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Episode Seven: The Spider - The Dead

■ Regarding those who die

The existence of [Reaper] was a literal god to [Raptor King] Aro Urmil.

Super Position, [God (The One)] series, where everything is uncertain even the conditions to be met.

Sometimes masters devoting their lives to one technology can reach old age, while boys and girls with broken talents can reach within their youth.

[God] refers to, determines, certifies, and is given something that is not even equal in a < master > of all-powerful talent.

Something that directs Job recognizes the talent that [God] can have as [God].

Something to make that determination was also known by some as the "legacy of the previous administrators" and the "archetypal system".

Then what talent is recognized as [Reaper]?

If this is [Battousai], I can tell it's a genius in the Battousai technique.

If this is [the god of the earth], I can tell it is one of the three great attributes, the magical genius of the local attributes.

But [Reaper] doesn't know what he's referring to.

It's not necromancy. It belongs to [Pluto] and [Necromancer King].

It's not even the number of killings. It belongs to [the Assassin King] and [the Murder Princess], [the Mad King].

But death is his.

No one lives in hostility to him.

The mayor of a city in Cardina who was following him hostilely was soon discovered cold in his own bed.

It was dead to sleep, not worth countless guards and defensive equipment.

Many of those hostile to him die so naturally that they do not even know how they were killed.

Being hostile to him meant being condemned to death.

Aro Urmir swore allegiance to him because he was a dying man.

It wasn't long after he was acting as a freelance assassin, knowing that by chance he had caught [Reaper] 's eye.

Aro Urmir was not hostile to [Reaper].

It was too late at the time of hostility, and before it did, Aro Urmil turned to the side of [Reaper] under oath of lifelong loyalty.

Before he died, he obeyed him who died.

The decision was never a mistake, Aro Urmir can assure you.

Fifty years after I served, I was brought to life without death.

I follow the deathly [God]. You can't die.

There were naturally those who died even under [Reaper] 's command, but Allo Urmil was convinced that that was just too much faith and strength for the dead.

The act of believing in God (...), which should have been lost at last in this world, was resurrected within the [Reaper] organization.

Thus, even when the faithful [Reaper] told him to "give it to La Crima as a modified human body," Aro Urmir naturally accepted.

I could assure you that was not a mistake again, Aro Urmir after the surgery...... [Alanea Idea].

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□ ■ Royal castle - the deepest hall on the ground floor

Shortly after [Alanea] and the Kingsguard Knights started the fight.

"Hushuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."

[Alanea] used the depths of [Raptor King] with first hand,

"All personnel! Take [Pleasant All-purpose Ecstasy (Ericcil)]!

The Kingsguard Knights took the [Pleasant All-purpose Psychotropic], which is being paid with Theodore's instructions.

In the first hand of both, the ordination goes up to the Kingsguard Knights.

The "Faithful Mist" used by [Alarnair] has the skill of optionally selecting ten species from poisons in its possession that cause viral system abnormalities, mixing them without any chemical backlash and spraying them around as poison fog.

In addition, the skill level of "Violent Toxicity", which increases the effect of viral system abnormalities, is [Violent King] and is therefore EX, which is 100% improved.

If you multiply the deadly viral system status abnormally by ten at the same time, you will not normally be immune to instant death.

The "Virus Resistance" skill level was also EX, and it was not surprising that it was now wiped out except for [Alarnair], which constantly completely disables viral system status abnormalities.

In contrast, the only means for the Kingsguard Knights side to counter this is [a healing panacea].

Psychotropic medicines that completely cure viral system status abnormalities except for their own diseases and deactivate them for another 180 seconds.

This dose spares [Alanea] 's "Faithful Mist" from immediate death, and 180 seconds does not accept the poison, which is the biggest weapon.

For [Vicious King], it can also be described as lethal (Faithful).

But...

"Hush-hush! [Pleasant All-purpose Psychotropic]! Nice! I love it, it is!

[Alanea] rejoiced in the medicine that was supposed to be a natural enemy to him.

To that sight, which can even be described as creepy, but the Kingsguard Knights do not cower.

"Three, two, -" Grand Cross "

"" "-" Grand Cross ""

Fits Theodore's hand sign, and the Kingsguard Knights move.

Our next hand, which prevented the opponent from being proud, was our own profound.

It is the Grand Cross, the greatest firepower of the [Holy Knight].

Four Kingsguard Knights, including Theodore, use it.

[Holy Knight] Nevertheless, not everyone can use this depths.

But still, these four have acquired "tired” skills.

After that Franklin opponent's defeat at Gideon, the Kingsguard Knights increased their use of the Grand Cross and trained enough to "tire” as well.

It also plays out in this field, completing the “Tired" of four Grand Crosses.

Cross-shaped columns of light, extending from earth to heaven.

The thick and mighty running of light knocks out as much power as it can knock down whether it's a pure dragon or not.

'I see, it's a big deal...... too bad. That's not good.'

But in the columns of ultra-high heat light...... [Alanea] was alive and well.

"Hushhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh The eagles have combined resistance to thermal attacks. Whatever, I have a colleague now (...) '

[Alarnair] is equipped with multiple accessories that confer resistance to heat.

That was originally meant to mitigate the aftermath (...) of the accompanying [Ignis Idea] attack.

But it was also effective against the high fever of the Grand Cross.

'Cause while [the healing all-purpose psychic drug] crushed the depths of [the Raptor King], the depths of [the Holy Knight] are also crushed forms with accessories.

"I knew that!

But without interruption from the moment the "Grand Cross" light went out, twelve Kingsguard Knights were engaged in melee fights on the totality.

"Ho?

[Alanea], who thought they would be upset that their injustice was as if it didn't make sense, was surprised by the move.

When we revealed the seed, Theodore knew from the beginning that it wouldn't "make sense."

One of Theodore's three junior positions is [Appraiser], which can be acquired by combining general visual skills such as Nursing, Appraisal Eye, and Clairvoyance.

They are all useful generic skills, but can be acquired as otherwise in other jobs. Also, since each skill level does not reach skill level 5, which is considered the upper limit for lower positions, there are not as many [appraisers] to choose from.

But Theodore, unable to afford the job selection frame, had chosen [appraiser] who could acquire three useful skills in one job.

And now, by the Appraisal Eye, [Alanea] also found that it was equipped with accessories for heat resistance, and decided to use "Grand Cross" for the purpose.

The hand sign given just before the "Grand Cross" is an instruction for this purpose.

"Ooh, ooh, ooh."

Twelve blades with all the spirits of the Kingsguard Knights, [Saint Knights] 's sword strike, which enhanced [Knights] sword strike skills, stood on [Alanea] 's body,

'... it doesn't work'

All of them - had been stopped where they stabbed shallow in the epidermis.

"Huh...! So far...!

Theodore is struck by the fact that his sword does not stab the enemy's chest.

"Hushhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Naturally given the level difference...... Oh, the level of eagles is like 980 in total. '

Although Nursing is a skill to see through the opponent's status, if the opponent possesses similar skills and equipment to inhibit Nursing, the level difference makes it extraordinarily difficult to read accurately.

"It doesn't make any sense anymore, such as your status as the [Raptor King]."

"What...?

'If you were only a weasel who was once a [fierce king], you might have been able to defeat it even at this level because of the fragility of your flesh... but now you can't get through'

[Raging King] was a job derived from the [Toxicologist (Poison Mancer)] of the Alchemist lineage, and with the exception of MP and DEX, his physical status should have been significantly lower than that of the [Holy Knight].

[Raging Poison King] Then we would have been able to defeat him with this collaboration.

But now he is [Alanea Idea], not [Vicious King] Allo Urmil... [Super Embrio], a human modified by.

"This body is not as vulnerable as a human being."

[Alanea] 's flesh fuses with the upper pure dragon-class spider-shaped monster made of La Crima.

This Monster Fusion Ceremony is a common method in La Crima's modified surgery.

Because with this approach, physical strength can easily produce (...) a broken modified human far above the avant-garde, while having pure rear guard and production skills.

In fact, the status of [Alanea] now beats that of [Saint Knight] more in all respects.

"Simply adding up the status, the eagle outweighs you. Well, that's this skill I brought together. I'll buy your intentions... but you can't even fight them, can you?

With the kind of eyes a human could even see in a small spider, the spider monster stunned the Kingsguard Knights.

"... not yet!

But the Kingsguard Knights don't stop that blade.

I slashed it with full collaboration and could only do shallow scratches.

But... I got a scratch.

Even the Grand Cross has not been completely disabled.

The epidermis of [Alanea] have a slight burn and heat.

A shallower wound than the lower fire attribute magic, but still hurting.

I am not an invincible monster without scratches.

Then there's room to knock it down.

"It's possible... it is!

Once, there was a monster who ravaged the Kingsguard Knights.

There was a monster stretching a barrier that played a physical attack and disabling the Holy Attribute attack.

The Kingsguard Knights were about to tear away at the natural enemy of [the Holy Knights], that monster they didn't have to say invincible.

But it was one [Holy Knight]... who defeated the monster.

[Holy Knight] 's < Master > defeated his natural enemies, a monster he thought was invincible.

Theodore... and the Knights of Kingsguard watched the moment.

He watched his right hand put up to announce victory.

Then we can't give up ourselves either.

Because we are also [Holy Knights] who defend this country.

"Hang up! As long as your hands and feet move... keep fighting to defeat this monster."

"" "Saah! Yeesaaaaaa" "

The Kingsguard Knights keep moving.

Continue to attack while taking [Soothing All-purpose Psychotropic] again.

Without giving up as one person, he releases his sword moves only to cut his arm a thousand times and continues to scratch [Alanea].

"Hush,... depressing!

Continuing to receive that sword flash, [Alanea] waves the spider's arm in a frustrating voice when Theodore's sword pokes him in the chest again.

Four Kingsguard knights are bounced off the four spider arms wielded by the power of the Pure Dragon class, but the remaining eight continue to attack in that gap without timidity.

(... I see a gap.)

Theodore understands.

[Alarnair] is strong.

Any status would be a dozen times more than they are [the Holy Knight].

In particular, the strength of the outer shell of the spider is stiff, even compared to the [Holy Knight], which is predominantly END.

But to put it the other way...... AGI is also just winning compared to the blunt-footed [Holy Knight] without horseback riding again, and has not even reached the subsonic speed.

What's more, even if the AGI figures beat each other a lot, there's not as much difference in the actual speed of action as the numbers.

Then you won't be killed instantly without being able to do anything.

"You're a pigsty...!

There is a reason for the relatively low AGI for [Alarnair].

The fused spider-shaped monster was extraordinarily faster than [Alarnair] in the first place, reaching subsonic speeds.

But that's only if you keep your shape as a spider.

Beyond Allo Urmil being human, the base is in human form, and then you can't move like a spider.

Giving the body of a spider doesn't know how long it will take to move like a spider, so we can only make it close to humans even if AGI can't exert it.

Therefore, speed (AGI) is not the same as simple endurance (END) and does not remain a monster.

A part that can also be described as a fundamental drawback of the monster fusion technique.

Unlike Gardner's fusion skills, beyond being physically synthesized with monsters, parts of man (...) arise that cannot exert the power of monsters as long as they remain.

'- I hope you don't lick me!

But it also means that while crushing the monster's advantages, it also leaves its advantages as a human being.

[Alarnair] wielded the spider arm again,

- At the same time, countless threads (...) were released from its tip.

"Nah ⁉"

The yarn to be swung - the adhesive yarn tangled the surrounding Kingsguard Knights and slammed them straight against the wall.

"Or...!

Strike him hard in the back and Theodore exhales the air in his lungs.

But I breathe and try to move right away... but realized that I couldn't move by the [restraint] of the yarn.

"This is...!

'Hush... it's the yarn as you can see. You let me slip it, but that's it.'

Speaking so, [Alanea] continues to sprinkle a lot of yarn from his spider arm, filling the hall with a spider's nest.

Because of the spider, I use not only poison but also yarn.

Naturally speaking, this is in reverse order.

It is because the pre-modification Aro Urmil is a man familiar with poison and yarn that the spider was chosen as the monster of the fusion opponent.

"Hushuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu. This is how eagles have always liked to stop their movements with yarn. '

Because…….

"Now you can't use [Pleasant All-purpose Psychotropic] anymore."

That's why he also excelled in yarn restraint.

As already mentioned, [Healing All-purpose Psychotropic] is an item that will be a natural enemy to [Raptor King].

Countervailing measures will naturally be necessary, and that countervailing measures will seal reuse with [restraint] by yarn.

Because the skill of using yarn as a weapon varies in accuracy depending on DEX, it was also a build that synergizes with [Raptor King] for Aro Urmil before the modification.

"Hushuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu. If we do this, we will wait for three minutes without being able to physically move... for fear of the moment (...) when [Pleasant All-purpose Psychotropic] will expire. '

Above all, it's impeccable even in satisfying his tastes.

It is also for this reason that he was pleased to have been used [Pleasant All-purpose Psychotropic].

As I said, it was hand-soldered, but that's it.

All you have to do is go down to the basement and assassinate the Second Princess after you've seen the fearful Kingsguard Knights.

[Alanea] thought so, peeking into the face of the Knights of Kingsguard bound by yarn,

――――

I saw something incredible.

To this day he has continued to work as a dying man.

I've restrained him, made him paint the poison, and killed hundreds, thousands of people.

Without one exception, the victims were in despair before an inescapable death.

Whenever I saw it, I was pleased and relieved to stand on the side of death.

By becoming this body, he was able to die unilaterally.

A strong body that feels only an itchy degree of pain even when cut with a sword.

Overflowing with power, even old retreated far away, realizing that death would keep him away from himself, he could affirm that the best of his life was now.

He said that he was the one who would die, and that death would not befall him.

For him, who considers himself to be such a mortal,

the prey that pushed it into its own must-win form,

There's no longer a hitter. The Kingsguard Knights,

of the Knights...... all of them,

- It was only an unknown fear that there was no despair at all.

"Hih......"

[Alanea] is only unexpectedly lagging behind in their eyesight,

"Right under target -" Grand Cross. "

Theodore and the others unleashed the Grand Cross toward their feet, unable to move.

Moments later, the [Holy Knights] who unleashed The Grand Cross burn up.

It undergoes its own super-high fever, which greatly reduces HP even after the reduction of damage caused by the Protection of the Sacred Knight.

But they withstand that high fever.

They know.

the figure of the [Holy Knight] who kept himself in the midst of the Fire and still continued to use flames to protect the people.

That's why they should do the same again.

And as consideration for that suicide...

'Yikes, yarn... in this way...!

The yarn [Alanea] that was holding them in captivity had been baked out a thousand times.

It is [Alanea] herself who has the accessories for heat resistance and its effect does not extend to the yarn after release from the body.

It appears to be a yarn of biological origin with adhesion, and the yarn burns down with the heat of "Grand Cross".

"Assault"

How many words followed Theodore's words?

But still, the Kingsguard Knights body was moving.

Like before he was restrained, [Alanea] he's aiming and sticking out his sword.

"Mm, wasted foot scratches."

[Alarnair] wields his arms and thread again, bouncing off the Kingsguard Knights approaching himself.

But there was something that inhibited the movement.

It was one or two rides - a metal horse.

'What, this horse...!

That was a mass-produced brilliant jade horse, [Second Model], which was received by the Knights of Kingsguard.

Riding battles cannot take place in this indoor, but we can nevertheless hand out the [second model] that deploys the barrier as a wall.

'Gu...... Out of the way!

[Alarnair] destroys the [second model] trying to contain itself with yarn and arm force.

[Second model] shatters, but still doesn't matter.

Because what I needed was to buy some time.

"" "Grand Cross" Huh...!

……⁉

“Tired" "Grand Cross" occurs at the foot of [Alarnair], which was made compatible with [Second Model].

Although “tired" had lost its power from the first four to two shots, it similarly seals [Alarnair] 's vision and burns it out of the edge releasing the yarn.

'I thought I could take down the eagle with these hands...!

[Alarnair] assumes that under the pressure of the running of light, he cannot escape through it.

Damage is insignificant by accessories, and this can't be fatal.

[Second model] Likewise, this is just a bitter time buyer.

When [Alarnair] thought so, the pressure of light was halved.

(Did the user's MP run out......!

Heavier depths of consumption than the ex. No wonder it's depleted.

From the feeling of receiving [Alanea] decided so and got out of the reduced pressure once and for all.

"Out... ⁉"

But the moment I got out of the light, what I waited for was the look of Theodore sticking out his sword from close range.

"-Oh, wow."

All in all, a fabric stone for Theodore to approach close range by poking the [Alanea] surprise.

Theodore, who had unleashed his own "Grand Cross," protrudes his sword into [Alanea] 's chest.

That's where he's attacked many times before.

One thing about the robust armor that had been attacked several times and even slightly damaged was the

pierced by Theodore's blow - causing the blade to sink into its body.

…………

…………

All who were on the spot felt that time had stopped.

Theodore can't move after a full-body psychic blow that ran out of both his own MP and SP.

[Alanea] also looked down silently at the sword piercing his own chest.

And......

"Hushuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

[Alanea] said so, waving his human arm, bouncing off Theodore.

"Oops..."

That blow broke his ribs and stabbed him in the gut, Theodore zeroed a blood-colored cough.

"Ri, Sir Lindos!

"Then we...!

The Kingsguard Knights are full of creativity and many are unconscious in their escape from the yarn and the attack of [Alanea].

Still, I'm going to try to fight [Alanea].

But...

"Oops..."

"Ko, this is...!

Faster than that, the time limit came.

The second [healing panacea] I took began to expire.

Many of the ingredients in the Faithful Mist were also harmless with the ultra-high fever of the Grand Cross, which was used many times, but the ingredients that were still toxic lingered in the air and attacked them.

Even if I try to take a third [soothing all-purpose psychotropic], my hands shake and I can't stop taking it.

"Hush, hush, hush. Totally...... while you're fragile, you've really made me look antiquated. But your resistance was in vain. '

[Alanea] pulled out Theodore's sword, which stood against his own chest, let's go.

'You must have targeted the eagle's heart, but the heart isn't here. But if I get stabbed in the heart, I'm not going to die. "

[Alarnair] has built-in spares for major organs other than the cerebral marrow.

If you attack your gut, you won't die like that. It's made.

"But I'll never forget you guys with your memorable wasted footscratches! When I kill the Second Princess, I'll tell you and let you hear it too! As a fragile knighthood who thought of dying and stabbed and wounded one was the limit! Hush! Hush! Hush! '

[Alanea] said so and laughed loudly, looking down at the Kingsguard Knights lying on the ground with abnormal conditions and full creativity...

- I heard a strange noise called pikiri (...).

…… What's that noise?

[Alarnair] looks around, but doesn't know where the sound came from.

But I was convinced that perhaps the knights' gear was about to break or that the hall itself was screaming in a fierce battle...,

"Oh, stab wound...... one"

I overheard those words, of Theodore, who kept his back on the wall as it wore out.

'Oh, can you still talk? You must be the most seriously wounded.'

"... just a few scratches."

Theodore's words seemed like admonitions.

Perhaps consciousness is blurred due to abnormal conditions and serious injuries.

But [Alanea] got cold in his words... somewhere.

'What's wrong with the wound...?

Speaking of which, I heard pikiri (...) from somewhere again.

That sounded like a second time, as if before the Great Embankment (dam) was decimated...... it seemed like a small but ominous strange noise.

"This sound, what the hell..."

"I was seeing... So... I kept aiming..."

'Yes! So what did you keep aiming for!

[Alanea] yelled so angrily at the mysterious sound and Theodore's admonition,

"- Box (...),"

Theodore replied just one word, that's all.

"What...?

Again, it sounded like something would crack (...).

And notice.

That's not the sound that reached the tympanic membrane... he said it was the sound that came directly to the bones of [Alarnair].

Only one stab wound that Theodore put on while the Kingsguard Knights were ready to die and sacrificed.

There's only one thing behind that wound that I was after.

In the first place, Theodore saw… [Alanea] right before it appeared.

[Appraiser] has three general skills.

"Nursing" and "Appraisal Eye," - and "Clairvoyance."

Clairvoyance is a watermarked skill like a Lentgen or airport luggage check machine. It is used to identify articles with a special structure, such as a double bottom, and to check for hazardous materials.

That skill that Theodore uses to protect [Alanea], who was behind the shutter,... also watched with watermarks the stuff stored inside it.

'What the hell is it...... no way ⁉'

It looked like Theodore, and I've been after it since the beginning.

There's only one thing Theodore was after.

In the body of [Alarnair] - an item box containing raw materials that synthesize poison and yarn (...).

It accelerates the sound of pimples, pimples and cracks.

'Wait. Wait...!

It was a natural story in the first place.

Raw materials will be needed to spit out the poison and to release the yarn.

Even so, [Alanea] shed enough venom from the hallway to turn the whole room into a spider's nest.

It is obvious that raw materials are being removed from somewhere rather than the amount that physically fits into the body.

However, the "Appraisal Eye" did not see the item box.

That's why Theodore realized it was the box in his body that was visible in Clairvoyance that housed a huge amount of raw material.

An item box built into your body to ensure that you never lose it, although it is the lifeline of [ALARNEA].

But it has one drawback.

"Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait."

To the sound of the unstoppable crack, [Alanea] screams as if he had forgotten the tranquility until then.

It is not the side of death, but the fear of being turned to the side of being bewitched.

It is not this sound that he fears… it is the common sense of this world that causes it.

Item boxes can be destroyed from the outside.

And if it is destroyed...... punch the contents (...).

"Matte...... abu⁉"

Immediately after a short interruption demon...... [Alanea] burst.

With a material item overflowing inside a strong outer shell, the organs were crushed within a moment, and a few moments later even the outer shell was crushed from the inside by an amount far above its own volume.

There is no bearable reason to change people.

And whosoever conceited that death had gone far from him by the alteration, it was the alteration that held his breath as a cause of death.

Seeing that settlement with a full and creative body......

"... Huh"

Theodore smiled for the first time since that war... and was drunk by a flood of materials, including poison.

To be continued