Crash!
“Kuweeeee!”
The chimera snake let out a painful scream.
Actually, whether I can borrow skills or not isn’t important in this situation.
‘Die! Martein!’
「Using Basic Elemental Magic: Fire lv4.」
I shot a fireball at his face.
“Damn it, again!”
I was doing everything I could in my own way.
Martein shattered the fireball with a headbutt.
It’s amazing that his face didn’t burn even after that.
But from the start, shooting the fireball was meant to obscure his vision.
「Using Beam lv2.」
The light of death.
A beam that would take the hero’s life shot from my mouth.
Ping-
“Ouch, damn it!”
No! The beam that had even penetrated the tough muscles of the Silverback Akims.
My best shot only left a wound like a popped pimple on his cheek.
He wasn’t just relying on his armor to fight.
“It’s a basic aura manipulation technique.”
In the midst of the fierce battle, Pelerian started explaining.
“That human hero is wearing excellent armor, so he’s probably just protecting his exposed face with aura.”
It’s like watching a commentator character in a fighting manga.
And this is coming from the one who messed everything up with his resurrection magic.
The angry old knight thrust his spear at me.
Originally, it was a distance the spear shouldn’t have reached.
Whoosh!
The aura at the spear’s tip was fired at me.
It was clearly a sword ki, no, a spear ki.
It was a moment of extreme crisis, but the chimera snake didn’t stand idle.
It withdrew its branches to protect me.
Crack!
Dozens of branches that had even blocked catapults were shattered in an instant.
However, the old knight was rather pleased.
“That black snake is your weakness!”
The black snake probably refers to me using Black Scales.
The cunning of humans was tremendous.
He stopped attacking the chimera snake’s body and started thrusting his spear at me.
Crack, crack-
The more he did so, more branches spread out to block me.
The knight completely disregarded defense and went on an all-out offensive.
It was because the chimera snake was flustered trying to protect me.
“Hahaha!”
While pretending to attack me, he chipped away at the chimera snake’s body.
And while pretending to attack the chimera snake, he aimed at me as he continued fighting.
I resisted by using magic and swinging my sword, but the tide of battle gradually turned against us.
“Grwoooar!”
The chimera snake roared in pain.
The regeneration of its body made of wood slowly became sluggish.
That knight’s aura, burning like fire, might have a bad compatibility.
‘Hey, you idiot! Just put me down and fight!’
But as always until now.
The chimera snake was too stupid to understand my words.
This fool.
‘What are you doing to a baby, you too!’
I also berated the viscount.
Maybe the chimera snake looked too much like an old person.
“For a monster old enough to grow so large, you must have been stuck in the great forest all your life. Did you come looking for a place to die? Hahaha!”
The spear accelerated even more.
How such monstrous strength comes from that shriveled body.
“Die.”
And the spear tip glowed red-hot.
Like Gunter’s Crescent Moon Slash, this seems to be the knight’s special skill.
‘… No.’
The spear tip mercilessly dug into the chimera snake’s body.
Clang-!
It sounded like hitting a tin drum.
The chimera snake’s body swelled up and then burst.
In an instant.
Hundreds of branches spread out in all directions as if exploding.
It didn’t seem to be the chimera snake’s will.
Those countless branches draped around like a curtain, making it feel like we were back in the great forest for a moment.
Something bright red was visible inside the chimera snake’s burst open body.
The chimera’s heart, a magic stone, or… a seed?
“Muaa…”
The chimera snake cried weakly.
The knight grinned and reached out towards that red something.
As for me.
As for me, I wasn’t just sitting still.
Crack.
I finally broke the branches that were binding me.
「Using Acceleration lv7.」
「Using Heart-eating Leap lv3.」
I can’t pierce the armor.
Attacking the face doesn’t work either.
Then, I’ll just slip into the gaps of the armor.
Focused on ending the chimera snake’s life, he couldn’t fend off my accelerated form in time.
I succeeded in slipping into the gap at his nape.
What a tenacious bastard.
He didn’t stop trying to tear out the chimera snake’s heart until the very end.
Crunch!
A strange sound was heard.
The inside of the armor was loose enough for me to enter sufficiently.
As I struggled, the knight let out a strange scream.
“Ugh, eehick!”
He must be very ticklish!
There was a terrible smell of sweat inside the armor.
Let’s endure it for a moment.
I tore apart the linen clothes he was wearing underneath with my teeth.
‘I’ll enter through your navel, human!’
Wak, I bit, but.
His skin was tough like raw rubber.
It’s to the point where my teeth hurt instead.
Is a human body trained to this extent?
I gave up on entering his body.
Shook-
Then I’ll inject deadly poison.
“Arghhhh!”
His ticklish sounds changed to screams of pain.
Bang, crash!
He pounded his own armor frantically as if trying to grab me.
But of course, he couldn’t tear his own armor to get me out.
He tried to take off his helmet completely and reach into the armor, but that didn’t work either.
This kind of plate armor can only be put on and taken off with the help of a squire.
The knight thrashed in agony.
He tried to crush me by moving his body this way and that, but I kept moving like a loach.
「Using Poison Scales lv1.」
I make wounds on his skin.
And I apply deadly poison on top of it.
Endure it with evil and stubbornness, human.
This isn’t revenge for the chimera snake.
It’s just the law of the wild, kill or be killed.
I danced the dance of death, shedding tears made of ice shards.
==
The holy knights could see neither the viscount nor the leader snake.
It was because of the hundreds of branches that the chimera had spewed out.
From afar, it looked as if a forest had sprung up in the middle of the battlefield.
But the brilliant light bursting from within.
“Oh!”
The holy knights knew it was their commander’s secret technique.
‘Light Pierce’. The ultimate technique of Martein, comparable to Gunter’s Crescent Moon Slash.
That fatal thrust must have taken the life of the wooden snake.
The branches that had been moving as if alive suddenly stiffened, then withered away at an astonishing rate.
The interior that had been hidden was revealed.
The giant snake had fallen, and their knight commander had survived proudly.
“Woohoo! Commander!”
“Oh Light God!”
The holy knights shed tears of joy.
Killing the leader wouldn’t make the monster wave disappear, but it was a sufficiently meaningful achievement.
They were about to rush to the viscount, but.
The holy knights froze in their tracks. freeweɓnvel.com
“C-Commander?”
And for good reason.
Viscount Gerard Martein was dancing.
Tap, tap!
He was stepping lightly as if performing a traditional northern dance. His arms moved fluidly, at times raised triumphantly above his head, at others swinging in rhythm combined with circular arm rotations and hip shaking.
It was like the dance of a man bitten by a radioactive spider.
Even if the viscount was known to start dancing whenever he drank, who would have thought he’d do this on the battlefield.
Is he that happy about winning?
“Y-you guys. Heek!”
Seeing the holy knights, the viscount suddenly started pounding his chest vigorously.
It was similar to gorilla-like behavior.
The holy knights were greatly confused.
“Sh-should we go and dance with him?”
“What nonsense…!”
Their confusion didn’t last long.
“Aaagh!”
Because the viscount let out a painful scream.
The dancing viscount finally collapsed.
The knights quickly rushed to his side.
“Keck, keck.”
“C-Commander! What’s wrong!”
His face was purple.
It seemed he hadn’t been able to breathe properly for quite some time.
Symptoms of neurotoxin poisoning.
“Sn-snake…”
“Snake, you say! You’ve already dealt with it, Viscount!”
It seems he was affected by the chimera snake’s poison.
But there are no visible holes in his armor.
“No, hic. That’s not, this color… hic.”
Finally, the viscount’s eyes rolled back.
“Priest, let’s take him to the priest!”
The holy knights carried their lord.
==
“I’ve done it!”
Perhaps because the spell was slightly off.
This time, even Pelerian’s resurrection magic didn’t work.
An enormous amount of magical energy, unbelievable for a single human to possess, poured out of the viscount’s body.
It was a complete death.
「Your level has increased.」
「Your level has increased.」
「Your level has increased.」
「Your level has increased.」
「Your level has increased.」
「Your level has increased.」
「Your level has increased.」
「Your level has increased.」
「Your level has increased.」
「Your level has increased.」
…
A storm-like thrill swept over.
And finally.
「You have achieved the ‘Hero Slayer’ achievement.」
The great hero Gerard Martein.
Here, dies twice.