Fantasy Assassin in a modern world

157 One Shot

The Bear Gigantes changed its target from Fade to the running civilians. Fade noticed this and quickly wrapped his steel wires enhanced with spells onto the Bear Gigantes’s feet. The steel wires that were supposed to cut the Bear Gigantes’s feet did nothing, it wasn’t even able to make a little cut on Bear Gigantes’s feet, instead, it started to drag Fade along with it.

Fade then switched tactics, he took out a few needles imbued them with fire elements, and threw them at the Bear Gigantes. Upon contact with the Bear Gigantes’s earth armor, the needles exploded making a part of its armor crack.

Finally, the Bear Gigantes turned around and was back to targeting Fade. This time the pressure the Bear Gigantes was emitting doubled as it was angered by the exploding needles. The Bear Gigantes charged at Fade who dodged the attack by using his wires to suspend himself in the air. Fade then swung himself forward using his steel wires fleeing from the scene, this made the Bear Gigantes chase after him.

The angry Bear Gigantes tried to attack Fade but was unable to hit him. Every now and then the Bear Gigantes felt frustrated and was about to change targets but the moment it thinks about doing so Fade would throw another explosive needle rekindling its anger.

‘Even after attacking its elemental weakness, I wasn’t able to do much with my needles. I need to use a stronger spell, but using the needles as the medium for a large scale spell isn’t possible. Also with my current mana, I have a limited amount of spells that I can choose from, not to mention I only know a few powerful fire spells. As an assassin fire spells were really too flashy for me. If only I had enough mana to use [mana strings] then I would be able to restrain this monster. No use thinking about what I can’t do, better do what I can...’

As he was thinking about what to do next Fade noticed a gun held by one of the corpses and took it. After obtaining the gun Fade couldn’t help but sigh as he made a decision.

‘In my current state, it would take about five minutes to finish chanting the spell that’s if I’m able to chant it without being interrupted. To be able to concentrate on chanting the spell while dodging this bear’s attacks will be quite difficult. I got to weaken it first to ensure that my spell would work.’

Fade had finally arrived in the park that had been evacuated. There was no human being within a few kilometers, so he could finally focus on fighting the Gigantes. Fade checked the gun he just picked up. It was a small beretta handgun commonly used by civilians with a gun license. This kind of small gun wouldn’t normally be able to do anything against a Gigantes, still, this was better than his needles. Now having a suitable medium Fade started chanting.

Seeing Fade finally stop running the Bear Gigantes felt excited as it roared. It then smashed its paw on the ground, and the earth beneath them started changing shape spikes made of earth came out aiming at Fade.

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Fade jumped up to avoid the attack as he was still mumbling the spell words. The Bear Gigantes used this opportunity to swipe its paw at Fade who was in mid-air, but before its paw was able to hit its target, Fade was able to use his wires to pull himself backward evading the paw.

Fade then manipulated his steel wires and made them bundle up wrapping around each other forming a steel whip. This steel whip of Fade was heavier and sharper than any sword. At the moment Fade was controlling both his mana and inner energy to do multiple tasks at the same time.

He was using his mana to strengthen the steel wires and for the spell he was chanting. He was using his inner energy to strengthen his body and evade the attacks. Still, he won’t be able to win against this opponent if he kept on evading, so once his steel whip was formed Fade got ready to counter-attack.

Even though he was an assassin and his specialty was silent kills but against monsters such as this, and with his current power he could not use his usual style, and instead, he needed to use the style of those so called knights. He could also try using the martial arts he learned in this world, but compared to the techniques of the knights in his old world, the latter had more experience in dealing with large monsters, while the former is meant on dealing with other humanoid beings.

Fade swung the thirty-meter-long steel whip at the charging Bear Gigantes’s head, but the other party simply lowered its head and was ready to hit it head-on. As the steel whip collided with the armored head of the Bear Gigantes cracks appeared on the helmet made of earth.

Fade kept on hitting the same spot as the Bear Gigantes struggled to attack. Fade continued using hit and run tactics, despite the Bear Gigantes’s power and defense being incredible its speed was lacking.

The Bear Gigantes started getting even more aggressive as its anger rose by being continuously hit by the annoying fly that circled around it. The Bear Gigantes who could control the element of earth stomped its feet making the ground shake.

Fade looked at the Bear Gigantes confused as to what it was doing, it was at that moment pillars of earth surrounded Fade and the Bear Gigantes. A dome made of thick earth had encircled Fade. The Bear Gigantes wasn’t just a mindless beast after all. Now with limited room to move, Fade had no choice but to fight the wild beast head-on.

‘Hmph, well that’s what I wanted.’

Fade used his steel whip to break the armor of earth on the head of the Bear Gigantes, once that was out of the way, Fade started running towards the Bear Gigantes. Spikes of earth blocked Fade’s path but he nimbly evaded those, as he got closer the Bear Gigantes opened its mouth and a beam of pure earth element burst out. Fade barely evaded the beam and was now on top of the Bear Gigantes’s head. Fade placed the gun on the Bear Gigantes’s forehead. For the first time after it was released the Bear Gigantes felt a tinge of fear as its instincts told it that the gun pointed at his forehead was dangerous.

“It’s time for an early hibernation,” Fade pulled the trigger.