Act 1-40 - The Way To Survive Deadly Situation

Chapter 40 : The Way To Survive Deadly Situation

「Fuuh… Haah…」

Despite the spear that was piercing her abdomen, Beelzebub still tried to stretch her hand to reach Fedor.

Sorry… Beelzebub.

Please hang in there for a while longer.

The moment 《Air Guard》 got cancelled and 《Wind Dominator’s Spear; Hail》 was occupied was the first and last chance for me to execute my plan.

I stood up while preparing my 《Demon Eater Sword; Beelzera》 and invoking my mana to invoke 《Gluttony’s Edge》 as I ran toward Fedor.

「What a tenacious devil!」

Fedor swung his spear to throw off Beelzebub who turned out to be more troublesome than his expectation.

Fedor has many battle arts and powerful magic.

Stealing one of them won’t change the tide of this battle.

Then the thing I’ve to take from him was the magic sword.

This was the chance created by Edda and Beelzebub.

I absolutely cannot fail to use this one and only chance.

I kicked off the ground, aiming for Fedor’s arm.

「You think I’ll let you do that? DIE!!」

A sharp pain ran through my abdomen.

「GOHA!」

Too fast.

Even though I’ve raised my vigilance, his reaction time was faster than me activating my 《Moon Reflection》.

Thus, I received his full powered knee’s strike.

It felt like my internal organs had been crushed by that knee’s strike.

My mouth instantly filled with sour gastric juice.

「Ugh, UAAAAAAAAAA!」

I mustered every bit of my power and stabbed 《Demon Eater Sword; Beelzera》’s blade towards Fedor’s feet.

But, the blade stopped right after it pierced into Fedor’s skin.

This was Fedor’s 《Transcendent Toughness》.

Then, allow me to deprive you of that skill!

I pulled 《Transcendent Toughness》 from Fedor’s odo, I could sense it traveled through Beelzera’s blade.

The blade sunk even deeper into Fedor’s feet.

「I… Did it.」

With this, I deprived him of his 《Blade Parry》, a martial art’s skill that enabled him to parry Edda’s magic sword with his bare hand since his skin was protected by 《Transcendent Toughness》.

「You! What in the he-!!!!」

Fedor turned his leg and kicked me.

I was blown back far behind.

I fell on my back since I didn’t make it in time to prepare my landing posture.

「YOU CRETIN MUST DIE TOO! 《Air Vani》!」

The tip of the spear that pierced Beelzebub let out a spherical, half-transparent light.

「Ugh! T-this magic…! Vacuum’s…」

「DIEEE!」

「GAAAH!」

Beelzebub’s body got sucked into that ball of light, and compressed bit by bit.

I let go off the flow of mana that I used to maintain Beelzebub’s summoning time.

I’m rolling on the ground, focusing my consciousness on Beelzebub whose body got pierced with 《Wind Dominator’s Spear; Hail》.

《Air Vani》, I’ve heard about it before.

It was a high tier magic.

It was a magic that could create a vacuum space within a moment by dispersing the air inside the revolving wind ball.

But it has narrow range and could easily be cancelled by the resistence from living being’s odo, it also couldn’t be used to drain the air in a living being’s body.

But, the vacuum inside of that ball could easily squashed the body of any living being who was trapped in it.

Beelzebub let out a loud scream as her body parts bent into an unnatural direction, and then smashed to pulp inside the vacuum ball that shrunk rapidly.

「G-Guh,,, At this rate…」

「Fool! If not for my mana supply got interrupted, this puny magic wo–!」

Beelzebub still resisted till the end to escape from the rapidly shrinking vacuum ball.

I couldn’t help but cry for her when I saw her desperate act to get out of that vacuum ball.

Even after all of this, we’re still far from beating Fedor.

Even if I maintained 《Petit Dimordi》 in spite of Beelzebub’s suffering, I still have no idea how to get out of this desperate situation.

Then in my fading field of view, I saw Edda now stood right behind Fedor.

「Forgetting about me in the middle of fight huh, how unpleasant.」

「You recovered faster than I expected huh. It seems your toughness is far above your level…」

Fedor spun half circle with his sword hand pointed toward Edda… was what I expected before he stood still a moment later.

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「Kuh….!」

Fedor who lost his 《Transcendent Toughness》 couldn’t use his 《Blade Parry》 anymore.

Edda’s sword cut Fedor from his chest till his thigh, leaving a deep gash.

Fedor retreated as soon as he realized something was amiss, which also saved his life.

That moment, his grip on his 《Wind Dominator’s Spear; Hail》 weakened and a crack formed in the 《Air Vani》’s sphere that trapped and squashed Beelzebub.

「I GOT YOU NOW!」

When Beelzebub twisted her body, Fedor let go of his 《Wind Dominator’s Spear; Hail》 from his hand.

「Good job on only suffering to that degree when your opponent is this Mistress!」

The next moment, Beelzebub’s teeth bit right into the 《Wind Dominator’s Spear; Hail》’s shaft.

And snapped that metal shaft in two pieces.

That spear was already beyond repair and couldn’t be used as a enchanted weapon anymore.

「Fu~… Fu~…」

Beelzebub’s figure then vanished.

She ran out of mana.

In fact, I’m in an equally dangerous situation as Edda.

The pain in my abdomen due to Fedor’s knee strike is still affecting me.

Edda slashed for the second time toward Fedor.

The horizontal slash from her tore the clothes that were protecting his chest.

Fedor retreated one step, and then another one, and then he fell on his knee.

Blood was spilling on the floor from the gushing wound on his arms.

Edda barely propped herself up using her magic sword but I could see that her shoulders were shaking.

I braced my legs and took a deep breath.

My body finally relaxed.

As I thought, I don’t want to die yet.

「《Box》」

Fedor’s voice resounded as he invoked his magic.

「Do you really think… an adventurer’s hunter like me doesn’t have spare magic tool?」

Fedor said so as he grasped on the 《Sub-Void Cross》.

His other hand went into the transparent box that just appeared and took out an eerie string less harp from the inside.

There were skulls and some sort of eerie symbols engraved on it, there’s also a few gems embedded on it.

「Let me admit that if I took out this out any later than, victory would of been yours and you guys would grow stronger and gain much fame after this but, unfortunately this is the end for you.」

「FEDOR!!」

Edda leaped toward Fedor while raising a furious cry.

「《Gravidoor》！」

Eerie light, something that could only be described with “black light” shot up, and wrapped around Fedor.

That light pillar even reached the ceiling.

I could hear the creaking sound of the floor from inside of that pillar of light.

「What the…」

『It’s top tier Grante[gravity magic]!! That girl will die if she does not get away from that place immediately!』

「EDDA GET BACK FROM THAT PLACE!」

I shouted to Edda as soon as Beelzebub told me so.

Though she hestitated for a moment, Edda followed my warning and retreated immediately.

The pillar expands as it crushes the floor along its wake.

Its expansion stopped beforelong and its light diminished a lot.

And Fedor stood upright on top of the flattened floor, in his hands was the stringless harp.

「The scale of that magic… is too big.」

『It was the kind of magic that increased the gravity within its area of effect. Using such magic in succession might have led to the collapse of the labyrinth…』

Grante was a rare magic, there’s almost no recorded user of it.

I see now, so that’s the reason why Fedor saved that damned magic tool as his trump card.

Fedor’s fingers were trailing along the enchanted weapon.

There’s trails of light following after his fingers, connecting both ends of the harp with mana’s strings.

「That’s… No way!!」

I’ve heard about it before.

Fedor took a fighting stance after he completed the mana strings for his harp.

「This is the magic tool that I snatched from 《Adelrait of Poisonous Spider》… 《Invitation to Nightmare; Harwerth》. The adventurer who managed to corner me. Thanks to her fame, I can’t show this guy around. Now that I take this out, all of you will die for sure!!」