“KyUAAAAAA!”
At the same time as Rionne muttered, the Gryphon’s cry echoed.
Shin was ‘waiting and watching’ in the shadow of a building when the Gryphon released its breath in every direction, trying to cover its surroundings with ice.
“Oi oi, it’s recovering.”
Other than the buildings covered with ice, Shin also saw the left half of the Gryphon’s body.
The left half of its body, which was previously burnt by the 【Flare Burst】that Shin had thrown, was already considerably recovered. Though it was not fully healed yet, its wing had almost restored to about 70% of its former shape.
The HP that Shin had greatly reduced was mostly restored, too. The current Gryphon’s HP was about 90% of complete recovery.
“It’s too fast, even for self-recovery!”
Hearing Rionne’s words, Shin looked closely at the wing.
“That’s regeneration rather than recovery. The melted wing is sucking in the blue steam and is restoring to how it was previously!”
The steam, without leaking out of the Gryphon’s wounds, had gathered on the tip of the wing that hadn’t finish regenerating.
Was it regenerating by gathering the steam? Though it wasn’t conclusive whether it hastened the regeneration speed, it was certain that the Gryphon would restore completely over time.
“It seems that the steam will disappear soon. Rather than dealing a large amount of damage all at once, it seems better to shave it down little by little.”
Shin had no conclusive evidence, but as far as he could tell, the steam that didn’t vanish was used for the regeneration of its wing and had gushed out in large amounts from its gaping wound.
Since the wound on the front leg and the body had already recovered, there was no way to tell how those places had regenerated.
“I’ll go to the front. Rionne, you observe the Gryphon’s state; if there’s any change, tell me. Because there’s a possibility that it’s still hiding something, don’t let your guard down. Just be careful.”
“Yeah, there still may be something like the abnormal state from a little while ago. But, Shin, will you be alright alone?”
“You can count on me. It’s not my first time fighting like this.”
They confirmed their course of action and Shin jumped out from the building first.
The effect of the black smoke still remained, as the Gryphon didn’t turn towards Shin.
“Going near it seems bad. I’ll do it from a long distance.”
Shin went around to face its right side where the damage was still being restored, and shot the wind system magic skill 【Air Cutter】.
A blade of wind flew and cut through the black smoke, and slashed the body of the Gryphon. It wasn’t a deep wound. He had deliberately dropped the power, and intended to make a lot of cuts on the surface of its body.
As for the length of the wound, it was about 20 cemels long. The steam, which spouted out, vanished when it rose by approximately 30 cemels. This state wasn’t really different from the one he saw in the early stages of battle.
“The damage dealt is small. Though the wound itself appears to have steam coming out, its state doesn’t seem to have additional decreases to its HP. I need to pay attention to the changes in its body movements and its attacks, huh?”
Shin thought about the countermeasure while observing the state of the Gryphon.
For caution’s sake, he didn’t forget to prepare the cure, so that it was usable anytime.
“Next, I’ll go head on.”
The Gryphon spread its wings and released the ice spears.
Even though the wing had not fully recovered, it was not inferior even when compared with the time it was in a perfect state. Among the widely scattered ice spears, Shin accurately struck down only on those whose trajectory pointed toward himself while advancing.
“KyUAAAAAA!”
Then, a breath of ice approached.
However, as the ice breath had a small range and slower speed than the ice spears, it couldn’t catch up to Shin’s speed. The ice spears that were shot in order to not interfere with the ice breath, were no longer functioned as the primary artillery barrage, and for Shin, it wasn’t difficult to break through the barrage of ice which had become weak.
“Yo, how’s the condition of your body?”
The Gryphon, which concluded that there was no effect from the breath, answered Shin’s remark with a blow of ice talons.
If one looked closely, the ice talons which extended from the Gryphon’s foreleg became one size bigger than before.
“It is reinforced each time it regenerate, huh?”
The ice talons which crashed onto 『Kakura』, shattered like the last time.
However Shin felt that even the size of the shattered ice seemed to have increased. It was likely that its strength went up, too. Though it was natural, the ice spears which transformed from the shattered pieces were just as big as the huge pieces.
By going around to the back, Shin made the Gryphon’s huge figure a shield, causing the ice spears to fly over him.
“Kyiiiiiiiiii!!”
However, the Gryphon