A Chronicle of Life in a Different World

Episode 455: Degenerative Part 1

"Ah?"

Looking at the tentacle pierced into his chest, the air leaks out of the mouth of Reurus and a small voice is heard.

The tentacles pierced the chest with armor, even though they only avoided being forced to twist their torso through their heart. The skin, the muscles, the sternum, and even the tentacles that penetrate the lungs stop moving.

Pain and fever that I feel even when I use "Calorie Release". If you don't use 'Calorie Release', you will have a severe pain that will make you go mad.

Fortunately, the tentacles did not shatter the armor Reurus wore, and they would have cut through it beautifully without even producing fragments.

It is fortunate that the metal pieces did not damage the inside of the body - not very fortunate at the moment when the tentacles of the big fist penetrated the chest.

"Gi, gi, gi... gu, giaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Reurus moves while spitting blood out of my mouth. Grasp the tentacle with your left hand and rub the blade of the Dragon Slash with your right hand, trying to pull the tentacle by force.

However, if you cannot shake off the Dragon Slash, it will not lead to the cutting of the tentacle. Although the blade slightly entered the tentacle, the blade did not advance further.

"Ze, bu... bu..."

The effect of crushing one lung or the sound of breathing is not normal. Breathing doesn't feel like you're breathing properly, and if you open your mouth, you'll bleed out.

The armor worn by Reurus is a piece of Dwarf, like Dragon Slasher. The three layers of armor made of multiple monsters were robust enough to withstand most attacks, but the tentacles released by the black sphere penetrated easily with wet fingertips.

Naturally, Reurus's body is not as robust as his armor. Although it is reasonably robust because I am using "caloric release", I was seriously injured by a single blow - enough to say that I was one step ahead of a fatal injury - without saying that I didn't know anything about it.

However, rather than being fatal to ordinary people, it is an injury that is not strange to die instantly. It can be said that it is a step ahead of fatal wounds because it is a revulsion, but even in the battles that have been overcome many times so far, the scale of injuries that compete for one or two remains unchanged.

(Concentrate... concentrate...!

If the "Calorific Release" is solved, you will definitely die. The intuitive Reurus endures pain and focuses on his injuries.

I had my neck cut until the middle of the "neck hunt", but it was still better than then. The tentacle is stuck in the wound and the feeling of foreign body is terrible, but it can still be healed.

Even during the Neck Hunt, I was able to heal my wounds. Reurus thinks that he should first slash the tentacles and then heal the wounds - and the body pulses loudly.

……………………

The pain I felt when I used "Calorie Release" suddenly subsided. However, Reurus did not realize the fact and was more attentive to the anomalies that had occurred in his body than to “such things”.

The tentacles pierced into your chest are not the only ones that convey intense pain and foreign body sensation. Reurus' body reacts to the magic of a black sphere that can be felt through the tentacles.

--This is good, the best food.

The more unconsciously such words pass through your brain, the more aromatic and intense the magic. Reurus' body began to greedily swallow the magic of the tentacles, against the backdrop of his reason to cut them off somehow.

"Nh, uhh... uhh..."

The magic of the black sphere is absorbed into the body of the Reurus through the tentacles. It is a sudden accumulation of magic that I have never felt even in a realuse that has eaten various monsters and turned them into magic.

Even when I ate the meat of an advanced monster, I could assure you that I was not so satisfied.

――――

So for the first time, something slightly emotional leaked from the black sphere. The sphere trembles slightly in confusion, pulling out tentacles stuck to Reurus' chest.

…………

Reurus stopped it silently. Grasp the tentacle pierced into the wound with your left hand and hold it firmly to prevent it from falling out.

- Not yet.

--More, more.

The instinct raises the scream, and the body does not let go of the tentacles to follow the scream. Reurus smiled miserably, feeling the edge of his mouth hanging while red staining his mouth with his own blood.

Something came to mind about such a revulsion, and the black sphere takes action that it has never seen before. The newly grown tentacle was swinging down to the tentacle pierced by the revulsion, forcing it to cut a thousand times.

--Give me more magic.

--Fill your stomach more.

As soon as I could no longer gain magic, my instincts raised a voice of dissatisfaction. The body of Reurus disappeared from the amputated tentacles and began to bleed out of the holes in his chest. But with Eliza's help, or because she was able to rapidly replenish her magic, she started making noises and the wound began to clog.

Reurus, whose wound is blocked in seconds, opens and closes his left hand to check his condition. Turning to the black sphere, he leaned forward while applying force to the right hand holding the "Dragon Slash".

― ― If you can get that much magic through the tentacles, wouldn't the main unit taste even better?

Such thoughts occupy the back of the brain, and the revus rushes into the black sphere - just before that.

"What, this...?"

"Ntuu...."

"Hmm!?

Eliza and Sarah raised their anguish and Reurus stopped at the edge. Looking in the direction of her voice, Eliza and Sarah had a distressing expression on their chest.

Reurus' reason breathes back into these two figures.

(Damn it... that sucks... "It's delicious but tasty”...)

The magic gained has never been more fulfilling. That's how the magic of the "contract" that usually flows into the Reurus backfires, affecting Eliza and Sarah.

“That's why." If Eliza and Sarah don't bear any more of the burden, Reurus stops. Stop rushing your feet, close your mouth on the black sphere, and bite your teeth without breaking.

(All I have to do right now is protect the samurai... that's all...)

So you don't have to push it any further. Reurus thought so, but the magic he captured so much from his body won't allow it.

If you've accumulated it, you should spit it out - Reus recognized it as a threat or reacted instantly to a black sphere of more than twenty tentacles.

More than ever before, I put magic into the Dragon Slash and slashed the approaching tentacle from the edge. If I hadn't slashed one at a time, I would have cut four or five pieces together.

Inspired by such a revulsion attack, the black sphere that had produced the tentacles at a slow pace immediately produced the tentacles.

Some tentacles were close to sewing the gap between the slashes made by Reurus, but the Reurus was fine as long as it was slightly plucked. The flank and thighs are cut and the blood comes out, but after a few seconds, the wound becomes blocked.

As long as it doesn't go through the back, that's fine. It's convenient if you're targeting yourself.

"SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Slash, pay, crush, decapitate tentacles. Wounded heals, wounded regenerates. Even Neddy crossed the black spherical opponent unconscious with a single Dragon Slash.

- Put me back in the original snack.

I was surprised to hear Chris and Tina's voice in Reurus' ear. Looking at the voice, Chris and Tina raised their hands towards the cracked sky and saw the face of the fox that was supposed to be in their hands disappear sometime.

"... uhh, oh"

Reurus spontaneously leaks his voice to the sight he sees as he slashes his tentacles.

A crack in the sky above the town of Lemona. The “crack” begins to disappear from the edge, and the sky returns to its original shape as time goes by.

Correspondingly, changes also appeared in the black sphere. Until then, the intense magic felt slightly thinner, reducing the number of tentacles produced to about half a dozen.

It took about a minute for the cracks in the sky to disappear completely. Meanwhile, Reus, who kept slashing the tentacles released from the black sphere, felt the momentum gradually dropping.

--Now you can slay the black sphere, right?

It was a realuse that I thought about, but I answered instinctively.

There is no "Dragon Slash" that has been used so badly before it can be slashed.

Even though the sky's cracks disappeared, the amount of magic you can feel from the black sphere is still enormous. Even if you try to slay the black sphere body with the "Dragon Slash" that was sharpened every time you slay the tentacle, the blade stops on the way and the sword may break.

If so, what should I do? Until then, Natalia had the answer that Leurus had defended.

Chris and Tina are followed by the completion of "Chant", and there is a strong spell of magic around Natalia. Although the total amount does not reach the black sphere, the magic placed under Natalia's control seems to be waiting for the time to be released now or now.

Reurus and Natalia's gaze staggered for just a moment, and the Reurus moved instantly.

Natalia is already ready to shoot magic, but shooting “as-is” could cause serious damage to the town of Lemona.

Then where are we going to shoot?

(Take it, buddy!)

Reurus shouted "Dragon Slasher" in his heart and ran towards the black sphere.