Chapter 266
KWAKWAKWAKWA!
Zeke ran towards the forest.
The Qiongqi chased after Zeke while letting out a monstrous cry.
It swung its front legs, destroying all the solid trees while pursuing him.
Zeke deliberately maintained a distance that seemed catchable but wasn’t, running towards where the dwarves’ trap was set while luring the Qiongqi.
That’s when it happened.
KAAAAAK!
Zeke knew well what this sound from the Qiongqi meant as a signal.
He turned his body and created a shield with holy fire to defend.
CHWAAAAK!
A shield of light appeared in front of Zeke and his companions.
That’s when the Qiongqi breathed out gray smoke towards Zeke.
KUGUGUGUGUGU!
The hazy gray smoke spread through the forest, and all grass and trees touched by it turned to stone.
The smoke the Qiongqi breathed out contained a petrification curse that turned living things to stone.
But Zeke’s light shield deflected the petrification curse, and when its attack was nullified, the Qiongqi let out a monstrous cry as if throwing a tantrum.
Then the creature spread its wings on its back, showing signs of trying to fly upward.
Being naturally cautious and cunning, it seemed to be trying to escape right away when it saw its petrification curse didn’t work.
That’s when Zeke gave the signal.
“Aaron!”
Aaron, who was hiding on a rocky hill overlooking the forest, pulled his sniper rifle toward the Qiongqi as soon as he received Zeke’s signal.
TUNG!
The bullet containing compressed air that Zeke had provided in advance was fired from the magic gun and hit precisely between the Qiongqi’s eyes.
PUEOK!
The Qiongqi, who was about to fly away, was hit by the bullet and its head jerked back hard.
KRURURURU―
The Qiongqi, who was staggering backward, barely regained consciousness.
Then, wearing a fierce expression, it tried to find what had attacked it.
That’s when Aaron fired bullets continuously at Qiongqi.
POK! POK! POK!
The Qiongqi turned its body sideways and blocked the bullets with its back.
Though they were powerful bullets, they couldn’t pierce the Qiongqi’s tough hide.
KAAAAA!
The Qiongqi, who was about to take flight, roared while baring its teeth as if enraged by the bullets flying towards it.
That’s when Zeke launched a sword strike towards the Qiongqi.
KWAJJANG!
When the sword strike struck its body, the Qiongqi’s anger reached its peak.
KAAAAAA!
The Qiongqi spread its wings, raised its feathers straight up, and began shaking its body.
CHWAAAAK!
As whirlwinds arose around The Qiongqi’s body, feathers shot out in all directions.
Adult torso-sized solid feathers like throwing stars swept through the area, flying in unpredictable directions.
“Get down!”
Zeke’s companions ducked as low as possible to avoid the Qiongqi’s feathers that were sweeping the surroundings like a windstorm.
Jason tried to raise an earth wall to block the Qiongqi’s incoming feathers, but the sharp feathers cut through both the ground and the earth wall.
“HAAAT!”
KKAKANG!
Fortunately, Clonne swung her mace to deflect the incoming feathers.
Zeke shouted to his companions who were each dodging in their own way.
“Move to position while I block!”
As Zeke shouted, he created a wind barrier to block the incoming feathers.
Meanwhile, his companions got up and moved to where the trap was set.
Left alone with the Qiongqi, Zeke continued launching sword strikes to lure it and prevent it from escaping.
Forgetting it had tried to escape when petrification didn’t work, The Qiongqi instinctively kept advancing forward to catch the target that was attacking it.
“Over here! Come on!”
Zeke turned again and lured Qiongqi using flight steps.
Leaving the forest, he could see the spot where the dwarves had prepared their trap.
‘We need to bind that cunning creature here.’
Zeke stood in place of Rick and Arin who were supposed to be the bait as planned.
Others hidden around waited quietly until Qiongqi arrived.
KWAKWAKWAKWAKWA!
The massive Qiongqi ran towards Zeke while uprooting and throwing away all the trees.
KAAAAAK!
The creature charged straight at Zeke without thinking, seemingly quite provoked.
In his past life, when his master hunted it, it was so good at running away that it was hard to chase and catch, but this time the provocation seemed to work properly as it was charging straight towards where Zeke stood without paying attention to its surroundings.
Zeke faced the Qiongqi holding Roland.
In that moment, The Qiongqi lifted its body and breathed out petrification smoke towards Zeke again.
HUUUUNG!
The smoke rose around Zeke’s body.
This time Zeke activated his curse reflection skill.
Then the petrification smoke dispersed as it was offset by the curse reflection skill.
The Qiongqi slowly moved towards where the petrification smoke was thick.
Unlike normal magical beasts, The Qiongqi doesn’t simply eat its hunted prey.
After turning them to stone, it extracts and devours their souls.
That’s why only soulless stone bodies remain in places where the Qiongqi has stayed.
This time, the Qiongqi thought its power had worked properly and slowly approached to extract Zeke’s soul.
Just as it was trying to find Zeke through the thick gray smoke, something flew through the smoke.
CHWAAAAK!
Roland’s sword strike, imbued with holy fire energy, cut the Qiongqi’s neck.
CHWAAAAK!
Because the holy fire energy suppressed the demonic energy, the wound that would normally have healed remained open.
KAAAAAK!
Sensing danger, The Qiongqi immediately spread its wings to try to take flight.
That’s when the dwarves and merfolk revealed themselves on the hill.
“Now!”
CHWARARARARAK!
A massive trap flew through the air. It was a huge trap made by dwarves who modified the net woven by the fishermen to catch the Qiongqi.
The massive net spread over the Qiongqi’s head as it tried to take flight, catching its body.
KAAAAAK!
Caught in the net, The Qiongqi twisted its body trying to escape, but hook-like protrusions all over the net caught its wings in various places, making it difficult to break free.
At the same time, the fishermen threw their prepared harpoons at the Qiongqi.
CHWAAAAK!
Harpoons connected to solid steel cables flew from all directions and pierced the Qiongqi’s body.
“Everyone hold tight!”
The dwarves and fishermen held onto the steel cables connected to the harpoons to keep the Qiongqi from moving.
Then, Nerissa, who had been waiting behind, activated an ancient spell.
KIIIIING!
Suddenly, The Qiongqi caught in the net twisted in pain and began spewing water from its mouth and nose.
KRURURUK! KAAAAAK!
Nerissa had used ancient magic to summon seawater inside Qiongqi’s body.
The Qiongqi screamed in agony while continuously spewing water.
KAAAAAA!
Watching the Qiongqi, Zeke equipped Hersion and gripped Roland.
WOOOOONG!
The purifying blade emitting golden aura rippled above Roland’s blade.
Zeke jumped into the air and charged at the Qiongqi who couldn’t regain its senses.
From his sword, infinite sword techniques containing golden aura unfolded.
Infinite Sword Technique Secret Art
Second Form
Giant Dragon Slash
WOOOOOONG!
The purifying blade unleashed a sword strike that cut down a giant dragon, splitting the Qiongqi’s body in half as it passed through.
KADEUDEUK!
As the Qiongqi was trying to tear through the net with its sharp claws while spewing seawater, its body was split in half by Zeke’s sword.
KEEEEEEK!
Qiongqi let out a single scream and collapsed.
KUNG!
Being such a massive body, when the Qiongqi fell, an enormous amount of dust rose up.
Zeke let out a small sigh while looking at the fallen Qiongqi.
‘That was easier than expected.’
Considering it was a unique species that his master had to use Triple Spell to catch, this was relatively easy.
Being such a cunning creature, Zeke remained cautious until the end and slowly approached it.
Then he took out chains and wrapped them around the Qiongqi’s body.
Even when its body was tightly bound by chains and showed no movement, Zeke could finally feel at ease.
‘The reward for devouring one of the Four fiends should be quite substantial.’
Since he couldn’t devour the magical beast in front of others, he planned to slowly consume it bit by bit after cleaning up the scene.
But then Zeke’s senses picked up something strange.
‘What’s that?’
In that moment, he lifted his head to look up at the sky.
Something that looked like a giant bird was floating in the air.
Zeke’s face hardened as he confirmed the presence with his enhanced vision.
Zeke shouted to his companions.
“Everyone get down!”
As he shouted, he spread holy fire to create a massive shield.
Shortly after, something fell from the sky.
KWAKWAKWAKWAKWA!
Solid feathers like daggers fell in droves.
PACHIJIJIK!
The solid feathers stuck into the light shield Zeke had created, forming cracks.
Being feathers imbued with demonic energy, the cracks grew larger.
As Zeke concentrated his power and shouted for others to get away from here, the dwarves, fishermen, and other companions quickly moved.
Just as his companions took cover, the shield shattered into pieces and light scattered everywhere.
At the same time, massive gray smoke was scattered from the sky.
Zeke held his sword and swung the purifying blade toward the gray smoke.
WOOOOOONG!
The golden aura purified all the petrification smoke, leaving only hazy smoke scattered.
KAOOOOOOO!
Another Qiongqi floating in the air let out a roar full of rage.
‘Could it be there were two Qiongqi?’
When hunting with his master, there was definitely only one.
Though unbelievable, what was gliding through the air was clearly a Qiongqi. It slowly changed direction and circled towards where Zeke was.
Then it opened its mouth wide toward Zeke and poured out black lightning.
KWAKWAKWAKWAKWANG!
As black lightning poured everywhere, Zeke gritted his teeth while rolling to dodge.
‘That’s the one. The one Master fought!’
It was definitely that cunning and powerful one.
After Zeke rolled to dodge, the Qiongqi carefully flapped its wings up and down and landed on the hill.
But its body size was much smaller than when Zeke saw it in his previous life.
It looked about half the size of the Qiongqi they just caught.
It crouched down, looking down at Zeke while scanning the surroundings.
It seemed to be checking for any traps.
Zeke gripped Roland and aimed at it.
‘We should have used the trap on this one. Who knew it would use another one as bait.’
The Qiongqi blinked, looking back and forth between Zeke and the fallen Qiongqi.
Then it twisted its human-like face in various ways before suddenly breaking into a grin.
KAGAGAGAGAK!
Its human-like laughter was chilling.
Zeke finally realized it had deliberately sent the other Qiongqi this way.
‘Could it have schemed to have the one sharing its territory killed here so it could take over that territory?’
It seemed the smaller one, pushed back by the larger Qiongqi, cleverly had Zeke’s group deal with it.
After laughing for a while, it wiped away its smile and came down the hill.
Then it slowly approached the dead Qiongqi.
Zeke carefully watched what it was doing while holding his sword.
Being so cunning, if they failed to catch it here, it would be difficult to catch after it escaped.
‘If we don’t catch it here, we might have to give up on this archipelago.’
While they were facing each other, suddenly the Qiongqi lifted its head toward the sky and howled long.
WOOOOOOO!
It was a completely different cry from the other Qiongqi.
Zeke lifted his head following its sudden action. And he could see something flying in the sky.
‘What’s that?’
Surprisingly, beetle-like magical beasts were flying through the sky while holding beast-type magical beasts with their legs.
WOOOOOOO!
When the Qiongqi howled once more, the insect-type magical beasts dropped the beast-type magical beasts they were holding in mid-air.
HUUUUNG!
The magical beasts dropped from the air fell to the ground at high speed.
POK! POK! POK!
The poorly landed magical beasts had their heads burst and limbs broken.
While some couldn’t get up, most recovered quickly with their characteristic healing ability and stood up.
‘This is insane…’
Although unique species could control magical beasts, this was the first time seeing one set a trap this way.
Dozens of magical beasts that fell from the sky had now surrounded Zeke.
Zeke raised Roland and aimed at the approaching magical beasts.
KAAAAAK!
When Qiongqi screamed from behind, all the magical beasts charged at Zeke at once.
PACHIJIJIK!
Mere magical beasts couldn’t stop Zeke.
Wearing Hersion, Zeke swung his sword wrapped in holy fire like a wolf jumping into a flock of sheep, sweeping away all of them.
And while Zeke was dealing with the magical beasts, Qiongqi quickly flew and burrowed into the dead Qiongqi’s body.
Calling dozens of magical beasts was solely to create this opening.
After killing all the magical beasts, Zeke realized what it was trying to do.
‘This bastard is trying to absorb the dead Qiongqi!’
Zeke urgently raised his sword and summoned the purifying blade.
WOOOOOONG!
The dead Qiongqi’s body suddenly moved greatly and sounds of its skeleton twisting could be heard.
KWADEUDEUK!
“HAAAAAT!”
Zeke quickly moved forward and launched a sword strike containing rippling golden waves toward the Qiongqi’s body.
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