62 Excrescent Chimera (2/2)
Unlike before in which the numbers just kept decreasing, it reached a point of consistency. 9,999 to be exact, with the Herrscher count still unaltered.
”Oni-chama...”
As my attention is taken captive by the statistics, Shiro suddenly called out to me, with somewhat a scared tone, and from afar stood a mythical creature, with a very irritated face whose attendance alone, destroyed the heavenly view of the surrounding's ambiance.
This is bad, still as a skepticist, I never could have imagined that danger would strike on the light of day. Well, it is an unknown world so, anticipating it should have been normal.
The creature is also somewhat familiar, but it's also rather different. It's like the 'Manticore' of Persia, but this time, it's solely one large dark-skinned lion with wings of a bat, tail of a venomous scorpion, eyes of neon green, fangs of Siberian tigers and elongated horns of a Barbary sheep. It stands approximately 5 meters high and I can quite sense, that it's coming to eat us both, with dark intent written all over his monstrous presence that made the puny and fragile-looking slimes flee the scene.
And then as the manticore-looking carbuncle slowly walked towards us, confident of our vulnerability, it's stats then came to display, in a platform like in the weapon's description earlier...and if I remembered correctly, the moment we engage, the stats would then be hidden as per said by Hermes.
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Name: Excrescent Chimera
LVL: 20
HP: 10000
MP: 0
Type: Dakini
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A Lvl 20 Chimera eh? From the last time I read how it was described, it looked way weaker...but this, I think would be not of the same case.
Moreover, it's hardly worth my time. I did not even sense it coming, that would only mean that it would not put up a great sparring partner. If I were to fight it, it would be without a doubt, dull. I can just painstakingly control it and let it eat itself to make it look like a detective file of nothing more but a case of cannibalism... but I think, we should make this experience, to be of good use.
”Shiro, want to try your weapon out?” I asked the trembling girl, which somehow os a little savage act in her perspective and is somewhat against the Philippine Republic Act number 7610 for Child Endangerment Protection.
”Ehhh?? That would be killing oni-chama!”, she answered.
Kill? How is she sure that she can kill it though?...
”Listen, Shiro, the monsters out here are not like Pegasus-san. They are evil and will eat us both...”
”Will it cook us first?”
Wait, that's what she's concerned about?
”Ehehe, No... It will eat us raw”
”Ehhhh????? Son'na ko to shitakunai!!!” (English: I don't want that!)
With teary eyes, afraid of being eaten 'uncooked', she then took hold of Grendel and threw it towards the approaching monster without hesitation, still in its dagger form. And then...
”Le Chanto de Roma” the girl chanted, and the dagger suddenly became the same chakram but had more momentum grazing the ground as it speedily targeted the monstrosity, not giving any room for even a quirky evasion.
It came across the monster in mach speed, cutting both of its horns like they're cotton candy, and advanced at a very far angle.
The stats then became hidden as Shiro inflicted the very first damage. As expected.
The, even more, irritated Chimera came charging at us at a very hasty speed... While Shiro confidently waited for the backlash that the Chakram has to offer...
”I don't want to be eaten raw!!!” The girl shouted as she raised her hand on the air, ready to grab hold of something...
And then as the Chimera continuously charged at our direction, then came back the chakram that sliced of the monster's head and had gone back to Shiro's hand with blood all over its crimson blades, even cutting the glorious tree at our back, from the rotation's momentum it had gained alone. If I positioned myself somewhere closer there, I think I am no different from that Chimera.
The monster stood headless and neon blood came oozing out from it's amputated neck and then it fell with a large *thud* sound signifying the gargantuan size of this monster.
Wow. Shiro, are your deceased parents perhaps weaponry connoisseurs? Just who did I pick up? If she can yield a weapon like this, deeming a monster of this size lifeless in a dual hit, then, is there a need for her to use her paradigm? Thoughts like that came flying into my head, as I beheld of Shiro's mysterious mastery.
”Teheeee!” the girl, having the blood-stained weapon in hand smiled in the most innocent of ways, happy that she is partly saved of being eaten raw, by our first Excrescent Chimeraic encounter. Palpably, her first-slain.