Chapter 81 – -80- Attack of the Demon King (3)

I had to buy time to run away.

A cool breeze passed through both cheeks. The fir forest, covered with white snow, was now completely silent, with no sound of insects or birds being heard.

Due to the intimidation of this monster, all living beings around them were feeling the pressure.

I responded to the conversation with the purpose of drawing time from the monster in front of me while collecting and replenishing the consumed magic power from the surroundings.

With only half of his mana, it was difficult to even guarantee survival, not repulsion.

“If that’s what you want, I’ll return it.”

“Hmm?”The monster replied, snapping his neck at a grotesque angle.

The monster, which trembled for a moment while making an unpleasant croaking sound, soon conveyed its master’s will with a calm voice.

My skin twitched, and I heard an unpleasant low-pitched voice.

“Magic books aren’t that important, what’s important…I was just wondering who the guy who ruined my plans a little bit”

“Because he wasn’t the one who would disappear so early”

“…Rion, run away now…” Whispered Bella in her arms.

Yet, yet Feeling the magic slowly rising, I told him.

“If that warlock was your underling, I would be willing to apologize or make amends…”

“Sa-ah-and? Bo-oh-san?!” His voice rang out as he wriggled as if he was having fun.

“I didn’t expect much from such a megalomaniac scum in the first place. However, I expected that he would die a little more splendidly… I never thought I’d be beaten by a kid like this…”

“Besides, you should be able to give me the reward I want, right?”

“What do you want?” Little by little, I stepped back and told him. The distance to the carriage is about 100 m. If you fly your body with telekinesis… Is it possible?

“He uses an interesting technique…Did you say [Lord of Words]?” She suggested with a chuckle.

“If you leave your head here, I’ll save that woman with you” The monster opened its filthy mouth, exposing sharp teeth.

As if telling him to lay his head here, the monster opened his mouth wide.

The monster’s controller voiced that it was easier to extract information from the dead than from the living, urging me to commit suicide.

“It’s a promise made in the name of the Demon King. I’ll be sure to keep my promise, so you better accept it?”

Without hiding its hostility, the monster began to growl. As the monster’s body trembled, the entire ground shook.

At the same time that the monster revealed an overwhelming sense of intimidation, all the senses of the body delivered a chilling warning.

You must never fight with ‘that’.

However, it was an offer that was completely unacceptable. After exchanging glances with Bella, I gave my answer to the Demon King.

“Thank you for the offer, but…”

Bella shakes the tree vigorously with her telekinesis. She vaporized the falling snow to create a huge amount of water vapor, and took advantage of the gap in the monster’s view to blow her body with an automatic wagon.

“Fuck it!”

“Hmm, I thought it was a benevolent proposal… Well, taking the wizard’s corpse isn’t bad either” Even in the midst of running away with a distance, the unpleasant voice was clearly heard, ignoring the distance.

“Ask, bring it”Upon hearing his master’s command, the monster raised its body hidden in the ground and approached.

Even though I blocked my vision, I pursued this side in the correct direction, as if I could feel this side’s magic power.

The ground covered in white snow cracked open, revealing a huge, hidden figure.

“Rion, that’s…What the hell…!”

The monster, which seemed to be about the height of a three-story building, pursued us in order to fulfill the order given by its master.

Only then did we get a closer look at the monster hunting us.

The guy who exposed his entire body buried in the ground made the forest tremble every time he walked.

The monster, covered in black scales, looking like a mixture of a dragon and a gorilla, stomped towards me.

Cloudy magical energy swayed in one orange eye, and sticky saliva stretched out from the corner of his mouth.

After breaking a thick tree like a toothpick with its arms covered in black scales, it swung the tree with its tail and threw it.

The trees flying in a parabolic arc were making the road a mess.

“Leon, I’ll drive the carriage! So…”

“Yes!”

Bella dealt with the blows of the automatic wagon, demanding that I keep the monster in check.

She used telekinesis to twist the trajectory of the flying trees aiming at the wagon, and at the same time strengthened the body to improve durability.

Now that she’s done her part, it’s my turn. I fired a fireball to get the monster’s attention.

As if this level wasn’t ticklish, the monster received all the attacks with his body. Perhaps because of its overwhelming mass, it didn’t seem like the approach speed was particularly slow.

“An arrow that flew through the smoke pierced the monster’s eye”

End with this? As if saying, an arrow hit the monster’s single crimson eye, which was drooling with the corners of its mouth stretched out.

“Damn it…”

Even the eyes of that damned scale monster were so hard, it failed to pierce it, leaving only a few scratches.

If I had enough magic power, I could ignore the probability and break that eyeball, but I didn’t have the ability to do that right now.

‘If only I had enough magical power…Damn it!’

“C-uh-uh-uh” As if he felt the pain, he showed a more intense reaction than before.

“Good work! Leon!”

She mentally accelerated the carriage, increasing the distance from the monster.

“Have you given up?” The monster started to change its shape, as if it didn’t like the fact that the distance was gradually widening.

As the flesh squirmed, the monster’s body assumed another anomaly.

The form that was close to a muscular human was twisted and changed into a snake crawling on the ground.

It was a monster that started to move rapidly like an arrow shot by using its long tentacles.

After hiding the damaged eyes inside the deformed body, they pursued us at a speed different from before.

‘That cursed monster now uses magic’

Although it seemed unable to project it outwardly, it seemed to be confined to its own body and using basic telekinesis.

It was a monster that showed explosive acceleration by accelerating using psychokinesis whenever mana shook its body.

Feeling the magic field of the monster that was getting closer and closer, I decided that running away was no longer the answer.

“Leon, no more, overwork…!” Feeling the approach of the monster with her skin through her mana, she was moving her carriage while shaking.

“…I’ll block it”

With 6, sometimes 7 legs, he used his tongue to face the monster that was running wildly and kicking the ground.

“In the land like a swamp, the legs are deeply submerged”

By pulling up water veins with telekinetic power, the monster’s treading point is turned into mushy soil, causing it to sink deeply.

The earth, which should firmly support the weight of the monster, betrayed him.

The ground sank as if he had stepped on a puddle, and his whole leg was pinned to the floor.

“Khehehe?”The monster let out a strange cry as if embarrassed.

Even though he secured the probability by using telekinesis, it forced a great amount of mana consumption to stop that large body.

But it was an attack worth it. Because you dealt a serious blow to the monster.

His large body, which had only served as an advantage until now, has become a weakness.

Due to its overwhelming mass, the monster could not withstand the sudden stop and began to roll.

The deformed body could not slow down, and the legs, which had received all the shocks equivalent to several tons, were separated from the body while being embedded in the ground.

The joints that received all the impact alone were torn into tatters and severely damaged.

Seeing the monster in a state of disrepair and dripping blood, exhilarating emotions filled my heart.

That guy bleeds too, he’s a catchable monster. It was a sense of accomplishment.

“Ohhhhh!”The monster looked this way in agony. Damn it, losing a leg didn’t lessen the ugliness at all.

To make matters worse, the wagon’s durability also reached its limit.

The excessively rolled wheels could no longer be aligned in parallel and were twisted, so it was obvious that they would end up in a bad situation if they continued to run unreasonably like they are now.

It was a moment in which we had to fight against it. Even though it lost a leg, the monster was still capable of pursuing us.

Now, having suffered a blow, is an opportunity to fight the monster.

Abandoning the wagon, Bella and I prepared for battle.

“Leon…!”

So that Bella could focus on her secondary, I directed the monster’s attention.

The stone hit with the sword surface touched the monster’s wound.

It was a much more intense battle than any combat training they had ever done. Even magic and swordsmanship could not easily pierce that thick skin and scales.

The absolute weight difference was also one of the factors that made the fight difficult. My opponent could have allowed me to attack as many times as I could, but my life was in danger with just one mistake.

There was no time to rejoice at the trivial notification that the proficiency of combat-related skills had risen. I had to focus all my attention on dodging the attack.

Bella’s overwhelming firepower, that flesh was taking care of nothing. Using the scales as a kind of slanted armor, he was adjusting the angle at the right time to deflect the projectiles.

It was anchored to the ground by its two sturdy legs, swinging the rest of its tentacles like whips.

If you couldn’t avoid that mass of flesh that held your scales vertically and used them like thorns, you would die.

I managed to dodge the rushing whips that were aiming for me, using the foothold Bella had prepared for me.

After a big attack, I aimed for the gap that was created for a moment and entered between the legs that supported my weight.

In the joints that couldn’t be protected by scales, he stabbed his greatsword deeply with all his strength and twisted it.

“Big!”

Crying as if it would burst his ears, the monster leaned to the side. This was despite the fact that his leg was not completely disabled by the recent attack.

It was a strategic move to deal with the bugs that were in the way by pressing down on the direction I was going to be with my whole body.

“Leon!” Bella mentally flung a piece of wood for me to grab and dodge.

With her help, I managed to avoid the monster’s tumble.

As a result of fighting the kaiju and observing it over and over again, I was able to learn one important piece of information about the kaiju.

Perhaps, information that will be an important clue to ending this fight.