"Fufufu, Now that I have unlocked the 3rd order skill tree, please carefully look at my true abilities as a true female ninja-desu! â¹Dark Artâº!"
"Ohh!"
With those words, Pamela leaped at the pig-type â¹Boss Puby⺠and used the â¹Dark Artâº, a debuff skill that lowers the accuracy hit and â¹Blind⺠aliment, as her first move.
There couldn't have been any better choice than this. I inadvertently muttered my admiration seeing how much the clumsy Pamela from before has grown up.
Enemies who get afflicted with â¹Blind⺠abnormal conditions have their accuracy rate suddenly plummeted. And even if the skill fails to afflict an abnormal condition, it still passes the debuff. Though having both debuffs is a sweet combo.
It's an important skill for an evasive shield -- or to say a tank who relies on dodges etc.
If one uses a provocation skill in their opening move, they may end up being targeted, making it difficult to chain skills like 'Dark Art' that follows. So the recommended course for the female ninja job holder is to choose debuff and status inflicting skills such as â¹Dark Art⺠as their first move, which naturally generates monster hate and attracts their target.
Though, while I'm sure I have yet to teach her this aspect, she has apparently arrived there using her own judgement. A true female ninja she did say, indeed.
Anyway, â¹Blind⺠aliment apparently failed to apply this time. What a pity.
â¹Boss Puby⺠turned to Pamela.
"Oink?"
"Pig-san is scary-desu! So hard to hit, eh!? Err, anyway, â¹Give me your lifeâº! â¹Acrobaticâº!"
"Oiiiink!!"
"Fufufu,where are you attacking-desu!"
Pamela thrusts the back of her blade at the boss, attracting its hatred with the â¹Give Me Your Life⺠and then quickly moves away and uses â¹Acrobaticsâº.
By the time â¹Boss Puby⺠executed its attack, Pamela had already opened distance between them.
The 'Give Me Your Life' is a single-target provocation attack skill. It's a third-order skill that can earn a lot of hate. The other skill that earns hate, â¹Notice Meâº, is an area-of-effect skill and using it will also attract the target of both the Boss Cocco and Boss Mogyu. It's better not to use it.
Furthermore, she was completely ready for the follow-up action by using the â¹Acrobatics⺠to further improve her own evasion rate.
â¹Boss Puby⺠tried to pull fist-moves â¹Hoof's one-two⺠or â¹Pin Hoof's Chop⺠against Pamela, though she breezily dodged them.
She sure has improved herself so much.
â¹Boss Puby⺠is a quick attacker so it and evasion shielder doesn't mess well against each other in battle. However Pamela was able to be a proper opponent against him, she continued to didge each attack and has not been hit yet. I can sense her improvement.
Well, now is to see what move she's gonna pull?
"Fufufu, the time has finally come to use it! Unique skill â¹Secret Ninja Technique - Clone Artâº!"
Four more Pamela appeared at the field through unique skill as soon as she said that.
Woah! Th, They are the real clones! Live Clone Art!
There are now five Pamelas!
"Chop it from all four cardinal direction-desu! Let's go-desu!"
" " " "Let's go-desu!" " " "
"OInkkk!? Oiiiiiink!!"
One Pamela (?) charges straight ahead while the two other selves from the sideline and one from behind; they all chained continuous slash attacks. A continuous attack from all directions.
The attacking power of the single clone is 60% of the original body even at Skill Level 1, so the continuous attack from all directions will surely cause considerable damage.
The boss was momentarily knocked back, however it quickly stabilised itself to follow up with the area attack â¹A Pig's Rampage⺠to wipe out the clones at once. But---
"You think I will let you do that-desu!â¹Dark Artâº! â¹Secret Ninja Technique - Illusionâº!"
Pamela re-used â¹Dark Art⺠that reduced the hit accuracy and followed up with â¹Secret Ninja Technique - Illusionâº, another skill that generates illusion to confuse and make the enemy's attack â¹Missâº, in order to protect her clones.
A smokescreen like something covered the face of â¹Boss Puby⺠and then the clones flickered like the objects in shimmering hot air.
"Oiiiiiiink!!"
" " " "â¹Missâº! !" " " "
The boss's attacks flew wildly around, but all of them missed.
All four clones were still alive. Damn.
Looking at the â¹Boss Pubyâº's HP bar, â¹Blind⺠aliment's icon was affixed to it.
"Hurray-desu! Slash, Slash, let there be slashing fest-desu!"
" " " "Let there be a slashing fest!!" " " "
"Oi, i, iiiinkkkk!!"
Holy crap. She is completely reenacting the supremacy of â¹Female Ninjaâº's tactic. Her attacks are rapidly draining the HP of â¹Boss Puby⺠without any support.
This is the power of the â¹Female Ninjaâº. With the third stage of the skill tree now unlocked, even a boss of Beg-high level can be dealt solo!
Man, I had felt the same in the game â¹Dungeon Activity⺠too, â¹Female Ninja⺠is really strong once they begin their quick onslaught.
Their unique skill, â¹Secret Ninja Technique - Clone Artsâº.
It is a powerful skill in which clones that continue to attack endlessly exist for two minutes if they do not receive enemy attacks. And if the skill level is maxed out, they also obtain 1.2 times the attack of the original body. It does horrifically huge damage if the opponent fails to defend against this continuous hail-like rapid onslaught.
The main tank strategy for the â¹Female Ninja⺠typically starts with â¹Dark Artâºas first move, then the taunt skill as second move followed by â¹Acrobatics⺠as third move. The â¹Secret Ninja Technique - Clone Art⺠often used around the sixth or seventh move. Though, they may also activate it as early as the second move with teammates support.
This is due to the fact that â¹Female Ninja⺠taunt skills are limited to â¹Give Me Your Life⺠or â¹Notice Meâº, which make them fall behind other attackers in terms of hate gathering.
Therefore, the â¹Female Ninja⺠needs to activate the "Secret Ninja Technique: Clone Art⺠early on and inflict damage in order to accumulate hate.
Pamela seems to understand this as well. As protecting clones isn't only important for offence, but also to earn hate which is the main point.
That being said, it's quite lucky that all her clones are left intact, Pamela looked to be quite confident this time. ------But that thought was short lived.
"Oh no! the no.1 me has been defeated-desu!?"
I shifted my gaze back to the front hearing Pamela's cry to see the clone, who had been in charge of attacking from the front, had unfortunately been hit by â¹Hoof Straight⺠and disappeared into the effects. A hit was a hit, irrespective of if the boss was afflicted with â¹Blind⺠aliment or had its hit accuracy down.
The armour of the clone is paper-thin so a direct hit from skill means straight knock out.
"Then I just have to take the helm in the front-desu! â¹Give Me Your Lifeâº!"
"Oiiiink!!"
Pamela took charge of the front end.
She continues to calmly avoid the attacks using skills such as â¹Ninja Art: Decoyâ¹ or â¹Ninja Art: Substitute⺠as the clones continue to attack from the side and rear.
At this moment, she appeared exceedingly reliable, as if she could manage anything.
As of now, she has yet to be hit. And I have yet to play my role as healer.
Oh well, I hope she continues to keep â¹Boss Puby⺠busy just like this.
I then shifted off my attention from the Pamela to Rika who was dealing with two bosses,