Chapter 42
Chapter 42
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Translator: Ruby
Chapter: 42
Chapter Title: Why stop when this is so fun?
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Horacidon was flustered.
'What on earth... is happening?......'
Right after realizing that the Wraith Lord had been annihilated.
Horacidon had thought that perhaps Gauriel himself had descended upon this place.
So he had personally revealed himself like this.
However, when he actually came out to the battlefield, an unexpected scene was unfolding.
Gauriel was not there.
The ones whose faces he at least recognized were......
'Jephron. Is this that bastard's doing?'
The only one who seemed to have the possibility of daring to annihilate his Wraith Lord was the Inquisitor Jephron.
'Hmph! That bastard who will soon fall is being quite troublesome!'
Jephron was already a guy who was right on the verge of falling into Horacidon's hands.
Knowing his personality well, Horacidon had deliberately touched Jephron's son's grave.
'I thought he would lose his mind there. But he's held on quite well and is causing unnecessary trouble.'
However, that sound mind wouldn't last very long either.
Horacidon would corrupt Jephron's soul.
He felt a thrill at the thought of beautifully molding that soul.
If only he could annihilate this Saint Traval where his family was staying......
He would be able to destroy Jephron's soul and simultaneously establish a foothold for the demon legion's great invasion.
He would awaken all the remains from all the graveyards at once.
And even obtain the soul of the ancient giant, making the Wraith Lord grow even more!
'I was right on the verge of completing my grand plan!'
Things were flowing differently than expected.
However, it was a bit disappointing to kill Jephron here.
Wasn't he almost a done deal?
If he just invested a little more time, a deliciously exquisite masterpiece would be born.
'I'll just wound him a bit without killing him and chase him away for now......'
Just as he was thinking that.
Shudder!
A fear of death that he had never felt even once since becoming a lich came rushing in.
He whipped his red eyes around.
Before he knew it, a golden spear was flying straight toward him!
It was a weapon he was seeing for the first time, but he could tell immediately.
'If this hits me, I'll die......!'
Horacidon twisted his waist and simultaneously threw his body with magic.
"Kugh!"
The golden spear narrowly missed.
But even though he had clearly dodged it.
'It's hot. This makes me feel such pain even though I've already discarded a mortal's body?......'
It was an absurd heat.
Light and heat as if it would melt the soul itself.
There was no need to look further.
That person was precisely.
'The bastard who annihilated the Wraith Lord......'
Horacidon looked at Rohan with ominous eyes.
He couldn't take his eyes off Rohan.
A punk who had suddenly dropped from who knows where... was wielding celestial light just like Gauriel.
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'He dodged that.'
I was inwardly surprised.
It had been a spear throw attack that no one had ever dodged until now.
But as expected of someone at the level of a Legion Staff Officer, he made me feel that he was no ordinary opponent.
Still, the path had been clearly opened.
Horacidon glaring at me from the end of that path.
Perhaps because I had met a strong opponent after a long time.
My heart, which had calmed down a bit recently even when meeting demons, was going crazy.
Thump, thump!
Nevertheless, I didn't completely lose my mind like before.
I was also continuously growing.
I shouted in a voice filled with anger.
"Diaz! Jephron! Vincent!"
"Yes! Lord Rohan."
"We're ready!"
"Please command us!"
I entrusted my back to them.
"I will personally settle things with that bastard! While I do, block everything so that not a single punk can get near me! I will not tolerate exceptions!"
"Understood!"
"Don't worry!"
"I will follow your orders!"
Completely trusting those three, I ran straight toward Horacidon without paying any attention to the other skeletons.
The bastard readjusted his stance and shouted at me.
"Kukukuk! It seems you've obtained one strange trick. Come on then! Show me! I'll show you the difference in our power!"
Horacidon swept both arms forward.
Then, from the door he had come out of, a giant chimera wraith leaped out.
A pitiful soul stitched together from all kinds of souls, wailing.
"Kieeeeeeek!"
The bastard let out a sad cry and charged toward me.
'Those three behind me can handle this much sufficiently.'
Even though Diaz had grown a lot, she hadn't completely caught up to me yet.
So I should face the strongest, Horacidon.
It was right to leave this mid-boss-like bastard to Diaz, Jephron, and Knight Commander Vincent.
It would be cleaner if I did it myself, but still, Diaz should be able to handle at least this much.
Having finished my calculations, I ran forward as is, got as close as possible to the chimera wraith, and then.
Pushed hard off the ground with my left arm and leaped up.
Over the chimera wraith's head.
Voom!
The chimera wraith, having suddenly lost its target.
Hesitated while trying to change direction.
And Diaz, Jephron, and Knight Commander Vincent were not the type to miss that gap.
As if they had coordinated it, they simultaneously threw silver powder bombs.
Bang, ba-bang!
"Kiek! Keeeeeeek!"
The bastard, covered in silver powder, became able to be cut with silver swords for a while.
Thunk! Thunk! Thuunk!
Clean sounds burst out from behind me.
I didn't look back, trusting them.
Only concentrating on Horacidon.
Horacidon's gaze also followed me.
"Impudent!"
The bastard stretched his arms forward again and chanted a spell.
Countless sharp ice shards formed in front of him.
Crackle!
And then they were fired at me all at once.
Ping! Piing!
Ice shards flying with fierce sounds.
My heightened senses and third eye made those ice shards appear to move slowly.
I swung my left arm and twisted my body with that recoil.
Swish! Sha-sha-shak! Sha-shak!
I exquisitely passed through the empty spaces between the torrential ice shards.
When two attacks failed in succession.
Horacidon's eyes wavered for the first time.
I could see it clearly.
This time it was my turn.
Horacidon crossed his arms and this time set up a barrier.
It seemed he had immediately grasped that his attack turn had ended and he needed to defend.
I flew while maintaining my speed.
And swung my left arm with all my might.
Kuuuuuung!
A punch that struck the barrier directly.
It was the most primitive attack among all the attacks I had shown so far, but rather, that primitive direct hit amplified the sense of fear even more.
Ziiiiing......
But regrettably, the barrier didn't break with just one hit.
Was this because he was a named character?
But I had enough feeling in my hand.
'Even during the original Horacidon boss battle, I couldn't finish it in one hit either. But what if I accumulate enough damage?'
Rather, the fact that he was a named character also worked advantageously for me in some ways.
Unlike the small fries until now, whose strategies I didn't know......
'I know the strategies for named bosses.'
Barrier defense turn.
I already knew the attack that would come after that as well.
"I'll make you submit with true terror!"
The bastard opened his mouth wide.
And spewed out a bluish-white beam.
Kwaaaaaaa!
'Starting from the right!'
I quickly rolled my body to the left.
A skeleton that had been targeting my back got hit by it.
Crackle!
It instantly froze and shattered with a crash.
'Whew! Seeing it in reality is quite brutal.'
Even in the original work, that was an instant-death skill that would send you to oblivion in one hit even at full health if you got hit wrong once.
Instead, it was a bit easier to dodge......
But even that, in actual combat, made my flesh crawl just the same.
'But I know the pattern!'
Next is down!
Kwaaaaaaa!
I threw my body backward and evaded the frost beam.
Following the beam chasing me, even the ground froze.
It felt like the terrible cold was piercing into my lungs.
Since two frost beams had continued.
The recharge timing came around again.
I anticipated that and ran forward half a beat earlier.
Tap-tap!
The bastard's eyes flashed as he shouted.
"Try and attack me!"
I countered as well.
"If you wish!"
The bastard seemed to think I would punch again.
But expectations were originally meant to be broken.
I swung my right arm.
And sliced through the bastard's barrier along with space itself.
Slash!
"Wh-wh-what is this......!"
Barrier breakthrough successful.
With this, we would move on to the next phase 2.
In the original work, it usually took quite a long time just to get to this point.
But I had broken through it in just a few seconds.
Though it wasn't easy to tell with a skull head, the bastard also seemed quite flustered.
"How insolent!"
The bastard's phase 2 pattern.
It was time to cast the frost explosion that would envelop his entire body and burst out in all directions.
'I want to finish it, but... I need to take it step by step.'
Originally, boss strategies were about getting hit when you attacked hastily trying to land just one more hit.
True veterans knew that it was wise to back off when you should.
I quickly threw my body back and widened the distance from the bastard again.
'If I hadn't known this pattern and had rushed in, I might have died.'
Knowing your enemy.
Knowing the patterns inside out really made a huge difference.
If I calmly stacked one stack at a time with a cool head like this, victory would ultimately be mine.
Just as I stopped standing right outside the range.
Pwoooong!
With perfect timing, Horacidon burst his frost explosion.
Immediately after, I charged in again to attack.
Horacidon ground his teeth.
"H-how do you know my movements in advance......! Can you see the future?......"
Of course, the bastard didn't have time to ponder at length.
Because I was closing the distance again.
"Ghouls! Arise!"
This was a slightly annoying pattern.
It was magic that summoned ghouls, but not ordinary ghouls—ones that would self-destruct even if you just barely touched them.
'Self-destructing ghoul summoning pattern.'
For a style like mine that mainly used swords, this could be called a pattern like hell.
If you didn't bring prepared throwable items, you could consider the strategy itself impossible.
Because the explosion damage was so brutal.
Even for archers, it wasn't easy.
Given the numbers.
Nevertheless, even knowing that, I hadn't obtained throwable items.
Instead.
Crackle......! Bzzt! Crackle-crackle!
I had the ring of black lightning.
Bang! Ba-bang! Ba-ba-ba-bang!
Black lightning scattered in all directions, blowing them up.
Since they were bastards that would explode even with a poke, they were annihilated in an instant.
"Th-this can't be......!"
Fear began to seep into Horacidon's eyes.
The bastard spread his barrier again.
I could blow this away with space slicing, but......
I wanted to see the spectacle of the demon trembling, so I started pounding the barrier directly with the left arm of the Giant God Soldier.
My sincere consecutive attacks flying toward the barrier.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
There were no complicated calculations.
How long could this thing hold out?
If I kept hitting it, it would break.
This barrier also had something like HP.
Kwang! Kwang! Kwang! Kwang!
With the high-intensity punches that poured down in rapid succession before even a few seconds had passed.
Crackle.
The barrier began to crack.
Horacidon looked around in confusion.
"S-someone come here!"
But I didn't care.
Those who were entrusted with my back were not idiots who would dare make such a sloppy mistake.
As expected, there wasn't even a single ant coming as reinforcements to help Horacidon.
"N-no......! S-stop!"
I grinned.
"Why stop when this is so fun? Kuhahaha!"
"Hi-hiiik......!"
"Let's see how much more you can hold out!"
I was in high spirits and naturally bared my white teeth.
Bang!
Crackle......crash!
Breaking through the barrier.
And then I opened my eyes wide.
With a golden spear summoned in my right hand.
"Try dodging this one too?"
You dodged well when I threw it from far away... how about this one?
Naturally, it looked like it would be a bit difficult.
Seeing the bastard's hollow eyes trembling.
"Eeek......! N-no......!"
"Yeah. Yes."
Thuuk!
"Ki, kieeeeeeek!"
Along with a spine-chilling scream that filled the entire lair.
Horacidon's skull was pierced through.