Humanity Return

Ch. 142 – Rank A Mountain Crawler

“Cotton”

“Caw!”

Roland instantly freed both of his hands and prepared himself after hearing the roar that appeared from within the stone mountain in front of him, precisely after sensing the power within that voice.

Groaar...!

A second roar suddenly sounded, turning the previous tremor into an earthquake that shook the entire mountain and the surrounding area. Rocks began to fall from the stone walls along with huge cracks that began to appear on the ground around it.

“Hah..”.

A white steam filled with lightning shot out from Roland's mouth that spread his hands as wide as possible, like wanting to hug the mountain in front of him. Followed by the five swords behind him that began to float with lightning-lightnings that began to strike in all directions from all over their bodies, tearing and burning the rocks around them.

The golden bird that was just standing from earlier also immediately flew up and landed behind Roland, then immediately opened its wings wide and began to shine even brighter.

“Caaaw..!”

Crackles!

The lightning that snatched out of Roland's body and the five swords behind him started to turn and sucked into the two large wings behind him, leaving a calm thunderbolt that was buzzing stably within those five swords.

Woong...!

Roland took one step right back and stood sideways without taking his eyes off the front, while taking a position like he wanted to throw a spear with his right hand.

The five swords that had previously floated slowly instantly moved and floated parallel while pointing to the stone mountain in front of him, with four swords forming four square sides and one remaining started to slowly rotate between them.

Rumbles...!

Crackles!

Calm lightning began to leap out from the four swords that were silent in the air into one sword that started to spin violently, making it turn into a golden spear.

The golden bird behind him also lowered its head and opened its beak behind the spear.

“Light!”

And at that very instant, a young man appeared while shouting from within the dark, almost collapsed passageway with a small white wolf on his shoulder.

The young man, Leinn instantly saw Roland's position and exchanged glances with him in an instant

“Hup!”

He directly threw Rufus who was on his shoulder towards the side, away from Roland and the golden bird. Without looking he also directly mowed the ground and jumped up high...

Tap

And landed right beside Roland, turning his back.

“Siap”

Both of his eyes instantly lit up with a bright purple radiance and emitted an extremely dense purple mist, in contrast to the eyes of the young man beside him who was already shining gold and giving off lightning sparks.

Leinn's outstretched right hand formed a pistol and pointed towards the rock mountain in front of them and began to move slowly, like following a movement.

Roland's left hand beside him followed the movement perfectly, like a reflection in a clear lake.

“Itu”

[Thunder Incarnated]

Crackle...!

The four silent swords were already barely emitting lightning, as all of that energy had already accumulated within the golden spear between them. It was followed by lightning that started coming out from the beak of the golden bird behind it which started to form a golden sphere.

Leinn had already made one extremely powerful front jump from Roland who started to twist his shoulders firmly. And with one strong-hand swing

The groa-!

[Congratulations, Incomplete]

The dzing!

A golden pillar appeared and cut through the roar that only sounded that instant, piercing through the stone mountain wall without causing any explosions. The golden pillar lingered for quite some time before finally leaving behind only one final golden thread before vanishing without a trace, leaving a 50-centimeter-wide hole in the mountain wall in the distance.

“Caw”

The last spark came out from the beak of the golden bird behind him, which had already nearly lost all the golden in its feathers.

“Leinn...?”

“Um, yes”

Leinn had already walked up to him again while looking at the black hole as well, then nodded his head.

“You didn't miss”

Leinn instantly took one step forward and placed his right hand on the hilt of his sword.

Groaaar..!”

A roar full of anger suddenly sounded once more, followed by a much stronger shock than before.

Booms!

Until finally, a huge shadow burst out from the wall of the mountain and instantly moved towards the two young men.

“Hah..”.

Roland thrust the four swords beside him into the air as he flowed his Mana swiftly, turning the four swords into cracking rings. He caught the four rings with a single swing of his hand then grabbed onto the one intact ring left in his waist chain.

“Can you hold it?”

Roland turned to the young man beside him with a serious expression.

“Hah! Who do you think I am?”

Leinn immediately jumped forward along with Roland who started running towards Rufus who had already returned to his original size.

The dust fog that covered the shadow was gone and his giant body became clearly visible.

“Groaaar!”

It was obvious that the creature in front of him was a Mountain Crawler, but he also looked completely different.

The size he possessed surpassed all of the Mountain Crawlers that Leinn had encountered in the past hour. With a length that exceeds 20 meters and a width that reaches 3 meters, with a dark black body with a bright red liquid coming out from cracks and sidelines of his body.

Pssh...!

The surface of the stone that the giant body passed through had melted and left only a red liquid that still burned everything it touched.

“Ha..”

Leinn could see what the liquid could do and the part that took it out so swiftly, precisely one 50-centimeter-wide piece that looked like a piece of covered with a reddish-grey stone.

Finally the Mountain Crawler reached in front of Leinn and immediately lifted his entire front body and then slid very strongly, intending to tear Leinn with a row of red fangs.

Booms!

Leinn showed no fear and instantly performed one powerful salto while pulling out his sword.

Tang!

And as Leinn had guessed, it turned out that this Mountain Crawler body had extremely high hardness.

“Huh?”

What Leinn did not expect was that it was not just the red liquid that had a high temperature, looking at his sword that had started to change color with just one impact. He instantly sheathed his sword back while kicking the air forcefully.

“Groar-!”

Rumbles...!

And where Leinn had been before was directly passed by a giant rock tail, shaking the area around them as well.

“Hoh!”

Using the waves generated from that Mountain Crawler attack, Leinn managed to create some distance between them and thought of the next move.

Pssh...!

Some parts of his body also let out white steam after receiving the splash of liquid, producing a sound that was not very pleasant to hear. But Leinn did not look too concerned and simply patted the smoky part a few times to put it out.

“Baik”