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Chapter 64 : Beast King & Thunder God vs Named
🕑 Added 2022-07-31 05:49:27 +0000 UTCTL:SummerPeanut
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The hairy man was covered in so much blood that it felt like he could barely stand.
But for now, my priority is Clarice. Clarice has 10 HP and 0 MP.
Ike has 6 HP and 4 MP. Clarice had collapsed from MP deficiency.
I immediately healed them both, and Ike told me what was going on.
"That queen ant is dangerous...doesn’t feel like it takes any damage. Flare seems to be able to hurt it a bit but it feels like it’ll recover quickly after a while."
"What happened with Clarice?"
"I think Clarice used too much MP with her Magic Arrow to defeat the ants that were trying to sneak into town from Mars's side after Mars went toward Ralph. Then she healed me, ran out of MP, and collapsed."
"Is that hairy man Lord Barnes?”
"Yeah. We had the upper hand at first against the queen ant. Since any damage we inflicted on it was recovered later, we up’ed the offensive power on our side.”
"I don't see any of the other ants....... have you defeated all of them yet?”
"Yeah. I knew I couldn't hold on any longer, so I fired Flare after Flare at the other ants and I ran out of MP too. After killing the mobs ants, I attacked the queen ant too, but it was completely ineffective.”
I urged Ike to evacuate with Clarice and headed for Barnes, who was engaging the queen ant, Arline.
"Lord Barnes, that appearance....”
When I said so…
“It's Beast King Transformation! My strength and agility go up but my endurance goes down! Heal me."
I High Heal-ed Barnes who had less than 100 HP.
“Mars, how much HP does this Queen Ant have? I think I'm doing some damage but it doesn’t feel like it’s going down at all!"
I appraised the Queen Ant, Arline, and found it still had 220 HP.
“It's 220/380. This thing has accelerated HP recovery so if we don't take it down in a short-term battle, it will regain more and more HP."
"Meaning if I and Mars do it together, we'll manage.......”
Barnes fully recognized me and naturally assumes that we were going to fight together.
“Yes! But my MP is only less than 500 remaining. I can only cast High Heal about 20 times.”
"I've never seen a magician that would say having only less than 500 MP. If it were a normal magician, he would be confident enough to say that he had 500 MP.”
I looked around and saw only me, Barnes, and Arline standing here, and then a lion came toward us.
“Ellie! Don't come!"
Barnes shouted at Ellie, and the lion stopped dead in its tracks.
The Queen Ant did not miss Barnes's slight distraction.
The Queen Ant's scythe-like hand slashed at Barnes' shoulder, and Barnes turned back to face Arline.
I healed Barnes's shoulder with a High Heal. But one High Heal didn't seal the wound in his shoulder so I High Heal-ed twice.
"I'm sorry, Mars, but I have to ask you a question. Is it my imagination that Ellie's left eye is healing?"
I looked at Ellie and sure enough, the wound in her left eye, which looked crushed when I first saw her, had healed.
"Earlier, Ellie and Margrave Carmel were attacked by ants and Ellie was wounded, so I healed her with a High Heal but I don't know if it's true because I rushed here right after… High Heal-ing her that is. Perhaps the wound in her left eye was also fixed due to that."
“I see. I'm sure that's the only possible cause. I guess I don't have to wait for Flora anymore.”
"Let's think about defeating this Queen Ant first!”
I say that and slash at the queen ant.
The damage that can be inflicted is about 10 at most, even if I attack with all my might wearing Sylphid.
The efficiency of MP is very poor. If this is the case, it might be better for me to concentrate only on recovering Barnes.
However, only Barnes alone will not do.
When Barnes's attack is about to make any direct hits, Arline creates a wall with Earth magic to reduce the damage.
I feel like we are completely stuck.
"Th-this...... looks like I should just concentrate on recovering Master Barnes.......”
"No... that's not even remotely true. I'm almost out of my Beast King Transformation. I won't last another five minutes. If I can't beat it in five minutes, we'll lose.”
"So, then...... if we keep going like this......"
To my dismay, Barnes said.
"Oi, use the magic you used to paralyze me the first time we met. If I don't get any counterattacks, I can cut down its HP!"
"......I can't control that magic very well. The MP consumption is abnormally large so if I fire one shot, I’ll probably be down from magic deficiency! Even then, are you sure?”
"At this rate, we'd have been wiped out anyway, right? If you hadn't been able to use Holy magic, I would have escaped with Ellie. Stop bullshitting, just do it!”
I moved to flank Arline with Barnes as he was saying above.
"I’ll set it up. Lord Barnes, please step away when it’s ready! There is a possibility of collateral damage!"
Barnes nodded to my words and attacked Arline.
Unlike before, Barnes's attacks are attacks that completely ignores defense.
The Queen Ant's HP is also reduced but Barnes' HP dropped more in comparison.
When Barnes's HP dropped below 50 and Barnes was out of shape, Arline came in to finish him off.
I did not miss that moment.
Arline was completely focused on Barnes and forgot about me.
Well, it must have thought that there was no reason to pay attention to me because I had not attacked it at all since I went behind its back.
I guess it also became conceited from the fact that my attacks did not damage it at all.
I got on the back of Arline and fired a lightning bolt at its back.
Golden lightning poured out from me onto Arline.
With a roar of "Kishaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!", Arline echoes out.
Appraising Arline, I found that its remaining HP was 124, and its condition was Electrocution (Large).
Arline was paralyzed, barely able to wiggle its mouth.
Immediately, Barnes begins to attack Arline.
Ike, who had been standing back, took the opportunity to attack as well.
I didn't dare to participate in the attack because I thought that if I approached, I might absorb the golden lightning from the electrocuted Arline, and the electrocution might be canceled.
Even if I did not participate in the attack, Arline's HP was getting cut down rapidly.
I just kept watching as Arline's remaining HP was being reduced to 50, 40, 30, and so on.
Then, when Arline had less than 10 HP remaining, it happened.
Arline's condition became Electrocution (Small).
"Watch out! Partial of the paralysis has been lifted!”
At the same time I said that, the left half of Barnes's body was eaten by Arline.
When I appraised Barnes, I found that his HP was already 0.
Arline has 2 HP.
I headed toward Arline with a shout, but Ike was there to stop me.
Arline's HP was reduced to 0 and the queen ant was eliminated.
It was not a spring room in the labyrinth but it disappeared immediately.
I rushed over to Barnes and used a heal, but I had no more MP left and couldn't use it.
Ellie the lion rushed in next to me and covered Barnes in a hug.
Barnes looked at me.
"Ma..rs. ta..ke…ker…Ellie"
Those were the Beast King's last words.
When I shouted to Barnes, "Please leave it to me". Barnes, satisfied with my reply, carressed Ellie's face with his right hand before drawing his last breath as he looked at her.
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Comments
seriously? he dead? Ellie is probably gonna be a new party member... but srsly? RIP
