Chapter 191 – Episode 191. Looks Like X
“Dave! Leave Heira and Yumir to me and go first!”
Before I even rushed in, Celica hugged Heira and Ymir in both arms.
For a moment, I was distracted by something like an act of love between the two, but soon felt the reverberation felt from the ground intensifying and hurriedly started running to the other side.
Quarreung, thump! A cave that is cracked by impact and begins to collapse. She sensed a sense of danger from him and when she accelerated her steps, Celica had already made her way to the exit and put the two of them on the floor.
And at some point, Celica appeared in front of me again as an afterimage.
Just as she was choking at that absurd speed, Celica began to use her power while holding onto my body.
“I said go first, so why wait so long!?”
“What, what? No, you’re too fast… What!?”
Scary to let out embarrassment, Celica lifted herself up and ran to the place where the two were again.
I even felt motion sickness from the sudden pulling of my body, but when I came to my senses, my body was already sitting next to Ymir and Heira, who were drooping.
The cave collapsed after quite some time.
-Kugugung!
Around the time I watched the cave collapsing due to the ground shaking, Yumir, who had barely woken up from her previous shock, grabbed her head and started looking at me.
“What. What happened… Whoops!”
But is it because her exhausted body can’t stand Celica’s speed?
Then she clutched her mouth, complaining of her nausea, whispering softly to her pale, sickened face.
“… Oh, is this morning sickness?”
“Stop talking bullshit.”
It must have just been that Celica ran all of a sudden and got dizzy.
Just running at such a speed that everything around you becomes an afterimage. Could a future hero be able to use such a special step?
“What the hell happened?”
However, the situation is not good for her to exude admiration for him. Even Celika, who was always relaxed, looked back at me with a hardened face, as if she thought she was serious this time.
I answered Celica and looked beyond the collapsed cave.
“A monster has appeared.”
To the place where the monster presumed to dominate this plain, who dug into the ground and overturned the area, is located.
“A monster, suddenly?”
“…No, it won’t be sudden, since this is the Demon King’s territory.”
Celica answered Ymir’s sudden irritation on my behalf.
As the saying goes, the place we are now, unlike the human realm, was the continent’s biggest danger zone, where we had to be wary of all kinds of dangers.
Even in the forest before, I had to be wary of being surrounded by witches if I was vigilant.
Just because the environment has changed, it is unreasonable to think that we have escaped such danger.
“Heira, are you okay?”
“Ooh, uh…”
Still, if Heira had been normal, she would have been able to sense the danger in advance.
Coming out of the cave and being exposed to the heat seems fatal, and that face is more red than the last time I saw it…
-Quarreung!
Damn, things are not looking good.
All in all, two of the party are dying.
Moreover, since this is a plain, unlike the forest, there are no places where you can avoid the enemy’s pursuit like cover or hills.
In other words, if that monster designated us as a target, the only answer is to face it head-on.
– The Quagga River!
As if that expectation had become reality, the ground soon rose and a huge shadow began to appear in the center of the plain.
A monster so gigantic that it casually removed the fragments of the cave we stayed in before.
“What the fuck is that?”
Ymir spits displeasure out of his mouth as he is afraid to engrave the monster in his eyes.
I swallowed at her words and answered quietly.
“It’s a mosaic worm. The one we should be most wary of in the Beldus Plain where we are now.”
“… Mosaic worms?”
At my explanation, Yumir narrowed her eyes and glanced back at the monster that had reappeared on the ground.
What came out of the ground was a huge earthworm…
No, it’s safe to call it ‘Earth Dragon’ by itself.
However, its surface was covered with an upper layer harder than rock, and thick teeth sparsely sprouted from under its flat head that looked down at us.
A monster among monsters that crawls through the underground bedrock like sand with its gigantic body.
Anyone would think that if you want to attack with common sense, you should mobilize even an army, not an individual.
“Looking at it again, it looks like a dick.”
When such an outrageous monster looks down on the party at this moment.
Ymir studied the monster’s face, and she commented lightly.
“How can something look so damn good?”
“Isn’t this the time to enjoy it casually!?”
-Kooaaaaa!!
Did Ymir’s words even stimulate him?
No, whatever it is, the monster has already targeted our party.
As if faithful to his instinct, the moment he came to ram his huge head, Ymir began to gather mana and spread it around.
The black shield created by hardening mana is a shield that boasts absolute defense power, symbolizing her nickname ‘Black Crystal’.
-Kooung!
Even though the giant head of the monster collided with its majesty, the defense shield was not broken, and even the area was not pushed out and maintained its original state.
The moment it perfectly guards even the monster’s attack, which itself boasts of not succumbing to siege weapons.
“… Cool!”
However, the person who defended the attack collapsed on the floor, staggering as if his physical strength was exhausted just by receiving the shock.
Yes, no matter how brilliant a wizard is, if you fall into dehydration from the heat, you won’t be able to maintain your concentration.
Eventually, as soon as the shield surrounding her was disarmed, a sense of danger swept over her, and Serika sharpened her teeth and tried to reach for her sword, which was strapped to her own waist.
“Serica, wait!”
A shout that burst out of his mouth as he was afraid to engrave the action in his eyes.
Celica, belatedly aware of her actions, started looking back at me, hesitant about pulling out her sword.
I spoke to her as if to warn her.
“… Choose carefully.”
I’m not saying you can’t win.
Even in the forest, when she was surrounded by her monsters, she alone annihilated them, so if she was now, she would be able to easily win against a monster as big as me.
However, if he draws his sword here, he risks being discovered by Ymir.
Even if a change in personality or attitude can be excused as a mental thing, if you reveal that strength, you will have to explain your identity as well.
To her who wants to maintain an amicable relationship with her, preferably until she meets the witch, wouldn’t you want to avoid exposing your identity to Yumir or Verdia and making their relationship awkward?
“Yes, as Dave said. That kid is not something you can deal with, so don’t show me and step back.”
Ymir, who interprets the caution implied in such an intention in his own way, encourages Celica to step down.
As if Celica sensed her impatience at her leisurely words, she began to turn around in bewilderment.
“But Ymir and Heira can’t fight, can they?”
“Is this guy’s memory gone? Has he forgotten who we’re with?”
“Yes? What is that…”
-Kooaaaaa!!
Before Celica could express her doubts, the shouts erupted again.
The mosaic worm, barely freed from the shock of the previous collision, straightened up again and prepared to attack.
A situation where it is not easy to deploy the defense again.
Even so, Ymir didn’t feel any other tension, and only carelessly picked up his ears…
“Hey, come to think of it, Dave, didn’t you go out with that lady?”
“… It’s not just one animal coming here.”
Yes, unlike Ymir, it was for that reason that I couldn’t be relieved.
Mosaic worms aren’t the only monsters that exist on this plain.
At this moment, Verdia was fighting another monster she encountered during reconnaissance, and she advised me to evacuate the party, bearing in mind the danger she sensed in the process.
It won’t be easy to return here, at least until the monster is dealt with.
“If you’re dealing with a guy similar to that monster, well, it should be soon.”
But unlike me, who felt impatient with it, Ymir still had her composure.
– Chalgran!!
The only time I realized that this was not a false belief was when I realized that the movement of the monster that was charging at us was stopped with the sound of metal friction.
By means of innumerable chains imbued with light, restraining a body so gigantic that it covered the whole area.
“I’m sorry. I wasted a little time killing one, but…”
What emerges from behind the mosaic worm whose movement is restrained like that is a flash of golden light.
No, to be precise, a blue long-haired woman clad in armor made of divine power.
“Is anyone hurt?”
Verdia, the priestess of the war god. She is one of mankind’s strongest.
Due to the influence of the previous fight, there were cracks in various places on the armor, but even so, the eyes were sharpened just like before entering the battle.
The footsteps approaching this place are also in a state of majesty.
“It’s okay, so what do you do with that guy?”
Even as fragments and dust were swirling around due to the rampage of the mosaic bug, Ymir cut the wind and exchanged glances with Verdia, who was approaching.
“You’re not tired of dealing with just one guy, so you have to borrow two stamina testers and even a dementia patient’s hand, right?”
“Even if you don’t say that.”
-Sureureung!
The moment the cracks in the armor began to heal with a determined voice.
“The preparations have already been completed.”
Yes, the armament she wears is the result of embodying her mythological symbols.
Since it was a weapon made out of faith, the armor can be regenerated as long as her heart is not broken.
As long as that loftiness is maintained, the sky always wants to live up to her expectations.
-Kugugung!
The moment when the divine light created by such a mind fell from the sky and landed.
The body of the mosaic worm hit by the attack went wild, but the body bound by the chain of light made it impossible to peddle freely even that resistance.
-Kooaaaaa!!!
Just opening her hideous mouth and screaming for the sky to go away.
It was all that the monster who ruled this plain could do.
“Oh, can you stand this?”
Verdia, who had been staring at the sword of light half embedded in her body, exclaimed in admiration and began to squeeze her own hand tightly.
It was a preparatory move to control the latent power within me.
“Certainly, at this level of size and strength, it must be at a level where even the officers of the Demon King’s Army would not bow down.”
– Damn it!
As if responding to her heart, the sky split again, and from that, a flash brighter than the sunlight began to be aimed at the head of the mosaic worm.
“But this side is basically a body that has dealt with the military. Rather, I have a feeling that a big guy like you now is easier to deal with than a quick enemy like Alakion.”
That light turns into a huge sword again.
At this moment, the moment when he transformed into a giant guillotine that was even bigger than the one wedged into the monster’s body.
“The strongest of the plains, are you ready to bear the weight of war right here!?”
Eventually, both eyes flashed, and at the same time, flashes of light rushed from the split sky.
At that moment, the huge mass struck the monster’s neck with the sword, and it cut open the throat where a scream erupted.
