Chapter 582: End

Barb Utsa

Roar!

At last, the monster emerged before us, letting out a bone-chilling roar, its teeth bared and drool dripping from its maw. Then, it charged toward us with a speed far greater than I had anticipated.

I felt Yora casting spells on me.

Including defensive cover spells on me and one reinforcing my shield. And haste, which I will very much need.

She also attacked the bear monster with Sharp Bolts and Earth Spikes.

To our surprise, the monster swatted the bolts away and moved through the spikes as if it didn’t affect it at all.

Seeing that, I want to run away, but that is not an option. If I gave ground, it would go after my teammates, who are busy with the other monsters.

Whoosh!

Soon, it appeared in my range, and I pushed the liquor out with the Power Breath and Long Breath and lit up with the spark.

As I did, the fire bloomed brighter and thicker than others earlier.

I could feel the power and comprehend it very well. If I got caught in it, I would not survive.

I wanted to feel the emotion and mist in it, which made it harder to control, but I kept them as calm as possible.

The monster seemed to sense the danger from it and moved to dodge it.

Despite its size, its speed was fast, faster than I had expected. Thankfully, I took the risk and waited until it got close to me.

The fire reached it instantly, and I activated the Wide Plume. Immediately, the plume got bigger and enveloped its huge body.

I moved back with the Madam’s Grace, hoping it would be enough.

“Roar!”

Unfortunately, it was not. The bear monster, who had stopped as the fire enveloped it, moved again with fury in its eyes.

It came fast, seeing that I moved back with Madam’s Grace and Haste covering me.

At the same time, Yora cast the rock walls.

Bang Bang Bang!

The bear monster crushed through them with its thick paws as it barreled at me.

Whoosh!

Half a gulp of liquor came into my mouth, and I pushed it out.

I shouldn’t be in such haste with the emotions I am feeling, but I need to douse this monster with as much fire as possible.

The liquor burned, and I could feel the instability in it.

Still, it moved toward the bear. As it reached it, it covered it whole, like before.

Roar!

It roared once more, with anger in its eyes, intensifying further. Which increased its speed further as it reached me, but before I could release the third breath.

It swung its massive paw at me, and I had no choice but to move my shield forward to defend.

I was grateful that Yora had another spell on my shield to stop it.

Bam!

It crushed through the spells and hit my shield hard.

I felt a bone in my arm cracked on impact, and I vomited blood as I rapidly took a step back, using the momentum to disburse the force and create a distance.

It is a good thing I had swallowed the liquor. If I had brought it to my mouth, I would have thrown it out with blood.

Roar!

It roared and chased after me while I brought the liquor back into my mouth.

Whoosh!

I released it toward the monster without care for the consequences.

This monster is too powerful. If I didn’t kill it, it would kill me. So, I took the risk, and to my surprise, the fire breath seemed more stable than earlier.

It covered the monster again, but it didn’t stop despite that.

The fire created from this liquor is very powerful, but the monster is Grade IV. It is a powerful and defensive class, even in the Grade IV category.

Making things even more challenging for us.

It appeared before me, swatting away the spells and crushing every obstacle before attacking me once more with its paws.

Yora cast a spell on me and my shield while I stopped in my place and activated the stance.

Bam!

Its paws hit my shield hard, crushing through the spell and making me feel the blinding pain.

The Brace helped, but the difference in strength between us was huge. Once more, the pain shot through my arm as the bones ground together where it cracked earlier.

Whoosh.

I bore it as I took steps back before bringing the liquor into my mouth and breathing it into the monster’s face.

Bam Bam Bam!

Time passed, and it attacked me three more times. I am sure my arm is broken, and I no longer want to defend with the shield anymore.

The fire is burning densely across it, turning the clay skin red, but despite that, it is moving like it’s not affecting anything.

Roar!

Instead, it raged, and that seemed to increase its speed and strength even more.

“The fire doesn’t seem to be working,” said Yora as she cast more Rock Walls with Stone Spike in between. It slows it down a little.

“I know,” I replied with gritted teeth.

It is hard, but I am doing what I can. Still, it is not enough; if this continues, I will die.

Bam!

Once more, I defended and felt the explosion of pain as my bones cracked further. The shock and pain nearly threw my shield away from me.

“Why don’t you try the trick you used to deal with the monsters in the forest?” asked Yora.

“It’s too dangerous!” I replied immediately.

She is talking about the Intoxicating Fragrance. I used it to make the monster drunk with it before killing them.

I didn’t use it here because it was a battle. Monsters are coming from the left and right, but now, after she said it, I think about it again.

I am only fighting this monster alone. No other monster is interfering, but unlike before, the liquor stored in me has the oversaturation of mist mixed in it.

I don’t know whether I could bear its effects long enough to kill the monster.

The mist made it potent. Even with my resistance and experience, using this skill would be extremely dangerous.

Bam!

I was thinking that when its paws crashed against my shield once more, and this time, I could not hold on, and it flew away from my hand.

The horror I felt at that masked the sharp pain in my arm.

Till now, I had been alive only because of the shield, but now, it was gone.

Roar!

The monster roared and came at me. I pushed Madam’s Grace to get away from it as I had never pushed it before.

My speed increased. Especially with the Haste, but the bear is faster.

It appeared in front of me and attacked me with burning claws.

I gripped the sword and moved it defensively to defend against the attack.

Clang Rip!

It swatted my sword, which nearly flew away from my hands before slashing across my body.

“Ahhhh!”

I screamed as I received the searing wound on my chest.

I am wearing enchanted armor, but even with it, I was injured in the unprotected part.

“Barb!”

Yora screamed and launched spell after spell, but it could only slow it down as I tried to get away from the monster.

‘There is no choice!’ I thought and drank all the liquor in Stored Sips.

I shouldn’t have done that. I should have taken it slow and at least kept some for the last burn, but I didn’t do anything of that sort.

I want high intoxication and need it as soon as possible.

So, I drank it all and activated Intoxicating Fragrance before focusing every bit on the monster.

The effect was immediate. I began to feel the buzz almost immediately, with memories flashing in front of me, which I tried to avoid so that I could focus on the battle.

This is a side effect of the mist, for which people spend massive amounts of money on the legacy.

Once more, the monster appeared in front of me and attacked.

Clang!

I defended again with my sword; this time, it had nearly swatted it away before coming for my body.

This time, I was prepared and used Bendy Madam to adjust my body so that its claws would hit my body where I wanted.

Clang Clang!

The claws hit my armor hard, knocking the air out of me. Breaking my bones, sending me back, which made me nearly stumble because of the intoxication.

Clang!

Soon, the monster attacked me again, and I defended like last time but felt increasing pain.

The intoxication had increased even further, but I stopped resisting it.

I let it cloud me. Affect my mind and my movements.

Clang!

This is why the monster swiped again. Its paws had only touched my sword, not my body.

I missed its claws by less than a centimeter for the first time.

Roar!

It roared in anger and came at me once more with rage burning in its eyes, with its movements steady while I got drunker and drunker.

It didn’t seem to affect the monster at all.

I didn’t expect it to affect it immediately, seeing as it is a Grade IV monster—a defensive one at that. They have higher vitality.

Still, this level of drunkenness didn’t seem to be enough.

Well, this is just the beginning, with the amount of liquor I drank and the most mist present in it. I am going to get very drunk; I just hope I will survive that.

Clang, Clang, Clang!

I defended with my sword and armor while getting more and more drunk every moment.

It is painful to take the blows directly, even with the sword. Especially when I couldn’t properly focus on the battle with the inebriation I was feeling.

I felt like every rib in my chest had broken. Even taking a breath had become painful. Much less the moving around.

If not for the drunkenness, that lessened the pain. I would have been screaming right now.

Once more, it attacked.

Even in my highly drunk state. I noticed the change and didn’t move my sword as usual. Instead, I focused on dodging.

Hun!

To my surprise. I dodged the attack.

‘It had finally started affecting it,’ I thought as I saw familiar signs in its eyes.

Roar!

It roared at the failure and came at me with rage. Once more, I dodge drunkenly by inches.

It is also slowly getting drunk as its movements aren’t as furious as they had been.

Still, I am in danger and need Yora’s help slowing it down so that I can successfully dodge its attacks.

Time passed, and it continued to attack despite getting drunker by the moment.

I am also heavily drunk, but I am dealing with it better than the monster. Thanks to the benefits of Drunkard Class, I got through the Blaze Imbiber.

Its only advantage is its high vitality, which lets it endure the effects, but they have become intense enough.

That even its vitality will not save it.

Roar!

It roared once more and attacked. Missing me by nearly half a meter.

‘It’s time!’ I thought.

“Yora, target its eyes,” I said drunkenly, and the next moment, she attacked with the Stone Darts.

At that exact moment, I quickly took the bottle and took several gulps while drunkenly dodging its attack.

The sword isn’t enough to deal with the monster. Its defenses are strong enough; it had defended the Earth Lance with it.

I need to weaken them more with fire. Burn it again like before.

Whoosh!

I threw the empty bottle away and breathed out the liquor. Not a half gulp, but a full one.

I wouldn’t do that. If I was sober, but I am not; it is why I am laughing as the stream of volatile fire went toward the monster before forming a plum that enveloped it.

Roar!

It roared as the fire surrounded it once more and came at me in an animalistic attack.

I dodged it and released another breath, and then another and another, until I used all the liquor I had in me.

Now, it is a burning torch that is moving drunkenly.

Even the pain from fire isn’t enough to bring it out of an inebriated state. It is very drunk and will get even drunker with time.

I didn’t immediately go in for the attack. Even my drunk mind understands it’s not the time.

The bear needed to get drunker, so I waited while it burned.

We didn’t have to wait for long, and soon, it reached the level of drunkenness I needed.

It attacked again, and this time, I dodged, but unlike before, I dodged to the left instead of back before attacking it.

Rip!

A ripping sound rang out as my blade. Gave a massive cut across its paw.

If I had been sober, the cut would have been deeper and would have landed where I was aiming.

Roar!

It roared and attacked me while I dodged before attacking again, while Yora harassed it.

Rip!

Another cut appeared on its body. This time, on its chest.

The fire had weakened its defenses greatly. I could see it cooking the flesh beneath the hard clay skin, but its high vitality kept it standing.

Even now, with relatively deeper cuts. It was not bleeding.

Rip, Rip, Rip!

I cut it more and more. Attacking its weak spots, but it kept fighting without stopping.

Roar!

Once more, I attacked its leg. It roared and came at me, crushing through the stone spikes when something happened.

One of the thick spikes made it stumble.

Thud!

It fell hard on the ground. Something I had been waiting for a long time.

Seeing that, I activated Hair of The Dog to clear the drunkenness. I need to be as clear-minded as possible to use this opportunity.

Immediately, I felt a terrible headache, and the drunkenness was lessening at a slower pace than I had thought.

The mist had made the liquor powerful and the side effects worse.

Despite that, I quickly appeared beside the bear monster with Madam’s Grace and brought down my sword.

Puch!

It pierced its back toward the heart, but I pulled back my sword a moment later and dodged its hand.

The side effects will not make it easy, and the headache isn’t, but I appeared on the other side and brought down my sword.

Puch!

Yora is also helping, using the binding spells, which are breaking, but they are slowing it down and stopping it from getting up.

Puch Puch Puch!

I kept attacking, and it barely had any effect, but I still did.

Finally, I saw a chance, and I appeared beside its head. I brought down my sword, and its paws came toward me.

Puch!

I pierced the sword thoroughly into its head. This time, I didn’t stop to defend the claw coming toward me.

Bang!

Its paws struck my leg hard, sending me through the air backward. I landed with the sound of bones breaking.

Though the impact was powerful, it was not as much as I expected. Yora’s spells slowed it down, or the damage would have been more significant.

“Is it dead?” I asked as the Yora appeared beside me.

“Yes,” she replied as she helped me get up, which brought me such pain that my eyes teared away.

I looked at the bear, who was still twitching.

I brought out the healing potion and drank it before walking toward the bear, retrieving my sword, and picking up a shield not far away.

Hun!

I had just done that when I saw a massive blood-red lightning. Bigger than the monster I had been fighting struck the arakin tiger.

I thought it would die, but it came out roaring.

It is bloody all over, but it is still fighting. The three of them, plus Colonel Axseer, aren’t enough to kill it.

I only looked at it briefly before moving toward Hosk, who was still fighting against the wolf.

Roar!

I was halfway toward him when a massive roar came out, and the monsters, who were fighting, froze for a moment before they started to retreat.

Roar!

The tiger roared once more at those it was fighting before returning to the forest.

“I didn’t think they would retreat,” said Yora. “Monsters aren’t idiots. They understand when to retreat,” replied Hosk.

I didn’t say anything; I just looked at the retreating monsters.

I wanted to sit down, but I didn’t. I watched the monsters only when they retreated entirely out of the battlefield.

I sat down and took out the bottle of wine. The good one and started drinking.

“Give me some. I need it!” said Hosk, and I handed it to him. He took a few gulps and passed it around the others till all of us were drunk.

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