Ch.155155. Invasion (6)

While the two of them were fighting fiercely, momentarily forgetting about me, I drew out my “specialized weapon” that I had created specifically to use while resonating with Robo.

Among the monsters I had hunted in the New Continent, there was one called the “Ice Stegosaurus” (tentative name). It was a unique creature with back plates and tail spikes made of ice.

Noticing that this ice possessed abnormally high durability, I collected these plates, spikes, bones, and heart tendons to create a specialized weapon for use while resonating with Robo…

The result was the ice greatsword I now wielded.

A greatsword with a long, bone-like shaft at its center, surrounded by hundreds of different ice fragments attached to it. I gripped the leather-wrapped handle of that beautiful weapon tightly.

Then, I pulled the small ring protruding from one side of the handle, similar to pulling a grenade pin.

-Pssshiiing!!!

Light burst forth from the gaps between the ice fragments forming the blade, and then those small ice fragments detached and adhered to my body.

Virtual replicas of heart tendons formed between the ice pieces, fixing them in place, and resonating with the wolf factor on my skin surface, they naturally completed into armor resembling a wolf.

The Ice Stegosaurus’s back plates formed the armor sections, while the tail spikes became offensive components like claws on the gauntlets.

Additionally, the wolf fur cape, reflecting Robo’s mystical nature, changed from silver to a more bluish hue, and I could now share the field of vision through the eye holes of the wolf-shaped helmet.

Then, with the handle and core remaining after all the blade parts had detached—a quarter staff made from processed dinosaur bone—I pulled one leg back into a runner’s starting position…

-Fwoooosh!!!

I kicked off the ground with all my might and leaped into the battlefield where the higher-tier beings were fighting across heaven and earth.

※ ※ ※

The ice greatsword, originally created for coordination with Robo, possesses several special abilities.

First is the ability to form armor using the separated blade fragments.

This armor, with its organic structure, can effectively defend against external impacts and, like the magical armor of this era, also functions to enhance the wearer’s physical abilities.

Another special ability that connects with this state is the power to control the cold energy randomly emitted from Robo’s body.

Robo, having gained an ancient form through primitive regression magic, certainly had increased cold energy output, but perhaps as a trade-off, this enhanced output couldn’t be properly controlled, causing cold energy to be discharged indiscriminately in all directions.

The external control device that regulates this discharged cold energy is essentially the armor I’m currently wearing.

-Whrrrrrrr!!!

-Fwoooosh…!

Recognizing my dramatic entrance, the Arch Demon turned toward me and breathed fire. Normally, even with cold energy to counteract it, this would be too much firepower to handle completely, but now I could easily withstand it with the power of my armor.

More precisely, with the cold energy condensed inside the wolf armor.

This completely sealed wolf armor, due to its structural characteristics, condenses the cold energy emitted from my body rather than releasing it externally. This condensed cold energy is not only extremely cold but also magical power.

-Fssst…!!

Thanks to this, a Tindalos Hound that appeared right in front of me, intending to launch a preemptive attack, had its left side frozen just from contact. Seizing this opportunity, the demon tried to strike down the hound’s neck with its double-headed axe.

And the moment I spotted these two higher-tier enemies eyeing each other fiercely, I immediately raised the quarter staff in my hand and unleashed its bestowed ability.

Thus, using the high-pressure cold energy discharged from one side as propulsion, the quarter staff struck the hound’s exposed skull.

-Kwaaaang!!

-Crack!

This close-combat staff, created using that oak staff I had previously made as a prototype.

Flying with the monstrous strength of a high-tier divine beast and rocket-like propulsion, it shattered one side of the hound’s exposed skull.

Meanwhile, the Arch Demon’s double-headed axe, deliberately swung with a grip close to the blade, left a terrible scar on the hound’s side. At this point, I thought the hound must have already perished.

Of course, the reality was different.

“…!”

Despite its skull being shattered with contents leaking out, and its side mostly severed by the battle axe’s wound.

Even in that state, the Tindalos Hound stood proudly as if it felt no pain.

At that moment, I sensed it. Perhaps the Arch Demon did too.

This creature. This was currently the most dangerous variable.

[-Kheung!!!]

I deployed a simple wild magic using Robo’s mystique and the helmet part of the wolf armor. It’s called “Wild Roar,” a rare area-of-effect attack among wild magics.

Originally, it would be magic with fear-inducing power mixed into a shockwave in the form of sound waves, but my improvised version was a knockback spell.

Completely sacrificing attack power and additional effects, it specialized in pushing opponents back through shockwaves.

This magic, entering the battle flow completely off-beat, sent the two higher-tier beings flying away, thus widening the distance between the three of us…

‘Sophia! Are you ready?!!!’

[Yes! I’ll send you the coordinates!!]

While exchanging telepathic communication with Sophia who was supporting me from the rear, I simultaneously opened several parts on my back to release cold energy, using the recoil to soar upward as I began incantation.

[Beast’s claws, slice the enemy!]

-Slash!

After compressing magical power and casting a single-target slashing spell—the first I’d used since becoming higher-tier—trajectories were wildly drawn in the air.

Slashes capable of easily bisecting even Aura users formed in the air, and along those trajectories, cold energy fragments formed and scattered randomly like shotgun pellets.

Of course, it seemed slightly insufficient to intercept a higher-tier being.

-■■■…!!!

-Kwang!!

After catching with my hands the charge of the Tindalos Hound, which had somehow repaired its external damage and emerged from a “corner” formed by ice fragments.

I deflected an iron ball attached to a chain flying from behind with my staff, then rapidly descended to the ground.

Realizing that engaging in aerial combat, which I had little experience with, wasn’t particularly advantageous for me, I came down to the ground, a terrain familiar to both me and Robo, to gain a tactical advantage.

And…

-Kwaaaang!!!

I watched as the Tindalos Hound and the Arch Demon landed on the ground with a thunderous noise.

Feeling the soul resonance gradually fading due to time limit, I anxiously waited for Sophia’s “preparation” while creating a shield by separating part of the cold energy armor and letting it float nearby.

I wasn’t sure how long the soul resonance would last, but at most, about a minute remained.

Since my physical abilities without soul resonance with Robo wouldn’t be able to keep up with their battle, I determined that I needed to seize an “opportunity” within this minute…

[-Robo!]

The final and original function of the ice greatsword.

By completely disassembling and then reassembling the ice blade fragments that formed the wolf armor, I created an ice sculpture in the form of a mechanical wolf and infused it with cold energy and Robo’s soul.

Powered by all the cold energy I had gradually accumulated, a Fenrir the size of a hound appeared and leaped into the center of the battlefield.

And at this very moment.

[-Release!]

As I input the activation word, believing this to be truly the last chance, the wolf armor suddenly opened between the two higher-tier monstrosities and expelled all its internal cold energy.

The cold energy I had particularly compressed froze everything around, even immobilizing the two higher-tier beings.

Of course, this restraint wouldn’t last long, and in about 5 seconds, those two would break free from the ice and charge at me, but…

In a higher-tier battlefield, 5 seconds was more than enough time to completely dominate the situation.

-Kwaaaaaaang!!!

The sacred artifact of the Elven Sun God, placed to protect the amusement park “Bacchus’s Garden,” summoned a beam of solar energy that incinerated those two.

The sacred artifact, powered by all the magical energy produced from the heart of a sub-adult Swamp Dragon, amplified further by the “magical amplification mechanism” installed in Tarrasque, clearly demonstrated why it was called a sacred artifact.

The Arch Demon, faced with divine energy that was like its natural nemesis, collapsed and vanished, soul and all, without even being able to scream.

The Tindalos Hound, which originated from an external world and boasted rules different from the norm, also disappeared without leaving a trace.

And the moment these two higher-tier beings vanished, I could see the barrier of “Bacchus’s Garden,” which had been dominated by two evil forces, gradually returning to its original state…

‘…We succeeded.’

Rejoicing that this long, drawn-out situation had finally ended, I collapsed from the exhaustion felt throughout my body.