Chapter 10: Blood Cranes
Unperceived by Beelzebub, there is another race of monsters crawling beneath the underground. They are the earth critters, creatures as small as a baby. They have the shape of a spider, but with two other hands coming out of their’ eye socket.
These creatures have actually lived here for a long time due to their tough shell and power. This small creature might be insignificant, but they are deadly when they are together. They have become the subterranean rulers of the Noman Forest.
PECK PECK PECK
PECK PECK PECK
PECK PECK PECK
The fearsome subterrain army is currently being eaten by the Blood Cranes. Blood cranes cannot smell blood, but they can see it. They can see the vein inside the living being and from miles away.
The earth creatures have been settled here for a long time, so this is considered a feast to the Blood Cranes.
Far from the insects slaughter, I use mana vision with two arms, one for me and the other for Gollum.
"Why are we doing this?”
“They are very far away from here, and I want both of us to do our best when fighting that tin can.”
“…… But why am I the one shooting? Aren’t you more skilled than me?”
“You are getting more insolent day by day; not only that, you are getting dumber too.”
Gollum, who is holding the shotgun-Merge form, is confused.
“That gun required a large amount of mana to use; not only did I use dark mana, but my mana capacity is much lower than yours, so you should be the one to use it.”
There are artifacts out there that required zero skill to use, but such cases required a powerful individual to use. After explaining, I resumed to guide him.
“Now raised a little bit more, a little, a little GOOD; stay like that and FIRE.”
“FIRE”
BOOM, a powerful red blast coming out of the gun, knocking both of us away. The blast of energy travels for a while before hitting at the blind spot of the cranes, killing one in the process.
“CO CAWW”
Multiple cries are reaching our ears. Excited, I told Gollum.
“Now we hide.”
The flock of cranes only took less than 10 seconds to reach the place where the blast of energy is, only to see two piles of corpses, human and goblin.
They search around for a moment, but they can’t find any single living beings surrounding
Frustrated, they begin to caw
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“CO CAW, CO CAW”
Their cry seemed to be louder than before; they flapped their wings and pecked at random spots, including the piles of corpses, and in the frenzy they pecked at each
“Caw?”
“CAW CAW”
“CAW CAW”
The flock of birds grows restless, attacking each other, poking others eyes with their peak, and piercing others with their talon. This went on for a while until 3 of them survived, injured but seem to have calmed down.
“I see, this thing is more effective when used on the same race which in my case is the human race.”
“And the more sophisicated the emotion is, the shorter it lasts.”
So this is the power of the amulet. Hmm. I glance up only to see murderous intents coming from those three remaining Blood Cranes. Quite tingling.
“co CAWWW”
All three fly to me with the intent to skewer me with the beak. I raised my hand and made a signal. Gollum, seeing it shout
“FIRED”
BOOM
The powerful blast knocked away the pile of corpses Gollum was hiding. All this time we have been hiding inside it, so talk about being lucky when we almost got hit when they were in the frenzy.
The blast kills the one in the middle, shocking the others.
But I have been waiting for that moment.
Imaginary technique: Grasshopper
A strange ethereal energy took hold of my leg, shifting into a grasshopper leg. I jumped toward the air where the Blood Cranes are and grabbed the crane on the left side.
Caught by surprise, the crane began to fly up in order to shake me off. Take a grip on it's talon; I climbed before reaching it's body. Mustering my strength, I leaped
“CAW?”
A red line formed on its slender neck, and
SPURT
Blood squirted out as the crane head fell to the ground.
“CAWW’
The other one, furious, charged at me but before it could strike me. I position myself midair, raising my fist. I switched from grasshopper to demonic wings. Before it could pierce me, I punched at the side of its beak, breaking it.
CRACK
The entire beak was destroyed. Hurt but not giving up. It tried to fight back with its talon, but it could not see me.
For I have already appeared behind it. The crane's head is big, much bigger than a watermelon, but using that is still possible.
I extended both my arms outward, with ethereal wings popping out of my forearms, and swung both of them with full force, crushing the Blood Crane skull like a watermelon. Blood splattered all over my outfit and my face.
BOOM
While the corpse falls down, I slowly float down, then land when I reach a desirable distance to the ground.
"It is necessary to kill a creature like that.
“You may not understand, but someday you will find a monster whose only weakness is the head.
“But..”
“Shut up
“Yes sir”
Take a look at the carnage; I realized something.
“We haven’t eaten much for the past week now, aren’t we?”
"Yes, sir, the only thing we have eaten is canned food.”
"Yes, yes, but now we can finally have a feast.”
“Wh-“
Gollum, look around only to realize something.
“Cough Cough I’m not hungry, sir.”
“Too bad then; guess I have to eat all of this all by myself.”
I look at all of these corpses and drool. I giggled
“Kehkehkehkeh”
“….”
“What are you looking at? Take a look at that distance; if there is even the slightest movement, shout.”
I glared at the Gollum; the middle-aged man seemed to be tired.
“Sure“
“Where is your honorific you bas-?“
The next scene appears quite comical. Gollum in his golem form has his face distorted to the side as a rabbit's feet land on his face.
BANG
Gollum might be stupid, but for me, he is not weak; if he at least studies some martial arts, I might have lost at our last fight; he sure is one hell of a tough bastard. To me at the very least, but to this world he is a pebble, maybe even less. And the pebble has been tossed aside, crashing and snapping multiple trees.
“…..”
A rabbit knight clad in bronze armor with a golden spear bigger than itself strapping on its back. After defeating Gollum, it turned around and looked at me. A mechanical voice was heard.
“For the God of Invention, Y-to”
.....What the fuck is this thing?