5. fall
It seems that even the guy who hides doesn’t mind the enemies who come to him.
The roar is loud, probably because it only has a mouth. The roar alone would shake the airship.
I thought that the figure flying in the sky without wings was indeed an S-class monster. I don’t know what principle it’s flying, but if I kill it and cut off the tentacles to make wings, wouldn’t I be able to fly too?
“Luke. What are you going to do now?”
“I have to hunt.”
“So how?”
“Hit hard. Kill. End.”
“…is that really the end?”
What could be more important than that in hunting?
“Wasn’t there a way?”
“Mole? Lou.”
“·······.”
Do you know what it’s like to say something to me? In the first place, there is no information about S-class monsters except for the location.
What kind of attack Valeine uses and what it looks like. I couldn’t figure out anything, and it doesn’t make sense to ask me to make a plan.
Not only Baleine, but also Leviathan and Scarna, who will be caught next, have to be hunted haphazardly like now, so what if you say that already?
“Ms. Luna. I think we’re screwed.”
“I think the same way.”
“Ah, damn it. It’s just a little tough.”
“Is the strategy meeting over?”
said the dwarf.
“He doesn’t seem to want to wait any longer.”
I followed his thumb and saw it draw lightning bolts from three pairs of tentacles. The lightning was connected to the cumulonimbus cloud behind it.
“If that’s right, will you really die?”
Except for me, of course.
There was no time to wait.
– Kurleung!
Lightning flashed in the cumulonimbus cloud, and Valeine raised the lightning and launched it into the sky. Is it because you don’t have eyes that you can’t see properly? Normally, I would think so, but having seen various creations in my previous life, I knew what kind of attack that was as soon as I saw it.
I hurriedly took out an iron longsword from my inventory. Then he jumped quickly and climbed to the top of the sail.
“Human Lightning Rod!!”
I raised my iron longsword high into the sky with both hands.
-bang!!
Then, a huge lightning bolt struck from the clear sky without a single dark cloud. Lightning so big that the color of the background changed in an instant fell right on me.
Even if it’s a bit like an idiot, it’s better than crashing through a hole in the airship. In the first place, because I have the skill, I won’t die from being hit by this.
“Luke-sama, are you okay?!”
“No! Not very good!”
No matter how much the damage received is reduced, the feeling of being burned by electricity is not very pleasant. The only time I ever felt electricity on my body was when static electricity occurred and when I was receiving physical therapy.
“Cypal—! Stop that!”
While I was numb and hesitantly, Valeine immediately launched the next attack. At some point, something white was flying beside Valeine as if wrapping around it.
It glides at high speed and eventually comes up on top of the airship, stopping in front of the three of them except for the dwarf and me. Everyone prepared for battle in their own stance, but the next strange phenomenon stopped the movement of the three.
Something that looked like a white spirit gradually took shape. It changed its appearance freely without a fixed frame.
“······!”
In front of Luna is a woman who looks like a beastman who resembles Luna.
“Uh, mother…?”
In front of Richie, his dead mother.
“Eh? Who are you?”
In front of Yui, someone she doesn’t even know.
A monster closer to the sky than anyone else. A monster called Valeine had the ability to summon the spirits of the dead.
Even though he clearly knew that it was a dead person, the appearance of his precious person made the attack hesitate.
But the shocking thing didn’t end there.
“···Luna?”
“Lice? Are you Riche…?”
Things I thought were fake spoke as if they were alive. Luna’s hand holding the sword trembled, and Leechee stepped back.
“Why am I the only one who doesn’t know!”
Of course there were people who didn’t.
It is a more vicious ability than any demons and demons I have ever encountered. At least everything they showed me was an illusion.
‘indeed. Is this enough to be called an S-class monster?’
When I looked up at Valeine’s reaction, I caught sight of him smiling as if his mouth would break. The only thing on his face was his mouth, so the smile was emphasized more.
I thought it would be very annoying what the other two would be like if they were like this from the beginning. Aside from that, it was a lot of fun. Didn’t I come all the way to this place after all the hardships to get this feeling?
“Hey! Just kill them! Your parents are all gone!”
Why are they fishing for something like that when they know better that their parents are dead? No matter what, the dead don’t come back. I want you to send it to its original place as soon as possible.
“Uh, uh…?”
“Rice! Avoid!”
The moment they spoke, the bodies of the two women trembled, and suddenly rushed towards Luna and Riche. Listening to what he said seemed to have nothing to do with his own will.
“Look at that! I don’t kill quickly and I’m lazy, so I’m being manipulated again!”
Conversely, Yui killed the person in front of her without taking a hit. The person who appeared in front of Yui must have been a real stranger, so he didn’t say anything until he died.
If there is no precious person, it seems like Yui will just come out.
Luna and Richie seemed to have come to their senses at my words, and went straight into battle mode.
No matter how much he knows a person, he doesn’t look like a person as long as he has a translucent body.
However, like a soul, physical attacks did not work at all. As an example, Luna’s dagger passed right through her soul, and she was able to decapitate it only after performing a magical wind attack.
Liche also burned his soul to death. The soul itself was not a strong attack, but it fell weak. The corner of Valeine’s mouth went down as she saw the burning filial sons who killed their parents without hesitation.
We yielded two turns earlier, so it’s our turn this time.
“Luna! Pick me up and drop me on top!”
You have to get close to attack. But I can’t fly Even if you can jump, if you make a mistake, you will fall and open your eyes, and you will say, ‘This is an unfamiliar ceiling.’
Luna picked me up and flew through the sky. Valerie’s didn’t just watch it, she spat some kind of mucus out of her mouth and tried to drop it.
-pop! pop! pop!
The sound of explosions coming from behind was offset by the cannonballs that flew off.
It’s not a cannon that flies normal cannonballs, but a cannon that flies magic bullets of various properties, as seen in Colossus before.
The slime was offset by all kinds of magic bullets.
Airships were not made for hunting purposes, but since there are flying monsters, basic means of defense and attack are provided.
By using what was provided, the Dwarf filled one serving. Thanks to that, Luna and I were able to get to the top of Valeine.
“Can I drop it here?”
“Oh, that’s fine.”
Luna let go of her hand without hesitation. So my body quickly fell on top of him under the influence of gravity.
I was going to stab it with a greatsword after landing on Valais.
– Slippery.
“Wow?!”
The moment I landed on my back, I stepped on something sticky and slippery and slipped.
‘what is this.’
Iron pudduck.
After hitting the buttocks once and touching her back, something like mucus was covering Valeine’s body. It seemed like this was his defense.
‘Is this softness overcomes strength or something?’
The monsters he had met so far were in the form of hard scales or muscles. So, in order to hunt them, I had to attack them to exceed their defense.
It’s my first time using softness as a defense, so I don’t know what to do.
‘Do you want to hit me once?’
After coming up, I didn’t want to just go down, I swung my sword wide. Since it’s so big, no matter where you hit it, the attack will go in.
– Slippery.
But it didn’t matter. A guy that is worse than the technique of letting go of the attack that the demon god showed last time came out. To compare the taste of hand now, it feels like trying to cut a tomato with a blunt knife.
However, it was not that there was no way. The most important thing when attacking flying creatures is to drop them first.
I also brought something that looked like a flashbang, but it’s useless since I don’t have eyes. Why don’t you use it on the toilet later?
I took out a huge hunk of forged iron from my inventory. However, the shape of the iron lump was not constant. The color was different for each part, and it looked like it was roughly made by kneading clay by hand.
The identity of this is that it simply compresses and compresses a large piece of iron to its limit, and adds more iron to it to increase the weight. It’s an obvious way to drop a flying guy.
“‘200 times gravity.”
At the end of the iron block was a very small shackle. I brought it because the uncle made it, but at the moment I wondered if there was a place to use it, I found a place to use it.
Small shackles can’t be hung on Valeine’s body, but they can be hung on something that looks like tentacles where the wings are.
– Clap.
Then, Valeine’s body leaned to one side due to the sudden increase in weight. However, after a while, as if nothing had happened, I balanced and started flying again.
“Wow, can you stand this?”
The iron I just hung is heavy enough even for me to lift it. I couldn’t measure the exact weight, but when I saw my strength and everything I did, wouldn’t it be about 500kg for a single iron block?
“Oh dear, you’re strong! If so, I’ll add another weight.”
But there is such a saying in the world of Hellchang. ‘Just one more!’ This is a word so scary that PTSD comes to anyone who has received PT.
So if one doesn’t work, just add another one.
This time, when a lump of iron was attached to the opposite tentacle, the body tilted once more. But this time, Valeine successfully persevered, and repeated the same thing, attaching iron nuggets to all six tentacles.
– Pajik!
He held on proudly, and instead attacked me by emitting electricity from his body. The mucus in my body must have high conductivity, and the lightning rode through the mucus and reached me at high speed.
“Eekkeeg to eurege.”
Chiri-chiri-jjara-jjara.
After receiving a light electric poultice, it was my turn again.
All six of Valeine’s tentacles were already shackled.
But just because all six tentacles are full doesn’t mean you can’t attach them. Originally, isn’t Hell Chang also increasing the weight enough to bend the bar?
– Clap.
Two iron nuggets hung from one tentacle.
-Guwaaa-
Valeine, who was struggling not to fall, eventually had a weight limit. When all the tentacles were hidden from view in the handcuffs, it gave up flying.
When we gave up flying, of course, the weight of the iron mass and the acceleration of gravity added to it, and we crashed at a very high speed.