Chapter 1258 Two Golden Twins Facing Each Other In the Backwater Place Part 1

Here, I would like to use that opportunity to talk about in greater detail about one of the peculiar Crystal Scorpions, the Ancient Golden Crystal Scorpion “Golden Age”.

When it comes to its appearance, it looks almost exactly like that Crystal Scorpion Emperor from over on the New Continent. Although it is not as big as the Elder Crystal Scorpion, which is said to be a walking behemoth of a Crystal, it has a nonstandard physical ability to move really fast despite its size and mass, and that ability sets its apart from all of its other brethren. You could even say that this is exactly what makes it so unique in the first place.

Because it is made out of crystal, its body is naturally very durable and repels all sorts of iron and steel weapons, and is really resistant to crushing attacks.

Then we have the “Sword Scissors” on its forelimbs that sometimes move like something a master level warrior would wield, and sometimes they move just like the scythes of the grim reaper itself.

And above all else, the absolute god of all of natural body weapons, the tail turned “Holy Sword” that looks suspiciously similar to that Holy Sword Excalibur of that one person that I know. And it is exactly what makes this thing so dangerous and able to employ various kinds of insta-kill attacks…… However,

–––––– When we are talking about this particular enemy, it is not the “Emperor” or “King” or whatever part that counts. No, what counts lies somewhere else entirely.

The essence of this Extraordinary Monster lies in its “Golden” part, contrary to the popular opinion that this might not exactly be the case here.

Yes, this thing is basically a Golden Crystal Scorpion.

It is a subspecies of the Crystal Scorpion Flock, and unlike its other normal brethren, it is a kind of unbalanced rare individual that can survive only by preying on the members of the same species. So it’s basically a cannibal.

Its greatest features are its nocturnal lifestyle and its amazing ability to regenerate its injured body by receiving the guiding rays of “moonlight”.

So, does the “Golden Age” also happens to possess the ability to regenerate……? The answer to that question should be “No”. But to be more precise, it would be something alongside the lines of “Well no, but actually yes”.

The regenerative ability of the Golden Crystal Scorpion is something that “activates its own regenerative ability with the help of the magical power taken from the moonlight”, and strictly speaking, the magical power from the moon itself is not the principle of recovery. The essence lies in the “reception” method of moonlight’s magical power.

The “Golden Age” naturally possesses the power to further develop this “reception” characteristic to some truly obnoxious levels. Therefore, tens of thousands of nights after it was first born into this world, it grew up eating the body of Elder Crystal Scorpions and other of its own kind, first creating a cradle for itself and then turning that cradle into a throne. Ever since then, it reigned supreme as a king of those Crystal Cliffs, only to finally decay to death and become nourishment for the new King…… That’s how those bastards receive the power of the moonlight and store it.

I doesn’t use this power of regeneration on everyday basis…… Because there might be a time when it will be challenged by a strong enemy, and it would need all of that power then to defend itself.

Normally, the moonlight magical power is stored in the body of the Crystal Scorpion and it is compressed and permeating over many years, and the Emperor reinforces that power into even more absolute destructive power…… but only when it was on the verge of death. Apparently this thing does not need such limitation.

For example…… Yes, for example, if the “Holy Sword”, which is a part of Golden Age’s identity and it also a symbol of its supreme strength and mighty reign, was to be destroyed by someone foolish enough to do it……

It would be like suddenly unplugging the swollen balloon, or removing a sluice from a floodgate.

The apex of all the Crystal Scorpions out there will challenge the intruders to the battle to the death with every last drop of magical power that was it was born with and what it managed to accumulated inside of its body thus far. In the final battle for its own life against the nemesis who destroyed the limiter called “Holy Sword”. Of course, it is not possible to stop in the middle for the sake of something so trivial as convenience, and it is death that waits for the “Golden Age” who has used up all the magical power in its body, whether it wins or loses.

However, you see, it just so happens that “Golden Age” is a truly peculiar individual.

Noblesse oblige, the noble must fulfill its duty. If there are occasions when the “Golden Age” has to bet their lives on behalf of the people who sometimes devote themselves to the emperor, then this was just one such time.

And I’m sure of it now.

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Now I have done it…… I have done fucked up.

I intuitively realized that just now. I have been dazzled by my own greed, but it was a fact that I couldn’t quite realize until it was finally too late.

Specific actions that force individuals to react in a specific way. Or so-called mine actions…… For example, if you do not do a certain amount of damage within a certain period of time, an instant death attack will occur, or if you do not defeat multiple bosses at the same time, you won’t be walking out this battle alive. Because the dead bosses are going to be revived until you defeat them all at the same time.

And it seems that the “land mine” of the “Golden Age” was the destruction of the tail part. I think it’s the Rage Mode, as it would be commonly called in this day and age.

「Warning: Obvious signs of danger incoming.」

「Yeah, and I think it’s all that huge crown’s fault!」

At the moment when the tail was cut off, the “Golden Age” did not suffer in agony, but it suddenly stopped moving. I had a really bad feeling about this, but even I would never possibly anticipate that it would have been sent into a literal rage mode right off the bat.