The Paper User: Exiled for a ‘Trash Skill,’ Awakens True Power and Rises with Two Unique Skills - Chapter 45

Chapter : Consecutive Battles

I clenched my back teeth tightly and regripped the Demon-Eater Dagger.

No time to recover—just thrown straight into another battle.

A charging skeleton soldier came at me, and I blocked its attack using manifested paper. I quickly circled to the left and slashed its neck with the Demon-Eater Dagger.

Another skeleton soldier swung its curved blade at me. I dropped to one knee to dodge the blow, then thrust the dagger upward from that position. The pale blue blade extended, shattering the jewel embedded in the skeleton's forehead.

“Gaaahhh!”

A scream from one of the Moonlight Guild members rang out.

I turned to look—a male member had collapsed on the ground.

Damn it! That leaves just six of us now.

This isn’t looking good. Everyone’s already exhausted from fighting the Mithril Spider.

If Arumine runs out of materials, she can’t cast magic. And Pirn’s berserk mode must have a time limit too.

I manifested a platform of paper under my feet and leapt across it, bounding over the skeleton soldiers and landing behind them. From there, I dashed straight toward Daglud, who was fighting Kinako.

Daglud swung his golden sword to cut her down, but Kinako dodged with her erratic, unpredictable movements.

If I support Kinako, we might be able to take Daglud down.

No—we will take him down.

“Vuh... Vvv...”

Two Metallic Dolls blocked my path.

Their long silver arms swung down, aiming for my head. I stepped back just in time to dodge.

I’ll have to deal with these two first… but taking on both at once is tough.

The dolls swung their arms wildly. I summoned paper shields to block their attacks.

Tch... No good. These two work too well together—there’s no opening to strike their cores.

In that case… from this position—

“Paper Bird Control!”

I pulled out a folded paper bird from my pocket. About ten centimeters in size, it followed my will and curved toward Daglud.

Two meters from impact, Daglud finally noticed the bird.

“Hmph. A cheap trick.”

He slashed it clean in two with his golden sword.

And in that instant—

Boom!

The paper bird exploded, blasting the golden sword out of Daglud’s hand.

Yes! It worked—the bird was made from explosive-effect paper!

“Nice move, Yakumo,” Kinako said.

She slipped into Daglud’s now-open guard and slammed her paw-fist into his abdomen.

A loud thud echoed, and Daglud’s face twisted in pain.

“Ugh… Damn you...”

Daglud glared at Kinako with rage.

This is it—we end it now!

While fending off the approaching Metallic Dolls with my Demon-Eater Dagger, I manifested a hundred paper daggers.

From this angle, I won’t hit Kinako.

The hundred paper daggers flew at once.

At that moment, a semi-transparent magical barrier formed around Daglud. The daggers hit the wall and fell to the ground one by one.

“You’ve done it now.”

Daglud stood, his body trembling slightly.

“The fun’s over. I’ll torture you to death with this.”

He began chanting a spell.

A creepy armor wrapped around Daglud’s body. It was bluish-black, covered with countless eyeball-like orbs embedded all over.

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