The Vault of the Demon God – 437
Chapter 437
“Did it just talk? That thing?”
“‘That thing’? How dare you, an intruder, call it that? *That thing*?”
After the hummingbird was startled, Riel was next to be surprised.
Well, it’s understandable to be surprised to see a hummingbird talking, especially since it’s not an inhuman monster like a goblin or an orc.
Other monsters might talk, but among all the animal-type monsters on the 64th floor, none of them could speak.
“It may not look like it, but it’s the leader.”
“*This* thing is?”
“This time it’s ‘this thing’? Huh? But how did you know?”
Actually, it’s ambiguous to call it a monster.
Including the leader in front of them, the hummingbirds in the flower garden, who could be called its subordinates, didn’t seem to have any attack abilities.
However, it had an ability that was better for protecting the flower garden than attacking.
“Ugh, whatever! I don’t know what’s going on, but both of you disappear!”
“Dodge.”
“Yes, uh?”
The gust of wind created by the hummingbird leader struck the spot where Seun and Riel were standing.
Seun was already kicking off the floor, and Riel also threw herself to the side, proving that she was a skilled player, even before questioning.
Thanks to that, both of them were able to avoid the gust.
Whoosh!
– Huh? Uh, uh, uh, uh!
– Gnome!
– Bad bug!
– It’s not a bug, it’s a bird!
– Bad bird!
Unfortunately, the Earth Spirit, who was standing blankly behind Riel, couldn’t react in time.
Like a spirit, it wasn’t damaged by physical attacks, but the gnome was caught in the wind and quickly disappeared from sight.
“Gnome!”
Riel urgently cast spirit magic.
It seemed like she was trying to summon the gnome, but judging from the cold sweat she was shedding, the magic didn’t seem to be working well.
– Gnome, are you okay?
– What happened?
“…The distance is too far, so it was temporarily unsummoned, but it doesn’t seem to be injured. Still, there’s never been a case like this with such a distance.”
“That makes sense. That guy’s wind is closer to forced movement magic than pure wind.”
If you get hit properly by the hummingbird’s gust, you’ll be blown almost to the starting point of the trial.
There’s no death from the impact of the fall, but it’s an ability that completely eliminates the will to come back here.
Even if only a small part of your body is grazed, you’ll be blown at least outside the vines, so there’s nothing more to say.
Seun before the regression [time travel] had been hit by that ability more than ten times while looking for it.
“What, how did you avoid it! What! What!”
Whoosh, whoosh!
The hummingbird fired gusts in succession.
There’s no damage, but to fire gusts that forcibly send enemies hundreds of kilometers away like this in succession…
Once again, the memory of being frustrated while being hit by that gust before the regression came to mind.
– Through inner energy, Butterfly Glide is enhanced.
Seun began to step on the footwork in earnest, avoiding the flying gusts.
Butterfly Glide itself is a footwork that reads the surrounding air currents and avoids the enemy’s attacks as if feathers are shaking, so it was perfect for avoiding the hummingbird’s attacks.
“Sylph!”
– Yeah, don’t worry!
Riel was the same.
She accepted Sylph into her body and moved her body lightly like a feather, shedding a refreshing breeze.
The hummingbird was embarrassed that its attack didn’t work at all and flapped its wings even faster.
“Get hit a little! Get hit! Get hit! Why are you so good at dodging!”
It uses that ridiculous ability several times in a second.
– Wow, it’s flying away!
Then, an innocent Water Spirit was hit by a gust and unsummoned far away like the gnome.
A tense standoff continues.
Riel tried to counterattack, but the hummingbird’s attacks were so fast that she was barely able to dodge.
At that time.
Whoosh!
“I hit it! I hit it!”
The moment Seun stopped moving momentarily, the gust that the hummingbird fired hit him.
He hurriedly raised both arms to block his face, but this wasn’t an attack that caused damage in the first place.
Seun’s body flew far away towards the end of the 64th floor along with the gust.
“No! How can you get hit when you told me to dodge!”
“You get hit quickly too! Disappear together! Don’t come here!”
Riel shouted resentfully in the direction Seun flew.
Thanks to the hummingbird’s gust alternating between the two of them, she was able to avoid it easily, but when Seun disappeared, all the gusts flew towards Riel.
Since twice the amount of gusts were flying, it was difficult to avoid even by moving her feet by drawing out Sylph’s power as much as possible.
The moment she thought it was dangerous as it was.
“……!”
Riel suddenly widened her eyes, nodded, and ran forward.
The hummingbird was a little embarrassed by the sight of Riel running towards it, but soon shouted, “Yes, go quickly!” and sent two streams of gusts.
At that time, an unfamiliar shadow fell over the hummingbird’s head.
“Got it.”
“Huh?”
Thump.
The hummingbird was caught.
The owner of the shadow was Seun, who should have been blown away by the gust to the very end of the 64th floor.
The reason Riel suddenly ran forward was to confirm Seun’s plan to catch the hummingbird, and to turn its attention to herself.
“What happened? I clearly saw you flying away.”
“Of course it’s a trick. This guy is so timid that he won’t let his guard down otherwise.”
Avatar [illusion magic].
It was magic that he had acquired and used to deceive the Black Wings guild members who were monitoring him while training in the port city of Zeheton.
As soon as Seun created the clone, he lowered his posture and hid under the flower garden, using stealth to hide his appearance, and the hummingbird blew away the clone.
The hummingbird was sensitive, so it wouldn’t be easily deceived in a normal situation, but since it was sending gusts to two people in succession, it was easier to deceive than expected.
“Then now…….”
Swoosh!
“Uh-uh?”
Just when he thought it was all over, a hummingbird with iridescent colors popped out from next to him.
“Oh, how did it get out?”
“Can’t you only use clones! Did you deceive me? Me?”
Seun felt that the hummingbird’s touch had disappeared from his hand, and when he spread his palm, the hummingbird had disappeared.
No, the expression ‘disappeared’ doesn’t fit.
Because what he just caught was the clone of the guy from the beginning.
“Is this the extent of your clones?”
“No way! I’m super strong! I have a lot of clones!”
“Th-those are all clones?”
The hummingbird’s body stretched out to ten.
It could be said that he was the boss monster of this flower garden, which could be called a hidden field.
Such a guy’s ability was to completely exclude attacks and only avoid enemies.
Plus, a cautious and timid personality.
‘I used all the traps and items to catch that guy and barely cornered him.’
Seun, recalling his memories before the regression, smiled subtly at an angle that Riel couldn’t see, and moved his body instead of answering.
At that moment, the hummingbird also spread ten clones in different directions and ran away.
Riel hesitated about what to do and ran towards the hummingbird on the far right.
The probability of it being real is 1/10.
That’s what she thought as she ran, but Seun was different.
“Where are you trying to run away?”
“Eek! What! What are you!”
Seun accurately turned towards the hummingbird’s main body.
As long as there was a compass of journey [item that detects true north], clones meant nothing to Seun.
The reason he was able to catch him before the regression was also thanks to capturing his main body with the compass of journey at a dramatic moment without knowing about the clone ability.
– The stigma responds to the tale of the Blood Wolf Legend.
– The second ability of the stigma, ‘Rage,’ awakens.
Using the power of Rage to greatly increase physical abilities in an instant.
Seun has learned how to conserve divinity by moderately controlling the power of Rage until now.
As such, he had also learned how to greatly increase the power of Rage in an instant, contrary to that, to further strengthen his body than usual.
– According to the mysteries of the Yellow Tower, ‘Stone Wall’ becomes more solid.
– According to the mysteries of the Red Tower, the range of ‘Stone Wall’ expands.
Kugugung!
“Ugh! Ah!”
The moment the hummingbird tried to avoid the spot, walls made of rock rose up in three directions around it.
It was magic that Seun had been chanting in advance for this moment.
Even the three obliquely rising rock walls met and formed a ceiling, completely blocking the escape route to the sky.
As the space to escape disappeared, the hummingbird squeezed out all its strength as a last resort and sent a gust towards Seun.
Thanks to giving strength to the wings to the point where they were squeaking, the gust was bigger and faster than any gust he had ever blown.
The absurd thought that if he was hit directly by that gust, he would fly not to the starting point of the 64th floor but to the 63rd floor below came to mind.
‘I wonder if that can be cut too.’
Seun looked at the flying gust and raised his sword.
He was thinking of trying it first, and if it didn’t work, he would twist the path or give up the sword to avoid the gust.
Anyway, thanks to the effect of the Panacea’s Hilt, the weapon that flew away can be recovered quickly.
At that time.
“Casa!”
– Bad wiiiiind!
Casa, who received Riel’s instructions, threw himself and blocked the gust.
Thanks to maximizing the flames, the air currents were reversed, and the gust that was flying towards Seun tilted sharply and flew towards the sky.
“I felt that Gnome and Undine were having fun. Casa will be fine too, so don’t worry and catch it!”
Fun.
Certainly, the hummingbird’s gust only has a forced movement effect and does not have the power to harm the enemy.
From the perspective of young spirits, it might have been fun to move by riding the gust.
It would be possible to quickly resummon and return here after time passed.
At this, Seun nodded and stretched out his hand forward with his sword put away.
“I won’t get caught! I’ll never get caught! Never!”
The hummingbird accelerated its flapping to the point where the surrounding flowers were staggering and charged towards Seun.
Since the surrounding roads were blocked anyway, he was planning to break through head-on towards Seun to avoid it. It was a choice that was possible because he was confident in his speed.
At this, Seun also shone the stigma and further increased the power of Rage.
Crash!!
At that point of collision, flower petals fluttered and scattered.
It was because Seun threw his whole body and rolled, breaking the rock wall.
“So, did you catch it?”
She couldn’t grasp the situation.
The movements of the two were so fast that they were not caught in her sight momentarily, so Riel couldn’t predict the result either.
Fortunately, the hummingbird’s nagging voice was not heard?
Not long after.
“Give up now.”
“Let go! Let go! Let go! Let go of this!”
Seun suddenly popped out from among the piles of flower petals. Holding a hummingbird with iridescent colors tightly in his right hand.
Fortunately, it wasn’t a clone this time, and it couldn’t move and was just opening and closing its long beak.
“Phew, you surprised me…….”
Only then did Riel collapse in her seat as if the tension had been relieved.
Sylph came out of her body and exclaimed, ‘I caught it!’
“What are you going to do to me! Bad human!”
“That’s of course…….”
– The constellation, ‘Hungry Prince,’ opens his mouth wide, saying that it seems like a delicious meal, although it is small.
“A delicious meal…….”
“Aaaaaah! Aaaaaah! Bad human! Bad humaaaaaan!”
“No, that was a mistake just now…….”
Seun, who accidentally read Beelzebub’s message, sighed softly.