Middle School Samurai

As I was checking the body of the assassin who had fallen to the ground, my teammates finally came running, panting.

I looked at them and opened my mouth.

“Can we break through that?”

“It’s going to be a little tough… I think it’d be better to just die once and switch characters.”

The Paladin user answered my question.

He frowned, shaking his warhammer back and forth.

From his perspective, it seemed he didn’t think we could break through the enemy’s line.

Anyway, the enemy team has four people, and our team also has four people.

Me, the samurai.

The friendly knight user.

The paladin with the warhammer.

And the Viking user who just joined us.

Where did the other one, the assassin, disappear to?

As I frowned and looked around, the friendly knight user spoke up.

“Are you perhaps looking for the assassin-bun?”

“Yes, aren’t there five of us? Why is that person…”

“Ah, you didn’t see the kill log earlier. He fell to his death.”

At the knight’s words, I frowned and looked up at the kill log.

Just before I killed the enemy team’s assassin user, a kill log remained stating that our team’s assassin user had fallen from a high place and died.

What route is this bastard taking that he’s falling to his death?

I sighed lowly.

I had to move soon. There wasn’t much time left before we lost the captured territory again.

I checked that the gauge was about half full and opened my mouth.

“Let’s just charge in for now.”

The team members nodded at my words.

I looked at them with strange eyes.

Was it because I had a long experience as a raid leader? I was naturally giving orders to the team members since some point.

Was I being presumptuous? At the same time as I had that thought, the team members started running forward.

I did say let’s charge in, but I didn’t mean to just charge recklessly like this.

I stared at the sight with an astonished expression.

“Haa…”

There’s no helping it. Aren’t these users matched with me, a level 1? I couldn’t expect much from them.

I picked up the bow that had fallen on the floor, slung it over my shoulder, and quietly started running behind the team members.

Because I’m short, the enemies won’t see me easily.

I lowered my body as much as possible and avoided the enemies’ gazes.

“You shall not pass!”

The enemies, having confirmed our charge, started coming forward.

Standing at the front was a Butcher user armed with huge heavy armor, and he slammed his large iron pillar weapon against the large wooden bridge, *kwang*!

Did they feel intimidated by that sight?

The team members, who had been running forward with great momentum, suddenly stopped.

That’s when it happened. The enemy Viking, who had been watching the Butcher’s movements from the side, let out a rough roar and ran forward.

“Huwoaaaaaa!”

The team members left behind seemed not to have expected his independent action, and they wore bewildered expressions.

This is my chance.

I pushed the knight user in front of me and said.

“Now!”

“Ah, yes!”

The timing was perfect. The knight user, following my order and jumping forward, swung his longsword and blocked the Viking user’s approach.

Starting with his movement, the remaining team members swung their weapons and ran forward.

The enemies’ attention is scattered. I moved stealthily while lying down on the floor as much as possible.

If I moved suddenly and quickly, the enemies’ attention might turn to me.

How long had it been? The Butcher, who had been slamming the floor with his iron pillar, seemed unable to contain his excitement and roared as he jumped forward.

The giant armored pig opened the way.

I didn’t miss the gap and ran forward.

Right now, there’s only one person standing on the capture point. If I eliminate him quickly and attack the enemies from the front and back with our team, I should be able to clean up this situation neatly.

“Ah!”

“The path is open!”

The enemies who found me screamed, but they were stuck with our team members and couldn’t move.

There’s no interference. I ran recklessly and grabbed the Nodachi hanging behind my back.

At the end of the bridge, a knight user wearing a gambeson armor comes into view.

He was leaning on his long, slender longsword with a relaxed expression.

“Wow… Didn’t you set the height too short? There’s going to be a significant strength stat limit…?”

I knew it the moment I saw the enemy. This guy’s atmosphere is completely different from the enemies I met earlier.

He has a relaxed expression in front of me, but his body is tense enough to swing his sword at any time.

His gaze was also scanning my body here and there.

But what does that matter?

If there’s an enemy, I have to get rid of him. No matter what his skills are, the fact that I have to swing my sword and cut off his neck doesn’t change.

I didn’t slow down my running speed and swung the Nodachi greatly.

*Buung-*!

The first strike, starting from my back, cuts through the air.

The enemy knight user pulled his body back and avoided my attack.

But I didn’t stop my actions there.

Using the swinging force, I rotate my body.

The firmly extended legs become the axis to strengthen the rotational force, while I rotate my waist, moving the sword in my hand as if spreading it out wider.

My body turns around once. Using that force as it is, I strongly swung the sword in my hand.

*Buuuuung-*!

The second consecutive strike.

The knight user, who had looked relaxed, raises his sword with a hurried expression.

It was a move to directly block my strike.

*Kaang-*!

It was blocked. But it landed properly.

The giant katana’s blade shook the knight user’s body greatly, and his posture collapsed in an instant.

Don’t miss it. Dominate the space.

My body starts to follow the orders my head gives.

I retrieve the sword that had been slightly bounced off and step back slightly.

Using that recoil, this time I rotate my body in the opposite direction.

It’s a small and weak body. I’ve become able to use the Nodachi, but the strength stat given to me is only 6.

To use this weapon properly, I had to move as if throwing my whole body.

*Buuung-*!

“Wh, what…! Crazy…!”

The knight user was greatly flustered and tried to create distance.

But that’s not a good idea. If you’re up against someone using this kind of weapon, you should rather close the distance.

As if belatedly realizing that fact, the knight user wore an ‘ah-crap’ expression, but it was already too late.

If you give me a suitable attack distance, I’ll just attack again.

I unleashed the third strike.

“Hayat!”

*Buuung-*!

The Nodachi’s blade, swung greatly, flies accurately towards the knight user’s neck.

However, he wasn’t just taking it.

He quickly recovers his posture and prepares for the attack by raising his sword.

At that moment, a blue light settles on the knight user’s sword.

Just as the samurai has skills, he too must have character-specific skills.

*Taang-*!

The moment the knight’s sword and my katana’s blade collide, I felt the power in the sword decrease slightly.

The knight user seemed to have received a considerable shock and staggered again, but his posture didn’t collapse like before.

A skill that reduces shock? Is it a parrying type?

Since it’s my first time playing this game, I couldn’t know what skills he had.

While I was panicking like that, the enemy knight user quickly closed the distance.

I was wrong. The knight who gave up armor and chose mobility was quite fast.

I can’t retrieve the sword. The moment I realized that fact, I let go of the sword in my hand.

Having both hands free means I can use a new weapon.

Using my light body, I stepped back and pulled out a dagger from my waist, throwing it at the knight user.

*Shwik-*!

*Chaeng-*!

The knight user, as if saying that such tricks don’t work, swung his sword and blocked my dagger throw.

With the sword being swung greatly, the knight user’s upper body opens wide.

It didn’t matter that the dagger throw was blocked. I induced this situation itself.

Now’s the time.

I quickly rolled on the floor, grabbed the bow I had brought, took out an arrow, and pulled the bowstring.

The quickly drawn bowstring becomes taut. I calmly lowered my breath and aimed the bow at the enemy’s head.

It’s a sitting shot posture. But this posture was uncomfortable for shooting the bow. My body naturally corrects the posture.

The moment white pain soars.

Thought acceleration begins.

The eyes of the knight user, who was approaching quickly, come into my view.

Confusion, anxiety, and tension.

Negative emotions briefly flash by.

*Pit-*

The moment I release the bowstring, the arrow is shot.

Faster than the knight user running towards me.

*Pahk-*!

A cheerful impact sound, and immediately after that, the knight user’s body shakes greatly and falls backwards as if staggering.

It was natural that the longsword he was holding in his hand fell.

*Chaenggeurang!*

“Hh, hheueu…”

The knight user, who was lying on the floor and letting out a faint groan, eventually died.

A log appears above stating that I got a kill using an arrow.

“Haa…”

I let out the breath I had been holding in with a *paha-*.

The tension is released and a moderate sense of fatigue comes over me.

My head throbbed because I had used white pain several times in a short moment.

But the game wasn’t over. I picked up the Nodachi that had fallen on the floor and turned my body.

The life-or-death 3-on-3 battle on the bridge was still going on.

I had expected everyone to be swept away by the Butcher user with his large body, but it was actually the opposite.

The Butcher user wasn’t fighting properly because of his wide attack range and body size.

To properly move that heavy body and swing the iron pillar, he needed a wider area than this narrow space.

I carefully approached behind him and rotated my body.

As if recreating the skill from Deron as it is, the Whirlwind stance unfolds in this game.

*Buung-*!

The rotational force that started from the legs travels up the body and rotates the giant katana.

The threatening sound created by that rotation carefully approached the enemies’ backs.

“Heo, heoeok!”

The enemy Viking user, who was swinging an axe in front, discovered my figure and gasped.

But it was already too late to react.

I used the rotational force to swing the Nodachi widely.

*Buuuuung-*!

*Peok-*!

With the first strike, the Viking user’s neck flies off.

Even before his body falls, the neck of the enemy knight who was fighting alongside him flies off with a slight difference.

*Peoeok-*!

Now only the last one, the Butcher user, remains.

The Nodachi hasn’t lost its power yet.

I moved my foot greatly to the side and conveyed the last of my strength.

*Chwaak-*!

Because the height difference was too great, I couldn’t aim for the enemy’s neck.

The widely spread Nodachi’s blade cuts deeply into the Butcher user’s back and passes by.

I didn’t feel the recoil that I had felt when I was hitting the armor with the katana a little while ago.

With the feeling that I had scratched him properly, the Butcher user’s body shakes greatly.

“Heo, heoeok…!”

The Butcher user’s posture collapsed. Our team members who were watching the situation weren’t idiots.

At least they were people who were capable of thinking.

They moved quickly and rammed the Butcher user, whose posture had collapsed, with their shoulders.

It’s an attack with the power of three people.

No matter how heavy the armored pig is, he has no choice but to be pushed back.

“E, ieoeok!”

The Butcher user, who had been taking up a large part of the narrow wooden bridge, fell off the bridge.

*Kung-*!