Chapter 220
Chapter 220
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Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 220
Chapter Title: 63. Leviathan (3)
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5.
Leviathan.
A few adventurers who spotted this monster from a safe distance, with its long, blue body that seemed carved from ice, thought to themselves.
“Leviathan is a holy being sent by the gods!”
They claimed it wasn’t a monster.
Leviathan’s appearance was that breathtaking and awe-inspiring.
In fact, long ago, adventurers who beheld Leviathan didn’t feel fear but instead offered prayers in reverence or made wishes.
Of course, such notions didn’t last long.
“There were adventurers who spouted that nonsense.”
The moment they encountered Leviathan, everyone knew the truth.
Kroooar!
Leviathan was a monster more terrifying than any other, far from holy.
Its ferocity was on another level compared to other monsters.
Not all monsters attacked visible targets on sight.
Some ignored distant figures if they didn’t seem threatening.
Others at least needed to see something before moving.
Leviathan was different.
“But Leviathan is undoubtedly a monster. A highly ferocious one that seeks out victims to tear apart!”
Its aggression was extreme—it would seek out prey to unleash its savagery even if none was in sight.
That was why no monsters lived in Leviathan’s territory. None dared approach.
And with the monsters gone, Leviathan’s ferocity only grew.
Its rage built up.
Then, when a target appeared?
Leviathan showed exactly why it was a monster.
Just like the one now plummeting toward El Pam’s party.
Kroooar!
The aura emanating from its body was indescribably murderous.
And it wasn’t just any aura.
Dragon Fear!
A terrifying presence that turned facing creatures into mice before a cat.
It didn’t end there.
As it fell, Leviathan—crack!—opened its maw wide.
Freezing cold breath began pouring from its mouth.
Ice Breath!
One of Leviathan’s fearsome abilities.
But it wasn’t limited to Ice Breath. Like other dragonkin, like Mahyong, it could also unleash Fire Breath.
That’s what made it so terrifying.
Blocking one was hard enough—facing both was despair for any opponent.
This combo was especially dreaded.
Dragon Fear paralyzing adventurers with fear, legs giving out, only for Ice Breath to rain down on their heads?
No escaping that.
El Pam’s party faced the same now.
Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa!
Over Kiri and Dibo, Leviathan’s Ice Breath poured down, a torrent of bitter cold.
In an instant, they were frozen solid.
Leviathan seemed satisfied, descending toward the ground.
Thud!
The moment it landed.
Crack!
Cracks formed on the ice statues of Dibo and Kiri, and soon they shattered free.
Leviathan felt puzzled.
How had they survived its Ice Breath?
The secret was simple.
‘Ice Tears!’
The Ice Tears from the Snow Mountain Witch granted near-perfect resistance to ice attacks while held in the mouth.
Even without it, Dibo and Kiri could have dodged Leviathan’s breath.
Dragon Fear was fearsome, but they’d endured Mahyong’s without issue.
They had the experience.
Still, they took it deliberately for one reason.
‘It’s coming down!’
To lure Leviathan into dropping its guard and landing.
And once it had, no hesitation.
“Leaf Attack!”
Dibo leaped, plunging like lightning onto Leviathan’s body.
Stab!
Driving his polearm down.
Kroooar!
Pain-filled roars erupted from Leviathan’s puzzled maw.
“Kiri!”
Meanwhile, Kiri charged toward Leviathan’s body.
“I’ll take the right side!”
“Okay, I’ve got left!”
They raced toward its wings on either side.
That was the plan.
Ground it so it couldn’t fly!
The wisest call without El Pam.
But no easy feat.
Kroooar!
Leviathan knew the attempt and reared up, soaring skyward.
As it ascended, immense pressure bore down on Dibo and Kiri, gripping their weapons in its body.
A force ordinary adventurers couldn’t withstand!
Worse, the ground fell endlessly away.
Terror of the fall dominating their minds!
And the higher it climbed, the thinner the air.
Unable to breathe properly, vision and mind darkening.
Most would let go here. Succumb to fear.
But Dibo and Kiri were different.
They had everything.
‘Compared to the Heavenly Criserang, this isn’t even high!’
The courage and experience to conquer fear, bodies that endured thin air!
They held on.
Kooo!
Finally, weary Leviathan leveled off, flying horizontally—that moment, Dibo and Kiri moved.
Flash!
They shifted swiftly to the wing roots, embedding their weapons deep.
“Judgment!”
“Shining Pierce!”
Powerful skills from the polearm hero and light knight captain.
Splat!
The skills tore through Leviathan’s tough hide like paper.
Krooo!
Leviathan shrieked, thrashing wildly in the sky.
Spinning endlessly, shooting up, plummeting down, repeating.
Yet Dibo and Kiri endured the insane aerial acrobatics.
Even exploiting gaps to inflict more lethal wounds on the wings.
Sawing them down gradually, like felling a massive tree bit by bit.
When half-severed, Leviathan’s movements changed.
It climbed higher.
A threat.
Krooo!
Keep cutting, and we all plummet to death!
“Damn.”
Dibo laughed at the threat.
“Let’s die together.”
Stab!
He drove his polearm deeper.
Kiri followed suit.
At every chance, they scarred the wings without mercy.
This wasn’t a battle of wills.
Dibo and Kiri were dead serious about mutual destruction.
‘No backing down for a handshake here?’
They knew.
‘To escape this place, we have to catch it.’
What this place was.
‘If it ends with our lives, fine.’
Doubting or weighing options when a clear path existed was foolish.
In this clash of resolve, Leviathan yielded.
Kroooar!
It began descending.
To a height survivable even in a crash.
Near the ground.
Swoosh!
Dibo and Kiri’s weapons sliced air.
Leviathan’s wings severed.
6.
Kwa-gwa-gwang!
The crash of Leviathan hitting ground without wings was earthquake-overwhelming.
Awe-inspiring spectacle too.
Just two felling Leviathan?
But El Pam, hearing from afar, showed no surprise.
No act.
‘As expected.’
Dibo and Kiri he knew could manage this.
Still, he’d thought his party minus him would struggle against Leviathan.
‘Now the real test begins.’
Grounded Leviathan was a headache.
It was fast on land too.
Slithering mercilessly like a snake.
‘It casts magic.’
And not just any.
‘Confusion magic.’
As dragonkin, it wielded spells inducing chaos in targets.
A real pain.
Confusion made bodies disobey briefly.
Intend right, go left.
No direct lethality, short duration.
But in split-second life-or-death, deadlier than most.
‘And its stamina dwarfs Mahyong’s.’
Crucially, Leviathan’s endurance was absurd.
With El Pam, no issue.
His firepower outmatched hundreds of mages combined.
Without him?
A marathon battle.
Long fights bred mistakes.
So El Pam watched.
‘If truly dangerous, I step in.’
This tested limits, not deaths.
Three minutes into combat.
“Fire Arrow.”
El Pam intervened.
7.
Against Leviathan, Dibo, Kiri, Miner, and Ralph’s plan was simple.
“Just beat it however we can.”
Figure it out.
Not excluding teamwork.
“One side draws aggro, the other strikes the gap. Relentlessly. Pull back if disadvantaged.”
More than ever, reading each other and syncing mattered.
Thus began the Leviathan hunt!
It went smoothly.
Kroooar!
Leviathan targeted Dibo first.
“Come on, snake bastard!”
He’d charged its head-on.
From Leviathan’s view, intolerable humiliation, provocation—it raged.
Kwaaa!
Breath spewed; Dibo dodged, closing distance instantly.
Splat!
Circling its body, polearm carving wounds.
Deep cuts.
But relative to Leviathan’s mass, mere pricks.
Killing with pinpricks? An eternity of combat.
Daunting.
‘This.’
Yet no one, Dibo included, felt daunted now.
Excitement surged.
‘Chance to show the boss our growth.’
Earn El Pam’s approval.
‘Show perfection. Beyond.’
Ignited, their eyes sharpened.
Battle honed the gaze keener.
No cakewalk, though.
Kroooar!
Leviathan, its dual breaths and chaos magic, hammered home.
‘One slip is death.’
Constant mortality.
Thump-thump!
Hearts raced fiercer than ever.
Minds cooled sharper.
Thus.
‘Serene.’
El Pam’s party faced Leviathan in peak form.
All noise vanished.
At three-minute mark, conviction hit.
‘We can take it.’
Far to go, but possible.
‘Without boss!’
That instant.
“Fire Arrow.”
Just three minutes, and El Pam stepped in.
“Explosion.”
Wearing Hyperion’s helmet.
“Flame Vortex.”
Unleashing blue flames wildly.
Kroooar!
Before overwhelming firepower, Leviathan melted like ice in flames.
Instantly.
Thud!
Time to fell it.
El Pam’s party slaying Leviathan after Mahyong!
Monumental feat, yet no joy.
Faces hardened.
“Boss.”
Dibo especially, grim-faced, addressed El Pam.
“Did we mess up?”
El Pam intervening meant major, lethal error.
‘Too arrogant? Or something we missed?’
El Pam replied.
“You did.”
“……I see.”
“My fault.”
“Huh?”
“Exactly that. I misjudged your level.”
“That’s…….”
“Underestimated you.”
The reason he’d stepped in.