Conquer - Chapter 207

“I hate regenerating bastards like you!” Herold’s incredibly huge armory was seen here as he was switching out weapons every now and then trying to find the right one. He has a dagger, a longsword, a spear, a rapier, lance, mace, flail, sickle, greatswords… Basically anything that identifies as a weapon type, Herold has it.

The most effective one on him is that greatsword. It was a perfectly balanced sword but its imbued with wind magic. A single swings knocks back that giant hunk of stone a couple of meters and breaks the armor surrounding its body.

But its insane regeneration and reforming is nearly impossible to damage it. Its stone armor changes depending on the situation.

“Holy Arrow!” The arrow on my Hou Yi’s bow took form into a bright yellow light. As soon as I shot it, hundreds of the same copy appeared, raining down on its body. Every single arrow pierced its body. The arrows stayed there for a second, then all simultaneously exploded. Revealing the disgusting flesh that was behind it.

But that giant stone monster begins to regenerate itself. The color of its armor changed from a brown colored look to a more white one. “Just keep doing that! I’ll strike its flesh once you break it again!” Herold commanded me.

I readied my bow and took aim. “Holy Arrow!” I short it and it multiplied itself to hundreds of itself. The moment it went and hit the monster, it didn’t pierce. It… reflected?

Herold was already running in the moment I shot my arrows, but since it didn’t pierce, “Sh-” the golem’s floating hands clapped Herold as soon as he got in the monster’s range. The moment the monster took apart both of his hands, Herold fell on the ground below.

“Let me try!” Yefa rushed in, “Explosive Fists! Change Stance, Tai Chi!” The hands of that monster was swinging and flailing around as it tried to catch her. But Yefa’s smooth movement managed to dodge every single one of it. She finally landed on the monster’s chest and a giant explosion ensued. Knocking the giant beast down on the ground.

“She’s powerful as always.” Precia flew next to me to watch Yefa’s rampage.

Yefa began to pound on that monster’s chest. Several debris were flying throughout and flaming explosions were happening each time Yefa punched. Her sheer power was enough to create a massive quake followed by digging the giant into a ravine that she created from her power. The horde took notice of this and began to pursue Yefa. But she didn’t care at all. “ARGH!” She punched and punched the monster even when its regenerating its own armor. But then suddenly, her punches stopped. We can’t see it clearly from here but from where Yefa was, there were lots of blood surrounding her.

“Arrow of Retrieval!” I readied my bow and shot it straight to Yefa’s back. The arrow latched itself to her and pulled her back to us. Yefa’s front body was filled with burns and blood was spurting out of her black gloves. “Yefa! Hey! Snap out of it!” Seems like she’s also unconscious. I remember that the Explosive Fists damages the user also. But she should’ve dealt enough damage to dig the monster’s body to lessen the impact… So why is she in this state..?

“Look!” Neco pointed at the distance. The monster’s armor was fully healed back again to full. But this time, the armor its wearing changed into a color red.

“My… attacks didn’t… work.” Yefa’s last words as she fell unconscious again.

“So does that mean that the debris that was flying wasn’t the armor but Yefa’s f-…”

“…Maybe.” Precia replied. “But this gave me an idea. The way the armor is changing, there must be a pattern.”

“What do you mean?” I asked.

“When Herold struck this monster with his greatsword imbued with wind magic, its armor turned into a color green. You then hit it with your Holy Arrows, the moment that you destroyed its armor, its flesh was seen and the monster was preoccupied with regenerating the armor. And then it changed into a white armor. But the next time you tried to hit it with the Holy Arrows again, it bounced off of it. And the attack that worked was Yefa’s flaming fists that destroyed the armor. But when its armor began to regenerate in another armor, her attacks didn’t work.”

“So you’re saying that the armor that this monster is changing to counters whatever the element we throw at it?”

“Exactly. Herold destroyed its armor with wind so it changed into an anti-wind armor. You destroyed it with light magic so it tried to counter your magic with light immunity. And Yefa destroyed it using fire magic so now its probably completely immune to fire magic.”

“This is why I hate fighting regenerative monsters like this… Anti-magic simply won’t work.” Herold flew to us. Seeing his state, it seems that he isn’t seriously damaged. “If only Zeta is here with his weird microbes then we might be able to win this… Wait, will it even work with that stone skin?”

“Let’s go, let’s try to fight this. Use different elements at once. Then Neco, use all of your skills to completely obliterate its flesh.”

The four of us flew straight to the golem. It just waved its hand and we’re already feeling a large gust of wind trying to knock us away. But we persevered and flew right at the golem. Right now, its just a giant target for us. I stayed back while they flew. I aimed my weapon, “Arrow of Brilliance!” A giant concentrated piece of arrow that’s heavily destructive. I shot it and its speed was as fast as the speed of light as it instantly went through its body without even making a single sound.

But just as it was as fast as I destroyed a giant chunk of its body, its armor is changing again to a white armor. “Light magic doesn’t work!” Precia shouted. “Make the hole of the armor larger!”

“Leave it to me!” Neco stopped and charged his daggers. His daggers’ length grew larger with the help of the dark magic surrounding it. In an X like form, Neco sent out a wave of darkness that pierced through its armor like it was nothing. Its armor fell onto the ground and the monster is changing into a dark armor now. “Dark magic doesn’t work!”

“Giant Wielder!” Herold’s greatsword grew incredibly large. It was half the size of the golem and he’s wielding it like it was nothing. He held it like a baseball bat and swung with all of his might.The golem’s body then suddenly turned into a gold color and Herold’s arms suddenly spurted out lots of blood. “This bastard..! He turned himself invulnerable…”

“Great Heal!” I casted and everyone’s wounds were better… for a moment.

“YARGH!” The golem’s invulnerability disappeared and the aftermath of that greatsword imbued with wind magic threw the golem away right at the horde completely obliterating it all. “Well, that’s one for… many? I guess?”

“Now!” I aimed my bow upwards to the sky, “Fallen Flames!” Then show the arrow up to the sky. As it fell down, it began to multiply again and again, slowly damaging the flesh of that weird golem monster.

Neco then ran straight to the golem’s bare chest, “Thousand Slashes!” And instantly reappeared behind its back. The damage he dealt opened up the recovering armor and its flesh to the point that we can see a small bright light inside.

“It must be the core! Let’s destroy it! Dominion, eat the magic particles around!” Her shield absorbed all life around her including the flesh of the demons, monsters and angels that the monster stepped on. “This is… too much!” She then redirected the shield right at the golem’s chest and her shield then emitted a giant ray of blue light that pierced through the monster’s chest to the other side. It completely burnt the monster’s flesh, revealing the yellow floating orb in the middle.

The golem began to spew out yellow lightning everywhere. And a single touch of it electrifies and burns you seeing how the ground gets destroyed and the dead bodies completely.

“I’m ending this!” Herold brought back his weapon and changed it into a new one. This time it was a sword… well not really… It was just the hilt of the sword. And the electricity of the monster were being absorbed in that hilt forming a weapon of pure volatile lightning lashing out everywhere. Herold sliced downwards, and suddenly, it felt like the world had stopped. “Reality Slash.”

Sounds everywhere felt like it disappeared. Only after a couple of seconds, everything returned. The golem’s body were then suddenly misaligned and the glow on its core disappeared. The moment that it fell, it was also the moment that we realized that Herold cut the stone golem in half.