Gambit Of The Living Weapon - Chapter 240 Immovable objec

Joseph and Claire exited their rooms after finally waking up and kept each other company while marching to get some breakfast.

As they moved through the hallway, Claire noticed that the boy was unusually quiet for some reason, not that she was complaining.

“Hey… Claire…?” he whispered.

“Well… It was good while it lasted…” she mumbled, “what is it?”

Joseph started to look tense while crossing his arms and frowning his eyes, “What do girls like?”

The young lady just tilted her head, “excuse me…?”

“You know… Girls… What do they like…?”

“What kind of question is that…? You think all girls think the same way??”

“They don’t?”

“Do all boys think the same way?”

“Of couse we do! We all like games, comics, and action movies!”

“Really…? All boys? In the whole world? They all like the same things?” Claire sarcastically asked, “why are you even interested in that?”

“I want to give a gift to Dia!”

Claire raised an eyebrow, showing that she was slightly interested in this topic, “Then just ask her what she wants…”

“I can’t do that!! It needs to be a surprise! Can’t you help me??”

“What makes you think I would know what she wants? The girl was literally born yesterday!! I don’t think anyone alive knows what she wants…”

“Ugh… True… Ah!” he replied while snapping his fingers, “That’s right! Ellie can read minds now!! She can find out what Dia wants!!”

“…” Claire just rolled her eyes and watched as Joseph stormed to the room in front.

“Ellie!!” Joseph shouted while slamming the door open, “Ellie! I need… Uuhh…?”

The boy stopped his speech as soon as he noticed how deserted that place was. The only ones there were Ellie and Dia who had now taken the place of helping Ellie with her food while she was still drained from using so much energy.

“Hey, Joey…” Ellie whispered, looking worried.

“Uuhh… Everything ok? Where is everyone…?”

“They all jumped into a portal after some weird lady appeared and told them that a dragon was attacking their friends…” Dia replied, followed by looking at her plate that was still full but being unable to eat due to not feeling hungry anymore, “Also, Ellie is sad…”

“I’m not sad, I’m just worried…” the girl corrected.

Dia then approached Joseph and began to whisper in his ear, “can you cheer her up, please? I can’t eat while she is like that…”

“…”

“Joseph…?”

“YES!!!” he shouted after realizing he was spacing out while looking at Dia who was so close to him now, “I- I mean… Yes, sure…”

“Thank you!!” she replied with a gentle smile, which made Joseph want to smack his head against a wall to hide his red cheecks.

Joseph then rushed to Ellie’s side and began his operation ‘Make Dia happy by making Ellie happy!’

“Oh… I… I’m just a tad worried about my aunt and her friends… I wanted to go and help them but I’m still having trouble moving my body…”

“Why would you worry? This is great news! We were looking for a dragon and now he showed up! Miss Evlin will stomp him and complete the request from that weird goddess from last night! Problem solved!” he explained, “and then we will finally be able to go home and…”

Joseph then realized something that he had been ignoring for a while now.

“… And reunite with our family…” he whispered while looking at Dia and noticing that after Evlin finished this dragon, he would have to say goodbye to her since she was from another world.

Ellie looked at his expression, “Joey…?”

“… … … I… I need to go to the bathroom… Excuse me…” he commented while exiting the room, just as Claire finally managed to catch up.

She saw his face and became curious as to what had happened. The only time she ever saw him showing that face was after he had a fight with his parents.

“What happened to him?” Claire asked.

Neither Dia nor Ellie could reply. They had no idea of what was going on in that kid’s mind.

Part 2

“Auren, you stand back!!” Daren stated while he stood in front of his friend, “We’ll handle Knucker!”

Auren then raised his eyebrow in confusion, “Knucker…?”

“It’s that dragon’s name… We got a request from a goddess last night asking to deal with him…” Lilith replied, “I didn’t think we would meet him so soon…”

The whole group was just standing with their weapons in hand waiting for the enemy to move. Auren was feeling confused as he was sure he never heard the old man referring to himself by the name ‘Knucker’, but considering how he seemed to have some memory problems, he might have just forgotten his own name.

“Ok, Knucker! Let’s do this!!” Evlin stated while clenching her fist and charging it with healing magic to increase her strength.

The old man turned around to look at her, “Knucker…? What…?”

Evlin charged at him with her boosted speed and delivered a punch aimed at his face, but the dragon was faster and blocked it with his scaled arm.

“Young lady, could you do me a favor and tell me where the church of the west is?”

“…” Evlin gazed at her gauntlet that was so easily stopped and leaped back to create some distance between then.

Lilith and Daren jumped in next and slashed the old man’s back with her silver sword and his silver claws, but just like before, they had little effect on him.

“What’s this guy made of???” Daren whispered.

Leona moved in next and began to charge a fireball that was as big as a house and launched it at the enemy.

“Mmm… You kids sure like playing around… I would gladly entertain you for a bit, but I have a job to do…” Wrath whispered.

He then raised his claw and just slapped the massive fireball to the sky.

“So could you please be nice and just let me pass?”

“…” x7

The whole team was stunned noticing that their attacks were not working at all.

Evlin then used Gustav’s telepathy ability and began to strategize with her group, [Guys, we need a new plan…]

[We could go for our good friend…] Ashley suggested.

[Old friend?]

Ashley then looked up and finally replied, [lady gravity!]

Evlin then understood what her sister was thinking. Try to raise the old man towards the sky and then drop him like a meteor.

[I’m on it!] Evlin stated.

She then flapped her golden wings and began to soar towards Wrath with her claws open and ready to grab him.

“Hey, Knucker!! How about we go for a little flight?” she yelled while latching onto his arms.

“What…? What are you talking about…? I’m not Knucker…” the dragon replied.

Evlin then stared at him while feeling her heart throbbing, “Y- You’re not??”

“Of course not…” he commented while grabbing Evlin’s arms and bringing her closer to his face, “I’m the demon of wrath…”

He then raised Evlin’s body and smashed it against the ground using all the power of his muscular dragon arms.

“Guaaaahhhhh!!!!” she cried.

“Evlin!!!” the entire group shouted.

Up until now, they were all acting carefully trying not to make any hasty movements, but seeing Evlin injured, they all started to rush at Wrath to attack him from all sides.

“Ugh… You kids sure have a lot of energy…” Wrath noticed while looking at the ground and smashing his fists in it, causing a small earthquake that made the group lose their balance.

“Oh, no!!” Ashley gasped, being the only one who wasn’t caught by the attack while staring at the situation from afar.

“I was just trying to do my job… But since you all insist on standing in my way… I have no choice but to finish you off…” Wrath stated.

He then bent his legs and proceeded to jump with all his strength, flying so high that he even reached the clouds.

“Oh, this can’t be good…” Evlin noticed while wiping the blood on her mouth, “Marcus!! Auren!! Help me built a defense!!”

“On it!!” the two replied.

Marcus undid his fusion with Lilith and turned into a gauntlet for Evlin, which she used to boost her earth magic to create a massive layer of stones to cover the entire city.

Auren came next and used his blessing to surround the entire layer with his golden barrier as Evlin changed the stones into diamonds.

This was the strongest form of defense they ever made, and they hoped it would be enough to stand up against Wrath’s attack.

It wasn’t.

As soon as the demon dragon started to fall, he raised his fist and aimed at the last-minute defense they created, and once he was close enough, using the momentum of his fall, punched the layer with all his strength, sending a massive shockwave that made every single building in the city tremble.

Evlin, Auren, and Marcus tried their best to withstand the blow, but before they noticed it, several cracks began to appear on the layer.

“This kind of thing would have worked on me in the past…” Wrath commented while standing on the layer of diamonds and raising his other arm, “But with the power that I now hold in my hands… There is no wall that I cannot break!!”

He smacked the layer once again which made the whole construction shatter and fall all over the city.

Evlin panicked while trying to use her geokinesis to stop the diamonds from falling on top of any civilian, but while she focused on that, Wrath locked eyes on her and began to rush towards the mage with his fist raised.

Many emotions began to mesh inside of Evlin. Fear of losing her life, anger for the opponent that would not fall, concern of what might happen to her friends, and loneliness due to not even being able to see her family again.

At that moment, the part of her that was mixed with Sphinx began to absorb all the negative emotions that she was releasing and proceeded to change her essence.

“Now… Kindly step out of my way!!” the old man yelled.

Wrath’s fist was about to bury Evlin onto the ground, but at the last moment, she raised her own claw and managed to stop his attack in the middle of the air.

“What!!??” Wrath gasped.

He took another look at her and realized that her eyes were shifting color, from red to green, to silver.

Her body began to engulf itself with flames that also changed colors, the color of terminal energy.

[Evlin!!?? How did you do this??] Marcus asked inside her mind, not sure how she managed to access terminal energy on her own.

“…” Evlin did not respond, she simply glared at Wrath and smacked him in the face.

Her gauntlet shattered as it came in contact with those powerful scales, but Evlin did not care, for she had managed to get what she wanted.

“W- What… Is this…?” Wrath asked while touching his nose and realizing that there was blood dripping from it.

They finally managed to harm the demon of Wrath.