Chapter 20
Translator: True Detective
Chapter 20: If You Say It's Absolutely Impenetrable, It Will Be Penetrated (4)
Squirm squirm...
Squirm squirm...
The corpse of the Flesh Giant, which had shattered along with the ice, began to gather in one place.
Watching that sight, I glared at the Mage.
"Why are you looking at me with those eyes!"
"Haa...."
To be confident even after reciting a resurrection spell on an enemy we caught with difficulty; he was truly a Mage without shame.
Meanwhile, the Flesh Giant trying to regenerate despite being not only shattered but also burned by the Saintess's divine power.
We had no choice but to be astonished at that sight.
'Just what kind of fights has the Saintess in the original work been through?'
If the first boss we meet is of this difficulty level, just how much more bizarre guys will appear in the future?
Around the time I started worrying about the future of this world, the fragments of the Flesh Giant formed a puddle before we knew it.
The Flesh Giant gathering flesh spread in all directions and gradually increasing its size.
But there was one strange point.
"Saintess."
"Yes?"
"Unlike how it regenerated until now, there are no signs of it returning to its original form."
Hearing my words, the Saintess looked at the monster in front of her eyes and widened her eyes.
"Uh... Uh-huh? Something is strange! The energy of black magic is growing bigger than before!"
Does that mean the rampage earlier wasn't everything?
As time passed, the Flesh Giant swelled up more and more.
Unable to just watch like this, we attacked the guy all together, but there was no particular effect.
Our swords and spears aiming for the guy's flesh only felt like cutting mud, and the Mage's ice was all about stopping regeneration for a few seconds.
At least the Saintess's Holy Sword burned the guy's flesh, but the flesh monster, which had become a jelly-like form, responded by ignoring her attacks and boosting its regeneration power.
Although the Saintess's divine power is said to be tremendous, she is a novice Saintess who hasn't even been awakened for a year.
Since her divine power isn't infinite either, there was no way to deal with the flesh monster that ignored attacks and only regenerated.
"Th... This is dangerous! If it grows like this, I think it will explode!"
"How big do you think the explosion radius will be?"
"If it grows enough to fill this plaza.... The entire commercial district is in danger!"
The entire commercial district?
It was an absurd range.
It was still far from growing enough to fill the plaza, but that was also a matter of time.
There was nothing we could do against an enemy that even the Saintess's Holy Sword didn't work on.
".....Let's retreat."
When we were facing a wall and soaked in helplessness, Kyle spoke.
"What? Then what about this monster?"
"There's nothing we can do. Let's give up on this place. We have to evacuate as many people as possible who haven't escaped yet."
Rationally speaking, it was correct.
We had no way to stop that flesh monster from growing, and there were many people who hadn't evacuated yet in the commercial district.
As per the Saintess's conjecture, if that flesh monster blows away the entire commercial district, the damage would be enormous.
That was the best we could do right now.
Although my pride was hurt a bit, I wasn't reckless enough to act out without knowing my place.
"Damn it!”
Asel kicked an innocent stone.
Seeing he didn't say anything else, it seemed he made the same judgment as me, but the frustration seemed unavoidable.
"Every moment is urgent. Let's hurry."
It was when I was about to turn my body to ignore the flesh monster and evacuate people at Kyle's words.
Suddenly, I felt the presence of a small glass bottle in my pocket.
The holy water I received after winning the spar with the Saintess in the past.
Until shattering the Flesh Giant, there was no need to use it particularly so I was saving it, but now the situation changed.
Among us, the only one who can inflict meaningful damage to the flesh monster is the Saintess possessing divine power.
But what if there is this holy water?
“Saintess, if we sprinkle holy water on weapons, will it work on that monster?”
“That is...! It is possible, but with that amount, you will only be able to strengthen Mr. Ethan's spear!”
“It is worth trying."
Although it was said it could endure the Saintess's lone attacks with regeneration, what if I join in there?
I couldn't be certain this would work, but shouldn't we at least try?
While I was sprinkling holy water on the spear blade, a familiar voice was heard.
"Ethan, the situation?"
Kairin, who swept all the goblin chimeras, joined at a good timing.
It would be good if there was even one more person to evacuate people.
Since there wasn't much time, I summarized and explained the situation briefly.
“If we leave that monster alone, it will blow up the entire commercial district. But attacks excluding divine power are meaningless.”
“Priests should have Holy Magic that wraps divine power around weapons though?”
“I'm sorry... Other than healing, other Holy Magic is still...”
“I see.”
At those words, Kairin put her hand into her bosom and took out a bottle.
“Holy water?”
“Northerners always carry at least one bottle of holy water since the undead became the main enemy.”
Since what was needed right now was firepower to overcome the flesh monster's regeneration, Kairin's joining was good news.
Afterward, we divided into a group of three capable of divine power enchant and the others.
The Male Lead Candidates worried about the Saintess, but she was firm.
Eventually, as they left to evacuate people, we started the 2nd round.
“Ethan, the plan?”
“We have to increase the guy's damage range and weaken regeneration as much as possible.”
“Understood.”
“Okay!”
We scattered in three directions.
Thanks to the flesh monster having already swollen up to about half of the plaza, there was no shortage of hit range.
My role is to attack the widest range possible and hinder the guy's regeneration.
I unsparingly use the Aura I saved during the engagement with the Flesh Giant to strengthen my body.
Afterward, I began to slash the flesh monster wildly.
As I drew lines on the flesh monster's skin with the spear blade upright, the spear blade moved freely as if cutting tofu.
Its regeneration was bizarre, but its durability was frail.
The guy's flesh beginning to burn due to divine power.
Perhaps giving up immediately on parts where regeneration doesn't work, the burning flesh falls off, and soon other flesh pushes in to fill the empty spot.
Up to here, it was the same as taking the Saintess's attacks earlier.
But I swung the spear without minding.
Continuously swinging, and swinging the spear.
Solely to tear off as much flesh as possible from the guy, I didn't stop the spear.
Thanks to the fallen flesh burning by divine power creating an unpleasant smell and moving my body violently, Aura quickly revealed the bottom.
Even so, I don't give up.
I thrust the spear once more toward the flesh that was just filled.
As I swung the spear that went in deep widely, the trajectory of the spear burned largely drawing a semicircle inside the flesh monster.
At this, the flesh monster mechanically discards the burning part but...
The flesh that should have filled that empty spot wasn't replenished immediately.
Finally, the guy's regeneration revealed its bottom.
Now all we had to do was reduce the guy's flesh.
As I swing the spear widely, the monster's flesh burns.
The guy discards the flesh, but that part doesn't recover.
Then take a step forward and cut deeper inside.
I repeated this.
The flesh monster that was huge enough to fill half the plaza.
The guy gradually shrank and became small enough that the figures of the two people attacking from other directions were visible before I knew it.
But perhaps because it became able to concentrate regeneration as the size became smaller, no matter how much we cut, the guy continued to regenerate and maintained that size.
The lump of flesh trying to maintain a certain size by any means necessary as if it couldn't concede anymore.
Although I couldn't know what the reason was, it was certain that it was time to throw the winning move.
“Saintess, Kairin. It is time to finish it.”
“Then I'll go first.”
Kairin held the greatsword and took a stance.
As she infused Aura, her greatsword burned fiercely with blue flames.
“Heueup...!”
As Kairin swung the greatsword, her greatsword split the lump of flesh up and down.
“!@#$%^&*!!!!!!”
Although it couldn't make a sound because it had no vocal cords, the guy expressed abnormality with flesh soaring like thorns and squirming.
The two lumps split in half struggled to connect again even while squirming.
It was then.
“Mr. Ethan, look there! There is something!”
Looking at the guy's cut section at the Saintess's words, a blackish sphere was visible between the squirming lumps of flesh.
The sphere digging into the flesh as if trying to hide its appearance.
Intuition was speaking.
We must target that.
“Saintess! That!”
“Yes!”
At my words, the Saintess swung the Holy Sword toward the sphere trying to hide between the flesh.
Then the guy's flesh throwing their whole bodies to protect the sphere.
The flesh cut by the Saintess's sword burned in chunks, but in the meantime, the sphere disappeared somewhere.
Although we missed the sphere, seeing that appearance, I could be certain.
That is the guy's core.
Unless we destroy that, the guy's regeneration won't end.
Gathering Aura, I said to the two people.
“We must destroy that sphere!”
“Understood!”
At my words, Kairin held the greatsword again and cut the flesh.
The lump of flesh splitting diagonally following the greatsword's trajectory.
As the burning lump of flesh fell, the guy's sphere revealed its appearance once again.
The guy moving positions without rest as if swimming inside the flesh.
At that moment, the Saintess's Holy Sword targeted the sphere once again.
Flesh throws their whole bodies to block, but they are burned by divine power and discarded.
The guy's sphere revealed like that.
“Mr. Ethan!”
The guy gathers just-regenerated flesh to try and protect the core but...
I also gathered all remaining Aura for this attack.
Traditionally, isn't a spearman's main attack thrusting?
My hands were bored from only slashing all this time.
Heaven-Piercing Style, One Point
I thrust the spear filled with Aura toward the guy's core.
A spear extending to pierce a single point.
My spear blade burning blue dug through the guy's flesh and finally pierced the core.
Jjang-geurang-!
Along with the sensation of the flesh monster's core breaking at the fingertips, the sound of glass breaking was heard.
....
....
!@##@!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Was it the final death throe?
After the core broke, the guy's flesh emitted light and swelled up wildly, then shrank in an instant.
The flesh monster drooping while dried up and twisted like a mummy.
“......”
“......”
While the Saintess and I were silent because it was a similar situation to earlier, Kairin opened her mouth.
“Did we get it?”
“W.. Wait a moment! That phrase is...!”
The Saintess, recalling the Mage's barbarity, looked at Kairin and was startled, but fortunately, the flesh monster didn't recover anymore.
“Hmm? What is it?”
Instead, Kairin sent a questioning gaze looking at the Saintess, and at this, the Saintess just looked at me as if aggrieved.