Shadows in the Sky

Lin Yun eyed the manticore before him, his expression growing slightly grave. Fortunately, while flying overhead just now, he'd been able to survey the battlefield and see where help was needed. Not that he'd been looking around for places where nothing was happening—

He'd also used the time to focus and recover his martial techniques.

Unlike Bald Head, Lin Yun couldn't casually recover his martial techniques in the middle of a fight. And unlike Tachi Bro, he couldn't make the process flashy, somehow ending up even more ridiculously powerful than usual.

He simply had to hold his breath, focus, and adjust the magical armor on his body to recover his martial techniques.

The process took about six seconds. After that, he could recover martial techniques equal to his Charisma modifier all at once—six techniques in total. So right now, it was as if Lin Yun hadn't spent any at all...

He wasn't foolish enough to assume this manticore was some pathetic creature with a base CR of only 5 in Dungeons & Dragons. Wait, that was getting too meta. No matter. He'd just pretend he didn't know...

But there was no way this manticore was a normal one. Just look at its horns, bigger and longer than a Great-Horned Beast's, and the scales covering its entire body. Lin Yun would bet anything that a normal Dungeons & Dragons manticore didn't have such thick scales.

Still, whatever it was, he'd test it out first.

Lin Yun activated Fly on his magical armor and shot toward it.

"Soulforged Weapon." Now that he'd recovered his martial techniques, Lin Yun could use Soulforged Weapon again. He simply clenched his empty hand, and a massive new Butchering Axe appeared in it. He swung at the creature with "Critical Strike, Power Attack."

"D20+11+4+3+4-3+1=39, hit."... Just barely,