Ch.399Fighting the Mountain NPC. (5)
by fnovelpia
# KUUUUUUUUUUNG!!!
A massive dragon’s head, quadrupedal stance like a turtle. And what truly makes this monster resemble a turtle are the enormous “mountains” on its back.
“…Please tell me this is a fucking joke.”
None of the mountains are any smaller than Mount Ponia that I once protected. Even Gor at maximum size might not even be comparable to one of this thing’s legs.
With just one footstep, the world literally shakes. This creature was too big to fit on the game screen, introduced as the strongest field boss in raid guides, and even at level 1,100, players couldn’t deal enough damage to get rewards. But this? This is just ridiculous, isn’t it?
-Rumble rumble rumble…!!
“A single step and buildings are about to collapse.”
Inside the Naty Spirit King’s barrier.
The Siltra Army composed of elves, beastkin, and magic tribes. Along with Professor Naty and assistants, the 3,131 troops are now watching Behemoth’s approach from the academy’s sturdiest practice hall, converted into a barricade. And I, Ragni Green Doll, am looking down at them from the dean’s office, swallowing hard.
“…It’s okay. This is the size we expected. The plan will work.”
-Crash bang!!
Small furniture I thought wouldn’t fall is toppling over the large furniture I’d already knocked down. A monster that causes earthquakes with a single step. And now I have to face it in reality. I never imagined this.
-KWAAAAAANG!!
“Ugh…!”
“I-I can’t believe you were throwing bombs at that thing to keep it at bay…!!”
“When we were running together, the forest trees absorbed the vibrations, and the bombs and spirit magic masked the footsteps! Actually, waiting here inside a building makes it even more terrifying!! Urgh?!”
Even Green Doll, who’s surpassed level 500, staggers as the building shakes. Ragni, her hair dyed black, has drawn all her guns and is clenching her teeth in tension.
-Squeeze.
“It’s okay. This is your plan. It will succeed.”
“Y-yeah. It will work. No, I’ll make it work.”
-KWAAAAAANG!!
“Gah?!!”
“Eek…?!”
I was holding Ragni’s hand, but now I stagger from the footsteps of the creature that’s truly close. Damn, this is on a completely different scale from the game… Shit!! Please tell me this isn’t real…!!
“One more… step forward…!!”
At Green Doll’s tense voice, both Ragni and I straighten our postures and stare at the monster. Please, just once. If we can just hold out once…!!
-BOOOOOOM!!!!
When the monster’s enormous foot begins to move toward the barrier above Naty’s gate visible from here, the aftershock reaches us. It literally creates a typhoon with a single step!!
-KWACHAAAAAAAANG!!!!
“Urrrgh!!!”
“Ngh…!!”
“…Kuh!!”
“Massive” is too weak a word, and “gigantic” too cheap. As a club the size of a city begins pressing down on the Spirit King’s barrier that has stood for centuries like it’s fragile glass, the sky begins to tear, split, and shatter like a massive crack forming. This is the turning point. No, this is the beginning. Please, Spirit King! Just once!! Just hold on once…!!!
-Kiiiiiiiiiiiiing…!!!
“I-it’s holding…?!!!”
-KWACHA⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯!!!!
The barrier that withstood the monster’s step once served as “ground for it to walk on,” and Behemoth truly didn’t care as it lifted its other leg. Yes, it rested its massive body on one leg, placing it on the barrier that was about to shatter.
Finally, unable to withstand the monster’s weight, the barrier that had protected this place for centuries completely disintegrated, and the monster’s enormous foot fell toward the ground. Everything seemed to move in slow motion. Realizing we shouldn’t stand in front of the window, I grabbed Ragni and Green Doll’s arms and pressed against the wall.
-⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯.
Is this what a nuclear bomb sounds like? Or is this how it feels when your eardrums rupture? With an incredible boom beyond comprehension, I felt an impact that made me think my brain might burst, and I embraced the two people in my arms with all my might. How many seconds or minutes passed like that?
“⎯! ⎯!! J⎯!! Ja⎯!! Jack!!!”
“Huh?!!”
“Haa! Haa! H-hey, snap out of it. We succeeded!! We succeeded!!!”
As I was thinking with my dulled mind that his voice was quite high-pitched for a man, Green Doll escaped from my arms and slapped my cheeks repeatedly to bring me back to my senses. S-succeeded? Succeeded?!
“R-Ragni!!”
“Haaack…?!!”
Had she also stopped breathing like me? Ragni inhaled roughly as if searching for air in my arms, and hearing Green Doll’s words, she struggled to get up. And as we looked out the window.
“…It’s s-stuck.”
We could see the monster’s enormous foot completely sunken into the center of the city. Of course, the surrounding buildings were completely destroyed beyond recognition, and the gate area was simply crushed under the monster’s belly and disappeared, but nevertheless, the monster’s leg was completely stuck in the center of Naty.
Yes, the “Behemoth trap” that Ragni had the professors and assistants create. The first phase of the plan that sacrificed half the city had succeeded!!
[GOUUU⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯!]
“N-now’s the time!!!”
“Attack!! Attack!! Assistants, professors!! Magic tribes, use ranged attacks to blind its eyes!!!”
Watching the troops who had formed ranks behind the academy’s practice hall barricade begin their attack as planned, Ragni also gripped her gun and began filling it with MP. As her red gun started emitting a stronger blue light.
“Jack, I’m counting on you from phase two.”
“Got it.”
– KWAAAAANG!!!
[Queen’s Full Power] The strongest strike that had torn through the unpaved highway in the capital Ottman extended in a straight line toward the monster’s eye and then.
[GUK⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯?!]
It penetrated through to the mountain behind it.
It would be great if its brain exploded and it died right there.
“Shit, it wouldn’t die that easily.”
-Thud.
“Urgh…”
“You did well. Rest here for a bit.”
Ragni had used all the MP she could, showing completely 0 on her stat window, and the recoil made her sweat profusely as if she’d done intense exercise. She collapsed in my arms, unable to respond. Well then.
“Green Doll. Please take command and look after Ragni.”
“Mm. Leave it to me. When she wakes up and phase three begins, I’ll join you!”
-Whoosh!!
My personal desire was to evacuate with Ragni if phase one failed, but as expected of Ragni Bluemoon. The game’s greatest strategist and strongest queen.
She succeeded in trapping that crazy monster’s foot in one go. And even managed to blow out one of its eyes in such a short time. If I let this fail after my woman has done this much, I’d just be a pathetic excuse for a man.
-Tap tap tap tap!! Tap!!!
I run for my life across collapsed debris and still-intact buildings. The places my feet touch crumble, debris raises dust, and magic and spirit attacks flying from behind blur my vision, but I just look ahead and run with all my might. Just a little faster, a little more quickly…!!
-Whoosh!!
“Uaaaaaaah!!!”
Running with all my might up the monster’s stuck leg like climbing a mountain, the creature was trembling all over, perhaps confused about being trapped. Of course, that trembling felt like earthquake-level vibrations, which was only natural. But I’m a former mountain keeper. I trained to climb mountains even during landslides. I trained. I honed. The senses I cultivated over a lifetime wouldn’t let my legs stop for a mere earthquake-shaken mountain.
-Whoosh!!!
“Luxuriaaaa!!!”
“I came because you called! Master!! Are you ready?!!”
In front of the face of the creature shedding bloody tears, I immediately proceed to the second phase. Luxuria, who had been hiding somewhere out of sight of the Pope who might be lurking somewhere. And.
“I didn’t come because you called meee!!!”
Avaritia of the Seven Deadly Sins, already fully transformed into a demon form, releases her full power. One represents lust, the other greed. Neither has abilities that directly help in combat, but depending on how they’re used, they can aid in battle. This was also part of Ragni’s plan after hearing about their abilities!
“Get horny and stay stuck in the ground!!!”
“I bought all this land here?!! You dared to destroy it!! Pay with your body!!!”
[GOUUU⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯?!]
As the demonic energy from the two demons seeps into the wound in its eye, the monster begins to roar as if screaming from the suddenly invading demonic energy and powers, but the magic and spirit attacks flying from behind make it difficult for it to keep its mouth open. And finally.
“It’s working!!”
“Its body is all material!! Since it destroyed ‘my property,’ it’s going to become material to restore the ground!!!”
The collapsed debris begins to cover the monster’s body, and as if something is wrong somewhere, the monster’s body that had been trembling until now gradually stiffens. Ha, who in the world would think to use the Seven Deadly Sins’ demonic energy like this? Only Ragni could come up with this.
And so, as I was falling toward the now-empty ground, Luxuria, who had followed after releasing all her demonic energy, caught me.
“Wow!! Jack. Look at that! That!!”
“That? What is it? Where?”
“There, that!! The thing sticking out!!”
“…Hey, you can’t mean.”
Pointing to something mountain-like protruding from behind the other leg of the fallen, gradually stiffening body, Luxuria made me think I should probably cover her mouth…!
“Wow! Behemoth’s dick really is a mountain!!”
“Please…!!!”
This wasn’t in the game either!! I didn’t want to know this!!!
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