novelraw Chapter 366 366: Black Smoke God
Chapter 366 366: Black Smoke God
Noan looked at Jankos the way he would look at a complete idiot, and chuckled. "You… have you ever seen a God before?"
Jankos laughed like a madman. "Here! This is God. You are looking at God!"
The monster formed from smoke towered over a thousand meters, with only its upper body above the waist. It held two swords in its hands, and on its head there was only a single eye. Inside that eye, Jankos was floating in midair, his face twisted by an evil grin.
"Witness the Black Smoke God!" Jankos roared.
"Black Smoke God?" Noan frowned and said softly, "So a mass of black smoke that you made is what you call a God?"
In truth, if Noan had not lived through those horrific things, then upon seeing the Black Smoke God, he might have actually believed it was a God.
But… he knew exactly what a God was like.
It was not an existence made from a cloud of black smoke created by Jankos.
A God… was even less an existence that Carlotta, the Insect Queen, or even Empress Catherine could ever reach.
"Kill! Kill him!" Jankos shouted crazily.
WOO!!!
From the monster's mouth came a shriek like a gale tearing through a crack in the rocks, ear-splitting, making it feel as if countless people were screaming at once.
A Jade Rabbit Maiden gripped her spear and charged forward, shouting, "GYA!!!"
BANG!
The spear left her hand, turning into a streak of light that shot straight toward the Black Smoke God.
"What?!" Jankos jolted at the Jade Rabbit Maiden's power, but he only curled his lips in contempt. "But you forgot one thing…"
Whoosh!
"Hm?!" The Jade Rabbit Maiden who had thrown the spear froze when she saw it pass straight through the Black Smoke God's body and fly off into the distance, leaving a hole in its torso.
But that hole was quickly filled by the surrounding smoke, as if it had never been pierced.
"This is bad! Its body isn't a physical entity. Physical attacks won't work." she said.
At that moment, another Jade Rabbit Maiden holding a magic staff smiled. "If physical damage doesn't work, then we use magic power."
She raised her staff high. In the next instant, a gigantic Magic Array appeared in the sky, over a hundred meters in diameter.
From within that array, countless streams of light rained down, trailing long tails like comets, slamming toward the Black Smoke God.
However…
"Huh! A bunch of idiots!" Jankos laughed in disdain.
Those streams of light passed through the Black Smoke God's body and crashed into the ground, setting off terrifying explosions.
BAM! BAM! BAM!
The blasts rang out nonstop. Snow sprayed everywhere, the ground shook violently, and dust surged upward, engulfing a vast area.
WHOOSH!
"Watch out!"
Right then, a Jade Rabbit Maiden with a shield rushed forward. The shield in her hand erupted with dazzling white light, and along with it, glowing golden magic sigils appeared.
BANG!
A shrill clang of metal rang out. The shield-bearing Jade Rabbit Maiden felt a terrifying force collide with her shield, and her body was shoved sideways.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
Her feet dug into the ground as she tried to resist, but it was useless. The force drove her sideways, her boots plowing through the earth and carving a trench more than twenty meters long, until finally…
"Agh!"
That Jade Rabbit Maiden screamed, then was sent flying into the distance, her shield dropping to the ground as well.
"What?!" one Jade Rabbit Maiden shouted. "Be careful! Even though its body is smoke and we can't hit it, it can still hit us."
"Aim for its eye! That has to be its weakness!"
"That's right! Just target the one summoning it, and it will vanish immediately."
"But it has released black smoke and sealed off the space. We can't even tell which direction to attack from."
Yes, not only the dust haze, but also the black smoke spewed by the Black Smoke God had enveloped this entire space to erase its weakness.
Its weakness was far too obvious, so this was the only way for it to conceal that weakness.
Whoosh!
"Be careful!" a Jade Rabbit Maiden shouted.
At this moment, the shriek of wind rang out as if a gigantic fan blade were slicing through the air.
A Jade Rabbit Maiden wearing metal gauntlets rushed forward and shouted, "Support me."
Behind her, a Jade Rabbit Maiden holding a book chanted some strange incantation. The other Jade Rabbit Maiden's body was wrapped in a pale golden glow, and at the same time, two magic sigils were affixed to her gauntlets.
BANG!
Right after that, a terrifying force slammed into her. Fortunately, the gauntlets and the protective magic were sturdy enough to block that force.
Only then did everyone see clearly that it was a gigantic metal sword. The blade was not particularly sharp, but thanks to its sheer size, even without being sharp, it still carried an unimaginably lethal danger.
"Damn it!" The Jade Rabbit Maiden blocking the sword gritted her teeth. Her arms went numb, and sweat began to bead on her forehead.
"Hold on a little more!"
Whoosh!
At this moment, another Jade Rabbit Maiden rushed out, a foil sword in hand. Her body moved with extreme agility as she sprang onto that giant blade, then shot forward at windlike speed.
She leveled her sword tip forward as she pierced through the black fog. Her eyes seemed to lock onto something, and the corner of her mouth curled up as she muttered, "Got you, you filthy rat!"
Whoosh!
"What?!" Jankos, floating within the eye of the Black Smoke God, jolted when he saw a shadow appear right in front of him. "Damn it!"
He cursed under his breath and flicked his hand.
However…
That Jade Rabbit Maiden thrust the foil sword in her hand straight at the Black Smoke God's eye.
KLENG!
A harsh clang of metal rang out. Yet that eye only trembled slightly before calming down again, like a small pebble dropped into a vast lake, causing no impact at all.
"Hahahaha…" Jankos laughed like a madman. "How could you possibly break the Shard of Fate, you idiot!"
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
"Tsk!" The Jade Rabbit Maiden clicked her tongue and tried to retreat, but from the smoke around the Black Smoke God's eye, countless smoke arms shot out and seized her.
Whoosh!
A streak of light immediately swept through those smoke arms, severing them.
The Jade Rabbit Maiden broke free at once, then sprang backward, widening the distance to a safe range.
"Huh! A bunch of trash!" Jankos said disdainfully. "Dance! Hahaha… dance some more! Let me see your despair."
The Black Smoke God's eye suddenly emitted a bizarre black light.
From the bodies of the Jade Rabbit Maidens, streams of black smoke poured out, rising high before being absorbed into that eye.
A Jade Rabbit Maiden saw this and shouted urgently, "This is bad! It's absorbing our negative emotions to become even stronger."
"Damn it! Are we going to fail again?"
"No way! We've all reached SS-rank. How could we lose to this lowly, dark creature?"
"Ah! I don't want to disappoint Master."
Suddenly, from the sky, a massive, dense cloud like the black smoke belched from waste-oil flare stacks surged down, forming a dome that sealed everything inside.
"Agh! This is bad! This is really bad!"
"It's draining all of our vitality."
"Hurry! Use defensive magic."
The Jade Rabbit Maiden holding the book and the Jade Rabbit Maiden holding the staff joined forces to cast magic.
However, the magic energy that poured out from their bodies turned into black smoke the instant it emerged, then rose upward and was completely absorbed by the Black Smoke God.
"This is bad! It can convert magic energy into a kind of energy it can absorb."
"Hurry! Find a way out of this damned cage!"
A Jade Rabbit Maiden holding an axe swung with all her strength at the dome wall.
BANG!
The dome and even the ground trembled. The earth beneath her feet shattered, and spiderweb-like cracks spread everywhere, yet the dome only quivered slightly before falling silent again.
"What the hell?!"
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The Jade Rabbit Maidens could now feel their power being drained away. Exhausted, they slumped onto the ground, faces twisted with extreme anger, yet they could not find the opponent's weakness at all.
Jankos floated within the Black Smoke God's eye and laughed crazily. "Hahahaha… so this is your energy? Wonderful… absolutely wonderful!"
"Thank you, Noan. You brought me such a wonderful gift. Once I absorb every last soul of these bitches, I'll turn them into my Golems, hahahaha…"
Noan stood in the distance. His gaze toward the Black Smoke God showed only a trace of surprise before he said softly, "Yuna, looks like you have to work now."
Yuna stood beside Noan with a gentle smile and said softly, "Master, I can't kill him."
"Hm?! Why?" Noan was genuinely startled. He glanced at her and asked in confusion.
Yuna showed no other emotion, only that gentle smile, as she said, "Because… if I kill him, you will have to bear all of that dark energy."