Kuro no Maou

Gratney Octo's head tells my foot stepping on the stiffness and elasticity like a thick rubber tire. Running through the ground of meat that is easy to run unexpectedly, with this fortunate and all-powerful disease.

"Damn, this is tough on boulders - blast!

Burst the fissure blade (blast blade) onto the head of the big octopus while wiping the giant tentacles that will be swept away with rope jumping procedures.

"Flash of Disease (Yale Slash)"

At the same time as Sariel unleashes the wind martial arts, he confirms his turning back only for a moment. If you look, a big octopus spear man with sharp tips pours down from heaven. That number is enough to cover everything I can dodge in one flight. Spears coming down, is that really what this is about?

"- Ah, hey!

The only reason I lifted it up was because Saliel slashed off one of his tentacles in "A Flash of Disease (Yale Slash)" first. In shame, a gap was created that could barely be avoided.

Still, he was aiming for a tentacle in perfect position, as if I were predicting which way to avoid it.

It's no coincidence. Similar thing, this has already happened three times.

Yes, it happened in the meagre battle time between Zorozolo and the Octopus Corps that we've been pushing since we got down on Gratney Octo's head.

"Thirteen meters away, I'll tow the large one on my left"

Which one is it, the next moment I thought, at a point about ten meters away, I could certainly play a series of small explosions and red and black flashes.

Did you throw a couple of Ignited Daggers together that I gave you? From Sariel's position, he would throw it completely backwards, but he would make it hit exactly as he aimed without difficulty, so it is a precise operation that is not a dexterity word.

While impressed, I challenge a bunch of tentacles approaching from the front.

"Whoa, whoa!

Pa, I don't know how many bottles there are anymore. A composite tentacle intertwined as knitted even in a rope traps me in a ball rather than surrounding me from the front, back, left, and right.

On the verge of being closed completely to the tentacle cage, slash the front with a right hand Zweihander, and then burn it down with a left hand flamberge to open the viaduct.

But a double hit alone can't handle the left and right and from the back to the tentacles that are stretched out.

So the rest will be outnumbered by Sariel, who once again pulled out Rapier's knife, and two Demon Swords (Sword Arts), who let him deploy for melee defense. The wind blade cuts off every hard spear hand, and the duplex of the blackened Zweihander barely cuts off the left and right tentacles.

The point where I rolled in after thrusting through the saturated attack of the tentacles was just the space that Saliel was able to tow and push the big octopus away.

Seriously, Koitsu, I wonder if you see a future about three seconds away.

Saliel, who demonstrates his unceremonious reliability, but still cannot be a decisive opening force in front of this overwhelming quantity of material.

"Did you have a sweet idea... this isn't about looking for weaknesses"

Too many enemies. Both the right and left are filled with nuggets and teetering spooky greens, presenting more like a forest of moving cannibal plants than a herd of octopuses anymore.

I'm not running around looking for weaknesses, just situations that are purely about running away. I thought I'd go to the center of my head first, but instead of getting close in that direction, they're driving me outward.

As it is, I'm going to be the feather of skydiving from the overhead of Gratney Octo within a short distance.

"Even as far as I can see, I can't confirm the area of weakness -"

Every part of me is so short of a weekpoint because it's covered in horribly thick meat over my head in the middle of the run. I guess that's why all my big octopuses can relentlessly poke the great spear man with Dosdos. Just about two or three meters, I cut or poked, and I can't go through any damage to this huge body. At least, it is a thickness that cannot be helped by weapons and magic alone in hand.

However, even more anxiety arises as to whether it is as thick as meat wherever it is attacked.

"- No, I found it"

"Seriously!?

I am more vegan and surprised than pleased by the abrupt report of Sariel's discovery.

Where, rather than what part of it can be judged weak in a single shot?

"I sense a faint intake sound from the back. Probably a respiratory organ like Ella."

Ella is an organ that takes oxygen from the water in the first place. If it's an aquatic organism such as fish, we all have it. It's standard equipment, but it won't mean that Gratney Octo, which is turned into an aerial organism on land, really has an ela.

For example, something like a unique respiratory tract developed from Ella. Either way, if that's the case, it means there's a hole that leads into your body apart from your mouth.

I see, that would certainly be a weakness.

If you can beat an attack directly from inside your body over a meat wall that is comparable in thickness to the Great Wall of Galahad, you're going to figure it out.

"All right, I'll bet there!

Instant Instant. No matter which way you stick here, there's no way out.

I run myself outward to escape from the overhead of Gratney Octo. The overflowing octopuses almost lost sight of their standing several times, but they succeeded in almost running straight through thanks to Sariel's exquisite support.

"I saw the edge. You can just keep jumping, okay?

"I feel a definite flow of air. There's no doubt there's a cavity directly beneath this."

I don't have that much sensing power, so the ground just seems to be interrupted like a wall.

A blue sky spreading in front of your eyes and a wall of white clouds surrounding you. Do I even look like an aggressive suicide walking all the way to the void? No, you're forced to because Sariel carries it too.

But I'm not lost. I don't trust Sariel, but I still believe in his abilities.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa - Demon Hand (Bind Arts) Huh!

I jump out of my arms with a black chain of lifelines as Saliel and the Devil's Sword (Sawdow Arts) clasp their tentacles chasing me from behind.

The tip of the created demon hand (bind arts) is always a sharp claw with a return, just like sheep do. Now grab it and fix it to pierce the ground of meat. All you have to do is stretch out the jarring and the chains and let yourself fall free as you go.

Now, if nothing happens, we're gonna expose ourselves to a senseless hanging ugly state.

"Oh, there it is, that one!

Twenty meters down a likely head cliff, I discovered an open, ela-like area on the back. Its size is as early as possible, better such as a cave. It looked like it was about ten meters wide, about three meters tall, and even at my height there was just enough room to walk in.

"Okay, this is going to break in well - let's go!

Form a further demon hand (bind arts) and stretch it to the entrance of Ella at once. If it can be exercised intensively, it can be suspended without the support of sheep.

As I approached the white ground far below my feet, I succeeded in shaking my chain forward like an aerial blanco and rolling into Ella.

"... there's no pursuit between the octopuses."

"Can't you come after me this far"

Standing at the entrance to Ella, where the raw warm wind flows, checking behind her again, I don't see a single impending green tentacle. There were so many of them that could have overflowed, there wasn't a whole bunch of guys trying to chase us?

"Whatever it is, now that we're out of the way, it's our chance. Let's get to the back - Light (Torch)"

To illuminate a dark road that I don't know how far ahead it is, I create and throw in a fireball that imitates' Lightning (Torch) 'with pseudo-flame attributes. Has this illuminated the darkness since I got into the body of the Last Rose? I usually have Lily and Fiona, so I rarely play lighting.

At a time when the black flame illuminated the inside of the ela without too much glow, even if it was used infrequently. Something shines sharply in front of me.

Flying in without sound, Sole jumps precisely and unbeatably toward his throat, one of the gaps in his armor - before that, he slashes it with a right hand Zweihander.

"You, you're the same guy who stabbed Leki"

A thin single tentacle leaps across a bright blue blood splash in a space illuminated by black flames. The owner of tentacles as elongated as ropes, giddy, and with an uncomfortable treble roar, seemed to crawl around the ground in a critical range illuminated by the lights.

The figure was more squid than octopus. The size is about the same as that of a medium octopus, but the uniquely shaped head of an elongated triangular cone is nothing short of squid. Six tentacles in all. Two of them are characterised by more than three times longer development. The body color is bright cyan, such as the middle of blue and green. In the absence of fog, it stands out to the extent that it is immediately discernible even if he is mixed with a herd of octopuses.

Could it be a different species from Gratney Octo? If it's this huge body of monsters, it's not weird to come with other monsters, like a symbiotic relationship.

Such an intermission with a squid, that is, about ten meters long with his tentacles stretched out? With all this range, when you're targeted in deep fog, you still won't notice so easily. At that time, even if I ran straight out without talking to Leki, it would have been inevitable that she would be sacrificed. If you hadn't been in conversation with them face to face, you would have had the worst possible result of not even knowing who they were, that Leki would be missing in the first place without realizing it at all.

But if we know that there are enemies after the gap like assassins, we can still be vigilant and deal with it.

"Don't think the same hand will make it through twice, you squid"

With the gushing anger, he punches in a grenade (grenade) and stabs a todome before the assassinated squid moves out.

I guess he's just the same type, not the tenacity guy who stabbed Leki. Still, I can't even stay calm to the point where I throw up cursing words.

"I think we're still lurking here. You should watch out for surprise attacks."

"I know... rather than show up already"

From beyond the darkness, two squids emerge suddenly approaching, as though to say there is no point in hiding themselves from me without Hyde Attack.

One crawls through the ceiling, the other crawls through the ground. The guy on the ground is bigger than twice, but the number and shape of the tentacles are the same as the guy just now. Should I see it as just an individual difference?

Two squid of different sizes, of the same type, began to move to slip the two long tentacles for the attack with the remaining four short tentacles, dressed to roll out at any time like a snake with a sickle. That travel speed is not the ratio of the other guys. Is this type also excellent for speed?

But you won't lose sight of yourself at this rate of speed.

Firstly, calmly fasten the whole eye with a fissure blade (blast blade).

Target the smaller one crawling through the ceiling, direct hit. The next moment the blade of the blast stitches squid on the meat wall, it is wrapped in red and black blast flames. Shortly after giving the disconnected demon a roar, the squid turned into a new fireball illuminating the cave.

If you're another big guy crawling on the ground, it looks quicker to slash him with a sword.

Taking advantage of the long tentacle reach, the lead is taken over, but it doesn't matter because it can be accidentally struck.

Stupid. Honestly, I'll bust a straight stretching spearman with a Zweihander, just like I did earlier. Two at the same time. With all this blade length, it's not that difficult.

After completely disabling the opponent's weapon, this time with two machetes, he picks up and intercepts the squid approaching to advance directly from the front -

"Wait"

Sariel's voice of restraint reaches his ear. No, before that, I stopped the two machetes at the interception.

Due to the sudden cessation of attacks and the need to avoid flying enemies, I roll straight to the side to dive.

Dodging behavior in a rather unscrupulous position, but barely escapes his advance. As soon as I passed right by the side scattering mucus, I saw a chilli and blue fabric at the edge of my vision.

"Hey Sariel, no way..."

Stand up quickly and relate again to the squid that passed behind you.

Losing two long tentacles, yet turning momentum well without raising a distressed voice. The appearance that fine dust does not diminish the will of war is the same as that of all other octopuses who do not know fear, but there is an absolute difference in Koitz.

I didn't realize when I first saw it, I just couldn't see it in hiding, but if I knew it and noted it, I could easily confirm it.

"Definitely. I'm catching Leki."

A slight peek into the hands and feet of a person wearing a blue monastic garment so as to make it an underlay of a large body. The thin, white girl's fingertips don't even move with Pickle.

Her face was held back by squid bodies and tentacles, still uncertain. But as Sariel assured me, she was the one there, too.

"Damn, you..."

I try to let it go reflexively, but I just reached out momentum and the black magic of the blast doesn't work.

"... hey, Leki's probably not alive,"

"Yes."

Even though I know it's no use, I ask Sariel.

I did see it. That moment when Leki's chest is pierced by her tentacles. Definitely, it must have been fatal.

Even if I had caught him intact, it's been almost another week since then. From what I've seen, I seem to keep the prototype, but I don't think I'm alive no matter what. I just can't see, and the back part of my body may already be losing its body.

I mean, it's just a corpse out there.

I couldn't hurt that corpse very much.

It's easy to punch in a grenade (grenade) or a fissure blade (blast blade) and blow it to dust on every one of them. Alternatively, if you roll out the black with this zwei hander, you can cut it off from head to head.

If you just knock it down, there's no matter how much you can do. But if the condition is added that he didn't hurt Leki's body, the difficulty jumps as fast as possible.

Damn it, even if he's dead, is hostage effective so far?

"Are you hesitant to defeat me?"

"Shut up, I'm thinking"

I don't think Sariel should understand my sweet sentiments. I don't even want you to understand. Even I have a sense that there's nothing I can do about it.

It would be a natural emotion for a person to want to at least get the body back in a clean shape. But under the present circumstances, it's not enough to be a top priority.

I stand here carrying thousands of lives. The body of one dead human would not be very scalable.

The hesitation, the worry, this moment alone will be enough.

Give up. Admit it. Leki is already dead. I let him die.

"Demon Sword (Sword Arts), Rift (Blast) -"

"Giggle, giggle, giggle!!

Squid barked as he called a wave of sword from the shadows. Intimidation, do you intend to? Because I spread my tentacles and acted like I was bringing my head - I could see it.

Oh, I knew it, for sure. There was a blue-white Leki face, with her eyes closed to sleep.

The sword taken out solidifies while floating in space at hand, as time has stopped. I couldn't shoot.

- I'll do it.

Leaving that word behind, Sariel gets out in front of me.

If I noticed, my back was accidentally lighter. In an instant, like a magic trick, he was taking off a tightly tied back string to avoid being shaken off.

Sariel in a position to sit at her feet. On her left hand, the wind swirling blade of holy silver (misril) is already gripped.

"Stay! Sariel -"

The only hand I stretched out to stop was grabbing the sky in vain.

Sariel gently wiggles Rapier or pops out from body to body like an unleashed arrow. I'm flying in the sky, no, I guess I jumped on the wind that woke me up in Rapier.

Sariel, turned into a white whirlwind, leapt straight ahead of her sharp tip into a squid carrying Leki's body.

"I'll take Leki's body. Later, I'll leave it to you -" Whirlwind Blade (Ale Ouvablast) ""

The windy intermediate-range attack magic "Whirlwind Blade (Ale Ouvablast)" activated with the blade stuck in the squid causes a stormy strong wind. The wind blowing through the narrow cavernous spaces in momentum strikes my body with wind pressure that is going to blow up unexpectedly.

I could stand enough to stomp on the spot, but Sariel, the center of the storm, was starting to move to push out with wind pressure for every squid he stuck.

Oh, when I thought, Saliel, Leki and Squid were all thrown out of Ella's cave. Self-destruction of falling with his own unleashed moves. No, this is because Saliel purposefully dropped each enemy, forcing him out of my sight of a weakness called Leki.

"Bye, you idiot..."

Is it because of anger that fists with swords tremble?

Anger at Sariel for doing something unsolicited. Anger at squid who kept holding Leki's body like a hostage.

None of them. I'm just pissed at Sariel for acting so unscrupulous, because of my own stupidity.

I was cared for by Sariel, who lost her emotions, her hands and feet, and her protection. I felt sorry for him. There's no such thing as a man's pride anymore.

"Damn, damn... I'll do it... I'm just gonna slap you down with all these big monsters!