Chapter 79 - S-Class Monster (II)

I hit the incoming magic projectile. Right now, I am facing the massive turtle while Lucina is facing the Samael knock-off not too far away from me. The turtle in front of me is the master of the element as it keeps firing elemental blasts toward me.

Each of the crystals on its forehead represents one of each element. Green crystal lets the turtle control the wind. Red is fire. Yellow is lightning. Blue is water. Brown is earth. The white crystal is the one that is not an element. The white one enchants its body to a ridiculous level.

I snap from my thoughts as I dodge the spike that appears underneath me. After dodging the spike, I thrust my spear toward the incoming massive fireball that the turtle was spitting out.

I activated a wind rune that was attached to my spear, and suddenly a tornado appeared from the tip of my spear and ate the fireball. After taking care of the fireball, I reinforced my body and charged toward the turtle.

While running toward the Turtle, I activated my Flowing Rune and Star Rune.

"Silent Lake!"

As I invoke the spell's name, a massive ball made of chain appears above the turtle. The ball then opened up before suddenly it chained the turtle before it suddenly disappeared.

"Comet!"

A second I say that a massive flaming rock appears from the sky. The rock hit the turtle and hit it right in its shell. The meteor's impact is so strong that it creates a shockwave that knocks away the Giant around the turtle a few meters away from the turtle.

After a few seconds of running, I almost reached the turtle. As I get closer to the turtle, I focus my magic on my feet and jump toward the turtle with my spear enchanted with Lightning Rune. As I appeared above the turtle head, I thrust my spear that coated with lightning.

My spear hit one of the turtle heads, and one of the heads screamed in pain. However, even being enchanted with lightning runes that give a passive penetration ability if attached to a weapon cannot pierce through the turtle's thick skin.

I know that it will be tough to pierce the turtle skin if I look at the monster theme. Even with my Silent Lake, who cancels all the monster magic usage, its defense is high enough to tank a good amount of damage.

I have ten minutes to discover my enemy's weakness before the Silent Lake effect disappears. Seeing that my first strike is not strong enough to pierce the turtle's skin, I prepare to jump away from the turtle.

However, before I could jump away, one of the turtle heads charged at me and tried to bite me. Seeing the incoming attack, I activated both my Flowing Rune and Darkness Rune.

"Breath of Ice"

After taking a deep breath, I release a chilling breath of ice. I looked at my attack, slowing down the turtle, but it was not enough to fully stop its attack.

"Finger of Death"

That means I need to either use the Final Bell spell if I want to win the fight instantly. However, I don't want to use it just yet. If the S-class monster appears, I don't have an instant death spell to fight against the S-class monster.

That only leaves me with overwhelming firepower. If an instant death is not working, bring more dakka to the fight.

Ten minutes before, the turtle can use its magic once more, and coincidentally I have a perfect spell to cause massive damage in the span of ten minutes. I'm far enough from the location where the spying spell the Magician cast is located. So I can use my spell without a problem.

"Summon! Emperor Vessel!"

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|Lucina Lionheart POV|

I looked at the massive ship appearing from the ground and sighed a little. It looks like my dear husband is getting serious. I don't want to be left behind and decide to get serious as well.

The abomination in front of me has an affinity to the unliving being. It was a necromancer and a powerful runic magician. It can cast a powerful barrier around itself that can block a powerful spell from the Cyclone.

As a necromancer, it can summon an undead of various sizes and power. What makes the monster annoying is its number of undead it can raise from the ground. Not only humans, but it can also raise the dead monster that people killed in the past even though that monster will disappear when we kill it.

My enemy's main strength is: It can summon a large amount of undead, It can cast a powerful barrier, and lastly, it can fire a blast of Chaotic magic at short or medium range.

Its weaknesses are: It cannot move without being carried away by the giant, The undead it summons cannot be more powerful than the monster itself, and its barrier has a cooldown of one second when I break it.

After making a plan for a few seconds, I took a deep breath and activated my Rune all at once.

"Summon Barrier! Grand Logos!"

After invoking the word, a symbol appears beneath the abomination, and it shines brightly. A few seconds later, a semi-transparent barrier appears around the abomination. The barrier itself has the shape of a cylinder and has a gold color. However, I can see a star symbol on the ground, and inside the star is a word that I did not understand. It has a diameter of a hundred meters long.

Seeing the abomination has been trapped inside my barrier, I activated my Cyclone Rune.

"Shining Wind!"

A second after I activated my strongest Cyclone spell, I can see a massive tornado appear inside my barrier and begin to attack the abomination. However, unlike the usual tornado, this one has green energy in the shape of a blade spinning along with the tornado, cutting anything that is trapped inside it.

"Final Flame!"

As I invoke my Rage Rune strongest spell, I see five blue flames appear above the tornado spinning around. After a few seconds, I see the fire created by a portal, and coming from the portal is a massive dragon made of the same blue fire that created the portal.

I look to the side and sigh a little when I see Isaac on top of the massive pirate ship and laughing maniacally and shouting about something called 'Dakka.'

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"YES! YES! More Dakka!"

While on top of Emperor Vessel, who fired the turtle with its cannon, I also activated my Star Rune and attacked it with my laser of doom and space flaming rocks. True to my prediction, the turtle really uses the turtle theme to the T.

It has a massive defense, but it doesn't have agility. It can only tank the incoming attack because its defense can outright ignore a weaker attack.

While waiting for the turtle to die, I notice it has a weakness. It has a soft spot around its neck, all three of them. I can use my spear to stab the soft spot and kill one of the three heads, but why to do it when you have massive firepower.

After ten minutes of continuous bombardment, I see the turtle is dead. Its shell is torn to pieces, and all of its head has blown away, trying to protect its soft spot. Hell, I even see for a second it tries to go inside its shell but sadly for the turtle, the Meteor Shower spell already cracked the shell and destroyed it before the turtle could go inside.

I take a breath and look at Lucina, who is summing a Fire Pillar of Doom and turning the Samael wannabe into ashes. A few seconds later, she de-summon all her spells, and true to my word, the only thing left behind is ashes who slowly disappear into a mote of light.

I then walk toward Lucina and hug her before saying.

"Let's go help the other."

"Un."

However, before we could even walk away, the sky darkened, and snow began to fall at high speed from the sky. The air around us begins to thicken, and I can feel the foulness of the energy that causes this phenomenon.

A few seconds later, I see a massive ball of darkness appear from the hole in the sky. The ball continues to become bigger and bigger before it suddenly explodes and changes the snow that falls from the sky into pitch-black snow instead of pure white snow.

Coming from the ball of darkness is a humanoid creature. I have a skeleton as a body, and not only that, it has a black aura that covers most of its body. It doesn't have any feature the other skeleton has, like the ever-smiling expression a skeleton has, but rather this creature did not have any face at all.

Its 'face' is like a mask that only has two holes for the eyes, and coming from the eye socket is a flaming blue flame that promises eternal torment to whoever faces it in battle.

The creature also holds a sword in its right hand. The sword itself has a deep blue color with a pitch-black hilt. On its left hand is soul-like energy that is ready to enslave the other. By the feeling of the power the creature releases, I know that we are witnessing the birth of….

"S-class monster."