novelraw Chapter 187 : Chapter 187
Chapter 187 : Chapter 187
Chapter : 187
Basilisk.
For Lilia, who focused on force, to fight against a monster that was extremely resistant to magic was practically no different from a suicide attempt.
However, there was no such thing as a monster without a weakness in this world.
Crunch!!
In front of the majesty of the Basilisk, which lightly crushed the dungeon floor with its teeth, Lilia leaped into the sky and immediately fired fire magic.
“Screech!!!”
The Basilisk’s scales, attacked by the flames, heated up red and burned, but soon died down.
If that level of flame had worked to some extent, then magic—limited to fire magic—would work when the purity was increased further.
Lilia, standing upside down on the ceiling through gravity magic, calmly recalled the characteristics of the Undead.
Basically, when revived as an Undead, the characteristics of the Undead would take precedence over one's original characteristics.
She had thought that the absolute magic resistance originally possessed by a Basilisk would have faded to some degree.
Though that would be a meaningless story without Holy Magic, which could take an overwhelming advantage against the Undead, or high-purity flames of Lilia’s level.
Increase the purity of the flames!
Lilia’s judgment was correct.
Arrows of pure white flame bloomed like flowers around her body and aimed for the Basilisk’s vitals.
The Basilisk, which grasped the situation through hearing, could not dodge the attack in time and went on a rampage at the flames that struck its body and burned furiously.
Thump thump thump!!!
As the giant body rampaged insanely inside the narrow passage of the dungeon, the dungeon crumbled down. The Basilisk’s flesh cooked in the heat and fell right off.
Attack again immediately like this!
The moment Lilia was about to use the next flame magic, the Basilisk’s huge mouth opened wide.
Green gas flowed out from inside the snake’s mouth.
The gas released from the decaying body of the Undead met the flames and exploded. Lilia, who was swept up entirely in the explosion, fell from the ceiling and rolled on the floor.
“Ugh!”
At the burning sensation, Lilia ignored her body, which was a mess due to the explosion, and her left shoulder, which looked as if it had melted, and took out the Elixir hidden deep in her bosom and poured it into her mouth.
Before she could even properly feel the taste of apples lingering in her mouth, the Basilisk threw its body with all its might toward Lilia, not missing even the slightest disturbance.
Boom!!
A roar rang out once and dodging the attack was only momentary; the Undead Basilisk realized Lilia’s location just from the sound of dust grazing her body and threw its body once again.
Lilia swallowed her breath along with a groan that almost burst out in shock.
The Basilisk’s poison, combined with corpse poison, was maximized and was terrible enough to melt flesh just by touching it.
It even vaporized quickly, making the air murky and interfering with the use of magic.
The Undead Basilisk was certainly extremely tricky to deal with.
Lilia, heading towards the sky to avoid the poisonous miasma that started to settle on the floor, kicked some debris to intentionally make noise to divert its attention.
Thud, clatter-roll....
A stone flew through the air, fell to the floor, and rolled.
The Basilisk headed greedily toward the place where the noise came from.
Amidst the truly blind attack, Lilia raised the purity of her flame magic even further and struck the Basilisk’s body once again.
“Kyargh!!!”
The Basilisk’s body burst into flames again.
Indeed, the attack with increased purity dealt a valid blow to the Basilisk, but perhaps due to the Undead’s regenerative power or because the regeneration had been intentionally increased, it recovered excessively fast.
As expected, is there no choice but to use that method?
Making her resolve to prepare for the next attack pointless, the Basilisk’s tail struck Lilia’s waist hard in an instant.
“!!!”
Lilia’s body, hit directly by the unexpected attack, floated in the air and was slammed into the wall.
Thwack!!
At the sound of hitting the wall, the Basilisk immediately rushed toward where the sound came from.
“Hup!”
Without even a moment to swallow a scream in pain, Lilia used wind magic to detach her body from the wall and barely dodged the Basilisk’s attack.
‘Great, I’m screwed.’
Her organs were ruptured and her spine was half smashed.
It was a serious injury that would lead to death within 30 minutes without being able to do anything if she didn’t have an Elixir.
‘Is it really possible for me alone?’
To execute that plan, things had to go according to plan without her getting hit even once from now on.
Lilia looked at the Undead Basilisk, which was dripping green saliva full of poison as if its anger hadn’t subsided even after smashing the wall she had crashed into.
She wanted to take a deep breath, but even that wasn’t free to do so because there was a high possibility that the Basilisk would notice Lilia’s location just from the sound of faint breathing.
‘It’s okay.’
It couldn’t be impossible.
Lilia, having drunk the second Elixir, threw the potion bottle toward the wall.
At the sound of the bottle hitting the wall, the Basilisk rushed toward that side once again.
Rotting flesh fell off in clumps every time, but perhaps it couldn't even feel pain with that much anymore, as it didn't even scream.
Originally, ‘intellect’ exists in boss monsters like the Basilisk.
However, the Basilisk that had become an Undead was far from being an intelligent being.
‘In that case, it is possible.’
Once again, spheres made of flame appeared floating around Lilia’s body, then flew toward the Basilisk and attacked it repeatedly.
“Kraaaaaa!!”
Amidst the one-sided attacks it couldn't even dodge, the Basilisk howled loudly.
“Isn’t the howling getting a bit noisy by now?”
Lilia, standing tall on the spot, straightened her body.
Having pinpointed Lilia’s location from the question that was close to a mutter, the Basilisk flew in this time as well.
Lilia used a magic she would never have used normally.
She bit her finger with her canine to make a wound, and scattered the blood welling up on her finger onto the floor.
The blood imbued with the mage’s mana moved according to the owner’s will and burned, becoming several pillars of fire.
The pure heat was threatening not only to the opponent, the Basilisk, but also to Lilia.
However, unlike Lilia, who was merely a human—even if her body was strengthened as a magical girl—and found it hard to endure, the Basilisk had enough durability to lightly ignore it.
It must have judged that while fire magic was threatening, it could endure Lilia’s level of flame magic.
“But you’ll die because of that.”
Amidst the pain inflicted by the flames, the Basilisk struggled fiercely and tried to swallow Lilia whole.
Lilia stood tall on the spot and shoved a circle of pure flame into the throat of the Undead Basilisk that opened its mouth toward her.
“!!!”
Screaming a soundless scream, the Basilisk thrashed about.
Lilia watched that sight clearly with her two eyes.
Without looking away for a single moment, looking straight only at victory.
‘Please die! Die!!’
Lilia stood tall and unleashed a bombardment of flames upon the Basilisk.
If it died like this, if she could really end it like this, nothing would be more ideal.
Blood, ash, and poisonous miasma shot up like an explosion, blocking her view.
However, Lilia could confirm the fact that the Basilisk was still going strong even amidst the obstructed vision.
“Ha, I’m screwed.”
With Lilia’s mutter as the last sound, the Basilisk swallowed Lilia whole just like that.
* * *
The Basilisk’s giant teeth pierced Lilia’s body, and the poison intoxicated Lilia.
The only reason she could stay alive despite that was because she was in a state transformed as a magical girl.
Even that would be the end of everything the moment the transformation wore off.
The Undead Basilisk considered the human that entered its mouth to be an extremely annoying existence.
Since it didn’t know what kind of tricks she might pull inside its mouth, it decided to swallow her whole and melt her with stomach acid.
The Basilisk’s judgment was accurate enough that it was hard to believe it was an Undead.
If the opponent hadn’t been Lilia, that is.
Lilia’s skin, having arrived in the stomach down the Basilisk’s esophagus, began to melt due to the stomach acid.
“Kkeueueuk!!!”
At the pain she was experiencing for the first time in her life, Lilia gritted her teeth.
This was enough.
Lilia made up her mind and used the fire magic she had prepared.
Flare!
Flames that had turned blue beyond pure white spread out from Lilia’s fingertips.
Bubble, bubble-bubble, bubble-bubble-bubble.
The flames rapidly vaporized the stomach acid and burned a hole in the stomach.
The vaporized stomach acid met the flames again and burned explosively.
The stomach acid disappeared completely, and the Basilisk’s body burst into flames.
She had to escape; Lilia squeezed out her mana and climbed up the Basilisk’s giant esophagus she had fallen down earlier.
Every time she tried to climb, the Undead Basilisk writhed in pain, so she couldn't go up easily, but she had to grit her teeth and endure it.
Lilia’s body, which had finally moved to the inside of the mouth, moved largely once again.
Thud!
Finally, the Basilisk’s body collapsed.
Something more dangerous than this will happen going forward!
Lilia’s instincts, honed by traveling through dungeons and Gates for a long time, whispered rapidly.
It was the moment she supported her body with wind magic and hid behind debris.
Bang!!!
A roar rang out as if the dungeon itself was shaking.
It was the result of the flames, which had finally burned everything and been liberated, meeting the poisonous miasma outside and exploding.
Lilia, who had barely survived the aftermath by hiding behind the debris, dragged her body and climbed up.
The Undead Basilisk had been practically annihilated completely, leaving not even debris behind due to the aftermath of the explosion.
Only after confirming that sight did Lilia barely swallow the Elixir she had saved until the end with trembling hands.
Gulp, gulp. As the cold potion went down her esophagus, the pain tormenting her body subsided considerably.
“Hueeeeh.”
In a sense, it was truly a tremendous monster.
Magic resistance that took the advantage against everything except specific magic, and physical resistance unique to the Undead. It was a monster that possessed both.
However, it was a strategy that barely worked because Lilia was one of the few mages who could pierce that monster’s weakness.
“Was it a method that couldn't even be called a strategy? It was really dangerous.”
She didn't know she would use the magic she developed with the thought that if she were ever fated to be defeated and eaten by a monster, she wouldn't die alone but die together with it, in this way.
If she didn't have the Elixir, she wouldn't have even dared to use it.
Lilia, lying on the floor, blinked her eyes with difficulty and tapped the artifact for the Magical Girl transformation a few times to a rhythm.
It was an emergency signal that was only understood within the Magical Girl Club.
The signal Lilia just sent meant something like, ‘I handled the monster somehow, but I can’t move, so please rescue me later.’
For now, let’s rest for a moment, just a very short moment.
Lilia closed her eyes, hiding her body amidst the debris.