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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Ruby
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The Mullen tribe’s legion advanced sharply.
The blue legion moved through the sea.
Beyond them, black haze writhed.
A Mullen tribe warrior responsible for the vanguard raised his spear high while mounted on a Silviria.
“Halt! They’ve shown themselves!!”
At that cry, the Silvirias densely advancing through the sea all stopped at once.
Yuma lightly kicked the Silviria’s flank.
It was a signal to advance forward.
Bell, also mounted on a Silviria, stuck close to Yuma’s side.
*swoosh*─
Passing countless stationary Silvirias.
They stopped beside Yercur, the Mullen king, who was at the vanguard.
“Is that it?”
Yuma gestured with his chin toward the front.
Darkness.
The dark energy spreading like spilled oil in the sea caught the eyes of Yuma and Bell.
Yercur nodded firmly.
Bell furrowed his brow.
Not just the black energy, but because of the fog extending even in front of those energies, he couldn’t even gauge what kind of enemy they were facing.
Yuma looked beyond with his [Search Eye].
But perhaps because it was hidden in the fog, nothing could be detected.
“What are you hesitating for? Unlike your vain title of War God!”
When Yuma and Bell, who had stepped forward, remained still, a large man on the left had golden aura rise from the spear in his hand.
*rumble!!*
And swinging his spear, he immediately shot that concentrated aura as a slash.
The golden slash cutting through the fog.
For an instant, the fog torn apart by the size of that slash seemed to heal as if suturing back together.
*screech!*
A pain-filled scream came from beyond the fog.
And then something shot through the fog like a tentacle.
It wasn’t a tentacle, but a water dragon.
*crack!*
“Arghhhh!”
A scream echoed across the coast.
It was the scream of the Mullen tribe man who had just shot the slash.
His right shoulder joint had been torn in the shape of massive teeth.
Blood gushed from the man’s shoulder.
“Sea Serpent…!”
[Lv.122]
Sea Serpent.
‘So the water snake is under the command of the one presumed to be Leviathan.’
A black-scaled water snake about 40 meters in size.
“Arghhhh!”
Yuma gripped his war hammer again, ignoring the continued screams of Rugel, the man whose shoulder had literally been torn off.
*roar*─!!!
The [Sea Serpent] charged at Yuma with a thunderous roar.
The [Sea Serpent] with its mouth wide open.
Yuma wasn’t particularly afraid of the water snake’s charge with each tooth like an awl.
The monster’s head charging was like a martial artist’s fist in concept.
There was no reason he couldn’t parry it.
He needed to aim for the parrying point on that snout.
The [Sea Serpent]’s blood-red eyes fixed on Yuma.
Yuma swung his war-hammer while mounted on the silver seahorse, Silviria.
*crash!*
The warhammer’s blade met the front teeth at the center of the [Sea Serpent]’s snout.
A heavy recoil sensation like striking a massive rock with a sword spread through Yuma’s entire body from his right arm.
A golden circular impact indicating a successful parry spread out.
Absolute Counter activated.
There was no time for the force to go anywhere.
Simply, ten times the force of its own strength immediately seeped into the [Sea Serpent]’s body that had thrust its teeth at Yuma.
The black water snake’s movement stopped abruptly.
*crack*─*crack*─*crack*!!!
A horrific sound of the [Sea Serpent]’s spine and ribs shattering instantly echoed over the sea.
*crunch!*
And its heart burst.
*splash!!*
The water snake boasting a body approaching 40 meters had its entire body turned to rags and sank completely into the sea.
A water pillar rose up in reaction.
Yuma patted the intact left shoulder of Rugel, who was blankly staring at his position while momentarily forgetting his pain.
“Fall back and get treated first, you’re in the way.”
“Hiiieek! I’m sorry!”
To Rugel, who had criticized the title of War God as vain, Yuma’s light pat felt no different from being struck with a hammer.
Rugel hurriedly moved his Silviria backwards while blood gushed from his wound.
*splash*….
The sea regained its calm for a very brief moment.
Voices of Mullen tribe warriors could be heard here and there.
“…A creature that would normally take about 20 direct hits with qi concentrated in swords or spears to kill.”
The muttering voices were all trembling uniformly.
“Ki-killed in a single strike.”
“Is this truly what it means to be a War God?”
Admiration dwelled in the sharp eyes characteristic of the Mullen tribe warriors.
“The rumors that struck the continent contained not even a bit of exaggeration!”
Yuma stared at the [Sea Serpent] gradually sinking into the deep sea beside him while hearing those words.
From Yuma’s position, having instantly killed it with Absolute Counter, he hadn’t had time to know how tough it was.
‘It was quite tough.’
Well, with a level of 122, it had only attacked using its body.
That must mean its body alone had superior killing power and durability.
Yuma felt another pair of burning eyes.
The owner of those eyes was Yercur, the Mullen king.
“Even for a War God, I had doubts about bringing only three subordinates. But there was good reason for it. I apologize for doubting you.”
Yuma merely stared at Yercur speaking thus with an expressionless face.
‘Don’t resolve your doubts. Keep being suspicious.’
Yuma was quite bothered by Yercur’s complete trust.
Because the more responsibilities increased, the more tiresome it became.
And here was not land, but the sea with countless variables.
“Command the battlefield as you always do. I’ll just do my part. The control of this battlefield is your role.”
Yercur raised his spear and nodded deeply.
“I apologize, I had momentarily forgotten my duty.”
Yercur raised his spear high.
“Water mages! All deploy!”
At the king’s cry, all the Mullen tribe mages including Tisha began drawing magic formulas in the air.
Immediately after.
*roar!!!*
Along with a terrifying cry, about 30 Sea Serpents jumped out from the fog.
Among them were some approaching gradually by infiltrating underwater.
*crash!*
A heavy sound burst from the seafloor.
The transparent wall that had suddenly appeared before the sea was perfectly blocking not only the [Sea Serpents] showing their heads above water and charging in, but also those infiltrating from below.
It was the 4th Circle defense magic [Water Curtain] deployed simultaneously by a hundred Mullen tribe mages.
The characteristic of Water Curtain was that it completely blocked all attacks and infiltration from the opposite side of the casters while allowing all attacks from the casters’ side to pass through.
“Warriors, shoot your slashes!”
The king’s resounding battle cry was now directed at the Mullen tribe warriors.
*woong!!*
Auras concentrated in various weapons were shot as slashes.
*crash!*
Hundreds of sword qi and battle qi directly hit the [Sea Serpents] beyond the water curtain.
Endless explosions.
The warriors took turns continuously releasing slashes in rotation.
The mages likewise took turns deploying the Water Curtain magic.
Yuma observed this brilliant deployment of attacks for a while.
Cloney, Hestia, and Bell, who were somewhat separated from Yuma, also took part in one axis of the attack deployment.
Yuma looked at Yercur who was watching this spectacular scene beside him.
“Did you not consider advancing to finish those creatures off?”
“You strike a painful point, Grand Duke Yuma.”
Yercur sighed.
“That black haze draped over the fog. That makes entry impossible. We could somehow endure with magic bestowed upon us, but the Silviria can’t withstand it. But it’s too dangerous to move with just our bodies against such creatures. And… the biggest reason is fear.”
“Fear?”
Yercur nodded heavily at Yuma’s question.
“The tribal warriors who crossed the fog and haze had their limbs torn apart and were abandoned on the seafloor. There were about 50 of them… all upper Expert rank.”
Monster.
Yuma looked beyond the fog with his Search Eye.
However, nothing was visible.
‘It doesn’t plan to show itself today, it seems.’
Leviathan.
It seemed to be planning to hunt the Mullen tribe quite carefully.
Yuma had no intention of playing along with this careful hunt.
‘It won’t take long.’
Yuma was planning to hunt the Leviathan soon.
At that moment.
*crash*──!!
The duration calculation for [Water Curtain] seemed to have gone wrong.
Beyond the shattered water curtain, over ten [Sea Serpents] rushed in.
*roar!*
Yuma swung his warhammer toward the snout of a water snake charging from the front.
*crash!*
*screech!*
The [Sea Serpent] whose snout was parried fell face-first into the water surface with a groan.
A skill that can use Absolute Counter with identical attack power on up to 3 enemies including the original target of ‘Absolute Counter’.
Yuma designated one strike for one of the [Sea Serpents] gathered on the left.
And one strike for the creature at the very center among the [Sea Serpents] vaguely visible underwater.
*crack*─!
The original target [Sea Serpent] of the Absolute Counter died instantly.
*slash!*
A flash of light cutting through the sea swept the [Sea Serpents] gathered on the left to the afterlife.
The remaining one division pierced through the sea like a torpedo.
*crash!!*
Beyond the newly deployed [Water Curtain], the corpses of Sea Serpents floated up.
The warriors also fought hard and cut off the breath of the remaining Sea Serpents with their slashes.
In the silence.
Yuma stared beyond the fog with both eyes.
*growl*…
It was like the sound of something grinding teeth.
“It-it’s Leviathan’s cry.”
The warrior’s voice trembled.
The abnormal phenomenon seen after the cry was eyes.
Dense red eyes could be seen beyond the fog.
Looking to be at least fifty of them.
And those eyes slowly began to retreat.
The black haze and fog were also gradually retreating.
“Next time.”
At Yuma’s words, all the Mullen tribe’s gazes concentrated on him.
While stroking the head of his silver seahorse Silviria, which seemed tense from the rushing [Sea Serpents], Yuma said:
“Next time we come out to this sea, we won’t return until that thing is dead.”
The Mullen tribe warriors found themselves shouting without realizing:
“Understood!”
Even King Yercur momentarily almost replied with honorific speech.
“Understood.”
He barely managed to cut off the honorific at the end of his throat.
“No one died…”
One of the warriors said.
Those words struck deep into everyone’s hearts.
There were quite a few seriously injured this time too.
But no one had lost their life.
In all 5 battles fought with them until now.
There had been many sacrifices in each battle.
But this time, not a single person had died.
The Mullen tribe’s army thus all returned safely.
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