Catalyst System

After the Difficulties

    Slowly, the life energy of Veroa was replenished. The body that was standing was slightly moving its fingers. Slowly his hands, feet, and entire body had been felt. He looked around, it turned out that the – monsters that attacked him had been lying heavily on the ground with blood splattered everywhere. He also saw a figure shrouded in a dark aura was bowing respectfully ala the royal knight. But, she did not know him and found it strange that there was a figure that exuded an aura of danger paying homage to him. He also speculated that the – flying monsters might also be his thing. So, he won't act rashly.

    “Thank God, Milord. You have bounced back” said the shadow figure with his current position unchanged.

    Veroa felt increasingly strange, yet to guess who exactly the figure in front of him was. But, he decided to respond to her words. He said, “Yes, I've returned”

    Then, the shadow figure thanked him that he had been given a name and now he had evolved into a dark knight. He was also the one who had messed up the – flying monsters that had now all been lying with blood on the barren land.

    “It turns out so anyway. He was my first magic troop. But, wasn't he then gone huh? How could? Ah, nevermind. After all, no problem and even very good for me” muttered Veroa inwardly. He had just understood the situation at the moment.

    “Well, I have to find a test material to test the new skill I got” he said, looking around, looking for the direction that felt there was the right monster to be used as a skill test material. He did not decide to use the Map system feature, because the Map feature only maps dead objects and cannot detect the presence of living things.

    “Zaldot, prepare! Let's hunt monsters!”

...

    Month after month, year after year, I don't know how long he's been here. To be sure, he was getting stronger, but his physical appearance was not much different from the time of the first punishment. Hundreds of thousands of monsters from the weakest monsters to King level monsters alone could he defeat with a little sweat.

    In a lake filled with red-colored water, Veroa had just arrived with some of her magic troops that she had managed to summon during her time in this world. Zaldot had evolved several times from an early dark knight, evolved into a shadowlord knight, and now he had become an almighty knight. He has been the commander of the troops and is reliable. After several fights against the hydra in the lake, he was still curious to stay against it, as it was still unable to defeat him despite having deployed its magic army.

    “Well, yesterday-yesterday, I have analyzed about your strength. Hydra, the toughest opponent I've ever fought. Other than his fierce attacks, his body's resistance to magic attacks was undeniable, extremely formidable. Moreover, he possessed an incredible body regeneration power. Physical attacks will still be in vain” said Veroa in a soft voice.

    With just a little bit of his feet dipped in the lake water, the calm water slowly rose. Then came the hydra, the monster that was meant to be.

    “But how can you endure that pain? Also, can you regenerate an injured body, if one of the heads that is at the core of your body is cut loose?”

    The magicians were given cues to prepare. Then, after Zaldot gave the cue to attack, they all began to fly in various directions, attacking the hydra from various sides. Zaldot, who had high attack power, attacked from the front. However, magic troops can only attack using magic, unable to give physical attacks. So, no matter how big the attack power, it only has a slight impact on hydra.

    Hydra roared very loudly, annoyed at feeling like she was being played with, yet she was unable to figure out the awkwardness. He who had been fed up with receiving a useless magic attack, decided to counterattack. One by one the heads were preparing to unleash various types of attacks. Of the nine heads, apparently only eight heads gave the attack. Some are spitting fire, controlling the lake water, messing with the wind around, and others. To be sure, the battle area there was extremely chaotic.

    At that time, there was a pause after the hydra gave the attack. A pause that was a gap for him to attack the vital area. He also did not waste the opportunity and immediately shot towards the hydra head that did not make an attack and its position was in the middle of the other eight heads.

[Multi-hit strike]

[Master kendo: Delayed effect]

    A streak of slashes in a second was then released after he was there, but within the span of that slash, nothing happened. After honjou masamune was inserted into his sword sheath, then the hydra head that was the target of the attack was cut into pieces that made his red blood spray, coloring the lake water redder.

    The other eight heads were angry. Then, the hydra immediately diverted its attack and focused on Veroa who was still floating in the middle of it.

    Veroa's position was still in an attacking posture, to change his current posture, it took him a few seconds, because the sky was not a battle area he controlled. But, those few seconds, in a fight is very valuable and can also be disastrous.

    But fortunately, hydra that has a powerful attack power takes more time to prepare for its attack.

    This gave Veroa the opportunity to fly away. However, before that, he stopped and thought of a risky plan. He flew back towards her towards the hydra body and stood in the middle of it. It was clear that his actions, he wanted to provoke the hydra to attack him there and allow himself to be the center of the attack, so that his attacks other than about him, also hit the body of the hydra.

    Realizing that, Zaldot shouted at his master to fly away while there was time. But, Veroa just smiled and instead gave the order to them to fly away. Zaldot soon realized that his Master would not act rashly without having a firm plan. So, he immediately obeyed his orders and invited the other magic troops to fly away.

    A dozen seconds had passed, various kinds of attacks were launched towards Veroa. This attack is different from the previous one, which is an attack that has a focused attack range. The eight hydra heads, which were spouting various attacks of elements and non-elemental magic, before targeting Veroa, amidst the distance, the eight different magic attacks united and mixed into even more devastating attacks. This attack is called a supernova.

    But, Veroa has a skill that can reflect all kinds of attacks, no matter how much attack power, any attack can be reflected. This skill became the last weapon of Veroa in his plan this time.

[Deflections]