novelraw Chapter 127 : Chapter 127
Chapter 127 : Chapter 127
Chapter 127: Spell, Iron Wall
Sgak.
As the pure white smoke deeply sliced the pupil of one head, the monsters began to go even more berserk.
[Kyaaaaaak!]
[Another rat…!]
Kraaaaaash!
A mass of condensed magical power, not a special spell, spread out in all directions.
Despite that reflexive omnidirectional bombardment, Victon, who had turned into pure white smoke, literally just floated back like a cloud being swept away by the wind.
A strange skill that was impossible to grasp no matter how many times I saw it.
For some reason, the color of the smoke seemed darker and his movements more fluid than before, but.
‘Not enough! Is Sir Anthony not here yet?’
Now was the time when the strongest combatant of the group was needed.
Or else.
‘That guy, if he could just land that blow from before….’
That blow Victon had shown when the shield broke.
However.
‘Impossible… I guess.’
The movements of the smoke, no, the cloud-like Victon had become more fluid, but his face, which was revealed for brief moments, clearly looked pale.
Still, it was a relief.
Just Victon’s intervention had given me a moment to breathe.
Thud.
Muno pulled his body from the wall he was embedded in and dashed across the ground again.
No.
Chwaaaak.
He flew.
Paaaaang.
‘This should be enough….’
The two chains that shot up from his toes now extended nearly 100m, pushing his heavy body into the air.
At that.
[Kyaaaaaak!]
Swaaaaaaaaaah.
As if they had been waiting, a green breath spewed out simultaneously from the three heads not dealing with Victon.
A dark green mist instantly covered the entire front.
“Ugh!?”
Muno's body, which had no choice but to be swept up because the range was too wide, staggered in mid-air.
‘Uuuugh, damn it!’
The foul stench of that wide-spreading breath had momentarily made his head spin.
‘The smell, damn it!’
However, the source of the fishy smell contained within that breath, the poisonous energy that was clearly a potent poison, oddly had little effect on him.
It was a little strange, but there was no time to ponder it seriously.
The moment he forced his dizzy mind to focus.
Chwaaaak.
He once again extended his chains, wrapping them around one of the heads beyond the green mist and pulling it.
“Uweeeek!”
At that, the monster’s head spat out something yellow, scattering it in the air, but.
[He’s coming!]
[The breath…!]
[Doesn’t work!?]
Did they really think something like that was their all-out strike?
I could see the monster’s smiling heads become flustered.
In that situation.
Shhnnk!
[Kyaaak. This damn smoke bastard!!]
As even the head dealing with Victon screamed, spouting fountains of blood from both eyes.
The monster’s four heads fell into a momentary panic.
And.
“Brush your teeth!!! Damn it!”
They say smelling a strong ammonia scent can have a momentary awakening effect, was this one of those cases?
The moment that useless thought flashed through my mind.
Muno’s strike, filled with extreme anger and energy.
A slash combining the power of ‘Brute Strength’ and ‘Space Slicer’ sent one head flying.
[Kuaaaaak!]
[No…!]
[Way!]
Chwaaaak.
Thump.
Muno, who subsequently landed on the severed surface by wrapping his chains around it, repeated what he had done just before.
Shuuuunk.
[No!]
[Get him off!!]
[Block it!]
As Muno’s greatsword dug into the severed surface of the neck, even the head that had been checking Victon charged at him, as if to bite him to death.
The flames of demonic energy, re-materialized and surging over the entire head. That intense killing intent led to shockwaves that shook Muno’s body in succession.
Kaboom!
KRAAAASH!
The shockwave magic that thoroughly blasted the surrounding air shook his body mercilessly.
The three heads seemed to have already learned which of the indirect magics was most effective against Muno, but.
Cruuunch.
“Keuh….”
Muno, who had wrapped four chains around the severed surface of the neck, did not lose his focus even as blood trickled from his lips.
And as things one has done once are always easier the second time.
“Explode!”
Ruuuuuumble.
The remnants of the blade that had dug deep into the neck and exploded blocked the flow of magical power and blood.
Wooooooosh.
The chains instantly sucked out even the last dregs of demonic energy from the severed surface.
[Kyaaaaaak!]
BOOM!
Belatedly, as if to ignore its own(?) wound, one head slammed into Muno.
Muno didn’t forcefully take the impact but let it flow away with his chains, dropping down under the monster’s body.
The monster, which had suddenly lost its two middle heads, began to get desperate at that moment.
[Kill it!]
[That thing must be killed!]
[For the great cause!! Even if we have to grind away our own life force!]
Whooooosh.
Dark red flames, no, a demonic energy like flames gushing in reverse, now surged so violently that even an ordinary person could see it.
‘Hm!?’
The fragments of ‘Blade’ embedded in the monster’s body informed him that the monster’s life force was decreasing in real time.
Cru-du-duk.
[Faster!]
[Stronger!]
[With this size…!]
[It’s no good!!]
The monster then began to shrink its body to about 2/3 of its previous size, while covering the surface of its body with several layers of hard scales.
Shiiiing.
Pak-bak-bak-bak.
Victon’s strike, who had approached again as smoke, now couldn’t even cut through the transparent eyelid membrane and was simply deflected.
“Damn it…!”
At Victon’s dismayed voice, Muno charged again, leaping up and aiming for a head as he swung his greatsword.
‘Who said I’d wait for you to transform!’
Flash.
Shhhhhhnnnk!
The power I had squeezed out to the very bottom once again sliced a neck, but.
[Kek, kekeke. It won’t work anymore. Harder!]
Unlike before, the greatsword of gray flame only managed to dig halfway into the neck before fizzling out.
‘Damn it.’
Thump.
I could see the gash on the half-severed neck rapidly healing.
Chwaaaak.
I once again extended my chains to try and drain the demonic energy of the transforming creature, but.
‘No. Damn it.’
Even so, it only slightly slowed down the healing of the severed neck.
And in that time, there was smoke that had dug into that severed section like the wind.
Flash.
KRAAAAAASH.
However, that smoke, Victon’s strike, only managed to dig a little deeper into the crack and was not enough to sever the head.
But Muno roared at Victon, who was retreating with a pale face exposed.
“It’s temporary! Hold on!”
I shouted that, but I couldn’t shake the thought that I myself was in a bind.
That monster was clearly attempting a forced transformation, and its life force was decreasing as a price, but.
‘Can I, can we, hold on until all of that thing’s life force is gone?’
Was it because it was a monster transformed from a human, not a magician or a monster?
The demonic energy I absorbed from it didn’t get absorbed as Origin Mana and just flowed in as usable mana.
‘Damn it.’
That alone wasn’t enough to completely erase the fatigue of a body that had already used three strikes that surpassed its limits.
In the urgent situation, my brain operated beyond its limits, searching for a way.
‘The only way is….’
Only one alternative came to mind.
A large-scale expanded version of the spell ‘Blade’, newly created with 2-Class Spirit Arts.
To add Brute Strength and Space Slicer to the ‘Giant’s Blade’ that had completely severed a giant lizard.
But.
‘Not enough.’
The armor and weapons of the Magic Knights scattered at the entrance of the plaza seemed insufficient to be used as materials for ‘Giant’s Blade’.
And more importantly.
Even if I managed to gather all my strength and use that strike.
‘My body won’t be able to take it.’
I knew it instinctively.
The moment I performed such a reckless strike, no matter how sturdy my body was, something would break.
But.
“I have to do it.”
The moment Muno, gritting his teeth as if making a vow, reached his hand toward the plaza entrance again.
“You’ve done well, Sir Muno. Now, step aside.”
A familiar, and low voice was heard.
The voice he had been waiting for more than anything.
‘Sir Anthony!’
The moment he recognized it, Muno reflexively released his chains and retreated.
A reflexive retreat created by the tension felt in the calm voice.
And it was the same for Victon, who had been hacking away at the transforming monster.
At that moment.
Flash.
A deep sunset light that extended from the entrance vertically split the plaza, no, the ‘world’.
The strike that had been blocked once by the unknown, magnificent protective magic he had watched when he evolved.
It directly hit the monster that was defenseless and in the middle of ‘transforming’.
Kra-ka-kak.
On the body of the shrinking but still giant monster, a crack appeared in an instant, as if it were a lie.
And.
[Kuh…?]
[Wha…t?]
[Blo, Blood Knight!! Kuaaaaaak!]
Shhhhhnnnngk.
Along with the screams of the remaining three heads, its body split in an instant.
Ruuuuuuumble.
The monster finally collapses.
“Huh….”
Muno could only stare at the Blood Knight, Anthony, who was slumping to the ground at the plaza entrance with a pale complexion, his eyes not hiding his surprise at all.
What on earth could one do with a sword to unleash such a strike?
‘It’s not because of that sword, is it.’
The flame sword Anthony had chosen when I obtained the Red Heart was certainly a fine artifact, but it didn’t have the mana to pour out such an absurd strike.
In other words, it was purely the Blood Knight’s power.
Admiration came naturally, but at that moment, another strange thought came to mind.
‘Even with this, he’s not a Seven-Star?’
- How many exchanges? Well, if he were bare-handed without the Dragon Sword, I suppose so.
The Dragon Sword Duke, who could easily defeat the Blood Knight Anthony, who possessed such a strike, with his bare hands.
The moment curiosity about such a superhuman surged again.
- Krrrr.
“Hup!?”
The Demon Devourer recognized a change in the monster that it thought was dead.
[Together…!]
[Let’s die!]
[Our revenge will be carried out by Lord Sieran…!]
The three heads, igniting a final light in their fading pupils, caused their magical power and life force to run rampant in an instant.
At that moment, its body, which had been split in half, exploded without warning.
BA-BOOOOOOOOOOM!
‘Acceleration! Maximum!’
Kuuung.
Muno’s consciousness, who saw that, began to flow drastically faster.
The power contained in the exploding corpse was too much for even him in his current state to handle.
‘I’m the one in closest proximity.’
Acceleration deployed beyond its limits in a desperate situation. Time, which seemed to have stopped because of it.
But unfortunately, it felt as if his own body was also stopped.
Even so, it was amazing to see the smoke, Victon, moving, albeit slowly, toward the plaza entrance.
However, this explosion didn't seem like something that could be dodged from this distance.
Sir Anthony, who had slumped down at the entrance with a pale complexion, was reaching for his sword again, and behind him was Rauel, lying unconscious.
‘Everyone will die…!’
That thought made him even more desperate.
And at that moment, his father’s words flashed through his mind.
- A knight is one who protects, Muno.
- The reason we are called knights and not just Corporeal Arts users is because we have honor.
- A knight exists to protect someone. And I…….
- ……will raise you as a knight.
That moved his body.
‘I’ll block it!’
As a knight, his greatest specialty was his sturdy armor and body that were beyond common sense.
If he could just block the plaza entrance, his companions could be safe.
Though he himself didn’t know what would happen.
Still.
‘I’ll do it!’
That resolve made his body move in the seemingly stopped time.
Cruuunch.
But.
‘Not enough.’
The closer the exploding monster's flesh and blood came, the more certain he was.
That he couldn’t completely block the explosion.
The range was too large.
Even if he stood in front and blocked, the aftermath that swept through the plaza like a storm would eventually engulf his weakened companions.
‘I have to block it completely.’
Somehow.
That will moved his mana.
Woooooosh.
It was transmitted to his ‘Blade’ again.
The inspiration that arose at that moment created another spell.
‘Block!’
Cru-du-duk.
In the time that had begun to flow again, bit by bit, the giant greatsword began to transform into a flat shield.
Of course, even so, there was a limit to its size.
KWAAA----AAAA----AH!
A dizzying impact struck the ‘shield’ in an instant.
‘Keuk!’
Endure!
His screaming body accepted its master’s will and somehow maintained its balance.
The armor and body, which had become much heavier through the fourth evolution, reduced the time it was pushed back by a very small amount.
And in that time.
Kra-du-du-duk.
Metals that flew from near the entrance quickly stuck to the shield, increasing its scale.
It soon became a giant iron wall that blocked the entire plaza entrance, stopping the explosion caused by the monster’s corpse.
It was the moment Muno’s other spell, ‘Iron Wall’, revealed itself to the world for the first time.