>>11715829You slash him again and again, but despite each hit going through his shield, they seem to be getting weaker and weaker each time.
Brief confusion overcomes you until you make a stunning revelation, this is supposed to be a shounen-tier battle, is it not? Or something to that extent. What you need is a sacrifice of your own to counter the wanderer's.
You stab yourself in the wrist, drawing your own blood to drench all over your blade.
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!" enraged, you jump into the air and prepare for an aerial strike with the last remaining miliseconds of your power-up time.
You slam your sword into the wanderer's skull, critically wounding him, but you fail to kill him off, for your power-up disables about 0.3 seconds into the sword's penetration.
The force field immediately repels your attack, a surge of electricity crawls through your body for trespassing his premises, and you are knocked back into the cavern wall, bleeding badly.
Your sword has turned back into a lead pipe, the power-up has ran out and your only source of defeating him has all but withered away.
"AAAAAAGH! AAAAAAAAGGGGGH! GAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
The wanderer is still alive, but in no better shape. He wails a sequence of wails lathered with pain, he falls on his knees, blood gushing out of his head.
He drops his scepter, it rolls away from him.
It is the one thing controlling his shield, and powers in general.
