Mountain Escape (2)
Swollen muscles and twitching veins.
Koo!
Thick log-like legs hit the floor vigorously, and the owner’s large body was pushed up into the air.
Along with the faint haze rising from its body, which spurted out in an instant, the “chalcos-style battle engravings” engraved here and there mysteriously glowed.
and.
Shia-aah!
The ax blade, engulfed in the red flashing light of 「Biological Auror」, drew a large circle and separated the head of the monster, which was 4 meters tall, from its body.
“Kahhahahaha—! Because it is large, it has a bitter taste!”
Harley goes crazy, covered in blood from the troll’s spewing out.
But his attack did not end there.
Immediately after cutting off the head, he lowered the ax to the troll’s chest, smashing the ribs, and shoved one hand into the gap to extract the magic stone.
In the end, he breaks off from his large body and lands on the floor—.
Kwajik!
. . , and at the same time, the large head scattered on the floor was laid out in two with an axe.
Koo-!
Although the head and heart were destroyed, the troll’s body, which had been struggling for a while, fell to the floor after a short time.
‘Even so, trolls with strong regenerative power are infected to madness, so their vitality is terrible.’
Harley frowned while chewing on the troll’s manastone in her hand.
He was accustomed to hunting giant monsters and possessed overwhelming physical abilities, so it was easy to deal with him.
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Just like those of you who take your breath away as soon as the fight against the trolls is over.
“Whoa…”
“Heh heh heh heh… damn it. A troll in this place. You’re leaving the mountain range, and it looks like you’ve entered deeper than before.”
As the monsters started descending in earnest, the people who lived in the depths were gradually being pushed out.
There was already a war going on between the monsters and humans who stayed in the outermost part of the world.
“…don’t go right away. As time goes on, things will get worse.”
For the top monsters that started appearing intermittently, the effect of the magic tool to kill the spirit was not so great.
They weren’t at that level originally, but their sense of power was amplified with the instinct that grew stronger due to their madness.
The party was never weak, but the situation now was that there was no room for anything to do with a small party.
The fight that continued for several days aggravated their fatigue, and even the top monsters they had to deal with carefully were about to pop out when bored…
“Look at Harley, who moved the most, alone. Is it because of that arcane spell? I’m envious, I’m envious…”
“But thanks to that, we were able to get here. And now, in just one day, we’ll be able to get out of the mountain range. Let’s do our best until then.”
Guide Marcus uttered hopeful words and once again led the exhausted party in the lead.
However.
The situation was getting worse than they had expected.
***
In the meantime, Harley was able to grasp the behavior of the monsters drenched in madness in more detail while wandering the northern mountains.
Information obtained through other avatars from the outside stated that they attacked without fighting each other, but that was only partially true.
As they are living beings, they also needed food for their activities, and the food chain between monsters was also a part of that ecosystem.
It was not uncommon to see strong monsters eating weak monsters in this mountain range.
‘It might be worse than before that the weak ones turn their eyes and rush to the strong without looking back and forth.’
As a result, the strong guys were sometimes hunted in reverse.
Even amongst the same group, they were extremely aggressive towards each other, to the point that if something got into an argument, a fight for their life would immediately ensue.
‘If one guy eats another guy like that, the concentration of insanity embraced by the surviving guy gets thicker that much.’
The defeated one dies and becomes food, and the victor becomes stronger than before due to the accumulated madness.
Even with this point alone, it’s threatening…
Even when fighting among themselves for food and being eaten, the moment when they recognize other intelligent beings including humans.
As if they had ever fought each other, they joined forces and rushed frantically to annihilate the existence.
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Just like right now.
***
The first victim to appear was Bordeaux, one of the rangers who had been isolated along with the dwarf Zhaonic.
Unlike his wounded fellow Hans, who was relatively healthy, he was tasked with attracting their attention and keeping them in check while others were dealing with monsters…
“Big!”
Suddenly, the hobgoblin, who was caught among the monsters, was shot by the poison sting that the hobgoblin fired.
“Bordeaux!”
“no!”
Support fire poured in that direction late, but it was already too late to save Bordeaux, who was momentarily paralyzed in the face of the monster.
An orc, engulfed in madness and unable to feel any pain, attacked him with arrows lodged in his vital point.
After that, the dead man collapsed on the spot, and a bolt was also inserted into the forehead of the hobgoblin that shot the poison …
Bordeaux had already died on the spot.
‘Are you using a weapon? It’s not just swinging it, it’s like a wind gun?’
Harley, who was at the forefront, wielding an ax and tearing apart the monsters that came in, glanced at him and frowned.
They were the ones who would have been a little more careful in normal times, but I’ve never seen anyone using such a weapon even after falling into madness, so their response was delayed, probably because they were careless.
‘Was it a particularly high-intellect object? Or was it less eroded by madness?’
Whatever the cause, the fact that this has increased the burden on the party will not change.
Because it was still a difficult situation, and now it was a plate that had to contain the ranged attack as well.
In fact, it reduced the fire support from the rear.
Mikel, who was constantly taking out bolts from the small quiver, a subspace magic tool, and shooting them with a crossbow, took charge of the perimeter and shot each shot more carefully.
‘not good. If it goes on like this, it is annihilation. Except for me.’
No matter how strong he was, there was a limit to dealing with multiple enemies with his own body.
Aren’t these monsters whose vitality has been strengthened to such an extent that they are disgusting?
‘I’ve heard a lot about it, and I don’t want to break the record of 100% mission success rate… I can’t help it.’
It was a situation where I had to write everything I could write now.
‘Okay, let’s take a closer look at Harley’s power at this point. How far can you go?’
He was still constantly moving and slaughtering his enemies, but he cleared his mind and raised his powers.
His body, who had been known for his “physical mutation”, grew bigger and bigger, and “Body Aura”, which burned the energy he had accumulated over the years, blazed fiercely.
「Wildness」 was sharply forged and I was able to instinctively grasp the flow around me, and 「Regeneration」 made the body condition the best.
Following that, the “chalcos-style battle stamps” engraved on various parts of his body lit even brighter.
From the ‘fireworks’ on the chest and the ‘lightning storm’ around the eyes, ‘beasts’ and ‘axes’ on both arms, the ‘running horse’ and ‘bird’s wings’ on the legs that were covered by the pants.
“Whoa—.”
White steam spurted out of the lightly exhaled breath.
No, not only that, but because of the energy that was burned in an instant, heat and steam were radiating out of the pores of his body.
The senses are extremely sharp, and the hand wielding the ax is so light.
But it didn’t end here…
Harley awakened little by little the ‘madness’ she had only suppressed.
Madness was increasing his physical abilities just by being in his body, but that alone could never be seen as using it properly.
pounding—
It felt like something was running through my veins through my pounding heart.
It penetrated not only muscles, but also bones and organs, and deep into the brain—.
-Yeah, let’s tear it all apart! Anything that stands in the way is sin! Kkakkat!
With a whisper of madness that begins to roar again.
Shhhh-
The even stronger body glowed red like hot iron, radiating heat around it, and her right eye, which was black, was dyed red, and a flame-like glow burned in her eyes.
The moment Harley fully awakened her madness and took control of it and put it under her control.
“The object grows by fulfilling the condition. The skill “Feral” evolves into the special skill “Frenzy Beast.”
He was able to obtain a means to deal with madness more effectively.
“Kuh… Khhhh-!”
An energy like an active volcano exploded in my body, and a cool laugh burst out without me knowing.
A smile that seemed crazier than usual.
‘Ah… I thought it was quiet these days.’
But this time it was unavoidable.
However, once the battle state that fully unlocks madness is released, this madness will return to its previous level.
···maybe.
‘Then, shall we begin in earnest?’
As it was an urgent situation, Harley was still in the middle of the battlefield while raising her power.
He stretched out his right hand on his back and pulled out another ax he had only hung on to.
As the situation became urgent, one hand was left empty to extract the manastone immediately, but now that I have decided to do my best, this was also useful.
With an ax in both hands, Harley took a deep breath and—.
“Ouch!”
Shia-! Whoops!
An ax that flew like a missile was stuck in the head of an orc.
However, it did not simply end there.
Unlike his right eye, which was burning red, his left eye was quiet.
A thick green light began to scatter.
「Jewel Plan: Yeomdong」
The ax stuck in the orc’s head was engulfed in a soft green light and floated into the air.
and.
Shhhh- puck! Puffy!
They roam freely in the air and split the heads of the enemies aiming at the party one by one.
There was no need to see and control it with your own eyes.
His sense, which was strengthened with “Frenzy Beast”, was already grasping the entire battlefield in real time.
‘There is no problem with the attack power itself, as the telekinetic power of the ax replaces the power of the Auror. However, the fuel efficiency is garbage because the energy is sent remotely…’
But that, too, had nothing to do with him.
At least in the state of fighting multiple monsters like now.
Quad Duk— Agjak!
Harley still pulled out their hearts empty-handed, put them in her mouth along with magic stones, and ate them up with “monstrous food” over and over again.
The speed of energy consumption in the body, which was rapidly burning and disappearing, gradually slowed down.
‘You can’t fully recover from this.’
The link between the abilities he is currently using was a part that showed how much of a skill was consumed.
Aww—!
“Khahaha! Search!”
Of course, the effect was overwhelming.
The extremely hardened body slammed into the ground, accompanied by a loud roar whenever it moved, and the ax swung in red aura had already crossed the speed of sound long ago.
It was already enough to destroy a monster with just a simple head-butt.
At this point, the weight was too light for the strength he had, so he had no choice but to take additional measures at the expense of increased energy consumption in order to properly control his body.
After widening the sole of the foot and deforming the toe like a hook, he poured a considerable amount of auror to increase grip with the ground.
Even then, the floor, which could not fully receive the power, exploded with every step he took, but he was able to project the power much more easily than before.
‘But the energy consumption is terrifying. If it hadn’t been for 「Greek Food」, I wouldn’t have been able to maintain it for a long time.’
Its explosive movement hits and hits monsters, the ax that moves smoothly cuts them apart, and empty hands diligently pull out the heart and bring it to the mouth.
In the meantime, the ax engulfed in green light is flying alone in the sky, crushing the heads of monsters…
Quajik—!
Thanks to his performance, the fight soon entered a lull.
The continuous reinforcement of the monsters had already been cut off, thanks to the simple barrier that the Dwarf Zhaonic installed in a hurry to absorb the noise of battle so that it did not spread too far.
‘Since it was installed in a hurry with a magic tool, it was inevitable that the nearby bastards would come, but this was enough.’
If it weren’t for that, I would have had no choice but to fight until I collapsed from exhaustion.
“Whoa—.”
At that moment, Harley sighed and exhaled white steam to lift her current all-power battle stance.
‘Well?’
With his extremely sharp senses, he sensed something fiercely approaching this place.
Doo doo doo doo…
The vibration that shakes the earth so that it can be felt even though it is still far away, the presence that stimulates the instinct of the “Frenzy Beast”, and the enormous amount of “madness” that fills its body.
‘Oh, it’s ruined.’
The guy was running straight towards this place.