◈ 228. [STAGE 9] The arrow that left the demonstration (4)
Damian fell backwards.
It was because the recoil of the magic bullets fired was too strong.
The power was so strong that the Black Queen’s gun barrel was shattered and scattered in all directions, and Damian, the shooter, fell backwards with his arms burned to black.
After flying in the air, Damian’s body was about to fall to the ground, but Lucas and Evangeline rushed to catch it.
Kudangtangtang!
“Heuk!”
“Queuck!”
I managed to catch Damian with my body, but all three had to roll on the floor.
The three lay on top of each other like a sandwich.
At the bottom, Lucas, in the middle, Evangeline, at the top, Damian stretched out.
Caught in the middle, sprawled out, Evangeline spat out a weak sound.
“If you have such a great offensive skill… I should have written it sooner, brother Damian… … .”
Lucas, who was at the bottom, laughed.
“Still, thanks to you, I lived… I really thought it was over.”
Damian, who was dazzling, raised his charred hands.
“I was lucky, the situation was good, and I don’t think it’s a skill that I can use more often than anything… oh my arm… … .”
Lucas and Evangeline each took out a potion and poured it on Damian’s arm.
Damian himself healed his arm using recovery magic.
Although not cured, Damian managed to grab the black queen’s handle, whose barrel had been blown off.
clap clap clap!
Then, the Black Queen’s gun barrel, which had been scattered in fragments everywhere, was reassembled.
It was in the form of an ordinary long gun before it was transformed.
However, it had lost its light and turned to a dull gray color, as if it had exhausted its strength.
Lucas and Evangeline helped Damian. The three of them slowly headed in front of Jormungandr.
***
Me and Nameless stood in front of Jormungandr’s head.
I swallowed dry saliva as I inspected the huge, motionless head.
“… Are you dead?”
“no.”
Nameless stroked the shiny gray scales of the huge snake with his fingertips.
“It took a huge hit, but I’m recovering.”
“what?”
“The life force of this snake is strong. Best of all, my brain wasn’t hurt.”
We only destroyed the nerve center that stood out like a protrusion, and Damian’s magic bullet penetrated the snake from its back neck to its tail. The brain was fine.
“I suffered near-lethal damage, but I will recover someday.”
Just in time, a long breath flowed out of the snake’s huge nostrils and mouth. Mom, I’m surprised!
Frightened, I urgently shouted.
“Then killing before recovering… !”
“… ash.”
Unknown calmly continued the explanation.
“Jormungandr is no mere monster. It is a spiritual creature with the divine status of the Age of Mythology. The only thing that can kill a being with such a godhead is a being with the same godhead.”
“… .”
“We mortals cannot kill it with our hands.”
Does this guy also have a ‘unkillable’ judgment?
So, in the game, did they just kick them out by repelling them instead of raiding them?
“Anyway, since you’ve been injured this much, you’ll have to confine yourself to your den for the next hundreds of years and recuperate.”
Nameless removed his hand from Jormungand and looked back at me.
“How about returning it?”
“Um… .”
The original purpose was not to kill, but to repulse, but… … .
“What bullshit is this!”
It was then. Kelly Bay hopped out behind us.
“Nothing oh oh! I have to kill you!”
The dwarf old man’s glass beads-like eyes were glistening with terrifying greed.
“Can’t you see the terrifying ingredients that will come out of disassembling this snake’s body, kid?! There will be no shortage of materials in your city for the next half year!”
“… .”
“Make weapons! Make armor too! How strong would it be if you just put scales on the walls of the castle?! Both sides and sides, I’ll give you some of the extras too!”
For very honest and practical reasons.
“You need a godhead to kill?! That’s what you don’t know until you try! Just get me some big hammers! I opened this guy’s skull and knocked it out! I’ll pick you up! How dare I become a dwarf!”
“Mmmm.”
In any case, Kelly Bay had a point.
Material items that will come from the body of this giant snake. How useful would it be if you could use it?
No matter how you look at it, it looks like a dead end… … . How can I not beat more?
I heard the sound of footsteps behind me. When I turned around, Damian was walking, supported by Lucas and Evangeline.
“Prince.”
“Damian.”
I smiled and patted Damian on the shoulder.
“Good job.”
I decided to give the long compliment later, and when I congratulated him briefly, Damian smiled shyly.
“Yes, Damian. You captured the monster, so I’ll give you the right to decide.”
I pointed with my hand at Jormungandr, who was breathing heavily.
“Should I kill more Jormungandr on the spot or just let him go.”
Damian scrutinized his big brown eyes.
“But I didn’t catch it, did I? i just… … I only put my last hand on the destruction of the parts you put in after all the hard work… … ?”
“It is called a major.”
Originally, hitting well at the end is the skill of a ranged dealer.
Damian hesitantly came and stood in front of Jormungandr.
It was then.
“I am… To the end of the world… … .》
Vivid thoughts flowed from the giant snake in the form of a voice.
《To the north… … Gotta go… … .]
Everyone jumped up in surprise and jumped back, but only Damian stood still.
Damian, who opened his eyes wide and inspected Jormungandr’s closed eyes, murmured softly.
“Are you going to the end of the world too?”
Then the snake’s huge eyes slowly opened.
Jormungandr opened his eyes and looked at the boy standing in front of him. The enemy who pierced his body with bullets.
《… .”
“That’s right, you too… .”
Damian shook his head and looked back at me.
“… I will send it back.”
Kelly Bay screamed and tore at her missing head. Oops.
“I was determined to kill this snake, so I shot the strongest magic bullet I could use, penetrating all the spiritual cores my eyes caught. But I am not dead.”
Damian looked down at the magic gun in his hand.
“I don’t know if the ending was already decided at that moment.”
I nodded.
Well, in the first place, the purpose was to give it back and send it back. Also known as Unkillable.
“… But how do I return it?”
I clicked my tongue as I inspected the elongated giant snake.
“At this rate, I think I will recuperate here for several months.”
You can’t put it on a truck and transport it, but if you leave it here and struggle, the walls will all be blown away. how do i get it back
“I am.”
Then, Damian was injured and raised his horse gun with trembling arms.
“I’ll restore it to the point where I can go back.”
“what?”
We all rolled our eyes.
is that possible?
Damian raised the empty magazine and aimed at Jormungand.
Saaaah-
The transparent healing magic that was inside Damian’s body gathered and permeated the magazine.
Damian shot it without hesitation.
bang-!
The transparent magic bullets fired with clear gunshots penetrated Jormungandr’s body and disappeared.
Damian lowered his horse gun.
“It is a magic bullet of healing. You hit one of Jormungandr’s destroyed spirit cores, so it will regenerate.”
Everyone looked at Damian with such an absurd look. I asked in a cold sweat.
“… Is that possible?”
“I don’t know either… .”
Damian chuckled and scratched the back of his head.
“… Suddenly, instinctively, I realized that I could use it like this.”
I don’t know if this is Damian’s new skill or what. In any case, the effect was clear.
Shrr r r r r r r r r r r!
coo coo… … !
As one of the destroyed spirit cores regenerated, Jormungandr slowly raised his huge head with difficulty.
And then quietly, all the humans in this place… … And he stared at Damian.
《… I won’t forget… … .”
He said that.
No, uh, you mean you don’t forget ‘grace’, right? Isn’t it like ‘Grudge’? yes?
A gurgling—
then Jormungandr’s long neck wriggled and his huge mouth opened—and spat out a transparent orb the size of a human head.
“… .”
What’s this.
Everyone looked at the marble in bewilderment. Yeouiju? Is that what you’ve been hearing?
therefore… Did you repay?
coo coo… … .
Jormungandr nodded once, then slowly turned his massive body backwards and began crawling back south again.
Seeing the huge monster that I had been trying to fight off for the past three days, peacefully walking around like that, made me feel both depressed and relieved.
The heroes who had suffered and the soldiers who had been watching nervously from the top of the wall sat down on the floor one by one.
Then, in the rising morning sun, I silently watched the back of the huge snake turning around.
“Jormungand was the providence of nature in the age of mythology.”
Nameless explained in a peaceful tone, as if reading an old fairy tale.
“If you lay waste to cities, overturn rice fields, and destroy civilization. In its place, new forests, new canyons, and new civilizations were born.”
“… .”
“Regeneration through destruction. The natural providence of such a mythical age.”
I thought it looked like an earthworm because it burrowed into the ground, but it really was a role like an earthworm.
“… In the distant past, even typhoons, droughts, and snowstorms were considered gods. Because it destroyed the base of life and took many lives.”
Looking vaguely at the snake’s scales, which were quickly moving away, Moo-myeong continued.
“But now mankind is overcoming typhoons, droughts and snowstorms. The gods who were in charge of destruction and regeneration have now lost their divinity and have been relegated to ordinary weather.”
“… .”
“The serpent of the world, Jormungandr, who once cut through the world, destroying and regenerating the world, is now blocked by this southern wall and has to return.”
Anonymous laughed bitterly.
“In a few hundred years, it might lose even its last divinity and become a monster to be exterminated normally.”
I snorted.
“That must also be the providence of nature.”
After being soaked in such a strange feeling,
I turned around and shouted.
“Kelly Bay! Get out of there!”
Kelly Bay, who secretly lifted the yeouiju and tried to hit it with a hammer, jumped up in fright. I grinded my teeth.
“Hey old man! That’s our Damian! Why are you trying to beat yourself up!”
“What! I have to make it into equipment anyway! Why don’t you touch it first?!”
Damian looked at us with a bitter smile.
The morning sun was rising.
Another defensive battle was drawing to a close.
***
[STAGE 9 – CLEAR!]
[STAGE MVP – Damian(??)]
[Level change character]
– Damian(??)
< This character is scheduled for a grade upgrade. >
< Please proceed with the promotion quest. . >
[Level Up Character]
> Main Party
– Ash (EX) Lv.44 (↑3)
– Lucas (SSR) Lv.47 (↑2)
– Evangeline (SSR) Lv.47 (↑2)
– Jupiter Junior ( SSR) Lv.56 (↑1)
– Damian (??) Lv.48 (↑5)
> Sub Party 1
– Quilan (SR) Lv.44 (↑2)
– Tuesday (R) Lv.37 (↑ 2)
– Wednesday(R) Lv.36 (↑2)
– Backy(R) Lv.36 (↑2)
– On the Rock(R) Lv.32 (↑1)
>Others
– Lily(R) Lv.30 (↑1)
[Dead and Injured Characters]
– Jupiter Junior (SSR): Minor Injury
– Damian (??): Minor Injury
[Acquired Item]
– Jormungand Ladybug: 1
[Stage Clear Reward has been given. Please check your inventory. ]
– SSR Grade Reward Box: 1
> > Get Ready For The Next STAGE
> > [STAGE 10: Humans and Monsters]
