๐๐ก๐๐ฉ๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐๐: ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ซ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก (6)
โAre you ready?โ
โPlease do. And please take care of it.โ
โNo problem!โ
โMay the divine grace of the gods be upon us. . . . . . โ
Flanked by the red-haired Estell and the black-haired Donado, Oswald transformed the Blood Daemon.
Moments later, what appeared was a gigantic ICBM and the launchpad to support and launch such a missile.
In the past, creating something like this would have drained him of an unimaginable amount of blood. . . however, after obtaining the โHeart of the Giantโ and surpassing level 100 in physical level, he was able to create it without using any potions and with only a small amount of blood loss.
โ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ด ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฅ.โ
To think that he could accomplish so much with so little blood. . . It was clear that the Giants were a different breed.
Meanwhile, Saint Donado, who was watching over Oswald, had a slightly surprised expression on his face.
Oswald possessed something that was both human and not human. He had no magic power to speak of, but there was a sense of dangerousness that made it difficult to take him lightly.
But just now, he felt twenty peopleโs worth of life force drain away. Even though twenty peopleโs worth of life force had been drained from just one person, Oswald was perfectly fine.
โ๐ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฆ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต. . . ๐ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฏโ๐ต ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ช๐ต ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฆ๐น๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต. ๐๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐๐ฐ๐ฅ?โ
As Donado was thinking this, Oswaldโs life force began to surge through the blood vessels into the missile warhead. It was the task of creating a 10,000-kiloton nuclear warhead. The sheer amount of blood that was being drained was beginning to take its toll on Oswald.
Gradually, the mass of life force increased from 100 to 1,000. It was only when he had consumed about 10,000 life force that Oswald finally began to feel the strain on his body.
โ๐๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฎ๐ช๐ต? ๐๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฎ๐ช๐ต. . . ๐ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ข ๐๐ช๐จ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ข ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฎ ๐ด๐ข๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ?โ
However, he had yet to reach the level of his previous tactical nuclear weapon. Normally, he would have been on the verge of death with such an emaciated face. . . but his transformed body was able to withstand even this.
โI ask of you now. . . . . . โ
At Oswaldโs words, the Saint and the Saintess raised their hands and cast the divine spell โHealโ. It was just a simple healing spell. . . but because it was โHealโ cast with pure holy power, Oswald was able to enjoy the same effect as if he were consuming holy water. And even. . . . . .
โ๐๐บ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ ๐ช๐ด ๐ข๐ญ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ. . . . . .โ
Thanks to their overflowing healing abilities, the holy power that filled his body found its way to the Drake Heart on Oswaldโs left side and settled in.
Next, Oswald accelerated and extracted the life force of 100,000 people in an instant. It was the same power he had used to create the previous tactical nuclear weapon.
And yet, Oswald continued to extract life force with an unchanged expression. . . . . .
โHere they come!โ
At that moment, chaos garuda demons swarmed towards the place where they were. They ignored all the attacks that were trying to stop them and flew straight towards Oswald.
Then, the Crusaders of the Eight Great Guardian Hymns, the Golden Lion Knights, the White Dragon Knights, the Black Dragon Knights, the Knights of Judgment, and the Gray Magic Corps came out and began to intercept them.
Oswald, who had now extracted the life force of 500,000 people. . . . . .
Even with the Heart of the Giant, it was impossible for him to not feel the strain at this point. Thatโs why he absorbed more and more of the holy power emitted by the Saint and the Saintess to restore his body.
โ๐๐ข๐ฎ๐ฏ. . . . . .โ
Oswald was starting to feel pain all over his body. The rapid repetition of life force depletion and recovery was putting a strain on his body.
If he hadnโt obtained the โGiantโs Musclesโ, if he hadnโt had โDrake Skinโ, and if he hadnโt plated his bones with โAdamantiumโ, his body would have collapsed long ago.
Oswald, who had already extracted 700,000 peopleโs worth of life force. . . Despite receiving the Heal magic from the saint and the saintess, his face turned pale and his eyes became bloodshot.
Even if he had been bleeding from his nose by now, there was nothing to come out because Blood Daemon was sucking it all up.
โ๐. . . ๐ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด.โ
Oswald immediately created additional potion injectors. The Imperial soldiers who were waiting behind him began to equip the potions to the created injectors.
100 bottles of potion were equipped at once, and soon 100 bottles of potion were simultaneously drained and sucked into Oswaldโs body.
At that moment, a chaos demon broke through the guardsโ line and reached right in front of Oswaldโs nose. The soldiers fired their guns at the demon, but. . . it was no use.
ใYou bastard!! ใ
As a magic circle formed in the demonโs two hands and a blue lightning bolt was about to be emitted, Gilgamesh, who was wearing the same demon hunter outfit as Oswald, jumped up from the ground in one breath.
Gilgamesh swung his greatsword, which was wrapped in the Aura Blade.
Shuuaak!
The Aura Blade deflected the garuda demonโs magic and severed both of the demonโs arms in one stroke.
Puhaaaak!
ใKuaaaak! ใ
The garuda demon staggered back, its arms half severed. Gilgamesh then created a โBlade Ringโ and sent it flying towards the garuda demon.
The ring made of Aura Blades spun violently and attacked the garuda demon as it retreated, and although the demon twisted its body to avoid it, it was not able to avoid it completely and one of its wings was severed.
The garuda demon fell to the ground because of this.
Gilgamesh quickly approached the demon and thrust his greatsword into its chest, then twisted it and lifted it up as if to push it towards its head.
Puhaaaak!
The demon, which had been split in half from its chin to its crown in one breath, turned to dust and disappeared.
But this was just the beginning.
The overwhelming number of demons that were swarming in were too much for the guards to handle, and as a result, the number of demons approaching Gilgamesh began to increase.
Among them were even baron-class demons, which made it a life-or-death situation for Gilgamesh.
Finally, when 1 million life force had been drained. . . Oswald gritted his teeth to keep his fading consciousness and began targeting.
He contacted the people on the front lines through the communicator, and those who received the contact used the sight-sharing artifact to assist Oswaldโs targeting.
Soon, red targeting lines began to move along with Oswaldโs gaze. The target was the outskirts of the city. The reason for this was that if he dropped it there, he would be able to annihilate not only the city but also the Chaos Legion that was advancing towards the trench line.
โUwaaaaah!โ
Oswald began firing with a scream that sounded like a battle cry.
The fuel for the launch was also Oswaldโs life force, so he squeezed out every last bit of it and consumed 100 life force.
Then, a nuclear missile shot up, spewing red flames. . . . . .
The nuclear missile, which had shot up high into the sky, quickly flew towards its target.
Only then did Oswald collapse.
The fact that he had not lost consciousness like last time was a testament to the fact that his physical abilities had definitely changed.
ใItโs coming! ใ
โCardgaโ, who had changed his body structure to cast this spell, had created six additional arms. Each of the eight hands was operating a different magic circle, linking the rituals and mixing runes to create magic.
The problem was. . . that an attack with more life force than he had anticipated was coming.
Cardga wondered if he could stop it, but. . . he decided to clash with it for now.
ใImmortal Defense! ใ
Cardgaโs eight hands turned towards the sky, and soon a brilliant defensive barrier of iridescent light mixed with runes began to form over the city and the heads of the Chaos Legion. And then, the results derived through the โEye of Horusโ were. . . . . .
ใWeโre doomed. ใ
It was a complete and utter defeat. He himself would barely survive. . . but the shock of the explosion would collapse the Mirror Dimension where the human absolutes were imprisoned. . . and the beings who survived inside it would kill him.
Soon, the missileโs warhead separated from its body and fell towards the brilliant defensive barrier of iridescent light, and then a red flash erupted and consumed everything around it.
Kuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
Pahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!
The world turned red as if it were a crimson sun.
The sun, which had consumed everything in an instant, soon shattered and emitted intense heat radiation and pressure in all directions.
The buildings and the Chaos forces were blown to smithereens by the heat radiation and pressure, and the Mirror Dimension that was nearby was no exception.
The Mirror Dimension, which seemed to be holding up for a while, was eventually shattered, and Minos and Valerian, who had been trapped inside, immediately escaped from the immense heat and pressure.
ใKuaaaaaaaaaak! ใ
Cardga resisted until the very end, emitting demonic power. . . but in the end, he was caught in the explosion.
A gigantic crimson mushroom cloud formed on the outskirts of the city.
A tremendous earthquake shook the entire dungeon, and its power was so great that it even affected those near the gate. It was so powerful that even the Imperial troops stationed on the trench line were wiped out. . . . . .
The explosion subsided. . . and a huge crater formed around the epicenter. In the center of it, Cardga slowly rose, covered in blood.
His body was riddled with wounds. . . his wings were all burned away and all the arms he had created were gone. He was left with only two legs, and even the dungeonโs core seemed to be shattered, as the dungeon could be seen gradually collapsing. . . . . .
He had never imagined that he would receive such a blow for something as trivial as having the Blood Daemon taken away.
โ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฅ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ด. . . . . .โ
โMy, youโve become quite a rag.โ
Valerian, Minos, and Leto had arrived at the center of the crater.
ใKukuku. . . . . . ใ
โCardgaโ laughed as he looked at Valerian, the archwizard who was looking at him with murderous intent.
โShall we split?โ
ใThe resilience of humanity is indeed remarkable. However, you should know that we have not yet given it our all. Next time, we will harvest your souls. ใ
โYes, next time we will destroy your soul as well.โ
Then, Cardga raised his newly grown arm and pulled out the โEye of Horusโ, the truth of the mark on his forehead. He then inscribed the runes and magic rituals on it and sent it flying towards the gate.
Shuuaak!
ใIt is only natural to dispose of those who pose a threat. I wonder if he will be able to keep his sanity even with the Eye of Horus. . . . . . ใ
โWhat are you doing?โ
Minos quickly followed the โEye of Horusโ, and Valerian prepared to banish Cardga with a spell.
However. . . Cardga grabbed his own heart and squeezed it until it burst.
Cardga, who had died in this way, spewed out demonโs essence. Leto Zagreaus, the champion of Pluto, picked up the demonโs essence.
He looked down at the essence and then turned towards the gate.
๐ธ๐ธ๐ธ๐ธ๐ธ๐ธ
Oswald, who had been collecting demonโs essence, suddenly felt a dangerous presence and looked up to see something blue flying towards him at the speed of light.
โHuh?โ
Something blue pierced his face. . . to be exact, his right eye. . . . . . A golden flash of light fell down after it, but it was too late and he let out a loud scream.
โNo!โ
Ting!
[๐๐จ๐ฎ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐จ๐๐ญ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ โ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฌโ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก.]
[๐๐ก๐ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก ๐จ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ฅ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฏ๐๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ซ๐๐ข๐ง.]
[๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ฉ๐๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ๐จ ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ก๐๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฏ๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ฆ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ ๐จ๐ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก.]
Ting!
[๐๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ฆโ๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ญ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ญ๐๐๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ฒ๐๐ซโ๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐.]
[๐๐ก๐ โ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฌโ ๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ฆโ๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ญ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง.]
[๐๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ฆโ๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ญ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ โ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฌโ.]
[๐๐ก๐ โ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฌโ ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ฉ๐จ๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ซ๐๐ฌ ๐ง๐๐ฐ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐๐๐ ๐.]
[๐๐ก๐ โ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฌโ ๐ฐ๐๐๐ค๐๐ง๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐จ๐๐ฒ.]
Ting!
Ting!
Ting!
Soon after, a huge number of notifications popped up and the levels of many things in the Status Window went up.
Among them, the notifications that needed to be checked were. . . . . .
[โ๐๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐ข๐๐ฐโ ๐ก๐๐ฌ ๐๐๐๐ง ๐ฎ๐ง๐ฅ๐จ๐๐ค๐๐.]
[๐๐จ๐ฎ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฌ๐๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ โ๐๐ซ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐โ. ๐๐ก๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ฏ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐ ๐๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ง๐๐ซ๐๐๐ฌ๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ข๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ.]
[๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ ๐ก๐๐ฌ ๐๐ก๐๐ง๐ ๐๐. ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ก๐๐ฎ๐ค๐ ๐๐๐ฆ๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐๐๐ซ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง ๐ ๐ฐ๐๐๐ค๐๐ง๐๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ญ๐.]
[๐๐จ๐ฎ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐จ๐๐ญ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ ๐,๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ญ๐ ๐๐จ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ.]
[๐๐ฌ๐ฐ๐๐ฅ๐โ๐ฌ ๐๐๐ญ๐, ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐ก๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ข๐ฅ ๐๐จ๐๐ฒ, ๐ก๐๐ฌ ๐๐ก๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ข๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ. ๐๐ ๐ก๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐๐ญ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฏ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐ฅ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐๐ง๐ญ, ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐๐๐ซ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐๐๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ ๐จ๐๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐๐ข๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐, ๐๐ง๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐๐ข๐ฅ ๐๐จ๐๐ฒ ๐ก๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ง๐ฌ๐๐๐ง๐๐๐. ๐๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐๐ง๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ ๐ข๐ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฐ๐๐ซ, ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ก๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ข๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ซ๐๐๐๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐๐๐ฅ.]
[๐๐จ๐ฎ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐จ๐๐ญ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ ๐,๐๐๐,๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ญ๐ ๐๐จ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ.]
