novelraw Chapter 125 : Chapter 125
Chapter 125 : Chapter 125
Chapter 125:What is That……?
‘Finished organizing.’
Pushuk.
That was the thought that came to Rauel's mind the moment she lodged an arrow in the neck of the last magician outside the small barrier.
But just as she did, a terrible scream erupted from the center.
“Gyaaaaaaah!”
It wasn't the scream of a dying person.
It was the voice of the high-ranking magicians who had hidden inside the small barrier in the center to save only themselves.
Her eyes, which naturally turned, discovered the ‘green mass’ that had begun to grow inside the barrier.
“What is that……?”
“A monster, it’s a monster! How could this be……!”
A voice came from behind her.
Victon, who had been resting with a pale face after succeeding in an unbelievable strike, abruptly stood up and staggered.
‘I can tell it’s a monster just by looking at it.’
Rauel didn't bother to reply and focused her mind on her bow.
Her senses expanded once again in an instant.
The mana that had escaped the demonic energy filling the square began to dwell in her body, bow, and arrow.
She drew her bowstring, searching for the right moment to unleash that power.
‘Not yet, not yet.’
The creepy demonic energy felt from within the barrier.
Moreover, the ever-growing green mass began to swallow the other magicians who were also inside it.
“Geureuk!”
“Sir Taklan!”
“Why, why are you doing this to us……!”
The remaining four high-ranking magicians who had survived inside the barrier screamed.
But soon, the green mass began to grow in size, swallowing even them.
And at the same time, the barrier surrounding them also began to grow.
- Damn it, Sir Muno!!
She saw Anthony, who had been endlessly striking the barrier, shout.
But the lord she had decided to serve, Muno Drasen, was standing with his eyes closed and motionless, with a group of magicians wrapped in his chains.
‘What is he doing……?’
She was bewildered, but at that moment, she realized something strange.
Most of the corpses of the magicians she had killed with the Blood Knight and Victon, other than those bound by Muno's chains, had disappeared at some point, leaving only pools of blood.
And even the few remaining corpses, those who had died not long ago, were seen disappearing into the ground as if melting at that moment.
It was a very different appearance from the end of a magician, which was known to be the body rotting in an instant as the demonic energy within was released upon death.
It felt as if the ground was eating the corpses.
‘What is this……?’
Did her lord know this in advance and stop it?
But even if he did, what would change by holding onto a few magicians like that?
As countless questions popped into her head.
“Daaamn it!”
With the Blood Knight's shout.
Kwaaaaaaang!
The barrier in the center exploded.
And soon, a terrifying monster revealed itself.
Thud. Thud. Thud.
A body like a huge green lizard.
Its appearance with four legs and a huge tail underneath was no different from a large lizard monster.
But the ‘heads’ that shot up from its torso were unlike any monster described in any literature.
“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”
The face of a large old man on the neck in the center, which rose the highest.
“Kurururuk.”
“Geureuk.”
“Geueueueueu.”
“Kyaaaaaa…….”
And on the four necks that sprouted from its sides, there were also heads that were clearly human, just larger in size.
They were all familiar faces.
The faces of the high-ranking magicians who had turned their backs on their allies and taken refuge inside the barrier.
“That’s……”
The horrifying sight made even the tip of the arrow on her bowstring tremble.
“What……”
The moment Victon's weak voice flowed out.
Suddenly, a red light flashed.
Jjeeeeeok.
“……Geureu?”
She saw the red knight who had shot up from the monster's feet cut off the highest and thickest neck in a single blow.
The unrealistic sight of a head the size of a house being cut off by a single slender longsword.
But the long red light that shot up from the longsword was something Rauel now knew could produce such power.
A sword imbued with the mana of a huge flame.
That sight made her mind snap back to reality.
“Hup!”
At the same time, her sharpened mind gathered mana into the arrow.
Taaang!
Before the head cut off by the Blood Knight could hit the ground, the arrow that left the bowstring dug into the eye of the head next to it.
Puuuuuk.
“Kyaaaaaaaaak!”
A blue arrow that pierced through the eye of the large middle-aged man's head in an instant and came out the back.
The pierced head screamed.
Thud.
The moment the head cut off by the Blood Knight fell to the floor.
Rauel was convinced that this terrifying monster was ultimately just a monster.
Until she saw the head that had fallen off shoot up again with a stream of blood and float in the air.
[Now, I'm finally, wide awake.]
The old man's face, which had reattached itself to its original position, uttered a shrill voice that seemed to make the cave ring.
With a huge human face, smiling eerily with only sharp, awl-like teeth showing.
‘Horrifying.’
She felt goosebumps all over her body and flinched for a moment, but the choice of the red knight right in front of the monster was different.
Even though he must have used quite a bit of strength until now.
“Ha!”
The red mana blade that shot up long again from the sword of the red knight who had leaped onto the monster's back dug into the huge lizard's torso.
Just from that action, the Blood Knight's will could be felt.
- If the head reattaches even after being cut off, I'll split the torso.
His judgment to immediately find the next best course of action even in an unexpected and bewildering situation, and his execution power to match it, was truly befitting of the kingdom's famous Blood Knight.
But then.
Hwarururuk.
With the demonic energy that shot up like a flame from the monster's torso, the red light of the mana blade began to flow backward.
As if it were being pulled out again from the monster's body.
But soon.
“Don’t make me laugh!!”
Puuuuuk.
With the Blood Knight's shout, the scattered red light flashed once more and pierced through the monster's torso.
However.
[It hurts. That's enough.]
The old man's cave-like voice echoed again.
And on his back, a huge bolt of fire fell without warning.
Kwakwakwakwakwakwakwakwa.
Of course, at that moment, Anthony leaped off his back.
In the end, that huge flame seemed to be a self-destruct that burned its own body.
[It’s warm. What is this.]
[I'm finally awake…….]
[Why am I…….]
The other four heads, which had only been croaking, began to speak with human voices at that moment.
[Where is this? Who am I?]
The reaction of one head, which Rauel had pierced through the eye along with the head, was a bit strange.
But soon, even its wound began to heal quickly, which she could also sense.
“Eek!”
The bowstring was drawn again.
Arrows shot in succession flew, aiming for the eyes of the horrifying human heads.
Puuuk.
[Kyaak!?]
Only the head that was recovering was hit in the eye again by an arrow.
The other heads deployed a black, translucent barrier and deflected the arrows.
Kwaaaaaaang!
The Blood Knight's mana blade, which stretched out long again and struck the torso.
[Not a chance.]
[Feels like I've been reborn.]
[Strange but.]
[I like it!]
It could only cut through a few layers of the five-layered barrier that was overlaid with the disgusting cave-like voices and was bounced off.
And in the center of it.
[Kyahahahaha! Magical power is overflowing! And on top of that, this immortal body is even stronger! This is the true body of the Outer God, as Sir Sieran said!]
The old man's face smiled creepily.
[Now, let's take care of the bastards who almost disturbed this sacred ritual, comrades.]
[Sir Taklan.]
[……As you say.]
[Let’s punish them.]
[But, who am I?]
Thud. Thud.
Soon, an energy like a black flame surged from the huge monster's body.
Just looking at it gave her goosebumps and made her feel as if the world was being polluted.
At that moment, Rauel saw the Blood Knight, standing right in front of the monster, holding his sword and concentrating his mind in a defenseless state.
It seemed he was preparing something.
‘I have to buy time.’
Rauel, who instinctively sensed that, put the maximum amount of mana into the arrow on her bowstring.
Taaang!
[Hmm?]
The blue arrow, which flew like a thunderbolt as if shortening the space, pierced through the monster's reflexively deployed barrier and dug into its eye.
It wasn't enough to pierce through the head like the first shot.
[Gyaak! Which bastard!!!]
But it was enough to turn the gaze of the old man's head in the center towards her.
A creepy killing intent was focused on her.
At that moment, Rauel leaped into the square.
And she didn't forget to leave a word there.
“Victon, please take care of Sir Muno!”
She didn't know why, but she entrusted Muno, who was motionless while holding onto the magicians who were withering away, to the smoke man(?).
“Damn it. If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have used that in the beginning.”
Confirming that the staggering smoke man was moving towards the square, Rauel drew her bow again.
‘One shot at a time, strong.’
Pushuk.
The mana-concentrated arrow aimed for the old man's head again.
Taaaaang!
[Not a chance!]
This time, the barrier, spread out in several layers, futilely deflected the arrow.
But that one shot achieved a sufficient result.
[That one, kill it first]
Thud. Thud. Thud.
‘As expected, its intelligence is…….’
The lizard monster, leaving Anthony who had inflicted a critical hit right in front of it, began to chase her.
She wondered if it hadn't seen him because he was in the old man's blind spot.
But to think so, the condition of the other heads didn't look good either.
[Why is it moving……? With magic.]
[The power of this body too.]
Hwarururuk.
The other heads shot out huge flames from their mouths or spat out thick green smoke.
But with flames accompanied by a huge flow of energy or the slow green smoke, they couldn't catch up with her movements.
‘Slow.’
Pababababak.
Kwaaaaaaaang!
Swaaaaaaaa.
The flame that directly hit the spot long after she had passed.
And the slower green smoke was engulfed by the flame, spreading a pungent smell in all directions.
Ururururung.
Its power and scale were enough to shake the wide underground square.
[Rat.]
[Catch it.]
[Annoying…….]
Swaaaaaaaa.
Kwarurururung!
The demonic energy that shot up from the huge monster's body successively became lightning, cold, and flame and poured down.
But other than the lightning she instinctively dodged, it wasn't a very threatening attack.
‘Just a strong idiot……?’
The moment she was about to feel a little relieved.
Suddenly, a dizzying sensation struck Rauel.
“Ugh!?”
Her body staggered against her will.
[Puhaha. You drank the poisonous smoke.]
[Weak human.]
[Idiot.]
[The poison of a transcendent species like us…….]
As the monster, which seemed to have reduced intelligence, mocked her.
“I'll split you in two!”
A resolute shout was heard from the center of the square, behind the monster.
At the same time.
Flash.
A beam of red light cut through the huge monster's body vertically from behind.
Swaaaaaaaa.
‘Amazing……!’
An energy so strong that even she, who was losing consciousness in front of the monster, could clearly feel it.
As the huge beam of light, like a deep sunset that cut through the darkness, was about to bisect the monster.
[Indeed, the Blood Knight. A good thing I was prepared.]
Kwaaaaaaang!
Ururururung.
With the old man's voice, a rough explosion roared, and a shock that seemed to turn the world upside down covered the surroundings.
And.
[Kyahahahaha! You've used up all your strength, Blood Knight. Well then, the main menu should be eaten last. First, the gnat…….]
With the voice of the old man, whose head seemed relatively intact.
She saw the huge monster's foot falling on her staggering head.
‘Like this, so futilely……?’
The moment a desperate thought came to her.
“Get lost!”
A familiar voice was heard, and a strong arm embraced her.
Kwaaaaaaang!
Ururung.
Dust rose again in the explosion.
“Ugh……?”
As her focused senses were released and her vision slowly returned, what she saw was.
“Are you alright?”
A ‘Black Knight’ with a familiar lower face, wearing a sleek eagle-head-shaped helmet with wing-like horns on both sides.
The face of a familiar person, which made her heart pound.