Earth-san Level Up Volume 2 Chapter 22 (Patreon)

2-22 vs Boss Battle Part 2

Meiko, having approached the dragon to a certain degree, changes course and moves to the dragon's flank.

The dragon also moves while changing the direction of its body, chasing after the insects that release magic as they please.

Meiko runs desperately to avoid entering the opponent's airspace and releases her magic.

The dragon leans on its scythe and emits a thick intent to kill.

Meiko sees this and rushes to the rear.

The moment it stepped on its paws and was about to start biting, Meiko's decoys flanked it.

Sasara unleashes a sword technique on the dragon, which is now flanked by Meiko's decoys.

"Sword Slash!"

With two Quick Draws, two sword slashes were released.

One from the top, one from the bottom, and one from the top.

Sasara, who had unleashed two consecutive blows, immediately back-stepped to distance himself before he could see the result.

Moments before the back step landed, two Sword Slashes slashed the left side of the dragon's body in large vertical and diagonal strikes.

The first slash was made from the long neck to the left front leg, and the second slash was made from the left front leg to the back of the body, creating a laceration like the letter "L." The slash cut through the scales and left the dragon's body.

The slash cuts through the scales and reaches the flesh.

Purple liquid dripped down.

The dragon roared in pain, unable to attack Meiko.

We are all convinced of the result.

This boss was not as defensively strong as it appeared, and was by no means an impossible enemy to defeat.

"Nin, nin!"

Ruru jumps onto the dragon's back, which is writhing in pain.

It's a [big jump], a different technique from the [fast move] that Ruru often uses in [NINJA Techniques].

Ruru leaps up to a height of 3 meters and immediately leaves the scene with a slash to the back with Dagger.

It did not result in deep wounds, but he is not persistent, as it is the eating of the attack that should be feared.

Meanwhile, Meiko, who had drawn Sasara's attention to inflict a double blow, delivered a follow-up Water Bullet to the face of the dragon, which howled in pain.

Meiko felt a definite sense of relief.

Thanks to the magic she had unleashed in the battle up to this point, even Meiko's magic was inflicting solid damage. The increase in physical limit and training efficiency due to level up was also reflected in the power of her magic.

The Water Bullet shattered the scales, and the Fire Bullet made the scales open upside down like a roasted fish. It was definitely working.

Meiko keeps her eyes on the enemy, looking around the entire battlefield at the edge of her vision.

Both of them were unhurt and out of the opponent's range of attack.

Moreover, I could sense that they were full of fighting spirit.

Like Meiko, Sasara and Ruru were also feeling the effects of the battle.

Their attacks were successful, and they realized that they were not an impossible foe to defeat.

After a painful attack, the dragon turns its head toward Sasara, who has done it, and lets out an intimidating roar.

"I'm not afraid anymore!"

The roar, accompanied by a heavy pressure, cuts through the fear, as Sasara raises his spirits, paying Saber again.

Tears well up in Sasara's eyes at the intense desire to kill, but the fire in her eyes never goes out.

Sasara's target shifts to her.

Since she did not know how strong her opponent's attack would be, she knew she should be the one to draw him away.

Meiko fired her magic all over the place.

Water Bullets hit the torso, and blood gushed from the wounds Sasara and Ruru had inflicted.

But the dragon continues to direct his anger at Sasara, who turns her face toward him.

However, when the dragon turned his head toward Sasara, he did not run toward her.

With a gulp, he swung his front paw up and stood on two feet.

"Everyone, run back!"

Meiko's spur-of-the-moment cry was met with no question from Sasara and Ruru, who immediately turned their backs and began to run.

Meiko ran in parallel with them in the direction they had run away. The reason she ran in that direction was because she knew that if she left them too far apart, they might destroy her individually.

A few beats after Meiko's words, the dragon lands on his raised paw.

The dragon's head dropped so low that it almost touched the floor, and a spray of blood rose from the torso that had been cut by Sasara.

The attack, which was unleashed while inflicting damage to himself, caused a wide area of cobblestone flowers to bloom around the dragon. The earth below exploded, causing the cobblestones to rise.

Preceding the wave of cobblestones, a violent tremor that could even be described as a shock wave hit the three of them.

The three lost their balance as their running legs flailed about.

Sasara and Ruru rolled their bodies as they collapsed and quickly stood up, catching themselves with a colon.

Meiko, however, fell down with a crash.

"Ugh!"

Sasara and Ruru avoided the wave of cobblestones that came late by jumping, but Meiko, who had fallen, was bounced by the ridges of the cobblestones and bounced about a meter into the air.

There was no damage at all.

However, as soon as she fell, there was a momentary blank in her thoughts.

The dragon's head turned toward Meiko.

The dragon ran toward Meiko, the earth rumbling.

"Meeko!"

"Meiko-san!"

Meiko was startled by Ruru and Sasara's shouts.

The sound of the earth shaking drowned out their voices, and Meiko sensed that the dragon was coming toward her, and without seeing her enemy, she unleashed her reloaded magic.

It was a spur-of-the-moment attack, but it struck the dragon's left front leg, gouging out the wound.

The dragon, unbalanced from the pain, fell heavily and slid toward Meiko.

Meiko jumped sideways in a large, half-standing position.

Beyond her vision, Sasara, who had jumped up using the slanted cobblestone pavement as a springboard, was now about to swing his sword down.

"Slash Swooord!"

The Sword Slash passed right next to Meiko, and while slipping, slashed wide and bounced off the dragon head that was coming to bite Meiko.

Meiko, who had escaped the danger, put her hand on the top of the diagonally protruding cobblestone pavement at the end of her sideways leap, and did a bad sideways roll to distance herself from the dragon.

He then turns back to the dragon and at the same time releases his reloaded magic.

At the same time as the magic shot, Ruru, moving dexterously at high speed on the rubble-strewn cobblestones, thrust the Ninja Sword deeply into the dragon's lower belly.

With that Ninja Sword still daring to stab, Ruru disengaged.

"Haha. Thanks for the help, Sasara."

"Fufu. Of course."

After a short conversation, the two of them take a short-distance away from each other.

The dragon is not dead yet.

It is still standing after being hit in the scales and flesh by Meiko's Water Bullet and Fire Bullet, being covered in wounds by Sasara's Sword Slash, and being stabbed in the internal organs by Ruru.

He roars with fighting spirit even as purple blood spurts from his body.

It is certain that the attack is working.

However, his life force is outstanding.

And since it even has a ranged attack, we have no choice but to say that it is indeed a boss.

However, the reason they were able to fight so well was because the three of them had full magical power.

If this were to change completely to close combat only, they would probably not escape being hit. And this dragon's blow would do considerable damage.

Meiko had now released 12 shots of magic and had 44 magic remaining.

Sasara has released 3 Sword Slash and has 6 magic remaining.

Ruru's technique is so simple that I don't know.

And, based on the amount of magic in my status, 10 minutes had passed since the battle began.

Still 10 minutes. Meiko even felt that she had been fighting for more than an hour already.

Ten minutes.

With the natural recovery, Sasara's Sword Slash could be used twice.

The opponent was also wounded to the bone.

She was almost there.

Meiko was determined.

As long as the attack had not been eaten, there should still be some effect left from [Layer Breaker, Solo].

Even Sasara, a human, has [Natural Recovery Minimal].

Then it is not necessarily true that this dragon does not have a higher level [natural recovery] type skill.

No, it is better to assume that it has it.

That is why I want to make a decisive move here.

Meiko released a Water Bullet.

When the Water Bullet hit the base of his neck, the dragon glared at Meiko.

"I'm not at all afraid of you glaring at me!"

Meiko glared back at him with a giggle as well.

A month ago, Meiko was just a little girl.

Back then, the effect of a glare was only enough to make a boy swoon.

But now, after adventuring in dungeons and defeating hundreds of monsters, Meiko's eyes held enough menace to defy the dragon's intimidation.

The little girl had cheekily unleashed her intimidation.

That irked the dragon. The dragon stretched its neck toward Meiko and roared.

Meiko had a chance and fired a fireball into its mouth.

[Gyoaaaaaaaaaah!]

What an outcast!

But it is worse to show an opening in a fight for life!

The dragon was furious.

From the beginning to this point, everything has been stirred up by this guy.

His angry eyes only looked at Meiko.

"I'll decide here!"

At these words, Sasara and Ruru put their power into the hands holding their weapons.

Considering the possibility that the enemy might understand human language, they did not say much.

This has been the practice in this dungeon.

Even more so when it comes to bosses.

Therefore, Meiko conveyed her intention to the two in a straightforward manner.

The dragon, perhaps taking the words as a provocation, let out a roar of anger and stepped toward Meiko.

Since there was not much distance between them to begin with, they quickly entered the attack range of the dragon head.

The dragon head, which moved as swiftly as a snake, aimed at Meiko's head.

Meiko's eyesight had improved to the point where she could now track the high-speed water bullets she was releasing with her eyes, and she was able to follow the attack with her eyes.

Meiko takes a half-step away from the approaching fangs.

But the dragon head, with the dynamic vision of a beast, also corrects its trajectory precisely.

"Shoot!"

With Meiko's muttered words, the Water Bullet bounces right across the dragon's face.

The dragon's mouth, lined with vicious fangs, closes in the empty hollow.

At that moment.

"Slash Swoooord!"

Sasara slashes the dragon's eyes, which are slightly shaken by the impact of the Water Bullet, with a Sword Slash.

The dragon lets out an unprecedented scream.

Meiko quickly threw a Fire Bullet into its mouth.

The attack did not end.

Ruru with a big jump, landed on the dragon's back and ran up its neck at once.

Ruru thrusts the Dagger deep into the base of the dragon's head, hooking and gouging the last remaining Sickle into the unharmed eye, and turns his body around and jumps off.

[Oaaaaahhh...]

The dragon, having lost two eyes, howls to the heavens.

The voice that comes out from the throat with two fire bullets in it is a blistering voice that is truly a scream of desperation.

Meiko fires a Water Bullet toward the dragon's left paw, which tries to leap up in a conditioned reflex due to the pain, and in parallel, she throws her Saber to Ruru.

Sasara also moves in and slams a Sword Slash into the hind leg.

The left front leg, which had been relentlessly targeted since the beginning of the battle, sank and, combined with the weight of his neck and body, the dragon failed to jump up and fell down again.

This time, however, unlike before, the eyes were taken from the dragon head.

The dragon head just moves in the dark, not something to be feared.

However, we cannot wait for the natural recovery of magic power here; we can surely win if we use Sword Slash or magic in rapid succession, but that is only if the opponent's body does not recover.

Therefore, the three of them took advantage of this golden opportunity and attacked in one fell swoop.

The dragon, not wanting to be left to its own devices, went on a rampage while lying on its side.

Its short legs cut through the void and its tail slapped the earth.

Each time, blood spurts from the Ninja Sword that Ruru has stabbed into its side, staining the ground with purple blood.

Sasara takes a slash to the neck.

Ruru lands on his side with a huge jump and at the same time thrusts Meiko's Saber, which he had been swinging up in the air, into the burning flesh at his feet.

With each attack, his head moves to detect where the two are, but each time he does, Meiko's Water Bullet lands on his nose.

The trinity of attacks mercilessly assaulted the dragon's body, and finally the time had come.

At the last moment, Sasara, whose magic power had recovered naturally again, unleashed a Sword Slash at point-blank range.

Meiko's scales were scorched, and the blade entered the wound on the neck where Sasara had slashed and slashed without missing a beat, finally severing the head in two.

The huge body, which had been on a wild rampage, loses its strength with a gulp and lies on the earth.

However, the three were not to be caught off guard.

Even the Japanese Doll showed terrifying guts and came at them with a slash.

There is no guarantee that their severed heads will not crawl around.

[Agaaaaaaaah!]

And it happened for real.

The head that was cut off from the torso moved around in the dark and accidentally flew in a straight line toward Meiko.

"I'm tired of seeing that kind of stuff from your minions!"

Meiko fires a Water Bullet and a Fire Bullet, and the dragon head is bounced off.

With that, the dragon head pours purple blood from its mouth and stops moving.

As each of them braced themselves, breathing on their shoulders, the first thing that changed was the purple blood scattered all around them. Then, shards of crushed scales were scattered all over the place.

They turned into white light particles and soared to the sky.

The blood glue on Meiko and the others' bodies also turned into particles of light and flew into the sky.

Then, the body of the dragon, which had split into two, turned into a tremendous amount of light and formed a pillar.

Witnessing this phenomenon, the three finally realized what was happening.

Meiko, Sasara, and Ruru had defeated the dragon.

When the torrent of light subsided, a beautiful blue color spread across the dimly lit sky.

"Ya, I did it...!"

Not wanting to go against her strength draining body, Meiko sat down on the cobblestone pavement leaning on the field of debris.

"I guess we can make it..."

Sasara, putting life into her shattered feet and legs, walked through the rubble and sat down next to Meiko.

It would have been a shame to be so far away, she wanted to be close by and take in the joy.

"Yay desu..."

Ruru felt the same way and went under them, leaning in behind them and hugging them.

"You're heavy, Ruru."

"But, but, but, Guzuu, I'm so happy.... Ugh."

"I see, well, I guess I can't help it then, Guzoo..."

"Nyau."

"Sha-sha-la-moo..."

"Kuh, hiku, yes, gusu!"

Meiko twisted her body and hugged Sasara and Ruru.

Sasara hugged them as well.

Feeling the warmth of their friends, the three of them cried tears of joy and laughed at each other.