NOVEL WEB Chapter 6: Our Attack Can't Even Scratch Him
Based on what our trusted scout, Dale, perceived, the monstrosity in the form of white-haired youth just said 「Kill」while looking at us.
It seemed he didn’t have any intention to spare our lives.
Realizing that, I could feel the aura he was emitting started to crawl on my body and strangle my neck.
Just what the h*ll was this horrifying thing in front of us? His presence alone left Gold Rank adventurers like us petrified.
From his appearance alone, he looked like your normal average human male with peculiar red eyes and white hair.
However, I didn’t believe a human could have such an overwhelming presence.
「 Despite his… appearances, he might be… an undead.」
Even Guy, the calmest guy in our party, stammered, clearly unnerved by the situation.
Seriously, an undead?
The Undead that I knew were the likes of zombies who were moving around with their rotten body, skeletons who didn’t even have any flesh left, and ghosts who could attack humans with their spirit body.
If we were talking about high-rank undead, it would be an existence like vampires or the famous headless knight, dullahan.
However, the monstrosity in the form of a youth in front of us didn't fit into any of those categories.
Vampires had their trademark fangs growing from their mouths. They were also very weak against sunlight to the point that they would be purified just by continuously standing under the sunlight. High-rank vampires would have a higher resistance to sunlight, but they rarely moved during the day.
Our youth here didn’t seem to grow oversized fangs, nor having weakness against sunlight. He*ck, he could even withstand the sunlight of the Emarina Wasteland which was famous for its intensity.
「He might be a high-rank undead… but this humble monk have no idea about the undead that ranked higher than vampire or dullahan…」
Even Guy, a monk who was well versed in the knowledge of undead said that the youth was an [Unknown Species].
It was a hopeless situation for us, to fight an unknown enemy with tremendous power.
But, we couldn’t just easily forfeit our lives here.
Even a rat will fight back when it got cornered.
Fortunately, Guy had a purification attack that works like a charm against Undead type monster.
「… We're going to distract him. Guy, make sure to finish your preparation during that time.」
「… Roger.」
After hearing Guy’s affirmation, I grasped tightly on my beloved battleaxe.
She was an extremely heavy weapon, but she had a weight reduction effect enchantment granted to her which enables me to swing her with ease.
In addition, I could also channel my fighting spirit into her blades.
If I went all out, the output was enough to pulverize a robust rampart in single hit.
No matter how powerful that undead was, I didn’t think he could withstand my single, most powerful strike.
While we were tacitly preparing our next move, the undead suddenly sneered.
As if he read our thought and said mockingly「Bring it on. The attack of lowly being like you won't even scratch me」.
Then, a sudden fit of anger suddenly swelled up inside me.
You dared underestimate us huh.
Alright then, YOU WERE ASKING FOR IT!
「UOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!」
I charged toward the undead while roaring my lungs out to dispel any fear and hesitation that was left in my heart.
The undead didn’t move at all, he seemed unfazed with my charge while still having that ugly sneer on his face.
I swung my battleaxe with all my power, weight, and years of experience as an adventurer.
The blade of the axe slashed at terrifying speed to the youth’s head and ――BAGIN!
「HAH?」
I couldn’t help but let out a funny yelp despite in the midst of battle.
Since my beloved mythril battleaxe which was never chipped even once before, in an attack which I poured all my fighting spirit…
It was blasted to smithereens as it made contact with that undead’s head.
But, that had only amounted to half of my surprise.
The other half of the surprise was that undead came out completely unscathed despite receiving my single, most powerful attack.
「M-Monster…」
It was true that undead type monster didn’t have any sense of pain, they would keep charging ahead even if you tear them limb to limbs.
It was also true that they had a high regeneration rate that their wounds would heal at a rate that could be seen with naked eyes.
Nevertheless, I couldn’t imagine that those abilities could let an undead completely unscathed after being directly hit by an attack that could demolish a rampart.
「Alec, step back!」
Hanna's voice snapped me back from my shock.
Yeah.
We were still in the middle of combat right now.
I shouldn’t let myself be distracted and stopped moving.
「Meteor Fire!」
As soon as I retreated in panic, the giant fireball fell down to the undead at high speed.
ZUBOOOOOOOOOOOOON!
That undead took a direct hit from that spell.
The fireball exploded on hit, creating a blazing flame pillar, it was so hot that my skin got scalded after being hit by its distant shockwave alone.
…. That Hanna, she became even stronger than before huh.
And yet, she was still at silver rank with that kind of ridiculously high powered magic.
But, before I could express my amazement, Hanna’s shocked voice could be heard.
「He's… unscathed!」
Even Hanna's most powerful magic couldn't hurt that Undead.
He was still unperturbed despite being trapped in that blazing hell.
As soon as the fire pillar vanished, we could see that the undead was truly unscathed and…
And Dale's figure that had been standing behind the undead.
He used his skill to hide his presence that was polished to the limit to sneak behind the undead.
Gripped in Dale's hand was an extremely thick needle.
It was a pin-point weapon which piercing power could even pierce dragon's scale, the needle was also coated with a deadly poison that was strong enough to slay a giant monster.
I had seen it many times before, the scene where Dale hide his presence to sneak behind a dangerous monster and killed them in one hit with his needle.
Though I didn’t know whether that poison will work on that undead or not.
Wait, could it be that focusing in pin-point attack to break the undead defense was the correct answer?
Dale stabbed his needle as soon as that undead turned around to see him.
The needle went straight to the undead's eyeball.
I see.
It was certainly the weakest part of the human body.
BAKIN!
A loud sound was heard as the needle struck the eye of the undead.
But, the needle was the one that broke.
My hope was once again shattered.
「H-HOLY SH*IT…..」
It seemed that not even Dale could predict such result.
At that time.
Guy who had finished his preparation ran toward the undead.
The cane in his hand was wrapped in beautiful light patterns, a sign of high-level purification magic was being cast.
And then, he swung down the cane to the undead direction while roaring.
「DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEE!!」
A majestic pillar of light rained down from heaven and struck the undead.
We could only watch that scene while desperately praying for this attack to work on that undead.
If this one attack didn't work on that guy too…
Sadly our praying went unanswered, as the pillar of light receded, the undead was still standing there unscathed like nothing had happened whatsoever.
「… Un… scathed…」
「Holysh*it… Not even Gai's highest level undead purification arts work on that man….」
「W-What… the hell is this monster?」
「We're… done for.」
He was completely unharmed even after receiving all of our strongest attacks. Which means, our other means of attack would result in the same way.
Despair was once again written on our faces as we realized we had no other means to attack. Basically, our fate was sealed once we meet such an overwhelming creature.
However, that undead didn’t make any moves after that.
Then, a brief silence was fell on the battlefield. At that moment, I realized that that undead hadn’t made any moves since the start of the battle. He*ck, he even still had that ugly sneer on his face as he looking at us now.
Kuh… was that his way to say "I can kill low lives like you any time I want". So, he would let us alive for now so he could toy with our lives, slowly torturing us until we feel that death was a better choice.
「HIIIIIIIIIIIII…………….」
Hanna who seemed to imagine the similar end screamed in fear.
As an adventurer, she was prepared to die while doing her mission. But, it looked like that becoming an undead’s toy was just too much for her.
….As if I would let things end the way you want, you filthy undead.
I resolved myself and searching for THAT thing inside my pocket.
Hidden in it was a magic tool called magic bag, its capacity was several times larger than what its appearance suggested. It was an extremely expensive item but, we still bought it despite having to take a loan since it's a really useful item.
The thing I took out from inside the magic bag was a crystal as big as child’s hand that let out cold gleam.
「It's sink or swim… Let's use this!」
It was a crystal that was loaded with extremely powerful magic that we found deep inside a certain dungeon.
The magic will be invoked once this crystal broke. However, the magic sealed inside was not your normal everyday magic. Based on the result of appraisal, it was a magic that could forcefully summon monster from the netherworld.
It was impossible to control the monster that going to be summoned since it was summoned by random chance. It could suddenly attack its summoner in a fit of a rampage. Well, we were basically gambling with our life on the line by using this.
I used to think that we wouldn't have the opportunity to use this item since to be honest, this thing is too dangerous but, I'm really grateful to the past me who didn't sell this item.Honestly, I didn’t think that we would have the opportunity to use this crystal since it was too dangerous. I was really grateful for my past self who didn’t sell this item.
Now then, this is swim or sink.
I threw the crystal towards the undead.
PARINN!
The crystal broke under the undead's feet.
.As the undead was distracted by the crystal, we escaped as soon as possible without even confirming what was summoned.
「UOOOOOOOOOOO!」
A deafening roar was heard behind us. From the intensity, it seemed the crystal successfully summoned a strong monster.
Beaten by my curiousity, I took a glance back to see what was summoned by the crystal.
And there, I saw a huge, bright red devil with lower half of a centaur standing in front of the undead.
The only thing I know was the fact that the crystal could randomly summon a powerful monster from the netherworld..
I didn’t expect such a high ranking devil came out.
And fortunately, that devil rushed toward that undead immediately.
Now, we should run quickly while those two powerful monster fou――
BAAAM!
My thought was interrupted by a terrifying explosion sound.
The next moment, the devil's lower half had exploded to pieces.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH!?