Chapter 23 (2/2)
(…………Oh c.r.a.p!)
In that moment, I immediately reacted and dashed/ran forwards.
When I turned around whilst running, a red ma.s.s could be seen falling from the sky.
——-And.
ZuZun! A thunderous roar accompanied by a cloud of dust flew up.
The earth tremors and quakes and the air shakes, the gigantic figure erects itself slowly.
Big pincers that looked much like scissors and a deep crimson sh.e.l.l with plenty of spikes covering it.
It was a gigantic figure and when it moved even a little, the sh.e.l.l and the scissors/pincers would reflect a gleaming/ghastly light.
「It’s a King Nipper–……?!」
It was the Beach Cavern Boss, King Nipper.
No, strictly speaking the King Nipper wasn’t a boss type monster.
The magic that composed this guy, was naturally considerably higher than the other demons, However if you were to compare it to a boss monster, it would actually be relatively low.
Its strength was in the middle of a usual monster and a boss monster.
Perhaps I should call it a middle boss?
The reason behind the “Large out break” of Nippers that Lydia talked about, was probably due to this King Nipper laying its eggs within the cave.
Most likely when I used the Black Storm casted at four times the efficiency, I must of hit the King Nipper which was lying dormant in the cave and made it become angry/aggro.
Although in terms of its strength it is in no way inferior the boss monster King of Death, its movements were slow/dull and if I were to shoot at it whilst running away, the King Nipper would become a harmless like existence that was a good-for-nothing dummy target for my spells.
———-However, that is only the case if I was in a wide s.p.a.ced area…
In this small s.p.a.ce, the smallest approach from the King Nipper would suffocate me as if the s.p.a.ce around me became even narrower.
This is really bad……….
For the time being, let’s try to gain some distance, as I continue to meditate.
I can’t let my escape route be blocked.
I prepared myself in case of a surprise attack, and as a habit I applied “Safe Protection” on myself. (TL: I think this is the name of the spell that deflected the King of Death’s attack and reduced incoming damage by 90 %)
If I have this, I probably won’t die in a single hit, right?
The King Nippers raises its pincers overhead.
It’s moving in a huge motion.
This attack, even if you were an idiot you could avoid it.
(That’s if I wasn’t in such a narrow s.p.a.ce)
The large pincers came cras.h.i.+ng down towards me, I ducked low and ran a short distance away from it. The place where I just stood moments ago was completed blown away from the impact and a large roaring after effect of the ground being crushed resounded.
「Uohhh!?」
The broken fragments of the ground splinters with a pitter-patter as it hits me.
Avoiding it’s pincers in such a narrow s.p.a.ce is really difficult.
Naturally, fighting it head on and defeating it is impossible.
I need to get away from it, and even if I need to teleport into the hole I came from to hide, that may be the best option I have right now.
If I were to go that far, it will be unlikely that it will pursue me right?
I slowly walk towards the opposite direction from the hole I came from.
The King Nipper followed me closely and sometimes it smashed it’s pincers towards me.
Scary, Scary.
I move slowly so that The King Nipper would follow me and I repeated this process, some way or another I managed to successfully lure him away from the hole I came from.
「Geez you’ve given me so much trouble……..But now I must bid you farewell」
I invoked Teleport and I flew to the hole I came from.
I was now on the opposite side of the King Nipper.
Before this slow fellow is able to turn around and catch up to me, I am sure I can crawl out to safety in time.
Now I just have to make up a story that I ran away from the King Nipper after it had appeared to Lydia.
Besides, I’ve gotten quite a few of these Poi Tears.
Before that fellow notices I’m going to go through this hole.
I squatted down and when I tried to shove my head into the hole quickly, Gochin! I crashed into something.
「Ouchhh〜〜!?」
It was Lydia.
When I peeked through the small hole I could see Lydia’s face and her squeezed/crushed b.r.e.a.s.t.s.
Or more like, that was all I could see.
With such a body figure, how the heck did she even manage to get this far?
「よいしょっ……と」(There we go, Lydia squeezing out)
Lydia bent and twisted her body back and forth like a snail/snake/worm and she wriggled out of the hole.
「Fuu〜. I’ve somehow managed to pa.s.s〜」
Pon (Pat Pat) she brushed off her knees, and as she stood up, it was apparent that Lydia was definitely bigger than me.
「……..Are you some kind of Mollusks or something? 」
「How rude of you! Or more like what happened to me? It seems that I fainted? 」
「Ah, Ahh……………You suddenly fainted on me. Thus, I laid you down on the side of a rock」
「…….Hmm, Is that so? In that case Thanks!!」
Doesn’t she doubt me in the slightest? …
Unexpectedly she seems to be quite the naive girl.
Zuzuunn!!
The King Nipper finally turned around and faced our direction.
Ugh, darn it…
「Ohh, isn’t that a King Nipper? So it came out I see, isn’t it hard to fight it in such a narrow s.p.a.ce like this? 」
Ahahaha, Lydia was laughing even though she saw a gigantic King Nipper coming towards us. (TL: LOL Lydia is cute~ so carefree…)
It was almost as if she had experience fighting such a thing.
「…….Have you ever fought one before? 」
「I have, though I have never won against it before」
That is to be expected.
The King Nipper has a sh.e.l.l/carapace that has a dreadful/tremendous amount of defense attached to it, it was the one thing it could be proud of.
Using normal physical attacks in order to harm it is theoretically impossible.
「But this time I have Zeph-kun who is a magician, so I think we can beat it…..!」
It would seem that she was fired up.
It is true that if we make use of Lydia’s nimble body, she should be able to handle the dull movements of a slow King Nipper, and it would be easy for her to become my vanguard….. However…
「Let’s do this!」
「う、うむ……」(F, finee)
I was made to give in to Lydia again…
It would seem that I am inadvertently being influenced by Lydia’s pace once again……
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