YM778.TV Chapter 673
“Red Goat! Slaughter the humans!”
“Black Crane, focus on Lord Harhei’s voice! Follow the commands of the tribal guardian spirit of the bonobo!”
Harhei was indeed smart.
He didn’t merely use the mystical creatures and paleos as they were but had the ability to combine them anew, strengthening the powers of the paleos with the mystical creatures.
Perhaps it was because this was akin to disassembling items and enhancing them anew.
For users who had never experienced this before, it was nothing short of the beginning of a terrible nightmare.
“Beee…009!”
The spirit of the white-furred buffalo paleos,
“The rain smothers the left flank of the battlefield. Considering launching an attack by exploiting the advantage of the giant spirit, the users nervously tensed up. However, the gigantic buffalo merely brushed past the users.
“[Abnormal Status] A sudden ailment?!”
“[Poison], [Fear], [Confusion], what on earth is this-“
“I have [Hunger], [Dizziness]! Can’t even stand…”
That was sufficient.
For “Bi,” the buffalo handling [Plague], just like the Hudid handling fire.
“Wind! Summon the wind elementalists!”
“Someone block this wind!”
“Useless to even cast barriers! They’re being dragged out along with them!”
The right flank was no less daunting.
Rampaging in the right flank were the cyan-hued mountain dog mystical creatures, sanui. The giant dogs seemed to be chasing their tails in circles, but this action was soon generating a super cyclone.
“Incredible… If it goes on like this, it seems we don’t even need to protect them, Kijung-ssi?”
Watching the paleos overwhelm the humans from the beginning of the battle, Bobae was amazed.
However, Tale hid his astonishment behind a masked expression.
“No, on the contrary… I can’t comprehend even more the person named Lark who suppressed such creatures. An adult dragon’s power is to this extent?”
The Byulcho members, who hadn’t practically encountered the paleos in actual combat, couldn’t come up with a definitive answer.
“Hold on.”
“Um? Kijung-ssi?”
Watching the battle from the onset of the earthquake and marveling at it, Kijung’s expression suddenly hardened. The Byulcho members quickly noticed he had started whispering to someone.
“Who? Is it Leeha-ssi?”
“Wait! I’ll check something and be back! Keep watching as I’ve told you! And protect the mystical creatures first! While we can’t avoid the paleos’ deaths, we must save the mystical creatures at all costs!”
“Wait! Kijung-ssi! Where are you going!?”
The Byulcho joining the users’ force wasn’t to slaughter the paleos.
Rather, it was to protect the mystical creatures at the earliest if they were in danger.
This was Shin Nara’s idea.
‘The mystical creatures and paleos are like parent and child, right? And Lark targeted that point. So, during this battle, if only the mystical creatures can somehow survive… wouldn’t we be able to recreate the paleos again? It’s a bit weird to say ‘give birth,’ but somehow make them, right?’
Shin Nara and the Sacred Knights were also lagging around Alexander for the same reason.
Alexander, Jiwon, and Faye had yet to make their move, knowing the moment the mystical creatures were in peril would be their time to act.
When Kijung started running back towards Juma City, their fears finally turned into reality.
“If damages increase further, it might be dangerous.”
[Hmm. Let’s move.]
“Wait a moment! Alexander! Lord Bailephus!”
[Let’s go, my fellow.]
“[Judgment of Justice]”
The tip of Alexander’s spear began to frost with light. He was not the only one who sensed the timing to engage. Immense amounts of black mana particles stormed into Lee Jiwon, who was adrift in the thunderclouds.
“I’ve been dying to show this off! Let’s catch a few mystical creatures and level up our skills too! [Thunder Cloud]!”
With a crackling sound, when lightning seemed to jump from the dark clouds, a woman’s figure made entirely of electricity had already formed in front of Lee Jiwon’s eyes.
“[Sky Step], [Rising Golden Dragon]!”
Pei Wu, who had also taken to the air, drew a giant dragon from his fingertips. The East Asian-style dragon, made of energy, was quickly launched towards the paleos.
“Ohhhh!”
“Here they come!”
“Damn beasts! Kill them all!”
With the fervent attacks from ranks 1, 2, and 4 unleashed, the morale at the front, which had been flagging, was greatly uplifted. The mystical creatures were also witnessing these attacks in their entirety.
Alexander displayed his power by virtually annihilating charging boar paleos with just the threat of his spear’s point, and Lee Jiwon, the thunder cloud, provided air support, causing flocks of black crane paleos to die of electrocution.
The sight of a golden dragon summoning a typhoon to chase after and breathe fire on canine mystical creatures was also spectacular.
“So, they are the main force. Harhei, how far can you handle this?”
Yet, Harhei remained unfazed.
“If I can get close. I can kill even the winged ones.”
“Are you confident in your venom?”
“Shh, it’s not venom. Just need to sear off the scales and inject my membrane into its flesh. As long as it’s alive, it can’t help but die.”
A giant snake with a star pattern on its head laughed. It employed a tactic of extending its neck to inject its victim with its blood!
Harhei, a creature from the same volcanic jungle as the snake paleos’ guardian deity, Kyoh, was discussing the original form of the skill used by Biyemi to attack – a blood toxin cannon, a destructive power far beyond ordinary “Status Condition: Poison.”
Harhei nodded as he listened to Kyoh’s explanation.
“I’ll peel off the scales.”
The paleos witnessing from their position noticed something as Harhei rummaged through his belongings.
He had brought out a weapon that, although similar to ‘guns’ used by humans at the front, was quite different from anything they’d seen before.
“Is this of human made?”
“It’s not possible to make a second one, and the power is a bit lesser than the original… but it will be useful.”
This resembled the [Cobalt Blue Python]. Unlike Luger’s Cobalt Blue Python and Leeha’s Black Bass had not been enhanced by the bonobo paleos. The enhancement of the weapon had been entirely the responsibility of the City Gazers’ Bottleneck.
But Luger? He had trusted the entire process, from analysis to enhancement, to the mystical creatures’ bonobo paleo, Harhei. It was perhaps inevitable that Harhei had a deeper knowledge of the [Cobalt Blue Python] than of [Black Bass].
“Then let’s get ready.”
“Don’t worry, we can fire from here too.”
Kyoh, with its long snake body, tensed like a coiled spring.
Harhei aimed his weapon, similar to Luger’s gun, at Bailephus. Despite its rapid movements, he aimed with calm precision, suggesting that hitting it would not be difficult.
Although Harhei’s attack was not expected to cause significant damage, if he could replicate even 80% of the [Cobalt Blue Python]’s destructive power, stripping away Bailephus’ dragon scales should pose no problem.
In that brief moment, when the dragon’s naked flesh was exposed, Kyoh’s body would surge forth toward that small target, and if Alexander and Bailephus failed to evade it…
Like the mark left by Biyemi, even the world’s Ancient-class dragons might find it difficult to guarantee survival. The moment Harhei pulled the trigger, a massive gunshot roared.
Woosh—!
[Huh?! What is this?]
The perpetual barrier surrounding Bailephus vibrated.
The colossal body of the advancing Ancient-class dragon staggered.
“What kind of attack was that?”
Even Alexander, who had climbed atop Bailephus, had to hastily regain his balance.
It was a bullet charged with enough destructive power to halt the dragon’s assault with a single strike.
However, their frowns weren’t due to the barrier-blocked attack.
It was because they saw the name of the one who had launched the attack.
“Ha Leeha?”
[Did Leeha attack me?] The system notification informed Alexander that ‘Leeha’ was the assailant who had carried out the preemptive strike.
Without needing to search for Leeha, he had already revealed himself, shouting towards Alexander.
“Alexander! Stop!”
[Leeha!]
As the dragon paused in confusion, a gigantic iron ball whizzed past the spot Bailephus was attempting to cross, making a whooshing sound.
[Gasp!]
Perhaps this was what he intended to communicate. Harhei’s delayed shot missed, slicing through thin air.
The doubts and anger Alexander and Bailephus had towards Leeha evaporated in an instant. Yet, Leeha did not stop there.
The reason Leeha had shot Bailephus was to dodge Harhei’s attack while simultaneously making his presence known. And at this moment, there was more than just Alexander that Leeha needed to address.
A single shot towards the distant Pei Wu’s Oriental dragon, and another towards the Thunder Cloud who had separated from Lee Jiwon in the thunderclouds!
Indeed, Leeha knew that a notification was a more definite way of communicating than words.
More convincing than telling them to stop, the eyes of Pei Wu and Lee Jiwon were drawn towards Leeha.
[Everyone stop—-!]
Blaring loudly!
First, he captured their attention, then stated his case.
Leeha’s voice magnified by sound magic, along with the gunshot amplified similarly, reverberated across the battlefield.
Was it because the rankers had ceased their battle, or had Blaugrunn, who had closely approached Leeha’s resolution, amplified the sound? Or was it the sheer terror that the incredible gunshot might be aimed at their heads next?
The bloodshed between the users and the paleos had halted in an instant.
Leeha’s form began to float mid-air in the center of the battlefield. Beside him, still in human form, was Blaugrunn, presenting no extraordinary menace or fear. Yet, the fact that the floating person was ‘Leeha’ could clearly be discerned.
And who was Leeha?
Above all, everyone present knew what he had accomplished just days before.
[Users and mystical creatures, everyone please stop. If anyone wishes to continue fighting from this point, know that I’ll be your opponent regardless of the side.]
[The Slayer of Toon]
When a user who had accomplished what no one else could floated in the air and spoke those words, it was natural for no one to dare move.
[Feel free to test me. No matter where you hide, when you next show yourself, you’ll die without even seeing me. You can’t hide from me.]
Leeha’s voice was calm. Yet, without raising his tone, it didn’t mean he was indifferent. It was a deep voice filled with barely contained rage, one that made it hard for the ordinary users to even lift their feet.
The mystical creatures felt the same way. The general paleos were suppressed by Leeha’s momentum and couldn’t move, and the mystical creatures didn’t dare because the target was ‘Leeha’. Truly, all fighting had fully ceased once Alexander confirmed this serenity.
“What are you doing, Leeha?”
“What am I doing? I should be asking you that. Are you fighting to throw away everything we’ve achieved in the New Continent, Alexander? Elder Bailephus?”
[Are you trying to teach me?]
“Yes, I’m educating you. The Vatican might not say much if it involves paleos and mystical creatures, since what humans truly want is to organize the magical realm. If Bluebeard and the Demon King’s Fragments were to be a hindrance in exterminating paleos, the Vatican wouldn’t give any different orders either.”