8 Journey 7# Final Boss of Orcus Labyrinth
Status!
Name: Akihiro Tomioka (17 YEARS OLD)
Gender: Male
Level: 81
Strength: 2921
Vitality: 2905
Resistance: 2929
Agility: 2892
Magic: 2421
Magic Resistance: 2420
Skills:
[Monster Break, High-speed Regeneration, Beast Movement, Dragon Strength, Resist Physical, Close Quarters Combat Proficiency, Swordsmanship, Intimidation, Sense Presence, Mana Manipulation, Iron Stomach, Golden Fire Manipulation, Golden Lightning Clad, Golden Eyes, Dragon Aura, Sonic bullet, Night Vision, Poison Resist, Paralysis Resist, Magic Compression, Magic Emission, Heat Perception, Hide Presence, Magic Penetration, Flicker, Air Walk, Divine Walk, Varja, Telepathic Communication, Language Comprehension]
Akihiro stats is more superior, that's it.
Back to the story!
Their journey continued until they had descended 100 levels from where Hajime and Akihiro first started. The three of them have grown stronger than before. Akihiro watched Hajime and Yue being lovey-dovey which annoys him since he thinks he is only a third wheel, not like he needs any love right now, his first and most important objective is to survive and get the hell out from the Labyrinth.
Finally, at the 100 levels, three of them are in wide space. Hajime sense something beyond the door, freedom.
Hajime: "Isn't this the greatest? We finally reached our goal."
Hajime disregarded his instinct and put his bold smile on. He had no choice but to keep going, no matter what was behind there.
Akihiro smiled as he see Hajime's smile, they will finally be free and back to the surface.
Yue eyed the door with an expression that told him she was prepared for it.
The three finally walked past the last of the pillars and advanced towards the door.
At that moment, a huge magic formation nearly 30 meters wide appeared between them and the door. Crimson light emitted from the magic, and it pulsated.
Hajime and Akihiro recognized this magic. They couldn't forget it, since it was the same magic that triggered the trap that day and caused them to fall into the abyss. But the magic formation for the Behemoth is a measly 10m in diameter. Compared to the magic formation from last time, this was 3 times larger than that, a lot more complex and detailed.
Akihiro: "Are you kidding me?"
Akihiro felt nervous, his smile disappear from his face.
Hajime: "Hey hey, what's with this size? Is it really the last boss?"
Yue: "…It's fine…We won't lose…"
As expected, Hajime smiled. Yue tugged on one of his arms tightly with a determined expression on her face.
Hajime nodded at Yue's words and glared at the magic formation. Seems like they wouldn't be able to advance if they didn't defeat the monster that came out of that magic formation.
However, that's not the case for Akihiro who is frowning. The last boss no matter what is going to be hard. He isn't going to be arrogant this time, he's serious.
The formation shone more and more until it finally burst. Hajime, Akihiro, and Yue both held up their arms to prevent the light from blinding them. When the light disappeared, the boss awaited them.
A monster over 30m in length, 6 heads with long necks, sharp fangs, and dark red eyes. Comparable to the Hydra of the myths.
""""""Kuruuaan!""""""
Those six pairs of eyes stared at Hajime and Akihiro as they gave off a strange roar. It seemed to want to bring judgment upon the intruders who didn't know their place. A fierce thirst for blood, that would have stopped an ordinary man's heart, was flung at Hajime. One of the heads with a Red Crest on it opened its mouth as flames emitted from it. The flames were already on the scale of a massive wall.
Hajime jumped to the right while Yue and Akihiro jumped to the right to start their counterattack.
Hajime fired Donner at the Red Head, and the bullet sent it flying.
Akihiro fired [Sonic Bullet] at the Blue Head, it create a big hole at the Blue Head.
Both of them smile seeing their attacks work, they thought this would be easy but when the White Head healed Blue Head and Red Head, they got tense. White light wrapped around the Red Head and Blue Head. White light restored it fully, like time had been reversed.
Yue had launched an ice shard at a Green Head and blew it away. However, the result was the same as the Red one, the white head cast its spell and healed it.
Hajime started to speak with Yue and Akihiro through the [Telepathic Communication], while he tsked.
Hajime: ("Yue, Aki! Aim for that white head! Or it's endless!")
Yue: ("Okay!")
Akihiro: ("Roger!")
The head with a blue pattern shot out gravel of ice from its mouth. Hajime, Akihiro, and Yue were aiming for the white head while they avoided the shot.
Bang!
Yue: "Scarlet Spear!"
Akihiro: "Golden Thunder!"
A flash of light, thunder, and blazing spear shot towards the white head. However, the moment when it was about to hit, the yellow head quickly went into the line of fire and bloated. The head shone yellow and took both of the attack's head-ons. After the attack settled, there was an unscathed yellow head glaring at them.
Akihiro: "Holy cow, how the heck that's possible?!"
Akihiro is surprised since he's never seen a monster survive his Golden Thunder.
Hajime: "Tsk! A shield. That head shields the healing head, a nice balance."
Hajime threw an incendiary grenade over the heads. At the same time, he fired Donner at the White Head with full power. Akihiro threw a rapid fireball at the White even though not very destructive. Yue helped by firing off her "Scarlet Spear" in rapid succession.
Her "Azure Sky" may have surpassed the yellow head and hit the white head, but she would be easy prey after using such a strong spell that would exhaust her. She may be able to recover fast if she drank blood, but the heads were probably not going to allow the chance. Unless the number of heads could be halved, she couldn't use her best spells.
The yellow head was tanking all their attacks. But soon it was showing signs of damage in its previously flawless head.
"Kuruan!"
The white head took to healing the yellow head at once. The head performed its healer role perfectly. However, at that moment the incendiary grenade exploded over the white head. Tar at 3000 degrees centigrade were scattered around. When it poured onto the white head, it screamed in pain.
Akihiro combines his Lightning and Fire to create his ultimate attack, Plasma Destruction but it takes time and concentration as combining two elements is hard for Akihiro.
Don't miss this chance! Hajime sent this message telepathically. They planned for a simultaneous attack, but before they could execute it, a scream sounded. Yue's scream.
Yue: "Noooo!!"
Hajime: "!? Yue!"
Akihiro can't bother, since if he's losing his focus then his ultimate attack will explode and potentially kill him.
Hajime quickly tried to rush over to her but was intercepted by wind blades and fireballs fired by the green head and redhead respectively. Yue was still screaming, Hajime wondered what was going on with his teeth clenched. The blackhead, he realized it had done nothing this whole time.
Akihiro, who was left defenseless, was attacked by Green Head. The Green Head sent wind blades at Akihiro, Akihiro took the attack with his body. Akihiro's body looks bloody as blood is dripping from his arm, but he still hasn't let go of his ultimate attack. Akihiro gritted his teeth as he endured the pain.
Hajime: "Aki!"
Hajime panic seeing Akihiro's injury but Akihiro shout.
Akihiro: "Don't worry about me!"
Hajime's expression changes to anger. Hajime fired Donner at the black head, while he dodged around with "Flicker" and "Air Walk". With the sound of his firearm, the black head that was staring at Yue was blown away. Yue collapsed at the same time. He could see that her face was pale even from a distance. The blue head opened its big mouth and stretched its head towards Yue to swallow her.
Akihiro: "Take this you fucking bastard!"
BOOM!
Golden Plasma Beam destroys almost half the dragon. Akihiro standing silent... he's not moving...
Hajime: "Aki!"
The Hydra is still not dead, yet, they are regenerating as they still tried to attack Yue. Hajime gritted his teeth whether to save Akihiro or Yue, but he decided to save Yue first as she was the closest one.
He threw a flash grenade and sonic grenade at the Hydra.
"Sonic Grenade" was developed from a demon that could emit ultrasonic waves that they met on the 80th level. The demon had a special organ inside its body that generated these sounds to attack. Hajime didn't get any special magic for defeating this monster, but he was able to use its special organ as materials for his new grenade.
Those two grenades covered the Hydra in intense light and ultrasonic waves. Hajime carried Yue and hid behind the pillars with the chance those grenades provided.
Hajime: "Hey! Yue! Get it together!"
Yue: "…"
She didn't react to his words with her paling expression and trembling body. Hajime gave her some sacred water via kissing. After a while, light began to dwell in her hollow eyes.
Hajime: "Yue!"
Yue confirmed Hajime's existence with blinking eyes. She extends out her small hands and touched his face.
Yue: "Hajime?"
Hajime: "Yo. You all right?"
A relieved sigh escaped her lips as she realized that Hajime was really in front of her, and tears began to collect at the edge of her eyes.
Yue: "Hajime... I was..."
Hajime: "Hold it together. Aki is in critical condition, we're going to finish them first."
Yue nod.
Hajime: "I'm going with my special thing. I can't fire repeatedly, so back me up."
Yue: "M-hm!"
The two jumped out of the shadow of the pillar and started their counterattack.
Yue: "Scarlet Spear! Imperial Cannon! Frozen Rain!"
The trigger for the magic was activated rapidly, and the magic built up at an impossible speed. An ice tornado accompanied a spiraling spear, with vacuum blades whirling around it, and a sharp needle pelted the Hydra all at once. She had aimed for the gap when they attacked and launched it towards the red, green, and blue head to force the yellow head to act. But the yellow head didn't move as it noticed Hajime aiming for the white head and raised a roar.
"Kuruuan!"
Then a nearby pillar waved and it transformed into an impromptu shield. This yellow head seems to be able to use a skill similar to the scorpion's, though the scale was smaller.
Yue's magic hit the stone walls, blasting through the vanguard of walls. The magic directly hit three of the heads.
Hajime then show up with "Schlagen". Hajime jumped into the air using his skills and aimed his Schlagen.
Just as he had assumed, the yellow head stood in the way of the shot for the white head.
Hajime formulated a spark in the Schlagen with his "Lightning Clad". The bullet was a full metal jacket, the Taur Stone being covered by the Shtar ore from the scorpion. Shtar ore had a high affinity to magic and it suited "Lightning Clad" well. All the compressed combustion powder was ignited with the spark.
Bang!!
The red bullet was electromagnetically accelerated through the 1.5m barrel with a tremendous explosive sound. This gun was 10 times more powerful than Donner's maximum output. With his simple calculation, this rifle was 100 times more powerful than a normal anti-matter rifle. This was a monster weapon that was not possible without this world's special ore and magic.
When it was fired, the bullet made a red trail like it was a thick laser. Yellowhead met the bullet directly as it burned through the air.
But the bullet reached the white head like there was nothing there. The bullet penetrated through everything like nothing as it blasted through the wall in the rear. Vibrations violently wracked the whole level as if an earthquake had happened.
What was left were two necks that looked like they never had a head to begin with. The open wound had been cauterized by the heat and made it seem like it never had those two heads. Debris was littered everywhere, and no one knew how long that bullet kept going, only that it left a huge hole in the wall.
The other heads did not think that almost half of their heads could be extinguished in a single moment. Even Yue was staring at Hajime in utter amazement and had forgotten her enemy. When Hajime landed flat on the ground, there was smoke rising out of Schlagen's barrel as the round was ejected. When the shell fell to the floor, the three heads regained their senses. All three pairs of eyes glared at Hajime, but their previous opponent was not someone to lightly take their eyes off of.
Yue: "Scorching Heaven!"
Immediately after, electric discharge started to gather around the 3 heads and soon, 6 lightning spheres surrounded the heads. The discharge soon lengthened and connected all the spheres together, forming a huge lightning globe in the center.
Zing!!
When the globe burst, it rained down lightning of great power within the confines of the 6 smaller spheres. The three heads tried to run, but the surrounding lightning spheres were acting like walls. As the wrath of God poured down from the sky, flashes and thunder filled the room.
Helpless, the three heads screamed in agony as they were charcoaled and erased by the superlative magic that lasted more than 10 seconds.
Like always, Yue collapsed into a sitting position after using that strong of a spell. She was breathing heavily as her magic power was exhausted and on her expressionless face were the eyes that conveyed satisfaction; she gave Hajime a thumbs up to show her satisfaction. Hajime returned the gesture with his own thumbs up and smiled. He began to walk while he carried the rifle on his shoulder. What remained of the Hydra were left behind him as he made his way to Yue.
Just after that.
Yue: "Hajime!"
Yue's desperate voice sounded out. As he wondered what was up, he followed her line of sight. From the Hydra's remains rose a seventh head that glared at him. Hajime stiffened unintentionally.
However, the seventh silver head shifted its gaze to Yue and it let loose an aurora without any preparations. Like the Schlagen shot, the aurora shot towards Yue in an instant. She couldn't move because of magic exhaustion.
The moment the silver head turned to Yue, Hajime had jumped out as his body was attacked by chills.
Just like with the blue head earlier, Hajime was able to jump into the line of fire to save Yue. This time the results were different. The aurora was swallowing Hajime whole. Yue's body was blown away by the aftereffects of the hit, even if it wasn't a direct hit.
Soon the aurora calmed down, and Yue sat herself up as her whole body was in pain. She searched for the figure of Hajime, as he had been swallowed by the aurora after he forced his way through to take the attack.
Hajime had not moved from the place he blocked the attack. He was in an imposing stance as smoke blew from his whole body. On the floor was the wreckage of the melted Schlagen.
"H-Hajime?"
"…"
He was unresponsive. His body just shook and fell forward.
"Hajime!"
Yue quickly rushed over to him, ignoring her aching body as she was driven by uneasiness.
Yue: "Hajime... Drink... The sacred water...!"
Yue gave the sacred water via kissing but Hajime isn't healing faster... Hajime's right eye can't go back to normal.
The seventh head is still shooting, the pillar won't last long. Yue tried to attack the seventh head with Donner but it's useless.
Hajime is bleeding with his right eye destroyed.
Akihiro is very injured on his arm and chest, but he is still standing, not moving.
Both of them then see Yue struggle to defeat the Seventh head. Both of them tried their hardest to move... They won't sleep there and watch Yue die... They promised that the three of them would go back home... Isn't that right, Yue?
DETERMINATION!
They quickly sprang to protect Yue.
A gust of wind blew.
Akihiro deflects the light bullets with his Dragon Sword, the Dragon Sword is showing damages and cracks but he still tried his hardest to protect Yue.
Yue was in Hajime's arm. He was breathing heavily from his wounds and one of his eyes was shut, but he gave Yue a tight hug.
Hajime: "Don't cry, Yue. It's your win."
Yue: "Hajime! Aki!"
She couldn't believe her eyes, both of them still alive. Akihiro deflects all light bullets, he steps back to go near Yue and Hajime.
Hajime gazed at the silver head while Akihiro smiling, their killing intent is very clear. The head glared back while making a bullet of light float in the surrounding. It threw the bullet so there would be no more discussion about who escaped death.
""So slow...""
Both of them said. They did not move until the last moment.
"Divine Step Final Derivative Skill: [Light Speed]"
The three of them dodged all the light bullets. The seventh head suddenly stops his attack.
Hajime and Akihiro stood strong even after all those attacks. Hajime with his destroyed right eye, staring at the seventh head. Akihiro, with his golden eyes glowing, is smiling like a twisted maniac.
Hajime: "Here we go, Yue, Aki. We're gonna win this!!"
Akihiro: "Let's do this."
...
The seventh head is going all out too, the Hydra transforming into his last form. Suddenly Hajime vomits a mouthful of blood. Akihiro's vision is getting blurry even though he has High-Speed Regeneration, his mana is drained and Akihiro's body is very tired from deflecting all the light bullets.
Hajime: "Guh!"
Yue: "Hajime?!"
Hajime wipes the blood on his chin.
Akihiro: "Don't die yet, Hajime."
Hajime: "I know... He should be coming to crush us with all his might if he's planning to finish us."
Akihiro is wielding Dragon Sword with one hand, the Dragon Sword almost slips away from his hand but he tightly clenches his Dragon Sword with two hands.
Hajime: "Yue, do you have any magic left?"
Yue: "Only a little..."
Hajime: "That'll do... Yue, when I give the signal, cast "Azure Sky". Until then, put your heart and soul into evading."
Yue nod. Hajime then stare at Akihiro.
Hajime: "I need you to distract that big guy, can you do that?"
Akihiro: "Yep, don't worry, just do whatever it takes to kill that thing."
Hajime: "The three of us are gonna win this."
The three of them nod at each other, they smiled even knowing they are in critical condition but they know they are gonna win because no one going to stop them.
Yue then is on Hajime's back. Akihiro sprang to distract the Hydra.
The Hydra launch a lot of beams at Hajime, Akihiro, and Yue. Hajime and Akihiro break their limit and dodge the light beams.
Akihiro blocked some of the light beams with Dragon Sword since the Hydra is more focused on Akihiro. Hajime jumped around in the air near the ceiling, dodging the barrage.
Akihiro: "Take this!"
Akihiro create fireballs and threw a lot of fireballs at the Dragon Head.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Even though the fireballs did not cause any significant damages, it was enough to distract the Hydra.
Hajime and Yue are on the air, preparing their final attack.
Both of them approached the Hydra who is distracted by Akihiro.
Hajime: "Yue!"
Yue: "Okay! "Azure Sky"!"
A pale sun appeared in the blast furnace and melted the silver head that was restrained. There was a chain explosion inside, and the power broke through its defense. The damage the silver head had suffered was not negligible.
"Guuruaaa!!"
The Hydra tried to run away but Akihiro and Hajime won't let the Hydra run away. Hajime shoot with his Donner at the head and Akihiro threw his Dragon Sword at the head with high speed.
BOOM!
The Dragon Sword was destroyed to pieces after piercing the Hydra head.
The Hydra tried to use its aurora attack but the silver head melted in the high heat and was unable to shoot it.
Hajime's perception could no longer sense the hydra, as it disappeared from his senses.
Hajime: "I've reached... My limit..."
This time he was convinced of its death and collapsed backward.
Akihiro's bleeding stops, but his body is fatigued after moving and forcing his body.
Akihiro: "Yare yare... I want to eat some ramen..."
Akihiro can only feel pain and collapsed forward.
Yue: "Hajime! Aki!"
Hajime and Akihiro fainted, even after losing consciousness; they were still smiling at the end.
That is the smile of victory.
-To Be Continued
3500 words, I've reached my limits
You know that I cancel the Rising of the Staff Hero but don't worry, I change the idea and will still publish Rising of the Shield Hero fanfic but beware as I know some of you will hate this idea.
[Red Saber, Servant of Shield Hero]
- Synopsis
A boy who was supposed to live a happy life, died in a void. But he is now reborn, not as a normal boy, but as Mordred, the 'son' of Arthur Pendragon. However, his problem is now, why is he a 'girl'? Why was Arthur Pendragon dead earlier than he anticipated? This isn't the world that he knows, but he knows one answer to this question, Alternate Universe. Living 'his' second life as Knight and dying in the Dragon's hand, he's given a third chance in life, with him being summoned by Naofumi Iwatani. He will be the Knight for Naofumi and will only be loyal to Naofumi.
Mordred Pendragon from Fate Grand Order. I actually like the idea of being a servant to the main character since it's easier to write, I know I'm so lazy but don't blame me, I have other fanfic to write.
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Because of the 3500 words, please expect some mistakes but if some of you want to be useful then please comment on the mistake I made.
