Metal Slime 243
Chapter 243: Demon God of Blazing Flame TL: Cnine ED/PF: Part 1 『One tree down!』 About a minute had passed so far. Yuuma glared at the other
Chapter 243: Demon God of Blazing Flame
TL: Cnine
ED/PF:
Part 1
『One tree down!』
About a minute had passed so far. Yuuma glared at the other trees and started running immediately.
Since there was a time limit, wasting time was not an option. The targets were the four "Trees" towering around the giant tree.
Yuuma sprinted at full speed toward one of the trees, which stood about fifty meters tall.
Using the momentum of his sprint, he leaped up and kicked the tree with his right foot. The impact caused the tree to sway, and the blazing flames instantly spread all the way to its top.
Yuuma adjusted his stance and, without a moment's hesitation, delivered a left hook to the thick trunk.
An explosion erupted once again, inflicting significant damage on the tree.
『ORAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!』
Gritting his teeth, Yuuma unleashed a flurry of punches with both fists. Each strike against the tree scattered blazing flames, prying into the tree trunk.
In less than ten seconds, the tree creaked loudly and fell.
It should have been a fatal blow for a tree, but from the base of the broken trunk, grotesque vines and branches stretched out, trying to regenerate themselves.
―― Not hot enough, eh!?
Yuuma channeled even more "Magical power of fire" into his fist and struck the ground with all his might.
A pillar of flames erupted from the ground, engulfing the fallen tree with scorching fire.
『Next!』
Yuuma started running immediately. Over two minutes had elapsed. The "Tree" couldn't be brought down easily by simply breaking it.
It was necessary to completely burn it down with fire magic. Upon that realization, Yuuma channeled even more flames into his own body.
『Three minutes left!!』
Yuuma ran through the dungeon. His giant strides made the distance feel much shorter.
With every single step he took, the earth trembled and exploded, causing the surrounding flames to intensify even further.
For the third tree, he used a body slam. When he collided shoulder-first with the third tree, a tremendous roar echoed, and the tree was pulverized in a single blow.
The fallen tree sank into a sea of flames.
There was no time to rest. As soon as he stopped, thick roots would wrap around him from all directions, but Yuuma blew them all up and burned them to the ground.
The "Root of Tree" in the bottom floor started to scream in agony.
Countless roots and ivies shot out from the ground around him, forming a dome-shaped "cage" that enveloped Yuuma inside.
The trees were trying to stop the external threat――
『OUT OF MY WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!』
Yuuma's powerful fists shattered the cage. A massive explosion erupted, and the surrounding roots were obliterated into pieces.
Yuuma rushed forward and unleashed a barrage of strikes toward one of the trees. The tree had no way of defending itself, and it was pummeled relentlessly. The repeated explosions tore its trunk to shreds.
With a cracking, scream-like sound, the tree fell onto the fiery ground.
Yuuma turned around and glared at the "Giant Tree" looming over him in the center.
『YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE LEFT!!』
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Kayla and Anik were at a loss for words seeing Yuuma fight on the bottom floor.
「Is that... really a human!?」
Anik nodded, feeling the same way as Kayla.
「Good grief. With that massive frame and those movements... Moreover, with terrifying strength and even using unimaginable fire magic... Could he be comparable to, or even surpass, the【King】!?」
Anik fell into silence after saying that. The members of the Makamayuri [Peacock King] and the Indian seekers were unable to believe the scene unfolding before them and could only stand dumbfounded on top of the cliff.
「Tennouji, who in the world is that guy!? How did someone like that exist?」
Hearing that question, Akito scratched his head before heaving a sigh.
「It will take too long to explain from the beginning, so let's save that for later, but one thing I can say for sure is this.」
Akito looked at Kayla, whose expression was filled with fear.
「Yuuma subjugated the 【Red King】 using that form. In short, he can use the same form to subjugate the 【Green King】!」
「Subjugated the Red King? You mean that man didn't just repel it but completely subjugated that monster too!?」
Kayla exclaimed with a bewildered look on his face, while Anik stroked his beard with a serious expression.
Akito returned his gaze to the bottom floor of the dungeon. There, Yuuma, surrounded by blazing flames, was raising his fist toward the gigantic tree.
Part 2
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「OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!」
His fist, glowing in bright crimson, struck the trunk of the giant tree. Every single hit was followed by a massive explosion.
As Yuuma was about to punch again, he suddenly felt a tremor from under his feet.
「Uh, what now!?」
After barely managing to brace his legs, he shifted his gaze, noticing that the giant tree's "Roots" were twisting and writhing underground.
The massive roots, with tremendous thickness, were trying to block his path to the giant tree.
『DAMMIT! I'VE GOT NO TIME TO PLAY ALONG WITH THIS BS!!』
Yuuma unleashed the gauntlet sword in his right hand. He then channeled "Fire Magic" into the sword and slashed at the thick roots before him.
However, cutting dozens of roots one by one would be too time-consuming.
---What should I do in this situation――
Yuuma hesitated for a moment but snapped back immediately and this time, he channeled "Wind Magic" instead of "Fire Magic" into his sword.
The sword emitted a green glow, and patterns appeared on its blade.
The wind gathered at the tip of the sword and, as it vanished, a transparent sphere appeared in its place. It was wind magic of 2nd level: vacuum magic.
When the transparent sphere touched the sword, it lost its shape and molded onto the surface of the blade.
Yuuma looked at his sword. The faintly green glowing blade was covered by a transparent film. He intuitively understood that it was coated with vacuum magic.
Yuuma readied his sword and brandished it horizontally at the writhing roots in front of him.
He hadn't intended to put that much force into it, but with a single slash, more than twenty roots were severed like tofu and fell to the ground without regenerating again.
The obstacles blocking his path had vanished, clearing the way to the great tree.
『O-OOOOOOOOOOOH!』
Even Yuuma was quite surprised by the sharpness of his vacuum blade.
He wondered if this was the correct way to use【Vacuum Magic】and was tempted to investigate it, but he set aside that notion for the time being.
He sprinted forward toward the giant tree.
He stomped on the writhing roots beneath him, causing them to explode. ---"Time to end this!"
Yuuma closed in on the giant tree and brandished his sword horizontally. His slash left a deep wound in the trunk.
He then raised his sword and slashed downward with all his strength.
This strike had also left a clean and deep wound on the trunk of the giant tree.
A huge cross-shaped wound appeared in front of him. Yuuma clenched his left fist and threw a straight punch into the center of the cross-shaped wound.
The fist, rotating as it pierced the trunk, gouged the wood and exploded without delay.
The flames ran along the cross-shaped wound and spread across the entire great tree.
Yuuma sheathed his gauntlet sword and channeled the "Magical power of fire" into both of his fists.
―― LET'S FINISH THIS!
His punch sank into the flaming giant tree.
Left hook, straight right, left backhand blow, right hook... The relentless storm of fists struck the tree without a moment of delay.
Yuuma kept unleashing furious attacks with a fierce, desperate expression, transforming into a Demon God of Blazing Flame that would burn everything to the ground.