Vol 1 Chapter 18 (1/2)

There are a few reasons as to why a Hydra is feared by others.

First of all, the giant body of the beast enables it to deal attacks with high destructive power, its specialty would be attacking at the same time with its many heads. Even though it only has one body, it feels as if you’re up against many different enemies at the same time.

Also, its strong scales and thick skin will repel any average attack, furthermore it can also attack with poisonous breath.

However to Kail, those things weren’t that much of a danger.

No matter how powerful and fast it may be, as long as it has the intelligence of a beast, there will be a pattern in the attack, so it´ll be easy after understanding what it is.

Being able to dodge the attack by predicting it is easy enough, and its ability to use its heads in a simultaneous attack is useless against Kail, since he’s used to fighting against greater numbers.

Its poisonous breath should originally be the most dangerous, however Kail´s dragon leather armor has the function to nullify most of the poison, so there wasn’t any reason to care about it.

Its defensive power with its scales and skin, were also no problem to Kail.

“Take that!”

Dodging the attack of the snake head, that could swallow up a human body in one go, he slashes against the neck of the snake together with a yell.

With the famed sword Sildonia and Kail’s skills combined, they were able to easily cut off the snake’s head which fell down like a big tree.

This made the fourth snake head that was cut down, Kail only got some scratches, so it seemed like Kail was dominating the fight.

[Hmm, it’s easier than I imagined. I thought he’d put up a little more resistance.]

Sildonia in sword form, said it, as if she were amazed.

“It’s also a surprise to me. it seems that my body has become stronger than I imagined.”

I had body strengthening magic cast on myself, but I’m happy that the miscalculation let me fight the Hydra this easily.

But, however.

“Even so, I’m at a loss here.”

In Kail’s sight, was the part of the first snake head that was cut off, but there was already a new head being regenerated.

The most annoying part of a Hydra, is its life force and regeneration.

Even normal magic beasts can heal from a life threatening wound over time, it’s not only the wound itself, but also the part that was lost that heals.

“As expected, the regeneration is annoying.”

I was winning, but I don’t have any way to definitely kill it.

Even so, if I keep dealing damage, it should fall down after some time, but in this situation where there might be more enemies, I can’t take my time and have to end it quickly.

The only way to kill a Hydra with its regenerative abilities is to instantly kill it, but dealing a fatal wound that would kill with a sword is hard because of its size.

It’s magic, Kail thought of being able to deal a fatal wound with attack magic, but that would not have any meaning, as it would just recover.

An attack magic that could kill it instantly has to be higher than high level magic, but Kail can’t use any at the moment.

“It would have been better if I trained my magic a little more.”

In the first place, Kail’s specialty isn’t attack magic, it’s auxiliary type magic.

Because of not having enough magic power, leaving aside high level magic, Kail couldn’t even use mid level attack magic, even if he used it in battle, leaving aside human opponents it wouldn’t even scratch most of the demon race, so he just took them down with his sword.

Now that the problem of having a shortage of magic power has been solved, Kail could even use the highest level of magic, but right now he had his hands full with training his body, so he still hadn’t trained his magic at all.

[It’s no use to complain about what you don’t have. It’s also important to fight with what you have on hand you know.]

“I know without having you tell me. Moreover, compared to that time, I’m feeling rather blessed right now.”

While he says that, Kail grabs a bunch of magic stones from his pocket filled with the attack magic:【Explosion】.

“No matter how strong your life force may be, you’ll collapse if I destroy you from within.”

No matter how much the Hydra regenerates, it’s not as if the number of heads increase.

Kail’s gaze was aimed at the part of the body, where the snake heads were attached.

However the Hydra knows what its own weak part is.

For a while now, Kail has been trying to get close to it’s weak part, but the snake heads have been getting in the way.

In order to reach its weak point, I first have to get past more than ten snake heads first.

“…… Guess I’ll have to use that.”

Kail makes a back step, and increases the distance between him and the Hydra.

Since its regeneration will go down when it moves, it didn’t go after Kail and waited for its lost head to regenerate.

Dropping his waist, as if aiming for the Hydra, he aims his sword.

“…………【Haste】!”

Concentrating, the activation period was only for a moment, just raising my speed, I once again cast the magic that raises my speed beyond my limit.

Kail who was originally good in auxiliary magic, could easily use the magic by finely controlling it.

Just at the moment the Hydra finished regenerating all of his heads and began a lunge towards Kail.

Breathing in deeply, together with a compact yell, he made a rush with all of his body and soul.

A rush that destroyed the ground with every step – that speed – surpa.s.sing the Hydra’s speed and reflexes.

The snake wasn’t able to react to it, Kail stabbed his sword into the main body of the snake.

After a dull sound of being stabbed in the stomach resounded, the Hydra lost to a human that was only a hundredth of its weight while rus.h.i.+ng at each other. After stepping backward the snake heads let out screams of pain while vomiting blood.

Simply put, using magic to raise his speed to the limit, using the force of his rush in a simple attack where he just collided with the enemy.

However, it is powerful because it is simple, when used against a human opponent he would’ve been turned into pieces of meat.

But even among magic beasts the giant Hydra had an overwhelming life force, this attack may have gravely injured it, but couldn’t finish it off.

Kail was moving his sword around, as if to gouge the flesh around it, then he pulled out his sword and powerfully put his left hand into the hole.

When his upper arm was inside, one of the snake heads recovered from the shock, and attacked Kail from the side.

While his arm was stuck he had no way to dodge, he was sent flying into the ground, but immediately recovered his posture.

He felt a surge of pain going through his body, normally his bones would have been crushed, but he only suffered severe bruises at most.

“Ouch…… But still, I’m glad I bought this armor.”

While Kail was yet again impressed by the defensive capability of this armor, he sheathed his sword and broke his combat posture.

Even when the Hydra was coming at him in a blind rage.

Just when the snake head’s fangs were going to reach Kail, at that moment the Hydra exploded.

“Alright, it went well.”

Making a guts pose while clenching his fist.

If Kail just threw the magic stones with 【Explosion】, it wouldn’t have caused much damage, because of the scales and thick skin, but he just put them inside the Hydra’s body through the wound.

If an explosion happens within the body, defensive power doesn’t have anything to do with it; as expected, having more than half of its body blown away, the Hydra was eliminated.

[So you won. It’s truly praise worthy for you, to beat a twelve headed Hydra one on one…… By the way what was that move you used just now? It had a lot of power.]

“It’s called ‘Shukuchi’.”

It was something Kail invented on his own, and didn’t have a name, but when someone from an island nation in the east saw it he called it ‘Shukuchi’ in surprise, so I’ve been calling it that since then.

“Well, it’s a technique based only on speed and strength. Since it takes some time to prepare, it would work against a magic beast, but wouldn’t work on skilled fighters.”

If the fight isn’t finished with this attack, it’ll leave a big opening, so it’s a technique that isn’t used much.

“For now, my body can keep up with the magic I use, so I tried using it…… but still, even if I did this myself, it’s still horrible.”

Looking around, a large amount of flesh and organs were splattered about in the forest, with blood everywhere – because of the explosion, it had become a horrible sight.

Furthermore, it stinks, it originally smelt like rotten fish, but because of the explosion, it smelled like burned rotten fish with some blood on top.

“……They won’t get mad, right?”

The once white royal Carriage, was now covered in blood with some flesh and organs on the roof, Kail’s face twitched a little because of this sight.

“An act of G.o.d, an act of G.o.d”, while trying to convince myself of this I drew closer to the carriage, there I saw felled several large-sized wolf-like magical beasts, called h.e.l.lhounds, in the surroundings of the carriage.

A few had their heads crushed, others were burned to death, so it seems like Lize and the others did this.

“So, these guys also attacked us…. but, this is weird right?”

Magic beasts usually have their own territory, so it’s rare when different races appear at the same place.

Especially here, when there was a Hydra this close by, so having the weak h.e.l.lhounds appear is abnormal.

“Kail! So you were alright?”

The ones who probably beat the h.e.l.lhounds, Urza and Lize, walked toward me.

“To think you’d really beat a Hydra….. how amazing.”

Urza groans, as if she can’t believe I really did it.

“Of course, something like a Hydra isn’t a match for me!”

I say a little proudly to the two.

“But, if you could, couldn’t you have beat it in another way?”

While looking around, Lize said it in an annoyed tone.