NOVEL WEB Chapter 31 - The Way the Spiral Advances☆ (3)
In front of the 3 erosion dungeon gates being conquered,
Among them, one that particularly stood out.
Shaaaah―!!
“Where do you think you’re escaping to―!!”
Crack―!!
A larval chaos insect trying to break through, ignoring all flames, leading with its sticky carapace. A
Bang―!!
Scattered flesh pieces flutter in the air.
The green body fluids pouring down like rain vaporize in the heat of the flames.
The larval chaos insect that collapsed in a miserable state soon falls with its death throes.
Kieeeek―!!
The
“Ptooey―! Huhahaha…! What a mess―!”
Thud thud thud thud thud―
A terrible wave was approaching.
Numerous chaos insects were swarming like waves.
Though they swung their weapons so frantically.
Though they exploded flames and caught them so much.
The larval chaos insects filling the distant horizon were endlessly swarming.
Where they were heading was the 3 erosion dungeon gates encircling the northern slums. They were entering into the huge triangle connected by black ether in the sky.
Thud thud thud thud thud thud―!!
Footsteps shaking the earth’s axis.
Thousands, tens of thousands of carapaces glitter in the light of numerous flame barriers set up to prevent them from entering the urban center.
“…”
Perhaps.
The thought occurred that perhaps today might be the last.
Chaos insects that could only be seen inside dungeons were bursting out of dungeon gates, trying to defile the land they lived on. They were trying to advance towards the erosion dungeons and urban center beyond this wall of flames.
If this operation fails and the northern academy city becomes the land of chaos insects…
“Kuhehe…!”
A girl burst into laughter seeing that sight.
Hearing her laughter, the surrounding female students also start laughing.
They opened their mouths dirtied with chaos insect fluids and blood and laughed loudly.
Ahahahaha―!!
Hahahahaha―!!
The demons of flames don’t fear the final moment. They laughed while bursting all the flames engraved on their chests and in their hearts.
Laughter echoes within the wall of flames.
“Huhahahaha―!! Even if it becomes the end―!!”
“We live like ‘flames’!!”
“Hiyaaah!! Light the fires!!”
“Hahahahaha!! We are
“Let’s go―!!!”
The
It was the moment they were advancing forward, steeling their final resolve.
-Shaaaah―
The screams of chaos insects faintly echoing from afar.
Hearing that sound, the chaos insects all let out cries in response.
Shaaaah―!!
Kyaaaah―!!
“Huh, huh?”
“…?”
The hundreds of larval chaos insects that were swarming turned their backs and started returning towards outside the flame barrier. Eventually, they began swarming towards one area, busily moving their short legs.
The
They suddenly raise their heads and look at the sky that feels off.
“…Huh?”
Rumble―!!!
A huge light was approaching, flashing from beyond that horizon. Dozens of rays of light pouring down between dark clouds. They were making an enormous roar loud enough to be heard even amidst the sounds of battle.
Rumble―!!!
Each time a light beam strikes down, tens of meters of earth flash and overturn. The destructive power spewed by lightning said to be the authority of the sky god. The bones and flesh of dozens of gathered chaos insects are separated and shattered.
Shaaaah―!!
Kyaaaah―!!
With screams.
Carapaces are crushed.
Blood and body fluids evaporate.
Rumble―!!!
Such lightning was still advancing while bursting dozens of branches at once. The body fluids that flowed out as hundreds of chaos insects gathered in the path of the approaching lightning branches burst. They create one huge path.
Rumble―!!!
The king’s road created by the king of destruction.
Eventually that road approached to within hundreds of meters.
And one silver-white light in the distance flashed and disappeared.
Complete silence settling on the king’s road made of chaos insects’ body fluids.
“…”
“…”
The
“Uh…”
“That’s…”
“[Azure Lightning Lance]…?”
“The strongest in the academy city…”
“…Did they come… to help?”
“The
“But the
At that moment.
Kuuung―!!
With a roar shaking the ears, a silver-white girl descending from the sky.
Her hair swaying as she lands.
Numerous blood and body fluids were smeared on the lance in her hand.
“…”
And the silver-white girl who stood up looks around.
Numerous
Silence.
“…”
“…”
After a moment of time passing.
Brunhilde, the strongest in the academy city, spoke in a cold voice towards the
“…Where are Sigrun and
* * *
“[Blind Stitch]―!!”
Bang―!!
Bell’s skill collided with the pincer attack unleashed by the adult chaos insect and made a roar. The upper part of the tracksuit she was wearing had long since become completely tattered.
Kuwooooo―!!
A low and huge cry incomparable to larvae or sub-adults. And a huge pincer bug that seemed to be over 9 meters charges towards the small girl floating in the air.
Bell clenched her fist looking at that.
The crimson dagger responds to that gesture and is fired.
Swish swish swish swish swish―!!
Thud!
Thud!
Thud!
The path of the crimson dagger dances messily scattering. Following the huge body of the adult chaos insect, the final gatekeeper, it engraves crimson paths, continuing the cross-stitch of destruction.
Crunch―!!
At the same time, red dotted lines appear on the adult chaos insect’s large carapace and pincer legs, and they slowly start collapsing. The special buff [Erosion Barrier] that deflects the first attack was disappearing under countless pouring attacks.
Kuwooooo―!!
The adult chaos insect, sensing its own defeat, wails and fires body fluids that could melt even stone. The green body fluids that at first seemed to be leaking out unimpressively soon rushed over Bell like a huge blade.
Bang―!!!
Bell runs quickly with her short legs, avoiding the surging attacks. And manipulating the dagger’s movements with her clenched fist, she creates a huge red shape again.
“Haaaah! [Blind Stitch]―!!”
As Bell had boasted earlier, she fired skills while pouring out the ether she had saved and saved until the last room.
The dagger’s movements following a path several times more complex than the shape she had shown in the urban center. That marvelous pattern felt like cross-stitching engraved in the air.
Once again a pattern engraved in the air.
But Bell staggered for a moment at that instant.
“Kuh…!”
Drip―
Bell’s nose started bleeding from excessive ether consumption. And blood vessels were forming under her large, brightly shining red eyes.
“Now… now it’s the end…! Just a little more… just a little more―!!”
Muttering flowing out between tightly clenched pink lips.
The pupils narrowing beyond her bloodshot face were shining brighter than ever.
Though not [Unique Ether] awakening, she was clearly taking the next step.
‘As expected, it seems experience is accumulating from fighting an event dungeon spec adult chaos insect.’
And desperate battles of the juniors were also continuing around.
Alvit and Kara were now facing chaos insects while repositioning and traversing summons with acrobatic-like movements.
“[Flash Sword]―!!”
“3 larvae at 3 o’clock! Sub-adult attack at 5 o’clock, no, 6 o’clock!!”
A sub-adult approaching with a monstrous cry.
Shaaaah―!!
Kara extended her flag and made one summoned robot charge at the sub-adult.
Creak―!!
Crack―!!
[Revolutionary Comrade] shattering.
When the sub-adult’s attack that Kara absolutely couldn’t avoid approached, she boldly sacrificed one summon to buy time.
Thanks to Kara’s struggle like that, Alvit leapt into the air and continued her attack.
“[Flash Sword]!!! [Flash Sword]!!! Flash Swoooord―!!!”
Once.
Twice.
And sword energies fired for the third time fly out.
Very stable vibrations were ringing from the fired sword energies.
Dong!
Dong!
Dong!
Not simply relying on ether to fire.
The power of [Vibration] resonating with the energy constituting the world.
That power now destroys everything constituting the world.
Splash―!!
Swish!!
Swish!!
Rumble―!!
Larval chaos insects exploding without even letting out screams.
Due to the continuously fired sword energies, groups of exploding larval chaos insects disappeared into flesh pieces.
Alvit had now grasped the mystery of [Vibration], the 2nd stage of ether, without even Rota’s help, and was continuously firing sword energies. Her eyes were thoroughly heated with the excitement of battle and fallen into a trance.
‘I should recover Bell first, then go to Alvit.’
I looked at Alvit and Kara facing chaos insects around and spoke to Rota riding on my back:
“Rota♪ I’m going to run from now on! It’ll be tough, but hold on tight―☆”
“S-Sorry senior…”
“Don’t worry about it―☆”
“But, Kara and… Alvit are fighting right now too… only I…”
“Hmm♪ Then how about letting me touch your cat ears all I want later―☆”
“…Okay.”
Tap tap tap!
I ran while carrying Rota who had become too exhausted to walk, and threw one black core obtained from defeating middle bosses to Bell.
‘A gimmick that gives recovery means when breaking middle boss sub-adults, in exchange for extremely high ether consumption…’
But even that dropped in very small amounts, so it had to be used carefully.
‘Eir is a 4th stage ability user so she doesn’t need to use skills, and Sigrun is on the same level as Bell but she took the
The decomposed black core disappeared with acrid smoke, leaving a small amount of ether. And the small amount of ether left was absorbed towards Bell.
“Bell―☆ Take this―♪”
“Kuh! Thanks pinky… I’ll finish it with this!!”
Bell, who regained a very small amount of strength, was now preparing a skill for the final battle.
Whoosh!!
At the same time, light burst out from the triangle engraved on the huge black crystal hidden by a seal behind the adult chaos insect.
The topmost point of the triangle shone blue, signaling that one of the erosion dungeon gates had been cleared. And the circle made of black ether located around the triangle slowly started rotating.
I threw a black core to Alvit who was looking this way, recovering a little ether for her. And Alvit spoke to me in a thoroughly hoarse voice:
“Senior!! That’s it, right―!!”
“That’s right!! Judging by the location, it seems Sigrun’s dungeon has been cleared―☆”
“From now on, 10 minutes!! We have to finish everything within 10 minutes, right―!!”
“That’s right―☆”
I was inwardly surprised.
I thought Eir, being a [Unique Ether] ability user, would clear it overwhelmingly faster…
‘Could something have happened to Eir…?’
That can’t be…
At that moment.
A second light shone from the triangle on the black crystal.
“…!”
That was clearly where Eir was breaking through alone.
Now the only remaining dungeon is ours.
Confirming that, Alvit shouted towards Bell:
“Senior Bell!!”
“Blind!! Siititch!!―!!”
Bell shouted in a voice as if spitting blood.
At the same time, the crimson dagger flew up more splendidly than any movement shown so far and gnawed at the adult chaos insect’s body.
Splash splash splash splash―!!
Crunch!
Crunch!
Crunch!
Peeled carapace and the pulsing heart is visible inside.
Bell instantly kicked off and ran towards that place.
“With this!!!”
The dagger returned to her hand.
She grasps it and moves forward.
She who poured out all her ether became a crimson line herself and was fired.
“This is the end―!!!”
The small girl advances, becoming a needle piercing the huge body.
Splash―!!
“…!”
The adult chaos insect stops moving.
And the protective barrier encasing the black crystal disappears.
Swish―
Bell spoke with her dagger stabbed into the adult chaos insect’s heart.
“Alvit―!!!”
“Uwaaaah―!!”
Tap tap tap!
Alvit who ran quickly swung her sword towards the black crystal.
“Flash!! Sword―!!”
Containing the last remaining red ether.
What the swung sword draws is a path of light.
The black crystal shatters from that explosion.
Boooooooom―!!
Clang―!!
And.
A familiar atmosphere gradually permeated the dungeon that had been surging with ominous black mist, and the chaos insects that had appeared due to the anomaly began to disappear.
Chaos insects disappearing like crumbling dust.
Kuoooo―!!
Kiaaaak―!!
Finally.
The black mist dominating the dungeon disappears, and peace arrives.
We looked at the shattered black crystal pieces within that. It seemed to store and absorb numerous ether like the black cores we had used throughout conquering the dungeon.
“Phew…”
“Ugh…”
“…”
Bell who had poured out all her strength lay down on the spot.
Kara and Alvit who were completely exhausted also slumped down.
I was quietly watching them while carrying Rota on my back.
‘The trickiest late-game gimmick dungeon… we really cleared it…’
Limited effective characters.
Crazy debuffs.
Even time attack elements.
We cleared a dungeon full of malice towards users.
‘Since [Disciple of Erosion] himself is the type to scheme behind the scenes… we’ll meet again someday.’
I let out a sigh of relief.
‘We should rest for a while since exiting will be automatic.’
From now on, the dungeon gate freed from the binding of the black crystal that absorbed and stored ether will exert its personnel limit function and automatically expel us.
Just as…
I was thinking that.
Bang―!!
Suddenly the flow of ether in the room started surging from the floor, and we who were slumped in the boss room were startled and examined the floor.
What was engraved on the floor was a huge magic circle.
It activated when the power of the black crystal absorbing ether disappeared.
“What is this!?”
“I don’t know! But it doesn’t feel good!!”
“We need to get out!!! Senior!! We have to leave!!”
Rota who was riding on my back spoke in a voice like screaming, seeing that huge magic circle:
“This is an ancient magic circle!! The predetermined spell is in an instant—!!”
“…!”
A feeling of floating.
Simultaneously, there’s a sense of liberation, as if we’ve come outside. And what we see before our eyes after moving in an instant is…
A black sky, the darkness of the night sky visible above our heads.
The center of the black ether triangle that was crossing the northern region.
Under the dark sky, where a faint barrier of flames illuminates.
“Kuhuk…!”
“[Trajectory]?!”
In the middle of it all, Eir was being held by the throat by a giant wearing a black robe. Between the luxurious black robes, wings and a tail were protruding, an inhuman being exuding power incomparable to a believer.
I let out a sharp breath as I looked at him.
‘Why is he…?!’
The [Disciple of Erosion] has revealed himself.