Chapter 1043 – Iron and Blood

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Kaang!!

“Tsk…!”

Cleon was able to block the guy’s huge arm, which swung straight at his head, by crossing his two swords.

It felt as if thunder had fallen on my head.

And when he raised his head and looked ahead, he could see that his body had become huge, just as Cleon had jokingly said.

It might have been a little cute if it had just become huge.

Parts of those mechanical monsters, which Cleon had clearly cut off, were stuck here and there on his body, and he was evolving in a bizarre direction by absorbing not only the living parts but also the mechanical parts.

There were parts of limbs that had been severed or melted faces hanging here and there on the chest, stomach, and limbs.

“Kihehehehe!! I feel good!!”

Recognizing that his body has become stronger, the guy lets out an unpleasant sound.

An arm as tall as a person, and a muscular forearm the size of Cleon’s waist, were equipped with rotating saw blades, just like before.

The blunt saw blade was sharpened enough that it seemed like it could cut through people, trees, and even rocks in one go.

Making a clattering sound, the saw blade, which had clearly become stronger than before, was chipping away at the blades of Galatea and Slash.

[It hurts! It was cool earlier!]

Galatea reacted by screaming like that, and Cleon must have decided that this composition was not a good idea due to the much heavier weight of his arms and was preparing to retreat.

But, the next moment.

“One more~!!!”

Coo! And the shock, enough to shake the ground, reverberated throughout Cleon’s entire body, starting with his arms.

There was only one arm that the guy had hit earlier, and the remaining arm didn’t play either and just fell on Cleon’s head, pushing him towards him.

“Wow…!”

A painful voice spontaneously flowed from Cleon’s mouth.

This is because, in a situation where the body was not strengthened through magical power, the body was pressed down by a force that was greater than what a human could endure.

‘It’s dangerous. What you just did should have been avoided, not accepted.’

While Cleon coolly analyzed the situation, he realized that his previous defense was not good at all.

It’s difficult to push and hit back, or to relax and step back.

‘What should I do?’

Check the card hand in your hand.

Mana shock. It is a sure method to deal with magicians who use magic, but for those other than that – those who do not use magic or magic, it only has the weak power of lightning.

This sawblade monster, who became a muscle monster before my eyes, did not seem to be using magical power.

Even if Caliburn were to fly in and get stuck now, it wouldn’t mean much. This thick muscle can only be cut by someone who wields it.

So, how do you counterattack using either Galatea or Slash?

… No. If either of you loses in the power struggle here and now, the balance of power between you and the monster will be broken, and you will be thrown straight to the ground, and your arms and torso will be torn apart by the saw blade.

One by one, one by one. Valid cards are disappearing.

Every time, Cleon heard the sound of spinning saw blades above his head, like the sound of a fuse hanging on his lifeline burning out.

It was then.

“Too ryaaaaat!!”

Poop!

Along with the powerful sound of cheers heard from behind, a heavy impact resounded with a ‘cooung’ sound.

When Cleon looked up, there was Uni, who had flown in from behind, and energetically struck the jaw of the saw blade monster with a flying kick.

“Aaaaah!!”

The guy screams and steps back.

The guy’s huge arm naturally falls off from Cleon’s body.

Thanks to this, Cleon, who was free to move his body, extended his arms straight above him.

And then, the arm of the guy was swinging recklessly towards Uni, who was floating in the air thanks to a flying kick without thinking about anything.

Thump! He was able to save her by grabbing her legs, pulling her down, and making her lie down on the ground.

“Wow!?”

“Whoa…”

A sigh of relief.

Immediately after that, due to the unicorn’s instinct, Cleon caught her strong kick flying towards him with his hand and let go of her leg.

After taking Cleon’s painful kick to the point where his palm was sore, Yuni suddenly came to her senses.

“Hot!? Sorry!”

“No… It’s good timing. Thanks to you, I survived.”

Without Yuni’s intervention, Cleon might have had to sacrifice something of her own to get out of the deadlock.

Saying that, Cleon quickly looked up again, and the guy forcibly returned Yuni’s neck, which had been broken by her kick, to her hand.

However, perhaps because the shock I received was too great, I was able to regain my composure and gain time to stand up and get into position after seeing that I had retreated quite far.

“The lion…”

“It’s okay! Caliburn is watching over me!”

Cleon nodded his head as if he was relieved by her words, and then ran towards the guy running towards her in the same direction.

“Let’s go, while I block, Uni, you!”

“Yes!”

In his mind, he could feel the few paddles being replenished at once.

He pulls himself in and confronts them, and in the meantime, Yuni attacks.

This is because with such a simple division of roles, there were endless pictures that could be drawn.

And Yuni clearly understood what she had to do, even without Cleon saying it out loud.

“It’s annoying!!”

Cleon’s hands move in an instant as he sees him roaring loudly again, this time swinging both his arms at the same time.

Kang! While making a sound, it changes the trajectory of one of the saw blades being struck down so that it falls into the ground, and catches the other one.

It had a similar structure as before, but it was much easier to hold than holding both arms.

And therefore.

Chop, clap!

And two or three slashes swung towards the arm stuck in the ground, leaving a stab wound on the surface.

As blood began to flow from there, he tried to take his arm again, as if in pain, but in the meantime, Yuni crawled into his free side, this time twisting his body and raising his leg vertically. 〉

Pow! And, as a thrilling sound rang out, the muscles in the area where it was hit twisted, and a blow strong enough to break the iron plate covering that area pierced him.

“Eek…!!”

Letting out a painful scream, it widens the distance once again and tries to swing the saw blade towards Uni.

If Uni was agile and not floating in the air, she could easily avoid the guy’s weak struggles.

It was Cleon’s role to prevent the guy from escaping.

Cleon, with no restrictions on his movements as his oppressing arms moved aside, swung his two swords and aimed at the guy’s legs.

A clean, straight sword strike is swung parallel and cuts from the ankle to the knee.

[It’s blooming! Blood!]

The line that the sawblade monster had spoken earlier was now being shouted by the adamantite held in Cleon’s hand.

And, rather than thinking of the cry as simply a voice of joy, it would be better to think of it as a kind of signal.

This is because I felt that the slash that had absorbed the blood became heavier at once.

“Ugh…!”

Thanks to this, Cleon’s body’s balance almost falls, but he manages to hold on.

‘Even if you don’t strengthen your body, if it’s like this…!’

Forcefully force his arm and slash continuously in accordance with the momentum of the sword swing.

First both legs, then the sides, and the lowered arms.

Cleon is not the only one who pulls off one-sided attacks that are close to chopping, but Uni continues to disturb the guy’s gaze and lands kicks to his upper body.

I came and went as if I had wings.

Strike the arms, ribs, neck, and head and shoulders consecutively.

It jumped over its head, and every time it swung its legs like a whip, its body collapsed greatly.

Even if you followed it with your eyes and stretched out your hand to catch it, all that remained was an afterimage that had already left no ‘mass’ there.

This guy is suffering.

The pain came from both blows and slashes.

Thick muscles and the steel that reinforced the body were meaningless in the face of Uni and Cleon’s collaboration.

Repeatedly cutting and kicking, they were cornered and pushed out to a place close to the bush.

‘Death’

The fear of an ending that no living being could escape weighed heavily on his body.

And that’s exactly it.

It is the ‘trigger’ of the moment when a living organism overcomes its own limitations for the preservation of the species.

Exciting!

The ‘giant heart’ that must have been inside a huge body was pulsating.

“…!?”

“What, what?”

And that would have been heard by Cleon and Uni who were nearby.

Something occurred in his body that made the two people who were confronting each other nervous.

“Kkeuuuuu!!”

The saw blade monster screams once again and manages to swing its arms.

At the same time, a hole was opened in the guy’s body, and several iron pipe-like things came out.

I know that.

These were the weapons of the first monster unit that Cleon cut down and dropped earlier.

And.

Doo doo doo doo!!

And the same attack as before poured out from several holes, accompanied by the sound of thunder and the acrid black smoke of gunpowder.

[Wow!]

When Tweety screamed, Uni naturally had no choice but to look in that direction.

Target everything around you – no, let me say that again.

It wasn’t a shot aimed at something in particular, but rather a shot similar to a struggle fired with the spirit of ‘hit anyone’.

However, it was a weapon that could take one’s life if even one shot pierced a vital point, and at the same time, it was an attack like lightning so fast that it was almost impossible to see and avoid.

Those things fly towards a group of unprepared children.

“…!”

Uni moved, her instincts moving her legs faster than her eyes.

In order to protect it, it was necessary to be faster than sound.

Cali Burn, who was next to them, quickly stretched out her hands and created a barrier of magic.

However, there was a limit to the size of the barrier she could create, and the barrage of bullets escaping from the side only pursued the exposed victims.

Therefore, Uni stretches out her hand.

Towards the flying bullet, with a heart of earnest hope.

Kagak!

“Ouch…!”

A voice of pain came out of her mouth.

Of course, catching a bullet flying at a speed exceeding the speed of sound with her hand was akin to sacrificing her own hand.

However, despite the pain, she does not stop.

Opening your eyes straight with the determination to never close them, you catch and block only the bullets flying towards the group of demonic beasts.

Each time she repeated it, her hands were left with severe cuts and her blood spouted, but she didn’t stop.

Because that was the only way she could protect herself.

Of course, it was dangerous, as was Cleon nearby.

He quickly throws a giant slash vertically and protects his vital area by covering his body behind it.

However, the wound that occurred as it passed through her limbs left a burning pain.

‘This guy is different from the bullets from before. He’s using his own living tissue and blood remaining in his body as bullets…’

He was literally trying to remove the obstacles in front of him by grinding his body.

That means that if it continues like this, it will no longer be able to maintain its own body and will collapse…

Cleon’s gaze is directed backwards.

Uni is sacrificing her own body by moving at a speed that exceeds her limit in a desperate attempt to protect her group.

And, even though Caliburn is spreading his magical barrier, it is clear that he will not be able to hold out for long.

… It was an extremely unrealistic way to hold out until this massive body boasting overwhelming mass was all consumed by bullets.

Because he could never say that surviving alone was a victory.

The deck in my head was shuffled, and I drew a hand again.

There is something, something, a way to overcome this situation—

“… Huh? Wait… Blood…?”

At that time. Something passes through Cleon’s mind.

And then, you will quickly see the slash that you were using as a shield.

[How long will they just block it!]

Slash loses his temper like that though. Cleon put his hand on the blade of the slash.

“Slash. What’s flying, it’s not just bullets. This is blood! Absorb it! As much as you want!”

[What!? It’s true! Good!]

No, that alone is not enough.

So, Cleon feeds her with her own blood.

Then, as a result of her repeated absorption of blood at a rapid rate, her black-red blade turns bright red and becomes increasingly large and heavy.

Slash quickly grew into a greatsword as tall as Cleon.

“Cleon…! Now, this is the limit…!”

She was about to grab Slash and lift her up when she heard Caliburn’s voice coming from behind her.

Geek…

“What…”

But, it doesn’t move.

This guy was several times larger than the Slash he normally wielded, and his weight had increased by an order of magnitude compared to his size.

At best, it is meaningless if you can’t wield an enlarged weapon.

Cleon was embarrassed like never before.

[Cleon!]

However, Galatea’s voice penetrates Cleon’s mind.

After coming to her senses, Cleon nodded and made Galatea take on human form.

Galatea, whose appearance changes with the light, briefly hides behind the great sword by Cleon’s side.

“Let’s go… One—”

“Two!”

Two people synchronize the timing by sending signals with their mouths.

And the next moment.

Kugugu…! It is pulled out from above the ground, and Galatea and Cleon grab the handle, which can be held at the same time, and swing it from top to bottom.

“”Haaaaa!!””

Suddenly!

As Galatea and Cleon’s voices rang out at the same time, the huge sword cut the monster in front of them in half.

Internal organs and blood pour out, and the shooting suddenly stops.

With a slight time difference, a blood fountain was created so large that one could imagine how much blood was contained in the body.

Finally, the two parts of his torn body fell to the ground in different directions—

Perhaps because the body had reached its limit, it slowly collapsed into ash and began to disappear in the wind.

“Thank goodness…”

After seeing the monster fall, Uni said this.

He suffered such severe injuries that his fingers were barely intact, and he collapsed on the spot.