Chapter 47 – Behemoth (3)
“Ugh… !”
Grabbing his head from a hangover headache, Horde rose from the bed with a blank expression on his face.
How much did you drink yesterday? Horde, suffering from a severe headache from last night’s hangover, frowned at the bottle at his feet.
‘This is why I can’t drink cheap alcohol…’
With the hero’s permission, the Horde was able to spend some of the party’s funds, but that didn’t mean they could waste it unnecessarily.
Instead of Mirian, who was busy with swordsmanship training, Martha managed the party’s funds.
Marta paid for Hod’s drinking, but it wasn’t a lot of money.
Horde, who didn’t have much money due to a large expenditure before boarding the airship, had no choice but to fill it with cheap liquor.
“Ah, the head…”
Horde muttered to himself, got up from bed, and moved forward, roughly putting away the jar of alcohol at his feet.
And that time when you lift the cup on the desk and try to drink the water inside.
– Bang!
Horde wrapped his head around him when there was a knock on the door, wondering what was so urgent.
“Ugh… !”
I want to yell at him to stop right now, but I can’t even speak properly because of my headache.
Horde barely reached the door, clutching his head and avoiding the bottle.
-Bang!
There was no more knocking on the door, as if that sound had conveyed the wrath of the Horde.
Only then did the sound of the hammer hitting him on the head stop, and then the true Horde took a deep breath and turned the doorknob.
“… Mirian.”
The moment he saw the face of the person standing outside the door, a cracked voice flowed out of Horde’s mouth.
Standing outside, Mirian’s expression was as hard as a mask, as usual. But maybe it’s because she’s been looking at Mi-an for a long time.
Horde noticed a mixture of anxiety and nervousness in Mirian’s stiff expression.
“What happened… Were you there?”
“Pick up the civil war equipment I mentioned before and come down quickly. I’m going to catch the Behemoth.”
“What? What is that…”
Mirian didn’t listen to Horde until the end and hurriedly went downstairs as if that was the end of the matter.
From the back of her nervous steps, Horde obediently packed her civil war equipment while feeling that something was going on strangely.
‘What the fuck… ? Behemoth? What is that…’
It took Horde a while to come up with the name Behemoth, who were so addicted to alcohol that they spent more than half of their days drinking.
‘Obviously at the dock… Are you going to fight him? If so, why am I?’
What good would it be if the Horde, a non-combatant, went with them?
But since he couldn’t refuse those words, which were tantamount to an order, Horde grabbed his backpack and went downstairs.
“I’ll just pack my backpack and take it…” .”
It was a line that should never have come out of a porter’s mouth, but what a big deal it was in a situation where you could die like in the mine.
While going down to the first floor where the warriors were waiting, Horde continued to grumble in a voice so low that only he could hear.
‘… Still, the hero will do something this time too.’
No matter how great the Behemoth or something was, the hero would do something this time as always.
He wasn’t a person I liked, but it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that his skills were definitely the highest among mankind.
This time, too, when Horde went downstairs with the complacent thought in his heart that nothing was going to happen, Mirian glared at Horde with an expression that he was late.
However, unlike Mirian, the outside was not in the mood to depart yet.
The hero hadn’t even climbed a horse yet, and the adventurers of the Azul Revival Adventure Team gathered in front of the inn were impatient as if they were waiting for something.
I don’t know what that something is, but it’s clear that it’s not Horde at least.
That’s because no one, including the hero, paid a single glance to the Horde that had just descended.
“Hey, what are you waiting for?”
“Huh? Oh you don’t know Allen… Rose is a wizard who acted as a hero teacher in the Great Library.”
Rose is a girl’s name.
Hod, who had a rough idea of what had happened in the library just by hearing the name, nodded and said,
“So, are you waiting for that Rose or something?”
“Huh. They said it would come soon.”
“By the way, Yu…”
The moment she was about to ask where YuRia was, Rose flew in the sky like a bird with several wizards and landed right next to the hero’s horse.
“Rose? Who are they?”
“Ah, these guys are patrons of the Great Library.”
The wizards behind Rose were all elderly, and looked at least as old as Rose’s father.
A badge with the number 6 written on it was hanging from their chests, proving that they were 6th-circle wizards, but unlike those of Rose or the newly-made hero, the traces of the years were felt.
“These are the guys who usually lock themselves in the tower and only learn new magic. I brought you here in the sense that sometimes you use magic against the beast rather than the target.”
“… I’m an old man with no talent, but please take good care of me.”
“I hope you take care of this!”
“Me too, please take good care of me!”
The warrior and Grindella could not hide their smiles at the sudden strong reinforcements and bowed their heads.
Although they are now facing a huge wall and are in a slump, they are 6th circle wizards.
Joining 10 such amazing wizards was equivalent to adding 10,000 soldiers.
“But Rose… How did they appease them? If you have spent money, some of it is burdened by us…”
“No, it’s not like that, don’t worry.”
Even the daughters of the Allenbout family couldn’t handle them, even if they were the daughters of the Allenbout family.
Since she was not a being who could give orders, she naturally had to use material to appease her, but it was safe to say that Rose suffered virtually no damage from this incident.
Rose’s condition for conciliating them was that they would be able to read books that only magicians of the 7th class or higher could read for 10 days unconditionally.
It wasn’t a big deal to Rose, but it was a valuable opportunity for them to rise to the next level.
“However… Is the woman next to you a colleague? Wasn’t she sure her name was Mirian?”
“Ah, this is not Mirian… “
Before the hero could explain, Grindella stepped forward and spoke.
“Prince Yoa, I will speak directly here. My name is Grindella Azul from the Azul Revival Adventure Team! Rose ball! Thank you so much for helping me this time!”
“Azul…”
Rose realized that the Grindella in front of her eyes was the culprit behind all of this, and her eyes instantly sharpened, but she immediately loosened her expression and said,
“… I didn’t know this, but I made a mistake, Princess Grindella. My name is Rose Allenbout, the librarian at the Great Library.”
“Oh no! Excuse me! I don’t know how to repay this favor!”
When the Marius rescue operation, which seemed impossible even with the help of the hero, began to become a reality, a smile that had not been seen before bloomed on Grindella’s face.
“… Then, warrior, it seems that everyone has gathered, so it would be better to leave quickly.”
When Marta, who was looking at the two bowing their heads toward each other with an expressionless expression, said that, Grindella said with a sorry expression.
“It is as you say! Yo ball! It looks like everyone has gathered now, so let’s get going!”
“Yes!”
*****
Dozens of riders on green meadows and 11 wizards flying through the sky followed.
Clearly, just a few hours ago, the blue sky without a single cloud stretched out over the horizon.
Dark clouds were filling the sky, as if hinting at the ominous future that might be waiting in front of them.
-Kugugung!
At that moment, dark clouds began to glow, and lightning struck a nearby tree with a blue flash.
“…”
Did she think of her uncle after seeing her tree?
Grindella’s face began to cool as she saw the tree split in half by her lightning and turned to black charcoal.
Grindella, sensing her impatience, is about to whip her horse in order to arrive a little earlier.
“I know your heart, but calm down. If you go without taking any countermeasures, the rescue will only turn into a double suicide and end.”
“You’re right. I’m sorry to say this, but don’t forget that not only the life of the princess is at stake, but also the life of our party.”
A cold word from Rose and Martha, who were flying beside her, brought her to her senses and lowered her hand holding her whip.
“Sorry, I keep worrying about your uncle…”
“It’s not that I don’t know about that town, but if you want to save Marius-sama and Grindella-sama too, you can’t just go blindly.”
You have to plan
A strategy to save Marius and further subjugate the Behemoth safely.
“Lina, did you find out anything about the Behemoth?”
“Uh. First of all, I’m going to start with the thing I care about the most. I found this in the records of a subjugation party…”
Although this subjugation party failed, it was a subjugation party with a record of even driving the Behemoth for a while.
Maybe that’s why Lina appeared in all the books she read, and she got the most information about the Behemoth.
“He seems to be absorbing the lightning strikes on his body.”
“Absorption?”
“First of all, as you know, Behemoth handles lightning freely. His intelligence is also high, so if you target an opponent once, you won’t miss it.”
“So?”
“But strangely, there is a record of him periodically shooting lightning into his back or side.”
It is said that after being struck by lightning on the back, the wounds on the Behemoth’s body began to heal, and it was said that he regained his physical strength again, as if it was a lie that he was out of breath a moment ago.
“So one of the guesses that came up is if you get hit by lightning, should I say health or mana? Anyway, I’m wondering if it’s to recover that energy.”
“That, like that… ! That guy lives with a thundercloud on his side, what the hell should I do…”
“That can be done by activating the wind attribute strategy magic on the 6th circle wizards behind you and dispersing the thundercloud with a giant whirlwind.”
“That way! But even so, there are still thunderclouds in the sky…”
“That’s not to say there’s no way, but…”
Weather manipulation was an 8th circle magic that was in an area that Rose had not yet reached.
However, it might be possible to reduce the scale and change only the top of the Behemoth’s head to a different weather.
“But… This is a magic I’ve never used before, so I don’t know how long the magic will last. And…”
If that happens, the huge power called Rose disappears while maintaining magic, so even if you block the Behemoth’s health recovery, you may not be able to defeat it due to lack of firepower.
And even if he clears the thundercloud from his side and the sky, he had to do that too because he could shoot thunderbolts with his horn.
“Don’t worry about firepower.”
To Rose, who was worried about the firepower to defeat the Behemoth, the hero said with a confident expression.
“I’ve said it before, but how do you cut through lightning?! I didn’t even practice!”
“I didn’t come all the way here believing only that. There is a secret number that I haven’t even taught you yet.”
“The number of spleens?”
Rose, who had always been by the hero’s side except when sleeping in the great library, but she tilted her head, not knowing what it was.
Even when I looked around at the warrior’s colleagues, it seemed that Rose was not the only one who didn’t know what they were talking about.
“… Can I trust you?”
“Yeah, it’s okay to believe.”
“Then I’ll believe you.”
After that, Rose entered the magical alteration without saying anything.
On the other hand, the warrior who boasted that he had a trump card, opened and closed his fists, and recalled his senses when he completed the technique at dawn.
‘However… I think I’m forgetting something.’
I don’t know what it is, but seeing as I can’t remember, it’s definitely not a big deal.
