Chapter 6 – Come Back Stronger (1)
“Kooooo!!!”
Hmm… Haaaaa!”
Awesome!
In the moment of life and death, in the extreme battle where life was lost the moment you took even one wrong step, the sword wielded by the hero slashed the beast’s head.
Having lost one of his heads, the Demon Beast cried out in pain. Before long, the other three heads focused on the warrior who had cut off his head.
“Dangerous!”
An adult male’s huge front claws, which could easily be crushed to death, flew at the hero. The warrior who drew the beast’s attention and received or let go of the beast’s attack was embarrassed by the sudden change of the beast’s target from himself to the hero, but quickly flew his body and took the attack instead.
Pudeudeuk, Pudeuk…!
“Kuu…!”
Even if it was a heavy tower shield that easily deflected moderate attacks, the attack of a monster the size of a castle was difficult. The ominous creaking sound gradually got worse as the battle continued, and the warrior guessed that his shield would not last long.
Other than the warriors, the condition was not very good.
The arrows of the Elf Ranger Hochna could not pierce the beast’s strangely thick hide and eventually burned out. Squeeze out mana forcibly, and eventually nosebleeds.
And the hero Luke, the central point of the party, had already consumed a lot of stamina in order to cut off one of the beast’s four heads.
“Quooooo!”
Fuhuaaaaagh! Once again, the bright bluish-green breath attack emanating from the three widely spaced muzzles of the demon beast, the position the warriors had worked so hard to hold collapsed powerlessly again.
The blessing of protection that Elia barely spread before the attack hit, and the mana shield that Viola squeezed out of her mouth and squeezed mana out of her mouth.
With the combination of the two techniques, the party of warriors could barely withstand the Beast’s breath spraying in all directions without a blind spot.
Of course, in return, Elia and Viola were quickly exhausted each time the Witchbeast attacked.
Looking at Ayla, who was staggering with a face as if she would stop breathing at any moment, and Viola, who lost her staff and fell to the floor, wandering between death and death, the warrior was convinced that the next breath would destroy the party.
“…Damn it.”
The magic beast’s power was too strong, and even excluding the biggest problem, the magic beast, there are still 30 soldiers trained in the battles of the territory and the beast trainer who made them struggle in the Armageddon mansion.
Even if he managed to defeat the Demon Beast, there was no strength left to deal with the remaining enemies. In the first place, it was daunting even to defeat this one demon beast.
Goat, Eagle, Lion, and Snake. Of the four heads of the Witchbeast, I finally cut off the snake’s head. There are still eagles, lions and goats left.
And with only one of his heads missing, the already menacing beast’s attack became uncontrollably strong.
If it really goes like this…
“…Hmm? Hmm. Hmmm…”
At that time, the beast trainer, who had been watching the battle with no change in expression except for the blink of an eye for a moment when the beast’s head was blown off, seemed to be contemplating something. Lifted.
“Well then, that’s it for today. Kreung, come back.”
“What…?”
The moment she said that, the witch beast, which was about to crush the warrior wrapped around the hero with its front paws and kill her, suddenly stepped back and returned to the beast trainer’s side. Seeing that, the warriors were puzzled. What is it?
“Was it the hero and his companions? You’re very lucky today.”
“…What does that mean?”
“That’s what it means. Just now, Ragnar-sama ordered me to bring this cute child back in good condition if possible. If the battle continues like this, even Kreungi will be in danger, so that’s it for today. Do you understand?”
It’s like you’ve been watching me for a while…
No, it must be actually watching.
Even in a situation where they could end their lives at any moment, their willingness to let go could only be explained by Baron Armageddon showing them mercy.
“Then, the hero and his companions, today is goodbye. See you later at Ragna-sama’s mansion. Then…”
Shit.
Ray laughed at the warriors and said as if he was pitiful.
“Please come back stronger than you are now.”
*
After Ray, the Witchbeast, and 30 soldiers left, the hero Luke and his party sat down.
A heavy silence fell between them.
The humiliation of being begged for your life by an enemy, the helplessness of being unable to do anything in front of a huge enemy, and the anger towards an enemy who looked down on you even if you looked down on them.
Those emotions were soggy and shook them as they became emotions that were difficult to express in one word.
“…As expected, this is not enough.”
The magic beast trainer returned to the mansion with the magic beast. In other words, in order to deal with Rag or Armageddon next time, it means that you have to go through the fearsome monster you couldn’t defeat this time and the beast trainer who easily tamed such a monster.
You can never win this way. Even the enemy is strong, too strong. Of course, it will take quite a while to safely transport that huge beast, so if you hurry now, you will be able to fight the baron Armageddon head-to-head before the beast arrives at his mansion.
But the warrior couldn’t do that. There are suspicions that it may be a trap that sent Baron Armageddon out of his state, but that’s not all.
That beast trainer is a subordinate of Baron Armageddon.
Even with one of his subordinates, he struggles so much, can he really defeat the man who commands such monsters with his own power?
Luke has already lost the will and courage to face Baron Armageddon. He didn’t want to admit it to himself, but his heart was slowly shaking in front of the overwhelming power car he experienced one after another.
“I have to become stronger. I cannot complete my mission at this rate.”
Not enough for now Right now, he is not ready to face Rag or Armageddon. Having reached that conclusion in his heart, Luke raised his head with a firm resolve that seemed like it was about to collapse.
“…Everybody, listen to me.”
Contrary to her usual appearance, the sorceress fell on the floor, forgetting to keep her face, the priestess praying with her hands clenched and looking as if she would die at any moment, and her pride scratched so hard that she bit her lips enough to bleed. A warrior who felt devastated that the tower shield that had been with the elven ranger for a long time had become half-abandoned.
At the words of the hero, they raised their heads or turned to look at him.
“…You all must have guessed to some extent from the battle a little while ago, but it is impossible to defeat Ragnar Armageddon with our own strength no matter how much we think about it.”
It was so weak that it was hard to believe that it came from the mouth of a warrior. However, the reason his party didn’t come forward, furious at the words, was because they believed their colleague, Luke, wasn’t the kind of person who would say such a thing for no reason.
“He’s strong enough alone, but he’s got his men stronger than that. So he can’t possibly win with us now. As ‘us now’.”
Luke pulled out his sword, which was halfway stuck on the floor.
“We need to get stronger. It’s only after we’re stronger that we can deal with Baron Armageddon. Now we’re going to deal with other enemies before him.”
All the while, Luke looked down on Baron Armageddon. He saw the enemy as just a gateway through which he had to go through to deal with the tyrant Violence. However, in reality it was the opposite.
You don’t have to defeat Baron Armageddon to defeat Violence, you have to defeat Violence to deal with Baron Armageddon.
The power to dominate your opponent? It’s strong for a single person’s strength, but even so, it wasn’t comparable to Baron Armageddon.
If Violence simply presses down with force and makes them obey, Ragnar Armageddon makes the target his own, a self-submissive being.
Considering the risk, Armageddon is several times more dangerous than Violence. Luke made that decision.
“We’ll deal with Baron Armageddon later. Let’s change our goal to defeat Violence first.”
The next day, the hero’s party moved toward the kingdom of Domina, ruled by the tyrant Violence.
He did not know that the enemy sent all the strong female officers to kill him and was waiting for him defenselessly.
*
Why the hell aren’t these fuckers coming!!!
Me, uh! You made all sorts of excuses and dropped the strongest men at best, huh? Even if you can’t seize that opportunity, will you go to the place where my men are out of the blue and almost get annihilated? What are you thinking?
The beast that Ray tamed in the first place is stronger than me, right? In fact, it’s a high-level, super-strong field boss that you can only catch right before facing the final boss, the Immortal Dragon!
I just managed to tame it thanks to the magic beast trainer Ray’s dog sniper skill! Right now in the mansion, this monster is stronger than me! If it wasn’t for Ray, my mansion would have already collapsed from this monster!
If the level of strength is measured by the level of the game, this monster corresponds to level 90.
However, if it was enough to blow off one of the monster’s heads, it could be said that the hero’s level was already close to 80. In comparison, my level would be less than 70. What do you mean?
It means that the warrior has enough power to kill me.
…But did that guy jump out of me? Even though you’re saying ‘kill me’ like this? If you swing a knife once, you’ll end up with a sore throat and fly away, but you don’t do that and run away?
The hero has also acquired ‘purification’, an essential skill to deal with me. They come right in here and face me one-on-one. Not kidding, for real. If I had subordinates, it would be worth trying, but if I deal with no subordinates, I will lose unconditionally.
…But this brash hero jumped to the next boss because he was afraid of me after inflicting a fatal wound on a monster he could barely deal with before the last boss!
I skipped the 3rd boss and went to face the 4th boss first!!
– Now what are you going to do with this?! The hero’s journey was completely ruined!!
“How is this my fault! Even if I set the table up so that it’s easy to kill, and even if I try to scoop rice with a spoon and put it in my mouth, even if this damned hero tries to feed me, he just overturned the table! I’m sure the audience will think it’s obvious!”
In other words, this happened because of the cowardly warrior who was overly cautious and was scared by my skills that he hadn’t even seen in person.
It’s absolutely not my fault.
Anyway, it’s not my fault!!
-…Anyway, now that it’s like this, I have no choice but to revise the scenario. Change the order of Violence and you, so fix the twisting problem… Nope. I have a lot of work to do, so why do I keep getting into trouble! Where did you go wrong!
The Luminous Goddess screamed as she wrapped her head around the plan that was not smooth and the numerous errors that grew out of the range of calculation as it progressed. Oh my ears hurt
…Come to think of it, in the first place, the beginning of the distortion was that the hero was much stronger than he initially thought.
In other words, this whole problem is the fault of the Luminous Goddess for not properly calculating the hero’s power from the start…
Shaaaaa!
-Aren’t you thinking very blasphemy right now?
Something very ominous flashed in front of my eyes and the cold voice of the goddess sounded in my ears, so I broke into a cold sweat and laughed.
“Haha, no way. Could I possibly do that?”
Sheesh, anyway… This is why she doesn’t like quick-witted goddesses.
