26 – 1. Academy (26)

#26

Awesome!!

Without warning, the tail reminiscent of a scorpion swung wildly. It was followed by a bunch of wriggling green tentacles and something grotesque that could only be seen as a tangle of bone fragments.

“Carlion!!”

Sugaaa!!

At my cry, Kalion’s tail, equipped with a blade, quickly swung in a semicircle. He split the scorpion’s tail and tore off a bundle of tentacles, but lacked the momentum and was blocked by a piece of bone behind it.

“Extract”

As soon as I climbed on Graul’s back, I called Kalion to the back. The guy who was about to step forward at my call and try to attack in an instant gave up his will and slipped back and came closer to me.

If it was Carrion before, even if he got scolded in that state, he would have returned with one more attack. The results of education shined. It’s half imprinted with fear, but it’s under control, so that’s enough.

“aaah!!!”

“Get out!!! These pitiful children of crows…!”

Just in time, the hive started obstructing the guy’s vision. In that gap, I retrieved the blade of shadow that I had attached to Kalion’s tail and changed it into a huge square shield.

The increased damage of [Transformation Materials] Only works on attacks.

Noticing that fact, I steered toward charging and deflecting rather than using my shield to hold on.

“Let’s go”

“Kong!”

“Gureureung!!”

As if responding to my words, Kalion, who raised his scales, charged and Graul bounced off at high speed. The target is a guy who is obsessed with crows. I injected magical energy into the shield to make the core harder, and at the same time made thorns and sharpened them.

When I got to the point where I couldn’t tell if this was a shield or a blunt weapon in the form of a shield, I matched the timing and rammed the crow all at once.

Bahah!!!

“Keuugh…!?”

Even though my vision was half-obscured, I crossed my hands to block it in response to my attack, but perhaps it wasn’t possible to stop Graul’s rushing power.

Whoops!

“Kak…!”

As if catching flies with a fly swatter, the tail hit him on the back and forced him to the ground.

Despite the hit, the Chimera immediately stood up using the monster’s arms extending from its back, planted both of its arms and back arms on the ground, lifted the ground, and threw it at me.

“Geuaaa!!!!”

Me and Hive, who were riding Growl, were able to leave the place quickly, but Kalion, who lacked the speed he had, rather stood up on his tail and legs and spread his front paws toward the rock rather than avoiding it.

“Gureureung!”

At the same time, magical energy arose from his body, and his body and scales grew. It was the simultaneous use of [Dragon Blood] And [Yeokjin].

Quaaang!!!

I grabbed the rock, but I started to get closer to the ground in real time, as if my strength wasn’t enough to withstand the weight. I thought about canceling Kalion’s summons, but I didn’t.

Instead, I gave him more magic power through the connected passage.

Kududeuk!

“Grr…!!!”

The scales of Kalion, who was moaning in pain at the strengthening beyond his limit, began to turn dark red and his body began to grow more than twice his size. I decided to experiment with Kalion’s remaining skills because of the added magic.

“Demi Breath”

“Grrr!!”

At the same time as the command, Kalion began to take a deep breath.

The condensed mana began to seep out between the tightly closed teeth. The moment the condensation of magical power reached its limit, Kalion opened his mouth and at the same time, a blindingly powerful light came out.

“….!!!!”

At the same time, an explosion that was too huge to be said to have been shouted by Carrion came out with magic power and hit the rock that was holding Carrion down.

Puuuong!!!

Unable to withstand the magical storm, it was crushed and pushed away at the same time, and began to rise into the air again. Cracked rocks were crushed everywhere, like a drought-stricken ground, and stone fragments were scattered in all directions.

I didn’t block it with the shield of shadow, but turned it into a pole and urged Graul to jump towards the rock fragments.

My vision jumped up in an instant, and at the same time, I aimed for a rock in front of my eyes and grabbed the stick like a baseball bat. The target is the boss down there.

It was very easy to determine the direction the rock was flying thanks to the senses obtained when acquiring the skill [Bow]. Rather, it was a hundred times more convenient than manipulating a weightless arrow.

Kang!!

The mixed magic of Kalion and mine shattered sharply and rushed towards the boss. The boss, who was holding his breath after blowing a rock, gritted his teeth at the figure and crossed his feet in front of both sides to take a defensive posture.

Kang! Kang! Kaaang!!!

I constantly used my arms to blow pieces of rock at that figure.

Graul skillfully used a large rock that I couldn’t hit as a stepping stone and repeatedly jumped, moving his body to a rock that was in a good position for me to hit.

Thanks to that, I can shoot rocks just by mechanically swinging my arm at the boss.

This is why I liked competent subordinates. My body feels comfortable when they work, right? It was also a divine move to reject the vocation given at the beginning and choose the job of a summoner.

“Keuuugh…!”

An object imbued with magic becomes a weapon just by itself.

Champion even mobilized his arms growing from his back in the shower of rocks that were stronger than expected, but it was not enough to stop the rocks pouring down like drizzle.

Perhaps realizing that a one-sided war of attrition would continue if the fragments of the rock that tore his skin and penetrated his muscles continued to hit, the champion let go of his defenses and began to take a deep breath.

Kidduck!

At the same time, I felt a sense of déjà vu at the champ’s appearance with scales growing all over his body and his body swelling like a balloon. I ordered Graul to evade and at the same time connect the shadow to the huge rock, then change the rod into a bow and cast the shadow on the arrow.

“Aww…!! Garbage aaa!!!!”

Quaaang!!!

It didn’t contain much magic power, but in an instant, a noise powerful enough to push the surrounding air out of the champion’s mouth. I took advantage of that gap and fired an arrow full of magical energy, and the connected rocks fell towards the champion.

“Tease me with such a trapping technique…!!!”

However, the rock was easily shattered with a big swing of the scaly arm that had newly sprouted from its back. Landing on the ground, I checked the figure and narrowed my eyes.

“How do you feel about surviving using that garbage technique?”

“Shut up!!!!!”

That reaction made it clear. I don’t know what method he used, but he used Carrion’s technique. Of course, it might not have been a perfect copy, but the power was not even half of what Kalion showed.

The conditions were also roughly guessed.

Carlion’s blood and other small scale fragments that I hadn’t been able to recover disappeared the moment I took him out of the arena. He probably ate them all.

Although the appearance is a bit creepy, the appearance of the boss is also the one that most closely matches the concept of the dungeon.

If you reach the boss with no time to rest, the boss will begin to use the skills and abilities you were using, as if you were joking around.

If the boss’s other abilities are added to it, a composition is created in which it is inevitable to lose due to the difference in the number of hands it has. Even if the power itself is low-level, the champion has a number of things that make up for it.

It’s kind of like a doppelganger. There is a saying that the greatest enemy is oneself.

Being able to overcome and defeat it is no different from facing one’s own ‘weakness’ and finding and overcoming an unknown ‘possibility’ at the same time.

That’s the boss that best fits the purpose of the dungeon.

But that’s it. My personal impressions were so-so. No matter how well it is packaged, in the end he is a model of multi-talented talent who has not been able to be either.

The guy is nothing more than a boss in a D-rank dungeon, and the fact that he can’t get out of that level also means that no matter how many times he mixes and increases, he’ll be there.

Thus, with an expressionless expression, I indifferently spat out a dagger containing the meaning of ridicule.

“Looking at it now, I wasn’t a champion, I was just a lucky dumpster, right?”

Stand up

Champion’s new form stopped unnaturally. As if he had heard something he shouldn’t have heard, his wide-eyed eyes widened, and his arms, which had grown stiff like a stone statue, began scratching his entire body in an instant.

The head, face, body, and legs were all covered with wounds, and despite blood oozing out, self-injury continued.

“Kureaaah!!!!!! Die!!! Kill!!! Definitely kill it!!!!!”

At the same time, he screamed and leaped toward me. It was unusually fast. This is because he jumped together using arms that grew from his entire back, not simple leg strength. Even then, I wasn’t too upset.

“Even so, it is slower than a bullet”

Kang!!

I made a sword out of the shadows and cut off the sharp claws of the guy aiming at me.

“Oohhhhh!!!!!!”

I could no longer see a sliver of reason in the champion screaming like a beast. With only one intention to kill me, he pushed me by swinging his arms at random as if he would not give me a chance.

I watched them through and destroyed them with minimal movement. Avoid what can be avoided, and swing the sword away from what cannot be avoided.

Occasionally, Hive’s shadow crow took over or Hive gave me a warning, so I avoided attacks that flew outside my range of perception.

“Kong!!!”

As long as I endure, the marks of Growl and Kalion will be released. The arms that grew from the back of the guys’ attack began to break and cut off one by one.

“aaa!!!”

Still, the boss didn’t mind. On the contrary, when my arms shrunk, my lighter body clung to me, and accordingly I transformed the shadow from a sword into a gauntlet to counter it.

Pang!

At the same time as he cut off the insect’s arm made of carapace, he protruded and fixed the thorns on the knuckle part, tearing off the arm itself, which was half tattered by Graul’s attack.

Then, while avoiding the tentacles aiming at the back, he stamped it with his foot, turning the shadow of one leg into a spike and pinning it to the ground, sealing his movement.

I aimed at the guy’s face and stomach at the same time in the gap that was created, and threw out his fist.

It was an attack in the sense that either side is fine. It may look a bit ridiculous on the outside, but there is no attack like this in actual combat.

Kang!!

In order to block the attack in a hurry, I swung my own claws, not the monster’s arm, to slash the arm toward the pit of the stomach. The body staggered sideways and bounced, as if it contained considerable force.

At the same time, I evaded the sharp thorns that were shooting at his neck by slightly bending my head sideways, and hit him in the face with the counter.

Bagak!

After confirming that it had been pierced right into the temple, I pierced the guy’s eyeball with a thick thorn coming out of the opposite fist.

Quad Deuk!!

“%@@#$@#!!@$%!!!!!!”

With a scream close to screaming, the boss who grabbed his face as if in agony began to fall backwards. However, I stepped on the boss’ foot to restrict his movement and at the same time created a spike to pin him to the ground.

I didn’t back down from there, but rather, I pushed through the attack from my side.

Puck! Kwadeuk! Kwajak! Crunchy!

Darkness of vision. Little pain and confusion made it impossible to properly grasp the situation.

After that, it was a series of one-sided beatings. If you attack to block one side, you move to the empty side and attack. In order to prevent that, if you attack randomly, the weaker of the two will work together with Growl to cut and dig in.

If it was a hard one, I would bounce it off with a blunt weapon. Those who were weeping were slashed with swords, and those who had to aim for his gap were pierced with spears. Anything that could not be blocked was blown away with a shield or hit back. Those that are too close to wield a weapon are hit with a fist and deflected while avoiding them at the same time.

“What the hell!!! You guys!!! What do you mean!!!!!”

With a scream, I hit the chin of the guy who started spitting poison out of his mouth to stop the poison from flowing out, and at the same time, I got out of the line of attack and stepped back, changing my gauntlet into a halberd and swinging it.

Aww!!!

“aaa!!!”

Even in the midst of this, the skills [Torture] And [Sadism] Shined.

The more the scars on the guy’s body grew, the more the red magic that exploded in his pupils faded. It is proof that the body reinforcement through magical power is disturbed because the mind cannot be fully concentrated.

The accumulated damage steadily harassed him, and the tokens accumulated in real time continued to strengthen my magic power.

The guy’s body was full of wounds. His blood flows endlessly, and the other arms sewn together like rags have long since fallen like scattering everywhere. There was no wound anywhere on the body, and it was devastated enough to know that death was approaching in real time.

Kuddeudeuk!!!

“Dooooo!!!”

Boss began to gather his arms together and form a giant arm as if he didn’t want to admit that he was being pushed.

If it’s that big, I’m worried about the follow-up even if I avoid it. Knowing that, I signaled to the guy who had been injecting the remaining surplus mana from earlier.

“Shoot”

Awesome!

The boss, who belatedly found Kalion with his mouth open, changed the target to hit with his huge arm from me to Kalion, but his ability to wield his huge arm was too pitiful.

“….!!!!!”

Beeping——–!

In the end, the roar of magical power fired from Kalion, who opened his mouth, came first rather than his arm falling off.

Quaaa!!!!!

A huge explosion occurred.

The things that were forcibly entangled began to fall from the sky one by one as they lost their focus. I made an umbrella using shadows to avoid them. This was no ordinary umbrella. It is a memorization that allows you to pull out the sword at any time by twisting the handle.

Shoot aaa

As the bloody rain fell, the sand dust that had risen was quickly lifted.

“…Kahak!”

At the center of the explosion, you could see the boss still holding on. There was no place where blood did not flow from the hole called the hole, and the left side of the upper body was clearly blown away, and the wriggling organs were clearly visible through the hole.

Even so, the guy didn’t fall down. He was no different from a bouncer, but he was still standing on his own two legs, staggering and enduring.

“Oh, tough?”

Are you saying that even if it rots, it’s worthy of a champion’s name?

After the attack, Kalion forcibly supplemented his power beyond his limit with the reinforcement of his magic power, and in the aftermath of the shot, he lay face down on the ground vomiting his blood, but the one who was attacked stood still.

Well, my magic power is insanely high right now, so I can produce such power even with magic transmission, which is a waste of exchange cost.

From Kalion’s point of view, it would be no different than forcibly succeeding in an impossible task through overwork.

To be honest, I didn’t even think that it would produce that much power. Thanks to this, my ears are deaf and my tinnitus is ringing. Let’s leave comfort for Kalion later.

After confirming that there was no more blood pouring out, I changed it to a sword as if shaking off an umbrella and headed for the boss.

Chuck

Then he aimed his sword at the nape of the boss’ neck. Even with a little force, the distance was enough to pierce the skin, and the champion finally raised his head and looked at me.

“I, I… Did not lose. I didn’t fall… I, this body… I am the… King of this world…!”

It was so weak that it wouldn’t be strange if he died any minute. But there was still hostility and anger in his eyes.

Is that anger really directed at me, or if not, is it simply an input emotion toward the ‘challenger’ who defeated him? I wondered if he would be able to express his feelings to me, knowing what I would do in the future.

“…Ah, is that so?”

I smiled.

It was very fortunate. Even after receiving the synergy of [Sadism] And [Torture], It still hasn’t broken. To be honest, if I think I’m falling for this combination, I’m confident that I’m going to kill myself right now.

From the moment I realized that he was a Chimera, I never turned off the effect of [Torture]. This guy had quite a few amazing samples. In other words, it is the perfect material to fill my encyclopedia.

I used the Shadow Sword to completely cut off the muscles of his remaining limbs, then replaced it with the Shadow. At the same time, shadow stakes were driven into the joints to fix them. Even if you recover with this, you won’t be able to move your body.

There was a loud scream because it was progressed without adding or subtracting, but I didn’t care. The boy’s pupils seemed to shake for an instant. The fact that he is still looking for a chance to counterattack is proof that he is holding on to his spirit.

To pay tribute to the tough guy’s mental strength, I adjusted the sword of shadow and converted it into the form most suitable for dismantling.

“Then let’s see how far you can hold out.”

I hope you can hold out for as long as possible.

Tap the screen to use advanced tools Tip: You can use left and right keyboard keys to browse between chapters.

You'll Also Like