Chapter 296: The Monster

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“……Carina, go hide for a bit. If possible, I’d like you to join up with Sophie and the others, but if you make a bad move and the monster finds you, you’ll be in trouble.”

“Eh….”

I put Carina down as I said that. Considering the reaction of that crisis high speed sensing, the new undead would be quite strong. It’s so strong that Carina can’t take it on. To be honest, I don’t know if even I can handle it. But if I don’t do it, it might go to Sophie, Elira and the others.

I don’t know if all the undead are gone, and there are other monsters besides them, so I want Carina to stay as safe as possible.

“…… I understand. I’ll hide…”

“Thank you.”

I told Carina in a roundabout way that she should hide because she was slowing me down. Carina sensed what I meant and agreed, though she was a little downcast.

“Now…”

Carina also left, leaving me alone again. I ran to the place where I had first fought, which was also the direction where the undead were heading.

“Ah…?”

“……….”

When I got there, I saw a monster that was about two times the size of that ghoul demon with an additional arm growing out from behind its shoulder.

“I had no idea that the first thing I would kill after being reborn would be a kid like you…. Oh well. I will kill you and make you the first of my puppets.”

Saying this, the undead closed the distance between us, which was still close to 10 meters, almost instantly.

“Rah!”

“Eh!”

And then the undead folded its hands behind its shoulders and swung at me. I caught the attack with my two swords for a moment, but quickly parried it and then moved away.

“What, so you can take that?”

“Hmm…”

When this guy was a ghoul demon, we were almost even in power or I was better than him. To see how the power gap had changed, I took the blow properly for a moment, but I was completely outmatched in power. If I had accepted it as it was, I would have been crushed. That was the extent of the difference in power.

“Lightning shrink!”

Suddenly, my high-speed crisis sense reacted, and I moved to the side with lightning shrink. After moving, I looked at my former location and saw nearly ten black spear-like things growing out of the ground there. If I hadn’t moved, I would have been skewered by now…

“Ha!”

I unleashed a lightning dragon in return for the magic I just did. Lightning would be less effective than fire, but I wanted to see how much [magic protection] It had. The undead didn’t even guard against my magic and took the brunt of it normally.

“Is this what it’s like?”

“Seriously…”

The undead was nearly unscathed, with only a little scorching on its skin, even after being hit by my lightning dragon. The scorched skin also regenerated in an instant. This was unthinkable for the previous ghoul demon. It is better to think of them as completely different demon from the previous ghoul demon.

“Lightning shrink! Haa!”

Since magic didn’t work, this time I attacked with my sword. The effect of my attack was almost unavoidable. At least, my attack was able to inflict a not-so-slight wound on him. However, the wound regenerated quickly. After all, the speed of regeneration and defense are not comparable to those of the ghoul demon.

“No weaknesses, huh ……?”

It was receiving my current attacks unprotected, but that was probably to test my strength or something. Seeing that my attack didn’t work, the undead was smiling with satisfaction.

“It’s time for me to start my attack.”

It said and ran toward me.

“Rah!”

And then it hit me with all four arms. Each blow was potentially fatal to me. But I was taking all of the attacks without getting hit. I was outmatched in power, but I was faster than the undead.

“Dark Bone.”

As if it thought that there was no way out of this situation, a black spear-like thing sprouted from the ground again. I used my Crisis High-Speed Sense to avoid it and fled to the side.

“Haa…haa…….”

I was able to take a break from the rush of fists. It seems that it is more mentally exhausting than I thought to continue to parry the attack, which is almost certain to result in defeat if it hits.

And I know that if I continue like this, I will lose at some point when I lose my concentration. This time, my opponent simply has higher stats than me, except for agility. It seems almost impossible to win with that alone, but perhaps the undead is still getting used to its new body. Its attacks are few and far between, and its attacks are also monotonous. So its by no means an unwinnable opponent.

“Divine lightning enchantment, spirit Yug enchantment, Zeal spiritualization.”

I removed the Zeal Spiritualization, Devilfication, and Recovery enchantments, and I was in the same state again as when I fought those three demons.

“Okay…”

I’m going to use my only advantage in agility to finish off the undead with so many attacks that it’s regeneration can’t keep up.

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