Chapter 43
Way of Doing
Translator : PolterGlast
The Null Zombie's
movements are quite fast.
I feel like it only
took about two seconds to crawl out of the hole, so it probably has quite a lot
of arm strength.
Null Zombies are also
very fast, and even if you kill them, they kept moving for a while and magic
doesn't even work on them... no matter how you think about it, they are
completely shitty monsters.
"Ubowa..."
"Ubowo..."
What's more, that
voice from earlier seems to have been counted as a roar, and three new holes have
already opened around it, and Null Zombies are about to appear from inside.
It seems pretty tough
if I don't clean it up quickly.
"Lightning
Bolt"
After preparing to
escape to my home as usual, I release a Lightning Bolt for the time being.
Seeing is believing,
so I decided to try hitting the Null Zombie with magic once.
Then, the lightning
that went towards it with a crackling sound disappeared without a sound just
before it hit the Null Zombie.
I see... it's the type
that nullifies and erases the magic itself.
I wonder if this will
work.
The Null Zombies are
coming towards me.
While dragging their
feet, their speed is only slightly inferior to that of the Grim Reaper.
If I stay still, I
don't seem to have enough room to use magic many times.
"Well then, let's
do it."
The magic I activate
is--Item Box.
And what I take out
from inside is the iron shield that the Skeleton Soldier was using.
I'll be using this one
this time.
"Railgun"
The magic I've used
the most since I came to this Alistella.
Now, it hardly takes
any time to prepare for magic activation.
I can perform almost
seamlessly from kneading magic power, drawing a line to the opponent, and then
activating it.
I put the iron shield
I just took out on the line and released it.
The shield flies while
rotating at high speed, receiving electromagnetic acceleration from the
railgun.
Just as the surface
began to melt, it approached the Null Zombie coming towards me.
The distance is
getting closer, 10 meters, 5 meters... I swallow my saliva.
As I watch
nervously... the iron shield hits the Null Zombie perfectly.
"--Yosh!"
The shield hit the
Null Zombie while making an unfamiliar sound and although it slowed down a bit,
it continued to fly, crashing into the tombstone.
Meanwhile, the Null Zombie,
which was sandwiched between them, was severed into two parts, upper and lower.
I don't have the
leeway to see how long it can move after death.
I use the item box
again and take out two iron shields.
This time, it's a
large shield that the Skeleton Knight was using, which is a size larger than
the one from earlier.
Draw a line... and
fire.
Then draw a line to
another one... and fire.
The large shield on
the railgun line started moving slowly as if rolling at first.
The contrast between
that leisurely movement and the Null Zombies rapidly approaching me made me
feel a little uneasy.
But while rotating
around the line, the large shield accelerated.
While using the
lightning around it to its advantage, it continued to accelerate, and its
movement speed increased rapidly.
And... crash.
While making an
unpleasant sound, it blew away the Null Zombie's body while breaking it into
pieces.
I see, if it's a large
shield, the impact is too great, so it blows the opponent away.
The Null Zombies are
blown away quite far while the front half of their bodies are crushed.
I observed three of
them, including one that hit a tombstone and whose upper and lower bodies
separated.
The zombie whose upper
body was separated had already stopped moving.
The Null Zombies whose
front half of their bodies were crushed were repeatedly attacking their
surroundings.
The gravestone that
was grazed by the attack was greatly gouged, and the gravestone that was
directly hit was blown away greatly.
The tombstones that
were grazed by the zombies' attacks were greatly gouged, and the ones that were
directly hit were blown away.
What an incredible
power.
If that's combined
with paralysis... it seems that the difficulty will increase at once if we
fight in close combat.
"For now, I'm
glad that I can manage somehow..."
I breathe a sigh of
relief when I see the Null Zombies, which had been moving around for about a
minute, fall down.
It seems that I can
handle the battle with the Null Zombies without any problems, so I'm relieved.
--The strategy I came
up with is simple.
I named it the
"If magic doesn't work, just blow it away with physical force"
strategy.
Please don't mention
my naming sense.
I'm aware that I have
no sense.
When I asked
Varietta-san about how to defeat the Null Zombies, he said something like this.
[I was able to defeat
it somehow by having Strength cast on me and strengthening my attack.]
When I heard that, I
thought.
Even if magic doesn't
work, a sword strengthened by magic will work.
Once I get to that
point, the rest is easy.
If that's the case,
then if I physically attack with something accelerated by magic, I should be
able to connect the damage without any problems, don't you think?
From my point of view,
who uses railguns a lot, it was natural to come to this conclusion.
And what was the
result...? I found out that I could fight without any problems.
It seems that Null
Zombies also have the characteristic of corroding equipment like zombies, but
it doesn't matter much because the shield's original shape is gone when it's
launched by the railgun.
Even if it becomes
unusable, I still have stocks of shields.
If it runs out, I can
replenish it on the seventh floor.
However, this eighth
floor... it's hard to move, but it's perfect for leveling up.
When I checked my
status, my LV had increased by 2 in the current battle.
Once I set up a door
near the ninth floor, I'll hunt Null Zombies.
It's a kind design
that allows you to keep fighting because it will come to you on its own if you
wait until it roars.
Now that I know that
my level will increase rapidly, I don't mind this stench at all.
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