Chapter 64 – Awakening Madness (9)
“Search, you bastard!!!”
I swung the thief’s sword in line with the hand with the large claw.
──Chaeeng!!
Bare hands and steel sword. Even though common sense would have it normal for me to get over it, my sword was smashed with a metallic sound.
‘Fuck!!’
It was overwhelmingly pushed out of power!!
She hurriedly raised his hand to block her fingernails, but her forearm was torn and blood splattered.
“Ugh… !!”
He gritted his teeth and endured the pain. Originally ignorant and strong, it was impossible to compete as the youngster now breaks even iron. It was an explosive reinforcement that could not be imagined as an effect of reinforcement magic.
‘──As expected, it’s a mutant magic!’
The effect of changing the constitution of the body and strengthening the body. Tabula’s ugly face and eyes were the aftermath of the mutation magic.
I wonder if he sacrificed one eye to gain strength, and in return his jaw and teeth protruded like a wolf. Then, having completely turned into a beast, I had no idea how much superhuman strength he would exert.
─Break!!
No, even if I couldn’t imagine it, I could see it myself.
It was because the beast’s hand, which had surpassed me even in speed, violently grabbed my head and lifted it up.
“Kouooooo!!!”
“Aaaaagh!!!”
The beast grabbed my head like a beastman and simply lifted my body and smashed it to the floor.
─Quaaang!!
“Cheuk!!”
At the impact of my back crashing into the floor, I vomited air from my lungs. The damage continues to break through the defense of the beast return!!
“Kyaaaaaooooo!!!”
─Boom!! Bang!! Bang!! Bang!! Bang!! Bang!!
The beast brandished me by the neck and beat me. Physical strength that doesn’t even care about my weight of over 100kg including equipment!! If I continue like this, I will break my neck and die even if my body endures!!
I chanted magic as if moaning in dizziness and pain.
“〈 Blazing Touch〉!!”
“──〈 Freezing Spear〉!!”
Tyrsi and I chanted the spell at the same time. The flaming hands burned the beast’s wrists, and the spear of ice hit the defenseless beast’s back.
─Roaring!!
─Pueruk!!
“Kyaaaaa-Syaaaaa!!!!!”
Even while receiving the magic, the beast continued to wield me. It wasn’t magic.
“It’s over the line that even fucking magic doesn’t work!!”
I screamed and screamed My eyes go wide and wide, and I feel like I’m going to get sick. I twisted the beast’s wrist to get out of this situation.
〈Burning Touch〉 The magical fire was losing its effect as the smoke dissipated as it touched his hide.
‘This——the magic of anti-demon!’
I’ve heard of it.
Rune of ᚦ(Thurs).
Giant. Patience and trials. A symbol of Thor, the thunder god that symbolizes protection.
It is the magic of the ancient Vikings with anti-magic power, and the runes of Jotun, which gave birth to trolls… !!
‘Perhaps attack magic won’t work on this bastard!!’
The power of magic resistance contained in the rune of ᚦ (Thurs) cancels out the effect of the rune. And more than 90% of the magic in this world was developed based on runes.
That’s why even if we use magic, it doesn’t work. This is because the structure of the runes that make up the formula collapses and the mana is dissipated.
To overcome this, mana cohesion that is much stronger than that of a rune wielding ᚦ (Thurs) is required!!
First of all, I know that you can’t even dream of my level!!
“Kyaa!!!”
The beast that was wielding me swung his claw at Tirshi once. The black mana rushed and was fired like a cannonball!!
─Keying!! Chaeng!!
“Kyaaaaa!!!”
The shell shattered the shield and ricocheted off Tyrsi’s tiny body. Tyrsi’s body rolls on the floor like someone who has been in a car accident. I took advantage of the moment when the beast’s hand stopped and hit the beast with two fists!!
“Baby!! Focus on me!!”
Poop!!
“Krrrr… !!”
My attack landed well, but the beast didn’t show any signs of pain. Because the basic specs are different, even if the attack succeeds, it means nothing!!
Whoouk!!!
The beast grabbed my head and legs with both hands and lifted it over his head. The mouth that gave off the fishy smell of an animal opened wide. You bastard, are you planning to eat me?!
“Stop it, bastard!! I’m a carnivore, so it doesn’t taste good!!!”
─Tup!!
I grabbed the guy’s chin up and down and held on. As if opening the mouth of an alligator, he desperately squeezed out his strength.
“Turn it off… !!”
─Softly.
My arms gradually lost strength from the grip that pulled my head and legs up and down. Nails were driven into his shoulders and legs. If I keep going like this, I’m really going to get bitten and search for it!!
“Mind… Non poison… 200 g. Loquat tree. Of the coastline… Pile.”
It was then. The fallen Tyrsi took out a small bottle with trembling hands. It was a bottle of yellow liquid.
“An offering to the god of corruption… The warmth of the waves… Yayang in white clothes… Loquat tree…”
The reason Tyrsi stuttered was because he had injured his head. Blood overflowed from his head, staining his gray hair, but still, Tyrsi’s eyes sparkled with fighting spirit.
“I, the one who inherits the etiquette of the small bay… ! With a single harpoon… !! Let’s put up a tombstone that binds the gods… !!”
After removing the cap from the bottle, Tirsi squeezed out her voice and chanted.
“〈 Chain of Sharp Harpoon〉!!”
─Charrrr!!!
─Stand up!
When the magic was activated, the beast’s body hardened. It was paralysis magic. I escaped the clutches of the immobile beast like a plaster cast and kicked the bastard in the face.
“Don’t be soggy and get out!!”
─Fuck!
─Cheap!!
The kick didn’t work, and instead my body fell to the floor like an idiot. My sense of balance didn’t work properly, probably because I was thrown so much into that little hand.
“Cheuk, couh!”
Coughing mixed with blood. Fortunately, the lungs and intestines are intact. This blood was the blood that had pooled in his mouth.
“Cough, Cough… !”
“Kmuuu… !!”
Tyrsi also coughed and desperately restrained the beast. The beast shook its body from time to time like a game character caught in a lag. It is resisting paralysis magic.
It reminded me of the sewer time. Tyrsi also had a hard time stopping the katydids. Even if the circumstances were different compared to then, he couldn’t keep that beast tied up for long.
“Keuuuuu!!!”
He breathed strength into his fallen body. The battered body screamed as if it had given up.
Parrr-.
I gritted my trembling jaw and stopped it. What do you know about pain? Fuck you, yes. I don’t deserve to die leaving Franc alone. Devise a countermeasure while Tyrsi is blocking it!
Soggy-.
At that moment, something lukewarm came out of my hand holding my chest. Blood? No, no. There was a tingling sensation in the clothes.
Broken… Glass bottle?
‘──Potion.’
The mana potion he kept in his chest was shattered by the shock of the battle.
‘That’s it!’
An idea flashed through my head and I looked for a box. The potion box obtained after defeating the thief.
─That’s right!!
I ran towards the box I found. Then the movement of the beast became violent, and Tirshi’s face contorted.
Is it right before the paralyzing magic ends? In a moment of wit, I took out my weapon from my bosom.
The sword I wield does not hold against that bastard’s skin. Destructive power was insufficient even with fists. It had to be a weapon with a small impact area while ignoring leather and crushing bones and flesh.
─Such.
A suitable weapon was on hand.
Frank’s weapon. It was a conical sledgehammer. I held it firmly and struck the beast’s leg, which was frozen in paralysis.
─ Wow!!
I could feel the taste of my hand crushing flesh as I hit the hammer on my reverse-jointed leg. It did not come to break the bones. Still, this was enough. Excessive appetite is prohibited.
“K… !!”
The beast, paralyzed and stiff, could not scream. I put the hammer back in my bosom and ran to get the box.
─Charleureuk.
I opened the box and opened the lid. I threw away the thesis envelope I packed and put inside because it was in the way, and took out the mana potion. My hands moved quickly, but I went through the process without making a single mistake.
─Pong!
─Pu-wook!
I opened the lid of the potion, inserted the lid with the syringe, and inserted it into my stomach. Because the pants were made of rock turtle leather, they couldn’t be worn on the legs.
─Jurruk.
When the syringe was inserted, the blue potion was sucked into the body.
The correct way to use such a potion is to drink it by mouth and filter it in the stomach and liver, but the situation is the situation. For the sake of immediate effect, the only option is to receive some compensation.
─Push!
I emptied the first bottle of potion that filled half of my mana with 1/3 and pulled it out of the stomach.
This was foolish from a common sense point of view. This is because the amount of mana does not increase by administering so many mana potions. As a side effect, only magic concentration would decrease.
─Whoaaaaa!!!
“Cool, cool!”
The overdose mana potion went beyond the mana box and stirred his body. It was a side effect as far as I know.
I was looking forward to this phenomenon. Grinding my teeth, I focused my clouded consciousness.
‘Put this mana into Beast Return!!’
Aww-!
He clenched his fist as if to crush it.
Before. I had been confronted by Tabula, who was still human, but was blown off and knocked into a wall and passed out. About 1 second in time. I was able to move right away, so it wasn’t too much of a problem.
The important thing is that you fainted.
Even if my consciousness was cut off, the beast return continued.
The effect system of Return of the Beast had nothing to do with my consciousness. It means that I can handle mana separately from my control.
In other words, it was a kind of external hard drive—no, an external CPU.
─Shwaaaaa!!!
The mana that did not enter the mana container stirred her body and caused her to vomit. The feeling of inflating a rubber tube inserted into the body by injecting air into it!!
Suppress. Hold on. Grind your teeth and be patient!
“Krrrr!!! Kyaaaaa!!!!”
The beast released from paralysis roared. Freed, the beast spewed black mana at Tyrsi without looking back. It was to cut off the breath of the opponent who was interfering with his movement.
Does reason remain even after being engulfed in madness? I whipped my mop-like body and rushed towards Tirsi. I caught up with the mana shell he threw and hit me!
“Go away!!”
Kwakwang!!
Mana hit by my fist lost her cohesiveness and disintegrated. Compared to the strength I had tasted before, it was a power that was far inferior.
‘It’s worth doing!’
He took Fran’s hammer and leaped at the beast.
The output of Beast Return did not become noticeably stronger. Wouldn’t it be about a step up from the Adventurer’s Guild’s Pressure Stone? It would not have reached the gold class yet.
The reason I parried the attack was because he didn’t know how to use techniques to condense or release mana.
Even if he only spewed mana as if he lacked skill, he wasn’t threatening. It is self-evident that even if you fire a cannon, if the shell is a water balloon, the power will be reduced!
─Boaaaaang!!
As I approached, her fingernails flew off. I avoided it by lowering my posture as if I was crawling on the floor. The strengthened body reacted to the attack speed. It slipped under his arm and hit him in the leg with the Fran’s hammer!!
─Bad!!
─Aww!!
“Kyaaaaa!!”
A stinging taste. Fran’s hammer broke a bone in his leg.
─It creaks.
The iron hammer, which had been overworked by excessive force, bent into an L shape. Apologize to Fran later. I threw down the hammer and rolled on the floor.
How many minutes are left for the Breeze Walk spell? I couldn’t ask for more support than this from Tyrsi. By giving me time to reorganize, Tyrsi did her part.
Now I have to put an end to it with my own hands!
“Summon 〈 Cloud 〉!!!”
When I thought that far, I was spitting out an incantation before I knew it.
〈 Summon Cloud〉 Magic set a magic spawn point on the floor of the cave and sprayed it with steam. Blocking the sight is meaningless. The beast was blind from the start.
──That’s why it’s this magic.
“Kyuuuuu!!!”
The beast attacked. It was so that he would not turn his back on me while trying to target Tyrsi. Perhaps, because of the pain and anger, he threw away even what little reason he had left.
─Booooong!!
If I couldn’t avoid it, it was an attack with the power to inflict fatal wounds even with my enhanced defense. The body, strengthened by mutation magic and black mana, seemed strangely specialized in killing life.
– Booung!! Booung!!
I dodged the first shot. He also dodged the second shot. Third and fourth steps.
– Booung!! Booung!! Booung!! Booung!!
Five, six, seven, eight, nine——even the beast that missed me in succession noticed it.
How come it doesn’t fit like this?
They are attacking by aiming for a sign. Why?
The answer is simple.
Because the ‘presence’ he reads is not hearing or smell.
Pushyyyyy—.
Fog rose in the cave.
The fog created by my mana.
