Chapter 162: Finisher – Part 1

Chapter 162: Finisher – Part 1

I want to finish this dungeon and the mystery before lunch, so we'll tackle this Aberrant with our full power. Aoi reached the rest/return area first, which is empty, so I interrupt her rest and just summon her and the golems. Then we move on at a fast pace.

Hana turns to our little calamity on legs and curiously asks, "Hey, Aoi, those flames were cool, but why are they blue? I've never heard of a dragon with blue flames."

And my lovely dragon is quite happy to answer, "Blue flames have a higher temperature. I was having difficulty adding a strong 'consume' abstract magical concept to my flames, so I just increased their temperature enough to melt the metal. But the funny thing is that my flames don't burn me anymore, so I did make them fully magical."

"Cool, or rather, hot!" I joke with a smirk and make finger guns, making the girls smile at my dad-ness.

But the frivolous and happy mood soon ends and is instantly replaced by concern as Alissa detects the Aberrant... or rather, just the edge of the monster, as it's simply too large for her to sense all of it, and what she does sense is the size of a damn whale.

Ciel then soberly reminds us, "So, the guild reported that a fellowship of four likely challenged this monster and got wiped out. We should use summons to search for their corpses or any remains."

"Fools," Yunia quietly remarks, sounding disappointed.

"Daredevils," I mournfully add.

"They make a living by risking their lives, and that sometimes leads to them taking too many risks in the hope of growing faster," Alissa remarks with a surprising amount of empathy. Then she gives me a confused look. "What? I was trained to be an advisor so that my adventurer master wouldn't kill himself."

I really wish that I could caress her furry ears right now, but my gauntlets and her helmet are in the way, so I do it to her soul, and her bound tail twitches inside her armor.

As we approach the Aberrant, Alissa realizes that it's actually the second boss of the flower path, a flytrap hidden under a few centimetri of soil. It's just that it's massive, and it's connected to a huge root, which snakes out of Alissa's [Sense Presence] range. I don't like that we can't see the whole monster, so I believe that it's best we wake it up before we actually engage it.

"I agree with your idea," Alissa immediately states, as she was reading my mind, literally.

"Doesn't hurt to try," Yunia follows up, as she was also literally reading my mind.

So I just summon an earth-Lina and a nature-Yunia, then order them to fuck up the flytrap.

The two elementals use their control over their respective elements to pierce the mouth of the flytrap. If this was the boss of the flower path, then that would've been a grievous wound, but instead, the root under the flytrap bursts out of the ground and slams itself onto the elementals.

Earth-Lina is buried under it but survives while nature-Yunia manages to dodge the thick root. The fly trap at its end is completely destroyed, as it wasn't made to be used like this, but the thick root simply stops after this one attack.

Then the earth begins to tremble, and a mountain appears far ahead of us.

We see a huge, castle-sized bulb emerge from the ground. Then it hits the low ceiling of the dungeon and actually fucking cracks it, making the whole floor tremble. The bulb is a dark brown as if it's the biggest onion that there ever was, but then we see the innumerable thick roots connected to its bottom, which are lifting it up. And these roots are just like the one that slammed onto earth-Lina.

"Okay, what the fuck?" I calmly question the absurdity of this monster.

Then the Onion partially unpeels itself, revealing an ugly, dirt-covered, baby-like face with bulging eyes.

Oh, no.

I open a [Gate] in front of me back to the castle, and Alissa immediately crosses through it. Then everyone's vision darkens as a mind-blowing screech ruptures our eardrums.

"REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE," the mandrake-like Aberrant lets out its shrill cry.

Alissa takes control of me and summons a number of light-Ciels and wind-Alissas. The Ciels [Heal] our ears while the Alissas make us float and create a vacuum around us, stopping our bones from being shaken out of our bodies from the vibration caused by the Aberrant's voice.

Shit, isn't there some sound-protection enchantment we could use?

"I could... add a function to the [Wind Armor] blessing to create a sound, uh... dampening barrier, but it would... continuously consume our MP to fuel it," Lina slowly remarks through [Bind] as she recovers from the pain.

The Onion Mandrake continues to screech for about ten seconds, then its voice starts to die down.

Doesn't hurt to have the function since it seems that Big Onion won't be constantly screaming the whole fight.

"Alright," she replies with an internal nod.

Once the Onion stops, the elementals lower us onto the ground. Then I open a [Gate] and send Lina back to the castle while Alissa returns to us.

"Thanks for saving my ears," my lovely foxy wife warmly states. Then she takes off both our helmets to give me a kiss on the lips, but she immediately puts them back on for safety.

"We all went deaf from that, so you wouldn't suffer more than we did," Roxanne whines with a pout.

And Alissa gives her an apologetic smile. "Sorry. But still, I'm thankful that I was spared."

"Hmph..." the unhappy succubus grumbles one last time, but then she drops it completely.

"How would other Lords deal with this Aberrant?" I question Yunia.

"Call the Lordsguard and possibly even the Expeditionary Division, then start a siege to take this thing down," she calmly answers.

"There's too much risk of others dying," I remark as I glance at the Companion girls, and I just know that they're smiling under their helmets. I really don't want to call my men when it's possible for us to deal with it ourselves.

Not to mention that the siege could take days... and I suddenly get a faint feeling of urgency telling me that I wouldn't have the time to see the siege through. I recognize that this feeling is "foreign," which means it's definitely a sign from the Gods, but we don't have time to ponder upon its meaning.

"There's nobody around here, so I'll pull out Patrono and carve my way through its ugly face," I boldly state.Fiind updated novels at novelhall.com

"No, Hana will carve her way through its ugly face," Alissa immediately stops me, and I frown at her party-pooping.

"Hell, yeah! Gimme that sword!" the resident barbarian exclaims and extends her hand toward me.

I pout, which is hidden under my helmet, then [Equip] Patrono and give it to her.

"Love you! Bye!" she shouts as she summons her wings and flies off towards Big Onion.

I unsummon the elementals, then summon a few Hollys and Shads to keep an eye on her and also to search for any remains of the missing fellowship, but considering how strong that root was, I have little hope that there's anything left of them.

"Can I eat the monster?" Aoi quietly asks, starting to get hungry due to all the references to onions. She can't eat metal, so all she's had to eat were the Flower Dancer snacks between the bosses.

I hum thoughtfully, "Sure? Just let Hana attack it first so that we know what we're dealing with."

"Yay," she childishly cheers, actually attempting to sound cute, but she mostly just sounds silly due to her deep, double, draconic voice.

Hana approaches the mountainous bulb like a rocket, and Patrono's shine attracts the monster's attention. Its ugly mug slooowly turns to her, then it makes the angriest grimace that an ugly baby could ever make.

Six of its huge roots shoot towards her to smack her out of the sky, but she just grins fearsomely, accepting the challenge head-on. She un[Equip]s her armor, covers her body with her scales, then prepares the Heavenly Weapon for a slice.

The first root comes in, and she swings Patrono as she activates the [Extend] enchantment on it, splitting the root into two.

RULES OF NATURE!

But then a bunch of sticky sap spurts out of the wound and covers her.

It attempts to heal itself and close the deepening wound in its forehead, but its regeneration is far too slow in comparison to the reload speed of our loyal Companions.

So the intelligent Aberrant turns towards the source of the pain and redirects all of its roots towards the Guns. But we've planned for that, so everyone retreats through the [Gate]s and relocates to the second firing zone. The monster isn't very good at detection, so our Guns won't be attacked until they open fire again.

Roxanne even uses [Redirect Mana] to refill her MP pool again for a real finisher of an [Explosion], so the Aberrant immediately targets her again, and the giant worm wrestling-orgy resumes.

But then the Field Guns open fire, and the Onion makes such a frustrated face that we actually find it funny. We're just playing around with it, as it's completely unable to deal any damage to us even though it's a fucking massive being.

The ugly baby suddenly makes a new expression, as if it's constipated, and everyone goes on high alert. The unknown is our biggest enemy here.

And it pays off to be careful, for the Onion suddenly exhales from its mouth a big cloud of yellow pollen that rings alarm bells in Ciel's and Yunia's minds. We're too spread out for me to protect everyone with Wind-Alissas, and the cloud is blocking the Field Guns' line of sight to their target. It also isn't easy to accurately hit the same spot without visual confirmation, and even Roxanne can't properly aim her [Explosion] without seeing her target.

If the girls and I used [Ritualism] to link our magic, then maybe we could control that cloud with [Wind Magic].

But that's an idea for another time.

Alissa will join the Field Guns to guide them with her [Sense Presence] while the girls and I will stick to Roxanne and Aoi so that one wind-Alissa can protect us all from the cloud while Yunia guides our tactical nuke launcher.

This is the Aberrant's last-ditch effort, a desperate attempt to keep us away so that it can regenerate, but it only slows us down for a minute.

We, Ryders, are simply too mighty.

The bombardment continues, then Roxanne's nuke finishes charging.

"End it," I calmly order.

And the dungeon trembles as the biggest [Explosion] ever is unleashed directly inside the Onion's brain.

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