Chapter 274 - Irritating Obstacles! (4)
Everyone has a seemingly perfect plan, but it doesn't always go the way you want, right?
"Why...? It was a perfect plan...!"
But... I didn't want to learn that lesson like this...
A pitch-black, dark space. Staring at the cosmic expanse unfolding before me... I let out a small sigh.
- Kuuuung!!
"Puhh...! Y-You pig bastard...!"
"Kkuueeeek!!"
Me, trembling as I gripped the fangs of the now massively swollen Hero Eater, too big to handle anymore.
- Poof! Bang! Crack!
"Get off Oppa! You pig bastard!!"
Magic blasts from Lizbet and Seres poured into the Hero Eater's side, while on the opposite flank, Cecilia's sword slashed it to ribbons. Combined with the damage from the adventurers earlier, the black form was visibly shredding apart.
But even so, the Hero Eater's overwhelming push was shoving me back.
What the hell, this pig bastard...! It wasn't even as insanely huge as Uroboros before, but its power was greater than...! Even in this tattered state, it was overpowering me, blessed by Clea's power? Not quite Uroboros level, but suddenly bulking up like this—what the fuck did it eat to get this way!?
...!?
What the...? That cracked-looking number for people—it was single digits before, wasn't it? This thing bulking up and powering up... is that why?
"Kkieeeeeek!!"
"Eup!!"
"Oppa!"
"Master!!"
"I'm fine! Liz! Toss the horse bit!"
The massive Hero Eater Kalidon thrashed wildly with its hulking body, grabbing me with hands that looked stapled on. Sensing danger, I clenched its fangs tighter, but they snapped, sending my huge body flying into the forest.
Replying to my bitches' worried cries, Lizbet delivered the horse bit right to my landing spot. I caught it mid-air and unleashed a Crushing Strike at the charging Kalidon.
- Kuuuung!!
The ground-shaking impact barely fazed it as Kalidon's charge kept shoving me back, horse bit in its grip dragging me along. What the fuck... That hit should've caved its skull in, right? I felt the impact solid, but it tanked it and pushed me instead? In this shredded state, how...?
"Hey! Get off Oppa!?"
"This...! Useless failure of a thing...!!"
Seres' ice crushed under Kalidon's foot. Incoming fireballs from Lizbet, and Cecilia charging fast with Clea's buffs.
...Yeah. It's thrashing in its death throes, but this fucker's done for. Side spewing black smoke like a rag, fangs broken and useless for intimidation. It's swatting away fire and ice with those grotesque arms, but even they're falling apart. The force that ignored bindings and ice to push me is weakening...
And above all... this fight's getting me pumped for some reason—power surging through me more and more!
"Puhh...! Die quietly, you fuck! Die!!"
"Kkuk, kkeuk, kkuueeeek!!"
Repeated Crushing Strikes to Kalidon's head spewed black smoke like blood. Yeah. Almost there. This fucker's about to be XP for me and my yinshuu!
Die, you oversized sandbag fuck! Be glad to become this Maou's XP, you—
"Master!"
"Oppa! Behind you!"
"Wha—...!?"
Suddenly, a faint light from behind me.
"You mad bastard...!"
A dimensional gate spewing light from behind me rippled, pulling me in like a vacuum. This crazy pig...! Trying to escape like this...! No, wait—this isn't it escaping...
"Kkuik, kuueeeek!!"
It's trying to shove me in there!? You fuck!?
"Kkuuugh...!! Th-This...! This fucker, suddenly so strong...!!"
I dug my hooves into the ground, but my body inched backward. Any slack, and I'd be sucked right in—the pressure crushing.
"...! N-No...! Ngh, Master...!"
Lizbet's groan as she strained to bind Kalidon with all her might. But my planted hooves slid...
"Master!!"
My body got sucked into the dimensional gate.
"...But where the hell is this...?"
Sighing, I looked around at the dark space—like floating in outer space. What is this? Some glitched game map bullshit... There's a floor, but it's cracked and weird too...
This place feels familiar... Where've I seen it? Oh. That dungeon when I fled Uroboros. The broken wall inside felt just like this.
Hmm... Kinda cozy for some reason... Never been here before, though. Why?
...Dunno. Just my imagination?
No, more importantly...
"Agh, fuck...! These shitty hooves...!"
Yeah! If not for these hooves, I wouldn't have been pushed back like that! Fuck! My strength is insane, but sheer mass like that? Can't hold!
Hands are just scary-looking human ones with claws, but why are the feet still hooves? More annoying than the horse head now!
"Ha... If only I had four legs like that pig..."
Yeah... As a proper stallion, I'd have leg power to tank even with hooves. But no arms, I'd bounce off its charge... Sigh... Annoying. Where'd it get those shitty arms...
Sigh... How do I get out?
"Liz... Clea... Seres and Cecilia..."
They're fine, right? They have to be! I got pulled in, but we almost had it—my yinshuu can handle the rest. So just escape this place...
Which way out?
"Which way to run... Huh?"
Scanning the cracked tile floor for an exit, I turned and spotted a sphere so dark it lit up the dark backdrop. Like a globe of the world's impurities, a black mud ball.
If not for the dizzying distance making it clear, I wouldn't know what it was.
"...A planet?"
Up close, faint lights dotted the dark backdrop. The cosmic feel hit—this was real space, and that dark blob looked like a planet. But what planet's pitch-black like that? No seas, just pure black... What the hell's it made of?
Something ominous rippled around it—like the black smoke from demon beasts or Hero Eaters. Eugh, creepy.
"......Gulp."
Yeah... Creepy... it should be...
But why's my heart pounding like this? Seeing that planet sparked unexplained excitement, a strange emotion leaking out.
This... longing? Familiarity? What the fuck, why this feeling...?
"Huuu... Haa...!"
What. Why's my body shaking? Driving me nuts. Hands itching? Legs trembling? Gotta rampage or something...?
What is this excitement? Uaa... Am I hard already? When'd my horse cock pop out? No time for this. Gotta get back to my yinshuu ASAP...
"Huk, huk...! Fuck, fuck fuck fuck! Uaa fuck!"
Fuck! That fucking pig bastard! Because of it, I'm separated from my bitches! That half-assed pig corpse clinging on!
Dare split me from my bitches on its whim!? Pushed back by that fucker...! Just 'cause it has one extra leg...!! If I had one more, I wouldn't lose power to a dying pig!
Ua! Should've picked a straight-up strong monster form! Not this half-baked humanoid bullshit leading to this humiliation...!!
"Even half-dead, it dares against me! I'll kill it! Kill that pig fucker!!"
Stifling. This useless armor weighing me down. Humiliating. Stubbornly sticking to humanoid form, paying with this shame. Pissed. Me, one-upped by a pig fuck?
Wanna rape. Kill those pig bastards quick and breed my bitches!!
"Uaaaaaaaah!!"
Screaming, I charged toward somewhere unknown. No clue where the exit is, but my body followed the visible oddity on instinct.
Black energy trickling from that distant black planet. Somehow, I was sure the end led to the exit.
"I'll kill it!! Stomp that filthy head till it bursts!!!"
Should run stallion-style for speed, but even that slipped my mind—racing in main form. I didn't notice my body gradually wreathed in black smoke.
In that frenzied state, wildly flailing arms, pounding the cracked weird floor—suddenly running on four hooves, I reached for the exit-like light.