NOVEL NEXT B1 | Chapter 71
Ashley
“Grr sssss grr grr ssskr grrkr sss,” the kobold lord states towards me, making me blink in confusion.
What?
I… have no idea what it just said.
Although I can tell it’s pissed as hell.
The kobold lord is wearing a fancy set of pitch black armor with the usual crimson cracks running through it, with a helmet on its serpentine head and glowing crimson eyes underneath its visor. The armor covers every single inch of its body, and is rather thick. Thick enough and with so few signs that I honestly can’t tell what gender this kobold even is.
As for how I know it’s mad? The trembling probably has something to do with it.
And the large boulder-sized bits of destruction floating above its head likely imply angry as well.
The kobold lord starts talking again, but just like the first time, I don’t understand a word it says.
“He’s saying some things that are probably being censored by the livestream,” Chaos says, the Primordial sounding rather upset himself. Especially since he can’t do anything about the kobold with their rules in place and the way Domains work. Something he explained before.
I blink.
Wait. You know how to speak kobold?
“I can speak all languages,” Chaos replies, sounding rather smug about that. “How do you think the System began translating the languages of users within it for other users?”
Huh.
Convenient.
The kobold lord sends all of the boulders of destruction mana at me, making me quickly teleport backwards before jumping and flapping my wings. Just barely dodging most of the attacks, with the exception of two of them that hit my legs. Grazing them both.
Then the kobold lord starts to shout in anger as more and more boulder-sized orbs of destruction mana form around him – according to Chaos’s chosen pronoun at least – before flying towards me.
I fly one way and then another, avoiding all of the orbs of destruction mana. Only for all of the kobold knights to begin rushing straight at me.
And it’s not just them. The kobold lord himself also draws a rather intimidating looking glowing crimson sword with a jagged edge and starts running as well. Kicking up all of the dust in his wake and moving far faster than I am.
Shit.
Shit, shit, shit.
Without any hesitation, I look through my Skill Trees to find something that’ll make me fly faster. And then I purchase the first one I see in an instant, using up 100 Skill Points for one of the skills from that roc boss monster from before. One called Agile Flying.
A rather straightforward name, albeit one I can’t think much on as I suddenly start flying faster and with more ease.
But I’m still slower than the kobold lord and his knights. So I’m forced to send my own attacks down on them, quickly proving my attacks to be a good chunk stronger than before. Strong enough to actually kill some of the knights.
Until they start using barriers. At which point it becomes more difficult to pick them off as I fly.
Our little game of chase continues on and on and on as we cross the lands of the Unique Domain. And if it were just the damned kobold lord and his knights chasing me, things would be tolerable.
But it’s not just them.
More and more monsters join the chase the longer it goes on.
Dracoraptors start chasing after some of the kobold knights while breathing destruction breath at them. Drakes start flying after me, shooting fireballs. Kobolds from other fortresses jump out and join the chase to support their fellow kobolds at the kobold lord’s call. Ants leave their hives to pick off stragglers on the edges of the parade from all the species. And spiders come out to pick out ants and drag them to their nearby nests.
And within just five minutes of the chase, I find myself leading a massive parade throughout the Unique Domain.
At some point I focus almost entirely on just dodging. Occasionally taking one blow every now and then, but dodging most of the hits without using barriers and using as few attacks as possible.
Because I don’t have any mana to waste, and I don’t have any places to hide anymore. Not with my old hiding spot having kind of blown up, leading to this situation.
One hour passes, with the parade growing larger and larger. And right when I’m beginning to wonder if I’m going to die from this, the King of Destruction lets out a loud roar. Following which he sends his usual attacks into the air, making the monsters in the parade all panic as many of them realize they’re too far from their homes to hide.
I, on the other hand, just rush inside of a random spider nest. Using several bolts of destruction mana to bring down the ceiling before I rush straight inside. Hoping against hope that the kobold lord is lost inside of the mass of monsters.
But, of course, he isn’t. And less than a minute later, I hear an explosion coming from the entrance that I sealed up.
Then the sounds of screeching, screaming, and roaring monsters echo from outside as the ground shakes. The King of Destruction’s attack no doubt slaughtering a bunch of the ones that didn’t manage to find cover.
More importantly though, I find myself rushing straight past a bunch of spiders that quickly grow confused. With each one trying to shoot out webbing at me, hitting me with the webbing, and making a wave of Chaos Energy shoot out from me through Unchained that erases said webbing.
I continue flying straight through the nest while completely ignoring the cobwebs that are all cleared the moment I enter them thanks to Unchained. A very useful skill.
“You’re welcome,” Chaos comments amidst the, well, chaos.
Seconds pass as I hear the kobold lord rampaging his way through the nest after me. Then the seconds turn into minutes. And eventually I find myself passing through a large tunnel filled with massive cobwebs on all sides and some stronger spiders. Spiders more on the level of the kobold knights known as drachne warriors.
Then after them, I find spiders on par with the kobold knights. Ones known as drachne high guards. And they I have to work to avoid the hell out of.
Fortunately for me, these damned spiders seem to have the exact same instinct when they see something flying fast towards them through their very large nest.
Shoot silk at it and ask questions later.
Well, if they could ask questions.
Unfortunately for me, the kobold lord very slowly closes the distance. Proving his greater speed once again, especially now that I’m underground and don’t have as much freedom in my movements.
But right around the same time he finally catches up to me, I find a… uh… new threat.
The kobold lord and I both break out into a large, open area filled with purplish-crimson puddles and webbing like a cocoon all around the walls. With a massive spider in the center of the area.
♢ Level 80 Drachne Lord – 544 Potential Skills – X ♢
And both the spider and the kobold lord instantly lock eyes, albeit with the kobold lord proceeding to focus on me again while keeping an eye on it. Clearly wary of the thing, unlike any of the other monsters in the parade that it treated like nothing but gnats. With the thing literally crushing some of them underfoot.
I ignore them both as I fly straight to the other side of the nest before entering the tunnel there. Then I proceed to move through the tunnels, heading away from the center as I hear a loud and angry screech behind me.
Please start fighting each other.
The ground begins shaking and the walls start to crumble a little, making me glance back to find the kobold lord still chasing after me, with the spider chasing him.
What the fuck.
The drachne lord proceeds to tear through its own nest after the kobold lord while occasionally shooting webbing from its mouth along with the same liquid that was in the center of its nest. Most likely some sort of destruction affinity poison.
But the kobold lord just ignores it as it makes barriers and dodges all of its attacks, still sending attacks my way.
And the parade continues with numerous spiders chasing after us and the drachne lord. All the way till we make it to the exit that is on the other side of the nest. Something I realized would happen just from seeing a spider I damaged in one next leaving through another entrance a little while back.
Then we keep our march up outside of the nest, with the drachne lord chasing the kobold lord for several minutes. The thing even getting attacks in on the thing and weakening it.
Shit. We kind of destroyed its nest, so it looks rather mad.
Even if most of that damage was its own doing…
And with that, the parade of monsters continues just as it was before the King of Destruction’s rain of hell.
Plus one mini boss.