ebookland #256 - Ares jumps, Ares sleeps
#256 - Ares jumps, Ares sleeps
Otto was an extremely unlucky merchant, often encountering extremely harsh weather on the road, so his dragon carriage driving skills were excellent, even better than Felt's.
This was probably why he could communicate with the earth dragons.
Under Otto's nimble and skilled driving, Zun Zun continuously discharged electricity towards the giant whale in the sky, stabbing upwards from directly below the white whale pursuing them, then slashing across, piercing its lower abdomen to stop its movements.
However, the water-bucket-thick lightning only lasted for less than 5 seconds before dissipating after the white whale let out a high-pitched cry, the lightning instantly reverting back into mana.
A large amount of blood flowed from the slashed wound, but it didn't affect its movements.
Even after suffering such injuries and losing so much blood, it still didn't lose its vitality. Its durability was endless; even Elsa would be ashamed in its presence.
However—
“We can't let Zun Zun hog all the spotlight, right, Rem?”
“Yes! Subaru is right!”
“And this old man too!”
Rem drove the earth dragon, while simultaneously releasing huge ice pillars towards the white whale. Subaru Natsuki, like Zun Zun, also raised his middle finger and made faces, trying to provoke the white whale.
The two were only making a feint attack.
Wilhelm, who had pounced over, vertically cut the white whale's body with a slash, plunged his sword into it, and climbed onto the whale's broad back again, continuously destroying it.
“And us too!”
“Sister, let's cooperate!”
The two vice-captains of the Iron Fang, who were ordered to protect Zun Zun, also followed on their mounts. Holding each other's hands, the two opened their mouths wide as they stood in front of the wound created by Zun Zun's magic.
“Humph!”
“Ha!”
Like the Heng and Ha generals, their voices overlapped into a wave-like spreading sonic boom, bringing astonishing destructive power.
The shockwave entered from the wound, causing the white whale's entire body to bleed again. The huge body shook continuously, ignoring its own consciousness and rapidly decreasing altitude. But the white whale endured the pain and cried out, barely avoiding crashing to the ground.
“How was that? We're amazing, right?”
“Ah, 100 points!”
Zun Zun naturally wouldn't be stingy with praise for the two little darlings who were taking credit, giving a thumbs up to acknowledge their contribution, and the two responded with wide grins.
“Make way, make way, make way! The ace is here!”
Switching with the twins, Ricardo's loud voice came from behind. He roared as he swung his huge cleaver, rushing up the white whale's back along its descending tail.
“How could I miss out on the spotlight!?”
While saying this, he used the large cleaver to strike the countless mouths that produced mist, forcing them to close.
However, the white whale wasn't just passively taking the beating. Like spraying bullets, it released annihilation-type mist from the countless mouths that couldn't be destroyed no matter how hard they tried. Ricardo entrusted the task of dodging to his mount, while Wilhelm evaded and avoided the mist with superhuman movements.
While they were distracting it, the subjugation team and the Iron Fangs gathered again, and the magic stone cannons began firing again to cover Wilhelm and the others who were in a disadvantageous situation.
Seeing that its attacks were missing, and it could only let the little insects accumulate damage, the white whale became impatient for a time. It twisted its massive body, opening its mouth to spread mist.
“Don't even think about it!”
“Wishful thinking!”
Zun Zun and Wilhelm were the first to grasp the situation. The two clearly didn't communicate, and their eyes didn't even meet, but they had a tacit understanding as if they knew what the other was thinking.
“Take this!”
“Haaah!”
A water-bucket-thick, raging lightning bolt stabbed upwards from the lower jaw, and a sharp, freezing sword pierced in from the forehead. One from below and one from above, the two worked together to stop the white whale from releasing mist, and smiled at each other.
Afterwards, Otto quickly drove the earth dragon away, and Wilhelm also drew his long sword, dancing wildly on the monster's back again.
On the white whale's back, Ricardo, who had reunited with Wilhelm, grinned and laughed: “Having fun, aren't we? Although it's tougher than I imagined, its inherent strength isn't anything special!”
“No… you're overreacting.”
Facing Ricardo who was shouting about how fun it was, Wilhelm frowned in response.
He found it hard to imagine.
That his wife would lose to a monster of this level. Even if he took into account the initiative and the fact that they weren't separated by the mist at the beginning, it was impossible for it to win against his wife—the previous Sword Saint.
So, there must be something else…
“Careful!”
Zun Zun, who had overdone it below, and whose lightning had completely stimulated the white whale, shouted to remind the two above.
“Whoa!”
An unusual action.
The white whale quickly rose upwards in one breath, head facing up, and Ricardo, along with his mount, was thrown off by the force.
Wilhelm, on the white whale's body that was bending and rushing towards the sky, instead rushed downwards with light movements, climbing backwards along the white whale's upward-moving body.
Relying on shifting his weight and stabbing with his sword to forcibly control his posture, the old swordsman effectively used his years of combat experience, cutting off a dorsal fin from the root at the end of the white whale's huge body.
“Before you go down, have one more!”
“ROAR————!”
While listening to the white whale's scream, Wilhelm stepped on the flying dorsal fin and fell towards the earth.
Falling from such a high distance would inevitably lead to death, but Otto quickly pulled the reins and drove the earth dragon over, catching the old swordsman before he landed, standing handsomely in front of Otto.
“Eek!”
Otto trembled in fear.
Only because Wilhelm was too terrifying now, his sword, clothes, and face were all covered in thick blood, and the monster's stench was extremely unpleasant.
There was no time to cheer for him cutting off the white whale's dorsal fin.
Looking upwards.
The blood dripping from the place where the white whale's dorsal fin was cut off poured down like rain with violent force, turning the grass of the plain crimson red. Wilhelm, Zun Zun, and Otto were all drenched in the rain of blood.
He didn't expect it to escape like this.
However, the purpose of the magical beasts flying into the sky was still unclear. The Iron Fang and the subjugation team looked up at the sky anxiously, while the condition of the large number of injured gathered at the base of the tree was worrying.
“Light of Saber!”
The violent lightning once again chased after the white whale swimming in the sky, striking its thick lower abdomen and tearing out another large piece of flesh. The previously faint blood rain intensified once more.
“Eek!?”
Otto cried out in fear, and Wilhelm turned his head in confusion.
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However, Zunzun grinned.
“What, are you the type to obediently wait for the enemy to finish transforming? This isn't a matter of Jianghu morality, and the enemy doesn't have invincibility frames, so of course, we should strike a drowning dog!”
Although some of what he said was incomprehensible, Wilhelm approved of Zunzun's actions. There was no need to talk about knightly spirit with such a beast.
“Roar—”
The white whale soaring in the sky roared, and even Zunzun could hear the anger in its voice.
Otto trembled all over.
“This is bad, this is bad, this is bad, we've completely angered the white whale.”
“…What nonsense are you talking about? Haven't we already angered it?”
“That's not how it is!”
Zunzun's confusion was met with an even louder retort. This guy was usually timid and fearful, but when it came to this kind of dangerous situation, he shouted loudly. Although it sounded like panic and fear, perhaps… he actually enjoyed this kind of excitement?
“It's coming!”
Wilhelm, who had been looking up at the sky, suddenly spoke. Zunzun and Otto hurriedly raised their heads, but before they could understand what was about to happen, Subaru Natsuki's hoarse cry came from the side.
“—The mist is falling!”
Without Zunzun's instructions, Otto was the fastest, turning the earth dragon and running towards the outside.
The surrounding earth dragons also rushed out together, but there was no time to confirm whether others were safe. The annihilation-type mist, which had expanded to cover almost the entire sky, fell towards the earth.
The mist was like a cloud itself descending.
To avoid it, there was no other way but to escape the range. Even using rocks and trees as shields would only result in being swallowed along with the obstacles. Such resistance was self-deception and meaningless.
They could only charge forward, praying as they ran.
They could make it.
When the speed of the other earth dragons was slightly inferior, Otto didn't know what he said into the ear of the earth dragon under his crotch, but the speed suddenly increased by a large margin, and they quickly escaped the area covered by the mist.
However, the others were not so lucky. On the earth crushed by the mist, there were many shadows that were swallowed because they didn't have time to escape. Soldiers desperately carving fear and anger on their faces were swallowed by the mist from head to toe and then disappeared, along with the earth dragons, stones, and trees.
After the destruction of the falling mist, nothing remained. Names, memories, existence, all disappeared, and only Subaru Natsuki remembered their deaths.
The annihilation-type mist quickly dissipated.
Thanks to the anti-magic bullets, Zunzun could see the situation of the people in the distance.
The number was obviously much smaller than when the offensive was launched again. Not to mention the soldiers of the subjugation team, even the Iron Fang could not be said to be unscathed.
Fortunately, at least the main members were still there.
Wilhelm, Ricardo, Mimi, and Hetaro, and of course, the indispensable Subaru Natsuki.
“Damn it, damn it, damn it!” Otto's teeth chattered uncontrollably. His expression was terrified, and he kept muttering, “We're being targeted, we're being targeted…!”
“What are you talking about, Otto?”
Zunzun held his shoulder, and said strangely, “We have already been regarded as enemies by the white whale, shouldn't we be happy?”
“That's not how it is! It's not like being treated as enemies like the others, it's being targeted, resented, it's being regarded as a mortal enemy by the white whale! There's no mistake, my blessing tells me—”
Before Otto could finish speaking, his expression became extremely terrified, because he saw a terrifying scene.
Behind Zunzun was a bottomless abyss, and neither he nor Zunzun, nor Wilhelm, Ricardo, and others, had noticed the threat approaching.
Just as Otto's body was frozen and unable to move, his weak body was suddenly hit hard.
On the way to being kicked away by Zunzun, Otto saw the silently approaching jaws of the white whale, swallowing Zunzun and his earth dragon along with the earth.
“Ah…!”
He stretched out his hand, wanting to touch it, but the distance between the two was like a ravine.
Witnessing the shocking scene, not only Otto, but even Wilhelm, Subaru Natsuki, and Rem were unable to make a sound.
The gray-haired boy who was kicked away rolled several times on the ground. His head was a little dizzy, and blood flowed from the corners of his mouth and nose. If it were usual, he would definitely have cried out in pain, but now there was no time to think about those things. Because—
“You bastard…!”
Otto's eyes turned fierce, his expression became serious and ferocious, just like the weak protagonist in the story would erupt after losing his close friends and relatives, and he suddenly pounced towards the white whale.
“—Al Dona!”
This was the most powerful earth attribute magic that Otto could use. Under normal circumstances, he would never be able to use it, because his magical talent did not reach the average level, but now his emotions were agitated and his magic power surged, instantly bursting out with powerful power.
The white whale cried out in pain, but inertia made it continue to charge forward, slamming Otto to the ground, his life or death unknown.