Dungeon of Pride, Laplace

Chapter 259

Bignosio and his team who were trying to pincer Simon from all sides, were shocked to find that the person himself was charging towards him. Mocking him for a fool, Bignoiso brandished his axe made of white silver and utilised his skills to deal a devastating blow [Wide Berserk Slash].

Instantly, the blade of his axe took a crimson hue and his powers bolstered manifold after the multitudes of skills he had activated. Veins bulged in his forehead and he roared “Die”.

The axe came smashing down on the onrushing young mana’s head like a guillotine, however, at that moment his figure had completely disappeared. The axe smashed nothing but solid ground and created a small fissure.

‘What happened? He suddenly disappeared from my line of sight’ while these were bignoiso thoughts, miserable shrieks of people and dull thuds of something hitting the ground, rang out from beside him.

Turning around he saw two of his teammates lying down on the floor with blood splattered all around.

“W-what” Bignosio’s voice just fell when one more body hit the ground, a wide gaping hole on his abdomen that was not covered by his armour.

“Y-you how did you?” the disbelieved adventurer asked. Simon did not bother to answer, his cold callous eyes looked at them as if they were just a bunch of ants.

“leader, we cannot defeat him… let’s retreat” the other three who were alive, felt their hearts tighten whenever they saw the somewhat crimson eyes of the provisional adventurer.

‘Retreat? After that shameful display previously, will I have to run away once again? NO’ Bignoiso whose rationality was slowly seeping away from him due to the usage of [Berserk] skill was unable to just leave things like that. His eyes were starting to turn beastly when suddenly an ingenious idea occurred to him.

“After joining hands with the bandits, do you think we will have any place remaining if we retreat now? Just do as I say and attack that bastard together” Bignoiso roared, his voice was laced with hatred and grievances.

The other three remaining members of his team grounded their teeth, knowing that there was no place for retreat, they pressed forward and attacked the young man as ordered.

Seeing that his team was doing as they were told and keeping the young man busy, Bignosio shifted his attention towards the little girl who always tagged along with that man. From his perspective or during their entire journey, the little girl never once displayed her ability which made him think that the little girl was the weak link of their opponent.

And as long as he captures her, the young man wouldn’t be able to retaliate. Thinking till here a cruel smile crept on his face and he couldn’t help imagining the latter’s helpless and begging face.

“You were the one who forced me to do it” cursing, Bignosio utilised this chance when Simon was momentarily held down by his teammates, to make his way towards the little girl.

<br/>Simon who was engaged with the three people, knew what the objective of his enemy was nonetheless, he did not try to stop him and instead allowed that fool to dig his own grave.

Reality was indeed as he had expected, Adalinda did not even spare the man who was rushing towards her with his blade drawn a glance and simply observed the fights occurring all across the campsite.

“Little girl quietly surrender before you experience the pain of being cut” Bignosio called out, his body was just about to approach a few meters near her when suddenly he saw her tangerine eyes finally land on him.

At that moment, he felt his body halting all of a sudden and no matter how he tried to move it, his nerves wouldn’t listen to him. It was almost like the body was not his anymore.

“W-w-what did you do?” Bignoiso asked perplexed.

Adalinda spared him a last glance, before moving away, her departing words sounded beside his ears.

“Although your mind has been blocked by irrationality, your body is nonetheless honest. Your instincts detected danger and hurriedly pushed all breaks. Well, all of this explanation is meaningless to a corpse”.

“Corpse?”.

Bignosio parroted, feeling puzzled. Right after, his eyes became blurred and he lost all focus. Suddenly, his body erupted with blood and before long small pieces of his body fell on the ground.

Thud..thud..thud..thud..thud… the sound of flesh hitting the ground was dull and inconspicuous amidst this chaotic battlefield. However, to those that were eyeing this battle, the scene looked hellish and gross to the extreme and gave chills that originated from their souls.

Nobody, whether the convoy members or the bandits, could stop themselves from feeling afraid when witnessing a scene as abrupt as that.

Three more bodies fell onto the ground after Simon spotted them spacing out and made short work of them. However, he was not in the spotlight of everyone’s attention and his fight was a little lackadaisical when compared to the little girl.

He smiled bitterly looking at the unrecognisable remains of the foolish man who had been cut thousands of times at that fraction of a second without anyone noticing. The power to do something like that, was monstrous, no it should be even above that realm.

Forget about others, even Simon a demon Viscount wasn’t able to see any attack land on the big-nosed adventurer’s body, not to mention thousands of them. If it was him facing Adalinda’s attack, he had no doubt in his mind that he too would be meeting a similar fate.

That is how big of a power and level gap there was between them.

After the initial shock, the chaotic battlefield became a little more silent with very few fights happening all around, clearly, the scene from earlier was enough to cower all of them. Nobody dared slight the presence of this little girl who could do something as incomprehensible as that.

The fight which ended even before it could start, wasn’t far from the centre of the formation where the non-combatants were. Cynthia who had watched the entire thing from start to end, looked on with wide eyes as a peculiar white shrouded her pupils.

The frontline of the formation where Chuck and the other warriors were, had developed into a meat grinding machine. Numerous bandits that came charging were impaled with spears, cut with swords or blasted into oblivion by the magic.

Those former adventurers who now sided with the bandits, couldn’t help but curse themselves incessantly when they saw the situation. Although dire, the outlook didn’t look hopeless for the convoy after some people who were hiding their strength showed their true powers.

Their eyes which were initially drawn to Simon for being able to fight in close combat, even without using magic, was suddenly pulled towards the little girl who had made her move for the first time.

Even though they do not know how powerful the little girl was, the strength or rather the peculiarity that she had displayed, was enough to put her on the list of strongest people they had ever seen. Plus there was still the guard commander, the former leader of the branch guild of Sea God’s Trident and the provisional adventurer who not only was adept with magic, but even his close combat was on the level of a veteran or an expert.

If those strong people still stood on the side of the convoy, even if the probability were low, the convoy still had the chance to make a comeback. Realising this didn’t make the situation any better for the deserters, all they could do was bite the bullet and do their best to survive the situation.

At the forefront of the formation, a seven-meter big human golem was fiercely engaged in combat against two enemies. The two enemies were in fact the two bandit leaders whose powers were only second to the Brigand Master.

BOOM… land trembled as a huge fist imprint appeared on the ground. The huge fists of the golem was enough to even crush a boulder much less the fragile and weak human body. After the attack landed on nothing but empty ground, Chuck pulled his hand back and looked at his enemies who were as slippery as a loach.

“Hehe, Chuck Remington though that battle form of yours is powerful, it is extremely slow. There is no point in having this much strength if the attack does not even connect” one of the bandit leaders named Osbin sniggered.

Chuck did not bother retorting and instead smiled widely. The wide hands of the rock golem that he had assimilated with, dug into the soil deeply.

“Haaaaahhh” with a spirited shout, cracks started around the area and a few meters of land was slowly lifted up. Grabbing the piece of land with its two hands, the human golem threw it towards the rushing bandits at the distance.

BOOOM… the piece of land flew and crashed into the hordes of bandits that weren’t able to dodge in time. Clouds of dust rose up after the crash hiding the hideous bodies that lay within. Even without seeing with their eyes, anybody could tell the final outcome of those bandits that were crushed by that huge piece of land.

“Even if you can dodge my attacks, your subordinates can’t. So come at me if you don’t want your entire brigand to get wiped out” Chuck taunted. He knew that if the convoy wanted to grab the victory he had to keep these two busy so that they can’t go after his teammates who were already on the brink of exhaustion.

While he was busy engaging blows with the two bandit leaders, he always spared a part of his awareness around his surroundings. Suddenly, he felt a presence that he was keeping his eyes on all this time, disappearing.