Chapter 151 : 3K

TL:SummerPeanut

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“Brother Ike! Behind you!"

Despite feeling about to throw up, I shouted and Ike immediately sensed it.

Name: -

Title: -

Race: Impure King

Threat: A

Condition: Good

Age: 3 years old

Level: 42

HP: 529/529

MP: 201/231

Strength: 78

Agility: 60

Magic: 142

Dexterity: 5

Durability: 342

Luck: 1

Special Ability: Accelerated HP recovery (Lv5/C)

Details: Very weak against Holy magic

His level is abnormally high... He got it so high from defeating the many B-rank adventurers around here. ...And above all, its extreme status.

Firstly, his HP and durability values are outrageous. Its magic power is also high... but there is no magic in special ability list... perhaps this black fog itself consumes MP.

I may not have wasted my time clearing the fog earlier. When we fight again, I'll clear this stinking fog before we fight.

“What do we do now? Mars? Shall we fight?"

“Let's hit it with a bit of magic. From the way it looks, I think it's useless effort like Lord Suzaku said...”

When I unleash my maximum power Wind Cutter, it left a little mark on the impure king's sludgy body and returns to its original form.

The damage inflicted is 5... immediately recovered by its accelerated HP recovery. Surely this would be useless no matter how many times I tried... Ike's Flare didn't do any damage at all.

The impure king's attacks were also nasty. First of all, he spits black spit from his mouth. It flew at a very fast speed and it was quite difficult to avoid it.

If we avoid the spit, it will stick to the ground, but as expected, you will hear a “pshoo” sound from the ground. Right when I thought this was also a dissolving liquid type of spit…

The sound and the strong smell of the death knight came out of the ground. Could it be that the death knights were all the spit of the impure king? ...Just what have I cut up until now?

Not only that. This time, when the impure king shakes his body, small black mud-like things fly out. The death armies and the death hounds sprang up while making a 'pshoo' sound, just like when spit adhered to the ground earlier. The number of death armies and death hounds was also high as a considerable amount of them flew over.

“Brother Ike! This is impossible! We'll have to prepare well and come back!”

Anyway, the smell was so strong that I couldn't stop the tears from my eyes. Ike was the same and we decided to run away from the impure king. The impure king itself is chasing us, but as Suzaku said, the movement of the impure king itself is very slow.

We managed to escape from the impure king, and even though we were away from the black mist, Ike and I were still vomiting which is traumatic... but we found out that using Heal and Cure made us feel a little better.

When we finally arrived in West Rimurgarde, the adventurers on guard gave us very nasty looks. I guess we smelled bad... Usually when we returned, the adventurers come up to us, but today they didn't come nearer to us at all.

When I returned to the mansion, Zeke was there and told me to take a bath immediately because of the smell. I was planning to do the same. I ended up taking a bath for an hour and washed and cleaned the clothes and equipment I had worn many times while bathing.

When I got out of the bath and asked Zeke to check the smell, he said there was still some residue, but not that much anymore. Let’s take another bath later…

After the bath, the three of us ate dinner together and talked about the day's events. Of course, we don't talk about the impure king now. If I remember about the experience, the eaten rice will reverse its way. Ike similarly avoided the subject of the impure king. Zeke asked me why I smelled so bad, but I avoided him by saying I would talk about it properly later.

“Father. Today I met the Marquis of Fresvald, i.e. Karen's brother, for the first time. I saw Lord Suzaku’s stats, and he is indeed an A-rank adventurer. Besides that, the members of Vermilion Bird were also quite strong.”

“Why...? Why are adventurers from the Lister Confederation...? Moreover, the Duke of Fresvald's eldest son, SuzaLord Marquis Suzaku?"

“It seems that the Kingdom of Balkus had sent a quest for reinforcements to the Lister Confederacy as well. Lord Suzaku said that it was conditional though...”

“I see... Thank goodness... The royals are finally doing the heavy lifting...”

When we had finished eating and were getting settled, we told Zeke about the impure king. Although Suzaku had information of impure king, Zeke didn’t apparently.

“After all, the information-gathering ability of the Lister Confederacy is amazing... When even I, a senior noble in my own country, didn't know about it...”

It is said that in terms of both information warfare and the quality of their adventurers, Lister Confederacy is said to be superior to the Kingdom of Balkus. And I asked Zeke about Holy, and he said he'd never even heard of such. Well, that's about right...

We talked for a while after that, took another bath and went back to bed. When I sleep these days, I sleep next to the handkerchiefs Clarice and Ellie gave me. I can faintly smell the good smell from each handkerchief. I smelled the best aroma, depleted my MP, and then went to bed.

The next day I started practicing Holy desperately against death knights and death armies. I could somehow get an image...of a tubular magic circle coming out of the ground from below and a white pillar standing up to the air... but no matter how much I chanted Holy with that image, it never manifested.

21 December 2030.

Today I am practicing Holy desperately again. I changed the image a little and chanted Holy while thinking of something sacred. I don't know if this is the right way to do it. At least with Lightning magic, it did not manifest in this way. But I thought it was better than just going through the motions without imagining anything.

The first thing I think is the most sacred. That is the demigod. I don't think there is anything more sacred than that demigod. I chanted 'Holy' while imagining sacredness and solemnity, but it was impossible.

The other thing I think of when referring to sacred is...animals. I think foxes are sacred animals. I also think that guardian dogs(komainu) are sacred. However, I could not express Holy with foxes and guardian dogs.

It's not surprising. I can understand the foxes somehow, but I have only seen komainu in stone statues, and even if I were asked to imagine them, I would not be able to...

In the end, I didn’t manifest Holy today either. I also had a few other things on my mind. Death knights and death armies have attacked us twice.

Luckily, they came when we were training outside the city, so they didn't damage anything… It was just a good experience for me and Ike... But since I just beat them pretty good yesterday, I can't believe they attacked us twice…

22 Dec 2030.

In the end, Holy did not manifest today too.

And today, a group of death knight and death armies attacked us twice again. I thought this was strange, so Ike and I headed towards Rimurgarde, and to our surprise, there was a black fog about an hour's walk away.

There was no doubt about it. It is getting closer and closer. In the worst case, the black fog will cover West Rimurgarde tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. We have to do something...

When I returned to the town and reported to Zeke, he informed the town's residents to be ready to evacuate at any time.

I thought that such a direct statement would cause the residents to panic, but that was not the case. Instead, the residents were calm.

They may have been prepared, but more than that they seemed to trust Zeke. I should quickly become able to handle Holy...

23 December 2030.

A black fog is looming about 30 minutes from the adventurers' place where we are scouting. At this rate, it'll reach here by tomorrow morning. And by the night, it'll be near the city...

I'm starting to get irritated from the impatience that Holy isn’t manifesting. Nothing progressed because I was in a hurry...the death knights no longer grouped up before attacking, but instead they would come straight to West Rimurgarde the moment they are spawned.

Why did the impure king suddenly head to West Rimurgarde after being in a certain place for so long? Could it be because we fought him? In the end, we kept on beating the death knights until the night. I didn’t learn Holy, but I did level up.

Name: Mars Bryant

Title: Thunder God / Wind King / Saint / Goblin Slaughterer

Status: Human race, second son of Count Bryant

Condition: Good

Age: 10 years old

Level: 38

HP: 92/92

MP: 8000/8000

Strength: 88

Agility: 89

Magic: 108

Dexterity: 86

Durability: 80

Luck: 30

Unique Ability: Innate Talent (LvMax)

Unique Ability: Sky Eyes (Lv10)

Unique Ability: Lightning Magic (Lv8/S)

Special Ability: Swordsmanship (Lv9/A)

Special Ability: Fire Magic (Lv4/E)

Special Ability: Water magic (Lv5/D)

Special Ability: Earth Magic (Lv5/D)

Special Ability: Wind Magic (Lv9/A)

Special Ability: Holy magic (Lv7/B)

Equipment: Thunder Sword

Equipment: Salamander Sword

Equipment: Bracelet of Disguise

Status is now over 80 all and MP is 8000. My stats is widening... This is definitely a good sign!

I told myself that and chanted Holy incessantly, but I still couldn't manifest Holy today. Maybe there is no such magic as Holy...

24 December 2030, 6:00 am.

Finally, the black fog can be seen from the city watchtower. It will only be a matter of time before it covers the city. Adventurers began to lead the city's inhabitants to evacuate.

When Ike and I went out to the black fog, there were already quite a few magic beasts gathered around the black fog. Is this a plan to hit this city all at once...

I started clearing the black fog at the same time as defeating the magic beasts with Firestorm.

The black fog would soon start to fall again as soon as I cleared it, but I was sure that the impure king's MP would run out first, so I kept clearing the fog.

I was right, and the black fog dissipated completely. And as the fog cleared, the impure king appeared. The smell from the black fog is better now, so I can fight much easier than before, and I'm wearing nose plugs today.

There was one thing I wanted to try.

I thought that maybe I could use Lightning magic to slow him down...and electrocute him.

“Brother Ike! Move away a little! I will use Lightning magic!”

Ike quickly moved away from the impure king. The impure king doesn't seem to have any interest in Ike. The whole time, the impure king's agro was on me.

“Lightning!"

When golden lightning shot out from my hand at the impure king, something unexpected happened. The impure king absorbed the lightning and became even bigger... and no damage was done... Or rather it appeared to be rather energetic. And it is not even in an abnormal state... what the hell... my Lightning magic is so easily thwarted...

But along with the worst information that lightning magic doesn't work, I also got some good information. The impure king seems to have followed me here.

The evidence is that I'm fighting the impure king with Rimulgard Castle Town in my back and the impure king has been moving after me the whole time. So I'm moving further and further away from West Rimurgarde.

Could it be that the impure king has fallen in love with me...? It's not like the impure king is a woman inside...

It's Christmas Eve in Japan and yet I'm being followed around by this guy.

The impure king is perhaps showing its goodwill to me by randomly spewing its spits at me. I don’t want this kind of Christmas Eve. ...I wanted to spend it with Clarice!

“Holy!”

I shouted as if to vent my anger, and a white magic circle appeared on the ground where the impure king was.

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Author’s note:

The 3Ks in this title are smelly(kusai), dirty(kitanai), and disgusting(kimochiwarui).

Sorry if you find it offensive.

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