The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed - Chapter 416
417 – Again
As I was looking down at the completely collapsed corpse of the Chimera, I heard the sound of hands clapping in my ears.
match-! match-! match-!
Cassis’ actions were to simply watch the battle in a relaxed manner without intervening in the fight. I said with a look of bewilderment at that action.
“Are you pretending to be relaxed after losing the chimera you were so proud of?”
“Because it’s just one thing for me.”
As Cassis gestured, the pages of the book continued to open and things with an enormous presence began to come out.
“You lost an arm against just one person. “Who will your next opponent be?”
Cassis, with a wry smile, gestured to the side.
“I have a sword master who split a mountain, and an adventurer who became a legend. And… .”
Finally, the figure I had been waiting for, dressed entirely in black and wearing a mask, stepped out of the book. The reason why Estelle wanted to kill Cassis.
“There is also the head of a clan called the world’s greatest assassin.”
These are opponents that you have to risk your life against to have a chance at winning. But I never wanted a regular fight.
Only, the fight is in my favor.
thud—!
The imperial guardian golem that escaped from the space warehouse created in the sky blocked my path. I deliberately raised one corner of my mouth as if I was happy to see a reliable ally.
“Haha, I guess you were just thinking of a golem.”
Cassis, whose eyebrows were twisted with a disappointed expression as if he were just a golem, lowered his head slightly and glared at me.
“That’s your mistake.”
The corpses lined up in front of Cassis rushed towards the golem. With lightning-quick movement, an attack of enormous power was unleashed before the golem could react.
Kwaaang! Bang bang!
In just a few collisions, one of the golem’s arms fell off. Before attacking me, Cassis completely ignored me and attacked only the golem, as if it was planning to take care of the golem I had taken out.
“The mistake was yours.”
I was just thankful that I had the opportunity to counterattack with that disgusting leisure. Suddenly, the golem and the corpses summoned by Cassis were all pushed away by an invisible force. It seemed like he was trying to resist the force, but it was in vain.
―――!
A [battlefield] just for the two of us was created where no one could intervene. Cassis’s power, which has been pushed out of bounds, can no longer disturb me. Before I knew it, Cassis looked at the decisive battle spear in my hand and smiled bitterly.
“… I see. “It was you who obtained the decisive spear.”
Seeing Cassis maintaining a relaxed attitude despite falling into a trap, I aimed the tip of my spear instead of responding.
“It was too much for that guy.”
“Then tell Cormo directly. “I will send you there soon.”
Cassis twitched the corner of his mouth at my words and sneered.
“Are you looking down on me, the summoner, because this is an environment where your subordinates cannot intervene?”
Cassis said, pushing back her hair.
“Do you think you have a chance of winning if it’s one-on-one?”
In an instant, Cassis’s appearance disappeared. I immediately swung my decisive spear wide and cut down the space where I could sense a slight presence.
Push-!
I heard the sound of flesh being torn and blood spurted out, but I reacted sensitively to the strange feeling coming from my fingertips, retrieved the spear, and immediately pulled my body back.
bang—!
Cassis, who had his head cut off in half, casually struck the spot where I was standing with his huge arm and laughed like a monster.
“Yes, I am a summoner who leads an army, but… “It is the immortal Cassis that even the world’s greatest assassin could not kill.”
The cut part returned to its original state in an instant. Speed beyond ultra-fast playback. Cassis literally had an immortal body that could not be killed by any weapon. It is a different type of immortality than an immortal. No, to be exact, it’s closer to a trick.
If Cassis had known that it was I, the writer, who had given him the ability to become immortal, he would not have acted like this.
“Well, I’m immortal…” “Did you mistakenly think that you, who lost one arm, could kill?”
Cassis swung his spear and cut off the fist he swung. Even though his arm was completely torn apart, the unstoppable attack struck his face.
Wow!
My head throbbed from the shock so loud that my nose bleedd, but I had to pull away immediately to avoid the ensuing attack. Using [Boundary], I used [Boundary] to attack them continuously and cornered them into a corner where they couldn’t escape, so I switched roles through the dimensional passage I created behind my back.
He used his intangible breath to increase his speed to the limit and then unleashed a barrage of attacks, driving Cassis into a corner. However, Cassis, who has an immortal body, was cornered and cut by his spear, and even if he was stabbed, he regenerated at super speed and began to counterattack by swinging his fist at me without any hesitation.
Unlike Cassis, who can ignore attacks, damage accumulates when one attack is allowed, so my fighting style had to be different. Against Cassis, who was fearlessly swinging his fist filled with magical power indiscriminately, I used space magic to deflect the fist, or filled the tip of the spear with power and destroyed the fist itself to not allow the attack.
“How long do you think you can fight like this?”
He plunged the spear into Cassis’ face, who was smiling evilly, and stepped back. Tap – I felt the end of the boundary touch my toes again. If there is no place to avoid, just use space magic to change your location and repeat the same thing. Because ‘it’ has not yet appeared on the battlefield.
“It’s a meaningless fight. In the end, you are the one with the destiny of an apostle. “When you face the religious leader, your ignorance will disappear.”
“Even if you say you’re the leader, you’re a masker like me.”
I thought Cassis would be excited by the provocation, but surprisingly, Cassis showed a serious expression.
“… Maybe it’s natural. “The religious leader calls himself someone who ‘became the beginning from the end.’”
The one who became the beginning from the end… ? For some reason, I had a strange feeling. Familiar yet unfamiliar… A strange feeling of discomfort.
“Even if you refuse, I plan to take you to the church.”
Cassis grinned while saying that, releasing magical energy and punching out at incredible speed. As I was preparing a counterattack, I immediately moved to the edge of the battlefield and attacked using space magic.
First, widen the distance so that Cassis cannot approach. For that purpose, he moved one arm vigorously and launched a long-distance attack using space magic. But even though his head and limbs were pierced countless times, Cassis did not stop his movements. As I moved to the end of his battlefield to avoid Cassis, who came close again, Cassis shouted with an irritated look on his face.
“How long are you going to run away?”
“If you’re dissatisfied, try arresting me.”
Saying that, he cut off Cassis’ arm using a wreath. Cassis looked down at his arm on the floor, sighed, and eventually took out the book as I had intended.
“Don’t you know that you can’t summon anything on the battlefield?”
“I am well aware of the conditions under which anyone’s intervention is impossible. But it would be different if it were absorption rather than intervention.”
With the sound of something exploding from the book, flesh and blood began to gush out and stick to Cassis’ body. As time passed, Cassis grew bigger and bigger until he finally became so large that he could look down on the battlefield.
“Haha, now I won’t be able to run away.”
Cassis pointed his finger at me. I already knew what it was and was able to react right away.
Push shoo shoo!
A huge wave of claws rushed towards me as if they had been fired from a ballista. However, just before they could reach me, the claws were sucked into the dimensional passage and became lodged in Cassis’s body again.
“It’s space magic… That’s a really annoying ability. then… .”
As Cassis raised his magic power, something exploded inside the book again and pieces of flesh stuck to Cassis. As I watched him gradually expand his body and fill the perimeter of the battlefield with himself, I threw the decisive spear at Cassis’ face with all my might.
Puhwaaa!
The decisive spear that pierced the face advanced further, but was stopped by pieces of flesh.
“Your struggling doesn’t even hurt. Hehe, if every bone in your body breaks under my weight, I will put you in a book and take you to the church.”
I smiled at Cassis who said those words. Because my plan is already complete. Before the flesh pierced by the decisive spear refilled, an exit to the dimension was created. And due to the magic stone bomb released from the exit, the flesh that had been building up exploded in an instant.
Kwaaa!
“No matter how hard you try, I won’t die. “Because I am the immortal Cassis!”
Cassis barely dies even if all of his flesh is ripped off by the chain explosion of the magic stone bomb. But what I was aiming for was a book that maintained Cassis’s ‘immortality’. A book exposed to extract sacrifices to grow Cassis.
That was the main body of Cassis.
And, I had already fired a blow at the book.
―――!
A black flash pierced the book. Using the gap created by the magic stone bomb, the spear of shadow was launched in a dimensional jump. Cassis, whose flesh was filling up with the decisive spear stuck in it, had a huge hole in his chest, just like the book.
“This is ridiculous… .”
Cassis and I were not a good match. If it weren’t for me, no one in the rescue team would have been able to kill Cassis. It would have been difficult to even get him to take out the book, and he wouldn’t have been able to attack inside the dense defensive magic around the book.
This is my victory in becoming stronger. As I watched the boundaries of the battlefield disappear, I turned to let Ellie and Estelle know that the fight was over.
“caution—!”
“… !”
Something pushed me aside. I reacted reflexively, but I had no choice but to fall as I was unable to use one arm due to the incredible speed, as if I had jumped through space.
Rumbling――
Something bright red spurts out endlessly, soaking the floor. Blood mixed with bits of flesh pours down on my body lying on the floor. And when the difficult voice reached my ears, I had no choice but to raise my head with a dumb expression on my face.
“… You stupid pig… .”
Estelle, with one arm and half of her upper body missing, fell helplessly to the floor.