Chapter 244: A Thunderclap on a Sunny Day.

Chapter 244: A Thunderclap on a Sunny Day.

Befitting the fact that this was her last chance for survival, Fulsara didnt pull any more punches. She immediately began shooting [Deathly Wave] after [Deathly Wave] at me the moment she got the chance, all while summoning more and more [Corpse Coffins].

If I am to die today, then I will die fighting with my company! Come to your mistress, my dear Death Defiers! One last time. Show your brilliance one last time! Corpses rose from her spells as her giant body kept Grimnir, my garms, and me occupied. Her constant [Deathly Wave] made it difficult to approach her without taking damage.

With [Erosion Resistance Lv. 10], I should be able to take more risks to end this fight. She is demolishing the whole area.

Buildings were being bulldozed by Fulsaras wyvern-worm chimeras large body, while the ground cracked open as it slithered around. Thankfully, the area was evacuated, but the reconstruction of this portion of the city will be extensive.

Tell me, Miss Saori! Where is Masalim? What did you do to him?! Tell me! I ask this to you as a fellow worshipper. Her plea was solemn, littered with no malice or ill-will. I would have taken it more seriously if she wasnt turning the area to rubble with her flagrant use of [Deathly Wave]s and [Abyssal Bomb]s, the level two spell of [Tenebrous Magic].

While my garms carried Grimnir away from the onslaught of spells, I dived into my shadow to dodge the next three waves, reappearing from the rubble only for my [Foresight] to warn me of an incoming attack. I cast [Dark Tendrils] from my body to pull myself away from the danger, but multiple undead mercenaries suddenly appeared to block my way, causing me to get hit by a [Deathly Wave].

Grrrk! Luckily, I wasnt affected by necrosis this time, but I still felt as if a truck rammed into me.

Elongating my claws with [Shadow Armament], I sliced at the nearby undeads, leeching off their Health and slightly restoring mine.

[Lifestealer (73 Kills)] inflicted on [Young Stygian-Scaled Fenrir, Saori Segawa]

[Lightning Shadow] is a Job skill, I cant rely on it in my current form!

I cast [Enfeebling Winds] on a few of the approaching zombie horde, targeting a few zombies I found healthy looking. The spell slowly sucked up Health like a leech, transferring a portion to me. Id use that as a passive healing for now.

I know [Enfeebling Winds] myself, do not presume I have no counter-measure for it. Corpse Coffin! The undead I had cursed returned to their space-time coffins, before immediately returning back to the battlefield. My [Enfeebling Wind] had been nullified. If you wish for damage, you use [Tenebrous Magic]! [Dark Magic] is all about cunning! Now, tell me, where is my vice-captain? What did you do to his body!

I roared, shooting out multiple bolts of black lightning, ending the undead lives of a couple of them, but Fulsara kept summoning more and more. None of them were monsters like in our previous battle; all of them were mercenaries. I could see their dog tags hanging off their necks, showing off their names and birthday.

[Lifestealer (87 Kills)] inflicted on [Young Stygian-Scaled Fenrir, Saori Segawa]

[I buried him. I had put him in my [Storage Magic] during our battle to stop you from raising him. I then gave him a burial after leaving Shaturein,] I answered her question.

I see The wyvern-worm slammed its circular mouth at me, prompting me to dodge it. It crashed into the ground and began to hit such stone and earth. May your soul reach Goddess Death, Masalim! I will join you soon!

The worm mouth spat out chunks of rock and earth at me, ravaging the neighborhood. I stood my ground and cast [Hadean Dragon Thunder], aiming the bolt at the approaching projectiles and completely atomizing them.

I then ordered my catalysts to come close to me, rubbing them against my fur as I channeled mana through my white fur. Once my catalysts were filled with electric power again, I activated them to return back into [Lightning Revolt] mode.

[Lightning Revolt (Limited)] inflicted on [Young Stygian-Scaled Fenrir, Saori Segawa]>

As I did so, I deactivated my dragon thunder as Fulsara decided to dodge it instead of taking it head on. She learned.

Taunt! Grimnirs voice echoed behind Fulsara.

Argh! Damn you, dwarf! Do not presume I will be tricked once again! Fulsara resisted the [Taunt].

Aye, but taking your attention away for a single second is good enough for me! Take this! Quatres form appeared from behind the rubble, carrying Grimnir on his back.

Grimnir had his blasthammer in its gun form, holding it as it began to shine a bright blue light. Steam blasted through the exhaust vents like a locomotive, all while Grimnir began to laugh like a madman. And then, KAAAABOOOOOM!

A massive blast shot out from his blasthammer, the recoil knocking Grimnir off Quatres back. Fulsara shot out a [Deathly Wave] at Grimnir, but that attack couldnt block things. It could only affect organic substances, not mana.

Casket of Souls! A veil of souls shielded Fulsaras wyvern-worm, only for me to shoot out multiple bolts of [Stygian Lightning] to activate my catalysts spell piercer effect. The shield weakened to the point Grimnirs blast broke through and drilled a hole through the worms body, causing it to ooze disgusting green blood.

Krruh! The worms body wiggled from the force of the attack for a moment, but it showed no signs of pain. Fulsara even cast [Flesh for Mana] to restore its body, healing herself back up.

But that was enough to give my three other garms plenty of time to begin wrapping mana threads all around its long body.

What?! Fulsara cried out, only for me to draw her attention back to me by shooting a [Hadean Dragon Thunder] at her. With no time to react, her wyvern-worm body was struck by the lightning. I conjured [Dark Tendrils] around my body as I pounced on the worms body.

Till death does us apart! Corpse Fusion! Undead Puppet! Fulsara joined her undead mercenaries together, fusing their skin, muscles, and skeleton into a large amalgamation of flesh and bones. All these bodies created a towering giant the size of an ogre and a bone sword with a flesh handle.

It flew at me through [Undead Puppet], landing on the worms body to fight against me. With the spell support from Fulsara, the undead monstrosity began its attempts to knock me off the worms body.

It had an unsteady build entirely unsuited to sword fighting, so the problem wasnt dodging its heavy strikes, but piercing its fleshy innards. Bones and meat were joined together into a horrific and disgusting abomination. Words couldnt describe the horror of seeing this thing moving around as though it was alive.

My claws scraped off pieces from its body, but they would simply return through Fulsaras [Flesh for Mana]. I honestly questioned how much mana she still had at this point, and if a soul urn could even get arcane corruption. But it wasnt worth considering when her spells and meat shield prevented me from advancing forward. I had to destroy her soul urn if I wanted to stop this creature.

I could outmaneuver the undead giant, but doing that with Fulsaras spells and the worm struggling to knock me off was difficult. Not to mention, every time I tried to [Shadow Dash] or [Air Walk] my way closer, [Undead Puppet] would give the undead giant a surprising amount of speed. It was the perfect body blocker.

But what annoyed me the most was

How the hell is there no reinforcement?! There is a giant worm attacking the city but no one is coming to help me! I cant land the killing blow like this!

My garms were helping and I suspect Grimnir was doing his own thing, but that stuff takes time. This worm was gigantic. Smaller and shorter than the geisenlarg king, but it could still crush houses like a kid destroying their sandcastle.The initial posting of this chapter occurred via Ñøv€l-B!n.

I had to deal with three opponents at once right now. The only chance for me to break through this was to spam [Hadean Dragon Thunder] as much as Fulsara was spamming [Deathly Wave]! [Multi-Cast Lv. 5] brings the number of spells I can control simultaneously up to six, and then a seventh with [Lightning Revolt].

Ill recover my mana and stamina after this fight, I need to end this fight now!

Hadean Dragon Thunder x7!

I jumped into the air, levitating there with [Air Walk]. When the undead giant flew at me with [Undead Puppet], I smacked it out of the air with my electrically-charged paws, causing it to crash into the worms hide, though it was able to instantly recover its wounds with [Flesh for Mana]. In the time this took place, however, seven black magic circles appeared above the worm.

As my seven spells shot out, I felt an intense sensation of something getting forcibly ripped out from my body. It was my mana. Using up seven of these spells at once felt excruciating.

The worm anticipated the incoming rays, dodging them surprisingly well for its size. Although there were glaring wounds littered on its bodies from my rays, none of them hit its head, where Fulsaras soul urn was.

I made a big mistake.

I couldnt control the spells unless I spent more mana. Keeping them going with [Continuous Cast] brought me to agony. My control of them was terrible. I tried imitating Hestia, but using all these large spells all at once is something I couldnt copy with just my Mana pool. I had to dispel them at once, otherwise my mana would have been spent.

Big mistake, big mistake

Kruuuuuh! The worm roared. It looked like swiss cheese at this point, but its flesh was being slowly restored by Fulsara.

Where does she get all this mana?! Where does it all come from?!

After the magic circles dissipated, my mind felt like it was in turmoil. I only reacted to [Foresight]s warning in the last second, when the undead giant slashed at me.

Grk!

A large gash appeared on my side, spraying enough blood for someone to shower with. Crashing onto the worms hide, I was forced to enter the undead giants shadow to escape. In this situation, I didnt have many choices if I didnt want to jump off the worm. There werent too many shadows on top of it.

However, ducking into the shadow realm was a less than ideal move. Sure, I had been a bit reckless just now, but I shouldnt be dissuaded by one mistake. What I should do is fully capitalize on the fact I have 87 kills stacked in [Lifetaker] right now!

I jumped out of the same shadow I had entered through, the undead giants. This meant I had to tank a [Deathly Wave] and a slash from my enemies, since they could see where I was about to emerge; [Shadow Dash] leaves a magic circle at the point of exit, after all.

I groaned, but I slammed my paw into the undead giant, pushing it further away, giving me an opportunity to rip through the worms hide. I was taking advantage of [Stygian Blades]s life steal effect again. The more damage I did, the more Health I regenerated. I took damage to get a chance to deal more damage!

As I kept slashing into the worms body, [Foresight] warned me of the approaching undead giant, but I wasnt fully healed yet. I had to recover as much Health as I could.

Checking my storage, I didnt have any more holy grenades to heal myself after giving all of them over to Grimnir, and I couldnt easily use potions in my fenrir form. Drinking them was a hassle aside from crunching the whole glass bottle, and I didnt want to swallow glass shards and that was my only method of drinking a potion left.

I thought I could rely on [Stygian Blades] only, so I abandoned the grenades. I have to make this work!

At the very last second, I will dodge. I know I can do this. I know I could do this!

Keeping watch of Fulsara and her giant, I readied myself to stop attacking and to dodge. As the attacks slowly came in, I cast [Haste] on myself, time speeding up for myself and the rest of the world seemingly slowing down.

And then, I

Kruuuuh?!

What?!

only needed to dodge the [Deathly Wave], as reinforcements stopped the other attacks. Help finally came!

[Saori, give Ellaine a dragorade now! She needs it now!]

KleaHatma?!

The silhouette of my savior heavily reminded me I didnt have the time to look away from the fight to glance at my saviors, and I knew better than to delay an request during a fight!

I activated [Storage Magic] and took out two dragorades. They only recovered Mana and Stamina while helping prevent arcane corruption build-up, but they were still an excellent recovery drink despite not being an actual potion. I had tons of them since Hestia liked making them. When I threw them over to the person, she grabbed the two and began drinking them at the same time.

Her bone wings then spread out and she took flight, charging at the undead giant with her feet morphing into giant blades respectively.

[Ellaine?!]

Her appearance was a far cry of that 15-year-old noble girl I came to know. Her clothes were ripped apart with only a far-too-large coat covering her exposed skin, but what was more baffling to look at were her bone wings, a three-pronged tail, and her thin horns. Eldritch tendrils wrapped around her body like armor and she could transform this flesh into claws, giant blades, and whip-like objects.

Long story, tl;dr later, Saori! Ellaine shouted.

When did she learn tl;dr?! Hestia? The kids?!

Lets beat these things first! Klea, lets go! Ellaine threw away the empty dragorades and unsheathed her whipsword to engage the undead giant for me.

I know you lads and lasses have much to say, but we aint got the time to do that. Muraina, our guild leader, is dealing with that damn giant bug at this point. If we dont stop it, the city will probably be lost with how slow those damn nobles are moving! Grimnir shouted. The necromancer is dead! We, Aurora, took her and this damn undead worm down. Neighborhood got destroyed, but no casualties. Praise the Origin Gods. Now, I think you people have known us long enough that we aint here to cause trouble. So how about we go out there and help our guild leader!

Grimnir gave an inspiring speech, but it didnt seem to have motivated the adventurers. Their suspicions werent lifted.

Free meals! Three free meals, alright? After this whole mess is over, Ill treat all of you to three free meals at my usual quality, alright? Just please shut up about it! Muraina already knows, so please just let it go!

YAY! FREE FOOD!

What?

Well take you up to that, Saori! Open the damn restaurant again! Cheap prices for fucking good food is hard to get, you know!

Yeah, after this fucking mess, we need something to celebrate with. Gotta toast to those we lost today. We gotta drink for those we fought today!

Three meals! All of us! Bring them to the guild so we can get drunk and full!

Adventurers were adventurers. I didnt expect them to get bribed that easily, but I guess that was how adventurers lived. Too many have died today already. Giving them a reason to see this fight through was good enough for them to get motivated.

I have to make a feast for them. Just so they dont go around telling people Im a fenrir.

I then looked into the distance, watching Muraina and her treant Whisperia engaging the geisenlarg king while somebody was casting tenebrous spells. It had to be Krymdar.

Hestia should be in Shaturein, but once she finds out Ellaine isnt here, shell rush out. Should I go and inform her? No, Ill just send one of the garms. First things, first we need to

Booooom!

A bright light and black explosion appeared in the distance. Looking over there, from how far it was to our current location, I managed to recognize it being in the area where the orphanage was. Of course, there shouldnt be anybody there after Hestia evacuated everybody but I had a bad feeling about it.

Ellaine, Grimnir! We need to go there right now!

Something told me this miserable day was about to get even worse.

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Bio: Hey there, AbyssRaven here. I'm just an avid Light Novel and Fantasy story reader who randomly thought of a story and began writing about it.

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