novelraw Chapter 126
Chapter 126
Chapter 126
I put everyone away.
Everyone wanted to escape, but I just realized—maybe this was the better way to do it. Period. Please forgive me for not realizing sooner. I'll do anything.
Making excuses as I go, I snap my fingers at the falling giant tower.
With an ATK of 50 million and a HP 10,000 ultimate spear, I'll punch a hole right through it.
I see it.
Beyond the giant hole blasted through the tower and the mist, the boss is fleeing upward at full speed.
It's a bit far.
I could rely on the skill's correction and use auto-aim, but that kind of feels like losing, so I'll just get closer the honest way.
"Chi-chi-chi!"
Oh? Shimaenaga-san is getting fired up about something.
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Knight of the God-Eater (Systeri Noteria).
One of the eight knights who abandoned their humanity, lost it, and approached the higher realm.
Among them, the one who hunted silver most viciously.
That was the King of Silver Hunting (Holgrappia).
He could not use his full power due to the shackles of a long slumber.
Even after offering up the silver apostles as sacrifices, it still wasn't enough.
"Oh, Boy, the Tree of Blood, it's—coming..."
The King of Silver Hunting (Holgrappia) lifted his head amid the screams of the rotting ones.
A pillar of light rose from below.
I smoothly dodge to avoid getting hit.
To kill that thing, you must be in a perfect state.
The King of Silver Hunting (Holgrappia) sensed a shift in presence, then suddenly tackled the wall beside him and slipped through to the other side.
That place corresponded to about the 30th floor of the Salvation dungeon.
The King of Silver Hunting (Holgrappia) twitched his nose, bared countless teeth in a grotesque grin, and began to move through the Salvation dungeon like a beast leaping at prey.
Chasing after him was Team Finger Man.
"Chi-chi-chi!"
"Shimaenaga-san is finally fulfilling her role as a bird character...!"
Finger Man and the Calamity Mollusk were riding on the fluffy back of the majestic white wings, tracking their prey.
Spotting the hole in the wall, the Calamity Beast touched down.
Finger Man landed with a slick motion. He adjusted his sunglasses and checked the tar-like liquid left all around, muttering, "This is the place."
"Gii (Translation: Senpai, haven't you gotten a little bigger?)"
"Chi-chi-chi (Translation: It's your imagination, chi. If you're going to accuse me, then take this, chi!)"
The Calamity Beast clacked its beak with a "patin-pachin" and let out an evil chi-chi.
The Calamity Mollusk trembled and decided to postpone further questioning.
Finger Man broke into a run.
He sprinted through the glowing white maze, following the black traces.
Occasionally, he noticed faint traces of experience lingering in the air.
It was experience at a micro-particle level, imperceptible to ordinary people.
"This... is still fresh experience. Could that boss monster be defeating Salvation dungeon monsters as it moves?"
But why?
Finger Man made a puzzled face.
But he gave up thinking after three seconds.
He figured there was no point trying to understand the thoughts of a monster.
——Ten minutes later
Finger Man and the others stood before a massive gate with a solemn atmosphere.
The gate was lightly shrouded in mist.
It wasn't an evil mist like the Dark Mist.
It was a pale mist, meant to test the will of challengers.
Letters floated within the mist: "Dungeon Boss: Platinum Dragon of Salvation." Normally, the text would be white, but now it was murky and black.
Black traces were smeared all over the gate.
It was clear that the King of Silver Hunting (Holgrappia) had entered inside.
Finger Man lifted the belly of his sunglasses slightly with his middle finger.
With a crisp snap, he snapped his fingers.
The gate exploded.
It shattered into pieces, and the path opened.
Finger Man placed the slug on his shoulder, tucked the bean pastry into his chest pocket, and stepped forward.
"There's no more running. Time to quietly become experience—"
"Chi-chi-chi!"
"Gii!"
Squelch, squelch, squelch.
A wet sound echoed.
Maybe it was because the sound was so viscerally unpleasant.
Or maybe it was because it made them aware of the voice of the beast lurking within.
They passed through the dust.
Their vision cleared.
It was a dome-shaped area.
Finger Man had arrived at similar places a few times before.
This was the same.
The difference was that everything glowed white.
In that pale light that tingled with divinity, a deep corruption writhed.
It resembled the moment when Finger Man first discovered the monster in the ritual chamber.
Silver. And Salvation.
Those two blessings could never dwell within the King of Silver Hunting (Holgrappia), a high-ranking enemy of both.
But if he could absorb both, then perhaps, just for a moment, the co-existence of those opposing forces might be possible.
The King of Silver Hunting (Holgrappia) had proven that.
At the center of the dome.
What the King of Silver Hunting (Holgrappia) was devouring was a massive dragon.
A huge dragon stretching 30 meters long.
It was the dungeon boss of the Chiba Class 4 Salvation dungeon, the "Platinum Dragon of Salvation."
A boss of a super-large Class-4 dungeon, possessing overwhelming power.
If Finger Man had used "Blasphemous Gaze" to examine the dragon, he might have been terrified by its overwhelming status.
HP: 2 billion. MP: 1 billion. Anti-personnel ATK: 4,000.
A dungeon boss is a manifestation of the dungeon's power itself, possessing strength on a whole different level from normal monsters.
It receives massive backup from the dungeon, the strongest supporter.
That's why subjugating it usually involves massive raid battles with countless explorers coordinating and using tons of supplies.
The King of Silver Hunting (Holgrappia) devoured the heart of such a dungeon boss.
"Bwoah, ooh, guh..."
Six platinum wings burst from the King of Silver Hunting (Holgrappia)'s back.
A dragon's foreleg sprouted from his torn side.
The many aspects of a holy dragon, the very opposite of evil.
After devouring Lusas Osas, the Silver Priestess, and the Platinum Dragon of Salvation, the King of Silver Hunting (Holgrappia) had gained their power.
A new myth begins.
That ancient great hero, now freed from his slumber, had not only regained his former strength—he had gone beyond it.
"Chi, chi! (Translation: That's insanely divine, chi!?)"
"Gii (Translation: This is on a completely different level than before.)"
By instinct, the Calamities knew that the fusion of forces sharing an ancient origin would bring terrible consequences.
"Chi-chi-chi! (Translation: Light and darkness combined looks like the strongest, chi...! We need to run, chi!)"
"Gii (Translation: I have a bad feeling. Let's get out of here for now.)"
Finger Man took out "Blue Blood Lv5" and injected it into his neck.
He drained about 1,200 MP, injected again, and restored his HP.
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'Blue Blood Lv5'
A medical tool once used by an ancient sorcerer.
Charges with 1 MP. Restores health upon use.
Conversion rate MP1:150
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MP1,200: HP180,000
180,000 HP recovered.
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Akagi Hideo
Level 255
HP 191,800/191,800
MP 15,710/51,400
Skills
'Finger Snap Lv6'
'Phobia Syndrome Lv8'
'Surekill Lv8'
'Steel Spirit'
'Probability Time: Coin Lv2'
'Super Metal Assault Lv8'
'Blue Pulsation Lv4'
'Black Swamp's Severer'
'Super Catcher Lv4'
'Until the Very End Together'
'Silver Shield Lv9'
Equipment
'Adolphene's Holy Shroud Lv4' G4
'Blue Blood Lv5' G4
'Proof of the Chosen One Lv4' G4
'Labyrinth Conqueror' G4
'Bloodstained Comrade' G4
'Metal Trap Room Lv3' G4
'Traces of a Dream' G4
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"Chi-chi-chi!! (Translation: What are you doing, chi!? Don't tell me you're going to fight, chi!? That thing is dangerous, chi! Can't you tell light and darkness combined looks like the strongest, chi!?)"
"Of course. I'm going to defeat it."
"Chi-chi...... (Translation: Why do you want to fight, chi......)"
"Because I made a promise. I said I'd take it from here. If I run now, I'd be betraying that. I can't make the beauty cry."
The Calamity Beast gasped.
The Calamity Mollusk silently trusted its master's judgment.
"Chi (Translation: It can't be helped, chi. The hero I believed in really is like this, chi......)"
A battle with a mafia boss who unleashed a bullet rain flashed through the Calamity Beast's mind.
The Calamity Beast decided to believe in the master who had believed in it.
"Chi-chi (Translation: By the way, are you also trying to avoid making the ugly girl cry, chi?)"
"I'll probably be the one making her cry. With my fists."
"Chi-chi-chi (Translation: So harsh to ugly girls, chi. Going against the tides of the world, chi. Brutally honest to the death, chi.)"
"Gii (Translation: Master, senpai)"
"Hm? What is it?"
"Chi?"
"Gii (Translation: It's coming.)"
Finger Man and the Calamity Beast glanced upward.
The Dark Salvation Dragon had its arms entwined, raising its hands where black tentacles and platinum scales were interwoven.
In its right hand, a spear of darkness. In its left, a spear of yellow lightning.
Just summoning them caused a storm zone to unfold within the dome.
And that wasn't all.
The released vortex of power shattered the dome from the inside with a crackling sound, continuing to expand. A death zone where winds of several hundred meters per second could turn you into a lump of meat just by touching.
The insect judged it was dangerous to stay in place and had already evacuated into the chest pocket where the bird lived.
The bird clung on tearfully, trying not to be pushed out by its junior or blown away from the chest pocket.
Meanwhile, Finger Man stood motionless.
He lightly adjusted his sunglasses to keep them from slipping.
His quiet gaze was evaluating the dragon.
"Excellent. I sense tremendous experience."
"Chi-chi-chi! (Translation: Even now, you're still an idiot, chi!!?)"
"Gii (Translation: Senpai, scoot over more. It's cramped.)"
"Chi, chi! (Translation: Junior, stop it, chi! I'm slipping out, chi!)"
The Dark Salvation Dragon hurled the lightning spear.
Next, it threw the spear of darkness.
The two divine spears struck their target.
The scream of "Chiiiiiiiii!!" was drowned out by the thunderous explosion and reached no one.
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