Ending Maker Chapter 74
Ending Maker Chapter 74
Chapter 23 - Rotten Fossil #3
The boss monsters that appeared in the game had patterns.
The method of attack.
The timing of attack.
The order of attack.
And in truth, this was not unique to games.
Patterns existed in reality too.
Attacks and combinations that appeared frequently according to the attacker’s habits, preferences, and so on.
The distinctive motion shown before unleashing that attack.
The time required for the attack to activate.
The range of the attack.
If one had all of this memorized, and if one possessed eyes that could see properly and reflexes that could react, then something became possible.
Things like beating a boss naked or while dancing.
The so-called rotten-fossil style of play.
"Try and catch me~!"
Cordelia shouted brightly and used Gale Step, the Bayel Household’s secret art.
With the terrifyingly heightened agility from the double-stacked Haste combined with the secret art of a renowned house, her movement was like a ray of light beyond the wind.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Madga's attacks poured down upon the places Cordelia had just left.
Every time her giant scythe-like arm struck the ground, the earth shook, but even as the place where Cordelia had just stood was pulverized, her steps never faltered.
"Head! Head! Head! Head!"
Cordelia didn't only shout with words. She hovered right in front of Madga's eyes and fired magic bullets, and the magic bullets struck Madga's head without fail.
But the power was weak.
She did hit Madga's head, but it was literally only a hit, and it didn't cause much damage. She couldn't even make Madga pause for a moment.
But Cordelia did not care. After nimbly dodging the blade Madga swung in irritation, she activated the Blessing of the Windbreak and blocked the venom secreted from Madga’s arm.
She kept moving without staying in one place for even a moment.
"You worthless wench!"
Madga burst out in fury and released demonic power. As she stomped the ground heavily with her eight legs, violet energy spread out in all directions as if crawling along the ground.
Because it was an attack that covered an entire area rather than a point or a line, evasion itself was impossible.
"Nope. I can dodge it."
Cordelia leaped high like a high jumper and cleared the demonic power sweeping across the ground with a back-first high jump.
"Head!"
Cordelia, who had done a somersault, threw another magic bullet, and the magic bullet that flew like a blazing fastball struck Madga's head without fail this time too.
"Aaargh!"
Madga burst out in fury.
The wench who would be torn to shreds with a single attack was not only hovering before her eyes, but was also continuously hitting only her head.
Thinking rationally, it would have been right to ignore this Cordelia and charge at Gentle Snow Breeze, but because of the surging irritation, she absolutely could not ignore Cordelia.
Moreover, the demonic power she had abruptly accepted strengthened Madga's violence and evaporated her self-restraint.
Madga had become unable to even think of striking Gentle Snow Breeze before tearing Cordelia apart.
'Her aggro is insane.'
Yuder murmured in admiration and raised a whirlwind.
While dodging Madga's attacks that came at him in the gaps, he steadily did what he had to do.
A task similar to Cordelia's yet different.
It looked like dodging and hitting, but there was a difference in the very detailed parts.
"Legs! Legs! Legs! Legs!"
If Cordelia was a ray of light, Yuder was the wind. Yuder, who slipped between Madga's attacks like an uncatchable wind, persistently targeted only Madga's legs.
Unlike her head, she had as many as eight legs, so there were plenty of places to hit.
"Legs!"
As Cordelia had said, large monsters actually had a side that made them easier to deal with.
Because they were so large, even roughly thrown attacks all landed, and their attacks were also easy to dodge.
If Madga had appeared as a mid-grade Demonic Human, Yuder and Cordelia would have struggled far more.
'Of course, it isn't easy now either.'
Even a single hit meant death.
In fact, the entire surrounding area was now completely devastated by Madga's attacks.
The area was riddled with breaks and cracks, and some places were even melting from poison contamination, so neither the Angry Rhino Tribe nor the Gentle Snow Breeze Tribe dared approach.
'This is better.'
Because even a graze meant serious injury.
If one could not dodge all the pouring attacks like Yuder himself and Cordelia, then interfering would actually be a hindrance.
"Heaaad!"
Over ten magic bullets pounded Madga's head as if beating a drum.
It didn't hurt.
More than half of the incoming magic bullets were extinguished before even touching her head.
But she was still angry. Fury surged up.
"Aaaah!"
Madga, whose irritation had exploded, opened her mouth wide and unleashed a sonic wave. And at that moment, Gentle Snow Breeze intervened.
"O blade of wind!"
Sharp wind surged and shook Madga's sonic wave.
The direction of the attack naturally changed, and Cordelia, who had been about to dodge according to the pattern, urgently rolled on the ground and barely avoided the sonic wave.
"Ah! Seriously! I said don't interfere!"
"Just suppress it! Just suppress!"
Cordelia and Yuder shouted at the same time, and Gentle Snow Breeze, who had flinched, made a dispirited face and pouted her lips before concentrating her consciousness solely on suppressing Madga's power again.
In the first place, the reason Yuder and Cordelia could fight well against Madga now was thanks to Gentle Snow Breeze suppressing Madga's wicked power with her holy power.
Yuder counted numbers inwardly.
As expected, since this was reality, it was a little different from the game.
There were also attacks of forms he had never seen before.
The existing attacks also differed slightly from the game.
But Yuder had the Heavenly Martial Body, and Cordelia was a combat genius.
Yuder calculated.
Cordelia sensed by instinct.
The two rotten fossils grasped the new pattern instantly and rendered Madga’s attacks futile.
"Heaaad!"
Cordelia activated the Blessing of the Windbreak. Instead of using it as a shield, she used it as a foothold to leap and climbed up Madga’s body.
Madga hurriedly tried to grab that Cordelia, but it was impossible.
Cordelia, who had been sprinting at full speed, leaped again at some point and fired a magic bullet at Madga's head.
"Aaargh! You damned gnat!"
"You're the insect!"
Childish taunts usually worked better.
Furious beyond reason, Madga unleashed enough power to blow away even the holy power of Gentle Snow Breeze that had been suppressing her, if only for a moment.
WHOOOM—!
A fierce wave of energy covered the surroundings, and Cordelia, who had been floating in the air, was flung away in an instant as if swept up by a storm.
But Beast Mode wasn't for nothing.
Cordelia continuously activated the Blessing of the Windbreak, using it as both shield and foothold. Like a feline predator, she kicked off one foothold after another.
BAM! BAM! BAM!
It was aerial maneuvering so dazzling that merely watching it could make one dizzy.
Even Madga stared blankly, and Cordelia, who had performed a splendid somersault at the end, landed on the ground.
"Haa."
Cordelia crouched low like a beast and let out a relieved breath just as Yuder charged, giving Madga no opening at all.
"Legs!"
"You filthy vermin!"
It wasn't random flailing.
Because of the two's endlessly continuing attacks, Madga lost her breath several times.
Her attacks went awry, and as time passed, she lost her composure.
"Why! Why!"
Madga herself was a mid-grade Demonic Human.
She had sacrificed more than a hundred warriors and gained powerful demonic power, if only temporarily.
So why!
So why on earth!
"Heaaad!"
"Legs!"
Gentle Snow Breeze's power once again suppressed Madga's wicked power.
Yuder and Cordelia drew beautiful trajectories once more.
Truly, two wings flying as one.
The combination attack of two people who were as one!
Yuder kept counting the numbers.
Cordelia sensed by instinct.
And Gentle Snow Breeze also realized.
Madga's power was weakening.
The wicked power that could even oppose a Wild God was rapidly decreasing.
And at some moment.
"Fifteen minutes!"
"Five cup noodles!"
Cordelia, who had shouted whatever came to mind, changed her combat method at that moment.
She, who had been all about evasion, concentrated the witch's power into one hand.
"It's collapsing!"
Yuder shouted.
It was true.
Cracks seemed to spread across Madga's entire body, and with a cracking sound, she collapsed.
The sinister violet energy and black ash covered their vision in an instant.
The transformation was undone.
She returned to being a mid-grade Demonic Human.
Moreover, there was a penalty. Because of the reckless doping, Madga's power would temporarily plummet.
What they were aiming for was exactly that moment.
The moment the enemy became most vulnerable!
Boom!
Yuder kicked off the ground. Instead of shooting forward, he rotated in place and controlled the whirlwind.
It was an application of the Twenty-Four Gale Steps.
Yuder, who had gathered the whirlwind and the gale to create a twister, sent only the wind charging toward Madga. It scattered the black ash obscuring their vision in one breath.
"I can see her!"
At the moment Gentle Snow Breeze shouted, Yuder and Cordelia were already moving.
The two once again became two wings flying as one, drawing beautiful trajectories.
"Heaaad!"
"Legs!"
Madga reflexively reacted to the shouts that now stirred hatred just from hearing them. Even in her difficult state, she dispersed demonic power to her head and legs.
And Yuder and Cordelia crossed.
Each poured their strongest possible attack upon Madga.
"Spear of Calamite!"
"Blood Wolf Hell Slash!"
The jet-black spear pierced Madga's chest.
The crimson sword aura split Madga's back.
Madga's chest and back, which had been defenseless, could not withstand the two's attacks.
Madga vomited black blood, and black blood also gushed from her back like a fountain.
"How...... can this be."
You said head.
You said legs.
At the moment death was before her eyes, what came from Madga's mouth was a voice full of resentment.
Cordelia, who met Madga's gaze, flashed her fangs and said,
"Patterns exist to be broken."
"You’re really just saying whatever comes to mind now."
Regardless of Yuder's assessment, it was finished.
Cordelia released the Spear of Calamite, and Yuder leapt far backward.
"You demons......."
That was the last.
Countless cracks seemed to spread across Madga's body, and soon she burst into flames. She scattered as black ash.
And the two people.
Yuder and Cordelia, who were wrapped in rings of pure white light that rose in succession, began clicking their tongues as soon as they saw each other.
"Wow, that's really cheap. You said legs, but you cut her back?"
"You said head."
"At least I hit from the front."
"Back attacks naturally deal more damage. They give more points too."
"You happy because you got more points?"
"I'm happy because I'm first place. I'm happy because I'm first. This rich flavor of first place."
"Bad guy, nasty guy, anyway, a damn guy."
The two, who had been saying whatever came to mind, soon grinned and lowered their gazes as if they had made a promise.
Because what the boss monster had left behind upon disappearing had caught their eyes.
"It's pretty."
A beautiful color that seemed as if one would fall into it without realizing.
A jewel of nature made with the power of the stars.
"The Essence of the Blue Moon."
A sacred relic that Madga could not absorb because it was holy power.
Bright smiles spread across Yuder and Cordelia's faces.