NOVEL WEB Chapter 202
202. Seven-Star Arctos
A moment of silence. After a brief pause, it was shattered by Lloyd’s furious roar.
“YOUUUUUUUUUU!! Enough with your damn mockery!!”
Lloyd howled like a neighing horse and charged toward me with reckless abandon.
Every time his massive body scraped against a building, it collapsed with a thunderous crash.
As expected, level 80 isn’t just for show. His power and speed are both formidable.
—A perfect chance to test Zain’s Mystic Eye.
“Be crushed!”
The moment he got close, Lloyd swung his foreleg down to smash me.
It was a swift strike, like a frog snatching a fly.
“Yoink.”
But right now, I could see his movements with shocking clarity.
I kicked off the ground, dodging sideways, and the bricks beneath me shattered into the air.
“What’s wrong? You’ll never hit me with that kind of attack.”
“W-why…!? My level should be higher!”
“Levels don’t mean much. You shouldn’t have gotten cocky at just level 80.”
“You sound just like that woman…! You must be using some cheap trick! That has to be it!”
Good grief, I’m getting tired of this conversation.
“You’re in the way here, so how about moving over there?”
I kicked Lloyd in the stomach, sending him flying 30 meters back.
“A-again…!? Why does a light kick send me flying like this…!?”
Lloyd grimaced in pain, then glanced around.
“H-he’s gone!? Where did that brat go!?”
“Over here.”
I had teleported onto the roof of a tall building and was now sitting there.
“Lloyd, why do you eat people? Do you really think this is acceptable?”
“Shut up! A damn brat like you, lecturing me!? I eat humans to become stronger! To grow stronger, and then—”
“And then what?”
“Then—I’ll make everyone obey me, become king—and then…”
“Is that really what you want?”
Lloyd faltered. He fell silent for a moment, then started trembling in frustration.
“I… I want to be strong! I want to prove them wrong—and I want to be acknowledged!”
His final words were unexpected.
“Acknowledged… My family, everyone around me, they only valued strength! I’ve seen weak people cast aside over and over! That’s why I had to stay strong!”
“And now, what’s happened?”
“Now, I… what am I? I became the strongest. But… have I been acknowledged?”
I shook my head, denying the confused Lloyd.
“Lloyd, the weak might be cast aside. But no one will ever acknowledge power gained like this.”
“I… No, I—what should I have done?”
It’s time to end this.
“Well then—how about we go with seven.”
I stretched out my arm, and beneath Lloyd, seven magic circles unfurled.
They crackled with violent currents of purple light.
“That’s…
Laura shouted in shock. Correct. This is
During my fight with Tsuodotos, I devised a way to halve the power of a single strike to reduce its recoil.
Since then, I’d been pondering a nearly impossible technique—my ultimate move.
That was to unleash multiple
It was thought to be impossible. To fire
And to release multiple strikes, I needed incredible magic control—and enough magic power to avoid collapsing.
But now?
With Zain’s Mystic Eye, my physical abilities have vastly improved. My magic, too.
And over the past month, just grinding levels would have been dull, so I focused on magic control training.
Thanks to that, it took me an entire month just to solo a Phoenix.
“Lloyd, you chose the wrong path. So at the very least—I’ll put an end to this with my magic.”
A perfect scenario. And I get to test this move at my peak condition.
As I channeled my magic, the seven circles beneath Lloyd radiated an intense glow.
Seven
“
In an instant, seven lightning pillars erupted from the magic circles.
They were massive, like giant trees bursting from the earth, crackling with energy—
BOOOOOM!!
A deafening thunderclap roared through the battlefield.
“Gwaaaaahhhhhh!!!”
The impact was like an explosion, the sheer current strong enough to burn flesh.
That single strike illuminated the ground in an almost celestial glow, like stars in the night sky.
All that remained was the scent of burnt flesh, Lloyd’s unconscious body, and an all-encompassing silence.