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Chapter 77. Horntail (6)
15.
What do adventurers do most?
The answer was simple.
“Adventurers tell the most stories.”
story.
That would be the case, because adventurers don’t go on adventures every day.
If you have 24 hours, you actually only have three or four hours to go on adventures.
An adventure is like a marathon, so maintaining your own pace is more important than running quickly.
There were also many cases where I couldn’t move due to the circumstances.
There’s a monster right in front of you that you can never catch, but isn’t it impossible to move to catch it?
Knowing how to hold your breath and wait is actually a very important virtue for an adventurer.
And during that time, what the adventurers did was to pass the time by telling stories.
So the adventurers told all kinds of stories.
Among them, there was one topic that came up most frequently.
“What ability do you think is the most fraudulent?”
So what is the best ability for an adventurer?
The adventurers each gave their own opinions about it.
“The ability to not die?”
“Wouldn’t it be great if your magical power was infinite? If you’re weak, it’s meaningless even if you don’t die. It’d just be painful.”
“What about the ability to become transparent? It doesn’t affect you, right?”
“Among monsters, there are probably many more that have a better sense of smell and hearing than sight?”
But veteran adventurers were different.
Most adventurers who were asked that question came to the same conclusion.
“If you had the ability to see into the future, that is, if you could see 10 seconds into the future, there wouldn’t be any monster you couldn’t catch.”
That was about it.
When dealing with monsters, it wasn’t impossible to deal with most of them just by knowing what would happen a few seconds into the future.
“If you are at least a master adventurer.”
Especially when you reach a level where you can be called a veteran or even a master adventurer, you can catch anything.
“Zakum, the Demon King Balrog, Bellum. Or even Horntail. I can catch anything.”
That’s when monster hunting becomes ridiculous.
That’s what El Palm Party was like now.
Of course, they couldn’t see the future.
But it wasn’t much different from that.
‘It’s just as the boss expected.’
El Palm, because everything unfolded just as he said.
Even what El Palm said wasn’t just a rough concept.
‘Even the sound of breathing.’
El Palm predicted how the creature would move, how far it would move, and even at what moment it would stop.
It was virtually no different from a prophecy.
It was thanks to that.
Wow!
Kiri didn’t suffer a single wound in the midst of the endless barrage of attacks from the Horntails.
And while Kiri was facing Horntail like that, El Palm Party was able to repeatedly wound Horntail.
Of course, this was also a gamble.
El Palm, he waited.
Taang!
The moment when Horntail shows an opening amidst the repeated attacks of Miner and Divo.
And the moment that gap appeared, El Palm took it out.
“Apollo’s fiery arrows.”
I first used my magic when I encountered Horntail.
Apollo’s fire arrow appeared like that and flew with surprising speed, emitting blue light.
Towards Hontail’s right hand.
Phew!
Soon, Apollo’s fire arrow pierced the finger of Horntail’s right hand.
Krrrr!
Wow!
Kwaaah!
At that fact, Horntail, who had never reacted to attacks until then, reacted for the first time.
Horntail clenched his fist.
However, Apollo’s fire arrow had already entered Horntail’s huge right hand, and was crawling inside it like a parasite, making Horntail’s right hand virtually useless.
‘It’s all according to plan.’
El Palm, what he was after was the right hand of the Horntail.
It was natural.
‘Now he can neither be tempted nor sealed.’
The magic used by Hontail’s right hand was something that could hinder the target’s movements for a certain period of time.
Kiri, who has very high magic resistance and has skills and items that can nullify the magic, could endure it, but the rest of the members would be no better than dead the moment they were hit by the magic.
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El Palm in particular knew.
‘No matter what I do.’
The moment El Palm was about to use powerful magic, Horntail cleverly noticed the fact and changed his target.
It wasn’t a vague expectation.
Even while Hontail was chasing Kiri, one of its heads was constantly watching El Palm and the other comrades.
But not anymore.
With his right hand broken, there was no way for Horntail to stop El Palm right away.
‘So now break the left head.’
That’s why El Palm has finally been brought out now.
“Meteor.”
16.
Kwakwakwakwa!
A giant meteorite appeared above Horntail’s head.
It was an overwhelming majesty.
No matter how bad the horntail is, the moment you get hit by it, it will never end at the level of just getting hurt.
Kwaaaaah!
That’s why.
Flutter flutter!
The horntail, he spread his wings for the first time.
Soon, it began to fly up, flapping its wings powerfully.
Okay, I got it.
Right now, his right hand is injured and he cannot immediately stop the adventurer who cast this spell.
I can’t stand being hit by this meteorite.
And there is absolutely no problem avoiding this meteorite just by flapping your wings.
El Palm Party was surprised by the sight.
“also.”
Of course, it wasn’t because of Hontail’s actions.
“As expected, boss!”
This is also what El Palm intended.
Huh? Huh?
“Yeah, it’s me.”
The horntail that flew up like that, on the left side of that horntail’s head was none other than Divo.
“Is this your first time seeing it up close?”
And then, Divo, who was riding on the head of the horntail, started swinging his polearm with all his might.
“Smash Swing!”
Contains Aran’s skills.
Kwajik!
Such an attack from Divo easily pierced through the tough hide of the Horntail.
It had to be that way.
Devo, he was listening too.
Hercules!
The voice of God.
Of course, it wasn’t as much as El Palm, but even without that, the destructive power that Divo could display just by holding Hercules’ items was greater than that of Aran, who had now reached the 8th circle.
It was more than enough to destroy the body of the horntail.
And there wasn’t much Horntail could do about that attack.
Because attacking Devo here would be no different from attacking my head.
That was one of Hontail’s weaknesses.
‘Because I can neither seduce nor seal with my right hand.’
That without my right hand, it would be difficult to even catch a bug that had climbed onto my body.
‘There are two things you can do.’
In this situation, Hontail didn’t have many options.
Wow!
One was to roar, to let out a dragonfear.
A fear so powerful that even the most experienced adventurers would feel paralyzed the moment they hear it!
But that fear did not reach Debo.
I have experienced it countless times.
Of course my heart was pounding, but that was the end of it.
“Hey kid, try harder!”
Kwajik!
It was impossible to shake the divot with it.
So now there is only one way left.
Flutter flutter!
All I do is fly high into the sky and shake off the bugs that cling to my body.
“Hey kid, try flying. Let’s fall to our deaths together.”
But unfortunately, that method no longer even inspired Devo.
Because I have had countless experiences.
In fact, the Horntail was larger and slower than the Leviathan that Devo had experienced.
For Divo, who was riding on its neck, the flight of the Horntail felt like riding on an airship.
“Smash Swing!”
In that way, Divo swung his polearm ceaselessly over the nape of Hontail’s neck.
Like cutting down a giant zelkova tree, steadily, steadily, yet very powerfully.
Divo managed to do it anyway.
Kwajik!
Horntail, broke the bastard’s skull.
One head was smashed.
At that moment, Hontail’s eyes changed.
El Palm’s eyes also changed when he saw it.
‘It’s just beginning.’
To Horntail, the fights up until now were more like one-sided hunting than fighting.
Hunting by wild beasts against herbivores.
Hunting is tiresome, difficult, and can involve injury, but the word death cannot be included at all.
But not anymore.
Horntail now felt that he could die.
Naturally, from this moment on, the resistance and violence that Hontail will show will be on a whole other level.
Of course, this was also within El Palm’s expectations.
Because I saw it.
What did Horntail look like after losing his head?
‘can do.’
We have also prepared a perfect countermeasure for that.
‘Nothing was unexpected.’
Therefore, whatever form Hontail showed, it was expected from El Palm’s perspective.
‘Except me.’
The unexpected happened to El Palm, him.
The moment Hontail’s gaze changed, the moment that gaze touched El Palm, at that moment El Palm felt it.
‘This is it.’
The god of another world that resides within you reacts to the horntail.
It wasn’t anything strange.
From the perspective of the god of another world who resided in El Palm’s body, El Palm was no different from his own body.
A being that must survive somehow.
What conclusion would such a being draw when faced with the fictitious and distant being called Hontail?
I will do anything to save you.
That’s what was happening in El Palm’s body right now.
It was changing everything about El Palm beyond the level of the divine.
It was now out of control for El Palm.
There was no stopping it, no stopping it.
Only then did El Palm realize.
‘The horntail was the sacrifice.’
What plan did the Black Wizard and his followers have?
For them, the horntail was a sacrifice.
A sacrifice to surprise and astonish the gods of this world.
An adventurer possessed by a god from another world, a sacrifice to forcefully awaken that adventurer.
And the offering proved to be worth it.
El Palm, he looked at my wrist.
Then it appeared.
‘8 circles.’
The eight rings that formed on his wrist.
That wasn’t all.
El Palm could feel an endless power surge within his body.
Infinite power.
El Palm closes his eyes for a moment.
‘It’s over now.’
Then he opened his eyes.
At the same time, I recited the spell.
“Fire Arrow.”
And with that order came the appearance.
Ten thousand fire arrows.
17.
It was a distant sight.
The sight of ten thousand blue fire arrows being shot towards Horntail.
Even the fire arrows didn’t just fly away.
They all pierced through Horntail’s body, drawing graceful trajectories like living creatures, like winged falcons.
Wow!
Kwaaaaah!
In the midst of that overwhelming attack, Horntail’s remaining two heads were unable to even scream properly.
Kwaaaaah!
Wow!
With all its might, the two heads each spat out lightning breath and fire breath, and the tail continuously spewed poison mist, but the barrage of flaming arrows did not stop.
There was nothing I could do.
And the same was true for El Palm’s colleagues.
They too could do nothing in the face of the overwhelming spectacle created by El Palm.
Soon everyone looked on.
The sight of the Horntail flying into the sky to escape, its body falling to the ground.
The sight of the fall of the being that had long ago brought nightmare to Maple World and now threatens to bring despair to Maple World once again.
Kookookookookung!
And then a huge roar, an earthquake, and a storm.
‘That’s.’
The moment they faced it, everyone, including Devo, realized.
‘I’m not the boss.’
The El Palm before their eyes was no longer something that could be called El Palm.
That there is another being that threatens this Maple World.
‘so.’
That’s why the six heroes asked me to kill El Palm.
That was when.
A portal appeared.
A portal leading out of this world to Maple World.
The moment I saw it, El Palm’s colleagues stood in front of the portal without me knowing.
El Palm was blocked.
And then Devo said:
“Aran said.”
With those words, Devo clenched his teeth and raised his polearm.
“Please kill the boss.”
