If one could say it with one word, it would be, “slaughter”.
Bones shattering, swords breaking, and armors that became lumps of mere iron fell to the ground.
Several deep cracks and gouges scarred the ground, which were unimaginable, since he caused them without using magic.
It was all due to Shin swinging his katana.
“Woosh!”
He kept swinging his katana without using any skills. He cut the cores right in half, those of more than 10 Skull Faces just like that, and they became demon essences as they disappeared.
In addition, he also crushed the swords and armors.
Whenever the katana drew an arc in the plains, where the moonlight shined, the Skull Faces were knocked down, like a sand castle crumbling.
If it were normal adventurers, to defeat a King class, they must be prepared for dozens of sacrifices. But now, it was just a wooden figure in this place.
Like casually cutting down the grass that grows too much, the Skull Faces were definitely being killed.
“Kuoooooo!!”
Not only was Shin attacking, Yuzuha, who took a position on top of Shin’s head, was also breathing out pale flames from its mouth and burning the enemy to ash.
It was a skill exclusive to monsters, 【Fox Fire】. It was a red flame, but an Element Tail originally spit out blue flames. Though it seemed difficult for the present Yuzuha, a diverse attack could be drawn out from the tails in the case of the adults with the original appearance of level 1000. As for the Element Tail, each one of their tails takes charge of either fire, water, earth, wind, lightning, light, or dark magic skills, as well as physical attacks, and magic system skills. It was like fighting multiple enemies from the opponent’s point of view.
The only tail that Yuzuha seemed to be able to control was the magic system skill, which strengthened the【Fox Fire】. Because it was not a skill that a player could use, it was simply based on the image that Yuzuha imagined.
“Man, there are too many enemies.”
“Kuu.”
Even though Shin and Yuzuha had already defeated more than 100 Skull Faces, they had hardly moved from their original spot. There were too many monsters. Moreover, even though each of them was bigger than usual, the gap from the defeated was quickly filled.
It felt like an eternity as he was doing the same thing again and again, like digging sand from the bottom of an hourglass and putting it back on top.
Apparently the Lord Skull Face, the boss, after making a massive amount of Skull Faces appear, withdrew to the center of the Wraith Plains. The plains were dozens of kemels from one end to another. Shin was at the edge of the plains, so no appearance of the Lord came into his range of view.
Having withdrawn to lure in the exhausted Shin, it might have started to prepare something.
Shin thought about how to make the enemy come out, while flourishing his katana and Yuzuha spat out flames. In the plains, which were dyed in black aura, only the circumference around Shin was cut out, like exposed skin.
“We shouldn’t overdo it too much?”
“Kuu!”
It looked like one person and one animal were going to be swallowed by the black muddy stream, if seen from the edge. But they talked in a carefree voice, which was inconceivable in this situation.
While chatting, Shin used a slashing attack to hit the Skull Faces, and the black muddy stream was pushed back on the contrary.
No enemy could break through the barrier-like, slashing attack in this place. Just like the Skull Face who fought with Wilhelm before, most of the Skull Faces were expert classes in footwork and sword techniques, but it could only gain them a little time. Rather, it was pathetic that they were no match for Shin.
“It’s no good, huh? The places where the enemies emerge from is too vast.”
Shin used the detection system skills together to scan the surrounding information. Thanks to his flashy actions, a lot of Skull Faces in the plains were gathered around Shin. But Shin perceived that there were some individuals leaving the plains; ignoring the battle.
And apparently there was a big reaction, so presumably there was a King class among them too.
“I’m gonna kick it up a notch. Hold on tight!”
“Kuu!!”
The powerful 『Red Chidori』 was swung around, and the surrounding Skull Faces disappeared.
While holding the 『Red Chidori』 in his left hand, he extended his arm behind him and made a throwing posture. The lighting that had run through 『Red Chidori』’s blade previously couldn’t be compared to the present. The katana blade, that was clad in red lightning, was completely luminescent in and of itself, and brightened the surroundings as if it emitted light. The sound of metal creaking could be heard; it was the shriek of the katana’s blade due to an excessive amount of magic power being poured into it. With his improved stats, it was impossible for the Legend grade weapon to endure Shin’s magic power.
Maybe sensing high density magic power mixing with the light, the Skull Faces hesitated to approach.
And, that hesitation gave Shin enough room to make his preparation.
Katana technique lightning combined skill, 【Hien Raikiri】*. (T/N: Flying Swallow Lightning Cutter)
It was a mixture of martial arts skill and magic skill. Then, the combo was put together into a single blow released by Shin.
The 『Red Chidori』 was thrown with strength that could be called inhuman, while also spreading out a shock wave. There was no kind of resistance in ripping apart the Skull Faces crowded together.
The red lighting immediately spread out in all directions from the katana’s blade, moving toward the Skull Faces that became ashes one after another. The appearance was totally like a Hydra. A lightning-like red Hydra was trampling down the black wave with ultra high speed. It felt like the Skull Faces were voluntarily sacrificing themselves to the jaws of the lightning.
After the 『Red Chidori』 flew, a road with a width of about 10 mels was formed, and the ground was cut into from the shock wave and lightning.
Shin immediately ran on that road.
He aimed toward the center of the plains. To the Lord Skull Face.
If he defeated it or destroyed the dungeon core, Shin expected that this turmoil would be settled.
(If Schnee was here, I could have done something different.)
He thought so momentarily, but there was no point in asking for too much. He changed his mindset into that only he could do it now.
He took out a new weapon, and unsheathed it from its scabbard, while speeding up.
It was a 《Mythology》 grade, extra long katana, named 『Hamon Hirumaki』.
It was Japan’s number one long katana. Its full length surpassed 3 mels, if the hilt was included, and the katana’s blade reflected the moonlight in the darkness. Though it’s a little different from the actual name, depending on the person, they would be reminded of 『Nenekirimaru』* when they heard the name. (E/N: Nenekirimaru is an exorcism blade which only harms yokai.)
『Hamon Hirumaki』 has a high anti-undead ability as was expected from that anecdote. It had an attack that boasted a ranged attack which was not inferior to a spear due to it having a very long blade.
“Fhew!!”
It was a simple cut, the same as the katana from before. But the Skull Faces that vanished appeared to be no match from a while ago.
The 『Hamon Hirumaki』 was originally a weapon that needed 800 STR or more for it to be swung properly, and it possessed a cutting ability that could cleave a low-level dragon’s head off only with its own weight. If it was swung by a physical strength that surpassed the max stats by a player like Shin, the power was immeasurable.
The blade cut the air, and even the shock wave was impacted into the surrounding objects, splintering them altogether. The Skull Faces had no chance against it. The magnitude of power was different from the start. It was already a disaster for the Skull Faces. Large scale storms, earthquakes, floods and so on; the overwhelming destruction that one could not go against.
The present Shin was exactly like that.
He charged through the gauged-out ground at a speed faster than the slow progress from the situation before.
Though the Skull Faces filled the gap made by 『Hamon Hirumaki』 , this time he didn’t get stranded or stuck.
“Be gone!!”
Then Shin invoked a magic skill.
Wind system magic skill, 【Air Barret】.
It was a skill that made about a 30 ~ 40 cemels mass of wind that was launched in any direction, it had enough power that it could shoot down small flight monsters. However, Shin was not satisfied with only that much power. All of the wind mass that was fired randomly all around exceeded 2 mels, that power could easily blow away the Skull Faces that wore light armor. The Skull Faces flew into the sky like bowling pins, and there was no dignity as a monster of fear remaining anymore.
As he headed toward the center of the plains, the number of Skull Faces that faced Shin multiplied. The majority of the map displayed in Shin’s view was red, and it was impossible to count the number of enemies.
While the white marker, which indicated himself, broke-through the red dyed tainted map on the edge of the view, Shin rushed forward.
The orb that had absorbed the Pecker Hollow appeared in his mind. Since then, the Skull Faces that emerged were certainly strong. But the abilities to strengthen its subordinates and respawn them was not unusual to some degree for a boss monster. Judging from the standards of this world, it would be extremely brutal, but Shin had experienced a larger scale if put on a scale. For this reason, while Shin swung his long katana, he wondered whether he could defeat the enemy as smoothly as that.
(There is no disadvantage in being cautious.)
He reserved his energy while he annihilated the enemies. It was possible since his stats were raised from the game era. Shin was surely powerful. But sometimes quantity exceeded quality. Regardless of how many of his st