Chapter 188: Rush – Part 2

Chapter 188: Rush – Part 2

Kaatohe gets a golden boy's weapon entangled with hers, then pulls hard and disarms him, but he's too experienced to be pulled off-balance by just that, so he immediately draws a long, thin dagger and uses the opening to jam it under Kaatohe's armpit, a weak spot in her armor where there's no plating.

The blade pierces through the chain, as it was made specifically for this, then easily gets past the padding and enters a good five centimetri into her flesh. He wastes no time and immediately twists it for maximum damage and pain, but Kaatohe doesn't feel a thing.

Sainalai has updated the [Materialize] for the soldiers, and they now feel no pain, so Kaatohe simply draws her pistol and presses it against the golden boy's forehead, then blows his brain out. At this range, only the shiny cans' armor is enchanted enough to resist a bullet, so we're distributing SMGs and pistols to the melee squad to supplement their firepower.

But now Kaatohe is wounded, so she pulls back to get healed while another Companion immediately takes her place in the line. But she can't afford to stay away for long as everyone is on a tight rotation due to the gradually increasing pressure on our super fortress.

I cross through another portal, but it's still just another large floating island occupied by a type of almost fully feral monsters. They don't even have huts anymore, just nests, but I'm barely paying attention to them as I'm too busy fighting multiple shiny cans at the same time through Jarn.

Alissa then notices one of ours on the Hau-Hou side getting punted backward into our reserves, but the men are very attentive as the shiny cans have done that a few times already, so they grab the flier and put them down. Then Alissa realizes that it's Lily that was sent flying, but the loli doesn't immediately rejoin the battle and instead clutches her chest, exactly where the super enchantment keeping her curse under control is.

Oh, no!

Ciel is resting, so I send her to check on Lily. The loli takes her helmet off and seems to be in pain and struggling to breathe, almost as if she's having a heart attack. Then Ciel grabs her arms and pulls them apart so that she can inspect the enchantment, but the gem is completely unscratched.

"What's wrong?!" Ciel shouts, trying to be heard over the constant gunfire.

"I'm feeling... tired..." she weakly whispers back, forcing Ciel to read her lips.

Take her to Sai-...!

"Master!" Ted warns me and takes control of the airplane.

I suddenly notice a ginormous shadow over me, but then Ted makes a turn at supersonic speeds, and the sudden extreme g-force makes even me start to blackout.

Alissa enters my mind to control me and ensure that I keep the enchantments at maximum power so that the Raki doesn't disintegrate. Then Ted stops our turn once we're facing away from the ginormous shadow, and blood returns to my brain, allowing me to think once more.

It's the fucking giant that I tried to kill with [Godly Language], golden armor and all, except this time, he's bigger than even our castle in Escanso, and he's standing right above the exit portal while trying to slap me away in slow motion as if I were a little fly.

How the fuck are we supposed to get past that?!

The Four; I need their Gifts, but they're fighting and keeping the fortress from falling...!

"It's getting worse, Wolfy!" Ciel desperately shouts as she runs with Lily in her arms.

We don't have time.

I grit my teeth and accept that shit is about to hit the fan.

Alissa, warn Sandoro; Roxanne, get the teens for me!

The procession of Titans is still occupying the bridge, so the swampy grassland is the only piece of land available to me, and the moment we land, I pull out my precious airship and open a [Gate]. Roxanne, Chesa, and Thant immediately come through it, the two teens looking quite confused. But then they see the super giant, and Chesa's light blue skin becomes even lighter as she pales at the fearsome sight while Thant would be the same if his face wasn't furry.

"Get on the airship before he crushes you!" I shout as I summon Suzy. Then I get back into the Raki and take off.

"What the fuck do you want us to do?!" Thant shouts back while Chesa immediately begins to climb the rope ladder, and Roxanne uses [Heart of Fire] because she wants to show off.

"You blind him while Miss Chesa uses her Gift to attack the giant," Suzy states stoically.

But he frowns at the little blonde doll. "Why do you call her 'Miss' while I get a 'you'?"

"Not the time for that," she replies dismissively, then flies towards the bridge.Ne/w novel chapters are published at novelhall.com

And I snort. I didn't tell Suzy to be so rude. But then I put my war face back on.

"W-what's the best way to kill him?" Chesa asks Roxanne with an insecure tone.

"Fry his brain with a lightning storm?" she answers tentatively and shrugs. I also haven't had time to think of a proper strategy myself.

"It'll take time to build up something big enough to wound it," the mergirl cautiously replies.

So Roxanne encourages her a bit, "We have no other choice, and anything is better than nothing. I can try using my [Explosion], but he's too big, even for me."

The fact that nobody makes a joke inside my soul space proves that we're all being serious.

Chesa simply hums and nods slowly. Then she turns to the Giant and pales again. "The hand-...! The hand is coming towards us!" she desperately shouts and points.

The giant is attempting to slap them, but it's doing so in slow motion, possibly because the air resistance is extreme since it needs to displace a ginormous amount of air to move. It must be like being underwater for him.

Thant jumps onto the deck, and Roxanne immediately orders, "Thant! Blind him!"

He finally notices the big hand of doom coming towards them and growls, "Shit!" Then he raises his arms, and a mini sun suddenly appears above his head just as Suzy begins to take off.

The light barely bothers us, but the giant shades his eyes with a hand and squints as he attempts to keep track of them. He quickly loses them, though, so they safely fly away. Imagine being blinded by a fly; even though you know where the light is coming from, finding its exact position would be really hard.

Now that he's distracted, I turn the Raki towards the portal, but just as I start to accelerate, the giant decides to sit down and cross his legs with the portal at the center, and then a dome of stone grows and covers the top. But that's a weird thing to do...

Could the Dungeon Master be doing this because they can't fully block all paths to the portal?

That's still quite the vulnerability.

And Roxanne immediately orders the teens to exploit it, "Make him flinch! Hits his legs with lightning!"

"It's going to take some time for the storm to brew!" Chesa anxiously replies.

"I can hit him, too!" Thant eagerly volunteers.

And there's no reason to decline. "Do it!"

Sai casts [Soul Shield], then shoves it into Lily's chest, and it seems to do some good as Lily's pain lessens a tiny bit, but Sai's face is still grim.

Desperation starts to sink in as I struggle to handle everything that's happening at once.

"Put all my points in [Mana Control]; I'll try to create the strongest [Soul Shield] that I can!" Yunia suddenly commands, and I just nod and obey.

Thant launches a laser beam at the giant's knee, but he's completely covered in golden armor, so Roxanne starts gathering mana to help him with an [Explosion], and then we notice that the metal is already beginning to melt due to the intense heat of the beam. It seems that the giant is too big to be covered in an anti-magic enchantment, so we'll punch through it in just a moment!

"[Explosion]!" Roxanne unleashes a medium one, blowing a hole in his armor.

"GUUUH...!" he moans in pain, his voice so low that it sounds artificial, but it hits us with so much power that the Raki and the airship shake in the turbulence. Still, he doesn't move a centimetri, but I fly the plane closer to him to get ready for the smallest of openings.

Roxanne swears and angrily shouts, "Shit! We need to gath-..."

But she stops mid-sentence as multiple portals appear around them, and over a dozen robed Titans on a variety of flying mounts come out of them. There are also weird T-posing naked Titans behind the robed ones, and they're all facing the airship, tracking it even though none of them should be able to see shit with Thant's sun still shining brightly.

Alissa!

I summon her onto the Raki, then open the canopy and slow down so that she can take aim with her rifle.

The giant's golden helmet has mostly melted off, and he doesn't stop moaning in pain, doing so in slow motion, so it's almost like he's constantly yawning... creating a house-sized opening that seems pretty easy to get into.

But I can't sacrifice the Raki yet, not until I get to the core, as we need its supersonic speed... though I notice something odd.

"Isn't the plane shaking too much?" I worriedly question out loud.

"Perhaps the use of [Godly Language] has damaged some of the sensitive enchantments," Ted wisely suggests.

And I grit my teeth in anger.

Please, my boy, hold on for just a little longer.

The giant continues to moan in pain, but then he suddenly jerks his head toward us as he somehow senses our approach, even though Thant is still keeping him blind. He immediately lowers his body to protect the portal, but we aren't aiming for that.

"Master, we're getting too close!" Ted concernedly warns.

"We need the speed!" I growl back through gritted teeth.

And the Giant raises a hand, ready to swat us.

"That's enough!" Hana shouts in my soul space.

Then she jumps off the plane while I brake and turn away as fast as I can.

The [Fly] enchantment in her armor creates a bubble that keeps her from tumbling and flailing at a supersonic speed, but there's still enough drag that she slows down at a worrying rate.

Still, the giant hesitates, not knowing what to do as Hana approaches his face while I turn away, and he's too slow to close his mouth in time.

Hana is bathed in his hot, stinky breath, which also smells of blood as his wounds and burns have piled up. A huge tongue comes towards her from below, but it's still too slow to crush her against the roof of his mouth.

She casts [Spirit Light], illuminating the damp, fleshy cave of his mouth as she spreads her wings and continues to fly forward. Then she soon spots the pink wall of the back of his throat.

The giant suddenly freezes still, unsure of what to do, but then Thant's beam hits his cheek, and he turns away to not be burned anymore.

Hana reaches his throat and stops just before the fleshy wall, then raises the wooden board she's carrying, which has a [Gate] "coordinate" from Alcander, who opens it after Ciel gives him the signal, and Gods-know-how-many tons of C4 appear on top of it.

Hana struggles to keep herself stable in the air while carrying something so heavy, but the timed fuse has already been activated, so I summon her, and the C4 explodes a second later.

"GWACK!" the giant lets out a weird, fleshy groan as the back of his neck bulges out and explodes, releasing huge chunks of flesh everywhere. His head is still stuck to his neck, but a good half of it is gone, effectively decapitating him.

"You are now level sixty-seven."

And so, Nearly Headless Nick's whole body falls limp onto the portal.

Oh, wait...

And then a new portal appears above his corpse.

Oh, good...

The remaining Titan mages and T-posers all turn to me, but they're too far away to intercept, so I fly at full speed into the portal.

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