Humanity Return

Ch. 143 – Against Rank A Mountain Crawler

The Mountain Crawler was seen not only moving increasingly ferociously, but also becoming much sharper than before. Every safest and swing of its tail was like it had predicted the next move that would be made by the humans in front of it.

“Hup”

“Groar!”

But it was still not enough to give Leinn a crushing attack that instantly changed his movements at any moment, like adjusting his movements to the attack that the Beast was about to launch in front of him.

This situation had already endured for a full five minutes without producing a clear winner, seeing Leinn's movements too fast to be touched by the Mountain Crawler's extremely simple attack.

Leinn was also unable to deliver a real attack with the weapon in his hand at the moment because he knew that the Beast that had already received the fatal wound in front of him was, after all, a weapon in his hands, it was currently still able to bring out power equivalent to a medium Rank A-powered Beast.

Extremely limited attacks and not too fast movements were the obvious weakness of Mountain Crawler's, but Leinn could see his defense being only penetrated by something that was at the same level as Late-beginning attack Magic, and the Beast also has a strong enough attack power to defeat him if it manages to hit him by a landslide.

Booms!

So this situation wasn't very good for Leinn who was still using the Body Enchant at the crucial moments to avoid the attacks that had such a large area of it, either, make him realize he will not be able to win by just avoiding it.

“Clear Sky Style”

Booms!

Leinn made a frontal salto and avoided the giant Beast, positioning himself at 5 meters above the Beast's neck. A large amount of mana was sucked into the still-sung sword and made it tremble vigorously within its black sheath.

[Moving Cloud!]

Leinn drew out his sword and produced a wave of great swords that shot out in the air at high speed.

Boom...!

A huge explosion appeared and flew the red liquid in all directions and melted the rocks in that place. The Mountain Crawler also stopped struggling just like that behind the fog.

Leinn who was sheathing back his sword instantly showed an extremely shocked expression and immediately kicked the air very forcefully, flicking it to the side firmly.

Bwoooshes!

A mouthful of red liquid gushed out from within the dust fog and almost hit Leinn who was already kicking the air once again with a powerful sting, successfully avoiding the after-splashes.

Bang out! Bang out! Bang out!

The sound of exploding air was heard more and more often from Leinn's soles hitting the thin layer of air he made along with the stomping of his feet. His body glided through the air without a single clear pattern and managed to dodge the red liquid and several black stone bullets as big as a human head that were quite deadly.

The thick dust fog had also subsided and showed the form of a Mountain Crawler firing short bursts into the air continuously from its fang-filled mouth. Several stones were seen escaping from his head and sliding rapidly due to the pressure from the red liquid bursts as well.

“Pulling”

Leinn realized the reason the Beast in front of him managed to find out his next move was a combination of Rank A Beast intelligence and his ability to sense the surrounding vibrations, which was much sharper than an ordinary Rank B Mountain Crawler. It seemed like he could not only feel the tremors from the ground they touched, but from the air though.

“How about.. ifhi!”

Leinn bit off his still-gagged sword and landed directly back on the ground, followed by a black bullet that had almost reached him.

“Fhah..”.

Pssh!

His left hand was immediately stretched out, receiving the bullet in a landslide, giving off a very sharp sound, but Leinn did not look affected or even flinch in the slightest.

[Counfer Fhibrhafhion]

Leinn pulled back his left hand that was still grasping the black sphere and instantly launched a powerful right punch, towards the Mountain Crawler that was very far beyond the range of his fists

Ngiiing...!

“Groooar..!”

The Mountain Crawler was visibly affected by this vibration, seeing the entire rock in his body also tremble and making him feel an excruciating pain. It would not deal any real damage to a Rank A Beast like him, but it was extremely effective and managed to influence his detection senses very strongly.

“Fiuh”

Leinn was already in a different position after making several leaps and had already re-grasped his sword that was sheared in his left hand. He had also started to gather a large amount of Mana from the surrounding air.

“Groaar...?!”

Booms!

The Mountain Crawler that still had not regained its ability to sense the vibrations just moved and grinded where Leinn was standing before without successfully finding his target.

“Gro-?!”

And as the world around him began to feel clearly again, all of it instantly vanished without a trace in the next instant.

All vibrations were lost from the world and for the first time since his birth, the Mountain Crawler could not feel the world around him.

[Clear Sky Style, Finishers]

In that soundless world, a subtle vibration could suddenly be felt by that Mountain Crawler and make it move its gigantic body to grind out the source of that sound.

And there stood a black-haired young man who did not emit any radiance from his body, with the sword that had peeked out from the sword sheath in his hand had turned a bright blue color.

[The Heaven Treading Wave]

One quick pull, followed by a wave of a gigantic, bright blue-colored sword floated up and slammed into the face of the Worm Beast in front of him and lifted his entire body into the air.

“...aaaar!”

The Mountain Crawler began to slide back towards the rock mountain behind it at the return of the sound in that place. The beast seemed to be aware of what was going on and seemed to be trying to break away from the wave of the sword without success, and finally...

BOOM UP!

Leinn looked at the thick fog of dust that instantly lifted up and covered almost all parts of the mountain in front of him, then his eyes moved towards the white sword in his right hand.

“Maaf”

At that very instant, cracks instantly appeared and filled the entire sword body and finally, the sword shattered into pieces.

Leinn looked at the sword fragments on the ground beside him and showed a sad smile, looking at what was left of the sword that had accompanied him the past two weeks.

“Hah..”.

“How?”

Roland landed beside Leinn who was putting his black sheath back to his waist without removing the swordless hilt in his right hand. The blood on the black sword sheath was clearly visible as a blood-red stamp, coming from Leinn's exfoliated left palm.

“Hm, yes”

Leinn looked at the dust fog that seemed to be abating then turned to look at Roland, then towards the white wolf and the golden bird that had just arrived nearby. A small smile could be seen starting to appear on his face.

“It's your turn”

“Groaaar!!”