Chapter 108 – Pioneering (8)
Chapter 108 – Pioneering (8)
“Ugh, ugh…”
The roar of a gigantic monster. I don’t know if it’s an expression of anger at the death of the babies or just a bluff against the enemies surrounding me, but the monster earthworm let out a roar anyway.
A powerful roar that erupts like thunder and shakes the area, sweeping away the surroundings with its waves.
The Dwarves who were rushing to reload their ballistas fell all at once, and those waiting with their spears stumbled on the splattered ground as the water had not yet been absorbed.
‘Magic power.’
Serenian frowned. It was because he sensed that the roar was not simple. Although weak, that roar emitted by the demon beast was mixed with a fundamentally different power that was different from a simple sound wave.
“Oh, here they come!”
And right after that, the Demon Beast wriggled its huge body, exposed its teeth, and started charging forward. It was the place where Serenian was and where many Dwarves had gathered to shoot ballistas.
“Wake up!”
Pia, who came down from Hans’ neck, hurriedly ran and activated the spell. Even during the Great War, her sorcery, which she used sparingly, was quite helpful in fighting large enemies.
“Ugh, too strong after all.”
However, it was not omnipotent. Tree roots protruding from the ground wrapped around the gigantic body, and stone spears rising from the ground pierced the body from all sides, but the tree roots were cut off at once, and the stone spears called out had no weakness and could not pierce the carapace surrounding the body.
“Mera and Ersilla always did it at times like this. You can do it?”
Pia, who was struggling to hold on, looked up at Sernian and asked openly. Asked if you could do as well as the elven heroes who were in harmony with you during the Great War.
If you want to compete with them based on reality and belief, it is only natural that you have to be stronger than them. Serenian, who glanced at her Pia at that question, gritted her teeth.
‘Nonsense. That new spirit has grown?’
In that state, a gigantic crackling electrical charge erupted from Serenian’s body. Pia’s eyes widened at the incomparably powerful and bright sparks.
“Look at that! Lightning!”
“That is…!”
Others were surprised to see it as well. Unlike before, which was just a shapeless mass, it has a recognizable shape and spreads its wings properly toward the struggling demon beast.
‘Can you do it? I have to. It’s been like that since the beginning.’
Serenian drew the bowstring, glaring at the enemy with his steady eyes. Only this time he didn’t need arrows. It was because the grouse, which had spread its wings, became an arrow condensed by itself and swung around in her grasp.
Crackling lightning bolted in all directions along with dazzling light, and Serenian, as if holding the lightning itself, shot the arrow without hesitation at the Demonic Beast Worm that burst into anger at him.
That wasn’t an arrow either. The moment she let go of her hand. The lightning that flew faster than anything else in the world was already lodged in the enemy’s body.
“!!!!!”
Anyone could see that the beast earthworm had suffered a serious blow. Of course, since the whole body was wet, the monster earthworm, which was more vulnerable to electric shocks, was struck by lightning that burned its internal organs and lodged in its mouth.
Pia’s sorcery was effective from then on, but it didn’t matter. It was because the huge body that had raised her mouth to the sky and shuddered fell down with a thump and began to spurt her bodily fluids.
Everyone held their breath and opened their mouths at the tremendous attack.
“It’s not over yet. It’s a monster who doesn’t know what to do. You have to stop breathing.”
“Yes, yes. Everyone rush! Cut off his breath!”
However, the Demon Beast Earthworm is not completely dead yet. It’s a state where you can’t even move properly after taking a big hit, but it’s an opponent you can’t be vigilant.
She poured too much mana at once, and Serenian, whose legs began to tremble, stumbled and ended up on one knee. Ran out for
“Chief, his strength is still there! Just in case you don’t know, just fire a ballista from a distance…”
“No. Just in case, we have to finish it with our own hands.”
Aaron refused her suggestion to fight safely while running with her teammates. I knew what kind of monsters the monsters were as I continued to fight for the past few days. Witch Beasts are terrible mutants that cannot be explained by common sense.
That’s why when Aaron had a gap, he tried to subdue it without giving it any room.
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“We can do enough. Whose hands did everything that has been achieved so far?”
Aaron encouraged the dwarves. Unlike Serenian, both Aaron himself and the dwarves who followed him were far from heroes.
Most of them were ordinary dwarves who lived on the outskirts by mining or blacksmithing. Those with experience were only a few who had participated in the Great War as mere soldiers.
‘Is there a separate seed for a hero? Even the elite guards of the kingdom would not have fought such monsters if they had not participated in the Great War.’
But here they had to fight on their own. No matter how out of common sense, no matter how terrifying a monster looks.
Aaron gritted his teeth as he shoved a spear of solid steel through the shattered carapace.
This spear was entirely made of black metal. They found a dagger fragment buried inside the mountain and dug it up.
Heaven helps those who help themselves. Of all the things Serenian said, it was the one that touched his heart the most. In fact, if they wanted to step out, Heaven helped them in some way.
“Poke more! There is still strength left!”
“Head, stab the head!”
The Dwarves, clinging to the wriggling beast earthworm’s body, stabbed their weapons at random into the very finely exposed cracks and cracks, poured in the oil they had prepared in advance, and set fire to it.
It was a battlefield so intense that the screams and shouts did not stop, and there were teeth falling out of exhaustion.
‘Still, is it still in the final stage?’
Unlike the noisy scene, he was alone in a quiet house. When he saw the tiny creatures wriggling desperately, he realized that things went well. I took a mop to deal with the leaking water.
Balista, weapons and armor, Serenian spirits, the other world itself.
His help spread to everything, but in the end, nothing to help directly happened. It was the completion of the most ideal case that everyone wanted.
***
“What about the injured?”
“There are a lot of guys who are broken in one place, but no one is out of breath right away.”
“That’s a relief.”
It’s time for the sun to go down. At the site where the water had just drained, repairs were in full swing. Aaron led his weary body and comforted and commanded the Dwarves, both young and old, who were desperately engaged in the operation.
Even though their bodies were tired, everyone had bright faces. They themselves knew that it was not simply because they won.
That feeling of having done it. That became the sweetest reward of all.
“It’s been a while since I’ve seen this. It looks like this.”
“What was the Great War like? Was it like this then?”
“It was like that then too. But it is a little different.”
Looking at them, Pia muttered blankly, and Serenian opened her mouth. Pia shook her head at her question.
“It’s similar, but back then, heroes were the main characters. Ordinary people can’t fight a gigantic monster.”
Pia told the story of the Great War that Serenian did not know. The story of those days when we fought against terrible monsters and faced enemy forces.
“I think this one is more amazing. Something that everyone can truly fight for.”
Then he evaluated that the scene he saw today was more passionate than then. Serenian made a strange expression upon hearing that answer.
It’s because I’m not sure what to focus on, whether it’s fortunate that we fought well, or the reality of having to fight like that is unfortunate.
“And you, at least a bit, were like them. How did you grow the spirit? Ersilla went through a lot of trouble trying to evolve Sylph, even to me.”
“…Just another grace.”
However, the evaluation of himself that followed seemed to be in a good mood, and he smiled faintly.
From Pia’s point of view, the power Serenian showed today was comparable to the heroes’ heyday, and she was satisfied with that achievement.
‘I can go now.’
With the words out, Serenian decided to leave the dwarves’ work to Aaron and retreat for the night.
I was thinking of going to the herb pot instead of going straight home. Because he wanted to tell him today’s victory.
After naturally sending Hans and Pia home, she glanced at her and headed for a pot of herbs.
“Huh?”
“Eh?”
But at that moment. Pia, who had obviously been separated, ran into her alone in front of her herb pot without her Hans.