Pioneering the Apocalyptic World - Chapter 71
A little warning.
In this chapter the author is constantly changing the view point from Uru’s to 3rd person view point (and the enemy/3rd? View point) back and forth without any warnings and It is a little messy to translate in English. So sorry?
Chapter 6: What came along with the thunder
(Uru’s view point)
“Rion, don’t get too close to the exit! Hurry up to the back!!”
“Eh?”
Uru’s warning, sensing that ‘That’ was approaching… Was just a little, too late.
??Doooooooooooon! !
“??”
A ray of light that was shot down from the heavens??A lightning strike swallowed Rion’s body.
To be precise, because Rion stopped and barely didn’t show her face from the hole, the lightning fell on the ground beside Rion and did not hit her directly. If it had been a direct hit, it wouldn’t matter how much of a God blessed miko she is, her life would have been lost.
Therefore, it can be said that the warning itself saved Rion’s life, but at this time Uru was not able to make such a judgment, and it only contributed to the regret of “If only I had noticed sooner”.
“Rion!!!”
The light and dust that burned her eyes subsided, and Uru rushed over to Rion who collapsed without even being able to let out a scream.
Her condition was… Terrible.
Her equipment was blown away, her clothes were torn, and most of her skin was exposed.
There were bruises in the shape of thunder all over her body, and whether her skin had been burned or burst from the inside, the areas that weren’t dyed red were the fewer.
“Rion! Stay strong!”
I gently picked her up so as not to burden her body even more, and called out to her, but there was no reply. She seems to be completely unconscious.
At the lukewarm-feeling liquid dripping between her fingers, a cold feeling ran down Uru’s spine
“…! Potion!”
Saying “Just in case.” Rion had given me a potion, but since I didn’t have to use it myself, I had almost completely forgotten about its existence.
Rion’s body is wrapped in the faint healing light of the potion. But Its effects were that perhaps she just looked a little better? The wounds didn’t close, and she didn’t regain consciousness, and like before, little by little, her life is slowly running out.
“Is the potion’s healing power not enough!? Damn, I can’t do anything more, at least if Fricka was here…”
Thinking that far, I remembered that there was another person in this place.
“That’s right, Regulus! The Return stone-”
Use it, I tried to keep doing so, but as soon as I put Regulus in sight, I realized that it wouldn’t come true.
Regulus was also caught in the lightning strike, and although not as bad as Rion, he was seriously injured.
I threw a potion at Regulus while holding Rion, but although he groaned, he remained unconscious and was not in a state that he could use an item.
“If only I had a return stone that I could use too…!”
Uru had never cursed herself for not being able to make things as much as she does now. She gritted her teeth hard, her lips cracked open and start bleeding, but she didn’t even noticed it.
However, there is no way things will turn around just by regretting it. Waiting for Rion or Regulus to wake up while recovering them with potions on hand little by little so that no one die??
??Guruaaaaaaaaa! !
??Gyaaah!
…… It seems they won’t let me do that.
It seems that the mighty presence that Uru sensed before the lightning strike came to this place with Its entourage.
“Even though I don’t have time to be your opponent…!”
‘Something’ welled up inside Uru, and as if responding to it, her vision started to be dyed red.
I could hear my heart pounding loudly, and it seemed that it was being sent to every corner of my body along with my heartbeat.
It circulates throughout the body, making the blood, the soul, boil hot.
And then, it erupted outside as if the dam had broken.
“You guys… Don’t get in the waay!!!”
The events of the next few minutes, as if covered by fog, were only faintly vague in Uru’s memory.
Uru, clad in a black aura, with the slightest bit of reason that’s left in her, left the hole so as not to get Rion and Regulus involved in the battle. She didn’t even cared if she was being hit by the heavy rain.
Then, she glared at those who stood in her way, with cold eyes that were completely devoid of her usual cheerfulness, a gaze which seemed to freeze the weak-willed in place.
The targets are in the sky, one with a gigantic body with seems to be the boss and twenty followers.
The entourage are all birds with a length of about 2 meters, equipped with large beaks and claws, and seemed to be trying to intimidate their prey (Uru) as they circled overhead and continued to caw.
The boss looks like a mix of an eagle and a dragon.
Inside of Its large beak, which is much larger than its entourage, It has sharp teeth, and with a single bite It can rip apart the one bitten b it in a single instant
Its claws are as thick as Uru’s arm, and once its prey are grabbed, it’s likely that it never will be able to escape again or at the moment when it’s grabbed, their body will be cut into pieces by the sharp claws.
Although Its whole body is covered with feathers, It emitted a pressure that makes it easy to imagine that muscles like steel that are tightly packed in its body. That appearance… Was like the champion of the skies.
Also, as Its major feature, its body is clad with purple thunder, and it repeatedly crackles and discharges around Its body.
Looking at that, Uru realized.
It was you who dropped that lightning, right?
It wasn’t just a lightning strike accident, it willing struck Rion.
If that’s the case… Then die.
As Uru’s will is mixed with murderous intent, with a ‘Bam!’ one of the entourage body exploded in a firework of flesh and blood.
She throwed a stone that was rolling at around her feet with a speed that could not be seen by naked eyes.
Its speed and weight were unmatched by Rion’s arrows, and it had enough power to kill its followers with a single blow.
Gyaah! ?
Guaah!
The mere entourage (weaklings) couldn’t even perceive Uru’s attack speed, and became surprised by the sudden death of their companion.
That gap was fatal. …… No, even if there was no gap, their ending would have been the same.
Bam! Bam! Bam! And one after another, they followed the same fate as the first one.
The entourage who couldn’t understand what was going on turned into a mass of confusion. And soon that confusion was subsided.
… By the end that is called annihilation.
Of course, Uru couldn’t settle with just that.
She was also throwing stones at the boss.
But.
Crackle!
It was blocked by the lightning that the boss was being clad in.
And the boss also didn’t simple let It be unilaterally attacked.
Guoooooo!
Bang!!!
With a roar as a signal, the lightning strikes Uru.
“Gaaaaaaaa!!!”
Even Uru, who has an amazing physical ability, could not dodge the lightning that was unleashed at the speed of light.
She couldn’t stand the damage from the direct hit and raised her voice, being blown backwards by the impact. With this she can’t fight anymore.
…… Or It was thought so.
“Aaaah!”
Uru threw a huge stone?a stone block placed by Rion?with the lightning’s energy and her own aura on it as a payback.
Certainly, if she was in normal state, she wouldn’t have been able to escape a mortal damage. However, instead of attenuating lightning damage like an aura of miasma, Uru’s black aura instead absorbed the lightning energy.
Guaoooo! ?
The boss tried to intercept it with lightning, but it was blocked by Uru’s aura and was unable, and it ended being hit directly by the stone block.
The stone block that has considerable more mass than a mere stone was thrown up to Its face. Due that impact and the fragments from the stone block that was shattered by the collision, the boss reflexively closed Its eyes.
And Uru don’t missed that opportunity.
??Crackle! Crackle! Crackle!
Taking a javelin-throwing stance.
A black lightning spear in her hands.
Using all the power that she possess.
She pulls back her arm as far as it will go, as if she were drawing a bow.
And stomping her feet in the ground with the force that splits the earth.
She delivers a blow that pierces the heavens!
Boom! !
Guaaaaah!?
However, it only managed to gouge out the shoulder of the boss instead of the head that was the target.
It was just a coincidence that the boss was able to avoid the lightning spear. It only happened because he moved his neck to shake off the stone shards.
… Had it hit his head, or his torso, it would have been instant death.
Although the boss’s mind was smeared with pain and humiliation, it decided to withdraw immediately due to even more greater sense of fear.
Looking at the back of the boss who was clumsily fleeing, Uru’s wrath did not subside, and at that time, when she concentrated her strength on her legs to pursuit the boss.
“……A……-san……”
“?Regulus?”
The faint voice of Regulus reached Uru’s sensitive ears, reminding her of something more important than the pursuit.