Firehead A Wild Last Boss Appeared! Volume 8

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-7183-0230-3
Verlag: J-Novel Club
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 250 Seiten

Reihe: A Wild Last Boss Appeared!

In Mizgarz, the battle continues. The Twelve Heavenly Stars, the Seven Heroes, and the Sei's party join forces to confront Sol, an avatar of an ouroboros and one of the Seven Luminaries.

In modern Japan, where Lufas's avatar existed, she recovered Dina, who was actually the Thirteenth Heavenly Star, the Snake. Now, Lufas remembers everything.

All of the Twelve Heavenly Stars have finally been gathered, and the board is set. The final battle for the survival of Mizgarz has begun! The enemy (last boss)? The Goddess Alovenus, who created the world.

Meanwhile, Dina and a very familiar golem are manipulated by the Goddess. It was clear the two would be used as enemies eventually, so instead of being surprised, Lufas is filled with determination. She isn't going to kindly ask the Goddess for their safe return. She'll just steal them back!

Autoren/Hrsg.

Firehead

Weitere Mitwirkende

YahaKo

Chen, Kevin

Leseproben

1

It was a strange place. Everything was pure white as far as the eye could see. Neither sky nor ground existed. If you were to enclose someone in nothing but blank canvas, what they saw might be similar to this, so it followed that this was a place that was essentially blank, an untouched area where neither sky nor sea nor ground nor even space was set in stone.

In this place, a single person—a woman—was sitting on a throne, her face scrunched up.

“This is not good.”

She was beautiful. Her blue hair shone unnaturally, not to mention the fact that it changed from blue to gold around the base of her neck. She was looking at a board, on top of which pieces made to resemble Lufas and the others were placed like pieces in a game. The state of the board reflected the current state of Mizgarz, and it told her that the situation was moving in a direction unfavorable to her.

Lufas’s team was split into three, each one working on retrieving one of the remaining Stars. The trio of Aries, Karkinos, and Scorpius had taken their subordinates, Fenix and Hydras, to retrieve Aquarius the Water Bearer and admirably succeeded in their task. Aigokeros, Libra, and Sagittarius had gone to Pisces the Fish, and though they met with some trouble, they still succeeded in meeting up. With that, all the area Pisces had ruled over was now owned by Lufas, and the number of her available pieces exceeded the woman’s.

The woman sighed. ...

Lufas and Benetnasch were missing. They’d left, chasing after Dina, who’d disappeared somewhere. Lastly, Pollux, Virgo, and the devilfolk’s Prince Terra, along with his aide Luna, had started to search for a way for the devilfolk to be reborn as a different species, of all things.

The woman honestly believed this. That was exactly why she’d sent out one of her few precious pieces—Sol, one of the ouroboroses’ avatars—to the front lines with a side mission of stirring up the ouroboroses, but unfortunately, he had been chased off.

“This really isn’t good... At this rate, I’ll be finished.” The woman heaved a soft sigh.

The problem wasn’t just Lufas’s forces. The hero, Sei, who was originally supposed to have been this world’s protagonist and defeat Lufas to save the world, was now moving to end the game entirely. At the moment, he was making contact with those of the Seven Heroes who had already fulfilled their role—Megrez, Merak, and Mizar—stirring them into action.

The woman paused as she considered her next move. “For now, let’s have the older heroes retire. Your roles are all over, so please stop trying to come back to the stage,” the woman said, sounding annoyed as she placed the piece representing Sol close to Sei and his group.

She could simply upend the entire board and end the game at any time, but if possible, she wanted to win the game and achieve satisfaction. That was why she—the Goddess Alovenus—continued to roll her last four pieces, the ouroboroses, around in her palm as she thought for a while.

* *

The three heroes would become allies. There was most likely nothing more reassuring than that. This was a ray of hope the weak boy had found only because he had tried to do what he could instead of just wallowing in his weakness. He’d managed to accomplish something that anyone could have done but no one had. However, as with all things, sudden disaster always strikes when everything seems to be going well.

A clap resounded just as the heroes offered to help the summoned hero, as if the person had been waiting for the best time.

“Just wonderful. You tried to do what you could without giving in to your weakness, and now you’ve managed to get these heroes here to act. I’m honestly impressed. Allow me to praise you, O weak hero.”

Before Sei and the others could even react to the voice, Megrez fired off a magic spell with zero hesitation. The spell took the form of a bullet as it traveled towards the speaker before bursting, covering the walls of the house with ice. Megrez most likely chose ice magic after judging that using a bullet of water, or a similar element, would pierce through the walls of the house and end up affecting other residents. That quick decision-making and reaction speed was certainly worthy of a hero. Even after long years spent in retirement, there was still a world of difference between Megrez and Sei and his group.

However, the voice’s owner was not to be found within that ice, as it once again sounded from the other side of the room. “Good reaction time. I’m a little surprised.”

Leaning against the wall was an unfamiliar white-haired man, and unlike what he’d said, he didn’t seem surprised at all. From the color of his skin and eyes, he was most likely a devilfolk. However, if he was one of the devilfolk, he would be no match for the members of the Seven Heroes, even if he was one of the Seven Luminaries. Though they were weakened, they were still heroes, after all. They weren’t weak enough to lose against the likes of the Luminaries, though that only applied to normal members of the Seven Luminaries.

“Who are you?”

“My name is Sol. I am one of the Seven Luminaries, Sol of Heaven. Well, at this point, it’s not like the Seven Luminaries mean anything anymore.”

The Seven Luminaries. Just hearing that title caused all the members of Sei’s party to draw their weapons at once.

Out of all of them, Sargess immediately pressed the attack. The spider-person exhibited agility worthy of his kind as he ran along the wall and assaulted Sol from behind. His weapon flashed at Sol’s unprotected neck, the devilfolk not even seeming to try to dodge. Sol stuck the edge of his hand in the path of Sargess’s sharp blade, stopping it in its tracks without shedding even a little blood. The spider-person was left in shocked silence.

Acting like he’d just been bit by a bug, Sol swatted Sargess down. “You’ve been lax in your pest control. There are spiders in this house.”

He moved as if he was simply getting rid of an annoying pest, but with the absolutely crushing level disparity came a lethal blow. Sargess broke through the wall as he was sent flying, and he continued on through several more houses, disappearing past a cloud of dust.

Next, Gantz and Jean both charged in from the front, swinging their weapons and causing a shock wave with them as the epicenter. As always, Sol didn’t dodge; he didn’t even defend himself. Gantz’s ax hit Sol’s head, while Jean’s sword impacted against his stomach. However, Sol didn’t budge an inch. It was as if they’d struck a lump of steel; there was no damage.

“GRROOOAAAARRRR!” Friedrich howled, grabbing Gantz and Jean by the napes of their necks and flinging them backwards.

At the same time, Sol’s knifehand strike passed by right in front of the pair’s noses, causing a shock wave that destroyed the ceiling. If Sol’s attack had hit, the two of them would have been bisected just then. Before Sol could pull back to neutral from his attack, Friedrich jumped forward—before predictive visions of his own death caused him to jump back again.

“I see. It seems your instinct’s the only thing that’s good about you. Looks like you instinctively realized that you’d have died if you’d just gone one more step forward.”

In a rare turn of events, it seemed that Friedrich’s cowardice had paid dividends. Thanks to his great play, there had yet to be any casualties. However, the most important word in that sentence was . If Sol had wanted to, he could have massacred the entire hero’s party in an instant.

Mizar’s golem jumped at Sol from behind, but in the end, it was just a hastily made remote-control golem. On top of that, it had been made by Blutgang’s dwarves, so its level wasn’t even 100. Of course it wasn’t. Even if Mizar’s personality was alive and well, it was still just the core of the gigantic golem that was Blutgang. He wasn’t the past Mizar, who had been called the Blacksmithing King. Naturally, he didn’t possess any Alchemy skill, so outside of those golems he’d made that still existed, any new golems would have to be made by currently living dwarves. Once again, it was only a matter of course that the golems would be low level, and a single light blow from Sol would be enough to send an arm flying.

Though Sei and the others were shocked at Sol’s power, Sol would be the next one to be taken by surprise. While he was distracted with Mizar, a new golem had manifested, growing straight through the ceiling before circling around behind Sol.

“Wha—?!”

“Intruder detected. Removing!”

A large, iron fist collided with Sol’s back, sending him flying...