Chapter 77: Heart of the Knights

Chapter 77: Heart of the Knights

Emily, now wearing full knight armor, prepares to fight the seven remaining knights.

“I get it. If I cut you into pieces, you won’t regenerate.”

She charges at the knights, though the knight armor slows her down.

As she gets close, one of the knights tries to stab her with its sword, but she jumps over the attack and slashes straight down the middle of the knight, cutting it completely in half.

“That’s one down!”

She immediately engages the other knights, switching between attacking and defending. With so many knights attacking her at once, she can’t get a finishing blow on any of them.

“Why do there have to be so many of you knights!? Space out at least!”

One of the knights lands a slash on Emily’s right arm, tearing off some of her armor on the arm, but she is otherwise okay.

“I’m glad I have the armor on because that could have been bad!”

Emily jumps back out of the fight and runs around to the side. She picks up the sword from the first knight she destroyed and quickly lunges to stab a different knight in the back.

She notices magic energy leaving the knight and flowing into another.

“Magic energy? It’s going from one knight to another?”

With the sword still through the knight’s body, Emily carves her sword upward. This tears the upper half of the knight apart, and five knights remain.

Before she can do anything else, a knight lands a slash on the front part of her body, cutting off a good chunk of her front armor.

She jumps back to avoid further hits.

“Woah! That could have killed me if I was not wearing the knight armor! But I need to attack the knight that has the magic energy. It could be the source that powers all of them!”

Emily quickly pierces a knight by throwing the knight sword she is holding.

She then runs forward and jumps onto the sword, immediately jumping off it to lunge at the knight holding the magic energy while pulling out her Slasher Sword. She slashes the knight to pieces, and the magic energy leaves it and transfers to a different knight.

“I need to be quick! I don’t want to have to go through every knight to get the magic source!”

There are now only four knights left. Emily dashes toward the knight with the magic energy and tries to slash it, but the knight blocks her attack with its sword.

“Damn it!”

She is then hit by a different knight, which destroys more of her armor. There is hardly any of it left, and she jumps back once again.

“This won’t do! I’m still not quick enough in my reactions! I can’t keep taking these hits! I need to know what that magic is that keeps switching knights.”

Emily charges at the knights again. This time, she slides between the legs of one knight, slashing it to pieces as she passes.

She then does a quick slash at another knight, but the attack is blocked. However, she immediately transitions and slashes the knight that holds the magic energy into pieces.

“That’s the one! I’m not losing it this time!”

Emily quickly dodges a knight’s attack and grabs the magic energy with her hand. The energy forms into a heart.

“A magic heart?”

Eyes appear on the heart.

“Eyes!?”

Freaked out, Emily squeezes the heart until it bursts. The two remaining knights collapse.

“So this heart had control of the knights? I have a bad feeling that this may be related to what I read in the books. But these are inanimate objects, not humans. Maybe it’s a spinoff idea?”

Emily removes what remains of the knight armor she was wearing.

“This is getting worse and worse. I must get going!”

Emily has defeated the knights but found out they were being controlled by a magic heart, the same as the clown doll that Zeth defeated! What does it all mean?!

Chapter 77 END

To be Continued in Chapter 78: Shriekers of the Lower Levels