Chapter 315
[Kuooooooong!]
The grizzly bear let out a fearsome roar and reached out with its foreleg, smashing a chunk of the mountainside and sending boulders flying down . Daisy quickly put Aikan away and summoned Laki from her inventory .
“Monsters you haven’t killed yet, leave them to the mantises . ”
“Yes, my kids can eat them all!”
Yua left her mantises to do their thing and only called Luna back . However, I was already charging towards the enemy .
“Fight me, big guy!”
[Guoooooooong!]
As I got closer to the bear, I could see better just how absurdly big it was . Strangely, although enough time had passed since I recognized the bear, Sherafina didn’t say anything . Immediately, I could understand why . The dungeon’s power was weakened in this place . This mountain range was where it began .
It seemed Ciara was right about this place having something to make me nervous .
“But sadly, that’s not you!”
[Guoooooong!]
After shattering a mountain peak like it owned the place, the grizzly bear still seemed full of strength as it leaped off and shot towards me . We were easily several kilometers away, but the distance seemed to mean nothing to it .
[Guaaaaaa!]
Without exaggerating, a bear the size of a mountain swooped down from the sky and swung its foreleg towards me . Flying with Sharana’s power, I chose to not dodge it . If I did, Ye-Eun, Daisy, and Yua would be hit .
Instead, I drew Peruta Circuit’s energy up and directed it into a single point on my spear . Immediately afterward, I used Lightning God’s power and created a tornado of lightning . Peika then infused herself into the spear and brought up the lightning energy to the limit .
“I’ll take a leg as hello!”
I shouted energetically and shot my spear towards the bear’s foreleg . The concentrated energy even began to suck in surrounding mana as it drove into the bear’s foreleg . Soon, the bear’s foreleg exploded with a manhwa-like boom . It seemed to have planned to crush me under its weight, but it ended up being pushed back into the air instead .
[Kuaaaaaak!]
“Good, that’s what I like to hear! Dortu!”
[I am Dortu . Attacking the enemy . ]
The metallic mirrors still floating in the air transformed slightly, becoming thinner, sharper, and tougher .
The hundreds of thousands of metallic fragments shot across the air carrying my mana and stabbed into the detonated foreleg of the bear . Unable to carry itself in the air, the bear was swept away by the flood of metallic fragments .
“That giant bear, so easily…”
“Oppa is so cool!”
“I climbed the same dungeon as Shin, so why can’t I do something like that…?”
The bear fell into a giant canyon, breaking everything in its path as it crashed down . Daisy then stepped in using Laki .
“Laki, scorch it . ”
[Guuuuooooo!]
Laki breathed reddish-black flames from his mouth and filled up the canyon . The terrifying heat seemed to even cook the bear’s roar .
[Kuooooooo!]
“Wow, he’s so strong . I wonder when my Luna will be able to do that . ”
[Kyuu kyuu . ]
Luna’s eyes sparkled as she watched Laki’s performance . I couldn’t say Laki was Luna’s parent, but he was still the source of the existence called Luna . She was probably learning a thing or two by watching him .
However, what Yua said next made me doubt my ears .
“Luna, help Laki . ”
[Kyuu . ]
Luna nodded, and the flames Laki was breathing intensified noticeably . The grizzly bear’s scream also became louder . Realizing what happened, I asked in shock .
“Was that a buff?”
“She can raise the might of all flames . She learned it a short time ago!”
[Guooooooo!]
Soon, a savory smell rose up from the canyon . Laki seemed to be done breathing out fire, as he coughed a couple times and closed his mouth . Immediately afterward, the entire mountain range began to shake .
[Kuaaaaaak!]
“Damn, does this bear really need to deform mountains every time it moves!?”
Crack, crack . The canyon began to split loudly . The mountain peaks forming the mountain range began to drop rocks, from small pebbles to giant boulders . Surprisingly, they were all directed at us!
“Laki!”
Laki immediately moved following Daisy’s shout . Laki spread his wings and began to flap . I doubted whether he could get us out of this situation alone, but it seemed I was underestimating him gravely . Thinking about it now, he was once the Lava King . The boulders flying towards us through the grizzly bear’s mana faltered in face of Laki’s storm of magic power .
“Sharana, help Laki!”
[This is my specialty, Master!]
Immediately after Sharana’s cheerful shout, Laki’s wing flaps became fiercer . Rather than directly reinforcing Laki, Sharana guided his wind and directed the raining boulders onto him . The grizzly bear got up in shock and jumped back into the air .
[Guaaaaa!]
Because of Laki’s terrifying flames, it was bleeding everywhere, its fur and skin were scorched . Only its frighteningly shining red eyes and fearsome growl let me know it was fine .
Of the boulders hurling down, it grabbed the biggest one that could pass off as a chunk of a mountain's peak . Bleeding profusely from the spear wound I dealt, it looked to be in an excruciating pain, but it was clear what it wanted to do with the boulder .
“Shin, a spear is like a toothpick compared to that bear’s foreleg, so how did you do it?”
“You just have to compress more energy into one point . ”
“Isn’t there a limit to how much energy you can compress?”
“There isn’t . ”
I retorted lightly and poured about 100,000 mana into my spear . Like before, although the spear’s aura carried the power of Lightning God, it didn’t show it . One could only feel that something transparent was undulating along the spear blade .
“You should be able to do this too, Ye-Eun . Whether it’s with a dagger or an actual toothpick, it’s possible to use this technique . ”
The bear threw the huge boulder at Laki . Brimming with its mana and shining black, the boulder hurled towards us quickly . I suspected even Laki would find it hard to receive that boulder head-on . Immediately, I kicked off into the air once more and shot my spear towards the giant boulder . The moment the spear tip touched it, 100,000 points of mana spread across the entire boulder .
I shouted .
“Gaia Buster!”
Last time was a serenade of metal, this time it’s a serenade of rocks! The boulder broke apart into tens of thousands of shards and returned back to the grizzly bear . Seemingly flustered, the bear rolled its feet . The hill he landed on crumbled, but a giant sharp stone mountain rose up and blocked the falling rocks .
I’ve been thinking this since the first time I saw it, but it seemed this bear could utilize this twisted environment to its fullest potential to both defend and attack . As long as it had its feet on the ground, it was a stage stronger! Thankfully, with Ye-Eun protecting Daisy’s and Yua’s bodies, I didn’t need to worry about their safety .
“Luna!”
[Kyuu!]
At the most unexpected moment, Luna’s cute cry rang out . In the next moment, I found out what she did . The stone mountain put up by the bear had turned into magma!
[Kuaaak!?]
“Is Luna’s growth direction different than Laki’s? Buffing flames and turning stone into magma… Well, regardless…”
This was a good opportunity! I immediately charged towards it! However strong Luna’s flames might be, they couldn’t possibly be EX rank, which meant they couldn’t break through my cape’s defense . I dove into the magma without hesitation and planned on giving the bear my spear of justice .
But a rather unexpected sight was waiting for me inside the magma . The grizzly bear was giving me an uppercut like it was waiting for me .
The moment I noticed it, I shouted the name of the most reliable elemental for times like this .
“Ruyue!”
[Un!]
One layer right in front of me, another layer a bit farther away, and one more layer even farther away! The grizzly bear’s fist shattered the triple-layered barrier Ruyue created and struck my spear .
Immediately, Thorn Throne’s effect activated and a single bone spear that popped out of the spear tip pierced through its fist . On the other hand, because I didn’t have my strength properly concentrated in my spear, I was sent flying .
“Haa!”
A little bit of blood was mixed with my frustrated cough . As I thought, in terms of purely physical and magical power, he was the next in line of the Beast King .
“You thought of punching me while submerged in magma? I like that!”
[Guoooooooo!]
Of course, the damage it dealt didn’t come without a price . It took on Luna’s magma entirely, and since it was counterattacked by the bone spear, which dealt damage proportional to the might of the damage it dealt, it should be a sorry state .
[Guaaaaaaa!]
As I thought, seeing the injuries covering its body and the blood flowing down profusely, the bear let out a horrid howl . It was then that a change began to occur . The blood flowing down its body covered its wounds and made new fur grow out . A red, blood-like fur . Each strand of hair stood tall, and the bear’s blood-shot eyes looked to be in a frenzy . Moreover, it’s already humongous body got even bigger, and a portion of the mountain range sunk in under the weight of its body .
It seemed this monster carried the trait of savage beasts . Going berserk . It was an ability that burned what little life flame a beast had remaining to kill anything in its sight .
[I am Dortu . ]
However, it was too late . The previous magma was the decisive blow .
[Commencing action . ]
The sound of a grenade exploded out .
[Kuooooooooo!]
Its blood-dyed fur exploded and its flesh and bones flew in all directions . The bear screamed . It was different than any of the previous ones, a scream that came purely from pain . A pain that even a berserk state couldn’t ignore could only be one thing, the pain from death .
The pain came for a very simple reason . The tens of thousands of metallic fragments Dortu shot out were melted by the magma and became liquid . It then covered the bear’s body and some had even entered inside . Just now, Dortu had simply detonated it .
[I am Dortu . Art is an explosion . ]
“Yes, Dortu, that’s when you say that!”
I nodded in satisfaction at Dortu’s well-timed line . Then, I stared at the giant grizzly bear barely struggling to stay standing . It raised the one part of its body that I left untouched – its one remaining foreleg .
[Kuaaaaaaaaaaa!]
“Goodbye, grizzly . ”
I threw my spear .
“Leave the bear paw so I can let the others have a taste . ”
The spear penetrated its head and stuck the ground . The bear looked like a kid raising his arm to ask a question in class, and soon, it fell on its back . The hunt was over .
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