Chapter 17
Chapter 17
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 17
Chapter Title: A Lifeline Chat in Crisis
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A single chat appeared like a lifeline amid the crisis.
Judak☆: You alive? Cool?
That deflating message had never felt so welcome.
Eliana, having dodged the bone dragon's mana breath by flattening herself to the ground, quickly hammered out a reply.
FullHP Elf: I'm literally about to die right now.
FullHP Elf: Anything, please help me out.
Judak☆: Yeah, that's why I messaged. Perfect timing.
To Judak, FullHP Elf was like an enthusiastic new hire.
A slave—no, a worker—who'd been forcibly granted the title of Partrak and still fulfilled her duties even while staring down a tactical nuke.
Knowing she was an elf, he'd figured she was caught up in Elrad's wave.
[Judak☆ offers 10 'High-Explosive Grenades.']
Judak☆: Barter's the only way. Throw up anything for now. I'll accept the trade right away.
FullHP Elf: Got it, but it's urgent af, situation's like auhmlkj right now.
Judak☆: ?
“Kraaaah!”
“Aaack!”
The bone dragon's tail whipped around.
Who knew a body made of just bones could pack such power? Trees were sliced clean through by the swinging tail.
Eliana's eyes darted frantically.
“Something to trade! Register anything!”
But everything around her was reduced to ash by blue flames, burning fiercely.
“Kraaaah!”
Just then, flames spewed from the bone dragon's gaping maw once more.
“!”
She barely dodged by a hair's breadth, but her long hair caught fire and burned away.
The charred strands rained down onto Eliana's hand.
At the same moment, an idea flashed through her mind.
“N-No, that won't do!”
She was tempted for a second but immediately shook her head.
She considered sending clothes instead, but she had nothing sharp to cut the fabric with.
And she had no jewelry to offer.
In the end, she gathered the severed hair, braided it tightly, and made a bracelet.
[FullHP Elf offers 'Elf-Braided Token.']
FullHP Elf: Here it is!!!
Judak☆: OK, trade done.
[The trade has been completed.]
“Yes!”
FullHP Elf wanted to throw her hands up and cheer.
She knew Judak's items better than anyone.
As a Partrak, she was well aware of how absurd his inventory was.
'The guy who single-handedly solved the continent's food crisis was Judak.'
Whatever came her way, it'd exceed expectations.
But what materialized with a flash was ten bumpy, rigid cylinders.
“Wh-What?”
They were only about the size of her hand at most.
Just the right size to grip easily.
As FullHP Elf stared in confusion, new chats arrived.
Judak☆: Grab it.
Judak☆: Pull the pin with your other hand.
Judak☆: Throw it. OK?
FullHP Elf: Are you kidding me right now?!!
What, like pelting it with rocks?
FullHP Elf felt a surge of anger.
“I thought we were kinda friends!”
She'd been drawn to his otherworldly thoughts and quirky speech, thinking they'd become buddies.
She'd even felt some fondness.
Was it all an illusion?
Her vision spun, tears welling up, but Eliana bit her lip hard.
“Screw it! Whatever!”
If she didn't trust him now, she had no options left.
Just then, as she huddled in hiding, a claw slashed into her blind spot.
“Aaahk!”
Eliana's shoulder was brutally gashed.
Her eyes widened at the horrific pain.
At least the wound wasn't too deep, that was a small mercy.
Flick!
With elven intuition, Eliana yanked the pin and glared at the bone dragon.
“I am not dying to this thing.”
“Kraaah?!”
She hurled the high-explosive grenade with all her might, even invoking her 'absolute' ultimate skill.
The grenade left her hand in a perfect arc, flying straight for the bone dragon's skull!
Thonk.
“H-Huh...?”
The grenade made a clear clinking sound as it bounced off the skull and rolled to the dragon's feet.
“Kraah.”
Even the bone dragon peered down at the orb curiously.
Eliana's hope turned to despair in an instant.
Did Judak troll her?
Was she just meaningless Partrak Slave #1?
Should she have at least eaten some chicken before dying?
[Typing...]
Content: Judak you bastard!!!
A whirlwind of thoughts raced through her head.
Just as she was about to leave her dying words in the chat...
BOOM!!!
“Aaahk?!”
Overwhelming future violence erupted in the silence.
*
The massive explosion shook the earth.
No precursors, no mana whatsoever.
It just suddenly went boom out of nowhere.
“U-Ugh... How...”
Even from outside the blast radius, Eliana had been knocked flat. She lifted her head late.
What she saw: the bone dragon's bones, perfectly simmered for broth.
And the elven army, en route for support, frozen in shock at the sight.
“H-Haha...”
Eliana let out a delayed, hollow laugh.
So Judak's no-mana, no-casting attack method post wasn't bullshit after all?
“Judak, you're an archmage?”
No, even an archmage couldn't pull that off.
Perfectly manifesting magic into physical objects was insane, something only a grand mage could dream of.
No, even grand mages hadn't developed it.
As her disheveled hair trembled from the shockwave, an elf amid the army muttered while checking the system.
“Whoa, Nimgle legend.”
That battle footage was definitely concept-post worthy, replayed for a year at least.
*
Title: Just another Judak feat...jpg
(GIF of Eliana fiddling with the grenade)
(GIF of the grenade pathetically rolling on the ground)
(GIF of the cam shaking from the sudden explosion)
(GIF of the bone dragon's corpse shattered to bits after the smoke clears)
Ahh... So this is Judak's class?
I believe... Lord Judak...
Recommendations 999 | Disrecommendations 15
[Comments]
- Whoa. No, whoaaa...
- Insane, thought my heart was gonna stop watching.
- I'm a 5th-circle mage, but no mana trace, no casting. How tf?
- My heart's pounding. What was all the magic I've done until now?
- The pinnacle of magic.
- Lol yeah, mana illusion edit, right?
└ Conspiracy nuts, gtfo the gal
└ These guys don't even believe the Great War happened lol
- Finally breaking circle limits?
- Judak, what's your deal? No info on race or anything.
- Gives away ten of those just like that? Judak real big dick energy.
└ Judak is an elf btw
└ Elf bitch plz!!!
Title: Wtf do I even do now
Always roasted Judak as retard soldier god, but after that? Sweating bullets.
Doesn't he just track locations and boom like that?
Judak sorry fr, save me once plz...
└ Feels life threat and still can't drop banmal, huh...
└ Absolute madlad...
Concept Post) Judak a Grand Mage?
(GIF of face zooming in creepily)
Judak, you been fooling us?
Recommendations 523 | Disrecommendations 18
[Comments]
- Fr, can't explain without grand mage.
└ Even grand mage can't.
└ Fr, if possible someone would've made it ages ago.
└ No-cast no-mana instant magic? Revolution.
- One thing's sure: 'Outside' is getting normalized now.
- Taming beasts...
- Solved food crisis. Solved waves. Fuck! Everything! He did it all!
“As expected, huh?”
The gallery never ran dry.
Waves once, modern civ another—total pandemonium.
Plenty of magic could make that boom, but no casting, no mana traces? Apparently impossible.
Cue endless demands: explain, disclose, we believe, chaos.
He even tried replying to calm things...
└ Judak☆) Don't know shit about magic. Just a common weapon from my world.
└ Where tf you even from?
└ At least make a believable lie so we can pretend.
└ Lord Judak plz take me as disciple. Accept me and I'll do anything like a dog.
└ Lmao so pathetic
└ Lmao fr I said it first, cutting in line.
└ ?
No dice. Zero.
Gave up suppressing the vibe.
Gotta let the gallery be the gallery. Just squash the tactical nuke posts slipping through, then glanced at the bracelet on his wrist.
“Wearing it since he gave it, but...”
No clue what it does.
Looks like simple braided hair, named 'Elf-Braided Token,' so...
Maybe it has an effect?
That's why he kept it on.
[Admin Chatroom]
Judak☆: FullEl, so wtf is this?
Judak☆: (pic of bracelet on wrist)
FullHP Elf: !!! Th-That! Uh, nothing at all.
Judak☆: Suspicious.
Judak☆: Binding curse item on equip or something?
FullHP Elf: Kinda...
FullHP Elf: Binding yes, but not curse. Anyway don't! Get curious.
FullHP Elf: Take it off now!
FullHP Elf: No wait, don't take it off.
Judak☆: ???
FullHP Elf seemed genuinely half-dead from the wave, mind all over.
And 'don't' absolutely.
That's code for search it up.
Title: Got this, wtf is it
(Pic of bracelet made from elf hair)
Partrak gave it, idk what.
Binding but says don't remove?? Huh?
Special effect or what?
[Post registered.]
Gallery's best for curiosities.
Views spiked fast post-upload.
“Judak power as expected.”
Thought answers incoming, but seconds later:
[Post deleted.]
[Reason: Obscene]
“What the.”
[Deleted by admin: FullHP Elf]
Even FullHP Elf monitoring and nuked it.
Reason: obscene??
Tried twice more out of curiosity—deleted instantly each time.
“Reacting this hard?”
The more she did, the more he wanted to poke...
But next chance, he'd ask about the bracelet's hidden power.
Gallery latest had a new type of post from a lurker.
- Lord Judak, I'm the rabbit beastkin rep. Please read once. Grave.