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Chapter 101: Yarpa & Saeugang of the Slayers
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Thus began the purge of the Cult branch.
We crossed a deep corridor.
<Thudthudthudthudthudthudthudthud>
<Heeheeheeheeheehee>
<Screescreescreescreescreescreescree>
Had they detected the intruders?
Chimeras poured endlessly from the far end of the corridor.
With only a dead end behind us, we had no choice but to meet them head-on.
“Hup...!”
Slaaash-!
With one powerful swing of my scythe, clumps of writhing tentacles were sliced away.
<Kekekekekekekek>
<Gwehgwehgwehgwehgweh>
The Chimeras flailed after losing their balance.
I drove a pitch-black crescent into the monsters.
Thud-.
“Activate. Thorns.”
Pop-pop-pop-!
Their bodies burst as though they were blood balloons.
Putrid blood flooded the corridor.
Before I could catch my breath, a shadow fell over my head.
A monster that looked like a cross between a spider and a centipede had opened its jaws wide.
<Kirrrrrkgrrrk>
Swoooosh-!
After letting out a grotesque cry, the creature fired a web at me.
Demonic energy dripped from it, enough that even brushing against it seemed like it would rot flesh away.
Still, I didn’t dodge.
I simply swung my brightly colored sword straight at it.
‘Parry.’
Whoosh-.
The web charging toward me suddenly lost its direction.
It veered sharply off course and stuck harmlessly to the wall.
The creature faltered at the unexpected turn of events.
I didn’t miss that opening and hurled what I held in my hand with all my strength.
“Activate. Ball.”
The scythe shrank to the size of a ping-pong ball and shot toward the spider.
It slipped right into the giant monster’s mouth.
The Chimera swallowed the tiny ball before it knew what had happened.
I snickered and saw it off on its final breath.
“Activate. Thorns.”
Boom-!
At my quiet murmur, the monster shattered into pieces.
Chunks of flesh rained down from overhead.
“Activate. Umbrella.”
Pitter-patter-.
I stood there calmly with an umbrella open above me.
As the fishy stench filled my nose, a blue screen appeared before my eyes.
It was the progress tracker I’d been checking all along.
[Sub Quest]
-Title: Growth Never Stops! Neither Do Balloons!
-Details: Parry 3,000 times with the growth-type weapon ‘Balloon Sword+.’
-Penalty upon Failure: None
-Reward: The growth-type weapon ‘Balloon Sword+’ will rise five tiers to Rank B.
<Current Progress>
2986/3000
I’d been working on this quest for a while.
By sheer coincidence, its timing lined up perfectly with this school trip.
As I kept clashing with Chimeras, I steadily built up the remaining progress.
Whoosh-.
Whoosh-.
Whoosh-.
The monsters were cut down without mercy.
The others joined in as well.
“Sir Viktor! I’ll assist you!”
Thud-!
Ranne’s spear pierced through the Chimeras.
A brilliant halo swallowed the monsters.
Her spear seemed to shine more brightly than usual.
Ranne gripped it tightly, then turned toward me and shouted.
“Amazing! The relic’s effect seems considerable...!”
The relic she was talking about was the flag fluttering from my back.
Ding-!
[Unbreakable Flagpole]
-Category: Accessory
-Rank: B+
-Status: Clean
-Description: A flag that flutters vigorously. When activated, it increases the stats of all allies within a 100-meter radius by 25%. This effect also applies to subordinate entities controlled by allies, such as summons, spirit beasts, and clones.
It was the item I’d received as a reward from the last game of Capture the Flag.
I’d activated it as a test, and everyone seemed to feel the boost in strength.
Colors flowing from the flag blanketed the area, glittering as though they were strengthening the group.
“These things are seriously disgusting!”
“Soldiers! A-attack all at once...!”
Caitlin and Alice stood out the most.
Both excelled at facing many opponents at once.
At Alice’s command, the crown-wearing girl’s playing-card soldiers charged the monsters.
<[♠]>
<[♥]>
<[♣]>
They were fragments of nightmares that could neither be torn nor bent.
They swarmed the Chimeras and slaughtered them one by one.
With the Queen’s command and the flag’s effect on top of it, they were practically flying.
Stab, slice-!
They brought down a giant Chimera, cut off its head, and presented it to Alice.
“Uh, um...?”
<[♠♠♠]>
“Um... g-good job...?”
<[♠♠♠♠!]>
<[♥♥♥!]>
<[♣♣♣]>
The soldiers knelt before their Queen.
When she patted their heads and praised them, they happily raised their weapons once more.
Alice looked a little awkward at first, but she cheered on her summons and gave them orders.
Looking at them like that, even the summoned dreams seemed a little cute.
“Kh...!”
Crackle-!
Amid the swarming Chimeras, a yellow flash streaked through the corridor.
The monsters were so slow that they probably couldn’t even see it, much less catch it.
A few seconds later, delayed impacts rang out, and the Chimeras turned into minced meat.
Boom-boom-boom-!
“Hoo...!”
Caitlin exhaled as though spitting out chewed gum.
Electricity raged around her, scorching every Chimera that brushed past.
“I feel like I’ve got way too much power...?”
She muttered to herself.
High-voltage current ran violently across her bronze skin.
Caitlin took a deep breath, then shot a sidelong glare at me beside her.
“Fuck, hey.”
“What is it, Sir Saeugang?”
“I stayed quiet because things were urgent, but isn’t something seriously weird here?”
“What is?”
“Everyone’s taking this way too calmly...?”
Caitlin pointed around us as though she couldn’t believe it.
Despite being dragged into this without warning, the others continued fighting without the slightest disruption.
“They’re way too calm!”
“You’re right.”
On top of that, everyone had a mask covering their face.
Alice and Carmilla were obvious cases, but Ranne and Caitlin had their faces covered as well.
As soon as we entered this place, I’d handed each of them a mask.
-There’d be no benefit in letting the Cult see your faces.
-You should hide your faces behind masks and use aliases as well.
-From now on, Miss Ranne is Sir Yarpa, and Miss Caitlin is Sir Saeugang.
The newest recruits of the Slayers had joined us that way.
Accordingly, the organization chart had been reorganized as follows.
[the Slayers]
Deputy Leader, Garulik-Viktor
Executive, Manre-Carmilla
Executive, Unnieon-Alice
Member, Yarpa-Ranne
Member, Saeugang-Caitlin
Our little family had grown in an instant.
As I smiled in satisfaction, Sir Saeugang pointed it out as though she were dumbfounded.
“No... forget the masks. Everyone’s reactions are weird! Why are they accepting all this so naturally?”
“You’ve been noisy for a while. Just stay quiet and follow along.”
“And what’s with this woman? She’s a vampire, isn’t she? Why did a vampire pop out of your front pocket...”
Swoooosh-!
Playing cards streaked past Caitlin.
Behind them stood Alice, wearing a pitch-black crown and giving off a sinister aura.
Caitlin looked dumbfounded all over again.
“...What the hell is that now?! Isn’t she at the bottom of Class E? She was hiding that kind of power?”
“Secret.”
“Argh...!”
Caitlin fired off question after question, but there wasn’t much I could tell her right now.
In the end, Caitlin grew irritated and rushed back into the Chimeras.
Once this was over, it seemed I’d have to give her a proper explanation.
“Hm.”
Alice’s breathing grew ragged.
At that moment, Alice, who had been directing the soldiers from behind, staggered.
Had she overexerted herself? I quickly reached out and supported her.
“Alice... no, Sir Unnieon? What’s wrong?”
“S-sorry. I feel a little sick...”
“Are you pushing your dream summons too hard?”
“No. It doesn’t feel like that... I think I just lost focus for a moment. You don’t need to worry.”
Had she sensed something?
Alice swayed for a moment, then forced herself to regain her composure and move again.
I could only tell her not to overdo it.
We pushed through the corridor at a rapid pace.
‘So far, things seem to be going smoothly.’
The situation seemed to be flowing along without a hitch.
But this was only the beginning.
The star of this quest would soon make its appearance.
‘The boss monster.’
The deep-sea monster Leviathan (Project Leviathan).
It was a weapon the Cult had been preparing.
A Chimera whose body alone measured several hundred meters.
In the original story, it was a monster that sank an entire city.
In terms of sheer size, it could even put up a fight against the undead dragon that had ruled the seventieth floor of Purgatory.
‘If the Cult unleashes that thing, the nearby city will be utterly ruined...’
I had to stop it.
More precisely, I had to hunt Leviathan.
You might wonder how I planned to hunt something so outrageously huge...
‘I’ve got a plan.’
If I hadn’t prepared even this much, the title of transmigrator would weep.
I snickered and cut down a few more Chimeras in front of me.
After we had been running through the corridor for around thirty minutes, the wave of monsters finally began to lose momentum.
Only then did we catch our breath and cross the center of a vast open area.
“This place... is truly strange. To think such a vast space was hidden beneath the deep sea.”
“Y-yeah... The ceiling is so high we can’t even see it, and the corridor is twisted like a maze...”
“What the hell is this place? Fuck, there’s a Cult branch in a place like this?”
“Shh! I think something’s coming!”
The others walked on while looking around.
Then the entire corridor began to shake.
Rumble-!
“W-wait...!”
“Is something shaking?!”
When we looked toward the end of the corridor, a shape was approaching.
Its silhouette was large enough to fill the enormous corridor.
Everyone froze and looked up at it.
“That is...”
Bluish tentacles writhed all over it.
Countless teeth lined the gaps between them.
The tangled tentacles stretched out like sea serpents.
Still, it looked strangely unfinished for a living creature.
“Fuck, that thing is alive, right?”
“It’s unbelievably huge...”
Skin had peeled away from various parts of its body, and its innards spilled out.
A fishy stench stabbed into my nose.
It looked as though it had only been half-made.
Like it was the sea itself, it swam through the air toward us.
[Name: Something’s Failed Creation (Project Leviathan-Failed)]
-Race: Chimera
-Classification: Boss Monster
-Description: The failed creation of a certain project.
Craaack-.
It opened its huge mouth.
Within that tentacle-made maw, more tentacles wriggled and intertwined.
“It’s... coming toward us?”
Caitlin muttered.
The next moment, it spat out tentacles woven together like a spear.
Thick demonic energy clung to the tentacles so heavily that black haze rose from them.
Swoooosh-!
The spear flew down the corridor.
Even brushing against it would be fatal.
And the spear itself was dozens of meters long.
“Everyone, behind me...!”
I shouted and swung the brightly colored Balloon Knife.
With my other hand, I pressed the button on my pocket watch.
Click-.
With a faint sound of friction, the world moved as though it had entered slow motion.
I casually deflected the spear already right in front of me.
Whoosh, boom-!
Perfect timing.
The parry landed cleanly and sent the tentacles flying in the exact opposite direction.
The giant spear reversed course and stabbed into the monster’s own body.
<Kieeeeeek-!!!>
Its scream rang out like it would tear through our eardrums.
The creature writhed, then charged toward us again.
‘This should be enough.’
I didn’t dodge.
I simply gave the signal.
“Pikachu! One Million Volts!”
“Fuck, what is Pikachu supposed to mean?!”
Crackle, crackle-!
Caitlin launched herself forward at my signal.
A bright yellow flash filled the corridor.
She wasn’t the only one.
While I blocked the first attack, everyone had been preparing a powerful strike.
“I’ll go too...!”
“Clear the way!”
“Soldiers! Stop the monster from getting any closer!”
Electricity, light, blood, and dreams.
The four attributes painted the corridor in every color.
-Lettus Style Lightning Magic, Eleventh Form-
‘Lightning Field’
-Kihano Style Spearmanship, Eighth Form-
‘Falling Star’
-Blandir Style Bloodcraft, Tenth Form-
‘Bloodstorm’
Ding-!
[The effect of the item ‘Unbreakable Flagpole (B+)’ has been applied.]
[The attack power of all allies increases by 25%.]
Kraaaash-!
Crackle-!
A fierce explosion consumed the corridor.
The attributes tangled together and burst, leaving the monster engulfed in light for a long time.
The flash blazed for a long time, then subsided and spat out what it had been chewing.
Boom-.
The body that had been swimming through the air crashed into the ground.
The monster was burned to a crisp without even leaving a death cry.
Its corpse was reduced to tatters, then went limp.
“Hoo...”
A perfect parry.
Then the team’s perfectly synchronized attack.
Even as I clenched my tingling hand, I stared at the screen floating before me.
Ding-!
[You have cleared the Sub Quest!]
-Title: Growth Never Stops! Neither Do Balloons!
-Details: Parry 3,000 times with the growth-type weapon ‘Balloon Sword+.’
<Current Progress>
3000/3000
[You have fulfilled the conditions through astonishing persistence!]
-The rank of this weapon will increase as a reward.
-A special function will be added to this weapon as a reward.
[This weapon is approaching the requirements of a ‘Holy Sword’!]
‘Success.’
Fwoooosh-!
The next moment,
a brilliant light burst forth from the Absolute Balloon Sword.
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