70 Chapter 70: Iron Knights versus Raijinshuu (1/2)
”Die!! Die!!!”
Roaring Ooyama descended upon Makoto's position, raising his thunder hammer to obliterate the smaller guy.
As for me, I scratched my head and wondered what it was with antagonists and their clichés of yelling at their opponents to die. Like, seriously? Couldn't they think of a more original insult or something?
Makoto wasn't fazed by Ooyama's approach. He merely tossed his knife to the ground, piercing the dirt. Reaching for his cup of tea on the wooden table he had conjured earlier, he shook his head and clicked his tongue.
”Tsk…”
With a single, fluid motion, he flung his cup of tea at his knife, which was protruding from the earth. The tea splashed against the small weapon and immediately vaporized into wisps of ethereal green mana.
”Eh?!”
Ooyama was stunned by the sudden surge of green mana, which solidified in front of him. A massive, solid wall of wood formed before the berserk God of Thunder, crackling with green mana, but Ooyama didn't hesitate and smashed his thunder hammer against the wooden barrier. The massive weapon slammed into the thick wood with a thunderous roar.
However, brute force couldn't prevail over the supple, gigantic tree that had sprang to life. To my surprise, I saw that the gigantic tree was very similar to my Redwood Robe in that it had several layers of defensive enchantments.
Unable to break through the thick, solid wood, Ooyama jumped back, thanks to Newton's third law. By attempting to exert a tremendous amount of force, he ended up having an equal and opposite power reacting against him.
Both Sanada and Makoto watched the stunned Ooyama quietly, even as he struggled to comprehend what had just happened.
”A tree? How are you able to summon such a thing with such low levels?!”
Sanada ignored the raving Ooyama and glanced at Makoto, amused.
”Oh? You're going to use that ability to end this fight?”
”Shut up,” Makoto snapped as he swung his knife toward his left. Spinning his knife in his left hand, he narrowed his eyes as green mana flowed around him. ”Summon ability…” he mused as he brought his knife to his lips, almost as if to play it.
He's a summoner too? I gaped at him.
”Divine Fire Ants.”
Ooyama jerked up at that. ”Ants?!”
As if on cue, a stream of bright red fire ants began crawling out of the woodwork…I mean gigantic tree. From nestled holes, gaps and crevasses, fire ants began flooding out and crawling over the withered bark like a tide of crimson fire.
”Oh? The tree is transforming into ants?”
Suzuki glanced at the tree, which was disappearing under the endless swarm of fire ants, intrigued. I shook my head.
”No…the ants are eating that tree.”
If I didn't magnify my glasses and zoom in, I wouldn't be able to see the individual ants. In fact, with normal vision, all I could see was a tree being consumed by fire, the vivid colors of crimson and orange resembling that of an inferno.
”Ugh…”
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Some distance away, Nishida stirred, having been flung against a mountain rock against his will. Rubbing his head, which throbbed incessantly, Nishida groaned and sat up. Blinking, he caught sight of the swarm of fire ants and his eyes bulged from shock.
”Shit…what are those?!”
”Makoto, did you make a move as well?”
Aoyama was staggering to his feet as he continued to heal himself with his restoration spells, soothing green mana permeating his wounded body. I nodded, staying back with both Lilith and Hoshizaki.
”Seems like Makoto's ants need to eat wood before they fight.”
Makoto continued to play his wooden flute, which had completely transformed from a knife and into a shifting musical instrument. Wisps of green mana flowed from his flute and drifted leisurely toward the fire ants.
”Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!”
However, despite the swarm of fire ants surrounding him, Ooyama was more amused than afraid. None of the ants could penetrate the God of Thunder aura that shrouded his massive body, the powerful electricity keeping them at bay.
”Your little ants are useless!” Ooyama sneered. Makoto merely smiled and transformed his flute back into his knife.
”It's time to end things.”
Then hurry up and end it instead of looking all smug and gloating! You want to give Ooyama a chance to counterattack or something?
Makoto lifted a finger toward his lips, and whispered. I spotted a small fire ant perched on his finger, flapping its wings a little as it listened.
Interesting…
I adjusted the magnification on my glasses and zoomed in on the fire ant. To my surprise, the readings in my glasses were going off the charts. Apparently, the sensors could detect an increase in body temperature and fire mana.
Makoto was smiling as he offered an explanation.
”Divine Fire Ants eat wood to preserve them as fuel…”
”Eh?! What's going on?!”
Even the slow and stupid Ooyama realized that something was amiss as the fire ants surrounded him, their mana signatures and temperature surging. Perspiration rolled off his body in streams as he glanced around, despite being protected by his God of Thunder ability.
The fire ants ignored his surprise and continued to swarm all over him mercilessly. Batting their wings, they crawled all over his God of Thunder aura, their only increasing mana protecting them from the deadly electric field that wreathed Ooyama's body. Within a minute, Ooyama's God of Thunder was completely engulfed in a fiery cloak of insects.
”The bomb is ready.”
I had no idea why Makoto was trying to act cool, but I decided against saying anything. Keeping quiet, I watched as he cocked his hand back, the knife in his hand crackling with flames. In an instant, I suddenly understood what he was trying to do.
This can't be good…
In a swift motion, Makoto threw his knife at the massive figure of Ooyama's God of Thunder, which was now carpeted in fire ants. His aim was true, the flaming knife striking one of the fire ants adhering to the lightning aura and breaking it apart.
The flames ignited the wooden fuel inside the fire ant, the wooden fuel that the insect had consumed earlier.
The fire ant exploded, setting up a chain reaction that ignited the other fire ants. The surrounding fire ants also went up in flames, which sparked even more explosions that swept across the entire sea of milling insects.
”Shit! They're exploding!”
Beads of perspiration ran down Ooyama's face when he saw the explosions battering against his God of Thunder aura. No matter how powerful his defensive God of Thunder aura was, there was no way it could withstand multiple, repeated explosions of this magnitude – especially when they were all combined at the same moment.
With a howl, Ooyama vanished in a tremendous explosion that swept across the valley.
However…
”Phew. It's good that Ooyama didn't die from that explosion.”
Sanada sighed in relief as snowflake-shaped mana scattered around him.
”Tsk, it's because you saved him.”