Episode 456 Fighting the Cockatrice

In the arena, the middle boss room, a cockatrice turns around and stares at us. I hear a "chirp, chirp" sound in my head. I hastily press the "Steel Heart Technique" switch. However, what was built around the mental core was a double barrier.

　The 'chirp, chirp' sound stopped. The double barrier seems to have prevented the cockatrice's mental attack.

'If we don't, we'll be petrified.

"I don't think I'll be petrified right away because I have the Ring of Resistance, but I think I'd better avoid the evil eye.

　I run to escape from the evil eye attack. Then, I activate "Crash Ball" in succession and scatter D-particle vibration balls toward the cockatrice.

　Surprisingly, the cockatrice avoided everything with quick movements. The cockatrice was about six meters tall, but the chicken's legs were strong enough to support it.

　Tamegoro threw a magnihammer at the cockatrice's face. The hammer flew at high speed while spinning around and around, and the chicken's beak

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The huge body of the man is turned upside down by a hit to the

　Elmore activates "Crash Ball II" and sends a high-speed vibrating ball to the cockatrice. The cockatrice noticed it and opened its mouth to scream.

　It was a high-pitched, unpleasant sound like metal being torn apart. Then, the high-speed vibrating ball reacted to the sound pressure and radiated spatial vibration waves. Then it disappeared after forming a destructive space.

　While Tamegoro and Elmore stall for time, I take out my hover cannon. Next, I activate the "projection barrel" to form a magnetic force generating barrel.

　When I connected the magnetic force generating barrel to the hover cannon, I called for Elmore. For a short time, Tamegoro had to buy time with only one of them, but he is fighting the good fight with his magnihammer and a circular shield with .

　He uses his circular shield to catch Cockatrice's powerful attacks and counterattacks with his magnihammer while moving around. Cockatrice's mental attacks and petrification by the evil eye do not seem to work on shadow puppets. Petrification may only be effective against ordinary creatures.

　It seems that Tamegoro decided to perform a great move when Cockatrice lost her balance and fell. He poured magic power into the Magni-Hammer and threw it with all his might while shouting, "Gawd! and threw it as hard as he could.

　The magnihammer spins around and flies, absorbing D-particles in the process and becoming gigantic. The gigantic hammer hit the cockatrice in the chest.

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　The chest caves in and breaks a rib, sending the cockatrice's huge body flying away. The hammer that hit the target spins around and spits out D-particles, which become smaller and return to Tamegoro's hand.

He said, "That's great. I think we can take down Tamegoro alone, but just in case."

　The cockatrice rolled on the ground, then got up and screamed in pain. He tries to petrify Tamegoro with his evil eye, but it is ineffective against the shadow puppet.

　Me and Elmore, in the hover cannon, were in a position as if we were drifting sideways in front of the cockatrice, pointing the end of the magnetically generated barrel at the cockatrice and pulling the trigger three times in rapid succession.

　The steel shells accelerated above the speed of sound due to the effect of the magnetically generated barrels and flew toward the cockatrice. One of the three shells missed, but the other two hit it in the chest and belly and exploded.

　Two large holes open in the cockatrice's flesh, spinning and bouncing it around and slamming it into the arena wall. It seemed to be powerful enough to finish off the cockatrice.

　The cockatrice disappears and becomes quiet.

Cockatrice feels weak compared to the evil Chitkaa."

Well, I guess there's a difference between a mid-boss class demon and an evil god."

　We searched for drops. A white magic stone was found and retrieved, and Elmore found and brought a "scroll of knowledge. Tamegoro found a ring.

　When I looked up the ring in the appraisal monocle, it was labeled as a "detoxification ring. It seems to be a ring that can detoxify even powerful poisons.

"With this, can't we always enter the dungeons of the Sea of Trees?"

Probably not. The Adventurers' Guild doesn't like the idea of singling one person out for special treatment.

Are you deciding what kind of knowledge you're going to get with this 'Scroll of Knowledge'?"

I've been interested in spatial structure for a long time. I'm wondering if I can develop a new kind of defensive magic that uses spatial structure.

　While Metis and I were talking, Tamegoro spotted a staircase. It was probably the stairway to the sixteenth floor.

Let's see what the sixteenth layer looks like."

　We went down the stairs. First we felt the cold, then we looked ahead and saw a land of ice. And on that land was a huge mountain of ice.

"Gosh, it's cold."

　My exhale turns white, and I feel a freezing cold all over, so I hastily pull out my warm clothes and put them on. Still cold, I put on my thermal cloak.

Without the thermal cloak, we're screwed here."

'But fighting a battle while wearing an insulating cloak is also problematic.

　Metis is right. The thermal cloak is not combat-oriented equipment, so you can't engage in fierce battles while wearing it.

　We approached the mountain of ice to see what kind of demons were there. Then we saw a hole in the iceberg.

Is that a cave, or does it feel artificial?"

　When I approached and checked, I found it was an ice tunnel or passageway.

'This looks like a place where a polar bear might attack you.'

　Hearing those words reminded me of the white War Bear-type shadow puppet that Ami had made.

　Perhaps because of such talk, a white bear with horns on its head appeared from the back of the white passage and attacked. Tamegoro saw it and stepped forward. He then poured magic power into the metal-claw generating device on the back of his hand, and the metal-claw popped out with a jerking sound.

　The battle between Tamegoro and the horned white bear began. I took out my demon-appraising goggles and examined the demon. The display read "Horned White Bear.

It's a name with no twists. And the only thing it has going for it is power."

　The defenses seemed to be reasonably high, but the metal claw was so sharp that the horned white bear was cut to pieces.

　As I am retrieving the magic stone, I feel the magic swelling behind me and turn around. I see a mass of flames flying toward me. Tamegoro jumps out with his round shield and catches the mass of flame with his round shield.

　An explosion occurred and Tamegoro was blown to pieces. I activated my "burst shotgun" and released 30 small detonation piles. A series of explosions occurred, and the blasts swept toward us. I endured it and looked for the enemy, but I couldn't find him.

　Elmore runs and looks for the place where he thinks the enemy was.

It looks like he escaped. But there are traces of blood.

　I got closer and checked it out too. Blood was running down to the floor of the icy passageway. The traces had disappeared outside the passage. He must have treated it in some way.

It was clearly magic. It was clearly magic, and attack magic at that.

　That reminded me of Xavier who I met in front of the middle boss room. ...... Oh, I don't think that was Xavier, but oh well.