Versatile: Alternate World

"HRAAAAA!"

Even the [Flaming Sword] of the Versatile Weapon cannot cut the trunk of the snowman. It was like I am hitting a stone pillar... but I think the stone pillars are more brittle compared to this.

"Master! It is regenerating very fast!"

I clicked my tongue when Atlas reported that. Despite our efforts of removing a big part of snow on its body, it was quick in regenerating its lost snow parts, making it a bit of a big headache. And by the looks of it, the core of the snowman is rather located too deep in its body that if we have to hit the core, we have to at least melt all the snow from its body and reveal it.

But that is not the problem. The flames that my Versatile Weapon is fierce and hot enough, plus the flames coming from my [Fireball] and Molotov Cocktail seems to have not caused too much significant or irreversible damage from it. Even if we managed to do so, the regeneration of the snow being lost from a battle is quick enough for us to immediately catch up.

"It's regenerating too fast!" Atlas just finished one of his great slashes and has been able to remove a large chunk of snow from its body but as always, the snow, did not appear and the lost snow quickly built itself back up again.

"Give up on that area if the core still did not appear, focus on another part!"

I turned to look at Guts who is currently holding off most of the attacks of the snowman unless it was an AOE attack and honestly, I am amazed that he managed to tank off most of those attacks and he is still not getting any injuries nor he seems to need healing, he is still energetic and the smug look on his face just made me certain that he is fine and well.

Forehead, chest, both snowy parts of the arm, the back, and both feet, all parts that I mentioned are parts we have tested and removed snow to look and expose the core of the snow golem but we have no luck in finding it. And since the very last parts which are both feet also do not possess the core we are looking for, there is only one thing that made our search fruitless and the reason why we still haven't found it despite our search for it around its body is that this golem has a core exposed on its body or may be disguised as a body part.

There are 5 options for the snowman that might qualify as cores. Despite being called cores, they do not necessarily have to be a circle shape core.

First and second, maybe the most likely to be the core or cores are the two buttons that made the "eyes" of this snowman. But that is only the possibility, I could be wrong. Then the third is the wrinkly-looking nose that looks like a carrot and can also be a core. As I said before, cores are not necessarily round and circle shape.

Then we have the two buttons on the body that made up its nonexistent suit, which makes up the fourth and fifth. But as always, I have some doubts but since there are multiple of them, then we will have to go and do it in the process of elimination.

Grabbing a few more bottles of Molotov Cocktail, I connected to Lucia.

"Hey Lucia, are you busy there?"

"Master? No, I am not busy at the moment, I am just relaxing while Lina-chan is still resting. What is wrong?"

"I will have to ask for help in manifesting strong flame magic. I needed it to cause big burning attacks"

"Should I go out?"

"If you want to go out and fight, then I will summon you out, but if not, then just channeling your power is fine, I will use my mana to conjure your magic spells instead."

"Ah, since you have given a choice, Master, I am going to choose the latter choice instead. I apologize for this."

"No need. Besides, having more people here might trigger this snowman. It's better to keep the people fighting it to the minimum."

"Okay, Master, I am chanelling my abilities to you now. Use it well and make sure to finish whatever you are fighting against."

"Thanks, now how about we toast some snowman today?"

This is the first time I have used this function before. It was there before but I haven't used it so I didn't have any clue on how this thing works but now, I think I am adapting to it. It's the Companion's Ability Lending function that is already present. I know how this works in text but never in actual experience.

Activating the flames on my hands, I also realized that Lucia's flames are much hotter compared to my flames. It was like holding a pot that is being used to boil water without using any kind of cover to stop the hotness transfer to your skin. It's pretty hot and yet it doesn't burn, maybe because it wasn't being used to me and I am the one wielding on it which is why it was like this. And I like it.

With the Snowman still struggling on keeping Guts on line, I didn't waste the time to idle. I leap from the ground and pulled a mid-air jump before dashing to reach the eyes of the snowman. The eyes are as big as a round table so it is not something so easy to miss. Maybe if your aim is that bad, perhaps. But I am not that bad.

"Have a taste of this!"

FWOOM!

A fireball hit the left eyeball squarely and it exploded into flames causing the snowman to stop fighting and cover its eyes in pain. Landing on the ground, I thought I already managed to hit it but when I looked at the HP, I realized it didn't even remove a single HP percentage at all. The snowman is still fine.

It was hurt but not literally hurt for the HP to reduce. It only felt a bit of pain but it was fine. The snowman stopped after the flames was extinguished and the button that was there before is now incinerated leaving only a burnt marked snow and one more eye. The snowman is now focused entirely at me especially since I burnt one of its eyes out.

BANG!

The snowman is so quick that I barely managed to pull back up the Versatile Weapon and blocked the trunk from slamming down to me. It was heavy but bearable to handle.

"Hey! You little piece of crap! Where are you attacking?! I am here! Focus your attention to me!"

And when I was blinking, half of the head of the snowman disappeared. It was like it was removed by hand and was scooped off. I was shocked as that was all so sudden as I saw Guts mid-air with his fists smoking while on the action that he punched in the air, which means he is the one responsible for the half of the snowman's head to disappear.

Of course, since it wasn't the core that has been hit, the damage that Guts has done to the snowman is immediately restored except for the eyes that has disappeared forever, the snow that was blown off has been returned to the normal place.

"A miss huh, then dammit, let's try it again."

This time, I didn't try to take down the other eye. With one of its eyes blown off and the recent attack that Guts did to it, the snowman is now too defensive on its head now. It stopped attacking and even assumed on a defensive stance too.

But that made Atlas find a good chance to strike. He took his time keeping quiet and not attacking before he took action when the Snowman stopped to defend itself. In the middle of defending, the snowman didn't notice Atlas already building up a charge slash on his sword. It is one of the normal abilities Atlas does if he was a normal boss and many players have been felled by this attack before including me in the past timeline.

This time around, Atlas is using it to fight against a boss monster.

SWISH!

One clean slash and the right arm trunk it has did not last and fell to the ground with a loud boom. Atlas did not hit the any parts that I assumed to be the cores, but he decided to cripple the monster down.

The snowman is very angry and tried to heal back its torn arm but perhaps it wasn't even part of the parts that can be healed, the large tree trunk that is used to be its right arm has been severed completely without any chances it will be reattached again. The snow around it was restored but the trunk did not reattach again.

"Master! It is time to attack!"

I grinned inwardly as I ignited another set of flames in my hands once more.

"I will gladly take the opportunity, thanks a lot Atlas!"