Chapter 94 - Continuing Battle (1/2)

Ch. 94: Continuing Battle

It became that they gave the fairy chief the first hand, but their retaliation was swift and strong.

Lapis had stepped back to assess the situation, while Loren had stepped forward, pulling his great sword over his head, and slammed it down onto the giant hunk of meat.

It guessed that from what it looked like, it wouldn’t be too hard, but if it were reinforced by magic, that wouldn’t be the case.

So, Loren’s first blow had almost all his strength behind it.

“Giii…”

The sound coming from the chief didn’t sound like a scream.

But Loren’s blow still sunk deep into him, raising a splash of blood.

“Looks like our attacks go through…but…”

Loren immediately jumped back from the spot.

It was because the part of the flesh that Loren cut into was picked up and slammed into where he was standing a moment ago.

Along with a sound like hitting the floor with a wet rag, the wound that Loren inflicted opened wider and resulted in more flesh and blood scattering over the ground, but the chief showed no signs of flinching.

“His senses are deafened and his body’s so big it doesn’t seem like my attacks are doing anything.”

But he seemed to know that he was injured, as he started crawling across the ground away from Loren.

“He isn’t running away, right?”

“Maybe it’s that over there.”

Lapis pointed to a mountain near the chief’s body which was almost as large as it.

Loren hadn’t noticed it since the chief’s giant body had all his attention, but when he took a closer look he saw that the mountain consisted of the bodies animals living in the forest, as well as the bodies of elves, and it seemed that this was contributing to the stench along with the chief.

“I’ve got a bad feeling about this.”

“Feeling? He’s definitely going to do it.”

Lapis had a disgusted look on her face as well, but the chief didn’t take notice of them and continued crawling to the mountain, slammed his body onto it, and from where he stuck to it, Loren and Lapis could hear him chew on things that were soft, hard, and wet.

“He’s eating, right?”

“Definitely.”

Eating to recover injuries.

It was an understandable thing to do.

But it wasn’t something to do in front of enemies, so Loren looked at the chief disgustedly.

“I understand why you’re looking at him like that but…his wound is healing.”

Lapis chided at him.

The wound that Loren had inflicted was closing in an unbelievable speed, and eventually became larger than before.

“Would this guy not die as long as he’s eating?”

“I’m not sure. Well, it’s not like he has an infinite amount of food.”

Thinking that they would have to steadily shred through until the food ran out, Loren continued attacking the chief.

The blade of the great sword cut into his flesh and created new wounds, but while he was eating, the wounds closed, and the part became even larger than before.

Thinking that just cutting wouldn’t work, he switched to swiping the blade sideways after landing a blow.

This not only widened the wounds, but tore off chunks of flesh, which splattered onto the ground.

Loren thought that this would do more damage than just cutting, but when the chunks of flesh hit the ground, something unexpected happened.

The flesh split up into small pieces and suddenly became fairies that attacked Loren.

Since he didn’t expect fairies to come out from the flesh he had cut off, Loren couldn’t respond to their attacks fast enough.

He let his left hand go of the great sword and raised it in front of his face to at least protect his neck and eyes.

The newborn fairies lunged onto his arm.

‘Energy drain!’

Right when the fairies’ teeth were about to tear through Loren’s teeth.

Shayna unleashed her power as a no life king.

The fairies’ life energies were stolen in an instant, causing them to drop to the ground.

Loren back away from the spot and thanked Shayna.

“Turning into fairies if you cut part off. That’s annoying.”

“Swirl before my eyes, rage about, o crimson flames >”

As Loren cursed, Lapis used the spell she had been preparing.

Flames erupted from the ground, engulfing the chief’s body, and Loren put his hand in front of his face to protect it from the heat.

On the other side of his hand, Lapis’ magic burned the chief, but Lapis muttered with a grim expression before it even ended.

“There’s too much moisture…it’s not going to burn completely.”

As Lapis had said, the chief’s large body was still there after the flames died.

The surface was burned and a part of it had crumbled into ashes, but from under it, new flesh bubbled up and soon the surface became slimy again.

“What do we do? Dice him up and crush the pieces?”

“Can Shayna do something with her energy drain?”

Lapis asked him.

It seemed possible that a no life king class energy drain could do something about the now even larger fairy chief by draining his life energy without wounding him any further.

‘I’d rather not, if possible.’

But Shayna disagreed with the suggestion, not wanting to use her energy drain at all.