Chapter 286 – Horseman of Death (12)
“… This must be dangerous for the chieftain.”
Dana murmured as she looked at Nukelaby, who had transformed into a kelpie like a matryoshka.
“I agree.”
I clicked my tongue and threw a spear at the kelpie who was trying to escape by riding into the river.
Wedge love liquid— Puck!!
The spear flew quickly and pierced the kelpie’s head. Because if you miss it, you can’t just let go of a guy who doesn’t know where he will eat people again.
I retrieved the spear with the magic engraved on the spear pole.
The tip of the spear was smeared with goosebumps of blue blood. I made an impression.
“Let’s move too! I have an ominous feeling!”
Disrupting the axis of formation is stupid. If it was the military, it would have been a hasty action to the level of having to kiss the skull with lead bullets for disobeying orders.
But fortunately, we are not the chieftain’s subordinates. What’s more, it was no longer possible to predict the success of the operation.
I took the party members and ran across the bridge over the river.
“My dear, do you understand what happened?!”
“No, I don’t know! I don’t know why, but I’m pretty sure those bastards can cross fresh water! Then the chief’s side will be pierced in an instant!”
This operation was based on information that Nukelaby is afraid of fresh water. The power ratio was the lowest on the patriarch side.
In other words, the situation where he took out Chikorita to catch Long Stone, believing only in good luck!
Then, if Longstone was actually a fire type, Chikorita, who was elated at the thought of stabbing her weak point, quickly turned into a turnip for stewed saury!
“Except for the main unit to subdue the chief, the warriors attached to the chief’s side aren’t very good!”
Because the chief, a shaman, is the next most powerful person next to the warrior chief, there is no other powerful person in that direction.
In order to reduce the number of deaths that will occur during hunting, it is right to invest the main power of the village in the pursuit and subjugation.
However, because of that obvious choice, the power of the chieftain was a bit low now. Even 2 or 3 Nukelavies attacking will result in one side of the formation being blown through.
Hyromain or Alice? It was a luxury to ask for a fight from the girls who were about to die from being chased by Nukelaby.
Dana shouted as she brushed her windblown hair.
“No matter how great the magic is to call fresh water, it is obvious that it will use a lot of mana! If you think the chieftain is not in danger and get ambushed, you will miss the chief!”
“If I miss it, I’ll have to be prepared to meet you again in the meadow☆!”
“Tsk, yes! It would be better to launch an all-out war before the formation collapses!”
The party’s opinion was concentrated in the conclusion of giving up and raiding the riverside. I gave instructions before running into the woods.
“Veronica! Can you fly and scout?! If Nukelaby were 5 meters tall, you could see their movements in the sky!”
“The forest is so wide! It will be hard in my eyes!”
Oh shit right. I scratched my head. Veronica can use mana, but she is a wizard by nature.
And even if I was a small animal, it was difficult to transform into a winged creature and fly around. It is because of the low aptitude of transformation magic.
“Veronica! Give me a ride!”
At that moment, Fran snatched the ring and shouted. Veronica nodded her understanding and spread her wings on her back.
─Flutter!
The white Romanian-style dress was spread open, and the black wings of a crow fluttered. Veronica took her Franc in her arms and at once flew through the trees of the forest.
“What do you see?!”
“The tree keeps falling down in front of me! There’s a bit of distance, but the sound of a fight——sssss!”
Fran, who had been shouting in the air, groaned. I peeped at the sky through the leaves of the forest. Black spray-like mana was attacking our wives in a semicircle.
“Nor, east and west! It’s a human sign!”
“Don’t dodge! Hold on tight!”
With her wing flapping, Veronica narrowly dodged her ranged slash.
Considering her mobility as a mage, you could say she was lucky. And in other words, Fran and Veronica almost got hurt.
“What the fuck, what kind of bastard!!”
Dana growled as if she was angry, and fired a light at the place where the attack came from.
It would be nice if it was an attack magic, but it’s a normal lantern magic. Still, the effect was striking. The baby hiding in the shadow of the leaves was revealed in the bright light.
A creepy-looking, skinned human!
It was similar to Nukelaby’s humanoid upper body, but different. Over there, that science room manikin was standing on two legs!
“Kiiiii──!!”
A fucking roar like scratching a whiteboard with a cutter knife!
The youngster took up a sea iron scythe. With my eyes wide open, I tried launching something called “Living as hard as I can.”
‘It’s in trouble if Danana and Lalilura are targeted!’
They are slow Considering the risk of getting hurt, it is right for me to step out as a tank.
To put it grandiosely, if you look closely at living, isn’t it mana overflowing from your body? The human Nukelaby seemed to have prioritized who was more dangerous.
─Everything Shuka!
Just as I was aiming for, the slashing aggro bounced back at me.
A flying slash! I dodged it without the slightest difficulty. He wasn’t a very smart kid. At this low speed, there is no advantage to attacking from a distance.
“KLllllllrrrryyyyy——!!”
“Don’t say shit, put your palms together!!”
Swung the spear The fake Nukelaby’s arm, which only knew how to slash while standing like a Sentry Gun, was severed while holding a scythe. I instructed as I landed.
“Dana! Undead extermination magic!”
“Sword of Light (Claiomh Solais)!!”
Dana did not say that this magic does not work on evil spirits.
Dana, assuming that there must be a reason for my order, immediately emits the magic engraved in her body. The Ulster Druid family’s arcane magic unfolded in the blink of an eye.
The sword of light that shrank and fired pierced the enemy’s chest.
─Fuck!
A strange bloody blast like bursting rotten grapes!
The fake Nukelaby died without even dying, as if it had been fatally damaged by the magic. Dana panicked, as if she couldn’t believe that she had attacked.
“What, why is this through? Could it be that this bastard was undead?”
“If the meaning of undead is a moving corpse, then this bastard must also be undead.”
I paused and cut a nearby tree branch.
It stabbed Nukelaby in the stomach with a sharp section similar to that of a bamboo spear. Water came out of the body, which was so humid that it wouldn’t catch fire even if I used magic. The branches soon got wet.
I muttered as I inspected the corpse.
“… No soul left. Is it like a flash golem?”
If it was an undead with a soul, it would have attained Buddhahood when it came into contact with me.
It was like a moving stuffed animal, so to speak.
Kelpie, the evil spirit, puts the corpse… It is probably a grotesque doll made by connecting human drowned bodies.
I was impressed with the neuron-drenching nuisance. It felt like some serial killer was trying to identify a sofa made of human skin.
‘This is not something an ordinary animal would do.’
Among animals, there are many cruel creatures.
For example, highly intelligent creatures, such as Adelie penguins and some chimpanzees, do not hesitate to act as cruelly to their prey or to their own kind as to our own.
‘But even those bastards don’t make toys in their image from other creatures.’
Cats hunt even when they are not hungry. It’s for pure fun.
I felt a similar presence in this ‘stuffed toy’.
To feel the pleasure of assembling a toy that mimics itself with a human corpse. What does that mean?
That said, the manufacturer of this toy had a mindset so different that humans like us couldn’t get along with it.
That’s enough to be called a demon.
“… Let’s run You must never let this bastard live.”
It’s also a problem to insult the corpse, but beyond that, he’s a guy who kills even living humans with both eyes open.
‘I must have played a joke with a dead human like that. Fuckin’ bastard.’
That may be the reason why the villagers refused entry to outsiders by pushing them through the window.
In the village of Ulsterians, it seems that there was no time to ‘play with’ because they were busy avoiding their pursuers, but if the chief died and the village’s power was halved, it was clear that they would wander around the area like their own home.
─Pasasasak!!
We picked up speed as we weaved through the bushes.
A salty smell passed by the bridge of his nose as he breathed in cleanly. It was the smell of the sea breeze that could not blow inland. We braced ourselves and prepared for battle.
Run like that for a while. Stopping in a position overlooking a low cliff, we found the opponent we were aiming for.
[Uuuuu…]
Big.
I almost sighed. What is 5 meters? I’ll take 8 meters.
It almost feels like walking around a two-story Harmony Mart. Its width and height are no joke.
If you pick up a human in the palm of your hand, a grown adult could twist and tear it apart, just like playing with a child’s toy robot.
It looked almost identical to the fake Nukelaby we caught.
Of course, there are other points. Unlike the ‘toys’ that were rolled up after taking off their skin and hung like a curtain, the baby looked like the whole body skin was peeled off.
I noticed that it was the result of the real Nukelaby throwing away the work because it got annoying while ‘assembling’ it.
Because down there, ten stuffed toys were crossing the river and attacking the chief’s party.
“Wooooom!!!”
“Zane!! Step back!!”
Alice struck the undead across the fresh water with the shield she had received from her warriors.
─Perseok!
Because of the difference in compatibility, the undead Nukelaby went to the goal in just a second.
“Protect the Chief!!”
“Keep dustproof!!”
Of course, even a unicorn, a master of divine magic, has two arms.
Perhaps Alice couldn’t put up a barrier like the young Avidus, her four warriors were desperately blocking the undead Nukelaby she couldn’t block.
The war situation is not good. The chief and Hyromain were unable to counterattack, probably because it was too difficult to maintain the river they had made in the forest.
It had to be. If you clean up the fresh water to deal with the fakes, you will have to face the big body.
Fuck, where is Stella and what is she doing? Isn’t it dead?
I quickly rolled my eyeballs and whispered in my mind.
【Dana. Down there, the sword of light——]
It was when I whispered like that. The head of Nukelaby, which seemed to swallow a person in one bite, turned this way. Her bare ribs flared as if she were breathing.
Nukelaby’s arms swoop in as swiftly as if they were picking up seasonings from a cupboard!
“I’m done!! Everyone back!!”
As I instructed, I fired 〈 bolts of lightning 〉 with the breech.
“〈 Enchant〉!!”
I swung it with the magical strengthening effect of the spear blade. Nukelaby was stopped by the high-voltage electric current that pierced his palm. Frightened, I took a series of back steps.
─Quguaguaguagwang!!!
I had time to pull myself out, but my mouth was wide open in astonishment.
Nukelaby’s arms ripped through the rocky cliff. It’s as simple as tearing off some kind of baekseolgi rice cake!
If I were caught by that fucking hand, I would have turned into a human snowman just by gently rolling it with my palms like making songpyeon for New Year’s Day!!
[Haaaaa hah haha hhaa HAha!!!]
Nukelaby swung his arms while imitating human laughter.
─Quaaaaang!! As if an earthquake had struck, the cliffs shook and the scaffolding collapsed.
I quickly sensed the momentary feeling of floating and the guidance of gravity that followed, and my complexion turned blue.
I stopped trying to squeeze mana. I was going to jump backwards with the steam jet, but I saw a palm pounce on me.
“Cee hair!! Reverse injection water rocket!!!”
─Fuhuaaaaa!! I set the steam direction to the bottom. Even if the impact of the fall was increased, avoidance was given priority because gravity acceleration alone did not give an angle to avoid.
“Nor!!”
“Senior!!”
Hammer Throw and 〈 Magic Arrows 〉 opened up a gap.
In the gap between my palms being delayed, I dashed. Stepping on collapsing rocks and running to the ground in gear second state spouting steam.
Actually, I ran out because I liked the horse, but it was close to crashing headlong.
Even if I fall like this with the acceleration attached, no matter how much I fall, my body can’t stand it! But if you stop, you will be hit by Nukelaby’s attack.
“This is the reason for the inevitable death!”
Then it was natural to choose the one with the higher survival rate.
I sprayed full axel steam from my back. The ground came closer like some kind of 8x speed video.
This is a minimal compound fracture! I squeezed out the best defense of the beast return and resolutely shouted.
“Emergency room Deshaaaaa!!!”
─Kuuuuu!!
