Chapter 107: David and Goliath(end)(corrected)
Mark's face was pale and the dripping sweat joined the blood from his wounds; he could only use a few spells before going into mind down, but even so, he could not miss the opportunity he had created for himself.
Now that he was on top of its chest, he clutched his sword and swung it downward, creating a gash, but he could not get to the bottom of it, so he cut again in the exact same spot and repeated those swings, again and again, digging deeper and deeper into the monster's chest, where its magic stone was being constricted.
The main reason he wanted to take down the Goliath alone was not only to strengthen himself but also to collect the fragment inside the boss's magic stone. From what the Guide had told him, it was possible to kill the monster and absorb the fragment from the stone as long as it remained in the room, but there was a problem. Once the fragment was absorbed, the magic stone would split making it suspicious.
For this reason, he concentrated his attacks on the chest, he intended to kill the monster by destroying the stone inside it and absorb the fragment, so that the condition of the stone would not be suspicious.
'clank'
His continuous oscillations were stopped when he collided with something hard. He had managed to dig deep enough until he reached the ribcage where the magic stone could be glimpsed.
He lifted the sword and increasing its weight, he drove it in at full force, generating small cracks on the bone. Seeing that there were results, he raised the sword again but could not continue when he saw Goliath's head with its half-destroyed mouth and dangling jaw shoot out a jet of air.
Seeing the attack, Mark simply extended his hand to cast magic, but nothing came out. If there was one thing Mark had not considered, it was how much stress casting six spells at the same time, put on his magic circuits, which were already once damaged, so he had to wait a while to cast a spell.
'Fush'
With nothing blocking its path, the air mass collided with Mark's chest, which bent Mark's breastplate, causing him to spit out a mouthful of blood and send him flying. Being closer, the air mass hit Mark at its full force.
Mark was thrown off Goliath's body and bounced like a ball before finally stopping.
'cough'
More blood came out of his mouth, but he still forced himself to drink a potion and stood up at the same time as Goliath, who with its half-destroyed face was extremely creepy.
'haaaaaa haaaaa ROOOOOOOOOOARRR!!!'
A terrifying cry came out of the Boss's mouth as it roared to the sky, but it wasn't just that. Its breaths became more bestial, the skin on its body grew reddish and because of the swelling muscles, it seemed to grow even bigger.
'GROOOA!'
'SCRACH!
A revolting sight happened next, without any fear of its safety, it tore off its left arm, which was useless, and wielded it like a club.
<Update, unknown enemy status, increased death rate. Initiating channeling of the Falna into the aura.>
As soon as Goliath wrenched its arm away, it shifted its horrifying gaze to Mark and started running in his direction, causing everything to shake and shrinking the space between them in a split second.
Meanwhile, Tiona and Riveria were continuing to observe. When Mark was thrown off by Goliath Tiona wanted to intervene, but was stopped by Riveria.
"He can still continue."
As Riveria told her, Mark struggled to rise as Goliath, but when she saw the change the boss was undergoing her expression became serious, especially when its arm came off.
"Not good, Tiona!"
Seeing Goliath get into a position to run, something it had never done, she knew the situation was bad.
As soon as she heard Riveria's words, Tiona sprinted at full force, but being far away from them and with the fact that the boss had exponentially increased its speed, she was still far away when the boss arrived in front of Mark.
'GROOOA!'
With its demonic look, Goliath swung with all its might its arm, which it was using as a club, in Mark's direction.
"MARK!"
Before Tiona's eyes, the scene seemed to slow down. Goliath's bat fell slowly over Mark as she tried to get closer, but there a strange thing happened. Mark's body, which was about to be crushed, blurred before disappearing.
'BOOOOOOM!
A huge explosion occurred as the bat hit the ground sending all the debris flying away.
"Tiona where is Mark!"
Hurriedly approaching in the direction where Tiona had stopped, he hurriedly asked her.
"I-I don't know before he was crushed he disappeared." -Tiona said still confused.
As she had said, when Goliath lifted the bat, there was no trace of blood in the crater.
'rumble.'
'vzzzz.' 'vzzzz.' 'vzzzz.'
The sound of falling rubble and an annoying hum drew everyone's attention.
On the other side of the room, Mark emerged from the rubble, but it was his appearance that attracted the most attention. A purplish aura radiated from his body, while lightning seemed to spin freely around and merge with it. His eyes took on a purplish tint, while his hair lifted along with small stones that stood near him.
"What is it?" -Tiona wordlessly asked at Mark's appearance.
"I have no idea."
Riveria focused her sight on Mark. It looked a lot like when AIz was surrounded by wind, but his case looked different. If for AIz it seemed that the wind was obeying her, for Mark he seemed to become part of the lightning himself.
'Insufficient level of perception.'
<Adaptation.>
When he had activated the transformation, he wanted to dodge the blow, but he could not control his body, so he went and crashed into the wall. But now that he looked closely, the world seemed to move more slowly, unfortunately, he could not waste time analyzing the situation, since, from the way the Guide had said, this state would last only 10 seconds.
'ROOOAR!
Goliath completely ignored the presence of Tiona and Riveria as soon as he saw Mark. Turning toward him, it started to run, but...
'zap!
The sound of lightning echoed and the figure of Mark disappeared from where he was before. Goliath looked around furiously and when it saw Mark appear on another side, it immediately wanted to charge him, but as soon as it moved it lost its balance, falling to its knees.
The cause of this? Part of its right ankle was completely cut off.
<Adaptation.>
'zap!
Another bolt of lightning was heard and this time it was the right ankle that was cut off.
'Booom.'
Losing its footing, it fell to the side, and when it tried to lift itself with its other arm, once again there was the sound of lightning.
<Adaptation.>
'zap!
This time it was its wrist that was slashed causing it to fall onto its back.
'zap!
With no form of resistance remaining from the boss, Mark appeared on the monster's chest in a flash. He moved where the magic stone covered by the ribcage could be seen, clutched the sword with both hands, and aligned it perfectly with the stone.
'Compress.'
<Start.>
There were a couple of seconds left before the effects disappeared and he could not waste time cutting through the hard bones. For this reason, he compressed the aura inside him, and like a river in flood, it headed violently towards the arms and then ended up on the sword, which began to tremble.
The blade was covered with a purple layer made of compressed lightning, which also stretched its size. At that point he put all his remaining strength into pushing the sword, which easily cut through the bone and went into the stone, breaking it.
'crack'
The moment the stone broke, the boss disappeared and Mark was dropped. With the boss's death, his abilities were also deactivated causing both the pain and fatigue his body was feeling to come on all at once. Fortunately, since no other monsters could be born in the boss room, 'limit break' was also deactivated, so he wasn't feeling double the pain.
'Guide absorb the fragment now!'
With his eyes slowly closing, he reached out his hand to the stone and relied on the Guide.
[At once.]
Invisible to the eyes of others, small particles of light began to flow toward Mark, and only once they were all absorbed that his consciousness began to reduce more and more.
[Have a good dream host.]
With the Guide's words, a tired smile formed on Mark's lips as he wearily closed his eyes.
--Changing perspective--
"Look at him sleeping peacefully after all he's done."
Sighing about it, Riveria moved closer to him to cast healing magic on him, and the magic seemed to be having a good effect from the way the wounds were closing, although the internal ones would require more time.
"I think he's kind of cute, look he's even smiling."
Smiling, Tiona touched Mark's cheek with her finger, but as soon as she did, his hair stood up.
"Riveria look!"
Tiona was enjoying touching and pulling her finger away from Mark, in turn making her hair stand up and down.
"It looks like his body is charged with electricity. Seriously, he always seems to have something up his sleeve."
Once he was surrounded by lightning, his speed was such that even her, who was a level 6, had to pay attention to follow him with her eyes, but even so, she noticed something.
From the way he moved, it seemed that he was not used to that transformation. All his movements were rectilinear, and the first time he moved he even collided with the wall.
"What do we do now? I don't think it's ideal to carry him up." -Tiona said.
"You're right, even if he's been hit a few times, it's better if we carry him up to the 18th floor so that he can recover his internal wounds as well."
With that decision, she decided to take Mark, although she regretted it right away.
"Ptff!"
Tiona burst out laughing as Riveria's long, arranged hair lifted in the air, but she simply shook her head as she continued walking, but she began to get annoyed at how Tiona kept laughing, so she wanted to joke with her a little.
"Tell me Tiona, how come you like Mark?"
"!" -Tiona froze at the words.
She had completely forgotten that Tione had told her everything during the expedition.
"W-Well, although very often he is serious he possesses a mischievous side, he is responsible, intelligent, also he is quite charming when he fights." -The more she spoke the more her voice lowered in embarrassment.
"..." -Riveria who just wanted to play with her, found her strangely adorable, so she walked up to her and whispered something to her.
"EH?!" -That day, Tione's scream was heard by everyone on the 18th floor.
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