Chapter 235 – Sleeping Flame (2)
─Tooqua and light!!!!!
Me and the giant bounced off in the direction we collided like a bowling ball.
My body felt a little numb. It was the result of a clash of strength and power.
The kid is so strong. I rolled on the floor and spit in my mouth. The giant also jumped while showing off his slug-rolling skills.
It would be nice if he retreated as it is, but of course he didn’t mean to run away.
An ugly giant leaping high above the crater.
─Coooooung!!!
“GuU?!”
Then, like an idiot, he smashed his head into the ‘nothing’ ceiling and crashed to the ground again.
─Quaaaaang!! A fucking giant who foolishly drives head first.
Of course, I wasn’t having fun at all. The giant brushed his hair and got up right away. It wasn’t even funny, it was a body gag like a gag pro with a week left until the end of the show.
Still, thanks to that damn thing, I found out something. I asked, confirming that the giant was staring at the ceiling.
“… Veronica?”
“Yes. To my eyes, the giant seemed to have ‘hit the ceiling’.”
“Also.”
I guess I was right.
The leg strength to jump 10 meters in one jump with that size is fucking terrifying, but that’s not what I cared about.
That giant almost broke the earthen pot after leaping ‘as if jumping into a space where there was nothing’.
‘—In other words, that giant, didn’t he see the vision of the ceiling?’
What do you mean you didn’t see it?
I don’t know how wide that bitch was sleeping, but ‘if I could see the ceiling,’ I wouldn’t have hit my head like an idiot.
The fact that I couldn’t see the illusion covering this barrier——
“Baby, you have the mana of the Old God.”
──It was said that he had vast “Qualifications” That matched mine.
Of course, that’s not to say what happened.
Gushin’s mana was like an achievement, so to speak. A lot doesn’t count unconditionally. Wasn’t this much Mana from the Old Gods pure evil until I also acquired the [Gerture] Buff?
Still, with this reasoning, I was able to get my hands on some clues.
It’s a familiar routine. Let’s find the enemy’s weakness by solving puzzles that increase step by step.
– Knock. Raise your head and check the ceiling.
The barriers coated with volcanoes were not that great in height compared to their width. As we climbed up and down the cave, the altitude increased.
Considering Veronica’s reconnaissance earlier, I thought it would be okay to think that the barrier would be about 100 meters above sea level.
‘This is an area approximately 90 meters above sea level… That’s why it’s inside this volcanic valley.’
In other words, inside the crater of a volcano.
It’s a good idea to throw away treasures that entice the owner.
But it’s not hot. The floor is also plain granite. I know what English it is. Because we’ve already seen the answer.
‘──I see there’s an illusion barrier in the valley too.’
My eyes just see the blue sky, but Veronica said ‘there is a ceiling’.
Perhaps the ‘hardened lava’ that Veronica flew up to scout out was the illusion barrier. Lava from an extinct volcano made it appear that it had cooled, but in fact it had covered the valley inside the crater.
It must have been the prophet’s concern not to reveal an important space to an opponent who could fly.
‘Then I came to the right place.’
Burning branches or something is somewhere here.
Why did you hide it so tightly? The fact that it is uniquely cool here can also be cited as one of the clues to reasoning. While thinking that, I shot a giant standing still.
“My dear. Perhaps that person can leave this place whenever he wants.”
Said Veronica. It was a natural conclusion. If we play back the process we got in here, we’ll be able to get out, and even though we look stupid, we’ll have that much intelligence.
“Uh. If you miss that baby, you get fucked. It’s a big deal if a ship is attacked, let alone a person, so we have to stop here.”
If you go out and join the party members and miss it, you will be fucked for the reason mentioned above, and to be honest, you can’t go out even if you want to.
‘That bastard is blocking the road.’
The giant was hiding at the crater’s only exit.
Look at the civalum’s cunning tail. It was wide enough for the giant to move, so if I followed it, it would be difficult to avoid. Because there is only front and back space to escape.
“I must have been able to get out of the volcanic barrier. But I wouldn’t have left the island.”
Even Yeo-po in the corner of the room can’t do anything alone without anyone.
It is a volcanic valley where Internet Wi-Fi does not work. What sense does it make to sleep in such a poorly located country house for thousands of years to the extent that a stone sticks to your face?
“… Even if I went out of the volcano’s barrier, I couldn’t go outside because of the island’s barrier? If so, I don’t know how you got in. It’s not even a place that fell from the sky.”
Veronica’s murmuring words were exactly what I was thinking.
“I wonder if he drifted in and came in. And from a while ago, that bastard is fucking messing with us. It looks like you’re hungry.”
“… You seem to know why there are no animals on the island.”
It was creepy. According to Fran, it would have taken decades for the animals to disappear.
‘How much do I have to eat before I can even see the bugs?’
Even the noise between floors drives people crazy in a year, and I wouldn’t be surprised at all if a stalker with a disgusting face like that roamed the island, his heart trembled every night and then he collapsed.
Or maybe that bastard is so ugly that the animals in the Garden Island have lost their lives and moved.
The NPCs who came to Animal Crossing saw the village chief’s face and said they were disgusted and moved.
Truly a reverse world of appearance supremacy.
Thinking that, I suddenly felt a sense of incongruity.
“… Were you scared? It doesn’t come first.”
Normally, I make decisions in 2-3 seconds due to an accelerated accident, but this time I had a conversation with Veronica.
It must have been about 3 minutes. But don’t giants attack first?
What kind of fucking 3 minute manners is that?
It’s not like he gave up 3 seconds at the mercy of an unparalleled master, but the giant who sticks to the Nigawa strategy at the entrance. Hiding inside the exit, the ugly face looking at us was terrifying.
‘Wariness? … No.’
His glistening eyes were locking us on as if he would never miss it.
And since the word is ‘we’, there seems to be a huge gap between me and Veronica in order of interest. The giant’s eyes followed Veronica’s body, which moved slightly behind me.
“Hey, Veronica. Are you popular He must have fallen in love with you at first sight.”
“I am truly disgusted, so please stop. I have a desire to remove the curse, but don’t I have the right to choose my first opponent?”
Veronica muttered with arrogance.
“If it’s not even a praying mantis, I don’t want to be teased and eaten. Better to bathe in the sewer.”
So she said, and she stirred the levitating pole.
Accordingly, the giant’s eye is omitted below.
“Indeed. I and this pillar seem to be spoils to him.”
Veronica said jokingly, as if she was trying to blow up the tension of the situation.
“My master. As you can see, he seems to be trying to extort your valuables. If that’s the case, then, in fact, can’t it be regarded as the ‘professor’ you’re talking about?”
“Let’s say you get a list of ‘my precious things’ you think later… The latter part is correct.”
An evil and lawless being who shamelessly steals other people’s belongings even as a drowsy dwarf who just woke up.
It was indeed a creature that fit the professor’s definition.
“… Krrrr.”
An animal cry leaked from my mouth.
I patted her lips in surprise. Be quiet, Odin.
As if waiting for the right moment, she controlled the rising anger. I probably won’t run out of anger like this, but yubimuhwan is always the right lion idiom.
Then Veronica stroked my back and said.
“As for me, I can’t possibly follow your profound theory of professorial eradication, but that creature seems to be a type of Jǫtunn before it’s a professor.”
“Is that Jotun?”
It’s very different from my knowledge. The only Jotun I know is the younger brother of Smurf, a skinny, well-rounded man. He looks like some kind of mutant Hulk. His strength is comparable, but his defense seemed to be higher.
“Jotun = The skin on the top is fucking strong death.”
Anyway, that bastard’s race wasn’t a problem right now.
‘Look at that bastard just camp out and wait at the entrance.’
A giant who will not budge even if we wait for cancer.
That Jotun or Giant Urethral Stone over there didn’t seem to want to let us go.
‘Even if we ride it, we’ll have to lose.’
That giant is more like a bearworm than a jotun.
Let’s fight for time with a guy who can stop life activities and be hardened to the point where you can’t even feel mana? Do we starve when we run out of food?
Even if I shouted at my throat, it did not seem to be heard by the party members waiting outside.
Rather, we were too late, and even the wives had trouble entering the cave.
In such a narrow hole, you can’t spread the ultimate annihilation method, siege annihilation. It’s a mess if you don’t get defeated individually by the giants.
We had to avoid the future in which each of our parties becomes pancakes for that little boy’s fist.
‘In the end, it’s just me and Veronica who have to drag the aggro.’
It’s a big deal if that bastard finds out about our party and takes hostages.
Swallow. How do you always challenge boss battles with a small number of people?
Well, it was a mistake to think that we could always fight together just because we formed a team.
‘I heard that the party division is common when you’re on an adventure.’
I have no intention of objecting to the famous saying that if we unite we live and if we scatter we die, but there are times when we do not want to. Just like the current situation.
It’s like shit, but what can I do? If you lack, you have to fight as you lack.
“Veronica. Don’t you know that bastard’s weakness?”
“It’s not a weakness, but from birth Jotun has the same power as the rune of ᚦ (Thurs). It is a trait of the race.”
Saying that, Veronica spread her palms as if to make up her mind.
“I will pour as much attack magic as possible to reduce mana. When the mana is exhausted, the energy to move such a huge body also disappears. The slower the author moves, the better the odds will be.”
“Does the skin’s defense lower if you use mana oringna?”
“At that point, I have no choice but to believe in the master’s strength.”
Sounds like it’s not going down. Well, if mana runs out and defense increases, you won’t be able to make armor with monster materials.
Armor. Armor.
‘Come to think of it, I don’t even have an armor.’
Thanks to the beast regression, I didn’t think deeply because I had little to get hurt, but I was a little nervous when I saw the power of the chew.
I don’t know how much cheap armor will help me against attacks that break through my defenses. The armor that would withstand dangerous attacks for me would only cost gold in material cost.
“For a moment?”
Then what about that giant baby skin?
Wouldn’t it be nice and strong to make an armor out of that guy’s ugly face? I think it will be fine since the color is purple and dark.
When I say giant, I feel a little dirty because I feel like I’m covered in human skin, but that bastard is just a monster who only talks about ‘human’.
Are all bipedal creatures with two limbs human? Dog sound.
“Tigers leave their skins when they die, and people leave their names when they die.”
I don’t know that bastard’s name, and I have no desire to know.
When the giant cubs are lost, all that remains is skin!
“——Then you are just a tiger.”
An insignificant life that has fallen into a beast because it can’t leave a name.
PAZZZZUZU-!!
Realization filled my heart.
Was it because he couldn’t stand it while eating mugwort and garlic in the cave and came out with such an ugly face?
If that’s the case, it might be the fate of us Koreans who live as nemesis with Ho-Ho Mama that I met that giant.
I will peel off his skin to make armor and honor your life with it.
“The tiger becomes me.”
──Put out the drop item and die, you ugly bastard.
─Papat!! I grabbed the spear and ran forward.
“Gsssssuqqq!!!”
With a scream that didn’t sound like a creature, the giant swung his front paw. Also, his head is spinning. Because it was an attack that eliminated the space to avoid in the aisle.
‘But that’s why it’s easy to predict.’
I stabbed the center of the front kick with the tip of a spear without a blade.
Guertur’s counterattack 4th Poomsae. I suppressed the mass of the crashing dump truck with my limbs.
─Keying!!
Sound effects like metal crashing! It was the sound of successful success.
A shock from his hand brought the giant to a halt. Due to the action of mana-management skills, the kinetic energy offset each other.
I started the original linking machine as it was.
“——Trade trade work.”
──The linkage from the counterattack 4th Poomsae to the attack fighter 2nd Poomsae.
Hit the giant’s legs with zero kinetic energy with a spear. This was the 4th Poomsae of the counterattack. After this, pierce the vital point with a stab to finish it off.
The giant’s skin was as hard as it looked, so the spear edge didn’t stick through, but it didn’t matter.
Let’s see if your eyes are strong, bitch.
“——Hwihuigongeum!!”
─Push shot!!
Aiming for the giant’s eyes, he stretched out his mithril spear.
Since there is only a small difference from Hoenanman (回懷爛漫), the technique name is similar. It is the difference between cutting and stabbing, attacking and counterattacking. Isn’t offense the best defense?
“GsS, Gwww!!”
However, the guy twisted his expression muscles disgustingly and kicked the floor.
Avoid the spear aimed at the head with back tumbling and jump again!
Are you thinking of retreating? Very good. The combat aspect is just rolling as I thought.
I raised my mana as I was in the thrusting stance.
I was thinking of putting 〈 Summon Cloud 〉 compression jets on the spear pole and throwing them. It would be unstoppable if the ball suddenly changed from a stabbing to a javelin.
─Kikiiik!!
But I thought so, I opened my eyes wide and stopped the technique.
About 0.3 seconds before my javelin fired, the giant brought his arms together in front of him.
As if trying to catch something flying.
Chow-!
When I did not throw the javelin, the giant slipped and landed.
Me and the giant who keep such a distance. Seeing the giant’s strangely developed facial muscles stand out horribly, I felt a sense of incongruity.
“Are you a moron?”
Shibalyeon, how did you read my technique?
My posture just now was stabbing no matter where I looked. If it was a creature with good brains, it would have been better to be deceived. But isn’t that giant preparing for the javelin as if he knew everything?
Several possibilities flashed through my neurons.
I had a hunch as I checked one by one, starting with unlikely hypotheses such as mind-reading and predictive ability.
“You kid, don’t you… [Gerture] Have you ever fought with someone who uses it?”
