239 – The Brightest Darkness – 4
A huge paw with claws brushed past the space right next to it. The aftermath of the forepaw that passed by me tore apart the crust beneath my feet. The fragmented earth crashed into an endless pit.
Black bolts of lightning formed on my left hand and scattered forward along the trajectory of my arm. Thunder roared a moment later.
A thunderbolt of darkness struck the World Eater directly in the head, but he continued to charge without batting an eye. He hastily leaped backwards and out of range of the attack.
The snout chewed up the spot where I was just now. His right arm swings horizontally, his left arm swings down vertically, and then a breath bursts from his head twisted to the right.
I fell on top of him while he breathed out and slammed his wingless nightmare.
ㅡ Kkaang!
However, even the downward attack with the falling power was not enough to pierce its scales. A sound resonated as if an iron bar had been struck against a steel wall. An electric current passed through both of his hands.
The guy twisted his body annoyedly. He distanced himself to avoid being swept away by the bursting shockwave.
‘What kind of crazy…… Does the attack work?’
I thought so as I loosened my numb hands. It wasn’t that his strength was strong, it just seemed that the attack itself didn’t work at all. Its scales were still unblemished.
Moreover, the difference in body size was too great. Even in the game, the World Eater was much bigger than the player, but it wasn’t to this extent.
At the time it felt like dealing with a living being, even though it was big, but now it felt like dealing with an entire mountain. The feeling itself was different.
He knows where and how to attack. Because his movements were the same as in the game. It’s also a game that has been strengthened for a long time through the dyaella mode.
According to the goddess, when she fought the World Eater, the thing that recorded the behavior pattern he showed was the World Eater boss fight in Brightest Darkness 4.
In particular, it was said that the Nyala mode itself was created by a goddess. He asked if it would be possible in the human world to merge the numerous enemy enhancement modes into one without any noise.
I couldn’t go into detail because time was running out, but looking at it, she thought that even the goddess was desperately trying to kill that thing.
‘Apart from seeing patterns… ….’
I know, but it was a problem to dodge and then attack. Due to the huge difference in physique, if you avoid the pattern in the same way as in the game, you will not be able to close the distance until the next attack comes in.
Even if I tried to use the gap somehow, the seed wouldn’t be eaten.
Obviously, this side had more successful attacks, and except for the first surprise attack, I didn’t get hit even once, but nothing has changed.
‘It must have been because the goddess helped me. If she hadn’t been able to fly, there would have been no answers.’
I glanced at the goddess who had given up on attacking and was focusing only on supporting my movements. She hit all kinds of attacks on the World Eater, but all of them were completely ignored.
She can’t get his attention when she doesn’t do any damage, so she changes her strategy and focuses on strengthening me and supporting my movements.
But I wasn’t particularly sharp. As she narrowly avoided the attack, she seized the opportunity from time to time and only attacked the attack that would not work her seed.
‘…… Should I attack at least in the mouth?’
I recalled the inside of its nearly crimson mouth, which I briefly saw every time it opened its mouth to let out a breath. No matter how hard the scales are, they won’t be hard on the inside.
‘Let’s try it.’
It seemed like a pretty good idea. Black flame was applied again to the nightmare that had lost its wings. Black flames burned on the sword body, creating a haze.
‘Wait a minute. What if the goddess tried it first and it didn’t work?’
I tried to move my body but hesitated. What if the goddess tried the inside attack first and it didn’t work? What I am about to do is completely useless.
The worry was short-lived. It was because a meteor shower started pouring overhead. It was a meteor shower as I like to say, and each star was the same size as a Meteor. I hurriedly moved and left the place.
Let’s sit back and sell. There was no time to think positively. If you try it once and it doesn’t work, then you have to find another way. If I didn’t get hit in the middle, at least it wasn’t a loss.
At times like this, if I had learned how to communicate telepathy or thoughts, it would have been useful, but it was a pity. I was going to shout out loud and ask the goddess, but I gave up because if I did, the goddess would listen and he would listen as well.
‘There is a way to attack powerfully with a fast casting speed… ….’
After banging the calculator in my head and smashing a falling meteor, I made up my mind and went to the position where I would induce the creature’s breath pattern.
The Eater of Worlds rushed right in. I waited for him to get closer, then turned perpendicular to the direction he was running and escaped to the side.
If it had been the pattern of rushing with the mouth open from the start, it would have saved time, but unfortunately, that was not the case.
As I slipped aside, it soared high instead of following me. And he made jet-black orbs in both hands. It was a pattern I had seen in the game.
The World Eater soared toward the sky, and released his breath at the same time as he fell like a roller coaster. The world began to melt like toilet paper thrown into seawater.
The sphere slammed into the ground. Jet-black energy extended to the horizon. It was common sense in the game, but it was far from that now.
As I flew into the sky to avoid the attack, his head snapped as well. Like the letter V, the World Eater, who had risen again after falling down, let out a breath at me floating in the air.
“Scatter!!!!!!”
Now, the result I was so used to was unfolding in front of my eyes. The guy shut his mouth. Not yet. I charged head-on at the World Eater. The distance narrowed in the blink of an eye.
The fighting is in a different space than the boss room, and the action is the same except that you fight with your feet in the air instead of the floor.
He created a fireball made of black flame in his left hand and threw it. He hit it head-on and broke it. Taking advantage of that gap, he turned and rolled into his right foot.
The World Eater’s head looked towards its right foot. His mouth was wide open as if he was trying to chew me up. So far, everything went as I directed.
Taking advantage of the momentary exposure of the inside hidden by scales and teeth, the nightmare of losing wings—-
ㅡ Kwajik!
“How big?!”
Something large penetrated the abdomen. One step too late, an immense pain came over me.
Cool, he coughed and a red lump came out of his mouth. I could taste the blood. A frightening fishy odor spread through his nasal passages, and fluid flowed back from his throat.
It felt like my entire body was losing strength. I lowered my head slowly.
Something like a long, pointed thorn was sticking out of my abdomen. How did you get used to the look?
“This…… Case… ….”
It was the blade of a nightmare that lost its wings.
My vision is a little blurry because my eyelids keep trying to close, but it’s an unrecognizable appearance. I turned my eyes. The wingless nightmare remained in his right hand.
I turned my head with difficulty and looked back. A wingless nightmare piercing my belly rose out of thin air. In the empty space where there is nothing.
Desperately holding his head still reeling, he raised his hand to the one that had pierced his stomach. The surface was covered in blood and flesh. The red liquid dripped from her lips and dripped down the sides.
The blade was horribly thick. It was to the point where I wondered if he had just pulled out an H-beam from somewhere and stuck it in.
Vertically, it was pierced from near the ilium to just below the pit of the stomach, and horizontally, only the left side, which looked less than a knuckle thick, connected the upper and lower body just barely.
ㅡ Human…… Stupid…… Inferior…….
Thoughts flowed into my head. It was clearly mocking me. I didn’t even have the strength to reply, so I just listened with my body drooping.
Even if he had some strength left, he wouldn’t be able to speak properly anyway because of the blood that filled his mouth.
ㅡA false god…… Would have let you know…… My actions…… In my opinion…… You followed it…….
‘…… Did you know that your actions were recorded?’
In other words, moving according to the pattern in the game so far is the result of inducing my thoughts. The reason he did that was, of course, to make fun of me.
It was a fact that could be understood just by looking at the thoughts flowing in.
Cool, I coughed again. I felt the taste of blood so much that my tongue was paralyzed, and the fishy smell gradually faded. Or are you dying from losing too much blood?
“You! At that time, it was this time!”
From far away, the voice of the goddess wailing and screaming was heard.