novelraw Chapter 139 : Chapter 139
Chapter 139 : Chapter 139
Chapter 139. Hydra
The moment the golden ray of light, the Dragon Sword Duke, landed on the brown Wyvern.
That golden light dyed the brown Wyvern, and it began to emit a bright light as if another sun had risen in the sky.
A voice came from within.
“The legendary monster has lost its intellect and fallen! A pity! Truly a pity!”
At that, the monster's only human head turned to glare at that light, at the Dragon Sword Duke.
[That experiment! If it wasn't for that damned experiment! This would never have happened!]
A voice filled only with anger and resentment.
“Experiment?”
The moment the questioning voice echoed, lightning struck from the clear sky towards the brightly shining Wyvern and its rider.
Flash.
Kwazzzzzzzzzzzik.
However.
The red lightning, which seemed like it would burn everything it touched, split into two streams above the Duke's head and scattered.
And.
“Well, it doesn't matter anyway. A mindless monster with only strong magic power. The only thing to be wary of is that human head, which is a pity.”
With a voice that still seemed to hold lingering regrets, the golden light was completely gathered into the bodies of the Duke and the Wyvern.
Only then did the human head turn its eyes from Muno and begin to focus on him.
[Not a chance, Dragon Sword Duke!]
At the same time.
The other lizard heads, which had been frowning at the dazzling light, all looked at the Duke.
“Kyaaaaaaaaak!”
Green breaths spewed from the eight heads, flowing like a green river in the sky.
[A mere human……!]
Kwadeudeudeudeuk.
The power of red lightning was added to that green river.
Kwakwakwakwakwakwa!
[Die! Seven-Star!]
However.
In the sky dominated by the giant green river, the golden Wyvern and its rider became a single boat, cutting through the flow and moving upstream.
“Ha!”
The red lightning that crashed into them along the way was scattered in all directions every time the rider swung his sword.
The moment the Wyvern rider reached the vicinity of the nine-headed monster.
Jjeoeok.
Jjeok.
“Kyaaaaak!”
The two Red Iron Knights, who had been suppressing their presence, carved thin but long wounds on the monster's body.
At that moment, two necks turned towards the two Red Iron Knights.
[These fools……!!]
The green river flowing in the sky diminished by that much.
“Ha!!”
The moment the golden Wyvern rider, who had accelerated rapidly with a yell that shook the heavens, passed by the monster's neck.
A golden ray of light flashed in all directions for a moment.
Jjeoeoeoeok.
With the Duke's single sword strike, two necks were split as if by a lie and fell down the cliff.
‘How, is that…….’
The sight of the giant necks, which hadn't even lost a single scale to ordinary attacks, being cut clean off was too unrealistic.
“Kyaooooooo!”
[Aaaaaak! You fools! I told you to listen to me!]
He felt the monster's magic, which was soaring madly as green blood spurted out like a fountain, suddenly diminish.
Only then did Muno realize that he was just staring blankly at the battlefield and began to climb the cliff again.
“Daaamn it!”
Could he really do anything by joining that crazy battlefield?
He was skeptical, but just standing still went against his nature.
‘I'll do something! I must!’
Thud. Thud. Thud.
Fortunately(?), the moment he was rapidly climbing by digging into the cliff.
[You! Experiment!!!!]
The human head, which had been in a frenzy blaming the other heads until a moment ago, began to look at him again as if it had lost its mind.
At the same time, red lightning poured down.
Kwaaaaaaaaang!
Pazzzzzzzzzik.
He couldn't avoid it, but it could never deal a blow to Muno.
Of course.
“Keeeeuh.”
Unlike normal lightning, he was driven into the cliff a bit due to the physical shockwave that hit just before it struck.
But Muno couldn't help but laugh at that human head.
Adeudeuk.
“Thanks for the energy charge!”
As he pulled his buried body out and climbed the cliff even faster.
The Wyvern rider, who had struck the two necks, was already turning and approaching the monster again.
[Damn it……!]
Only then did the human head turn back to the body.
[These idiots……!]
Even in the midst of that, two heads were busy dealing with the Red Iron Knights in opposite directions, so its giant body remained fixed.
Only the remaining six heads turned to face the Dragon Sword Duke.
Unlike before, the heads, wrapped in demonic energy, charged in as if to ram him head-on.
It looked crude, but the flame-like demonic energy flowing in each of those heads contained a huge amount of energy that was incomparable to the mana blade Muno himself could currently muster.
However.
‘Hmm?’
Muno frowned at the strange flow of demonic energy he suddenly felt.
‘Below?’
Puhwahak.
At the same time, the Wyvern rider, the Dragon Sword Duke, charged at the six heads.
Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaang!
Jjeoeoeoeoeoeong.
An enormous shockwave erupted at that moment.
To the extent that the six heads were sent flying, and the Wyvern faltered in mid-air.
“Kyaaaaak!”
“Krrrrrr.”
The monster's heads seemed to have received a massive shock and were momentarily dazed, and the Wyvern didn't look to be in good shape either.
Its flapping wings had even stopped, as if it would have fallen if not for the golden aura wrapped around its entire body.
But in that situation, the Dragon Sword Duke's triumphant laughter burst out instead.
“Hahahahaha! Yes, this is it!”
But at that moment.
‘Huh?’
Muno felt ‘two strands’ of demonic energy with a strange flow from below being quickly absorbed into the monster's body again.
‘The place where those heads fell earlier?’
And as soon as he realized that.
Kwadeudeudeuk.
“Kkieeek!”
“Kyaaaaa!”
Heads shot out from the two necks that had been cut off a moment ago and attacked the Dragon Sword Duke, who was frozen in mid-air, from behind.
It felt as if the regeneration and the attack happened almost simultaneously.
However.
“Good! This is how it should be!”
With words that made one wonder if he was a pervert, a golden light flashed.
Kwaaaaaaaaang!
Blood spurted out again from the two necks that had attacked the Duke from behind.
But unlike before, they weren't completely severed.
At that moment.
[I said listen to me!!!]
Kwaaaaaaaaang!
An intense explosion of flames centered on the Wyvern.
As soon as that once again obscured the view of the sky.
‘Here I go!’
Pabababak.
Muno's body, with his teeth gritted, began to climb the cliff relentlessly again.
‘Since the view is blocked.’
Instead of stepping on the rock wall one by one, he threw his body into the air using the recoil of the chains driven into the wall.
Chwareureureuk.
Paaaaaang!
“Heh…….”
Muno, who had reached the battlefield on top of the cliff in a single breath, smiled as he felt the tingling atmosphere on his skin.
A battlefield where demonic energy that was hard for even the Demon Devourer to endure overflowed, and where the Red Iron Knights, who were far beyond his level, played supporting roles.
But a laugh came out even in the midst of that brutal momentum.
‘Thrilling.’
He thought he could understand a little why the Dragon Sword Duke had shouted like that, but then his senses jolted back.
‘No, that's not it. Me and that crazy old man…….’
I shouldn't get swept away by the strange atmosphere.
Kwaaaaaaaaang.
Ururururung.
In the midst of the dust and fog that poured down the moment he had an idle thought, Muno sharpened his senses to the maximum to grasp the situation on the battlefield.
However.
The first thing he felt as soon as he did was a familiar presence that had approached him before he knew it.
“Sir Muno.”
“Rauel!”
An extremely dark face. He wondered if she had been injured.
“I think I'll only be a hindrance here.”
From Rauel's words, spat out with her lips bitten tightly, he could feel a deep sense of resentment towards herself.
‘Damn it…….’
For a moment, he didn't know what to say.
Rauel's archery, now grown to the 5-Star level, certainly overwhelmed Corporeal Arts users of the same level, and in some aspects, it had a special quality that could even target stronger opponents.
But in front of this monster, which boasted overwhelming defense and regeneration, her specialty was literally useless.
No matter how much he comforted her, could there be anyone who knew that better than herself?
So, all he could say was.
“That monster is just out of the ordinary. For now, get to a safe place. You've done well enough so far.”
That was about it.
“I'm sorry. Even after you gave me the artifact.”
“You don't even have arrows to use it. Even if you did…… Hup!?”
“Hot!?”
At the sudden flow of demonic energy felt nearby, Muno instinctively grabbed Rauel and leaped.
And at that moment, the spot they had been in exploded.
Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang!
[You bastard! I'll personally!!!]
“Why is that thing only after me again……!”
Chwareureureuk.
Moving his chains, he began to diligently dodge the human head's magic attacks.
Kwareurururung.
Kwakwakwakwakwa.
Even in the midst of that, he didn't know how fortunate it was that he could read the flow of demonic energy.
At least, the later that crazy head realized that he was absorbing magic, the more advantageous it would be for him.
Just as he was thinking that.
“As expected, I……”
He saw Rauel's face, even darker, in his arms.
He wanted to offer some words of comfort to her, whose self-esteem seemed to have completely crumbled, but he couldn't think of much to say.
Damn it.
“That monster can't be dealt with by arrows. Don't blame yourself.”
Kwaaaaaang!
Ururururung.
The loud noise of the battlefield that came at that moment clearly informed them that this was no longer a situation for just talking.
“Get to a safe place first!”
“I'm sorry. Then I'll go get reinforcements……”
“No, don't call them! Unless they're Spirit Masters or 6-Star knights, they'll only be a hindrance.”
……Except for a special case like me.
He couldn't bring himself to say the omitted words, but Rauel only nodded with a dark face and left the place.
He was even more worried about her retreating back.
But he couldn't just keep looking at her.
“Muno!!!”
At the sound of Anthony's voice and a brutal presence suddenly heard nearby, Muno reflexively extended his chains and leaped into the air.
Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaang!
One of the heads rammed into the ground he had been standing on.
As soon as he leaped into the air through the cloud of dust.
[You bastard!!!!]
The human head with its red eyes glowing even more redly targeted him.
Immediately, a storm of demonic energy, with red lightning, cold air, and even wind added to it, began to rage around him.
‘Damn it.’
Kwadeudeudeudeuk.
Muno had no choice but to lament even as he crushed the magic and absorbed some of it.
‘Did the human head become an idiot after assimilating with the monster?’
There was no other way to explain why the head, which spoke perfectly fine, would lose its mind whenever it saw him.
However.
“Just take care of that one!”
“That one's only after you!”
Kwaaaaaang!
“Our role is!”
“To help His Excellency!”
He couldn't ignore the shouts of Anthony and Rantor as they passed by in turns.
For now, he decided to focus only on luring that human head.
While doing so, on the other hand.
‘The demonic energy that flowed during that regeneration earlier seemed a bit strange.’
He didn't let go of the premonition that he might be able to do something more special than that.
Of course, before that.
[Even with this!]
Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang!
He had to somehow shake off this human head, which was now even ramming him with demonic energy wrapped around it like iron armor.
In the midst of that.
- Here I go!!!
At the loud shout of the golden Wyvern rider that echoed through the air.
Muno exchanged glances with the two Red Iron Knights like lightning.
They understood each other without speaking.
- We have to tie up the heads we're each responsible for.
Muno, at that moment, extended his chains towards the human head that had come right up to his nose.
Chwareureureuk.
He wrapped his chains around its house-sized head and neck.
[I'll chew you all up and swallow you!!!]
He leaped onto the top of the head of the creature that was baring its giant, saw-like teeth.
“Right, then eat this too!!”
Normal attacks won't work.
If so.
Seueaaaaaa.
While absorbing the demonic energy.
Kwaaaaaaaaaang!
His exploded ‘Blade’, its fragments, poured down as if to dig into one of the human head's giant eyes.