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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Teottry
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-Clang! Clang! Clang… clang… clang!!!
“You crazy bastard! Doesn’t your jaw hurt?”
Teeth like steel clashed repeatedly, trying to tear my body apart.
I continued to evade the creature’s fierce bites by repeatedly using Rabbit Burrow.
“Woof! Woof woof! Grrrrrrr!”
-Clang-clang-clang-clang-clang!!!!!
Its charging speed was fast, and the speed at which it opened and closed its jaws was like a grinder. This made its well-honed, blade-like teeth appear blurry, like an afterimage.
Looking at Wolfy, an A-rank monster, and an alpha at that, rushing at me with the sole intention of swallowing me whole, only one thought came to my mind.
It smells so much like a dog.
Wolves are canids, and Wolfy was a wolf-type monster. Perhaps that’s why, every time it opened and closed its mouth, the smell of a dog filled the air.
Other than that, I didn’t have any particular thoughts.
Ah, if there was one, it would be the hope that Ia-nuna would arrive before the support team, which had detected the life signals of the first-deployed Awakeners, so that no troublesome situations would arise.
To be thinking such things in front of not just an A-rank monster, but an alpha monster with the characteristics of evolution and enhancement, one had to be one of two things.
One, you had to be an S-rank Awakener who could crush an alpha, or anything else for that matter.
Alphas are treated as kings of their rank. So, Wolfy, an alpha A-rank monster, was a monster that transcended A-rank.
To put it in terms of Awakeners, it would be easy to understand if you thought of it as being on the level of Wool Blonde, who is considered to have transcended A-rank.
But even a Wool Blonde is nothing in front of a true S-rank.
That’s how much S-ranks were Awakeners who had transcended Awakeners, and if you had the power of an S-rank Awakener, you could think things like “it smells like a dog” even in front of an alpha A-rank monster.
And the other one who could afford such leisure, besides an S-rank Awakener, was…
-Kwooooooooong!!!
-Zap!
-Clang!!!
The presence of Rabbit Burrow.
“Doesn’t it hurt to bang your teeth together like that? It should hurt!”
Just before Wolfy’s jaws could swallow my head, I turned into a white spark and jumped onto its back.
The moment the sole of my shoe brushed against its black mane, the creature, having learned what kind of ability Rabbit Burrow was, immediately twisted its body, but such resistance is futile the moment a part of my body makes contact.
-Zzzzap!
Rabbit Burrow was an ability that allowed me to move with whatever I wanted that I was in contact with.
Even though I could move each of my body parts separately, it was impossible to move only a specific body part of an opponent.
But since I could move separate objects that I was touching, I could do things like leaving behind everything but the citizen and his clothes, as I had done earlier.
It would have been great if I could just separate and move its head.
If I could, I might have been able to take the number one S-rank spot. But because I couldn’t use such a broken instant-kill ability, I was still just an F-rank.
Anyway, with such thoughts, I moved Wolfy to an empty space in an instant.
‘”Krruuooong?!”
The creature, which had reached a high altitude where even skyscrapers were below its feet, let out a bewildered cry. I whispered into its ear something that, if it were a person, I would have made it rage-quit the game.
“If you’re so pissed, why don’t you use Rabbit Burrow too?”
Wolfy, with its tremendous physique of 3m in height and 8m in length, had a body that was a weapon in itself.
Just by rushing in and biting, the opponent had to be prepared for death, so the term “physical monster” suited it perfectly.
But these physical-type, beast-type monsters, had nothing left besides their innate physique. Because their physical abilities were enough to live their lives.
But that advantage of “physical abilities are enough” turned into “fucked because you only have physical abilities” in front of Rabbit Burrow.
-Whoooooooosh…
-Zap!
Just before Wolfy’s massive body hit the ground, I used Rabbit Burrow again.
Then, the creature was moved back to its original altitude, and its legs, which were about to kick off the ground to rush at me as soon as it landed, just cut through the empty air.
“K-Krrrk….. Krrroooong!”
I heard Wolfy’s cry, which stemmed from an intelligence that rivaled a human’s.
As if it were asking, ‘Don’t tell me this is going to be a loop hole?’.
I grinned and answered as I pleased.
“Yep. You’re right. We’re going on an endless Gyro Drop until the others arrive.”
Anti physical one trick monster suppression technique – Endless Gyro Drop.
A technique that perfectly suited its name, where I used Rabbit Burrow to move myself and the monster I was in contact with to the highest altitude I could reach with my bare body, then moved only myself to a spot a little away from the monster to fall together, and then, when it seemed like we were about to hit the ground, went up together just like the first time, and repeated it.
It was a very crude and unrefined-looking technique, but it was one of the most efficient and wise techniques among the Rabbit Burrow derivative techniques I had invented.
You can find the awesomeness of this technique in the fact that it easily suppressed Wolfy, who had effortlessly beaten the A-rank and B-rank guild members of Liar’s Trap, as well as the other Awakeners who had come for support.
Thus, those who relied solely on their physical abilities could be easily suppressed with the Endless Gyro Drop.
I also wonder if I could just accelerate the speed at which it falls by repeating this ability and slam it into the ground, but monsters don’t die unless they are hit by an attack infused with mana.
I had made it crash headfirst into the ground at the speed it was flying at earlier, and it was completely unscathed. That’s the proof.
I really don’t know why that is, but for me, who can’t use mana like other Awakeners, it was a fucking absurd reality.
Of course, killing the opponent is not the only way to win a fight, and as long as I have suppressed it so that it can’t do anything, I can say that I have won this fight.
But still, this method is not exhilarating, and in the end, I have to rely on others to finish the job, so it was impossible to feel a satisfying sense of accomplishment even after suppressing an A-rank monster this way.
I wish I could handle mana like a normal Awakener…
“Wait, mana?”
Why are the manas of Scarlet Rate and Lapis Julie mixed in your body?
At the word “mana,” the words I had heard from the Doctor earlier flashed through my mind. Come to think of it, there was definitely mana in my body right now.
Even though they were destroying my body in real time, they were definitely mana that I could handle.
I had already confirmed before I got tested by the Doctor that I could move the red and blue sparks as I wished.
I didn’t know what the differences were between those two sparks and the white spark I could originally use, but it was a fact that the possibility of me being able to handle mana had arisen.
Good. Then, first, I’ll get treated by Ia-nuna, and then I’ll go to the Doctor and ask what abilities each spark has and how I can use them. Heh, am I finally becoming an Awakener who can pull his own weight?
I hadn’t been able to talk about the new colored sparks because I was too flustered when I heard the test results that I was going to die. So I couldn’t ask about the new possibilities, and as a result, I had to leave the lab in a dejected state.
But I can just go back and ask again! If she hears about the new colored sparks, the Doctor will surely open her half-closed eyes wide and point out the new possibilities for me!
Just like when she first Awakener me to the possibility of Rabbit Burrow.
“Heh. Just imagining it is so awesome.”
Thinking about it made my heart start to pound again. I still can’t forget the thrill of that time when I was Awakener to the ability with the uncool name of Rabbit Burrow by the Doctor.
Let’s hurry up and have Ia-nuna come and finish this, get treated, and then go straight to the lab. I can’t wait for this, for real.
-Zap… Zzzzap.
While maintaining the Endless Gyro Drop, I tried to manifest the new colored sparks on my palm as a test.
The two different colored sparks, one feeling hot and the other cold, were enough to make my chest swell with pride just by looking at them.
I want to try them out soon. But I don’t know what will happen if I use an ability I don’t know anything about, so I should get properly tested by the Doctor before I try them out.
Usually, in novels or comics, it’s a rule of thumb to use a newly manifested ability for the first time on a newly appeared enemy.
But that’s literally something you can only do in novels or comics. In reality, if you just use an ability you don’t know anything about on an enemy, you’re just asking to get killed.
‘First, always be safe.’ It was a maxim that all Awakeners held in their hearts. Of course, there were also a lot of people who died because they didn’t follow it as they should.
But that doesn’t apply to me, who can use Rabbit Burrow.
All I had to do was keep making Wolfy, who was just flailing around helplessly when I left it floating in the air, fall endlessly.
Well, if a ridiculously impossible situation like Wolfy suddenly mastering mana, creating a foothold in the air, and then kicking off of it to rush at me were to happen, the story would be different… but there’s no way that would happen. It’s not like it’s the main character.
For a monster that has lived its whole life with only its innate physique to suddenly master the use of mana was as ridiculous as Scarlet repenting for her sins and living the life of a saint.
Unless the creature was an alpha that adapted and evolved every moment, such a thing could not happen…
“Ah.”
-Craaaaaash!!!!
With a roar that vibrated the air, a black flash stepped on the empty air and rushed towards me.
”Kwooooooooong!!!!”
The creature, letting out a roar full of anger and baring its teeth at me, looked much more ferocious than before.
“What the fuck?!”
-Zzzzap!
Just before the creature’s sharp teeth could tear my body to shreds, I quickly used Rabbit Burrow and moved from that spot.
The anger that had built up during the Endless Gyro Drop just cut through the empty air, but the creature’s anger did not end with just one bite.
“Grrrrrk…!”
A large, translucent red foothold appeared at the feet of the creature that had turned its body in mid-air. It was a mana foothold created by the creature.
-Crunch…..!
The thick mana foothold became concave around the creature, having received the full force of its charge that had made it look like a flash.
The creature was trying to use the elasticity of the mana foothold it had created.
In the center of the large mana foothold, which was big enough to receive its entire massive body, the creature gathered the foothold’s elasticity to its limit and then looked at me.
“Grrk.”
The moment the corner of the creature’s mouth seemed to twitch upward, a super-fast charge, combined with the elasticity of the foothold that had reached its limit and the leaping power of its four legs, rushed towards me.
-Craaaaaaaash!!!!!!!
It was a speed that left even sound behind, but even so, it wasn’t enough to catch my Rabbit Burrow, which could move freely anywhere.
-Zzzzap!
I moved to a high altitude away from the creature, easily nullifying Wolfy’s fastest charge using its elasticity.
Seeing the creature cutting through the empty air without even being able to chase my afterimage with its full-power charge, I was able to realize once again that, alpha or not, it was nothing more than a beast.
It can evolve its abilities, but not its intelligence. The level of a beast is what it is.
-Whoooooooosh!!!!!
But a diagonally tilted mana plate appeared in the path of the creature that had advanced, scattering a red afterglow.
-Thump.
The moment I saw the creature, which had been rushing at me at the same speed, bounce off the diagonally tilted plate and fall vertically.
Huh?
I had no choice but to retract the thought I had just had.
The creature’s target was not me from the start, but the Awakeners who were lying on the ground.
“You crazy son of a bitch!”
-Zzzzzzzap!!!!
I reflexively spat out a rough curse and used Rabbit Burrow.
When I arrived at the ground in an instant, a monster with a height of 3m and a length of 8m was falling at a speed that transcended the speed of sound right above my head.
There’s no time to take everyone lying here to a safe place. At that speed, even if I reach out to touch them, my body will be sent flying before I can even use Rabbit Burrow.
It was a situation where I couldn’t do anything with the existing Rabbit Burrow. But I couldn’t just stand by and do nothing.
Just by the creature falling at that speed and colliding with the ground, the surrounding area would be devastated. What should I do? What should I do?
As I was in a crisis, a blue spark flickered in my head, and my thought process accelerated. But even so, the time I had to make a decision was ridiculously short. I had to do something. I had to do something.
Is there no way? Really? Do I just have to run away?
During that fleeting moment of making a decision with accelerated thoughts, the swift black wolf had already finished its preparation for impact and was smiling.
You son of a bitch.
Pissed off at the creature’s face, which was smiling as if it had won, I reflexively threw out my right fist.
For some reason, my thought speed and cognitive speed had become abnormally fast, so everything seemed slow, but for some reason, my right arm, which was wrapped in a red spark, maintained its original speed.
So I was able to reach the creature without being late.
-Thud.
The moment my straight fist touched the creature’s skull.
-Zap.
With a very small sound, my vision was dyed white.
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