Chapter 65 – Awakening Madness (10)
Pushyyyyy—.
Fog rose in the cave.
The fog created by my mana.
─Stand up!
It felt like the beast stopped attacking and became confused. I checked it by hiding it in the fog that adjusted the concentration.
─Take it!
He pulled the clothes off his wrists and bit them with his reinforced jaws. Hearing the noise, the beast attempted an attack. I was not hit by blind attacks.
─Chuck!
I sprinkled blood on the cave floor as if to cover up the smell of blood that had splattered on my body. As the smell of blood wafted in, the beast’s confusion accelerated.
‘I knew it.’
What is the principle by which that bastard detects a person’s location?
Is it the sense of smell? Is it hearing? Both answers are correct, but if that’s all, you won’t get 100 points. Fortunately, I had personally experienced a ‘hypothesis’ to write an answer out of 100 points.
Remember. When the thieves were annihilated in this place.
How did I notice the bandit leader’s escape attempt?
My sense of smell and hearing have also been considerably strengthened. Then, was I focusing on my five senses then? It’s bullshit I was busy playing the requiem.
That’s how I felt the presence of the leader. With what?
‘──Manaro.’
This is the only correct answer.
Smell, hearing, everything is good. But, has the person whose body and constitution changed through mutation magic already adapted to it? You were a normal human until a few minutes ago? Didn’t you live blind for over ten years?
So, there is only one answer. It is ‘Mana’.
Just like how Nefertiti correctly guessed my location when I was quietly hiding during the Ruins Guard request——inspiration!!
Pushyyyyyyyyyyyy——!
The fog rose thickly. It seemed impossible even for the beast to separate me from the mist of my mana. With his nails erect, they hardened in place.
I clicked my tongue at the sight.
‘It’s a big deal! I can’t move without making a sound either!’
The effects of the breeze walk still lingered, but it wouldn’t completely drown out the sound. Didn’t that baby notice in the middle when I was in a human state?
‘How many steps does it take from here to where my attack lands?’
3 meters? 4 meters?
Go through the streets in silence? Nonsense!
If you even make footsteps in the middle, that bastard is ready to fight back on the spot! Big deal! Coming to the end, the last number is not enough!
“… 〈 of ice, arrow 〉.”
From within the mist, someone chanted an incantation. I immediately knew who it was. Tyrsi had squeezed out the last of her strength.
─Kagagakgagak!!!
It was a messy ritual. The arrows of ice were barely embodied with only the arrowheads, and they were shattered in vain.
‘No, that’s it!!’
It is perfect. You are the best support, Tyrsi!
─Kagagakgagak!!!
─To-du-du-du-du-du-duk!
The arrowhead hit the ceiling, but instead of turning into cold air, it rained down like hail. The noise of the broken ice fragments making noise in the cave.
Tirsi, who noticed my intentions, reinforced my last move!!
At the end of the bridge, which could not be crossed for fear of collapsing, a brick was filled with Tyrsi’s hand. It was nice to come along. If I had been alone, he would have been dead from his hands and feet.
─Kagagakgagak!!!
─To-du-du-du-du-du-duk!
I counted. 10, 9, 8…
The beast focused all its nerves on hearing. 7, 6, 5…
Tirsi’s magic weakened little by little. 4, 3, 2…
And—— 1.
‘──Now.’
─That’s right!
I ran with all my might.
The sound of footsteps buried within 0.1 second by the noise of breaking ice.
“──Kryyyyyyyyyaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!”
Still, the beast reacted.
At the moment of dozens of commas below the zero point, I caught my footsteps and dashed right towards me. Nails without the slightest hesitation flew in to tear my torso——
– Booung!!!
──It cut open an empty space.
“────K.”
Missed.
No, ‘made it miss’.
In the noise, the beast was in a state where its heightened sense of hearing had been raised to the limit. Tirsi helped me, but I couldn’t confidently cover that distance without the sound of my footsteps.
Didn’t Tabula also say that?
I’m not an outstanding warrior——a scholar.
“——Thank you for coming.”
I whispered, pulling my fist. The sound of footsteps earlier was not the sound of running forward. It was the sound of “Jumping aside”.
I believed that the beast would hear my footsteps and rush to ‘kill it first’, so I ‘did from the beginning’.
If it was a beast that was distracted and nervous because of the noise Tirsi made.
It was clear that he would attack by relying on his own senses rather than reason.
With a strategy that mobilized reason, I seized the victory. At the deliberate sound of footsteps, the beast chose to attack instead of counterattack——so it laid its heart in front of me.
─Kooung!
One second when the beast stopped in astonishment and confusion. I used it to advance for an attack. He pulled his foot as he stepped forward with his fist.
I thought about how I could kill him with my punches.
I am a scholar, not a warrior. He is an earthling with advanced science.
Recall the properties of air. Refresh your knowledge of convection. Air moves from warm to cold, top to bottom, and from dense to low.
So are the clouds. The compressed and released gas is exhaled, creating atmospheric pressure. That is the power that makes a steam engine run several tons of railroad.
“──Summon 〈 Cloud 〉.”
Shuwaaaaa!!
I created it by ‘overlapping’ all of the steam created with 〈 Summon Cloud 〉 at the point behind the elbow.
The steam that was compressed in one place went out of control and ran out of control like an unbridled colt!
Don’t try to control this pressure! I only help with the air pressure that has arisen!!
If my strength and the strength of my friends aren’t enough–borrow the power of the laws of nature and create a lethal technique!!
Combine the spells! Overlay Beast Return on 〈 Cloud Summon 〉!!
Control the steam spewing out with enhanced output!!! Give it direction and push it to the rear!!!! Add momentum to your punches!!!!!
Turn these fists into bullets and shoot them out——!!!!!!
‘Please lend me your strength. Mr. Watt.’
“Mung-mung-mung–!!!!!!!!!!”
I prayed and punched the creator of the steam engine.
“──Gun!!!!!!!!”
─Two-kick!
Gathering momentum, my fist shot and shattered the beast’s heart.
Patter-.
There was a hole big enough to put a watermelon in at the place where the fist was pierced. The back of the beast’s chest was sprayed red with bloodstains, like a giant spraying it.
Graffiti made of blood.
Is this international
“Cheuk…”
I fell to my knees with my arms drooping in the recoil of my reckless technique. I tried to stay upright, but it was impossible.
“Mana Oringnan Lehu…”
A voice that didn’t even sound like human words leaked out of my mouth. I just don’t know what it is. It was much harder and harder than when I first used Beast Return.
No, it’s only natural that he took an overdose of steam packs and made a joke with his body that became a rag.
“Two.”
He spat bloody saliva and looked at the beast. But why doesn’t this kid fall down? If you get a refill of breast meat for being a werewolf, there really is no answer anymore.
Swoop-.
When I looked at it, it was only then that the beast fell down.
“Roll!!”
I hurriedly attempted a forward roll to the side. The only thing you can ride on me is Fran!!
─Fluff!
The beast fell forward. A huge amount of blood poured out of the hole. It feels like a bright red carpet is being laid. Sleep. Was this baby’s blood originally red? Wasn’t it black?
What’s more important than no is not this bastard. I crawled there because I was worried about Tirshi’s condition.
“Ash. Are you okay?”
“… Oh, stand.”
Tyrsi stared at me with her face down to see if she was still conscious. My face is all exposed, but are you still calling me Arthur?
Or perhaps the young Nord has been forgotten. It’s like a poor macho shack.
I’m glad anyway If Tyrsi died or something, I would have not slept for half a year because of real guilt.
“Do you have any potions?”
“The bag, inside…”
“Excuse me for a minute.”
I took out a red wound healing potion from my bag. He sat Tyrsi on his lap and raised his head to drink the potion. Taking a few sips of the potion she put into his mouth, Tyrsi laughed.
“Somehow, Coke. I feel ashamed because I feel like a baby. Cough Cough.”
“Don’t worry, it’s cute.”
“Because it’s embarrassing…”
I took a piece of his hair from the corner of Tyrsi’s mouth, laughing weakly. Ah, but damn, I want to drink a potion too. All that was left in the bag was now.
“Is this all about healing wounds?”
“I brought another one… Is it broken?”
“Looks like it.”
The bag is full of the smell of medicine. A potion bottle would have been strong, but it was chewy. Fuck. That bastard is really ridiculously strong.
“Collock, Coke. Anyway, did we win?”
Tirshi asked me while coughing with potions. I looked in the direction of the fallen beast.
“I do not know. I don’t even have the stamina left to kill.”
“I have no face, but so do I.”
“Let’s see if you’re alive. Please wait here.”
“Yeah? Now, wait! Could be dangerous… Kheuk, cool!”
Tirsi, who had no energy to stand up, lay down and poured the remaining potion on the bottom of the potion bottle into her mouth.
“Collock, keheung, keheung?!”
It was an indirect kiss, so Tirsi was taken aback. However, this is an emergency, so I hope you understand.
Drinking the potion seems to have slightly recovered, and sometimes it doesn’t. Even though it was a placebo effect, the strength in my legs returned a little, so I stood up on my own two legs.
I fell and approached the bleeding beast.
‘This bastard. The magic has broken.’
Is that why the blood turned red from black? The tears that flowed from his eyes turned red. Since that black mana disappeared without a trace, maybe my reasoning was correct.
Still, the appearance of a half-ware human, a side effect of the mutation magic, remained the same.
“——Cool.”
Then the beast vomited blood. It seemed that he had regained consciousness.
“Here is…”
The beast that followed said. It was Tabula’s voice. The bastard noticed my presence while moving his head, wondering if he knew what he would see if he moved his empty eyes.
“I—I… Is it lost?”
“Yeah, bitch. It’s a request, so please follow me quietly.”
I don’t even have the stamina to kill. If this bastard gives up, he’ll say it’s the end of the game, and if he gets up and hits me, he’ll get hit right away.
Beast return was still turned on, but only a dim light remained, like fluorescent paint that had been neglected for almost a year.
“Kuh, keuhuh. Have you lost as a beast? Then there is no more regret.”
Tabula regained her sanity, but did not come back to life. Well, it’s against the rules for a boss with fucking magic resistance to use it until the recovery period. Not even a raid boss.
While I remained alert, I was relieved inside, and Tabula spoke in a heavy voice.
“You are the second one to make me use this technique…”
“You know when you see it.”
People only have two eye colors, but who knows that, you idiot.
Or what, is the head of the spring department a genius class? Use the eye plucking skill three times? You’re talking nonsense. Upset people
It is said that the great commander Xia Hou-don ate the arrow-pierced eye, called the Suji Parent of the body, but that guy himself pulled out the eye and crushed it.
“You’re like a bastard bastard who doesn’t even have a mother and father. You guys aren’t even good enough.”
“Yeopo… ? Hehe. You don’t know your parents’ faces.”
Cheeky is the maximum pad-lip resistance. As I was working my brain at 3000% to come up with a novel pad lip, the bastard laughed.
Haha. You… Even after receiving that much mana from the Old God, do you still have reason?”
“No shit. How many times have you told me that I am not religious?”
It’s 9 gods and 9 miho, it’s unknown. Even if I did something like that, this bastard Tabula showed off the characteristics of a person from another world and only said what he wanted to say.
“It is said, a berserker who does not descend into a beast. A king who is not devoured by ferocity and fury, but who gives rest to fallen beasts. Then, after all, you, the prophecy…”
“My 1 child. Are you deaf?”
Damn, why does it feel like hitting a boss cutscene with a normal hit? Are you sure you and I speak the same language?
“Ohhh… ! This brilliance… ! Celestial Valkyrie… ! Did you come to pick up this tabula… !!”
This idiot reached the stage where he muttered to himself as he spread his hands on the crawling ceiling. To him, it seems that the biocurrent sparks in the brain that people see when they are searching look like angels.
“Great madness who dwells in the sky… Another Einheri of yours… To the great Valhalla…”
─Kekkodak.
With a look that suits such a mimic word, Tabula was scoured. My arms dropped with a heavy sound and my breathing stopped.
“Oh my god, this shit.”
To think that he would go to the goal without saying what he was doing and just preaching his religion. I had so many fucking questions to ask this guy.
I lost my temper and tried to kick him in the head, but gave up. T-bagging without body manners is a violation of the Geneva Convention. Maybe.
That’s when I gave up and turned my back.
Shuwaaaaagh—!
“Det?”
Something leaked from Tabula’s corpse.
Wow what a smart way to use the cloud spell, i imagine it look like the pile bunker