Chapter 19 - Ash vs King Behemoth (1/2)
With the trap being laid out, I will first launch a surprise attack to the behemoth, if possible slicing his neck in one go, but I sincerely doubt it will happen as behemoth in general are a cautious monster and a king behemoth, I'm pretty sure it awareness toward it surrounding is high so my surprise attack might end up failing. After the surprise attack, I'll draw him out, toward the acid pit that is near the entrance hoping to dish out the maximum amount of damage there. With that said, I unsheathed my Scythe and imbued it in wind, light and thunder mana.
As the king behemoth are now in my sight, I'll activate my stealth mode magic as well, a spell under illusion magic. Slowly approaching the sleeping behemoth, this is it, as I'm about to land the surprise attack, his forefoot attack me! Looks like it manage to sense my presence even while sleeping, plus I'm using stealth mode magic, as expected of the S Rank monster, but not that this will hamper my plan.
(You are still drowsy, so here you go!) [Ash]
With one strike, the Scythe land right In front of the behemoth eye, making the behemoth roar in pain, but I'm not done yet! With the thunder mana, I'll shoot all of my thunder magic right into it eye, before gouging the behemoth eye out. The Behemoth entered into an epileptic like state for a second but quickly recover afterward, so much so that it manage to block my second attack with it claw, and oh god, the claw is tough as hell! I can see that there are wound in it claw but I'm convinced it doesn't even suffer minor damage from it. The King Behemoth begins to launch series of attack by using both of it forefoot, such strength, if I keep fighting inside the cave, it will end up in disaster so let just bait it outside
With the acceleration magic, I lure the king behemoth while shooting light arrow magic, focusing on the wound to maximize the damage output, but it enormous strength and defense just shrugged it off like it was nothing. Not to mention it can keep up with my acceleration magic in such wounded state, this really is scary.
(No doubt it pissed off right now, and it target is obviously me) [Ash]
And there's the first trap, with the momentum from the acceleration magic, I make a large leap forward, not even touching the icy layer and as for the behemoth, are you kidding me, it simply stomps the ground hard enough to shatter those ice floor! I do know that this trap will be useless to begin with but oh boy, it's disappointing alright seeing the trap that you set not serving its purpose, I mean the king behemoth doesn't even show sign of slowing down.
The second trap however,
(It's working!) [Ash]
The king behemoth steps on the ground trap, the explosion per said doesn't cause that much damage but the spikes that hurl toward it at high velocity sure does. The spikes get stuck in between the foot as well as the wound, it even managed to damage the other eye as well. As we move toward the last trap, I noticed that there is many spikes laying around on the ground just behind the king behemoth (must be the spike that does not hit the target), and since those spike were part of my own magic, I control the spike as a group and attack the behemoth from behind, it works! But this just make the king behemoth become angrier
And onto the last trap, just like the ice floor, i make a big leap thanks to the momentum, and so does the behemoth
(This is bad!) [Ash]
Did the behemoth sense the trap underneath, or was it just copying me, either way this is bad!
”Earth palm!” [Ash]
I make a massive palm using the cave ceiling just above the behemoth, putting massive amount of mana into it. The leaping behemoth do notice this attack, but there is nothing it can do now since it's in midair
BOOM
The King Behemoth are pushed down toward the acidic pit, struggling to get out but I'm not that nice . Light arrow, light sword, light bomb, all kind of light magic spell were thrown at it, and to maximize the effectiveness of the acidic pit, I even use mini tornado magic, so that the acid will cover the whole body of king behemoth.
The King Behemoth, having enough of this, gather around a beam of darkness magic, and in an instance
”!” [Ash]
The blue sky? And that's the cave? Sigh... thank god I managed to use high grade light shield dome magic, even coating myself with earth metal magic to brace myself. Even that wasn't enough since I actually sustain quite some damage, and before I can even get myself up, that giant black of death leap upward, ignoring the cave ceiling and stand right In front of me, with darkness mana surrounding it body
”ROOAAARRRR!!!” [King Behemoth]
Such deafening roar, and it once again uses it claws to attack me, I can't dodge, not enough time. The direct hit from the enraged king behemoth sure make the right side of my body goes fully numb. Plus, I was tossed around 100 meters, it felt like getting hit by a truck
(This is bad, have to retreat) [Ash]
But my stamina and mana are at it low, even my knees are giving out. Is this it? No there have to be a way, come on, think!
”Roar!!!” [King Behemoth]
It is rushing towards me once again, just think, think, think, think, think!
(Huh?) [Ash]
A powerful beam of wind magic attack the king behemoth from behind, and