How To Suck Honey With Extras [EN]: Chapter 232

258. King of Obsession (7)

What does that mean?

I almost reflexively asked, but then I shut my mouth.

Because I know he’s not someone I can have pointless conversations with.

“You don’t have to be so cautious. I already know, you heterogeneous being.”

A tone as if he were mocking me.

However, I can’t help but pay attention to the meaning behind those words.

He called me a heterogeneous being.

Isn’t he subtly implying that I’m seeing something strange?

“Well, let’s drop the pointless probing, Aileen.”

He even knows my name.

He probably wants to say that he knows everything about me.

I barely managed to open my mouth, maintaining my vigilance.

“…What’s your purpose, Epheleoht?”

“Oh! You know it after all! Good! I like that I don’t have to do a boring self-introduction!”

This confirmed it.

He clearly knows.

“I’ll get straight to the point, Aileen. Stop interfering. It’s beyond your capabilities.”

He spoke to me as if he were giving a warning.

“I don’t care if you do business or kill the riffraff, but I can’t have you interfering right now. I can’t allow you to snoop around either.”

“…According to whose standards? Yours? Or someone else’s?”

“I don’t have an obligation to answer that far, but more than anything, I didn’t come here to talk.”

As if proving that he has no intention of reasoning with me, he raises his hand.

“I’ve only come to get rid of you.”

Is he going to attack?

But I’m not particularly scared.

I know Epheleoht almost as well as I know Sylvester.

Because he’s the final boss.

I have enough information.

‘…More than anything, if I fight that guy at this point, I’ll win no matter what.’

And he’s easy to deal with.

Epheleoht is the only boss I’m sure I can beat.

“…Yeah, if we fight, I’ll lose.”

He said bitterly.

“Unfortunately, I’m in an awkward state right now. Maybe you know that too, Aileen, so you’re eager to fight, right?”

But he seemed to have anticipated that as well.

“So, I’ll cheat a little. Don’t call me unfair.”

He slowly lowers his hand.

The void opens, and two figures walk down from within.

“…….”

Monsters with twig-like limbs and skin.

I remember seeing them.

‘The guy who interfered at the Demon ritual before?!’

That monster.

A monster like a dry twig.

It appeared.

Two of them, no less?

“I’m ashamed, but I’ll ask them to stop you instead.”

“…I know you don’t know shame, but you’re going to whine and ask those monsters to protect you?”

“If I can live, why wouldn’t I?”

He scoffed as if to say, what about it, and pointed at me.

As if saying, that guy.

The twig-like monster reacted and moved.

‘He can give them orders?!’

I immediately used Teleport, created distance, and summoned Salamander and Sprite to unleash an attack.

Flame and lightning combined to sweep through the entire passage in front of me.

It was firepower that even he wouldn’t be safe from if he got caught in it.

But…….

“Unfortunately, that won’t work on those friends.”

The flame and lightning scattered at once.

Looking closely, the two monsters had spread out their twig-like branches like a net.

They blocked my Spiritism with just that?

What was strange was that they didn’t seem to be blocking it with defensive power.

‘It’s like my Spiritism isn’t working properly at all?’

Should I check again?

This time, I use magic.

“Mana Blast.”

A giant bullet made of pure mana with no attributes was released, but.

It’s blocked again.

Just by stretching out their twig-like arms to block it, they don’t budge as if nothing happened.

But I confirmed it.

The mana disappeared as soon as it touched them.

“If you think it’s just because their defense is strong, I’m sorry to say you’re wrong.”

Epheleoht, protected by the monster, chuckled as if declaring my judgment wrong.

“Whether you learn Spiritism or Aura, it’s all useless. These guys don’t belong to the logic of this era. Unfortunately, the power that belongs to this era doesn’t reach them.”

What does that mean?

Before I could think, the two monsters charged at me.

It’s hard to believe that they’re so agile, considering their skinny appearance that looks like they have no strength.

If I get caught, it’s over.

I repeated Teleport, constantly avoiding their pursuit.

“Then!”

I created a gravity field through Gravity Control, but the ability weakens as soon as they enter the range.

Epheleoht whistled as he watched it.

“Too bad. That won’t be enough. Bloodline abilities also belong to the power of this era as a result.”

It’s annoying, but I don’t have time to argue.

‘This isn’t a matter of being strong or anything, it’s a matter of dimensions…….’

It doesn’t work at all…….

This has gone way beyond the realm of cheating.

‘At this rate, all I can do is keep running…….’

No, even that has its limits.

The location is bad.

This place is a passage with limited cover, so if I avoid them a few times, I’ll naturally be cornered.

“Damn it…….”

When I realized it, the monsters’ branches were already widely spread around me like a fence, blocking me.

Attacking with Spiritism doesn’t work.

One monster blocks me like that, and the other stretches out its arm to grab me.

“Damn it!”

Abilities, magic, Spiritism, nothing works.

I have no choice but to accept that I’m completely cornered.

What other options are left?

Desperately racking my brain, I unleashed an attack that I hadn’t used yet with a half-resigned feeling.

But it wasn’t a calculated attack, it was just a reckless one.

It’s hard to expect it to work.

Just a struggle.

It reaches his head.

Kwang!

“…Huh?”

I blinked in surprise at what I had done.

I have a feeling it worked.

I clearly felt the impact on my fist for the first time.

One of the monsters that was approaching me was hit by my punch and sent flying to the wall.

The guy who was watching from beyond had a twitch in his cheek.

“…Wait a minute? This works?”

I lifted my fist that had struck him and stared at it in amazement.

Currently, my fist is covered with hard scales and bones.

The result of the body transformation caused by the transformation magic I got from Asilla Krellbelt, Atom Metamorphose [a spell that alters the user’s body at an atomic level].

This works?

“…Could it be.”

There’s no time to think.

I immediately swung my transformed arm at the other monster.

Kwajijijik!

A sound like dry firewood splitting rang out, and that guy was also helplessly knocked away and rolled on the floor.

It’s so futile.

And at the same time, joy arises in my head.

Now I understand.

“…Ah, so that’s how it is.”

Even elaborate magic is nothing more than a trivial trick once its principles are revealed.

I don’t know the detailed rules about those guys, but I felt like I could vaguely see something similar to the rules.

“This kind of thing works.”

Even if it’s the same magic, normal magic attacks lose their effectiveness.

However.

“Flame Lance.”

This time, I activate the Flame Lance and cast transformation magic at the same time.

As I launch it, the Flame Lance sweeps through and penetrates him.

Then frost forms on the surface.

Only what was changed into a cold flame and launched worked.

“…Weakness? No, is it a countermeasure?”

Simple techniques don’t work.

But only the attacks I used through the transformation magic I received from Asilla work so futilely.

At least that’s a definite rule.

“…Magic that doesn’t belong to this era?”

On top of that, that damn guy is really flustered right now.

‘Doesn’t he know everything about me?’

He doesn’t seem to know that I have a means to be effective against those monsters.

Then the response is simple.

“You scared the hell out of me, you damn ragamuffin!”

I’ll pay you back right away.

I summon Sandman, a mid-level sleep spirit.

“Wave of sleep…….”

I generate a wave of sleep and chant transformation magic at the same time.

Soon, I interfere with the atoms that make up the wave and manipulate them as they are.

쿵!

The two monsters were hit by something invisible and staggered, and their movements seemed sluggish as they floundered slowly.

I manipulate the wave of sleep itself and swing it like an invisible fist.

When they get hit, they stagger and their movements become sluggish.

“Oh? Sleep works on them like other creatures? When you open it up, I can see the bottom, right?”

It’s only scary because attacks don’t work, but right now, it’s not even as good as a twig to crush them.

“Go, Salamander!”

As the enhanced flames swept through, the two twig monsters instantly turned to ashes in the heat.

Scattering the ashes, I approached this time, blocking him instead.

“Now, this is a reversal.”

I can summon as many as I want, but he might have countermeasures.

Should I take advantage of the momentum and finish him off?

It’s unsettling what will happen if I kill the final boss here, but I don’t have time to think about it now.

‘Besides, his remarks are unusual.’

It doesn’t matter if I kill him.

Let’s make that decision.

Of course, he wouldn’t be willing to stay still.

Epheleoht frowned and lunged at me.

The scales on his arm wriggled open, and a black aura poured out from within.

“Epheleoht’s unique ability, Blood Demon Power…….”

I know.

A heterogeneous power that is neither normal magic nor black magic.

A constitution called Blood Demon Power [a cursed magic that corrodes objects upon contact].

That’s his characteristic.

“But so what?”

I transform both arms into a shape covered with solid armor.

I grabbed it as it was in one fell swoop.

I grab his arm as if to crush it as it is.

My arm stings, but that’s all.

I’m stronger.

“Keuk?!”

“Too bad, Mr. Final Boss. You can’t handle me right now. Besides, you said it yourself, right?”

I don’t know about the awakened guy at the end of the original work.

That guy right now is just an immature brat.

“Get taller and come back!”

Kwajik!

I broke his arm in one fell swoop and struck him.

Before the guy who was knocked back to the wall could twitch and get up, I hurriedly pressed him down and restrained him with a gravity field.

“Keuheok! ……This is too much. Hey. Aren’t you treating people too harshly?”

Seeing him spitting out blue blood and suffering, he’s not pretending to be injured.

Then should I just finish him off?

There are many variables in this guy’s existence.

He’s already far from the one who played the role of the final boss I knew.

‘It’s better to get rid of him.’

Having decided that, I tried to increase the power in one fell swoop.

“…Puhheheheup. Too bad. It’s already too late. It would have been nice if it was a little faster.”

It’s a trivial provocation.

I tried to ignore it, thinking so, but at the same time.

쿵!

A noise was heard from above.

Is it the sound of Sylvester fighting?

But something is strange.

I feel a heterogeneous energy.

I felt a sense of rejection.

It feels like there’s something that shouldn’t be there.

“Aileen, you’ll regret it if you ignore the discomfort you’re feeling right now. Puhheheheheheuk.”

As if understanding what I was feeling, he shrugged his shoulders while suffering, and his body sank into the slimy floor.

Is he planning to melt the floor and escape while being suppressed?

“Where are you going…….”

I tried to grab him, but as if on purpose, a roar rang out from above once more.

콰아아아아아앙!

This time, it’s not just a noise.

The impact is so great that I wonder if the dungeon itself is shaking.

It’s clearly not a situation to ignore.

My feet shook from the impact, and my concentration was disturbed.

In the meantime, he completely sank into the floor and slipped down as if sliding.

Only an unpleasant laugh fades away.

“See you again, you meddler with a role that doesn’t suit you.”

“Stop right there!”

I tried to catch him, but it was too late.

The melted floor quickly hardened.

It’s no use even if I try to chase him.

I cleanly gave up the chase.

Instead…….

‘Up there…….’

I glared at the outside of the passage leading upwards and gnashed my teeth.

The guy who was blocking me from going up so much ran away without regret as soon as he heard the noise.

It means something happened.

That was the intention from the beginning to stall for time.

Then, whether I like it or not, I have no choice but to check the results.

I hurried upwards.