Upon descending, the sword’s energy was blasted forward at full speed. A massive black sword slash moved like a flash, toward the enemies. Its sheer power made the air shift quickly.
The slash instantly reached its targets and sliced through them with ease. No, far more than that, it disintegrated the burning cadavers. Their cries of horrible pain echoed in the entire ship. Their corpses turned into ashes as they were swept away. Dozens and dozens of these creatures were incinerated in almost an instant.
But, the slash didn’t seem like it had any intention to stop. Moving through the army of corpses, it blasted a massive trail through them that left nothing alive. The sight was truly horrifying.
None of the others could truly understand what just happened. After all, Arthur had just killed at least a hundred of these monsters with a single attack. Their eyes were wide and their mouths hung open.
Meanwhile, the one in question looked attentively at the slash and where it was going. A few seconds later, it smashed into the falling ship with a loud bang and blasted a good chunk of its keel and lower parts off.
[Ding!]
[Mortal Slash has leveled up.]
“Now!” Arthur ignored the notification and yelled. “Follow me! We need to push that ship down!”
“Huh? Push it down?”
“They’re coming from that ship! If we can make it fall off Adula, we won’t have to deal with more of them!” He explained as he started running through the massive trail. “Emmy, guard our backs for a few seconds.”
“… I-I got it!” Emmy snapped out of it.
“Hurry! Don’t waste time!” Arthur clenched his teeth. ‘I hope we have enough time. The other monsters will recover soon. We can’t waste a single moment.”
Isla shook her head and rushed after Arthur. Then, Danny and Herculia followed suit. The four of them quickly moved through the massive trail that Arthur left behind, heading straight toward the pinned ship.
The sound of the massive structure screeching and howling as if it was about to fall reached their ears. It was a terrifying sound that cannot be described with mere words. Meanwhile, swarms of Burning Cadavers descended down to their level non-stop.
‘Shit, this is going to hurt!’ Reaching the ship, Arthur put his hands on its wooden hull and then exerted every ounce of force left in his body. “Come on! I gotta… Push it forward!”
The others didn’t trail behind that far as they also reached the target and put their arms on it.
“Push as hard as you can!” Arthur said between his clenched teeth.
“HAAAGH!! Come on, move!” Herculia growled as he looked up. The monsters were falling on top of their heads. However, Emmy was quickly sniping them down as fast as she could. Still, the cold fire fell on their heads. It burning frost hurt them greatly.
At the same time, the other monsters finally noticed what the group was doing and rushed toward them to finish them off.
“Put your back into it.” Isla pushed every ounce of mana in her body as she injected it into the ship. One of her abilities called ‘Gravity Swap’ can temporarily change the gravity around an object to reduce its weight. However, even then, her ability could never actually move such a massive structure.
She was still far too weak to do that. However, if this meant making their chances better, then she had to do it.
Meanwhile, Arthur activated Lonesome Warrior’s Howl for extra strength. His arms bulged visibly as his heart started beating faster, supplying even more blood into his body.
“Please!!” Arthur closed his eyes. ‘Goddamit, please…’
The sound of the ship creaking and howling increased in intensity as debris started falling down. The ship slowly swayed forward.
“We’re doing it! Just one more push!” Arthur yelled.
Nobody answered as they put their everything into their arms and legs. The sound continued growing louder and the swaying became more visible. However, at the same time, the monsters were already a few meters away.
*CRACK*
At that very moment, something changed. A loud cracking sound echoed everywhere. Arthur opened his eyes widely as he looked up to the sky. All he could see was that the skyship started tilting on its own. At the same time, the area where he was standing started breaking.
“Retreat!!!” He yelled as he turned around and pulled his sword out as he dashed back. “We need to get as far away as possible.”
The others didn’t wait a moment as they quickly rushed back. However, they were instantly faced with the army left alive. Their numbers were considerably less than before after Arthur’s devastating Mortal Slash, but they were still there.
“We will cut our way through again,” Isla muttered as she swung her sword.
At the same time, the skyship completely tilted forward, leaving a giant crater behind on the deck. Its fall was slow and devastating. All the monsters that were close to the area were caught in the impact as they started falling along with the ship. Tens of clueless monsters couldn’t escape that gruesome fate. Even more were unable to land on Adula as they slid off into the endless sky beneath.
The group cut their way through the army as they got farther and farther away from the area of the impact.
Arthur looked over his shoulder at the magnificent sight of the giant ship falling into the abyss. Massive chunks of wood and metal were blasted everywhere. In a few seconds, the ship was completely detached from Adula and started free-falling. The cracks spread everywhere at the same time.
‘We aren’t safe yet. This ship might not hold on!’ Arthur thought to himself. Seeing the damage, he feared that Adula might break apart and start falling too. He didn’t know how much this ship is truly able to handle. But, he decided not to even think about it and pray that it stay intact.
“Don’t stop! We aren’t safe yet!” Slashing through several enemies with his bloody claws, Arthur looked at his group. Isla, Danny, and Herculia weren’t that far away. “We’re almost there!”
Hearing that, they felt their exhausted bodies fill with some energy. After all, if they make it back, the battle is done. The monsters remaining won’t be a problem as they had already killed a huge chunk of them at that moment.
Slowly, step by step, they cut their way to the other side of the deck. After an arduous journey, the path finally opened up to them and they were able to pass.
Many of the monsters tried to chase after them but they were instead pushed off the ship from the impact of the fall.
“Are you guys ok?” Emmy asked as she wiped the beads of sweat off her face. She was feeling very exhausted after casting that many spells in such a short period of time.
“Don’t drop your guard yet. There might more en-” Arthur turned to look over at the other side, only to realize something. “… They’re… gone?”
The only thing he could see was piles of corpses on top of each other and remnants of the battle that just occurred. There was no trace of a single living monster left.
“…” The boy blinked in shock. “We’ve killed them all, already?” He muttered. Arthur didn’t think that they had truly obliterated the entire army this quickly. After all, there were so many left.
He had underestimated how devastating they were to this army.
“Arthur, you bastard, you did it!!” Herculia laughed loudly as he hit Arthur’s back roughly. “That was so cool! The sword slash destroyed those idiots!!”
“…” Arthur looked over his shoulder. “That was nothing…”
‘Though, I was also a little surprised at how effective Mortal slash was against these monsters. I already knew that it dealt a lot more damage to undead monsters. But, I didn’t know if these were undead or not at first. It seems they were indeed undead.’ He thought to himself.
“Good job, Arthur.” At that moment, Arthur heard Isla speak. “If it weren’t for you, we would’ve not been able to get out of this alive.”
“…” The boy blinked in surprise as he stared at Isla.
“She’s right, Arthur. That idea was crazy, but we could’ve not done anything else.” Emmy nodded her head.
“Thank you, pal!”
Seeing the smiles on their faces, Arthur didn’t know how to feel at that moment. A sensation he had never had before filled his heart. It was so weird and yet at the same time, it wasn’t bad at all. In fact, he liked it very much.
Shaking his head, he laughed. “It’s really fine. I always come up with ridiculous ideas, that doesn’t mean they always work.”
“Who cares, it worked well! I believe it’s over now, no?” Herculia laughed.
“Hm?” Arthur frowned as he looked around him. “… We should be teleported out if it’s over.”
“Hm, it doesn’t seem like it is teleporting us.”
“…”
The group went silent for a few seconds. Their expressions turned serious.
“So… What is happening guys?”
At that very moment, something suddenly flew up in the air out of nowhere, reaching very high in the sky.
A//N: Don’t forget to give the book some golden tickets for good luck! :3
