The large monster, Behemoth, put up its large paw with razor sharp claws and with us as the aim, he brought it down. My reflexes scream at me and I immediately carried Topaz in my arms and dodge!
GRRRR!
“Why are you so heavy?!”
“I don’t know.”
“It must be your boobs!”
“Perv.”
BAM!
The place where we were before, Behemoth’s claw raked the land with an exploding sound. The earth exploded and fragments and debris flew everywhere. While princess carrying Topaz as I run the ground shook and her arms wrapped around my neck and her boobs further press to my face.
The bliss…no, wait!
“I can’t see! Move your breasts away from my face!”
“Scary!”
“Don’t press it harder!”
RAWWRRR!
An ear-shattering howl resounds the whole forest. The strong howl created a small scale shockwave that it brought dust up in the air and the ground slightly cracks. The trees lean backward a little and leaves are blown away. As the shockwave made contact with us it threw my balance off and it tore my eardrum.
Before the shockwave could do the same to Topaz, I threw her down and covered her ears by embracing her whole head.
“Kuh…”
“Ah! E**r, *leedi**! **e yo* ok**?! A***ao! **aga*!”
“Sorry, I can’t understand you right now. Tell me again when I recover my hearing.”
“Yo**e not dy***! Y***e not ***ng, ***ght!? I’m s***y! P****, d**t d**!”
Seeing Topaz worried face with eyes filled with tears, I unconsciously broke into a grin. She was shakily wiping the blood coming out from my ears with her gloves. It’s quite the sight to see her being worried for me in contrast to her childish exterior.
After for a few more seconds, my eardrums regenerated and my hearing becomes clear again.
“There, my ears are fixed now. What were you saying?”
“B-Behind!”
I hurriedly turn my head as indicated by Topaz. I immediately saw the Behemoth going for a pounce towards us with his massive body. Its weight alone could probably crush us to smithereens or worst description is that we’d turn into a meat paste.
Why is it attacking us in the first place? This is the first time we’ve met so I am positive that we didn’t do anything to it. I never thought I’d be fighting in my sleepwear too!
“[Blooming Thorn – Morning Glory Ninety Nine Petal Layered Barrier!]”
BAM!
A blue light manifested in thin air and forms into a multi-layered barrier with a flower as a motif. Behemoth collided with the barrier and competition of endurance starts as I hold out the barrier from its monstrous strength.
“Topaz!”
“W-What?!”
“Run away! I’ll hold him back!”
“Okay!”
“Eh?”
At times like this, shouldn’t she say that she would stay because I am still there? Like, she is really worried about me that she won’t leave me behind?! Am I the only one who is expecting a dramatic separation between comrades in a midst of hard battle?!
RAWWWRRRR!
Another earth shattering roar came from Behemoth and this time, it didn’t create a shockwave but instead, he gathered magical energy to its mouth. The Behemoth is a dark element user and I immediately realize that it was about to breath dark matter on my face and obviously, my barrier will shatter in a heartbeat.
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PSSSHHHH!
It already fired the damn thing and I haven’t thought of any countermeasure against it! At this rate, I am going to be disintegrated to nothing!
SHATTER!
My barrier with ninety-nine layers didn’t even stand a chance and the death ray is just within my reach, however, simultaneously, Topaz casts a magic.
“[Arcana of Earth – Pitfall!]”
A hole under the right feet of Behemoth is created and it loses its balance. The death ray’s direction is disturbed and flew past above me in a scary hair-width distance. I feel like I might pee anytime now because of how close call that is. The death ray landed on a random part of the forest and exploded making a loud noise again.
Behemoth struggles to get its feet out of the pitfall but because of its ridiculous size accompanied with its ridiculous weight, it is having a hard time.
I turn my head behind and saw Topaz hiding behind a tree and peeks to me while hiding most of her face.
“I…I’ll stay…after all.”
“Topaz…! I knew you’re a nice girl!”
“I’ll leave fast if you die though.”
“Even so, you saved me! Thank you!”
“T-That’s nothing…Asagao…”
I heard something.
“Did you just…call me by my name?! Can you say it again?!”
“Eh?! No…!”
“I swear you did!”
“I-Is your name ugly then?!”
“How did it come to that?!”
“B-Behind again! D-Don’t look at me with every chance you get, you perv!”
“Ah! Shit!”
With Behemoth’s available left hand, he swings it horizontally towards me.
“[Arcana of Earth – Pitfall!]”
Topaz made another hole beneath one its leg. This time, its left rear foot sunk into the earth. Instead of hitting me, Behemoth grazes the earth and gouges the hole. A chunk of rocks and stones flew towards me.
CRASH!
BAM!
“Asagao! Asagao!!!”
Topaz shouts my name that it makes my heart warmer. It made me happier that she calls me by my name now. I’ve showing nothing but foolery up until now. It’s about time I show Topaz how cool I can get.
Expanding the barrier that I cast in a split second, the debris is blown away and I emerges from the rabbles created by Behemoth’s attack.
“As—Ugly!”
“You’re really sticking with that, huh. Well then, I guess I need to level up now.”
I took out a normal sword from my dimensional storage. It was just a normal iron sword that I got in the training. I face Behemoth again who, right now, is charging up one of that nasty death ray.
I will trust my guts. I will believe in myself.
If countering through magic via barrier won’t cut it, then I have to level up. I won’t try to expand my skill on something I am limited. Rather, I am going to improvise and use something entirely different, my divine power.
If my divine power can be used to grant divinity to someone or use a spirit as my own, surely I can do it with a weapon at hand. But like what Senya said, loading a spirit with my divine energy may break them and totally eliminate them.
With that in mind, with that sole risk at stake, I am going to gamble towards my skill elevation. It is like how my barrier can be composed of either magical energy or divine energy. Alongside it, is the application of Dragon tempest and strong mentality that I honed in meditation.
Behemoth finished charging the laser and fired it towards me.
I focus my eyes on the upcoming attack. I tightly grasp the sword in my left hand and sharpen my sense to the limit. A scene of my practice played out in my mind. The water ball that flies ever closer to me but instead, this dangerous laser that could annihilate me.
I position my sword on my right waist and did a quick draw stance. In terms of magic, I am bound to reach my limits one of these days and unable to learn new skills, however, in terms of my divinity, endless possibilities could open up.
And right now, I am going to drill a hole in the wall called limit!
As the laser drew closer, I swing my sword while covering it with a barrier made of divine energy and shouted…
“[Divine Counter – First Counter!]”
Dozens of blue petals swarmed the end of the laser. The laser that was about to hit me bounces back from my sword inverting the direction. The laser now head towards Behemoth who is immobilized with Topaz’s earth magic.
BAM!
The laser hits Behemoth and blows him away. He was uprooted from the ground and its gigantic body created an earthquake when it landed. At the same time…
SHATTER
The price of using such skill is breaking the weapon. The iron sword snaps into half before completely breaking like a glass shard. What only left is the handle that also receives some amazing cracks.
“Amazing…”
“Topaz, did you see that!?”
“Amazing! Amazing!!”
“However, please stay hidden.”
“Eh?”
As I said that, another laser come flying towards me. I knew one of those attacks won’t even take Behemoth down. If it did then it would not be could one these forest guardians. But to my surprise, the way it cast the laser again was instantaneous that I don’t have time to open my dimensional storage!
Shit!
I don’t have anything to use now!
I frantically look around for something. The handle of the previous sword is useless at this point so I threw it away. However, there was none!
……
I pick up something.
As the laser comes again inside my range, I swing THAT thing and bounce that attack back.
“[Divine Counter – Second Counter!]”
PSSSHHHH!
This time, the laser that I bounced off is stronger than initially is.
No, no, no! Even I am surprised! Behemoth was also flabbergasted with the intensity of the laser that I countered! It’s like I bounced that attack and multiply its power by three times!
BAM!
The overpowered laser hits Behemoth again and this time, it completely knocks him out as he lay flat on his back, not after creating another tremor with its mass.
The thing that I used was…a twig.
It’s nothing special. It is just a twig that I saw lying around, picked it up, and swing it for my counter. I never thought that it would yield the same result. But of course, like that sword, the twig breaks into many splinters.
Maybe with this, I can also step into the light of OPness!
I turn around to where Topaz is. I saw her walking towards me. I broke out in a smile not just from my new power discovery but to our newly forged bond. I spread my arms out to prepare for a hug but instead, I was replied with a different answered.
RUMBLE!
“I’m hungry…”
“Don’t get my hopes up like that! Also…aren’t you running away?”
“Uuhhh…”
“Are you going to stay with us and be a good girl from now on?”
“I…I think I can stay. I’ll try to put up with it a little more.”
“I see.”
“I-I’m not doing this because of you or anything! I just thought that…no one will cook for me if I am alone. D-Don’t get me wrong! If you did, I’ll bury you!”
CLASSIC!
The classic line! I heard it and I am happy to have heard it from a blushing and embarrassed Topaz while fidgeting! This moment alone for tonight is my reward!
I can’t stop myself from breaking out in a grin. She’s damn cute alright!
SIZZLE!
My attention returns to Behemoth who was lying down with its belly shown upwards. Its whole body began to release a smoke like it is melting.
“What now?!”
“T-There’s more…?”
“Topaz, hide behind me!”
SIZZLE!
The sizzling didn’t cease and Behemoth’s body continues to decrease in mass.
It becomes smaller and smaller and smaller until it is a shape of a human now. The scales, the horns, the claws melted away into thin air and what’s left lying in there is a naked girl.
Topaz and I got closer and our eyes widen upon seeing the true identity of Behemoth.
The girl wakes up and rubs her head in pain…
“Ow, ow, ow! You really got me good there…”
With a horn of a goat sticking out from her head accompanied by a goat tail, her horizontal irises stares at us. Her blond fluffy hair illuminates the moonlight and her eyes glitter like jewels. The one in front of us is none other than…
“Mimi?!”
“U-Ugly…!”
It’s the maid Mimi that I saw earlier. She sticks out her tongue and closes one of her eyes.
“Tee-hee! It is indeed me, Mimi or also known as Behemoth…at least for the two of you for now.”