Chapter 138: What is this thing? Huge but insanely fast! (2)

Kazui switched his thinking in the direction of fighting without fleeing.

(In aerial combat defense ability should have been shaved considerably. Coming to attack immediately after descending to the ground, isn’t the griffin putting off recovery of defense ability?)

While running the ground, about how he should fight, Kazui thought.

(Defense ability remaining shaved isn’t only me. That side is the same! Here is a chance to exchange blows and finish it!)

Kazui stopped fleeing, faced the griffin, and braced.

Before the griffin charging with raging momentum, while suppressing the rising fear, Kazui sharpened his spirit.

The griffin again raised its right foreleg and charged at Kazui.

Coolly reading that movement, Kazui leapt back short to the left and dodged the attack.

The right foreleg struck the ground, bored a large hole, and blew away a large amount of earth and sand and grass. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ

If the griffin’s attack had hit, Kazui would not have died, but Immortal Mail would have been broken.

Kazui who dodged the attack immediately dashed toward the griffin.

Circling to the griffin’s right, lightly leaping to match height, he slammed a rush of strikes by glowing blue fists and feet in succession into the griffin’s body.

Blue and white Aura light this time bloomed flowers on the ground.

While raising a war cry the griffin immediately changed direction toward Kazui, this time swung its head down, and attacked with its sharp beak.

Not only the beak, using both forelegs, the griffin rushed Kazui.

The power of all the attacks was powerful, and if two hit there was power enough to certainly kill Kazui.

(Really... despite the huge body the movement is fast!)

At the rush attack unleashed from the huge body, Kazui was surprised and amazed.

But that quick attack Kazui somehow dealt with and was able to dodge.

(Fast for sure, but slower than Lolo-san!)

Close, but Kazui being able to dodge the griffin’s attacks was because of training with Lolo.

Lolo had held back considerably, but even so released attacks with speed raised fairly against Kazui and trained him.

That Kazui excelled in dynamic vision and reflexes and motor nerves and had martial arts sense, Lolo had seen through.

Against Kazui whose level did not rise and whose Aura power was too weak, Lolo had held back considerably in power.

But in recent training, regarding speed, to a level close to when training an intermediate martial artist, Lolo had raised it.

That was why in the exercise match Kazui was able to properly exchange blows with intermediate Monica.

If two hit the griffin could finish Kazui, but it could not hit.

Conversely Kazui’s side dodged the foreleg and beak attacks and could hit strikes on the griffin one after another.

Moreover not just strikes. Strikes granted destruction effect by Meteorite Burst, possessing intense destructive power.

The power of each one was high, and while scattering blue and white light he certainly shaved the griffin’s defense by Aura.

Then from among the scattering light the white light vanished.

The griffin’s Aura Mail was broken, and it lost defense ability.

Into the griffin’s right hind leg that lost defense by Aura, Kazui’s right straight pierced.

With the power of the strike by Kazui’s right fist itself, the griffin’s sturdy body could not be wounded much.

But the blue Aura wrapped on the fist, from the right fist that pierced the body surface, flowed into the griffin’s body.

The blue Aura granted destruction effect rampaged inside the body to destroy the existence Kazui wished to destroy... the griffin.

As a result, while echoing an explosion sound that split the ears in the night sky and forest, around the griffin’s left leg exploded.

The whole left leg and around the base burst and scattered to the surroundings.

In the case of monsters that looked like living things, when the body was destroyed blood and flesh scattered.

But the scattered blood and flesh immediately, while releasing light, vanished as if melting into the atmosphere.

(Did I kill it? No, not yet!)

What he was able to destroy was part of the body.

It was not that he destroyed vital points such as the head or chest, nor that he destroyed the body to the degree regeneration was impossible.

With this degree of destruction many monsters regenerated the body.

Maybe to earn time until regenerating, the griffin showed movement as if fleeing.

(Like I’ll let it regenerate!)

Kazui attacked the griffin that lost its left leg and whose movement was dulled.

Kicking the ground and soaring, while aiming at the griffin’s head, Kazui extended his right leg and released a whirlwind kick.

While drawing an arc with blue light, Kazui’s right leg directly hit the griffin’s head.

From the destruction effect by blue Aura, the griffin’s head was destroyed completely and exploded and was blown away.

(I killed it!)

This time Kazui was convinced he defeated the griffin.

A monster whose head was destroyed was defeated in most cases, so that conviction was correct.

The griffin that lost its head moved the remaining legs, but immediately the movement stopped.

Then while releasing white light, like a sugar cube dissolving in water, the griffin’s huge body collapsed and vanished leaving a magic stone.

"...I did it."

While looking down at the magic stone, Kazui muttered putting on a relieved expression.

Rather than the excitement and joy of defeating the griffin, the emotion of relief was stronger in Kazui.

But gradually the emotion of joy welled up.

Joy at defeating the strong enemy called a griffin and protecting Yuri and the other people’s lives.

Releasing Meteorite Burst that became unnecessary, Kazui leaned forward and picked up the magic stone.

Not the black bean-like magic stone he had obtained so far.

A white round magic stone about four centimeters in diameter.

"Like a ping-pong ball."

After muttering about the magic stone’s appearance, Kazui suddenly started laughing.

The magic stone left by the griffin that was about to take the lives of over a hundred people having an appearance like a ping-pong ball seemed stupid and funny.

Kazui who finished laughing stared at the magic stone again.

"How much is my share? I became a woman to defeat it, so I want a bit more."

In the case of a battle many parties participated in, distribution of money obtained from magic stones was basically per head.

When the contribution of a specific party or individual was too high, if everyone agreed, there were cases of distributing more to the high-contribution adventurer or party.

For now how much money he could obtain from the magic stone the griffin left, the current Kazui did not know.

"Well, talk of money can be later. For now I’m worried about Yuri too, so I’ll go back quickly."

Kazui put the magic stone in the pocket of the short pants, then first generated Aura and made his body glow blue.

Having consumed Aura considerably in the battle with the griffin, Kazui judged he should first replenish Aura in his body.

Stopping Aura generation, Kazui thought.

(Run like this? No, I don’t know the direction, so flying in the sky is better.)

Kazui who judged that released Rapid Dancer and Immortal Mail, and instead activated Sky Dancer and Aura Mail.

He defeated the griffin, but other monsters might be there, so for form’s sake he protected his body with Aura Mail.