Chapter 50

This is the second part of today's two-part submission.

If you haven't read the first part, please start there.

■【Ghosts of Cattle and Horses Gothsmeizes】

The entity known as 【Ghosts of Cattle and Horses Gothsmeizes】 was enraged.

【Gothsmeizes】 had harbored hatred ever since its birth.

This was because 【Gothsmeizes】 was the very embodiment of the anger and hatred left behind by the dead.

It was the result of those who had left nothing but such feelings in this world.

‘GUDSFDGAADASAAAAAADSDAAA!!’

【Gothsmeizes】 had nothing else.

The dead from which it originated were steeped in desire and vice, leaving behind only resentment after death.

If even one of them had died with affection for someone, perhaps this mass of death would not have become so powerful, and would not have become an <UBM>.

But that did not happen, and the current 【Gothsmeizes】 did not even reflect on its own form.

The resentment boiling within 【Gothsmeizes】 was raging, determined to unleash its power on the living and submerge them in its own resentment.

And the current 【Gothsmeizes】 was even more enraged.

Because the living beings below, which seemed like rats to 【Gothsmeizes】, were not dying.

It was the <Master>.

The <Master> was immortal.

But if he could be killed, some of the resentment would disappear.

This living being had even repelled its temporary death and still existed.

Not only that, but he stood in front of 【Gothsmeizes】, trying to prevent other living beings from being submerged in resentment.

No matter how much he was injured, abandoned, or crushed, he would rise again and get in the way.

It was intolerable.

【Gothsmeizes】 did not know why it was so intolerable, but it was.

But it was over.

It was all over.

One of the great magics possessed by those who became 【Gothsmeizes】.

It would be unleashed again to kill and end it this time.

Once it was over, it would head for the city.

It would go to the city in its memory and kill more people, submerging them in resentment, thought a portion of 【Gothsmeizes】's resentment.

That way, more and more could be submerged.

Eventually, the entire world would be submerged.

-- Yes, we are dead, yet

-- We cannot accept a world where the living still exist

-- Submerge everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, everything

-- Kill and consume everything in the world.

Such a marbled mind, a mix of objectivity and subjectivity.

However, amidst the chaos within 【Gothsmeizes】, a single point of doubt arose.

It was not about its own thoughts, but about the actions of the small living being below.

The small being pressed a cloth to his mouth with his left hand,

and pointed "the gauntlet on his right hand" at 【Gothsmeizes】.

The gauntlet on his right hand could release flames. This was already understood.

However, all the flames had come from the gauntlet on his left hand, and he had never released flames from the gauntlet on his right hand.

Then, what would the gauntlet on his right hand release?

Just as the chaotic mind began to wonder,

"《Hell Miasma》... Full Eruption!!"

The blond man declared something, and black-purple smoke spewed out from the gauntlet on his right hand.

An unfamiliar attack.

Its nature, its effect on 【Gothsmeizes】, and the enemy's intention.

Trying to grasp these with the little rationality left, 【Gothsmeizes】 realized that this was not only harmless but beneficial to itself.

This was miasma.

A poisonous fog that invades and weakens the living, leading to death.

For the dead 【Gothsmeizes】, it was nothing.

While it could cause status effects due to the presence of living cells, the effects were minimal.

Moreover, for the composite of the dead, 【Gothsmeizes】, minor effects like [Weakness] or [Intoxication] were meaningless. Even if it absorbed the status effects, they would hardly have any effect.

The [Deadly Poison] that invades cells could be easily countered by self-repair.

Thus, this was merely something that made the living easier to kill, beneficial to 【Gothsmeizes】.

Wondering why the man had used such a foolish thing, and trying to see his face—【Gothsmeizes】 realized it could not see anything.

Nothing.

The black-purple smoke covered even the neck of 【Gothsmeizes】, and with its dead eyes, it could not grasp anything.

A smokescreen.

This was the man's intention.

Even if the toxic smoke was dangerous to 【Gothsmeizes】, he used it to blind its eyes.

‘DAADFDZFAAASSADASASAAAAAAA!!’

Roaring, it went berserk.

Stomping the ground wildly, trying to hit the man who must be somewhere.

The ground shattered, and the faces around its feet were crushed by the impact, but it felt no sensation of crushing anything.

It could not hit anything. It did not even know where he was.

Amidst the rage, a faint sense of frustration arose, but the calm part of the mixed resentment told it:

-- He is aiming for the head

-- But he cannot fly and is small

-- He will try to cut his legs again to attack the head

-- At that moment, I will use a great magic to kill him along with my leg

This was a desperate tactic.

However, for 【Gothsmeizes】, which possessed automatic repair, it was not much of a problem.

No matter how the enemy tried to hide, there was only one move he could make, and if that was dealt with, 【Gothsmeizes】's victory was assured.

Perhaps he would use fire again, but that would only cause pain and could not be fatal to 【Gothsmeizes】.

-- Next

-- The next time pain runs through my leg, I will aim there and fire a magic

-- The second firing of the great magic is a heavy burden

-- But if it can kill him, it is a cheap price to pay

Thinking this, it focused on its legs and transferred control of its body to the resentment that had once used the magic.

Then it exposed the core in its head and prepared to fire the great magic.

A sensation of something touching its left hind leg, and a signal of pain ran through its decaying nerve cells.

‘《DEEEEAADDDDRYYYYYYYYYMIXIIIIIIISAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA》!!’

Instantly.

It fired a great magic to obliterate the man and its left hind leg.

The momentum of turning around quickly tore off the decaying skin on its neck, but it did not matter.

The hastily aimed shot obliterated its left hind leg.

It lost its balance and screamed in pain as its body burned, but this damage would heal quickly.

-- More importantly, I must have killed him...

Just as the resentment was thinking this,

The man who should have been oblished just now—jumped onto the back of 【Gothsmeizes】.

---

What happened?

It could not understand.

The countless resentments within it quivered, and a moment of stiffness occurred.

Then it saw:

The man's right hand, covered in blood.

His mouth, which had bitten into a piece of flesh—part of 【Gothsmeizes】's body tissue.

And—the halberd with a black flag fluttering.

Now, the man was running, jumping, and charging towards the head of 【Gothsmeizes】 at an extraordinary speed.

Faster than before, faster than before he was injured.

It was hard to believe he was a heavily injured, dying body... in fact, his wounds were healing rapidly.

Now, the resentment that moved 【Gothsmeizes】 was filled with fear.

It felt like a replay of the escape in the underground.

"Success, I guess."

The death aura floating around 【Gothsmeizes】's body caught the man's whisper.

"‘If the opponent, who is affected by a status effect, consumes a part of the affected body... 《Reversal》 treats it as a negative effect from an enemy.’ I confirmed this with 【Grape】 this morning."

【Gothsmeizes】 did not understand what the man was saying.

"I wasn't sure if 《Hell Miasma》 would work on the undead, and the one this morning was part of 【Grape】's attack, so it might have been judged as such. If it had, it would have ended in self-destruction... but it worked."

【Gothsmeizes】 could not understand the man's appearance.

"Haha... It was a disgusting gamble."

However, it understood that the man had eaten its flesh and created the current situation.

‘GIIE!??DGAAAAAAAQA!!!?’

Screams erupted from the head and all the mouths of 【Gothsmeizes】.

"Scared?"

As the man said, 【Gothsmeizes】 was terrified.

【Gothsmeizes】... the resentment of the Gothsmeizes bandits, who had eaten the lives and flesh of countless people, was now collectively trembling in fear.

"Is this the first time you've been on the receiving end?"

The one asking this, who seemed to be the retribution for all the sins, was eating 【Gothsmeizes】's flesh and pressing to cut off its immortal life.

【Gothsmeizes】 was terrified by this sight.

He was the Grim Reaper.

With hands dyed in the red of blood and the black of death, holding a black flag,

With wolf-like ears,

Eating the flesh of the living,

He was the Grim Reaper that was pursuing them.

‘KADSFA!!!?ASASADAAAQASQA!!’

Trying to swing its arms wildly at the back, but the man easily avoided it, as if to say that 【Gothsmeizes】's movements were extremely slow.

Not only that, but he jumped onto the left fist that was swung and ran up from the hand to the arm, heading for the head.

Gradually, gradually, the Grim Reaper, death, and the end were approaching 【Gothsmeizes】.

Tormented by despair, 【Gothsmeizes】 played its last card.

‘《DEEEEAA, DEEAAADAAAAAA, DDDDRYYYYYYYYYMIXIIIIIIISAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA》!!??’

The third great magic.

It did not care about the form.

If this great magic, which consumed a great deal of resentment, was used three times in a short period, there was a risk that 【Gothsmeizes】 would collapse.

Still, it could not resist the terror creeping up its arm.

The great magic's explosion obliterated the man and 【Gothsmeizes】's arm from the elbow down.

The arm, thicker than a giant tree, had vanished without a trace of bone.

The pain signals were abnormally intense, and the self-repair was slow due to the decrease in resentment.

Even the resentment that ran through its body was now reduced to the amount of a few people, including the user of 《Deadly Mixer》.

Still, the death aura covering 【Gothsmeizes】's body and the remaining resentment laughed.

They laughed in relief.

One leg, one arm, and about eighty percent of the resentment that made up its body.

The consumption was great, but the Grim Reaper that was to end it had also been obliterated.

It was over.

Once the self-repair was complete, it would head for the city and spread its resentment...

‘A?’

Suddenly, a shadow fell from above.

The bull head of 【Gothsmeizes】 looked up.

There it was, in the sunset, in the glow of the setting sun.

A black shadow, holding a black greatsword in reverse grip.

Falling into 【Gothsmeizes】's field of vision.

‘Beasts indulged in immortality’

"Sleep forever"

The tip of the black greatsword pierced the forehead,

The core was touched by the black greatsword,

‘《Revenge is—mine—alone》!!’

A blow carrying all the damage 【Gothsmeizes】 had inflicted.

No, a blow carrying the revenge of all the people 【Gothsmeizes】 had tormented.

Like karma, it completely obliterated the head and core of 【Gothsmeizes】.

To be continued

The next submission will be at 21:00 tomorrow.

(=ↀωↀ=)＜Chapter 2 Boss Battle... Conclusion!