Firehead A Wild Last Boss Appeared! Volume 7

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-7183-0228-0
Verlag: J-Novel Club
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 250 Seiten

Reihe: A Wild Last Boss Appeared!

Lufas continues on her journey with her growing retinue of Twelve Heavenly Stars. The final battle is drawing nearer, and now they've split up in search of Aquarius the Water Bearer, Pisces the Fish, Dina, and a way to save Terra and Luna from the fate of all devilfolk. Things are never easy when trying to get another of the Twelve Stars back into the fold though, and from now on, the ouroboroses are in play.

Meanwhile, Dina's nowhere to be found! After getting a little advice from the Devil King, our deposed king finally realizes Dina isn't in Mizgarz at all, and this might not be the first time they've met. She's waiting in modern Japan!

Will Dina and the other former members of the Twelve Heavenly Stars come back peacefully? Or are there more unexpected events in store for Lufas?!

Autoren/Hrsg.

Firehead

Weitere Mitwirkende

YahaKo

Chen, Kevin

Leseproben

1

Voyages tended to be exciting at first, but as soon as you got used to the novelty, you ended up with too much time on your hands and thus became bored. That held true for voyages through the sky as well.

Now that we’d successfully returned Pollux—who had been possessed by the Goddess—to her senses, our next task had us riding on the , a flying ship, in order to retrieve the remaining members of the Twelve Heavenly Stars as well as to search for Dina. This task currently had us in the skies over what humanity called the dark continent, since it was outside their sphere of habitation.

At this point, there were four things left to do. First: retrieve Aquarius the Water Bearer. This was Aries, Scorpius, and Karkinos’s job. They would also be accompanied by Fenix and Hydras, who were argonautai summoned by Pollux.

Second: retrieve Pisces the Fish. This would be left to Libra, Aigokeros, and Sagittarius.

Third: find a way to release the devilfolk from their fate as one of the Goddess’s spells. Of course, Pollux was needed for this one. Terra and Luna would be going with her as assistants, and Virgo would also be tagging along.

Lastly: find Dina, who had gone missing. I would be taking on this task, and Benet would be coming with me as well for some reason. Because of this, we’d spent about three hours zipping around the dark continent.

My interest was drawn by Libra saying, “I see it,” so I brought myself up to the deck. When I arrived, I found the other members all gathered, their eyes wide upon seeing Muspelheim.

Yes, we were in Muspelheim, the land where an ouroboros was currently sealed. It was a place where mana had somehow turned into fire and never returned to its original form, creating a land wrapped in everlasting flames. I didn’t understand the principle behind it. The area was over a thousand degrees Celsius, rendering it utterly unsurvivable for almost all living beings. One theory posited that this was the work of some sort of divine artifact, apparently.

Libra was the one who’d told me all that though. Ever since hearing Libra’s exposition, I’d imagined Muspelheim to be covered in literal flames, but the real thing was quite different. Rather, this was...

“It’s frozen.”

“Yes. It is.”

The land we all looked down upon from the was the complete opposite of what I’d imagined. It was referred to as the Burning Lands, but of all things, what I was seeing was an area frozen with a deep, sheer cold. There was a castle erected in the center of all the ice, complete with houses sprawled around it like a castle town, only everything was made of ice. Snow blanketed the ground and just seeing all that made me feel cold.

“This is probably Aquarius’s doing,” Libra guessed. “I surmise that she spread her mana and used it to overwrite the natural state of the land.”

“Oh? Over all of Muspelheim?”

“It would be possible for her.”

“By the way, Libra, how large is Muspelheim?”

“83,500 square kilometers,” said Libra.

The first person I thought of whenever the Water element came to mind was Dina, but it seemed like there were many ways to use the same element given how different Aquarius was.

“We’re here then. See you soon, Miss Lufas.” Aries put one foot up on the edge of the ship, followed by Scorpius, Karkinos, Fenix, and Hydras. He probably planned to simply jump off and land in town.

Aries had his arms and legs completely exposed to the elements, and Scorpius’s outfit was as revealing as always. Karkinos was the most covered up, but it still couldn’t be said to be winter clothing, even charitably.

“Now wait a second. You shouldn’t go down there in those clothes. Take these.”

With that, I pulled out three sets of thick coats from Maphaahl Tower using Exgate. The coats were something I’d made long ago to wear for a Water-element boss. They boasted high resistance towards both Fire and Water, dropping any damage taken from sources with those two attributes by seventy percent. They did drop the wearer’s stats a bit, but the seventy percent cut to damage from the two elements was worth it.

As an aside, my cloak reduced all elemental damage by fifty percent, so this one was actually stronger against the two applicable elements.

Design-wise, the coats were colored in white, black, and red, so I gave each of them the color that best suited them. I pondered silently for a moment.

“Also, take this parting gift.”

I handed them weapons that I’d crafted as a way to kill time.

Originally, the game didn’t allow monsters to equip things, probably for game balance, but things were different in this world. Castor, Taurus, and Sagittarius all used weapons as a matter of course, and when I actually thought about it, it was only natural that they’d be able to wield weapons, since they had hands.

I handed Aries a pair of fingerless gloves. There were protrusions on each knuckle, and they were made so that when he punched, the metal would slam into the enemy. It gave +1200 STR and bestowed his attacks with the ability to pierce through elemental resistances. Using this, he’d be able to deal full damage, regardless of his target’s Fire resistance.

I handed Scorpius a weapon similar to a sickle and chain. Well, it basically was a sickle and chain, but instead of a sickle on one end, there was a weapon shaped like a scorpion’s pincers. When they made contact with an enemy, they would automatically latch on to them. It was a clearly strong weapon that simply gave a bonus of +2000 ATK. It had no other special effects, but its range was long, and it was easy to use.

The most trouble I had was with Karkinos. As for what I had trouble with, it was the fact that he already had weapons—the half scissor blades that he would take out of nowhere. Apparently, those were well and truly weapons. What Scorpius had wielded in the past was something made out of hardened gathered mana, but apparently Karkinos’s scissors were something he’d fashioned himself out of his own shell, so I simply improved upon his weapons. Their original stats were a simple +800 ATK, but with my improvements, his weapons now provided +1000 ATK and could hit twice. While I was at it, I added a feature that allowed him to throw the weapons and have them come back to him like a boomerang, so he was now capable of ranged attacks.

I paused, considering things.

Sagittarius, Castor, and Taurus weren’t capable of large-scale changes in form like Aries and the others were. In fact, Castor didn’t even have any other forms, while only Sagittarius’s lower half changed. Taurus probably didn’t get that big either. On the other hand, Aries, Scorpius, and Karkinos would all change into giant monsters when they got serious, and when they did so they would, of course, become unable to use the weapons I made for them. When I considered that, they probably weren’t suited to weapons in the first place.

“M-My Lady Lufas presented me with weapons and armor...” said Scorpius. “I’ll treasure this as long as I live! I’m going to store it and make it a family treasure to be passed down and worshiped across generations!”

“No, don’t store it. Use it. Why do you think We made it?”

At any rate, with this, I’d managed to shore up their abilities a little. Now, even if something were to happen, they’d probably be able to deal with it on their own as long as it wasn’t of incredible magnitude. I hadn’t had time to finish the others’ equipment, but I planned to make something for everyone.

“Thank you very much, Miss Lufas.”

“You’re welcome. Take care of Aquarius.”

I gave Aries’s head a light pat to send him off. From here on out, it was up to them. Of course, I believed in them. Those three would undoubtedly be able to bring Aquarius back.

“Yes!” Aries replied with gusto before finally jumping off the .

Following him, Karkinos, Fenix, and Hydras all jumped. The was ten thousand meters above the ground at the moment, but that height would be nothing to them. They didn’t need a parachute or anything at all.

I’d seen them off, but for some reason Scorpius had yet to depart. I watched her silently. She was looking rather expectant of something, but said nothing, so I patted her on the head too. Once I did, her excitement meter shot way...