Episode 178
Episode 178
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Teardrop!!
Luna and I kicked off the ground without saying who would go first and shot up into the sky like rockets.
The gap that Diablo opens is only 3 seconds.
But those 3 seconds are more than enough time to reach your destination.
As I shot up, leaving behind a red afterimage like a flash of lightning, the gaze of the demon dragon Baril caught me squarely in his sights.
-You fool!
It's not easy to dodge in the air.
That's why it seemed like he was trying to erase me with his breath in an instant.
But that was a long time for him to ignore me.
He takes a deep breath and tightens his grip on the sword.
Use a little more Aura than usual.
The faster the speed, the greater the burden on my body, but for some reason I was confident that it would be okay.
And then, as if the afterburner had been turned on, it shot out at a speed that was accelerated dozens of times, creating a huge sonic boom.
The sonic boom was so powerful that it created a huge ripple effect across the large curtain.
-what?!
Teardrop!!!
The breath released from the guy's mouth tore and scattered in all directions, and I cut into his body like a bulldozer was pushing past.
I know that it's close to immortal and won't die easily, but it's a bit humiliating to be able to withstand this level of attack without any problems.
Immediately after I escaped, the curtain that had been covering the capital city of the Holy Nation, Lapel, returned to its original form and firmly blocked the entrance and exit from the outside and the inside.
There was no subsequent attack from Luna.
What she's supposed to do is prepare something other than attacking the guy.
And I just grab Baril's attention without him noticing her.
-Cough! You bastard!!!
The momentum of the bastard who flew up again, staggering from the blow beyond his expectations, weighed down those around him.
The power of the Demon Dragon is beyond imagination, but it's not like I'm fighting without knowing that.
The guy shot another breath of black fog, as if trying to completely erase me.
The black breath follows me at incredible speed, like a ray of light.
Based on the memories of Labyrinthos, the dragon's breath has quite a nasty nature.
The dragon's breath is like poison.
Unlike the breath of other dragons, the breath of the Demon Dragon has meaning in the very act of touching it.
Still, I took the guy's breath head-on.
If things were normal, my body should have changed already.
But no change occurred. I had already experienced the effects of breath to the point of boredom.
After endless fights with the demonic dragon I encountered in Labyrinthos, I studied to the point of boredom how to deal with the dragon's breath.
If it's something like Baril's breath, it looks weak compared to the dragon of Labyrinth.
“I’ve had a few run-ins with guys like you.”
I changed direction several times to relieve the guy's strength, and at that very moment, my sword struck him with my breath and cut off one of his wings as it passed by.
-Kaaaaaaaaaah!!!
It's just that they're close to being immortal, but that doesn't mean they don't feel pain.
Moreover, compared to the demon dragons fought in Labyrinthos, their regeneration speed was slow.
Since the current me is not the same as the me back then, the difference in difficulty is not that big, but the current me has its own special advantages.
The guy who started to fall because one of his wings was cut off hurriedly tries to use levitation magic.
“Then it won’t work.”
Why did I cut off my wings?
Kwaaaaang!!
I managed to drag the guy back down to the ground after kicking him back down as if trampling him again.
Contrary to expectations, I brought him down to the ground so safely that his eyes filled with confusion and doubt.
“You… how on earth did you manage to get hit by the breath and still be fine?”
Although it is a poisonous breath, it does not have no physical energy at all.
Isn't the dragon's breath a powerful ball of energy in itself?
But I seemed to be unaffected by the high-density energy of the guy's breath and the characteristics of that breath, so he didn't seem to understand.
But I had no intention of doing something foolish like telling you the correct answer.
The eyes of the guy who fell to the ground flashed.
At the same time, a black fog spread around him, and dozens of spears that seemed to be made of fog all flew towards me.
So I dig into him without missing an inch, activate my elemental mana, reverse the magic, and interfere.
The method is ultimately similar.
It was the same with Sullivan, whom we met in the previous depths, and with the Kraken we saw in the fishing village.
The experience in the Labyrinth becomes an experience that teaches you how to deal with others.
Although the demon dragon I met there and this guy are not the same entity, it has a unique power that the demon dragon possesses.
And for me, who was used to the attack style of the Labyrinth Dragon, which was stronger than Baril, Baril's existence could not help but feel like an easy mode with many of the patterns deleted.
In other words… … .
This means that this guy is not that threatening, but he is difficult to kill.
Luckily, the guy is extremely angry at me and is focusing all his attention on me.
It could also be a mistake to think that I am the only one capable of making a threatening attack on him, aside from the simple element of anger.
There are traps hidden in each of his small attacks, but when I deal with them or avoid them as if I were used to them, doubts form in his eyes.
The black stone pillars surrounding him began to resonate.
A harbinger of large-scale corruption magic.
In fact, there was some light decay visible around the pillar.
It also pushes in while ignoring most defenses.
It would be a huge burden on Auraheart to defend against that attack.
If it were a normal opponent, they wouldn't know what it is and wouldn't know what the appropriate response would be.
But I reacted right away and deployed a quadruple cast.
[Ignition Ray]
A look of horror appeared on his face as a number of gas flames quickly engulfed the pillars, burning them all down.
-Gas flames?!
How is it, are you feeling upset?
He gritted his teeth at the sight of the pillars burning and disappearing in an instant, as if they were considerably weak to fire magic.
At that point, only an idiot would notice.
-You… … have you seen the Demon Dragon? If not, then it makes no sense for you to respond like this.
When I didn't answer and took a stance with the sword Elextra, he flinched and created an avalanche of black fog.
This time, it's the Fog of the Dead. It has a structure that causes the soul to be ejected from the body the moment it is consumed.
And then it eats the souls that are thrown away and quickly recovers its body.
Each hall has its own countermeasures, but I chose the most effective and easiest ones that I could remember from the halls I visited and applied them.
How to deal with it brings back memories of the Hall of Command.
Woohoo… … .
[Soul Bond]
Consider my body as undead and forcibly bind my soul.
It didn't block out the surrounding vegetation, but it was enough.
I was thinking of putting a similar gift in this guy's recovery power.
In an instant, he dodged the guy's swinging arm like an acrobat and dug in.
It was clearly within his attack route that there was nowhere to escape.
-You fool!
The guy seemed to know that, as he came in swinging his huge forelegs that were a mixture of black fog and flames.
But I didn't just push in without a plan.
I've already seen that half of the wings have recovered.
That guy's regenerative powers are definitely worth praising.
That is why it interferes with its regenerative power.
[Thanatos]
In an instant, the huge, cold energy that had been dormant inside my body raised its head.
Thanatos, the power of death held within the sword Elextra, bestowed a terrible gift upon the amorphous flesh of the being cut down by the sword.
-Kkaaaaaaah!!!
The guy froze in his swing as he screamed at the unexpected fatal wound.
It seems that even Thanatos can't kill him easily.
It's not yet at full power, so it won't be easy to kill someone who also has immortality.
The eyes of the man who was rolling on the floor in agony beyond imagination were gleaming.
-Ugh! What the hell… … What the hell is this!
At the unexpected, deadly attack, he staggers and swings his forelegs wildly, then runs away from me.
Despite being struck by Thanatos, recovery itself did not stop.
Even if you kill him like this, he will somehow survive.
There is no proper means to kill him at this moment.
But my original purpose was sufficiently achieved.
“You act like you’re so great, you little punk, but isn’t it funny how you look?”
-Shut up!
“If you’ve been controlling everything from behind the scenes for so long, you should have quickly run away when things started to go wrong.”
His downfall was that he couldn't stand the guy at the end.
-You are sorely mistaken. How dare you think that a small creature like you can do anything to me? Look. The wounds you inflicted by risking your life have already begun to heal.
As he said, even though he was extremely slow after eating Thanatos, he is recovering slightly.
But at that speed, I've achieved my goal.
“I know. I didn’t think it would kill you. And I didn’t plan on just letting you die.”
If I die like this, he will come back to life and run away from me.
So it's my job to keep him here so he doesn't run away.
The demon dragon and Baril are mainly beings of the demon attribute.
And the most lethal power to such dragons is divinity.
However, in a situation where it was difficult to draw out such divinity, I tore the bastard apart in another way in the past Labyrinth.
As I was learning magic in the Hall of Truth, the attribute that destroyed that bastard instead of divinity was none other than the thunder attribute.
It also happened to be the attribute I was best at handling among the magic I had learned.
“Doesn’t the dragon hate lightning?”
I concentrated the elemental mana in my left hand that was not holding the sword.
At the same time, a massive amount of brain energy of more than 7 circles gathered together, creating a bluish brain window.
As the streaks of electricity began to sway and ripple like hair being pulled by static electricity, the creature became wary of the power in his brain.
[7 circle brain damage]
[Astrape (Spear of the Brain God)]
-That's some ignorant magic. However, if a human were to implement that level of magic, you would have barely any mana left.
