BXBX NOVEL Chapter 63.1
Chapter 63.1
Chapter 63.1. Mantis Extermination!
-Adamantine’s POV-
The small person was so strong. They’re so strong that we forgot we were in a battle. Like a gust of wind, its movements were fast and furious.
Hundreds of scissors mantis swarmed around us. Although the number of scissors mantis was too great for one man to protect the people, the small person with the small stature showed his fearsome skill and defeated them.
Some of the more formidable and somewhat more nimble-witted mantis tried to pass by or fly up into the sky and overhead, but all their attempts were in vain. But all of these attempts were in vain.
[Cyclone Blade]
A small one wields a beautiful dagger that looks as if it were made of hardened rubies. Their body moves so fast that it appears blurred and difficult to see. Thin, thread-like rays of brilliance get to shoot from their dagger as it cuts away, passing through the bodies of the scissors mantis.
Even though they’re juveniles, they’re at least two meters tall. In contrast, the smaller ones appear to be half as tall. Despite being overwhelmingly inferior in size and outnumbered, they don’t get scared or hesitate. Charging into the midst of the enemy, they wielded their daggers and dismembered the scissors mantis.
The scissors mantis were not just being killed. They wielded scythes, arms harder than iron and sharper than swords, and tried to cut their way through. The small person get surrounded and attacked from all sides, but the scythe of the scissors mantis does not even snatch them.
They strike the side of the approaching blade of the scythe in front of them with their red dagger, changing its trajectory. Strike the scissors mantis’ scythe that advanced from the side. They dodge the blow and swept the side attack by lowering their waist as if crawling on the ground. For the slash attack, they shift their body lightly with a tanto. For the simultaneous attack of many scissors mantis, they fly away in a flurry, over the scissors mantis’ heads, and escaped.
Then, they readied their dagger and re-invoked their martial arts.
[Cyclone Blade]
The martial art named [Cyclone Blade] demonstrates the power of its name, the small person’s spinning like a tornado with their right leg as the fulcrum. Its speed makes it difficult to see a small person’s figure, they’re caught up in the wind.
Each time it rotates one, two, or three times, its white blade, which looks like a very thin thread, glints and shines, and the surrounding mantises are broken up and killed by the glowing rays.
There must have been at least 200 juvenile scissors mantis. With every two or three steps, the sword storm turned the surrounding enemies into pieces of flesh and scattered them around.
In minutes, the small person wiped out nearly 200 scissors mantis, including the adults.
“What the hell!? That’s awesome ……, leader?”
Tsubame gasped, and Adamantine was astonished at their fighting power as they fought the scissor’s mantis. However, she soon noticed the trick.
“That thing is weak to ranged attack. Some are still alive. Still, they could launch many ranged attacks in a row and move like that. That’s quite a feat.”
Adamantine confirmed with her enhanced vision that there are still some undefeated scissors mantis. However, they had been cut halfway through their torsos, and all their legs on one side had been severed, so the scissors mantis had lost their fighting ability and couldn’t move.
“Is that the trick? But it’s a fighting method suitable for fighting many foes.”
Adamantine’s companion grins as she thrusts out a spear of checks and balances at scissors mantis. With that one, I no longer have to worry about it.
“Alright! We’ll take this guy down quickly too!”
“Oh!”
Adamantine couldn’t concentrate on the battle because she was worried about the pulled-out scissors mantis, but it was no longer a problem. All that was left was to defeat the scissors mantis in front of her and regain her posture to defeat those swarming around the Iron Spiders.
“Nuurryyaaaa!”
She slashes at the scissors mantis with all her strength in her arms. The mass of Genbu’s axe strikes the scissors mantis. But the opponent also catches it with its scythe and prevents it. But as it stops moving, the summoned dire wolf bites it in the leg, and her companions cleave it with their spears.
[Wind Cutter]
[Water Breath]
A blade of wind, imparted with magical mass, slashes the scissors mantis’s body. A water spirit with a body like a drop of water shoots out high-pressure water that pierces even rocks under the command of its companions.
The scissor mantis’ body was gradually damaged by Adamantine’s attacks one after another, and its movement slowed down.
The scissors mantis bled green, lost several legs, and wobbled as its torso was also cut off.
Seeing her chance, Adamantine let her mana flow around her body and unleashed her special martial art. Her entire body glows red, and the mana blows out as an aura.
[Explosion Break]
Wreathed in a red aura, Adamantine swings down her axe with all her might. This time, the scissors mantis moved slower and must have realized it couldn’t evade Adamantine’s attack. It thrust out its scythe and tried to catch the axe as it swung down.
A metallic clang sounded, and the two sides came to blows. It seemed as if they were going to be in a duel.
“Can you take my blow?!”
Adamantine shouted with an ogre-like face as she raised her voice. As if in response to her voice, the axe explodes, and its energy, with directional energy, strikes the blocking scissors mantis.
The high heat burns through the scissors mantis’ body, and the blast blasts the scissors mantis’ burning body. The scissors mantis was scattered in pieces as pieces of burnt flesh, and Adamantine finally defeated the adult scissors mantis.
“Alright! I’m going to go save the others!”
Wheezing, she wiped the sweat from her forehead and looked around, ready to immediately go to the rescue of the other adventurers. The adult Scissors Mantis’s vicious. Its fighting power is tough on adventurers who aren’t wearing magic armor.
However, Adamantine looks around and is again surprised. The small person who had been in the rear of the party earlier was running into the front line.
Adventurers who had just come to the party were not wearing magic armor and were covered in wounds and struggling. It was a wonder no one had died yet. They jumped in there and swung their red glowing dagger.
“Chichichichi”
The scissors mantis swung its scythe at the approaching small person and increased its speed by one step to close the gap and run up to them.
Accelerating, they duck under the scythe and point their dagger at the swung scythe.
[Weapon Drop II]
A gynching sound is played, and as the dagger bites into the scissors mantis’ arm, it easily cuts it off. With a half-turn of their body, they cut off the other arm too, and leave the scene to move on to the next one.
The next scissors mantis attacked with a scythe as well, but the small person took complicated steps and moved their body like a dancer, avoiding the target and cutting off its arm in the same manner.
Cutting off the arms of the scissors mantis fighting one adventurer after another, they nullified the scissors mantis’ means of melee combat in the place where the fighting adventures had a problem, then spun around and moved to another place.