novelraw Chapter 120 : Chapter 120
Chapter 120 : Chapter 120
Chapter 120: Giant's Blade
‘Huh!?’
When I felt the cracking sound from Rauel's body out of the blue, I just tilted my head.
But perhaps because of that, when the sight of her making uncharacteristically strange movements and looking like she was about to be mercilessly crushed by the monster entered my eyes, I couldn't help but feel urgent.
‘What’s wrong with her?!’
A monster that was unusually good at handling demonic energy.
I tried tying the lizard giant's arm, which seemed to be a transformed magician, with chains and pulling it up from behind.
But strangely, the sticky feeling of the lizard giant's demonic energy wasn't easily absorbed.
Just.
Pabak.
The best I could do was use the rebound to leap over the creature and block Rauel's front.
So.
Kuung.
“Who said you could touch……!”
Kwaaaaaang!
“My stuff!!”
I threw out some words that would draw aggro and blocked the lizard giant's fist.
‘Damn it.’
My body, which received a shock that felt dizzying, was pushed back along with the giant two-handed sword that was like a shield.
I had thought I wouldn't lose in terms of weight, but it seemed I couldn't compare to a creature the size of a building.
Of course, that alone seemed to be enough to piss off the lizard bastard.
“You son of a bitch……!”
I didn't even care about such unoriginal curses.
Hwak.
‘Ugh!’
But I couldn't ignore the heinous bad breath coming from that lizard's snout.
The stench, which made every nerve in my body stand on end, stimulated my entire body through my sense of smell.
A dizzying vertigo arose, and goosebumps broke out all over my body. An urge to vomit everything I had deep inside my intestines welled up.
My body naturally lost its strength.
“This fucking son of a……!”
The moment my mind became dizzy and my senses were about to blur.
Pusssus.
Only then did the demonic energy begin to be absorbed from the chains wrapped around the creature's body.
The feeling of the lizard giant's demonic energy, which had seemed to be stuck on stickily, finally being pulled away.
That sensation made me snap to my senses.
“You filthy bastard!”
The physiological disgust and anger that erupted from deep within my chest stimulated every nerve in my body.
Woooooong.
“H-how……”
As the lizard giant, whose demonic energy began to be sucked away in an instant, staggered and let out its bad breath again.
Wooooong.
“Shut up!”
With the resonance of the ‘Blade,’ a rain of weapons began to pour down from all directions.
Of course.
Tatatatatatang.
“Kyaaaaaak!”
The numerous weapons that fell from the air only provoked the lizard giant, unable to even scratch its skin.
“H-how dare you! How dare a mere brat like you take the power of the great Outer God……!”
However.
“Just shut that mouth!!!”
It wasn't a taunt that I had come up with by racking my brain.
Just a curse spat out by instinct.
- A monstrosity that emits such a disgusting smell must disappear from this world.
The anger that welled up from my peripheral nerves stimulated my already prepared soul.
Kwadeudeuk.
The iron scraps that had been pouring down from all directions instantly stuck to the ‘Blade’ he had raised.
In an instant, a giant blade that seemed to be twenty meters long was created.
- From the 2-Class onwards, it will be in the form of deepening or changing the three spells you first manifested.
- If you handle multiple elements, it's common to create a composite spell like a wind of flames.
- But since you can only handle one element, a more deepened or powerful spell might come out, don't you think? Though it might lack a bit of surprise.
Just as Rasmia had said.
Manifestation, Giant's Blade.
The 2-Class Spirit Arts that Muno first manifested appeared in the world on an absurd scale.
On top of that.
Woooooong.
The giant's blade that soared high into the sky soon accepted the mana surging from the ‘Red Heart’ to its limit, creating a tremendous mana blade like a gray flame over its entire massive sword body.
Soon.
Kung.
As soon as his chains brought the staggering lizard giant to the ground.
“Die!!”
A huge monstrosity, difficult to see as being wielded by a person, began to slice through space.
Kwaaaaaaaaaang.
As the force, as if the air, no, the space itself was exploding, crushed the battlefield.
The party members, who had been staring blankly at the half-subdued enemy and Muno's seizure-like attack, finally shouted.
“Sir Muno!”
“Don't kill it!!”
That shout brought reason back to Muno's eyes, who had been about to bring the sword down on the lizard giant's head.
The giant sword immediately changed its direction slightly, ending the fight by cutting off the lizard giant's right arm and leg.
Jjeeeeeok.
* * *
“Hoo, hoo.”
I lost my mind over a single smell and, in a daze(?), managed to complete a 2-Class spell, but the price was steep.
The mana spewed out by the Red Heart was infinite, but the body that had to contain that power had its limits.
Of course.
“What an absurd……”
The blow was tremendous enough to make Victon stare at me blankly and mutter in disbelief.
But I didn't have time to be immersed in the appreciation of what I had done, no, what I had accomplished.
“S-Sir Muno! Over there……!”
Where Rauel was pointing.
The lizard giant, with one arm and leg cut off, was returning to its original human form as soon as Muno finished absorbing the remaining demonic energy.
Of course, his appearance, which had aged in an instant, was no different from the ‘degenerated’ state that Corporeal Arts users so loathed, but he was definitely still alive.
“Anyway, we caught him. Right?”
At the pouring gazes, Muno unnecessarily shrugged his shoulders and put on a brave face.
Fortunately, the transformed human(?) soon regained consciousness even with one arm and leg completely gone.
And.
“Heh, what do you think you'll hear from me? Don't even think……. Cough.”
Even in that state, the spirit he showed was excellent.
An attitude unbefitting a weak magician.
Of course.
“Open your mouth.”
“G-geuk!”
Even that didn't last long against the combined attack of the powdered medicine that Rauel forcibly poured into his mouth and Muno's demonic energy control.
“Geureuk. The place where Elder Sieran is…….”
“The scale!?”
“The organization is…….”
As soon as he confessed a few secrets, the man's head exploded just like the masked men captured before.
But that was enough.
However, that didn't mean everything had gone according to plan.
“The one called Elder is at least a 6-Circle, and there might be one or two more like him, and they're preparing a ‘ritual’ in a place where high-level and mid-level magic knights are gathered in droves……”
At Muno's mutterings, the expressions of the party members hardened even more.
“In the end, we couldn't hear what that ritual is……”
The look on the guy's face just before his head exploded, as if he were mocking them, bothered him.
Even assuming only part of what he spat out was true, the scale was far too large for just the three of them to take on.
“……What should we do?”
At Muno's words, Rauel immediately shook her head.
“First of all, it's impossible with just us.”
“I guess we have to go back and call them……”
When he glanced at Victon, he saw him shrugging his shoulders.
“Them? Ah, you mean those two monsters who are doing some strange swordplay inside the castle? So they were your companions?”
“……You know?”
“I didn't even dare to get close, so I avoided them. Anyway, if those monsters are on our side, we might have a chance of winning.”
The moment I was surprised by Victon's words.
Grumble.
My face reddened unknowingly at the sound that rumbled from my stomach right on cue.
“C-cough. I've been running hard since morning……. And I haven't eaten anything.”
“No need to make excuses. In any case, that lady seems to need to recuperate as well.”
“Hmm?”
“Didn't you know? It seems she evolved during the battle just now. She'll probably have to eat a lot from now on.”
“Ah……!”
“Th-that's right. Sir Muno. Thanks to you……”
Only after seeing Rauel nod at Victon's words did the question that had popped into my head a moment ago get resolved.
And at the same time, I was also surprised.
Considering the age and level of this beautiful assassin, I had guessed that her talent was outstanding.
‘At this rate, she might be even better than Karina……?’
And while it was surprising that Rauel had evolved.
Victon's ability to recognize it at a glance was just as marvelous.
‘How did he know?’
Unlike me, who judged opponents by their weight, does that guy have another method?
I felt a sense of rivalry building up for no reason.
“Besides, if they're of that scale, they wouldn't have prepared it in just a day or two, right?
It's unlikely they'll run away just because a few branches were discovered. Though they will probably prepare……”
“Th-that's unavoidable. We have to call Sir Muno's companions anyway, so I think it would be better to regroup at this opportunity……sir.”
Rauel added to Victon's opinion as if to excuse her own condition.
“Well, that's not wrong. We can't keep fighting like this either.”
Grumble.
Muno gave a bitter smile at the embarrassing sounds rumbling from his stomach in succession.
Thanks to the Red Heart and the monster(?), his mana was quickly replenished, but he keenly felt that, given his fighting style, physical exhaustion was unavoidable.
And it seemed Victon had noticed that as well.
“Is it a type of Corporeal Arts that consumes a massive amount of calories, as expected?
With that much power, and even Spirit Arts……. On top of that, that lady seems to be at her 5th evolution already.”
“And you don't seem to be struggling at all.”
Even at Muno's probing words, Victon just smiled broadly.
“Anyway, thanks to you all, I feel like my horizons have broadened since coming here.
A knight who seems to be 4-Star in his late teens. And a lady who's already 5-Star at the age of mid-twenties……”
“I'm twenty-four!”
“……Ah, yes. Twenty-four.”
As Victon made a sour face at Rauel's convulsive reaction to the mention of her age.
Muno inwardly had a slight question.
‘He thinks I'm 4-Star? Hmm, this isn't exactly accurate.’
I couldn't help but wonder again what Victon's criteria for judging opponents was.
But in the meantime, Victon immediately nodded and stood up.
“Well, I've come to realize anew that the world is a wide place. It was a good experience in many ways.”
“Same here. A 4-Star knight at the age of seventeen or eighteen, and with that strange trait. Where else would I meet a guy like you?”
“……You're using informal speech until the end.”
“Aha? If you want me to use honorifics, I'll need to know your identity first. I'm a noble, you see. What's your family name?”
“Ha……”
At the slick smile, Victon's lips twitched, and he let out a deep sigh.
‘Right. You can't say it.’
As Muno was smirking.
Rauel tilted her head at the sudden atmosphere of farewell.
“Excuse me, we haven't caught them yet, are we splitting up?”
“I'm afraid to go near those two monsters who are your companions.”
“But you're not going to completely wash your hands of this, are you?”
“Of course not. Taking care of all those criminals is my request, no, my ‘mission’.”
At the words Victon offered with a slight smile, Muno also let out a smirk again.
It was a short time, but was it because of the bond that had formed as comrades-in-arms?
A feeling that he was subtly revealing a part of the truth.
Was that why?
“What? It sounds like you're going to play the role of the fisherman.”
“Fisherman?”
“It seems like you're going to try to snatch the good parts when we're fighting them.”
“Hmm. Well, you're not entirely wrong. But well, are you scared because of that?”
“Not at all. Try it if you can.”
Grin.
The black eyes and red eyes facing each other smiled a similar smile for the first time.
“Well then. I'll follow along on my own, so do your best, comrade.”
For some reason, even though he was saying something so blatantly annoying, he wasn't strangely detestable.
“Hey, our goal is the same, right?”
“If it's the annihilation of the Demon Cult, then of course.”
“Good. See you again, Victon. Victon is your real name, right?”
“That's right. And you, Muno?”
“Right. I'm Muno Drasen. This is Rauel.”
“……I'll remember that.”
“Your family name?”
“……I'll tell you when we meet next time.”
Victon smiled brightly and then turned into smoke and scattered.
Muno didn't try to catch him.
The sky he looked up at with a somewhat weary heart.
The sunset was already descending all over Erundel.
* * *
The bustling streets of Erundel. In a pub in the commercial city that was open even late at night.
A couple(?) was drawing all the attention in the place.
Munch munch.
“Sir Muno, a little slower. Gulp.”
Chomp chomp chomp.
“You too, slow down. You'll get indigestion.”
Crunch.
“As for me, I need this. Chomp chomp. You know.”
“Me too.”
“My case is. Munch munch. Different from yours!”
Slurp.
“That’s why. Chomp chomp. Chomp chomp. Eat quickly. Not much time left until midnight.”
“That’s what I’m saying. There's nothing for me to eat. Please eat a little less.”
“Hul……!”
The plates piled up as high as a person on the table.
That amazing feast of gluttony was being created by just two people.
“Are those people……”
“Hey, dear. Don't make eye contact.”
“Definitely, Corporeal……”
“That woman's skin color is……”
“Shh. They'll hear you……”
There's a reason for everything when people can do things that people can't do.
Most people guessed that the couple were not ordinary people and didn't even think of approaching them.
But there are always clueless people everywhere.
And if such a person is heavily intoxicated, they are bound to make mistakes.
They judge easily by what they see, and their usual nature comes out.
And as it happened, the drunkard in this pub seemed to have a pretty rotten personality.
“How dare a blackie eat with a person, it's disgusting. Hiccup.”
Rauel, who had taken off her veil after a long time to replenish her nutrients for evolution.
It was a voice that made her gray eyes narrow.