Opening the door while clumsly holding her spear Ellionore readied herself mentally.
In the centre sitting down was a barely 10 cm tall stickman in one of its right arm it had the usual scissor while on the left a aimless line was limbing up and down. Inside were different kinds of metallic shelves each one filled with heavy objects,they were seemingly randomly distributed inside. And if you looked closely witch Ellionore immediately realized each and every one of the shelves had one or two of the legs depending on the size eated slightly, not so much to be immediately noticeable but enough that a deep cut would make them fall down.
She readied her spear and started walking in. But the stickman seemingly didn't pay her any attention looking straight to the ground.
She walked in closer the way she holded her spear clearly showed she never holded a weapon much less a 1,35 meter long stick which weighted a bit less than 3 kilos. Holding it in one hand with the head pointing too far out of the monster she quietly went in. Even though by now she reached the range of the stickman she made no movement to actually attack.
Do you think she will win?
Probably no let's hope she doesn't loze too hard though.
Rising her spear high in the air and grabbing it with both hands she made a downward slash.
The spear fell down with formidable force and it cut two trap wires along the way.
Since when can they device traps!! that's the first time i ever saw that, by now its crystal clear underestimating their intelligence is a death trap.
Still no shelf close to her fell down instead besides the door, a very big and heavy refrigerator cabinet seemingly slowly fell down.
While that was happening she tried to pull her spear out of the ground apparently she used too much strength and by now her spear was holding to its last strand of life.
No way. Ellionore get out quick it tr...
Boom!! The cabinet fell down closing the door making the two adults unable to see the fight.
I'm going in, don't try to stop me.
Are you joking i'm coming with you she is my student too.
Ellionore finally pulled her spear out and when she did she saw the stickman finally standing up. With its scissor hand it pointed at her while calming looking at her. Or whatever a creature like that called looking it had no eyes even though it had a stickman like appearance.
She holded back her spear ready to defend herself she had the reach advantage so she tried to force the monster to go in.
But instead it looked at her with a look that could only describe confusion, it was used for the humans to either attack or run away in fact it never saw them just sitting still closely and steadily walking in. So it walked closer too trying to reach her. That's when she attacked, pulling and thrusting the spear to it but the monster simply used its scissor to brush it aside.
Unfortunately the spear broke down leaving her with only a very tiny amount of the shaft.
Seeing this it rushed in ready to strike.
It's time for you to learn that the weapon doesn't make the wielder. Goddamnit dad, I didn't knew you were such a cheapskate.
Still with no choice she tried to defend the slash. And by doing so she saw that the monster effortlessly cut the shaft clearly in half thankfully the shaft absorbed the rest of the hit otherwise she would have been deeply cut.
Goddddd this is so unfair why i'm the only one who gets the useless traits, no weapon no magic no fighting techniques even the terrain is in clear advantage towards the enemy it made sure about that.
Still now is not the time i gotta think, by now my weapon can be only called melee clubs thankfully i have two so i can theoretically use one of them to stop the scissor at its base and hit it with the other one assuming i'm strong enough to actually defend and it doesn't start trying to chop my body off.
Still while she thought the stickman kept the relentless attack by using its scissor constantly trying to slash both her body and her feet trying to make her trip.
By now she reached the end of the wall by constantly going backwards she needed to create space and the only way to do so was by going inwards. So when the stickman tried to slash her belly again she went into the attack trying to block it with the left side of her body.
She succeeded but because the area the shaft covered was extremely small instead of the normal clash the scissor slided in colliding with her fingers and pushing her forcibly back to the wall. Thankfully since it had the scissor closed her fingers were perfectly fine but now she lost another half of her shaft and got trapped into the wall.
The stickman readjusted the scissor and kept the attack making only horizontal slashes, not allowing her a way out of the wall. By now her only choice was to defend the unavoidable ones with the other half shaft keeping it with both hands, unfortunately such tactic just bought little time and the stickman slowly walked closer to her.
By attacking from directly below it guaranteed that it's opponent would eventually slip up or get tired much faster since she had to duck to defend its attacks, she could try walking above its body but she was too scared to even entertain the thought of doing that.
Godd this is so hard my hands hurt my back hurts why its attacks are so strong. If the shaft breaks which by the looks of it will not take too long i will surely die still what can i do i have no weapon and i certainly can't punch it to death.
Wait .... wait and what if that's actually the answer, not literally but yea it can work.
When the stickman throwed another slash at her she defended like always but this time using her back and the fact she literally had the wall behind her back she pushed the scissor back with all her strength. She momentarily won the exchange but the stickman immediately readjusted the scissor ready to keep going.
But while it did so Ellionore throwed her shaft to the ground and spun to the left side where the broken arm was and runned backwards.
The stickman understanding what she did it positioned itself so she would be forced to run inside.
But instead she fell on all fours cosplaying a dog. God i can't believe i'm actually doing this it is so embarrassing.
The stickman once again looked at her with a confused look it didn't knew humans were capable of running with four legs. And technically it was right no one in their right mind would actually try to run with foul legs but she didn't try to run.
If i go inside i'm actually dead only it knows what traps it laid down in here no shelves are close since that would be to obvious so while we are in here both of us have a equal chances of winning or as close to it i can realistically get.
After doing nothing for a short time the stickman finally decided it was time to attack after all it had to contend with two other humans granted a shadowy much stronger then it was ready to surprise them but that didn't mean it didn't want to take part in the food party.
Since she was on all fours it decided to keep going with the horizontal attacks and each time taking a step back. If it went with vertical slash a simple mistake would cost its advantage while it couldn't come up for her to approach it without getting damaged if it kept the same tactic, so it keept using vertical slashes and simultaneously try to bait her to show it her plans it will eventually win.
Shosws!!! Slash!!! Shinn! Shing
Every time she tried getting closer it would slash defensively so she had to keep her body posture extra back so she doesn't accidentally get her head chopped off.
Still after some time passed the stickman started getting impatient feeling the time running low so for the first time it slashed offensively stepping into her. That was what she was waiting for in fact she had two goals by choosing such a weird posture.
First she was very certain in that posture unless someone attacks she was perfectly save, witch was perfectly fine by her since she needed to bide her time for her reinforcements to come.
The other goal whas in case it attacks the only logical direction would be horizontal since choosing a vertical approach was nothing sort of suicidal. So already knowing from where the attack actually will come from she could very easily counter it. She wasn't physically strong but she hoped her flexibility training didn't go to waste.
3 places were the actual dangerous according to her. One directly into her head witch meant she had to limbo down stretch back and jump to it, right through her middle side of her body in which case she needed to take her head and hands out of the way and using the small window until the stickman readjusted it's scissor to jump to it or the last choice for it to attack directly into her hands which meant she had to perfectly jump upwards like a frog dogging the scissor or lose both her hands while also jumping diagonally in hopes she jumped high enough to actually use both her legs to push her body forwards so she could jump to it.
She quickly noticed that all of her choices ended either with her losing some part of her body and grabbing the monster or for her to grab the monster she didn't like both choices but she would at least try her absolute best to land with option two.
But the cursed freaking stickman had to go with the third angle and target her hands forcing perfection out of her, the best option for her was the first one since it posted the lower risk and was by far the surest way so she at least hoped for it to choose the second option but it had and choose the fail by a centimetre and you loze some part of your body.
I hope she knows how to regrow limbs Goddd letting your opponent choose the options sucks.
A scissor made of darkness cut through air aiming at two human hands, the other hand of the deadly monster simply limbing behind its back. The hands momentarily reached down trying to make the small body they carried make one singular air push up, a small cute face dropped a droplet of sweat, her eyes a mix of fear and grim anticipation. Her hand shoted through the air barely dogging the dark scissor her small body now in two legs gathered itself into a ball and using just her lower body strength jumped straight to the monster grabbing its neck.
I did it i won, she immediately used her right arm to pin down the scissor hand and raised her left hand making a fist.
Now the only thing she had to do was punch it to death. The monster tried to get free but its right hand was traped and its left hand was no good still it didn't gave up it kept struggling moving its head and arms frantically desperately trying to get free. The way it fought for its life it seemed so humane like it was alive and it begged for its life its intelligence helped even more for her to draw the parallel since the only reason she didn't run inside was it trapped the whole place.
While her left hand was still in the air she looked straight to its empty face trying to find the will to kill it. In the end she had to admit it.
I can't do it... i can't kill it i simply can't.