26.Nine Headed Serpent (5)
…What a f*cking asshole.
I gritted my teeth and forced my body, which complained of pain, to stand up.
Unsurprisingly, Karina’s purification magic seemed to be a boon to Hydra. It seems that he came to his senses thanks to forcibly canceling his zombification.
“Yeah, is it sad that it ends like this?”
It’s not that I didn’t think of this possibility, but still, pretending to be dead until I blew off seven of her heads.
I hung out my tongue and gasped for breath at the hydra’s strategy to wait until my life was really in the middle of the day and then strike me in the back. It’s hard to breathe. As I tried to move, a burning pain came from my chest.
Broken ribs.
I don’t know how many went out, but it was definitely not a good situation anyway.
I’m not a superhuman like Lenny, and there’s no way I can fight properly with a bone-breaking injury, so I need Karina’s help to fight. My eyeballs were rolling frantically, looking for the pink-haired saintess. Fortunately, it didn’t take long to find Karina.
It’s good that you reinforced your armor. Thanks to that, fatal injuries seemed to have been avoided. Although it looked like he had broken a few ribs. I glanced at Carina and Lenny, who had moved quite a bit further away, then fixed my grip on the shovel. My heart throbs.
I don’t want to move. No matter how accustomed to pain, no one wants to move their body in pain unless they are masochists. But you have to move.
Because the life of the resurrected nemesis must be ended this time.
Fortunately, the situation was not very hopeless.
First of all, there is Karina who will heal me, and there is Lenny who will fight with me. And the hydra’s physical condition won’t be very good either. No matter how regenerative it was, it was difficult to return the body to its original state at once.
Moreover, the Hydra’s body is now impaled on wooden stakes and hooks made of bear bones. Dozens of blades burrowed into the body, so even a hydra could not escape.
Perhaps Hydra knows that. There’s no way he, the smartest monster on the island, didn’t notice the problem. Nevertheless, jumping into this trap… It was most likely because Hydra couldn’t control his body.
He has regained control even now, but he is unable to move.
…It’s an outlier.
Me too.
That guy too.
I held back the throbbing pain and repeatedly lifted and lowered my feet. Dirt is scattered here and there as the hydra moves. Explosion and destructive noise. And Lenny’s yelling.
“Lady Karina! Stay away from behind!”
Oh f*ck. It hurts so bad
The ground rumbles. It was due to the shock of the snake’s head falling off her sword, which was swung by Lenny. I couldn’t help but click my tongue as I watched the unregenerated head fall.
At least the number of enemies will increase.
There is no point in cutting your hair. Whether you regenerate from the head or from the neck, there won’t be a big blow to the hydra.
“Karina! Come this way!”
“John!?”
I can hear Karina’s embarrassing voice from far away. A voice that kept her eyes on her even in such an urgent situation. I tried to look back at the snake’s head. Fortunately, it seemed that my head was not alive, perhaps because I had completely messed with it.
“John! Are you okay? The body…”
“Use healing magic right now!”
“Yes, yes!”
With a startled expression, Karina held out her hand to me. Eventually, Karina’s hands turned golden. A warm light like the spring sun shone in front of my eyes, and the pain in my chest lessened, and after a while it all faded.
This is why the saintess listens to the voice of the saintess. Her broken ribs were what you would call a serious injury, but it was treated right away. I thanked Karina for her glance, then turned to look up at her hydra, which was fighting Lenny in the heat.
The heads moving frantically and trying to bite Lenny to death were gradually looking for themselves. It was a truly disgusting sight to see the severed head wriggling unnaturally.
“Karina. You are hiding.”
“…Yes!”
It’s good to know how to wear and fall off well. I briefly glanced at Karina’s back as she entered the forest in the distance, then checked the condition of her trap.
Fortunately, the trap was still working. But given time, that hydra pup would definitely get out of the trap.
I don’t see anything like that.
“Lenny! Take your time!”
“What?”
“I need time!”
“Okay! It’s hard to hold on for a long time, so if you have something to do, do it quickly!”
I jumped straight onto the hydra’s sleek body. The slippery yet durable leather seemed impenetrable with quite a few objects. Landing on the Hydra’s skin, the first thing I found were stakes pierced through the Hydra’s body.
Among them, the stake closest to where I am standing. I activated the skill while sitting on top of a stake piercing the middle of my torso.
“Deconstruction.”
The stakes fall to the floor in the form of countless pieces of wood. To avoid falling to the ground and becoming a pancake for the hydra’s body, I quickly put my hand through the empty hole and clung to it. A hole large enough to fit, albeit one that is playing at high speed. I squeezed myself into it.
“You get to do all kinds of really weird things.”
Where is this? I took a small lamp out of my leather pouch and lit it. I never thought that I would use the things I brought to make a fire and to use when I was moving at night like this. A match made by mixing various materials was lit, and the wick of the lamp, along with the burnt smell, began to burn, and a dark space appeared in front of me.
Chapter?
Or camouflage?
I’m pretty sure it’s the space between the intestines.
I poked around with my shovel and ran around to find the spot I wanted.
It is by no means an easy task.
The floor repeatedly closes and unfolds as if trying to catch my feet, and it shakes like a playground equipment. If the shovel had not been inserted into the intestines and endured, it would have been greatly injured or even died.
Even now, I should be risking my life to shovel.
Oh, here it is.
Look up overhead. A white object that can be seen at first glance in the intestines filled with pink light.
Of course, it’s a bone.
Hydra bones.
Roughly the middle of the spine.
“f*cking bastard. Let’s see if this will hold up.”
Insert the shovel between the vertebrae.
The shovel, made of a material harder than the hydra’s vertebrae, penetrated between the vertebrae with force. A liquid presumed to be bone marrow flows from the half-recessed blade of the shovel.
“Deconstruction.”
Turns the armor worn on the body back into materials. When the armor that protected the body disappeared, I felt a sting that I had never felt before. Did this hydra even have acidity in its bone marrow and mucus?
Then you won’t have much time.
I immediately scraped together the bones that had fallen off the armor. Quite a lot. Since it’s the bone of the head of a bear, it must be strong enough to compete with the bones of a hydra.
Or I’ll die.
“Production.”
A sharp spear is made from the bones of a bear. I can only penetrate this much.
I pulled out the shovel and quickly thrust a spear made of bear bones into it.
Perhaps because it was sharper than a shovel, the spear made of bear bones penetrated so deeply that more than half of it was driven in. When the spear was moved slightly, the tip of the spear felt soft to the touch, as if it had pierced the spine and entered the space where the spinal cord would be.
For now, this is enough preparation.
I grabbed the bone spear and activated the skill.
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“Production.”
A spear made of bear bones is deformed inside the spine. Originally, doing this would only shatter the material, but if it were a bear bone that was harder than the backbone… Enough…
Quickly.
Cracked vertebrae. I quickly drove my shovel through the cracks. Twist the shovel digging through the crack to widen the crack. The rift that was trying to regenerate was getting bigger and smaller, repeating itself.
From now on, it’s exciting mining time.
I started frantically shoveling my spine open.
Until your spine breaks apart.
My arm hurts as if it would fall off.
How long did you open the crack with a shovel?
The bones shattered and fell at my feet. Perforated spine. A bundle of nerves that can be seen when holding a lamp.
Yes. That’s it.
Spinal cord.
My purpose was the spinal cord.
No matter how great a person has regenerative ability, since they are vertebrates, they cannot control their bodies if their spinal cord is damaged. I picked up a head-sized hydra bone fragment that had fallen on the floor and placed it on my spine to use the skill.
“Production.”
The bones of the hydra become blades and pierce the spinal cord. The bone that penetrated the spinal cord blocked the way to prevent the spinal cord from regenerating.
No matter how good your regenerative ability is, you won’t be able to move if your spinal cord is damaged.
Even if you try to regenerate, you won’t be able to regenerate if you block the passageway where the spinal cord is supposed to go in.
No matter how ridiculously they have regenerative powers, they are still living things.
“Life pays off after all.”
So let’s pick three more.
I’ve been hurt for 10 years, and I have to pay it back in double.
I moved toward a higher place.
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“Ha, he really is tough.”
Lenny spit the blood from the corner of her mouth onto her floor and glared at the hydra that was looking for her gap. Her body was complaining of pain because she continued to fight in a condition that was not yet fully healed. But she has no time to rest.
There was no way the enemy who was aiming at her right in front of her would overlook her circumstances.
A snake with terrible regenerative powers.
The heads that had been restored to normal even after having their brains messed up were a terrifying nuisance. One of the toughest enemies she has ever faced. Lenny straightened her sword with her impatient face.
‘At this rate, the sword would soon break.’
Even a sword made of good material will eventually break after being used. Lenny gritted his teeth as the situation only got worse. As John said, you have to hold on, but no matter how much you do, without weapons…
It was then.
Suddenly, the hydra’s movements became noticeably slower.
A cry of bewilderment followed. The hydra’s upper body tilted and collapsed. The hydra rolled her eyes here and there, as if baffled by her unexpected situation.
Unexpected situation.
Lenny instinctively recognized that this was an opportunity.
‘I don’t know what he did, but it’s an opportunity!’
The mad dog gave strength to his toes and leaped. The target is the heads that still remain. Even when Lenny jumped openly, the hydra showed no resistance.
She cut off the head of a hydra that fell to her floor. So her fifth head left the body of the hydra.
She has three heads left.
Leni stepped back and looked at her.
“…What did you do?”
The appearance of a hydra that couldn’t control her body, what the hell did she do. What is certain is that the hydra cannot move now.
Lenny didn’t miss the opportunity and jumped in like a beast that found a weakness.
Three.
Two.
One…
The hydra’s eyes were stained with fear.
I didn’t expect this kind of ending at all.
Hydra, who was trying to fool his opponent on a thoroughly structured board, twisted his whole body at the fact that his last neck was on the verge of being blown off, but he couldn’t move except for the top of his neck.
With his spinal cord severed and his body paralyzed, Hydra has no choice but to accept his slowly approaching death.
There was no way out.
“Something is futile…”
Lenny looked down at her cropped hair for the last time. The neck of a snake that was cut cleanly and even its brain was torn open so that it could no longer be resurrected.
What the hell did he do?
As Lenny’s question grew, he heard a familiar voice from behind.
“You held up well.”
“What, you always come…Wook. What does this smell like?”
“It happened.”
John was covered in Hydra’s blood, manure, and gastric juices. As he had taken off his armor, the fluids on his body were making his skin sore, but John approached the snake with an expression that he didn’t care at all.
John looked at the king of snakes, who had threatened his life for ten years, with a strange face.
I never thought that the long years of fighting would come to an end like this. John reached for his head, which sent him flying. The last head that can no longer even be resurrected. Johann kicked the hydra in the nose a couple of times and stepped back.
Then he looked at the hydra with a complicated expression.
I never thought that the 10-year fight would end like this.
She opened and closed her lips several times.
John said goodbye to his nemesis, the monster, one last time.
“Goodbye.”
Haa…