Episode 270
Episode 96. Dempir’s Nightmare (4)
“What is this all of a sudden!”
Randell drew his twin swords and jumped off the tulka.
The distance between the tower and Yuma and the others was about 500 meters. Despite the considerable distance, I could see the monsters swarming at a glance.
“Natalie! You protect the two of them!”
Yuma followed suit and jumped into position.
Natalie didn’t listen to Yuma. She also got off the tulka and put an aura on her chainsword.
As Yuma looked up, Natalie opened her mouth.
“You can send Tulka out of the barrier for a while. It doesn’t look like Ash will be caught by those monsters. You try too hard to protect us. Overpaid Hoya.”
Before anyone knew it, Tulka took Barlinan and Cheryl and escaped through the crack in the barrier. Then, as if telling him to fight well, he leisurely scratched his ear with his back foot.
“brother! I can help too! This called him…
“Then you watch Cheryl. just in case.”
“huh!”
Tulka ducked into the gray wind.
The three of Yuma and Natalie Randell stood side by side holding weapons and looked at the monsters running madly. Rakir stood on top of them and flapped his wings.
“Rakir. What are those bug-like monsters? How many are there?”
“A rough glance, I think it will be 2,000.”
After a few more seconds, the party was able to confirm the appearance of the monsters that were getting closer.
The monsters were inconsistent in appearance. Some were dog-like, while others were fish-like, most of them the size of wolves.
However, the condition did not look perfect, such as the length of the legs not matching, the structure of the oral cavity distorted, only the eye sockets and no eyeballs.
At first glance, it was deformed.
Rakir opened his eyes and glared at the monsters, then clicked his tongue.
[Eight, I thought it was a great nutrient, but it’s a pity. Those
are the guys called ‘Querrick’.] “Querrick?”
[yes. They’re like the lowest-ranking dregs of the underworld. They are too good to be called monsters.
Why do all those things pop out?]
When translated into human language, ‘Querrick’ has the meaning of ‘catch fish’.
They were the lowest-ranking monsters, far less dangerous than the Orcs.
[Anyway, if you eat a lot, it will be nourishing. The inside of the tower will still be full of eatables.
Uhuhuh!]
With three people, it was not difficult to subdue 2,000 Orcs and Trolls instead of 2,000 Querics.
‘It reminds me of cutting down orcs in Anten.’
Yuma was incomparably stronger than before. Yuma pulled out Ascalon and prepared to charge in order to test the dual sword technique he had learned from Randel.
“Me and Natalie will be on either side, so you can take the middle.”
“great.”
The red moon was shining on the three people.
The inside of the barrier was less windy than the desert outside. However, the reddish landscape reflected in the red moon strangely made my heart feel cramped.
Whiririk!
Natalie rushed forward, mercilessly swinging her Serukaze chainsword.
Dozens of Querricks rushed at her, but they couldn’t even touch Natalie’s body.
Querricks had the fighting power of a fighting dog compared to the human world.
Purple blood exploded like a firecracker and soaked the sand on the floor.
“Kieack!”
Randell minimized the use of auras and used a splendid quicksword to suffocate the Querics.
It was to conserve strength, not knowing what would come out next to these pitiful monsters.
The two exclaimed in admiration when they saw Yuma burrowing into the center of the Queric group while wielding their weapons.
“her.”
“It’s spectacular.”
厂厂厂厂 Natalie and Randall’s gazes saw whirlwinds of black fragments. The fragments emitted a loud light and were sucked into the aura.
The Queriks cut by Amoulah were disintegrating and fluttering like flower petals.
Unlike Natalie and Randell’s left and right sides, which were covered in blood, there were no bloodstains left where Yuma passed.
The Querricks couldn’t even scream and were being absorbed by Yuma.
Yuma went back and forth between the Querricks. It was a quick and refreshing movement that was colorless to take on only the center.
[Master! You’re amazing!]
In an instant, more than a hundred Queriks were turned into powder and attached to Amoula. Queric, who had been treated with Ascalon, also finished with Aryeola, leaving no corpse.
Sweeping like a typhoon would be a fitting word for this scene.
The sight of Yuma slaughtering Queric even looked artistic because not a single drop of blood was spilled.
Natalie and Randell indifferently slashed the rushing Querics and stared at Yuma in awe for a moment.
No matter how weak it was, the monster was a monster.
Even if hundreds of their own people were turned into powder and disappeared right next to them, the Querricks did not stop rushing.
Rather, it was an advantage for Yuma. As a low-level monster, Queric wasn’t very agile, and it would only be more convenient to absorb it if hundreds of them attacked from all sides.
Every time Yuma took a step, the air turned black.
‘Certainly, even though I’ve already absorbed hundreds of them, I don’t feel the heaviness of cutting a single high-level demon.’
It was felt that Amulla was not very satisfied either.
While the three were cutting Queric, something huge appeared from behind the tower. I had only seen it once, but it was an unforgettable silhouette.
It was Maktoum, a weapon created through a ritual in the underworld.
Looking at it again, it was an overwhelming appearance, so Natalie swallowed involuntarily.
“Oh, is that the ogre your friend caught?”
[Oh oh! Proper nutrition came out!]
Two huge monsters like a fortress came out, but Yuma and Raki Le Landel only had their eyes shining.
Randel also wanted to fight Maktoum.
Anyway, the swordsman’s sense of selfishness.’
Natalie shook her head, brushing the blood off her chainsword.
Thousands of Querricks were noticeably reduced in number because of Yuma.
[Unlike the clumsy Maktoum in Seruca, those were born after a proper ceremony. You guys can get hurt by messing around. Kyahahak lord! Go and slice it up…]
Before Rakir could finish his words, Randell ran towards Maktoum. Que Rick seemed to have no regard for it anymore.
Yuma also started moving toward Maktoum. Natalie shrugged once and followed Yuma.
Even in Yuma’s eyes, Maktoum didn’t look like a ‘dangerous enemy’ to be destroyed at all.
food. good quality nutrients. Top-notch meals.
If I were to classify it, that would be more appropriate.
“Sir Randall! Watch your breath.
Don’t try to block it, avoid it.”
“why? Can’t we stop it?”
can. I may not be able to hear from you, though.”
Maktoum’s breath had tremendous power that could be dangerous even to Yuma. Yuma’s left arm, which had been absorbing it the other day as well, was dyed purple.
Even more so, Maktoum at that time was a deformity that woke up in the middle of a ceremony, unlike now.
Normal Maktoum’s breath couldn’t be worse than that.
The two Maktoums stood still like twin towers, gathering black auras in their mouths. The breath that gathered in the form of a sphere was huge like a castle gate.
As soon as he saw the overwhelming size of the sphere, Randel immediately understood why Yuma had asked him to avoid it and not to block it.
“Kowaaa!”
Two streams of black breath poured down the dunes. The three scattered to the side and were able to avoid the breath without difficulty.
Maktoum is a weapon that boasts tremendous firepower, but it is not very smart. Their main mission was to engage in radical and simple destruction.
The problem was that the breath’s firepower slightly exceeded Yuma’s imagination.
“Kuok!”
As if something had happened from the spot where the breath had landed, the sand waves swayed. Fragments of Queric’s bones and flesh mixed in the sand bounced like arrows.
Chae Chaeng!
Although he avoided the breath, the fragments were a problem.
I hurriedly hit the curtain with the aura wrapped around my sword, but I couldn’t completely block it.
Several fragments grazed the party’s armor. Some of the bodies not covered in armor were scratched.
There was no room to catch your breath.
It was because as soon as the fragments exploded like bombs passed, the breath that burrowed into the ground caused a storm afterward.
Kurrrrr!
The earth’s axis vibrated and the entire sandy floor on which the party was standing turned upside down.
In addition, black auras erupted from the floor like the teeth of a giant monster.
As if performing a trick, the three rolled their bodies to avoid the thorns made of black auras.
I couldn’t open my eyes properly because of the sandstorm, so I was filled with the feeling that I could be stabbed if I moved.
‘It’s dizzying!’
But it was satisfactory. I wondered how strong the flesh and bones would be if it were a monster that could draw such strong power.
“You’d better help Sir Randall.”
The three of them rushed out of the overturned sand dune relentlessly as if they had been hit by a massive artillery bombardment. Maktoum was preparing for the next breath without resting.
Jjiing!
A cross-shaped aura formed in Yuma and Randel’s eyes at the same time.
In the yard where Maktoum also popped out, there was no law saying that the ‘quiet’ mentioned by Rakir should not appear.
Therefore, there was nothing good if I did not have enough stamina and dragged the time.
“Let’s deal with it from the left!”
Yuma, who used the swift speed, moved forward first. Maktoum was also advancing, so the distance narrowed in an instant.
Ascalon and Amoula were crossed horizontally and swung. Two Aura Blades aimed at Maktoum’s ankles.
Wow!
At that moment, Maktoum slammed his fist to block Yuma’s attack.
A fan-shaped black aura hit Yuma along with the shock wave, and one of the aura spheres wrapped around Yuma’s body spread widely like a protective film to absorb the shock.
Then Maktoum made a motion to drop the other fist. However, Natalie’s chainsword entwined Maktoum’s big toe and tore it off.
Purple blood that spreads like a fountain.
Yuma approached the big toe on the other side and triggered an aura explosion, then inserted the sword into Maktoum’s fist, which came down reflexively, to fix his body.
In the meantime, Randell drew the attention of Maktoum on the right.
I just dug into the back of Maktoum’s hand, but I felt a tremendous power coming through Amoula.
‘This is it!’
A laugh came out. It was a sensation that was incomparable to a low-level monster like Queric.
“Queoeoyoung!”
As Maktoum screamed and clenched his fists, Yuma’s body bounced off and floated into the air. Yuma spun Amoula in her hand and took a stance as if throwing a javelin.
Poo-wook.
Yuma, who descended as it were, put Arilla on the top of Maktoum’s head. Maktoum’s eyeballs turned white.
Amoulah began to intensively absorb Maktoum’s power. Then there was a terrible, deafening noise.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…!
Sounds like tens of thousands of crows chirping at the same time. Natalie and Randall reflexively covered their ears and narrowed their eyes.
Yuma had heard that sound before.
It was similar to the sound that spread at the moment when Heize Rollmandi was devoured with his soul by Pidgin Carta, who had manifested as Malong.
It wasn’t a scream that came out of Maktoum’s mouth.
It was the cry of the crushed souls of humans dedicated to the ritual to make Maktoum.
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