How does one defeat a gorgon? They aren't exactly as weak as you think. The easiest way to defeat them is to reflect their petrification but mirrors don't simply cut it. If they did, I would reflect it with my scimitar and not be running for my life right now. You actually need something that reflects magic which I don't have. Without looking at her eyes, I am going to have to somehow cut it down with my extremely low combat experience and level. Yay. I don't think Greeny can be petrified though. He doesn't exactly have eyes. That would just be creepy.

  Good, surprisingly I could calmly form a plan while being chased by a monster that wants to make me into a garden ornament. First though I need to get to an open area where I can actually fight effectively. Looks like her nest will do. Time for some juking.

  I stopped running and turned around, immediately sprinting towards her, careful enough to not look at her eyes. It's actually fairly slow for what I assume to be a fairly strong monster. My guess is that its only tricky attack is its petrification.

  The gorgon approaches me and tries to swing its arms at me. They have claws on the end. Better not let them hit me. Her swinging arms are fairly slow though when compared to Arthur swinging his sword so I can dodge easily. That sparring helped me fairly well.

  I circle around it, continuing to dodge its slow arm swings and get to the other side of it. Without thinking, I immediately run towards where the nest was. After about a minute I make it back. Time to implement my plan if I can while panting heavily.

  I name this plan: Strike from behind. Of course that's code for take hostages but I want it to sound at least a bit cool.

  The gorgon enters the nest, only to find me with my scimitar around a pile of edge. Instead of acting how I wanted it to act, it tried to crush me and the eggs together It used its tail as a spring to launch itself up high but only crushed the eggs. I did not care to wait and be killed.

  Crap, my plan failed.

  Screw you system.

  Quick. Look around for anything in the circular room I can use. There's not really anything I can use. I'm gonna have to bout it out with an enemy god knows how many levels above me. Great.

  Before, I could even get into a fighting stance, I flew across the room and into a wall. Ouch. The gorgon had used its tail to whip me. I had blocked it with my shield (although accidentally) as well and it still hurts like hell.

  Thanks for the great advice amulet. Its not like there's a fucking gorgon blocking my only way out.

  I get up off the floor. Nothing seems to be broken, it just hurts a shit ton.

  Plan A ended up failing. Plan B ended up failing as well. Wait, no it didn't. I might be able to do this.

  "Hero's shout!" (Drac)

  A large roar manages to escape my mouth. How is that even possible with my vocal chords. Oh well, it worked at least.

  I wasn't planning to be hit anyway but I guess I could use that.

  This world loves to fuck me over doesn't it. Oh well, time to cheese this mother fucker. I ran straight at it and chucked Greeny right at where I believed the gorgon's face was. I had to guess because I couldn't look there but I managed to hit it. Greeny immediately caught on what I was trying to do. A telepathic bond between familiar and master?

  Anyway, he squeezed himself into the gorgon's eye sockets and it started to thrash about until its eyes popped out. I grinned, part 1 of plan worked. I can't be paralysed now and can aim for its head. I thrashed around for a while then stopped. Greeny jumped out of where the gorgon's eyes used to be and onto my shoulder.

  The rest of the fight was fairly simple. I think it had been knocked out from pain as it fell on the floor and allowed me to poke its brain through her eye sockets with the very tip of my scimitar. Its did little damage compared to the sharp edge of the scimitar but any attack directly to the brain should be damaging. Anyway, I did that repeatedly until there was nothing left inside the gorgon's head but mush. I counted it as dead by that point.

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  I still need to recover my health and rest for a bit don't I? I wouldn't mind eating some egg and snake. I would prefer if they weren't raw but I could use the extra protein. I ate some eggs and some of the gorgon, fed some to Greeny, then proceeded to make a sack out of the snakeskin to hold some extra food, then fell asleep in a newly acquired snakeskin sleeping bag, exhausted. Most people wouldn't like to sleep next to a corpse but I didn't particularly mind.

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  Author note: I think I updated the stat table properly. Hope you enjoyed chapter 9. Sorry that its a bit later that 2:00. Took a bit longer to write and think of knew skills than I thought it would. Naming that invincible skill took a bit longer than I thought. Is the skill op? Please write in the comments. I say this because I don't think it is. He's invincible (cannot die) but it doesn't mean he takes 0 damage. Also, the random time thing makes a bit interesting and would make it useless in most situations such as this gorgon fight where it ended up being 3 sec long.