Black Iron Magician

Chapter 392 The Disciple’s Steady Advance and Hund’s Concerns

Haruna is unstoppable. She can’t be stopped. A large number of enemy cells gather, swarm, and try to stop her, but the petite girl’s advance overruns everything.

「Hmph!」

With a single swing of her Doggan Staff, she defeats many of them and smears their wounds with the deadly poison. The terrifying poison then spreads throughout the cells in a flash, ensuring absolute death. The cells that swelled up and exploded spread their poisoned fluids on the spot, causing secondary damage to their surrounding allies. There’s no way to prevent the Doggan Staff, which is swung by the power that’s more powerful than Rimudo’s, and the attack also creates tremendous wind pressure, causing the body fluids to spread even further. These processes are repeated with each step Haruna takes, and now it’s hard to tell which side is attacking which side. It seems that there are some cells that can’t withstand the wind pressure and get blown away into the air. Honestly, it’s the end for the cell side. If they had feelings, they would have been crying. They crawled out to eliminate Haruna, but they were the ones being eliminated instead.

Having the mighty power, an enhanced version of Rimudo, in her small body, Haruna is in a condition where she can fight one-on-one with Deris or Nell in terms of status. It’s so powerful that Haruna can’t completely handle this power, and the condition is that she has to stand on Rimudo, but she certainly has that much power. It’s impossible for level 7 or level 8 monsters to stop her, so this result is a matter of course. As Chinatsu said, Haruna’s 『Little Peerles』 is too compatible with Rimudo’s trial.

「Hey, Chinatsu! The current Haruna is her strongest state ever, right!?」

「That’s right! I’m sure she can run around no matter how Rimudo-san is flying! Also, I can feel the horror similar to Nell-shishō’s…! Still, the enemies are appearing endlessly, so you should be on your guard! Sharpen yourself and enjoy the thrill more!」

「Yeah, yeah! Setting the thrill aside, it sure is getting fun!」

Touko also continues to make steady progress while carrying Chinatsu in the shadow of Haruna’s brilliant activity. The gait of Touko who’s running on four is light. She skillfully uses the scars left by Haruna’s footsteps to break through one difficulty after another with inhuman movements. It is also a wonderful point that she’s able to bring out her wildness while paying attention to Chinatsu on her back so that it’s easy for her to fight.

On top of Touko, Chinatsu draws her katana and slashes the approaching immune cell. The cell tries to regenerate, but faster than that, she unleashes a series of follow-up attacks with her Iwatōshi and overwrites the regenerations with damage, ensuring that the HP is reduced to zero. Unlike Haruna, who deals with the horde of cells, it’s a tactic that can only be done by Chinatsu to destroy the one that Haruna missed.

Even so, the poisons are scary (especially the one from the ally), so she didn’t forget to chant 『Op Room』. It seems that the range is adjusted from Chinatsu to Hund’s position, behind her, so as not to interfere with Haruna’s battle.

(…… It’s the magic that eliminates poison, huh. However, even if it enters Chinatsu’s magic area, the purification effect doesn’t seem to be enough to eliminate Haruna’s poison. It’s incomparable to the poison that I received before. I have to avoid this one.)

Hund, who’s chasing after the others from the last row, could see the scene of everyone’s struggle clearly. Since he’s in charge of supporting and rescuing them in case of emergencies, he was trying to grasp the situation more carefully than the others who are actually fighting. That’s why he understands well how dangerous the current Haruna is.

Chinatsu’s Op Room, which thoroughly eliminates abnormal conditions in the space, nullifies the poison of the immune cells, indicating that its function is working normally. However, the poison made by Haruna is only sizzling, as if it’s expressing anger and enduring the magic.

(The poison is reduced, but not completely eliminated. In the first place, since the area is moving around Chinatsu, there’s not enough time until the poison passes through…. No, no matter how long it takes, the poison won’t disappear. That’s how dangerous it is, and my Danger Detection Skill has been alerting me. Haruna, you truly have created a horrifying poison. Chinatsu and Touko are also wonderful. But more than that――)

Hund turns around and takes a glance at the path he has taken so far. There’s countless wreckage that Haruna and the others had defeated, and the rock surface is being covered by the poison. The scars that Haruna gouged out could be seen until halfway, but far behind that, the scars have disappeared.

(――Rimudo-dono is amazing that he is still calmly flying in the sky even after being exposed to so much poison. With the size of his body, this amount of poison is meaningless no matter how strong it is, huh. The scars on the dragon scales that we had been using as a foothold are healing from the old ones, so it seems that Rimudo-dono himself has perfect regeneration ability. Is there really a way to defeat him? The forces he possesses are also bizarre. The pawns he keeps under his scales greatly exceed my Four Heavenly King of the Sea Demons in both strength and number. Furthermore, even if they were wiped out by Haruna, he didn’t lose his composure. He is not the Great Eight Demons for nothing. If it’s the current me, I can’t be that ruthless….)

The more Hund analyzed, the more he glimpsed Rimudo’s bottomless power. In fact, Haruna’s attacks and poison, which are so ferocious, are only done on the thin skin for Rimudo, and it would heal on its own with the passage of time even without any treatment. It’s true that Haruna’s attack works against Rimudo, but the scale is too different. Even if her status is a little above his, it isn’t enough to make up for the difference.

「Hmm, I’m really glad that Rimudo-dono’s trial is in this form. Nevertheless, Haruna is still young. I know that she’s not that kind of person, but there’s a possibility that she will get drunk by her temporary power and get lost…. As the king who rules a country, I must give her one piece of advice here. Haruna! You shouldn’t be conceited!」

Hund shouts.

「Hm? Hund is shouting something, isn’t he?」

「『Wow, this is so fun! Thank you for bringing me to this dreamland!』…. I’m sure he’s saying that. It seems that Hund-san is enjoying it more than I thought.」

「You’re lying. Even his tone isn’t like that. At least make it closer.」

Unfortunately, Hund’s advice was drowned out by the roaring sound of the wind and was dubbed by Chinatsu’s prejudice. If it’s as Chinatu’s said, he’s just a happy old man.

However, despite Hund’s concerns, the progress is going well. The four have already climbed past the halfway point, and now they crossing the neck and are approaching their destination, the head. If nothing happens, they will surely reach their goal where the golden fruit awaits. If nothing happens, that is.

「Whoa!? They combined and became big!? Is that even possible!?」

「But the moment they combined, Haruna crushed them. The danger level was terrible, but the timing was bad.」

「Seriously, Haruna is invincible now. Well, a lot of them merged, so their number decreased.」

…… Anyway, the goal is near.