Chapter 94 - Continuing Battle (2/2)

‘I’ll keep using it to keep the fairies off like I did before…but I’m sorry Onii-san. I don’t want to energy drain the main body.’

Shayna told Loren in a weak thought.

As he blocked some bolts of fire that the chief shot while eating with the flat of his great sword, he asked Shayna why.

‘I found out when I sucked all the fairies just before, but…the life energy of this chief isn’t good at all. He tastes bad, actually.’

As the voice that only he could hear told him so, Loren wondered how to respond.

It was the first time he had heard that life energy had taste, and to a living being like Loren, he couldn’t imagine what bad tasting life energy tasted like.

‘This is a first for me as well, so how would I explain this…Umm, I can try my best to explain how it tastes.’

“It’s fine…”

No matter how good the explanation was, it would just tell him how bad it tasted, and nothing more.

But Loren was surprised that the fairy chief had life energy that tasted so bad that Shayna, who had become a no life king, would refuse to consume it.

“How is it Loren?”

Lapis couldn’t hear their conversation.

The only way she could communicate with Shayna was having Loren tell her the conclusion of his conversation with her.

“I’ll get straight to the point. This guy tastes really bad.”

“Ahh…Then I guess we can’t make her do it.”

Confused that Lapis gave up on Shayna’s energy drain so easily, Loren asked her.

“That convinced you?”

“Yes.”

The chief, who was still eating, continued to shoot bursts of fire at them, as if they were a nuisance.

Lapis quickly made a hand sign in front of her chest and said in a quiet voice.

“God of Knowledge, protect us from the power of magic >”

A dimly shining, transparent membrane enveloped them, and as the bolts of flame met it, they disappeared along with a sound like water dousing fire.

Watching the chief shake in frustration that his attacks weren’t going through, Lapis used another divine art in quick succession.

“Invisible fist of god, smite my enemies >”

The shard of divine power that Lapis drew out.

The giant ball of pure energy that seemed to reflect the degree of her faith, slammed into the chief’s body.

It sunk deeply into him and sprayed blood all over, as if a god had come down and dealt the blow, but Lapis, who had initiated the attack, snorted in dissatisfaction.

“It wasn’t enough to crush him completely…I need to train more.”

“Is that divine art supposed to be something like that?”

Loren thought that it would take an enormous amount of power to crush a giant body like the one in front of him.

The chanting seemed too short, considered that it was something to control such a power.

“Of course not. This one usually only has the power of a buff young man punching with all his might.

“There’s no way you could crush the chief with something like that, you know?”

“I mean, my devout faith is the source, so.”

Wondering if she was in a position to say that, Loren continued to deal blow after blow to the chief.

Each blow inflicted wound after wound, but seeing them every one of them heal, he couldn’t help but think that his attempts were futile.

“I don’t think there are any priests that have such a deep faith to the Knowledge god as I do. What do you think?”

“…Well, I guess that’s kind of convincing.”

If he could keep in mind the fact that she just had a different nature than other priests of the Knowledge god, he could see that she could indeed be a devout follower.

“But if slicing or hitting doesn’t work, what to we do about him?”

“Well, if we go by the book, burning him would be the best, but…”

Lapis’ words became a murmur as she looked around.

As he wondered what she was doing, Loren swatted away another piece of the chief that was thrown at them away with his great sword.

“I wouldn’t hesitate to burn him if this were outside.”

“Yeah…this isn’t the best place.”

Although the place wasn’t completely sealed, they weren’t in a place that had good ventilation.

It was obvious that if they burned such a large hunk of meat, the heat and stagnation of the atmosphere would be a problem.

“Then how…huh?”

Loren stopped what he was saying.

When Lapis followed Loren’s gaze, wondering what happened, she saw that the mountain of food had almost depleted.

It was kind of impressive that he had managed to keep eating while dealing with them, but when it was gone completely there would only be one thing that he would turn his attention to.

“I don’t even need to guess that he’s going to try to eat us.”

“I really wish this is a dream.”

Until then, to the chief, he had been being injured by something, and healing them made him hungry, so he ate.

But now that the food was almost gone, it was obvious that since he would still be hungry from healing, he would think about eating whatever caught his eyes.

It meant that his attacks would get stronger, and to Loren and Lapis, who couldn’t find a breakthrough, it wasn’t a welcome turn of events.

“So, for real, what should we do?”

Sensing that the attention of the blob of meat, which they didn’t even know where the head was, was slowly turning towards them, Lapis said in an actual troubled voice as she looked up at the chief crawling towards them.