Chapter 50 (1/2)

Underground City of the Ancient G.o.ds 9

「c.r.a.p.」

Hikaru pulled Lavia's arm to help her up.

「Can you run?!」

「Y-Yeah!」

They dashed out of the treasure room. Hikaru could hear the wall crumbling behind them.

「Is that a giant?! How did it get so close?」Lavia said.

He could ask the same question. Hikaru wanted to beat himself up so bad.

I thought I could sense if it came closer by the rumbling… That and I didn't pay attention to my Mana Detection the moment I found the revolver. It's my fault that giant got close to us!

The giant most likely approached carefully so as not to cause tremors. It should've been slow. Hikaru would've seen it with his Mana Detection.

「Lavia! Set the lamp to maximum brightness!」

「What about the undead?!」

「They're not around.」

His Mana Detection didn't sense any undead. They had fled because of the giant.

The giant knows where we are exactly.

Hikaru was almost sure about that.

That much was certain when it decided to approach us quietly before attacking us. Why, though? Because I deactivated Group Obfuscation? No, that's not it.

Hikaru was holding Lavia's hand at the moment, his Skill active. The moment they left the room and got out of sight from the giant, Stealth should've taken effect right away.

How does it know where we are?

The magic lamp lit up the hallways of the castle. Hikaru turned around and saw the giant that had destroyed the treasure room.

「You've gotta be kidding me!」

The giant dashed through a hallway too narrow for its size, destroying pillars along the way, not stopping.

「Over here!」

「Kyaa!」

They entered a small pa.s.sage, rolling over. The giant was rampaging through the place.

「Get up, Lavia.」

「O-Okay!」

Holding each other's hands, they ran. They had no idea where they were going. All of a sudden, Hikaru felt a gaze. Purple-colored eye was peering into the pa.s.sage they went through.

An arm stretched out. Being more than ten meters away, Hikaru felt relieved. Yet the arm was reaching for them, stretching like rubber. It almost had them.

「Here goes nothing!」

Hikaru pointed the revolver at the giant's arm and quickly pulled the trigger. A metallic sound rang out, not even reminiscent of gunpowder. A blue trail shot out from the muzzle. The moment it hit the giant's hand, it instantly got covered in ice and repelled.

「Wh-What the h.e.l.l?! It's not a gun?! That looked like magic…」

「Hikaru! Look!」

The pa.s.sage was too small for the giant. All it could do was glare at them. While Hikaru couldn't see everything clearly, about a meter above the creature's head was a sphere-like object that looked like an antenna, giving out small sparks.

A chill ran down Hikaru's spine. This is bad. That thing screams danger. I can't let it use that no matter what.

He readied his gun. Could he really hit his mark? He couldn't get closer as the creature's arm was there.

What are the chances an amateur like me can hit my target? There's one thing that can compensate for my lack of experience.

Throwing. Hikaru summoned his Soul Board.

【Physical Strength】

..【Strength】1

..【Weapon Mastery】

….【Throwing】2

He poured every point he got from killing undead.

【Physical Strength】

..【Strength】1

..【Weapon Mastery】

….【Throwing】10

……【Heaven Shot】

The new skill could wait till later. Hikaru aimed the gun once more, and this time he knew where the bullet would hit, like he had a laser pointer on. He pointed the gun at the sphere above the giant's head and took a shot. This time gray light burst forth. A rock sprouted at its point of impact, covering the giant's head.

「…Not enough, huh.」

The light above its head didn't stop. Light spilled from the rock's cracks, sparks coming out like some broken gas stove.

「Over here, Lavia!」