Chapter 420: "I’m Going All Out..."?
[A few dozen minutes earlier.]
Lillian’s eyes pierced through the thick rain, watching as a flurry of cannonballs left the side of their ship and struck the Two-headed Leviathan with thunderous explosions.
She unconsciously gripped the edges of her cloak. While it seems that they were dealing damage, what they were doing was the equivalent of scrubbing off barnacles from the underside of a sea vessel.
That was how facing Leviathans was.
Their thick exterior armour was unlike anything she had ever fought before. Even the Alpha’s full-body metal exoskeleton couldn’t be compared to the defences of the Two-headed Seawater Leviathan.
And she knew the moment that they ran out of cannonballs, the gigantic sea beast would immediately move into charging up another beam attack, which was titled by the game as ’Leviathan’s Wrath’.
In the past, when she used to read forums, she found a calculation post of the amount of theoretical destruction the Leviathan’s Wrath could produce and what she found could only leave her speechless.
The Leviathan’s Wrath was a mana-created attack in the form of a plasma-infused water beam with a temperature hotter than lava inside an active volcano.
If released from a singular head, the size of the beam was around 10 metres in diameter. However, once both heads combined their attack, it would reach a maximum of around 20 metres in diameter.
And with a range of around 4 kilometres per non-combined beam, it could reach up to the maximum distance of around 8 kilometres, which, in comparison, was almost the exact height of Mount Everest.
Restara’s Port, which was only around 5 kilometres wide, would be completely reduced to ashes by a singular Leviathan’s Wrath if the Seawater Leviathan were ever to reach it.
And on top of that, it had the ability to manipulate water to a disastrous degree. If it were at its peak, wasn’t injured and full of mana, it would be possible for it to be able to create a tsunami 40 metres tall!
That was more than double what it had created just earlier.
...
That was the power of a B-rank monster.
That was the power of a monster capable of utilising its mana since birth.
And yet... With a singular slash—
"Oi, Matey!"
—The Captain was capable of splitting the Leviathan’s Wrath into two.
’Granted... The Leviathan wasn’t at its peak when it made the attack, but still...’
"OI!"
Lillian, who was slowly raising her hand off to the side to acquire a mana potion from the store, felt a hand slam down on her right shoulder.
She winced and looked up, finding the Captain looking down at her with an annoyed expression on his face—he had been trying to get her attention for a few minutes now.
"Arr... Have you finally woken from your dream, crewmate? WE HAVE A LARGE FISH TO HUNT!"
"Ah, sorry..." Lillian scratched the back of her head with an embarrassed look before asking, "Did you come up with a plan on what to do next?"
"I indeed have! A grandeous plan, you could even say!" The Captain leaned in and whispered his plan into Lillian’s ear, who nodded slowly.
The plan was a full-on attack with the two of them. But she already knew that. And that was why...
"Sure, but you don’t mind if I add a little bit more to that?"
"Ohoho? Go ahead!"
***
The Element of Transformation—that was the Captain’s element.
Lillian looked down from the sky as she held onto the back of the Captain, who had now sprouted black wings from his back, which closely resembled those of bats.
Those on the outside would find it difficult to perceive their location. Not because they were several dozen metres into the sky, right above their ship, but because of a certain black cloak named...
’The Fluttering Prowl... Whenever in an area of low-visibility, you will become harder to detect by imbuing your mana into it.’
By closely wrapping her cloak around the Captain’s awfully large body, she managed to just about share the effects of her cloak with the bearded man, who cackled loudly as he stared down at Viesta, who was taking a stand with her Sound Blaster.
"What a brave gal! What is she trying to achieve with that flaregun in her hand? KAHAHAHA!"
Lillian ignored the Captain’s remark over her senior’s action. If this were in any other situation, she would have argued with the bearded man, but unfortunately...
"Wait for my signal..."
It wasn’t that type of situation.
Lillian slowly closed her eyes and kept a keen ear out for Viesta’s weapon. Since the two of them were intending to intercept the Leviathan’s Wrath, they should do so when they aren’t hit by Viesta’s soundwave.
And...
After a while...
Click... CLANG...!
She heard it.
With a soft pat, the Captain dived down and began to build up momentum as he blurred over the crewmates on deck and swiftly followed after the soundwave, which had reached the plasma beam first.
And while it did seem to persist against the beam for just a single split second, it was inevitably too weak for a defence. But—
"[5th Technique of the Deep Sea Hunter...]"
—That didn’t matter.
SWISH!
"[LEVIATHAN’S DESCENT]!"
The Captain raised his trusted cutlass above his head and swung it down with all his might—the veins in his arms popping out as mana rushed into his blade.
And the moment his mana-infused blade made contact with the Leviathan’s Wrath, an illusory leviathan of his own appeared down from the very heavens.
As if his cutlass was a fishing rod and his swing was the casting of bait into the sea, the illusory leviathan from the heavens charged down and followed after his swing with an earth-shattering roar that shifted the tides.
It crashed into the Two-headed Seawater Leviathan’s plasma beam and pushed back against it, causing the Leviathan’s Wrath to refract into two different beams.
The two sides struggled for leverage over each other, trying to force the other back into submission.
The illusory leviathan gritted its teeth as it narrowed its eyes. The Captain gritted his teeth as he flapped his wings harder and pushed down on his blade.
Unfortunately, the moment that even the slightest bit of resistance occurred, the red eyes of the Twin-headed Seawater Leviathan flashed with a dark red light of malice—they were no longer going to take any chances.
The scales along their body grew brighter once more as they released even more power.
SWOOSH!
"Ngh—!"
The Captain’s arms were forced back against the sudden increase in force, and so was the illusory leviathan.
He was losing...
Both he and the Leviathan seemed to share a look of fear. Was his Leviathan’s Descent going to lose in this struggle...?
The Captain gritted his teeth even more, to the point his gums began to bleed.
"I—... I REFUSE...!"
He couldn’t lose... He couldn’t!
Not when his beloved ship was behind him... Not when he had crewmates on board!
With his element of transformation, he created another pair of arms right beneath his armpits and grabbed a hold of the hilt of his cutlass.
As he tried to press his blade further down into the plasma beam, he could only watch as he was pushed back another couple of metres.
Just another pair of arms wasn’t enough... He needed more!
Right as the Captain was about to create another pair of wings behind his back, he couldn’t help but feel the presence of someone lacking...
Steeling his heart, he took a concerned look back and found that Lillian was no longer on his back—just her cloak, which so happens to be fastened around his neck meticulously.
"What the—?! ARGH!" The Captain’s pain-filled groan bled from his mouth.
The force behind the beam had suddenly increased even more!
His eyes shook as his arms trembled in a painful manner. Soon enough, he won’t be able to hold on long!
And unfortunately... It seemed that his weapon wouldn’t be able to hold out long enough to fall, for it had begun to lose its edge and shape due to the Leviathan’s Wrath temperature.
As the Captain struggled against the overpowering plasma beam, Lillian magically appeared in the sky before disappearing again and again—she was teleporting.
And not only that, but she was hopping through the air as well, while a thin layer of electricity coated her body.
By abusing the enchantments of her boots and utilising the speed boost given by her shortsword, Lillian managed to cross several hundred metres in the span of a few seconds.
And with that, she was now a hundred metres in the air, having just reached the Twin-headed Seawater Leviathan, who continued to expel a ridiculous amount of mana.
Lillian stood on a transparent platform as the clouds roared above her. She narrowed her eyes behind her mask before lifting it up and drinking three exact mana potions.
Once doing so and chucking them back into her spatial ring, Lillian took one step forward and fell feet first.
As the winds rolled over her body and shouted in her ears of the dangers below, she couldn’t help but unconsciously block out the noise.
As the electricity coated around her body arced and jumped to nearby raindrops, she couldn’t help but unconsciously tighten her grip on her shortsword before summoning out her scythe.
Then, in a quiet but determined voice, she whispered:
"I’m going all out..."
Twisting her body around and making it so her front was parallel to the ground, she gripped the scythe in her right hand and began swinging it in large arcs.
Until eventually, the entire sky below her was captured in a golden net made of pure electricity.