Chapter 629 – 622 Palatum, the Sky City
From the current position, cumulonimbus is visible, and above the clouds are altocumulus and altostratus, cumulus and stratocumulus. At least 3 km from the ground.
There is no need to add or subtract power here.
Hwanin released the urge to destroy that he had suppressed and squeezed a soul explosion orb that vibrated with golden light.
Kishaaaaa-!!
But it’s too close. The super-giant sky snake monster is chasing at a speed close to 700 km/h.
If you throw the soul explosion orb reinforced with the pattern like this, you and Viking will be swept away by the explosion.
‘Then!’
With the Soul Explosion Bead in hand, he loaded up to 6 arrow-shaped soul beads of Cock the Loafer Lee Hyeong-jong, which he had collected in the 6th-tier royal residence, and put some of his core power and spirit energy into it.
It is the soul of an estimated 6th grade heterogeneous species, and when trying to collect it with soul beads at the time, it was insignificant, but even resisted.
I haven’t confirmed the power, but it’ll show more power than what I did with an intermediate level spirit.
“Goes!”
At that moment, at the same time as the sign of illusion, a flash of light, a storm of wind, and a whirlpool of water were formed from the front, large enough to swallow the castle.
If it wasn’t for the warning of fantasy, it was a location selection that would have been an attack by a super-giant sky snake.
Kyapit!
At the emergency warning to be careful, Hwanin hurriedly grabbed the reins and bent his upper body again. Together with him, a flight that escapes between the three attribute spheres by aerobatic flight.
Contrary to such an emergency, the super-giant sky serpent violently rammed the sphere with three attributes and pursued it.
Kugung— Doo Doo Doo—… !
Is it because the phase power is wrapped around the body? Elemental orbs that explode with a huge explosion and explosion from the charge of the super-giant sky serpent.
The shock wave of the explosion knocks on Hwanin and Bisang’s back and pushes them.
「Go!」
As if foreseeing such a situation, the fragments of the attribute spheres, which exploded at Hwanyeon’s angry shout, turned into sharp projectiles like iron sand that clung to the magnet and began to hit the body of the super-giant sky snake.
Cuckoo Palace… ! Doo-dung, coo-woong! Thud-… !
Countless explosions occur, pushing away the surrounding clouds and shaking the chasing Sky Serpent.
Kyaaaaa!
Air waves were scattered around the Sky Serpent the moment the sound exploded, more like a strong exhaled breath rather than a roar.
The elemental force attached to the body of the Sky Serpent is swept away by the wave and falls apart, but the elemental force clings to it again as if it is a manipulation of fantasy.
Kwakwagwang… ! Doo-kung, boom-bub-bung… !
Explosions extending along the body. As a result, the long body of the Sky Serpent swayed little by little, and the pursuit speed slowed slightly, and the distance began to widen.
“Nonsense! It’s an attack with all the power of the high-ranking spirits!”
Hwanyeon poked her head towards the nape of Hwanin’s neck and, seeing the sky serpent intact despite numerous explosions, screamed as if it were absurd.
As she said, it was the power of dozens of level 6 or higher spells, but the damage the Sky Serpent suffered was seemingly insignificant.
But it wasn’t without success.
The explosions caused by the three higher-ranking spirits hindered the sky serpent’s wings and movement, and thanks to that, the distance was quite far.
He was a Hwanin who wanted the timing to shoot an enhanced 6th grade soul arrow, but Hwanyeon’s attack perfectly met that.
“Wonderful, well done! Emergency! Turn around!”
Couw!
As if reading his mind, Bi-sang corrected the navigation from straight-line top speed flight to smooth ship flight, and Hwan-in aimed the six soul arrows gathered around his arm at the monster in a situation where it was much easier to aim.
Eyes meet with the sky serpent, who is trying to shake off all the demonic attributes and speed it up again.
Whoops-!
Right after that, six golden beams were fired, penetrating a distance of several kilometers and hitting the sky snake directly.
There were no flashy explosions, no riots of blood and flesh. The six lasers erased the mysterious energy membrane that covered the body of the Sky Serpent and then disappeared as it was.
The existence of a protective shield that I didn’t even know existed before hitting the beam.
「What, that attack doesn’t work?!」
Hwanin also felt his heart grow slightly at the result.
It is a soul orb of a 6th-level heterogeneous species. A monster that is weak against the coercive power of soul magic, but possesses enough soul power to momentarily resist it.
In addition, he pushed his core power and spiritual energy. It’s the most powerful single-area attack that can be used right now, but it’s only about removing the shield?
Kshaaaaa!!
However, the state of the sky serpent is strange. There were no scratches or wounds, but the sky serpent twisted its body in a complex way and let out a sound as if it was feeling intense pain.
“… !”
Deal timing like heavenly gold that occurred with all attention focused on the wound.
Hwanin blew the pattern-enhanced soul orb he was holding in his hand to control the soul blast orb with mental power, while taking out the souls of Cock the Loafer and Shadow Mist Lesser and trying to load them into the soul blast orb.
Kyaaah-!
Tsuiyi profit… !
“What?!”
Hwanin, who was devoting most of his mental energy to controlling the soul explosion orb, failed to control the heterogeneous species due to the sudden struggle of the soul.
Whoa—-!
The damage wasn’t the only thing. When Hwanin’s mental power was severed, the golden soul explosion orb exploded in an unexpected place without delay.
When an explosion like a black hole, the size of which would swallow up part of his body at once, occurred nearby, the Sky Serpent, in amazement, hurriedly started an evasion movement, and thanks to this, Hwanin completely missed the optimal deal timing.
This was the first time that this had happened, so as a Hwanin, I was frozen for a short time before taking out all eight of the wild dog warriors’ black soul beads and reloading them with soul arrows.
‘I did something stupid.’
The fact that he was weak but resisted when making soul beads means that even handling soul beads requires mental strength.
However, while controlling the Soul Explosion Orb, he tried to handle it as usual, and when the control was weakened, Hyungjong Lee’s soul immediately rebelled and escaped.
There is no other way to describe it than to say it was a stupid mistake.
‘Is this why they only use the soul beads contracted by the Spirituals?’
Just in the blink of an eye, the level of mental strength needed to handle the soul of the 6th-class Heohyungjong and the Black Soul Orb of the Wild Dog Warriors was different.
If it is easy to use and requires less mental power, it would be natural to use a contracted soul rather than a heterogeneous species.
Memories of his experience in the forest labyrinth came to his mind belatedly.
The soul of a heterogeneous species of deer antlers. And Ryuhi’s sister’s soul.
Hwanin, blaming himself for his shortness of thinking, takes out the spirit arrows of the 6th-class heteromorphic species, which are not much left, in addition to the soul arrows loaded with the black soul beads of the wild dog warriors and charges them with the soul explosion beads.
There was a weak backlash, but once it happened, it won’t happen again.
In the meantime, the Hwanin and the Sky Serpent continued to confront each other, and a strange current flowed between them.
This is because the sky serpent’s attitude toward Hwanin completely changed after being attacked once.
The atmosphere where a moment ago was a ephemera invading the territory, but now considers it a challenger trying to usurp one’s territory.
Hwanin, like Hwanin, was wary of the sky serpent.
Similar to Jormungandr, the gigantic sky serpent’s only attack was to pursue and bite it.
There’s no way a monster like that could do anything other than headbutting, biting, or biting. It is natural to be vigilant.
“…”
In the eyes of the soul, the state of the sky serpent, which is wary of this side, comes in at a glance.
The blue color that was thought to be the light of the soul was actually not the soul, but rather like a protective shield covering the body.
The center of the point where the beam of the soul arrow hit the center, the blue color was removed in a radius of several tens of meters, and gray light shimmered.
However, no damage is visible to the naked eye.
‘There’s no way a creature like that would follow Earth science.’
In the first place, it is absurd that a giant like that could fly in the sky. Adneville has an excuse that he is a mythical creature called a dragon, isn’t that just a white snake with wings?
Such a state would be explained if such a state was not a general organic life form, but a super-organism made of phase power.
It is not a protective shield wrapped around the body, but life force (phase force), or something that lives in the clouds and does not come down to the ground.
‘The fact that places hit directly by the laser do not recover is probably an extension of that.’
I don’t know about the lost stamina, but if the vitality itself disappears, it will take a considerable amount of time to fill the place.
“… !”
At that time, three colors of light, blue, green, and white, began to move around the body of the sky snake.
It doesn’t just move, it even secretly gathers phase power from its surroundings. In particular, the green color is rushing to the wings, and the blue and white colors are getting together on the snout.
At the obvious foreshadowing of an attack, Hwanin’s eyes flashed like sharp blades.
“Hwanyeon, when I give you a signal, shake the wind in the wings of that sky serpent. Emergency prepare for the attack that will come out of that bastard’s snout.”
“Uh? Huh!”
Cook!
In addition to the 8 soul arrows made of black jade of the Wild Dog Warriors, Hwanin also prepares 8 soul explosions.
And a silent confrontation that followed for a while.
The first to move at the end was the Sky Serpent.
Shuaaaaa!
If you are not prepared, the sky serpent shoots like a secret snake at a speed that will make your heart terrify. A blue light streamed from the inside of the wide open mouth.
Hwanin shouted at the scene where a huge body like a mountain range came crashing into it.
“Emergency! Jump into my arms!”
Cue!
As if drawing the Taegeuk, Bi-bi crossed with the Sky Serpent.
Following such an emergency, the head of the Sky Serpent snaps and follows. At the same time, the speed of the emergency slowed down due to the suction force that began to occur, but the speed was also slowed down by the sky snake.
Thanks to Hwanyeon’s power, the speed of the Sky Serpent was also reduced considerably.
Glancing at the sky serpent’s huge wings, Hwanin sees three of her wives and children with long, beautiful green hair working hard around the wings of the sky serpent, probably a senior wind spirit.
And a scene drawn in Hwanin’s head.
Hwanin began to lead the emergency flight by directly moving the reins while pouring out soul explosion beads that had not been injected with core force.
Koo-Goo-Gung, Kwa-Gwa-Gwa-Kwa-Kwa-Gwa-Gwa-!!
Kii-i-! Kishaaaaa-!!!
The soul explosion orbs that were sucked into the 63 Building’s snout seemed like they could easily swallow it, causing explosions one after another, but the sky serpent was not shocked.
It just distracts me a little and blocks my view.
That was enough, so Hwanin spurred on Bisang’s side, and Kwaaang—! In an instant, the flight rapidly accelerated, and a shock pierced the wall of air.
If it wasn’t for the body strengthened by Grimoam’s strength, the gravity load would have broken his neck.
The wings of the sky serpent approaching in an instant. And at the approach of Hwanin, the upper-class wind spirits screamed and stopped what they were doing and ran away.
Hwanin slightly furrowed his eyebrows and fired soul arrows made from wild dog warriors at the scaly wings the size of Yeouido.
Whoops-!
Six black rays of light aiming at the seam between the body and wings of the Sky Serpent. The wings that those six stems passed by were limp as if a tendon had been cut, and the white scales turned gray.
The wings that changed like that are 4 out of 6 on the left.
Right after, Hwanin felt a storm of phase power and magical power behind his back, and he strongly pulled the reins of the flight and spurred it, and the flight turned to a right angle and soared into the sky.
——————!!!
With a roar like a sonic attack, waves of blue rays hit the place where they were just before.
An attack to the extent that the body shakes in the aftermath alone.
Feeling that the sonic attack was blocked by Hwanyeon’s air curtain, Hwanin blocked the back with a soul shield with core power, while Hwanin took out all the souls of the Argentea scout and loaded them with soul arrows.
“Call me… Whoa!?”
“I was called… Kiyaang!」
‘The stronger the skill, the slower the return of the soul. This is a big weakness.’
The black spirits of the wild dog warriors that were shot earlier have not yet returned.
In addition, with the intention of cutting off all six wings, 10% of the total amount of core force was put in, but only four wings were neutralized.
Hwanin read the Sky Serpent’s tail like the Empire State Building and hurriedly ordered an evasive movement.
It feels like I’m slowly going into a kicking pattern.
Bi-sang, entrusted with evasion by Hwan-in, evades the sky serpent’s outbursts with his omnidirectional field of view, and at the same time adjusts the angle of attack with his right wing, which Hwan-in must be aiming for.
In response to such an emergency assist, Hwanin clenched his fists and fired a soul arrow toward the right wing of the sky snake that was slowly moving up and down.
Zuaaang—!
This time, a golden ray of light passed through the right wing, but its power was less than that of the Wild Dog Warriors, so only 3 out of 6 were incapacitated.
‘As expected, the power of black jade is superior… !’
Kash-shi-shi-!!
I tried to crash it by losing its ability to fly, but it’s only difficult like this.
Seven out of 12 wings have been incapacitated, greatly reducing the ability to fly, but it still oscillates like a snake that has stepped on a bicycle without falling. If this continues, your own soul orb will run out first.
“…”
Hwanin calmed his eyes as he watched the serpent in the sky, which swung but never fell and tried to cling to it even closer.
That snake must also be wary of the enhanced soul explosion.
If the flying ability is reduced and Bi-sang opens the distance in earnest, he will never be able to chase after him…
‘If I want to open up the distance and fire the Soul Explosion, I’ll shoot the breath first.’
If you look at the water blue and white lump of light on the snout, it is 100%.
Considering the breath that just swept away like a wave in a radial direction, it was impossible to avoid the breath as the distance increased.
And the range of Enhanced Soul Explosion is never halfway. If you don’t keep your distance properly, this side will also be caught in the explosion.
The spirits of the wild dog warriors and Argentea scouts used for the launch are still not returning.
There are only three remaining level 6 spirits and dozens of intermediate spirit beads, but it is difficult to inflict effective damage with them.
Then…
Hwanin read the movement of the sky serpent and let go of the reins as soon as a head as large as an island approached.
“Emergency, ask for work later!”
What!?
As soon as you let go of the reins and relax your legs, a new type of Hwanin that bounces into the sky as if being sucked up.
Hwanin, who paused for about 0.5 seconds as if embarrassed and then started to evade again, looked at Bisang and called out all the barriers of the barrier panels.
The shape is a square plate twice the size of the sole.
Kwachachang!!
Hwanin, who stepped on a panel that temporarily raised durability by layering 6 sheets, immediately spurred it and ricocheted like his bullet.
Faint panels are shattered, but his body shoots in the direction he thought.
The target is the head of the Sky Serpent.
“You’re reckless!”
Quack in your arms! Even while screaming, the wind assists the movement, and in addition to the wind’s assistance, the illusionist makes a panel scaffold again and flies toward the head of the sky serpent.
After repeating this several times, the remaining phase power of the barrier magician went down in an instant.
Even the Sky Serpent wasn’t stupid enough to watch it.
He was taken aback when he saw the number of challengers suddenly increased to two, but he was convinced that the black human that jumped out was more dangerous than the fast-moving green bird.
Kyaaaaa!!
So he tried to bite the black human and swallow it, but he screamed in pain as his eyeball suddenly exploded and twisted his whole body again.
The overlapping soul explosion that Hwanin collected and fired from the remaining 6th grade soul beads literally crushed the left eyeball of the sky serpent.
In the meantime, Hwanin uses up almost all of the phase power of the barrier panel and succeeds in making a platform and landing on top of the sky snake.
However, because of the struggle of the serpent in the sky, the place was a little away from his head.
「Brightness!」
At the cry of Hwan-yeon, Hwan-in took out the light spear and started running on the back of the sky snake.
Seeing the numerous explosions coming from behind, Hwanyeon must be calling the spirits and pouring attacks in an attempt to buy time.
With an exquisite sense of balance, Hwanin calmly advances without falling off the back of the struggling Sky Serpent.
If it wasn’t for the strength and stamina of Bugbear, whose physical ability has grown to the level of a 6th-class professional with the strength of Grimoam, he would have been thrown off the back of the Sky Serpent long ago.
However, the increased physical ability allowed it to stick firmly on the back of the sky serpent that fluctuated like waves.
Every time a sudden fluctuation occurs, hold on to the scales that have been scratched with the light spear, or stick your hand in the gap between the scales to endure.
Every time he took a step like that, the heartbeat of the giant phase force creature that came from under his feet warmed Hwanin’s heart.
Fighting so close to such a gigantic monster, the heightened excitement is higher than when copulating with girlfriends, and it blows a huge vitality into the heart.
Kishaaaaa kissa-!!!
Around that time, the Sky Serpent, half paralyzed by the rage caused by the loss of one eye, also found the Hwanin running after him.
A powerful enemy who wants to take his life!
The sky serpent with its mouth wide open tried to bite Hwanin despite the risk of getting hurt, but…
Kwuuuuu-!!
Thanks to the distraction of Hwanin, he allowed the emergency onslaught he missed with his normal eyes.
A blade of 5th grade wind attached to a claw, and a speed that reached Mach with an instantaneous acceleration.
The combined emergency attack tore the sky serpent’s thick transparent scales and left great damage to its retina.
Then, as they departed, the sphere of wind they left behind as if it were a gift exploded, and dozens of blades made of wind pierced the sky serpent’s retina.
———!!!
A sky serpent that loses both eyes and shakes its head to release sound waves.
Hwanin took the golden opportunity provided by Bisang and put both legs into the scales and put nearly 40% of his core power and aura into the Light Spear in a footsword stance.
A window of pure white light begins to burn with a golden light, containing core power and aura.
When the concentration of power and concentration of mental power reached the extreme point, the Hwanin and the Light Spear became one.
Ksharyarralarak——!! Kirerererek—!!!
A line of golden light cut through the neck of the gigantic sky serpent, which raised its head and radiated light, spraying something transparent from its eyes.
Changseom(槍閃) imitating Isilite’s swordseom(劍閃).
Zuuuuuk, along with the feeling of exhaustion created by the sudden loss of energy, the sky snake also stopped roaring and moving. And as if the light was fading, the snow-white scales began to quickly turn gray from the neck.
The super-giant snake, which has turned gray from the tip of its head to the tip of its tail in an instant, loses its buoyancy and begins to fall slowly.
“I did it! I defeated the monster!」
Hwan-in, who clung to the nape of his neck and comforted the cheering cheers, witnessed that not blood, but something like blue smoke flowed from the body of the super-giant sky snake.
“Uh? Wasn’t blood flowing through this snake’s body, but phase power?」
“Rather than phase power, isn’t it a medium that delivers phase power?”
“Is it? The monsters living in the clouds are different, but what is different?”
“Anyway…”
Coo coo coo…
Hwanin, who looked around from the top of the falling Sky Serpent’s colossal body, furrowed his eyebrows.
The white clouds that had covered the whole world were quickly dispersing, revealing the bottom.
I thought it had flown quite far, but surprisingly it is a place not far from Palatum. Palatum and Mt Cheonju are clearly visible, as well as a lot of merchants, adventurers, and travelers coming and going on the road in the steppe below.
Watching the people running away like ants scattering, Hwanin muttered after thinking for a moment.
“Didn’t you notice that there was a monster like this living in the sky above the capital city?”
“Could this snake be the divine beast of Palatum?”
“… Don’t sound terrible There was nothing like a sky serpent in the murals of Chunwanggung and Celestial Castle. It must have been because it was just a monster that did not come down under the clouds.”
“Hi-Hi.”
Gua~!
As the ground was getting closer every moment, Hwanin, who noticed an emergency flying like a shot, gave strength to his legs and spurred the corpse of the sky serpent and jumped up.
At the same time, Bi-sang deftly carries Hwan-in on his back and escapes.
Hwanin took out the communication crystal ball from the aspen while enjoying a pleasant sense of exhaustion on the back of the emergency room.
Only the length… It is a monster that is approximately 200 km long.
It would take a lot of time just to take care of that corpse. It was absolutely impossible with just one party, so he thought of calling his girlfriends and asking for help from Regent Teiamus or the Duke of Aduri.
Kwagwagwang-!! Hearing the roar that would have been smaller than this even if the volcano had exploded, Hwanin opened his mouth after seeing Yurpa’s face rising from the crystal sphere.
A group of Flavians who flew in minutes after the sky serpent crashed, even had a regent, Theiamus.
Suddenly, a monster hundreds of kilometers in height fell from the sky, and I thought it was an attack by a giant divine beast.
= This… You mean that His Majesty caught it alone…=
Hwanin shook his head at the regent Teiamus, who was speechless as he looked at the corpse of the Sky Serpent with only the scales remaining.
“It was impossible for me alone. It is thanks to the help of emergency and hwanyeon.”
In fact, the upper level spirits who became friends with Hwanyeon used up all their strength and returned to the Hwanryung realm, and even used phase power for emergency flights. He’s almost used up his soul orbs.
If even one of these was lacking, I should have just run away, let alone fight.
Regent Teiamus touched his forehead while watching some of the 1st and 2nd Sky Knights who were blocking other groups from approaching the Sky Serpent’s skin.
= This monster… If my knowledge is correct, it is the essence of living only in the clouds. It is called Yamioko after the first discoverer who discovered it in the Beltical Mountains. The classification is said to be level 8, but it has never been caught… No, it’s a monster I couldn’t catch, so I’m not sure. Yeha did it…=
Hwanin recalled what Hwanyeon had said in a joking tone at Teiamus’s reaction, which was puzzled by something.
“Are you sure it’s Beltical’s divine beast or something?”
= Oh, it’s not like that. I misunderstood you. Should I say that I got a slight headache from being surprised by Emperor Seong’s true appearance? … It’s amazing that you stopped the runaway of the old forgotten old castle labyrinth, but you suddenly hunted the 8th grade essence, so stop.=
“Is it so? Anyway, I’m glad I took this opportunity to catch a monster that might be a threat to Palatum.”
=Yes. Even though Yamioko has a habit of not descending below the clouds, the fact that such an essence lives overhead is a great threat.=
Umm, Teiamus cleared his throat gracefully and turned his gaze away from Yamioko, where only his skin was left, and looked at Hwanin and said,
=It’s unfortunate that it evaporated leaving only leather, perhaps because it was genuine, but even so, leather of this size would have tremendous value. Yes, may I ask what you plan to do with the leather?=
“I’m thinking of taking it to the saints.”
The Sky Serpent, known as Level 8 Jinsu Yamioko, was surprisingly killed and crashed to the ground, where all of its organs, bones, etc., Except for its skin, evaporated.
In addition, the size shrunk, and only about 30 kilometers of scaly skin remained. I wonder if the creatures that lived in the sky came down to the ground and shrunk.
Even if it was the remaining leather, it was the scaly skin that felt unbelievable strength when cut with the Light Spear. At that size, it would be enough to make it into leather armor and put it on all the giants. The leather armor made like that would be a great weapon for giants.
Hwanin quietly continued with a smile that gave pressure in an implicit manner.
“But… Since these are the people who came running like this, albeit belatedly, there’s nothing I can’t give you.”
That is, if the conditions are right.
Theiamus looked at the gentle smiling Hwanin and started vigorously flicking the abacus in his head.
