Episode 60: The Hunter and the Prey (6)
Alas.
Bikir got up from his seat.
The joints that hadn’t healed yet screamed, but there was nothing they could do.
If you don’t move right now, you’ll be killed.
Kwak!
The sturdy tent was torn like pieces of toilet paper.
It was Oxbear’s strong claws that flew through the chestnuts.
Ayen laughed as if he was dumbfounded.
“Was it this side that was lured? You cunning bastard.”
Oxbear male. Even though it is only about half the size of the female, it is a super-large carnivorous monster with a height of 4 meters and a weight of over 1 ton.
This seasoned monster already knew that it was being pursued.
So, conversely, they attacked when this side was weak.
Iyan quickly took up her bow and arrow and retreated outside the tent.
The wolf Vakira was also growling at his master’s side, lowering his posture.
Iyen took a careful look at the Oxbear in front of him.
“There must be a reason you were chosen by that old female.”
The huge female Oxbear from before was very picky in making a second generation, so I wondered why she had chosen this exceptionally small guy among many males as a mate.
If it was simply because I didn’t want to be attacked after mating, there were many other small males.
But now I get it.
She hoped that the male’s cunning intelligence would add to her superior body.
[Kreureung!]
Oxbear attacked with two huge horns and both front claws.
After Iyen climbed onto Vakira’s back, he quickly set an arrow on the string of his bow.
piping-
Two arrows flew and aimed at Oxbear’s face.
Oxbear lowered his head and lifted his horn, so he couldn’t hit him in the face.
Then the arrow bent its trajectory in the air and hit Oxbear in both shoulders, as if he were alive.
Indeed, Balak’s archery skills were the best on the continent, and Iyen’s archery techniques were among the best.
Karak- Kararak-
Iyen fired several arrows in succession with one bow.
Unusually, Balak’s bow has multiple strings.
It is possible to fire individual arrows on these multiple bowstrings consecutively with a time difference, or it is possible to fire them all at once.
Pupper puffer puck!
Iyen fired a bunch of arrows without a chance to breathe.
The time it took to fly from the first arrow to the second, third, fourth, fifth, and fifth arrows was about the blink of an eye.
Truly monstrous rate of fire.
Of course, it takes ridiculous levels of arm strength to pull five bowstrings at once.
Iyen was covering the enormous tension required by him with the mana of a lower grader.
[purr!]
Oxbear’s rush was slowed down by the rain of arrows.
Because each of Iyen’s arrows was powerful, it was not easy to defend against Oxbear’s thick muscles and fur.
Moreover, Ayen’s arrows did not only travel in a straight line.
She shot arrows up, sideways, and sometimes backwards.
Arrows that went up into the sky fell in a parabolic arc and aimed at the top of the head, while arrows shot to the side bent back and aimed at the side.
Even the arrows that flew backwards hit trees or rocks and splattered grenades.
There, the arrow carried a powerful aura.
Oxbear did not know how troublesome this aura was.
… puck! Perpuck!
Oxbear hid behind a dead tree to avoid the flying arrows.
The dead wood was quite thick, so it was judged that it would block the arrow.
however.
“A good arrow pierces what it wants to pierce, even if it is steel, but it does not pierce a single leaf of what it does not want to pierce.”
Ayen recalled the teachings he had heard from his mother and chief, Aquila.
Eventually, the arrow she shot hit the dead tree where Oxbear was hiding.
Took!
Surprisingly, the arrows that flew at high speed did not pierce the dead tree, but bounced back aimlessly.
Instead, the aura carried by the arrow left the arrowhead and permeated the dead wood.
and.
Per-billion!
An oxbear hiding behind a dead tree spewed blood from its neck.
[Ku-aaaaaang!]
Penetrate.
The intangible energy fired from the arrowhead crossed the dead tree and wounded Oxbear behind it.
Bikir saw it and exclaimed.
‘Surely, that’s Balak’s archery!’
A truly ridiculous archery that can shoot and kill even enemies hiding behind cover.
But Balak’s seasoned hunters actually do it.
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Vikir had also moved mana to shatter the glasses on the table without destroying it, but it was unclear whether this could be applied to flying arrows as well.
‘If that becomes possible… … More sophisticated aura control will be possible.’
Vikir raised her head again and looked at Iyen.
Junior graduate at the age of 17.
Even in the Baskervilles, where only geniuses are gathered, I have never seen such a genius before.
In terms of talent alone, he probably rivaled or even surpassed Camus of the House of Morgue.
… … however.
It was Oxbear that even Iyen was at a loss.
Immature and small males, moreover weakened after prolonged mating.
However, despite this, the monsters of the danger class A rank were strong.
Ayen felt that his arrows had almost run out and gritted his teeth.
The wolf Vakira, who had been a reliable foot, also looked very tired.
What’s more, it’s cold here, the topography is simple, and it’s a moonless night, so you can’t see very well.
Before long, Oxbear, who preoccupied all the advantageous grounds, prepared for the final blow.
Oxbears generally show a typical attack pattern of striking with their front paws after striking with their horns.
However, the real thing was the teeth attack that followed these two movements.
[G-Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!]
Oxbear attacked with all his might and tried to embrace Iyen and Vakira at once with his arms wide open.
The jaws, packed with dagger-like teeth, were trying to bite Iyen’s entire head off.
‘What do we do? There are not many arrows left, can you step back like this? Or the last gamble… … ?’
When Iyan was contemplating the next move.
Something that Iyen, Bakira, and even Oxbear never expected happened.
“Get out of the way.”
Bikir. he appeared
Bikir intervened on the battlefield due to a disrespectful subject.
He was on top of a tall dead tree.
Before long, Bikir jumped off a branch and landed straight on Oxbear.
“Ah! what are you doing!?”
Iyen was frightened. Her actions, which her Bikir had to do with her, seemed to her nothing but her suicide.
but.
As Bikir leaped from the tree, several arrows were clutched tightly in his hands.
And surprisingly, Oxbear didn’t react much when he saw Bikir falling.
That would be the case, because the place where Bikir jumped was in the left direction.
Not too long ago, an Oxbear male was sloppy in a female’s den after mating and was slapped with a cheek clap, which left his left eye swollen.
As a result, he subtly dug into the blind spot of his vision.
yet.
… Fu-wook!
Several arrows in Bikir’s grasp pierced Oxbear’s left eye at once.
Chii Iik-
The sound of boiling fat and the smell of burning meat.
It was an arrowhead that had heated up to the limit because it contained Iyen’s mana not too long ago.
These heated pieces of metal tore through the male oxbear’s swollen snowball flesh, ruptured the soft eyeballs, and stirred the nerves inside them.
[Ke-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!]
Oxbear’s screams have changed slightly.
The roar, which had been a mixture of hatred and contempt, was now tinged with fear.
Bikire snapped the arrows and fell to the floor.
“… … Kut!”
My whole body feels like it’s about to break just by simply landing on the floor.
And in front of him, Oxbear cast a huge body.
Iyen was shocked.
“no!”
She quickly fired her arrows, but they only pierced some of Oxbear’s strong back muscles and lodged.
The wolf Vakira ran out and bit the back leg, but Oxbear didn’t care.
[Quaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Blinded by rage and fear, Oxbear screamed and opened his mouth wide.
No horns, no paws, no teeth! Oxbear’s real exhaust attack flies towards Vikir.
And ahead of that, Bikir’s expression was absolutely calm.
“… … .”
It wasn’t that I was prepared for death.
Now, it is to select an estimate to see if the body can handle this technology to be used.
“Come out.”
Bikir gave the command in a low voice, and soon one of the faithful hounds bared its teeth.
… Fu-wook!
A black awl that pierced Bikir’s wrist artery.
Only then did the demonic sword Baalzebub appear!
buzz buzz-
With the sound of a fly’s wings, Baalzebub showed his appetite for the huge chunk of meat in front of him.
And one of the powerful forces imprisoned in Baalzebub’s three orbs exploded through the tip of the sword.
<The gluttonous fly ‘Baalzebub’> / Awl
-1 slot: Burn (Fire) -Cerberus (A+)
Cerberus. The three-headed dog symbolizing hell itself.
Kurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
The flames of the boundless world, which could not be quenched even with water, combined with the aura carried on the tip of Baalzebub’s sword and raged like an explosion.
This flame, which burns with hell oil as collateral, burns endlessly and endlessly unless the owner’s will is extinguished.
The hound’s teeth, which were roaring with flames, plunged into the gaping Oxbear’s mouth.
[Heuk!?]
Oxbear stopped charging.
When the eyes, which had been blinded by anger and fear, return to their original state, they finally see the true reality.
… … What the hell is that!
I thought it was just a human body, but when I experienced it, it wasn’t.
What was in front of my eyes was a gigantic top predator, the presence of a high-ranking monster that I couldn’t even compare to, the fangs of a monster that seemed to live only in the far-deep realm of hell.
No matter where it had been in ambush until now, that monster that had just exposed its teeth came crashing down with tremendous pain and fear.
… Quageek!
short bloody sounds.
The awl that sprouted from Vikir’s wrist shot straight through and penetrated Oxbear’s mouth.
First it pierced the protruding tongue, then the gums, then the roof of the mouth, to the brain inside the skull.
Moreover, terrifying flames spewed out from the tip of the awl.
Burning pain, the most terrible pain in the world.
It couldn’t turn the brain inside Oxbear’s skull into porridge and was boiling it down.
[Gaaaaagh!]
Oxbear let out a scream close to death.
Bikir’s attack was brief but intense.
Oxbear had not let go of life yet with his unique tough life and regenerative power, but that was all.
No, that wasn’t all.
Oxbear, at the end of his life, leaned heavily towards Vikir.
Bikir is in a state where it is difficult to move because of the pain felt all over the body.
Even if Oxbear died, he intended to use his bloated body to crush and kill Vikir.
however.
Dig!
At that moment, Iyen threw his whole body and snatched Vikir.
The wolf Vakira caught Iyen and Vikir with her soft back and stepped back.
“Are you okay!?”
Iyen examines Bikir’s whole body with his eyes wide open.
Bikir nodded with difficulty.
at the same time.
… thud!
Oxbear’s body hit the ground with its head.
The words of a male who madly copulated with a female in a cozy den just a few days ago, could he have imagined such an end?
In the jungle where plunder, death and love are mixed.
… Wow!
Ayen hugged Vikir.
Then he hurriedly removed the few pieces of cloth covering his body and shouted.
“If you feel like dying, tell me! Quickly extract from seeds… … !”
Bikir had no choice but to sigh even after the hunt was successful.
