novelraw Chapter 77 : Chapter 77
Chapter 77 : Chapter 77
Chapter 77. Territory of the Mountain God (4)
It explodes.
Trees break as if being ground down, and rocks are pierced with holes.
Grasses in the path turn to ash instantly, and the ground is gouged out and eroded exactly in the shape of the path.
Everything in the path of the fired [Bullet Lightning Piercing Bow] is destroyed and pierced.
Nothing could stop the lump of electricity sprinting at high speed.
Kwang, kwang, kwang!!
The electricity flies, grinding everything blocking it.
Toward the target, straight and true.
And finally.
"Impact."
Kwaaaang!!
With a furious roar, the electricity explodes.
Direct hit.
It was a hit.
Step.
Riman started to walk following the long trail left on the ground.
A burnt smell vibrated, and ash powder got on the tip of his nose.
Things that were in the place where the electricity passed were either broken or pierced.
‘[Bullet Lightning Piercing Bow]… seeing it directly, the power is considerable, more than expected.’
How long did he walk like that?
Riman finally encountered it.
Today's target, the elimination subject.
"Kkeureuk……."
The Earthbound Spirit, Mountain God.
Smoke was billowing from the guy's body.
Riman watched the situation while keeping some distance from the guy.
Soon, the guy raised his body.
The guy's appearance was revealed fully.
First of all, it was huge.
It looked like a human body forcibly stretched long up and down.
Therefore, the guy raising his body looked like a giant snake raising its head.
"Kkeureureu……."
A groan like boiling phlegm rose from the guy's mouth, and saliva pushed out by that vibration flowed down messily from the mouth.
The flowing saliva entangled with long drooping hair and formed sticky clots.
The face revealed between the hair was a skull with flesh remaining sparsely.
Arms and legs were not much different from this.
Over such a body, what the guy was wearing was black and white Saekdongot (rainbow-striped clothes).
To think Saekdongot is black and white.
In short, the guy was wearing clothes like Saekdongot taken with a black and white camera.
And a large hole pierced through those clothes.
The hole had pierced not only the clothes but also the abdomen behind it largely.
The hole pierced by [Bullet Lightning Piercing Bow].
Riman murmured inwardly looking at that hole.
‘Hoh, moving even after being hit to that extent?’
Then he just had to pierce holes until it couldn't move.
Because that was the basics of exorcism.
Riman sucks in mana again.
Zzzt……!
Pitch-black electricity formed at Riman's five fingertips.
The electricity twisted inward and was compressed sharply.
And at that moment.
The guy's counterattack flew in.
Huuk!
The guy swung his hand toward Riman.
Long arms as much as the long upper body, long fingernails.
Riman also responded with the same movement.
[Lightning Claw]
He claws at the guy with all his might with his right hand where electricity formed.
The electricity became five strands of slashes and clawed the guy fiercely.
Pabababak!
Black sparks flying furiously.
At this, the Mountain God's arm was cut off and fell just like that.
"Kkaaaack!!"
A scream bursts out from the guy's mouth where only bones remained.
With this, it became certain.
The fact that one can give damage to a spirit body with magic too.
Thinking about it, it was natural.
In this world, a spirit is something where mana sticks to residual thoughts or will to take a certain shape.
Since it is made of mana, destruction was also possible with mana.
‘I’ll break it like this.’
Mountain God.
As long as one is not overwhelmed by that huge physique, it is by no means a difficult opponent.
-That realizing this was a wrong thought happened in the very next moment.
Crack!
‘Uh?’
From the spot where the guy's arm was cut off, two arms sprouted.
‘What is this, a Hydra?!’
Like that, at a speed faster than a moment ago, with double the power.
The guy's hand struck Riman.
Bang!!
A strike with tremendous power.
Riman couldn't overcome the impact and was bounced off just like that.
Chwaaaaak!
Riman stopped after drawing a long skid mark on the dirt ground.
There were no wounds.
Because the automatic defense system activated and blocked the hit.
However, it couldn't completely cancel out the impact, so Riman's body was bounced off.
Still, thanks to the shock absorption function of
Anyway, the damage the guy inflicted on Riman was 0.
However, it wasn't a completely meaningless attack.
Because the guy bought time thanks to bouncing Riman off.
Like that, the guy could secure the timing to recover.
Squish, squish-
The guy's abdomen, which had a gaping hole, began to recover rapidly.
The order of recovery was from the innermost part.
Internal organs swelling while squirming began to fill the guy's stomach.
The type of internal organ recovering was intestines.
Long and slippery chunks of flesh swelled in an instant.
It looked like watching dozens of giant earthworms clumping in one place and wriggling.
But something was strange.
The amount of regenerated intestines was too much.
Although intestines are the longest organ in the body, that much?
The moment Riman thought that.
Tu-hwak!
Intestines burst out of the stomach.
The internal organs turned into dozens of strands of tentacles and rushed toward Riman.
"Crazy."
He hadn't seen such a bizarre attack pattern even in the game.
At that moment, Riman was thankful that he was covering his eyes.
Because he didn't have to see that terrible sight in detail.
Kwagwagwa!
Tentacles ran wild and began to smash Riman's surroundings randomly.
That wasn't the end.
Yellowish liquid flowing from the tips of the tentacles.
It was strong acidic digestive juice.
Sizzle!
The scattered digestive juice corroded things it touched in an instant.
Riman's barrier was the same.
Of course, the automatically deployed barrier blocked every digestive juice that flew in.
The problem was that the barrier corroded too quickly.
Therefore, most of the mana that should be used for attacks was concentrated on deploying the barrier.
Like this, this stalemate would not end.
Even if he had to take risks, it was necessary to turn the situation around.
‘Stone wall, net, broken arrow.’
[Protection], 4-fold.
Sseung!
After wrapping four layers of barriers around his body, Riman charged straight toward the Mountain God.
The Mountain God's tentacles also rushed toward such Riman, and a large amount of digestive juice covered Riman.
Sizzle!
Digestive juice covering the barrier.
The barrier melts down quickly, and Riman blocks it by replenishing the barrier quickly from the inside.
No matter where one looked, it was a disadvantageous situation for Riman.
Because the corrosion speed of the digestive juice was faster than the speed at which the barrier was replenished.
As if the tentacles also knew this, they rushed toward Riman all at once.
To pierce the weakened barrier at once and finish Riman.
However, this was Riman's trap.
‘It came.’
That moment when all tentacles came close enough to him.
Riman burst the cold mana he had clumped up heavily at once.
[Freeze]
Crackle!
The scattered digestive juices froze all at once.
No matter how strong an acidic solution, if it freezes, it loses its power.
Moreover, it wasn't just the digestive juice that froze.
Crack-
The ends of the tentacles also froze completely.
The holes spewing digestive juice were blocked like that.
Like that, he neutralized the scattered digestive juice by freezing it, and furthermore, blocked even the openings where that digestive juice erupted.
For this, Riman had endured until all the tentacles' aggro was directed at him.
But Riman had no intention of ending it here.
Grab!
Riman grabbed the tentacles with both hands.
Slippery and sticky texture felt on the palms.
It was intestinal fluid covering the surface of the tentacles.
It was rather good.
Because wet things are bound to freeze faster.
He bursts the cold once again.
[Freeze]
Crackle!
Cold energy bursting from both of Riman's palms begins to freeze the surface of the tentacles at once.
The cold sprints.
Riding the surface of the long intestines, it runs toward the main body at once.
‘I’ll freeze even the main body of the Mountain God like this.’
Just when he was about to inject mana more strongly thinking so.
Crash!
The frozen tentacles suddenly shattered.
At the same time, the sprint of cold energy was cut off.
The guy twisted its body and intentionally broke its own tentacles.
A judgment to detach a part of the body before the self froze.
‘Tch, uses its head quite a bit.’
Thinking so, Riman tried to devise a new magic in his head.
At that moment.
Squish!
The guy's tentacles that were cut off recovered again in an instant.
Recovery speed truly comparable to super regeneration ability.
Riman was dumbfounded.
‘What, why is the recovery that fast?!’
Shooshooshooshuk!
The same situation as before struck.
Tentacles flying in, digestive juice being sprayed.
If he responded like just now, he could escape from this threat for now, but even if he responded the same way, it was certain he would be in the same situation again.
Therefore, Riman turned toward observing the situation while widening the distance this time.
‘There is a way.’
That phrase he repeated every time he faced a difficulty in
Murmuring inwardly like that, Riman retraced the situation again.
All the elements composing this battlefield.
‘Even if I respond with a more powerful attack, the guy will just endure with regeneration ability.’
Ultimately, unless he destroyed the source of the regeneration ability itself, there was no victory in this battle.
‘…By what principle on earth does it regenerate?’
Sseung!
Riman spread [Detection] even wider to find a clue.
To find the principle by which the guy regenerates.
At that moment.
‘…Hmm?’
Riman discovered it.
That the shrubs and trees around the guy were completely withered.
Moreover, the ground had become noticeably crumbly.
It wasn't like that just a moment ago.
Although there were plants scorched or broken due to Riman's attacks, they weren't withered.
But to wither like that in a short period meant…….
‘Is it sucking the life force of plants and using it for its own regeneration and body transformation……!’
He had forgotten for a moment.
The guy's classification is Earthbound Spirit.
A vengeful spirit bound to a specific area.
That it is bound means it is connected by a strong bond.
Thanks to that, the guy could freely draw and use life force and earth power from this land, his territory.
Conclusively speaking, this vast colony itself is the guy's battery.
Riman fell into deep thought.
‘…What should I do?’
There are two measures that can be proposed in principle.
First, attack until the guy's regeneration power runs out.
Since the life force and earth power this colony holds would be finite too.
But this measure is rejected.
Not only does he lack the stamina to pour attacks until that point, but if the colony's life force runs out, a bigger problem arises.
Because the Eye-opening Flowers will all die.
He would end up leaving empty-handed after coming all this way to harvest the fruit.
The second measure is to burn this colony with fire.
Riman couldn't use this either for the same reason.
Then he can eliminate the life force the guy draws and uses, but the Fruit of the Eye-opening Flower will fly away together too.
Because of the condition called ‘Acquisition of Fruit of the Eye-opening Flower’, the situation became quite tricky.
‘If only not for this condition, it would be a fight worth doing enough…….’
No.
In the first place, I came here only to get the Fruit of the Eye-opening Flower.
‘Should I just quickly pick the fruit and escape?’
No, doing that makes the Heukjaryeong he won't be able to get too severely wasteful.
Fruit of the Eye-opening Flower and Heukjaryeong, he had to come up with a plan to get both somehow.
Riman's head spun crazily fast.
At that moment.
‘Ah.’
What suddenly came to Riman's mind was a robot he played with when he was young.
What must one do to stop that robot?
Deplete the battery completely?
Blow up the battery?
Both are correct answers.
But there is an easier way.
That is-
Snip.
Cutting the connecting wire between the battery and the robot.
Forcibly releasing the bond between the battery and the robot.
Even doing that stops the robot's movement for sure.
If applying this to the current situation…….
‘Severing the bond between the Earthbound Spirit and the area……!’
A smile of conversion appeared on Riman's lips.