Chapter 21

Chapter 21

Snow Wood Monster

Kururururu!!!!

Above the head.

A roar as if the rock wall is collapsing whole rings out.

Looking at the red dots that were increasing one by one on the board turning into one surface at some moment.

Instead of flustering, I extended Mana Thread and wrapped Perry's waist.

Then hundreds of Mana Threads that tightly wrapped even my body.

“Uh, uhh···?”

Looking at Perry with a greatly flustered expression, I said.

“It'll be a bit fast.”

Suddenly sharp roots that pierced the ceiling and fell.

Mana Thread pulled Perry's body, and the roots missed by a hair's breadth.

Kwaaaaang!!!

Shattered rocks burst out in all directions.

Perry's complexion turned pale.

“Th-this is what···!!”

Instead of responding, I immediately put the plan into action.

The Mana Thread scattered forward in advance grabs the protruding rocks and pulls both of us simultaneously.

Feet float up and the body is pulled forward.

From the start, there was no thought of each running on the uneven passage floor.

The characteristic of a mage biased toward mana control ability rather than physical ability.

Quickly escaping the passage is inevitably superior on the Mana Thread side.

Sarak!

I cut the roots with a Fireball shape-transformed sharply like a blade.

Piercing the burned and scattered ashes, I quickly returned the way I came.

Kuwaaaaaang!!!

A roar rang from behind my back but there's not the slightest leisure to look back.

The path was opened, but the board already full of red.

There was no safe place anywhere.

A mind that strangely calms in every crisis.

The solution that floated in the mind is only one.

Running away is the inferior move.

Even if mana is infinite, mental strength is finite.

Only dealing with roots, one will only die miserably in the passage.

“We're going to the cavity.”

As if resolving, I spat it out and pulled Mana Thread as much as possible.

The body is pulled straight forward, feeling the roots that flew aiming at the back of the head receding.

I grabbed the condensed Fireball with Mana Thread and scattered it backward.

Kuwaaaaaang!!!!

Flame Burst used prepared for the passage collapsing.

The roots following behind all burst from the terrifying destructive power.

Whoong!

“Uaaaaak!”

Right before the root that flew from the front pierced the forehead, Perry's body sank downward.

Then Mana Thread grabbed the root and tore it.

The tattered root rolls on the floor.

“...”

Barely survived but the situation wasn't good.

Kumulkumulkumul!

Hundreds of plant roots that filled the passage heading to the cavity.

But it's early to give up.

Gauging the remaining distance to the cavity, I gathered mana to the limit.

Maybe.

The opportunity might be only now.

Whoosh!

Dozens of fireballs that floated in the empty air.

Over forty Fireballs simultaneously rushed toward the escape route.

Fwooooosh!

I roughly push away the flame filling the passage with the Red Flame skill.

Not stopping there, I extended Mana Thread straight forward.

The Mana Thread that followed the flame grabs the outside of the passage.

Right before the root that flew from behind pierced the back plate.

Mana Thread roughly threw my body.

Kudangtangtang!!!

I roughly rolled on the rock floor.

Pure white light faintly caught in the spinning vision.

It's snow rock.

Succeeded in escaping outside the cavity.

“Wh-what happened!?”

Lee Chan ran over with a greatly flustered expression.

“Kkeu···.”

Slowly raising my body, I turned my head behind my back.

The passage barely escaped.

Thousands of roots were entangling each other and extending into the cavity.

Looking at Lee Chan, I said.

“A huge plant completely eroded the upper part of the cave.”

"...Yes?"

"There's no time to explain. Prepare for combat..."

Kugugugugu···!!

Suddenly the cliff where snow rock was embedded shook greatly.

An enormous vibration as if the entire cave would collapse at any moment.

Workshop people screamed and plopped down on the floor, and the installed workbench smashed like straw.

At the same time, the upper part of the cliff started breaking.

Jjeojeok!

Cracks that spread like a spider web.

Instantly increased in scale, and the entire cliff collapses.

Kururu···!!

Then the cliff completely collapsed.

“M-my god···!!”

“What is that···!!”

People who looked at the inside clearly revealed spat exclamations.

A tree as pure white as snow.

A huge tree trunk whose thickness can't even be gauged.

'···Damn.'

An enormous majesty understandable that the entire board was dyed red.

Drrrrrr···!!

Not visible to the naked eye, but already hundreds of roots were running underground and approaching this way.

There's no time.

I turned my head and stared at workshop master Lee Ju-ha.

A trembling voice popped out prying his lips.

“It's a snow wood monster···!! A fellow that grows eating cold air, occasionally discovered around snow rock but···a scale like that I've never heard or seen···.”

Snow wood monster.

I recalled the memory seen in the association's archive.

“Parasitizing minerals is the same as any magic mineral plant, but extreme cold and sufficient mana must support it. But the lifespan is very short, so it's known that surviving long-term is impossible···!!”

Listening to Lee Ju-ha's words, the situation gradually became understood.

I nodded.

“That's right.”

“...Yes?”

“Workshop master's words are correct. It can't survive long-term. If it's a living being.”

A huge wood monster that filled the entire cliff reaching 20m.

Making half of the huge cavity its domain.

Even after burning over a hundred roots, a monster extending its hands madly as if it doesn't matter at all.

An appearance that completely ignored the constraints inevitably given to living beings.

The reason that was possible was only one.

“That guy, it's not alive.”

It wasn't felt from the terminal roots.

But clearly visible above the body that appeared breaking the cliff.

Black energy that appears only from undead.

The death core.

“There's a death core in the body. Reducing roots is meaningless no matter how much. We have to smash the stem above the cliff.”

But, how?

The roots that escaped from the passage continuously expand the domain and block the front.

A situation where invisible roots are dominating underground.

I had to admit.

This place was strictly the domain of the snow wood monster.

And the intruders are us.

But even so, I can't give up.

If it was the past 8 years lived miserably, maybe.

Now that I've barely escaped from the pitch-black darkness, I couldn't obediently give up.

Even in the stuffiness like running a tunnel without an exit, the mage's reason continuously finds a solution.

“Mr. Lee Chan.”

Now that I've admitted this is the guy's domain.

There's no leisure to attempt attacks multiple times.

I have to neutralize the guy with one attack and organize the situation.

Lee Chan who approached's face was pale like a corpse.

“Uh···what do we do, mage?”

Didn't lose reason but a face full of fear.

I indifferently said to Lee Chan.

“If we fail, we all die anyway. So don't be scared and listen well.”

Dozens of Fireballs float in the empty air.

Not Flame Burst that exerts powerful firepower in an instant.

A method that can block the enemy's attacks a bit longer by burning the empty air.

“While I complete the magic, protect me.”

I looked straight at Lee Chan's eyes.

“Somehow.”

Then Fireballs fly forward, and the taut balance broke.

Hundreds of roots wriggle and charge toward the Fireballs.

The flame that burst in an instant turned into a huge wall of flame and melted the roots.

Immediately I wrapped my body with Mana Thread and floated into the empty air.

“Below the feet! Don't retreat and protect the mage!”

Kugugugu!!

Impact sound that burst from below the feet along with Lee Chan's shout.

Instead of being conscious of that side, I rather scattered the sensation.

Even if the security team can't buy time, I die.

Even if I can't fell the monster, I die the same.

I had to surely accomplish what I can do.

Fwoooosh!!!

Condensed flame of Flame Burst floats in the empty air.

Increasing the size, fire energy sucked in madly.

Mana filled immediately, but mental strength didn't.

A feeling of the string in the head tightening immediately.

Tension as if mental strength would snap at any moment approached but I don't stop.

Enduring the enormous mana consumption amount as if the whole body stiffens, I forcibly pushed in the flame.

Must not stop.

If there's even a little possibility, I must believe in myself and advance.

Thinking about it.

When was there an easy time?

“Kuaaaaaaaak!”

A shout like a scream pops from the mouth.

Regardless, I opened my eyes, grabbed a huge Fireball that would easily be 1m, and.

Roughly threw it beyond the wall of flame that was gradually losing strength.

Kuwaaaaaaaaaang!!!!!!

Crimson flame that filled the front along with a roar.

A huge explosion as if the world is ending.

Destructive power of a different dimension from watching above the canyon.

Just looking, overwhelmed and breath catches.

The whole body tingles, and the head went blank.

Really.

Can I control that flame?

“...Let's try.”

I closed my eyes and concentrated on the sensation.

Anyway since I've come this far, there's no place to retreat.

I grab the fierce flame bursting as if blowing the entire cavity with the Red Flame skill.

Impossible.

The flame tramples my will and pushes in like a tsunami.

At this rate, I'll burn to death before the snow wood monster.

"Damn."

I narrowed the range.

If I can't control the entire flame.

At least avoid only the side where people are-

Bang!

Suddenly a large impact sound rang in the head.

The head went blank and something warm flowed from the nose.

Blood scent that filled the mouth in an instant.

But instead of frowning, I raised the corners of my mouth.

Rather it was good news.

Because the flame that refused the restraint reacted for the first time.

Kugugugugu···!!

The flame miraculously passes by me and the awakeners.

Hot heat as if melting the whole body brushed past, but instead of pain, thrill rang throughout the body.

The flame was following my will.

From the start, I was thinking completely wrong.

Instead of controlling, opening the path.

Thus making the huge energy able to run wild as it pleases is the extreme meaning of Red Flame.

I realized by myself a fact no one said.

Kuwaaaaaaaaaang!!!!!

The heat that filled the cavity bursts along the path I opened.

The disorderly explosion gained life according to my will and formed a shape.

At some moment, a huge flame that turned into a beast's front paw struck the cliff.

Kwaaaaang!!

-Kiaaaaaaaak!!!

The scream of the snow wood monster whose death core was struck rings loudly.

Numerous roots flew toward the flame, but only turned to powder and scattered.

Belatedly, roots that recognized me instead of the flame rushed but it was already late.

Another huge front paw that followed roughly struck the half-burst death core.

Not simple flame.

Pure white holy light that burst from inside the flame covered the black energy and flashed dazzlingly.

Kwaaaaang!!!

This time there wasn't even a scream.

The completely destroyed death core.

Black energy instantly subsided, and the roots lose strength.

The board dyed red instantly turned black.

A monster reborn as a being with will even after death, sucking the condensed mana of the crystal cave.

The guy finally breathed its last.

“...”

I opened my eyes.

One sharp root strand was stopped right in front of my pupil.

Fortunately it doesn't move.

Success?

Drip. Drip. Drip.

Blood drips under the chin, then strength drained from the whole body.

Whether the body is falling, the cavity floor approaches quickly.

Suddenly someone's arm received my body.

Something muttering sound heard for a while.

Thick darkness came before my eyes.

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