Chapter 209 – Ancient Missing Link (8)
─Papat!
Walking at full speed, he approached Yerna. Yerna clicked her tongue as if she didn’t like her and pulled her hand back. Mana gathered in the palm of his hand.
“Not fun. It fell short of expectations.”
Shrrrr!
─Pur!!!
Yerna created water orbs with her mana and scattered them all over us like a watering can. She is not to be underestimated because she is water. It was written as an incantation, but that was high-ranking water-attribute magic that ejected water droplets thicker than peppermint candy at high pressure!
If he looked down and was hit properly, the flesh would separate from the bone, like a butchered pig with a shotgun.
But I didn’t give a fuck, I just covered my eyes and dashed. Dana let out a growl from behind her.
“Don’t even think about touching my husband, you antiseptic old woman!!”
─Paaa!!
Like the aurora curtain seen from the North Pole, a shield protected my front. Dana’s defensive magic blocked Yerna’s magic. Did I call my Nunna Hill-Tang for no reason?
“Ahahahaha!! Clumsy!!”
However, there is no way that Yerna is unaware of Dana’s skill in the shadowless window magic. As if she knew it, she waited for the curtain of light to disappear before she unleashed the second spell.
─Pupper puck!
Drops of water hit my body like bullets. I didn’t feel any pain. I smiled ferociously at Yerna, who opened her eyes.
“Magic resistance? It’s a rune!”
“It’s tempting, bitch!!”
The rune of ᚦ (Thurisaz) that increases attack magic resistance!
It was before I came to Germania that I made it into a magic item and gave it to the party members. In fact, the spray of waterdrops also hit other party members, but there were no injuries.
I even made sure everyone was properly equipped before coming in here.
If Yerna had far more mana than ours, it would be impossible to wipe us out with wide-range magic.
“Ahahahaha!! I will cancel the word below expectations!! Relying on an item is unsightly!!”
“If you have the ability, your temper is also a skill!!”
I grunted and threw a stab. My spear missed the place where Yerna’s neck was. Yerna had dodged her spear like a watered swallow.
Yerna is a bitch who knows how to strengthen her body with her mana. I didn’t think it would be easy to fit either. So yes, she dodged my spear and Lari Lura’s 〈 magic arrows and 〉, but raised her hand and unfurled her small compression shield into a non-lance.
Caan-!
A knife that creates metal sparks when it hits a shield!
It was a throwing attack that Fran predicted Yerna’s evasion and threw. The reason why she opened her shield would have been because she couldn’t have prevented it otherwise.
“Huh, you have more skills than I thought! I was bored with adventurers, but I won’t be bored!”
Yerna burst into a frenzy like cold water boiling again.
That was a bad sign. That bitch, as far as I know, was at least a wizard comparable to a gold class adventurer. Judging from the fact that he killed the black magician who had built his nest in the catacombs, there was a high possibility that he was hiding his power.
Right now they’re kicking back, but if Yerna showed her sincerity, someone would surely get hurt. I had to rip her head off when that bitch was careless!
“But no matter what, 5 to 1 is a bit annoying!!”
“So who told you to live as an assa, you fat girl!!”
I ignored it and tried to attack, but I was awakened by the moss trampled by my feet. ─Peeing! A vine stalk protruding like an arrow from the moss aimed at my chin!
“──Chiefal!”
A sharp vine penetrated 3cm from the cheek. I was out of breath, but I managed to evade in an instant. I stepped away from the moss and clicked my tongue.
It’s not even a goddamn sunken colony, what the heck is this?! Such magic had never been shown while exploring together with Yerna!
‘I wonder if he was hiding his skills.’
It was when I thought about coping while paying attention to where the moss grew. ─Wheek! Yerna waved her hand as if lowering her lever from the wall of her catacombs.
Whoops-! The walls collapsed in the mud, and white bones poured out. There was no way I didn’t know what I was going to do. Veronica warned, raising Rune’s mana.
“My dear! Graveyard mana moves! It is necromancy!”
“That’s right! You’re quick-witted for a beast abandoned by the gods!”
Breathing padlips accompanied the parade of undead. The army of bone soldiers who shook the graveyard and sounded the wake-up horns was like a box caught in the memories of the good times!
“Hyaaaaa!!!”
Skeletons breaking the floor and waking up! It seemed that they kindly attached three of them to me. The twin ax skeletons wearing Viking helmets had bigger back teeth than me at 180cm.
“You bastard bastards!!”
“Huuuuuyaaaaa!!”
Natural Bone Undead rushed with terrible tails that couldn’t be seen as living things. I saw the bluish flames emitting fire from their eye sockets and grasped the spirit of victory.
“Go back to where you came from!!”
Put the window I kicked the tip of the spear pole like a member of the world cup winning team doing a lift. It was a season only possible for players who scored out of 10 in center of gravity, hitting points, and technical skills.
Wedge liquid—! The spear, which had three times the leg strength of the arm, hit the head of the skeleton Viking directly. The undead didn’t die that much. Their companion’s head became a stick-on Chupop Chups, but I couldn’t see any hesitation from the other two.
Taat-! He leaped while stepping on the advance with his spear-clad feet. Where I was, the ax of the Skeleton Vikings cut through a piece of paper.
I succeeded in an acrobatic evasion and grabbed the jaw of the skeleton with a spear sticking in its head.
“Extreme death——”
The brute force of a superman has been added to the ferocity of a beast. I raised my beast return and physical abilities to the limit and swung the skeleton like a blanket.
“──Tombstone File Drive.”
Kwaaang—!! The skeleton fell headfirst to the ground.
“Hyu, ooooo…”
The skeleton, which had become a tombstone, evaporated and the mana that connected the bones in place of the joints was cut off. The light of the soul disappeared from the eye socket.
To classify skeletons, they are deadly monsters like Wraiths and Ghosts!
It is the mana and the soul that move with only the bones remaining. And these guys were driven by spirits. The sparks peeking out of the eye sockets were the souls of these pups.
Could those three be the maximum power of the catacombs? He may have been a powerful warrior in his lifetime.
“But the opponent was bad.”
As I chanted, I felt two pairs of axes swinging at the back of my head like a tangerine. Without panic, I activated the magic in the spear. ─Fangrrrr! 〈 Puppet 〉, empowered by my runes, knocked off the axe.
A momentary antagonism that is less than one second in time! I backstepped, hitting the ribs of the skeletons with my capital, before the spearhead was pushed out of the strength contest.
“I will remember you.”
– Tuk-tuk. It was a weak touch that didn’t even feel like a tickle. A pickpocket would hit harder than this. However, the Vikings of the ancient civilization that I touched were crumbling as if their hearts had been stolen.
The light of their souls went out in the eye sockets of those who returned to the pile of bones.
It was a soul that was clear enough for ordinary people to see, like a psychic picture. Since they have such powerful souls, those bastards must have been powerful undead that would not be defeated by the boss bug that popped out of the underground tower with a random gacha.
If it wasn’t for me who can make all the souls I can reach into Buddhahood, I would have struggled a bit.
“Hmm. The silver class adventurer team was also undead that they slain without a single scratch, but they get rid of them in an instant?”
Yerna hid her surprise with interest. I rotated the spear and held it in my hand.
There was no time to catch Gao or to be thrilled by the admiration of the enemy. It was ominous that the atmosphere of that bitch became serious after a second.
“Ahahahaha!! Nor, have you become incredibly strong? Anyway, the humans are in too much of a hurry to live without you.”
Yerna smiled eerily and finally raised her mana with sincerity.
“The faster you live, the closer you are to death.”
─Quooooo. The air shuddered like a localized natural disaster. There was no fucking reason to be scared, but I stuck to my place. Plants rising from the ground will attack you if you approach them.
“Hyaaaaa!!!”
If he stayed still, he would be beaten by the skeletons. I observed the army of bone soldiers. At a glance, those guys are mass-produced.
Normally, it would be viewed favorably, but if it was an undead without a soul, I wouldn’t be able to destroy it by making it a Buddha. It was an ironic situation that the cheap enemy was rather more difficult to deal with.
Hundreds of skeletons pouring down from 10 meters in front of Yerna that raised mana!
It was a situation where even the word desperate was too much, but I calmly waited for the situation to reverse.
Today, we gave up our party’s main dealer to someone else.
“The Sword of Light (Claiomh Solais).”
Dana muttered and raised her hand. -Chaeeng! A double-edged sword made of light was created in the air with a sound like a sword being pulled out of its scabbard.
The sword of light pierced the floor.
Faaaaa!! It emitted light like a black flashbang stuck in the empty floor. The skeletons exposed to the light melted like thin ice exposed to an electric oven.
“Hyaaaaa?!”
The one magic that Dana has learned to fight the undead! I heard that it was learned because it was an attack that gained an advantage in battle against the undead monsters coming out of the ruins.
“ᛊ(Sowulo)!!”
The next batter was Veronica. Her magic, which is activated in the god mode, was also unmatched this time. The large rune of ᛊ (Sowulo) rose like wings behind Veronica’s back.
6 rune magic circles blooming in a row!
It was a dual attribute magic of light and flame reminiscent of the sun. As if releasing a bowstring, the released mana became a heat ray of hot compressed flame and stirred the corners of the moss-covered graveyard.
Kuhwaaaaa!!
The catacombs burned as if six small dragons were breathing their breath. It wasn’t a technology to use underground, but it wasn’t a big problem because the space was wide.
“Lehu getting hotter.”
The flames rose like the judgment of a god without mercy. Will Veronica be able to control the flame? The fire did not spread out of the moss and burned the place where Yerna was.
Roaring—!
Tap, tap…
The skeleton army was annihilated. Yerna was wrapped in flames and was not showing her movements.
Still, we maintained a fighting posture.
‘Yerna knows about Dana’s magic.’
Just as I remember Yerna’s water drop magic, that year I knew Dana’s light sword magic well. The number of times Dana used that magic while exploring the ruins was too many to count on one hand.
‘Skeletons are just a waste of time.’
I was just playing around with the defense system of the ruins.
How could that bitch, neither a professor-level archaeologist nor a professional warlock, control the undead like limbs? I still haven’t figured out what the original purpose of this ruin was, but at least it wouldn’t be the difference between winning and losing the fight.
Tadak… Tadak…
A lull continued, where one second felt like ten minutes.
And so, the moss that Yerna had spread was burned——and what remained was the bud of a white flower. A super-large flower that seems to wrap even a carriage! It unfolded like a morning glory in the morning sun.
It was just then that I thought something dark green had moved between the petals.
At the moment of 0.1 second, when it was hard to even blink, the flower petals bounced open like a grenade exploding, and then a thick vine flew towards me.
Being able to stop it was honestly a miracle.
Kwaaang——!!!!
Even though he succeeded in defending himself, his consciousness was briefly blown away as if he had been hit by a meteorite. I couldn’t even groan or scream. The spearhead he defended was broken and cut in half!
Amy, how much does this cost!
“——This!!”
As I knelt down, an indignant Frank brandished a knife. However, the vine avoided the attack as if it had eyes.
The vines that rustle and crawl on the walls and floors! It wasn’t going away. The tip, raised like a snake, aimed at Fran and Dana. As if other adventurers had also been kidnapped in this way!
“──Who is this fucking goblin bitch messing with!!!!!!!”
The rage that welled up filled his limbs with strength.
─Quaaang!! I slammed the broken spear like driving a pin into a vine. The defense might not have been that great, but the vine became motionless like a decapitated snake.
“… Cool.”
Pestilence. Did you overdo it right after being hit? I wiped the blood that flowed from my mouth. It’s not a martial arts map, but you live and wear all kinds of clothes.
“Nor!!”
Dana hugged me and put her heels on me. When I spit out the blood in my mouth, I tasted the bloody smell.
After a few seconds of shock, the party members moved in line with the situation.
“〈 Emission of Radiation〉!!”
Lalilura shouted out loud and fired the maximum firepower physical laser cannon at the petal shield. The bombardment of destructive power, which is considered one of the best in our party for its single-shot power, flew as if it were being sucked into the target.
─Quaaaaang!! A bombardment that hits with impeccable power. However, Lalilura’s complexion was pale. Her second vine, emerging from the petals, had defended itself from the bombardment before it took a direct hit.
─Patter.
Is it luck out of misfortune? The vines, which were rolled like mosquito repellent, were tattered by Lalilura’s bombardment.
But I don’t know if I can consider it a good thing.
It was because the vines that looked just like them spread out in the catacombs like octopus feet.
“I’m sorry~? This magic is difficult to control. Without realizing it, I hit him with all my might.”
The petals of the white flower spit out the translucent pearls inside. That was Yerna with her shield open.
“Still, you didn’t die and endured. Very well done. If I could grade it, I would have given it an A+.”
─Cook cook. Yerna stood on the petals connected to the vine and said.
“I’ll try to make it a little weaker this time, so why don’t you hold out again?”
