver.

The monsters that had surrounded him on all sides had completely encircled him, merging into a single mass.

In this situation, even if Mika used magic to clear an area, it would quickly be filled again.

As the space for maneuvering shrank, the frequency of attacks on Mika increased.

"Clang!"

Although Mika noticed the attack from behind, he couldn't react in time and was instantly knocked flying.

After being thrown back for only a fraction of a second in mid-air, Mika crashed into other half-beasts, forcing him to stop.

"Damn it!"

As soon as he hit the ground, Mika stood up and adopted a defensive stance.

This was a conditioned reflex honed under the training of Urokodaki Sakonji.

Spitting the blood from his mouth onto the ground, Mika calmly thought while fending off the attacks of nearby half-giants.

Now, completely surrounded, Mika was constantly under attack from all directions.

Although he could judge the attacks of monsters in his blind spots through hearing, his position was too narrow to dodge all the attacks simultaneously.

Therefore, Mika had to choose to evade or resist the more powerful attacks of the half-beasts, while slowing down the attacks of other little demons.

This made Mika battered and bruised but never defeated.