novelraw Chapter 140 : Chapter 140
Chapter 140 : Chapter 140
Chapter 140. The Liberated Demonic Beast
Pubububuk.
The moment the fragments of the exploded greatsword dug into the wide-open red eye.
The human head began to scream, baring its saw-like teeth.
[Kyaaaaaak! How dare you! How dare you!!]
Just before the giant head, shaking violently, slammed into the ground.
Muno, who had his chains wrapped around that head, used the rebound to leap toward the monster's body instead.
Kwaaaaaang!
Ururururung.
It was a rather stylish evasion, but at that moment, Muno felt helpless.
He had attacked and dodged as his instincts told him.
‘Fuck, what now?’
He had thrown himself at the monster while the ground shook as if from an earthquake, but he had nothing in his hands.
In that situation.
In that brief moment when the human head was slammed into the ground, he saw one of the six heads that had been fighting the Dragon Sword Duke turn to look at him.
Hwiiiiing.
“Damn it……”
The moment a chill ran down his spine from the wind brushing against the grain of his armor.
“Kyaaaaaak!”
The red eye of that head glowed, and it spewed out a green mist in an instant.
Jiiiiiiing.
“Keuk!”
The moment he met the red eye, that familiar headache once again made his head spin.
At the same time, the green mist wrapped around his body.
Kwakwakwakwakwa.
“Keuuuuh……”
His mind became hazy from the terrible stench, and his body was pushed back into the air by the force of the breath.
But in other words, there was no other major damage.
‘As expected, poison doesn't work on me.’
He still didn't know the reason, but for now, it was a huge relief.
However.
‘What now? Damn it.’
Nevertheless, he was still left defenseless in the air.
But at that moment.
Jjeoeoeoeok!
The green mist was instantly split apart, and he saw a giant Wyvern leap up in front of him.
And on it, the urgent expression of the old knight wrapped in golden light.
“Damn it! Kid……! Hmm?”
Huh?
‘Is that old man trying to save me?’
They made eye contact and were both flustered at the same time.
“Get on yourself!”
As soon as the Dragon Sword Duke's permission was given, Muno's chains wrapped around the Wyvern Castaria's leg.
“Kyaak!?”
At that moment, a look of confusion and annoyance appeared on the face of the momentarily staggering Castaria.
From Muno's perspective, it was just unfair.
You've grabbed my body and dropped me before, and now you're acting all surprised…….
“Sorry, buddy! I'm a bit heeeavy!”
Hwiririk.
Thud.
He shot up again with the rebound from pulling the chains and landed on the Wyvern's broad back.
The moment he tried his best to ignore the Wyvern's once again distorted expression, the Dragon Sword Duke Kyle Dragon roared.
“Hold on tight!”
“Yeeek!?”
His mind went dizzy at the sudden vertical dive.
Soon, a green smoke like a giant river appeared again in front of the Wyvern.
‘Huh?’
Psusususu.
The moment he saw the golden mana that had lightly brushed against the river burn up and disappear.
The Dragon Sword Duke's sword began to dance again.
Kwakwakwakwakwawka.
What should he call that?
With the movement of his arm that his own dynamic visual acuity couldn't properly capture, the large greatsword began to spew out a golden ray of light dozens of times larger than itself.
At that moment, he saw the green river that had been threatening the Wyvern and the old knight scatter in all directions in vain.
At the same time, the heads of the dragon-like monster were revealed.
[You bastard!!!]
“Kyaaaaaaak!”
The seven heads, excluding the two held by the Red Iron Knights, roared right in front of them.
Paaaaaang.
The Wyvern swam as if cutting through the space between them.
“Ha!”
Jjeoeoeoeoeoeok.
With a light shout, one of the seven necks was cut off by the swung sword.
‘This is the Dragon Sword, this is a Seven-Star…….’
An overwhelming martial prowess that was unbelievable even when seeing it with his own eyes.
A voice came in the midst of it.
“I was going to drop you far away, but I changed my mind! You, you completely ignore poison! Right!?”
“Yes!? Yes!”
“Your armor is also better than most artifacts. Good.”
At that moment, a chill ran down his spine.
“You'll make a proper meat shield.”
……What, buddy?
“Draw the attention of those monsters! If you survive, I'll give you a big gift!”
“N, no, what is this all of a sudden!”
The Duke suddenly turned and grabbed him by the scruff of his neck.
Unbelievably, he threw him towards the monster.
Paaaaang!
“This piece of sh……!?”
His body, which boasted a hefty weight even by his own standards, flew through the air like a pebble.
‘No, you come to save me, and then you throw me into the jaws of death!’
[I'll chew you up and swallow you!]
In front of him, the human head, which had become all too familiar, was waiting with its mouth wide open.
Its appearance was even more hideous thanks to the foreign object lodged in one of its eyes.
It was an utterly bewildering situation, but his body moved faithfully according to his survival instincts.
“Ugh. The smell, shit!”
Chwareureureuk.
He extended his chains and stepped on the area around the mouth of the approaching creature.
Pang.
He used the rebounding force to jump into the air again.
[This slippery eel-like bastard!!!]
Kwareurururung!
Once again, lightning and fireballs poured down, but it was only a brief sting and warmth.
His body and armor, which had completed four evolutions, either absorbed or deflected the creature's magic entirely.
‘As expected…….’
It was clearly a grand magic manifested with an immense amount of magic power unimaginable for a human, but while its range was wide, the force concentrated in the same area was inferior to that of the red-haired woman.
In fact, the magic the human head was spewing now seemed to be 6-Circle magic, similar to what that woman had used.
Perhaps it was a difference in intelligence and concentration.
‘It seems it became stupid after merging with the monster.’
He became even more certain as he saw it continue to use magic even though it didn't work on him.
[Just listen to me, you stupid blockheads!!!]
Kuuuuuuung.
The two heads that were chasing Anthony and Rantor in opposite directions.
And the six heads chasing the Dragon Sword Duke.
And in the midst of that, the unmoving torso.
‘I'm glad they're all idiots.’
Only after realizing the situation once again did his tension ease a little.
At this rate, as long as he wasn't directly hit by the heads or teeth wrapped in that eerie demonic energy, he felt he could play the role of drawing aggro.
However.
Kwadeudeudeudeuk.
“Kyaooo!”
Even in the midst of that, the sight of the head cut off by the Dragon Sword Duke regenerating completely bothered him.
The scene of the severed head turning into demonic energy with a strange feeling and being absorbed back into the monster's giant body felt even more vivid this time.
‘If I can just do something about that…….’
Chwareureureuk.
Following his will, the chains extended towards the just-regenerated head.
“Kyaooooo!”
Kwadeuk.
Barely avoiding the teeth filled with surging demonic energy, he wrapped the thick neck and swung around in the air, sucking in the demonic energy.
However.
Seuaaaa.
‘As expected, the flow doesn't change even right after regeneration.’
The moment he thought he would have to aim for right after a head was severed.
Kwadeuk, kwadeuk!
“Kyaoo!!”
That head, while aiming for him, repeatedly snapped its teeth in the air in frustration.
[Just die, please!!]
Kwaaaaaaaaang!
The human head's giant flame magic exploded around it.
What the hell?
“Kiii……?”
The monster head, which had been hit by its ally's(?) explosion magic, glared at the human head with a frown.
[Just catch the one you're supposed to catch! You idiot!]
The human head began to narrow its snake eyes at the shout.
‘Huh?’
Tak.
With a suspicious premonition, he swung around the neck he had wrapped and landed behind it, and as expected, the monster head didn't react.
[Get your head out of the way! You idiot! If you're stupid, you should at least listen to the instructions of this brilliant me……!]
When he only saw the human head shouting nervously.
Paaang.
‘Hup!?’
He felt the neck wrapped in the chains move like lightning with his whole body.
And.
Kwadeuk.
[Keuaaaak!? You, you, what are you……!]
The monster's giant maw bit into the human head's neck.
Woodeudeudeuk.
[You, keuuuu, you crazy…….]
Despite the human head's struggle, not only did the monster head's killing intent grow stronger, but Muno, who was behind it, could also clearly feel the power of its bite and its demonic energy explode.
Of course, he couldn't completely understand this situation.
‘This is crazy…….’
Kwalkwalkwalkwal.
[Th, this…….]
As the green blood flowing from the human head's neck grew thicker, its voice grew fainter.
And finally.
Woodeudeudeuk.
Kwazik.
‘Wait……?’
With the sound of the monster head's teeth completely locking together, the human head fell off.
‘……This is it?’
Pabak.
At that moment, Muno instinctively retracted the chains wrapped around the monster's neck and leaped down the cliff after the falling human neck.
“Kyaooooo!”
Leaving behind the extraordinary roar of the monster head, which sounded like a cry of victory.
Chwareureuk.
The moment the once again extended chains tightly wrapped around the human head's neck, which was losing its shape.
Pasusususu.
From within, that familiar strange and powerful magic power began to flow in.
He had a gut feeling at that moment.
‘I can't absorb this.’
This was a monster that recovered its magic power faster than he could absorb it.
Although it was transformed(?) into a human shape, it was difficult to absorb the magic power of one of its heads in its entirety.
However.
‘If this strange magic power is the trigger for the head's regeneration…….’
What would happen if he twisted or scattered that flow?
The flashing intuition made him focus on the movement of that magic power.
Kwaang!
“Keuk!”
At the end of his unwavering concentration, even as he fell to the ground defenselessly, he succeeded in perfectly twisting something at the very center of the transparently melting flow of magic power.
Of course, even so, that magic power was absorbed back into the monster's body.
‘What happened!?’
Muno's gaze naturally turned to the cross-section of the neck where the severed human head had been.
And.
Kwadeudeudeuk.
“Da……”
The moment he was about to frown at the sight of the head shooting up again.
“……mn, huh?”
Kwadeudeudeuk.
What shot up from the place where the human head had been was not a monster's head nor a human's head, but something like a bamboo shoot covered in scales.
At least, it definitely didn't look like a head of anything.
“It worked!!”
Forgetting the tingling pain of falling on his shoulder, he cheered without realizing it.
“Kyaooooooo!”
“Karuk!”
“Kruruurua!”
The remaining eight heads simultaneously let out a scream towards the sky.
In the midst of that.
Jjeoeoeoeoeoeok.
Jjeok!!!
Only after two more heads were severed by the Dragon Sword Duke's single sword strike did the monster begin to focus on the battlefield.
But there was something strange.
‘What is it?’
The flow of magic power felt from the remaining six heads had changed from before.
Perhaps thanks to sealing(?) one head, the immense magic power seemed to have diminished a little.
‘It's become much more stable?’
The moment he hesitated, not even thinking of extending his chains to the two fallen heads.
Kwadeudeudeuk.
Kwadeuk.
“Kyao!!”
“Kwaaa!”
Those two heads also regenerated and shot out again.
The eight heads, with their snake eyes now bright yellow, their red hue gone, looked at each other and began to 'laugh'.
It wasn't a delusion; if it were a human, it was definitely a feeling like a smiling eye.
And.
[Finally, we have cast off the foreign object. This is the 'true' liberation from the tiresome prison.]
Jiiiiiiiiing!
“Keuk!”
A mental wave with a strange tone echoed and dug into Muno's mind.
Its clear meaning surprised him even more.
“Reason……?”
He was so flustered that he couldn't even speak properly.
[The class has dropped too much.]
[The sacrifice was greater than expected.]
[It was too late to remove the contaminant.]
[Why? Why is that?]
[Causality…… is being read.]
[That. It's because of that human.]
[The price…….]
[I will make you pay!]
The moment the eight pairs of giant snake eyes glared at him.
Jiiiiiiiiing.
“Ugh!?”
With a severe headache, his mind began to grow distant.