The Dreamer's POV

[The Gluttonized Sentry]

The behemoth of a man hidden behind fading steel smirked, I couldn't see his face, but I could tell, it was just right for him to have done that. He raised his hammer and swung right at my side, coming for my right flank.

Had it hit, I probably would have died and activated yet again another dream sequence to save myself. However, I had spent enough time exchanging blades with this oaf, and I wasn't gotten to fall victim to tricks and moves that I've studied for minutes now.

The massive hammer arched, causing a whistling sound as it approached my soft belly. I jumped, the hammer sweeping beneath me, and there, I got my opportunity. I landed a clean kick to the face of the large man, and he was startled by this, backstepping though not clearly hurt.

Before my foot got to the purple ground however, I landed yet another kick to his face protected by the helm. This time, the helmet flung back and away from the fat and bulbous head of my opponent.

I jumped backwards twice, creating some distance between us two, and waiting for a reaction.

His face contorted to a very dramatic and ugly frown, in the way that it seemed like the fat in his face sucked in to make that peculiar threatening frown of his. It was unsettling.

Needless to say, the Gluttonized Sentry was quite the ugly man, such was a theme for overly large and terrible men as he was.

His face was fat, very fat, and when I squinted at it, it looked like something squirmed beneath the skin, but it disappeared soon after. Bumps riddled his cheeks, the exposed part of his neck and forehead, and across his face were yellowish patches. A yellowish sickly patch that exacerbated my feelings of disgust.

'A nasty fucker.' He truly was, which in a way befitted his name.

"Rarrrh!" He roared, turning his massive neck around, looking visibly annoyed, and he threw up his hammer in his hands. It was like he was doing some dance with the display he made.

It was for a short while, and the large man stormed forward, holding his massive hammer horizontally by his torso. Visualize was locked so I didn't get the peck of seeing five seconds in the future, but that was no problem. His movements now were rather predictable; they were fast and hard strikes with little variations in between them.

I just needed to avoid the blows, and in that frame, in that moment of action, attack.

I waited. The man raised his massive hammer overhead me, intending on throwing it down to me, and from the looks of it, it would fall directly on my head, and my head would certainly go splat and spill its contents out like a watermelon.

I jumped to the side, and rolled, easily avoiding the strike. I got on my feet, deciding I was going to make a clean strike with the next one.

'This is it.' The Monster man approached again, charging, and with aura swirling around him.

In response, I was feeling my body surge with energy too. Soon enough I would be able to fight generously, but it seemed like things would end before I could.

He swung his hammer in an arc for my ribs, I stepped forward, and stopped his hammer by the handle with my blades. The handle slid forward by my blades easing the momentum, and then I attacked.

I thrust the blue Wyvern Blade straight to the face of the man and I expected it to tear through his face when the oddest thing happened. The sentry turned its neck to an angle impossible for normal people, for me, and then, he caught the blade with his massive yellow teeth, smiling in the act as well.

'Not bad.' This was a man with quite the experience in the battle field, I reckoned that he probably was one impressive knight before the curse befell him.
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I went for his head with my Draconic Dagger, but he kicked my right leg, shaking off my balance. I staggered forward, planting my face on his armour.

"Woo!" I suddenly moved to the left and away. That was incredibly careless of me.

He maintained the smile he had after I pulled away my sword. It was unsettling, his teeth had a decay in them, and somehow they were strong enough to hold my blade tightly between them. Not only that, but they were riddled with black holes as well, almost as if they were shot with bullets.

[Time remaining to defeat The Gluttonized Sentry: 7 minutes]

I clicked my tongue seeing that notification. My time was running out. I needed to end things quick.

His body lit up once more with his aura, and they streamed to his hammer giving it a blue glow. Suddenly, he swung the hammer my way hurriedly, hurling bursts of the energy aura at me.

I dodged them all, and quite honestly, they were quite easy to dodge. They were large, and not as fast as I would expect a long range attack of one of his level to be. Good news for me however, it made things much faster.

Seeing that there was no progress with the attacks, he positioned himself in his stance once more, the one for his charging, and I readied myself, slightly arching my upper back forward.

The ripples dissipated across the glass lake and then began the rumbling from the heavy steps. Halfway across me, he began swinging his massive hammer and twirling around, aura building around him as he did, and then his feet left the ground.

I locked my eyes on his body with every progression in his position. The hammer was up, brimming with so much aura, and just overhead me.

I gripped my scaly blades tightly as I looked up ahead, awaiting.

'I have you where I want you.' It was my turn.