Chapter 244 - Episode Forty-One - The Collector (12)
I stared dumbly at the face stone.
I stood there with his demon face facing out, not moving a muscle.
And there wasn’t much space between it and the floor. It meant that the collector’s body had been crushed.
Altamir transformed into a ball of light and moved next to me to return to her original form.
“I, isn’t he dead? I thought of him as a sturdy-like guy, but …… with his body crushed like that, as expected ……”
“No way ……”
I can’t possibly have killed him in the heat of the moment, have I?
When I slowly approached the face stone, the face stone disappeared in a flash
In the center of it stood a bloodied collector.
Altamir transformed into a ball form and jumped back, returning to her original form.
“‘Thank God, you’re alive.”
I muttered, relieved, but there was no reaction from the collector.
He just stood there and remained still.
“…… Mr. Collector?”
“That guy’s strange …… There’s so much blood, and yet there’s not a single injury ……”
Altamir called out to me from behind.
But, that can’t be true. Nevermind the face stone, I’m pretty sure I pierced him at the abdomen with the Lapides Sword.
The collector opened and closed his hand as if to check the condition of it, then glared at me.
“I was wondering how far he would go, but he really surprised me. I’ve died once, you know.”
The bandages covering the collector’s face had come off in places, revealing gray, faded, scarred skin.
In the midst of his undead-like skin, only his eyes glittered with a powerful glare of vengeance and rage.
“Not only did you injure the Imperial Dragon …… but you also let me waste Amrita to save my life. I’ve been saving my life to keep me from using it …… And now I’ve lost ten years of my life to recover from my injuries.”
“A, Amrita!?”
It is said that Amrita is the pinnacle of the three great elixirs and gives unlimited life force to those who drink it.
It is the national treasure of Alfheim, the sky country, and in the past, there is a record of a powerful man from Norcs who wanted a single cup of Amrita and tried to steal it by waging war against the High Elves.
It is said that with enough Amrita, one can live forever in human form.
“Don’t tell me, you used amrita ……”
If you use the “Ravenous Dragon’s Tool Bag”, you can use it even when you can’t move your limbs, It would probably be easy for him to pour Amrita into his dying mouth.
In other words, in order to get the collector to completely surrender, I would have to keep giving him fatal blows until he was completely out of amrita.
I was stunned, and the collector snickered.
“Did you despair? I have exactly two goblets of Amrita left. If I were to use it as a restorative, I would have nearly forty more goblets of life left. But I’m not going to do such a foolish thing even one more time …… But don’t be disparaging. You’re the first human to let me use Amrita.”
“S-Such a waste ……”
I muttered, and the collector turned deadly.
“You don’t need to use such an expensive item for a playful bet! What a waste! You know how much a drop of that is worth ……”
As I flapped my hands in excuse, the collector’s fury intensified.
“A playful bet ……? That’s bullsh*t! You’re the one who made me use it! If I hadn’t used it, I’d be dead!”
If I push the collector any further, he will waste more and more of his treasure.
I heard that the collector is collecting expensive treasure’s all over the world.
Now, he’s repeatedly throwing the magic tools he have collected in one place into the ditch.
To put it mildly, a global loss is in the making.
I have to break his heart before he loses his treasure troves.
“Transmute”
I start transmuting the Hydeem Magimetal again.
This time, I added a strong elasticity to its nature and tried to make it longer and longer.
“There’s no way that I would lose! I am the only absolute in this uncertain world! I am the only absolute in this uncertain world! This world is but my garden! There is no way that anyone can fight me on equal terms!”
The collector holds his large sword in one hand and thrusts out his free hand.
In the middle of the movement, a dagger appears in his hand. He’s going to use it to get close to me.
My Hydeem Magimetal is just about fifty meters long.
I lowered my arm.
A silvery-white mass of magic metal swung down vertically at the collector, matching my arm.
The longer it is, the faster the back end will be. And with that, the destructive power increases. There was no end to it.
“Abel Whip!”
The giant whip made of Hydeem Magimetal, which was swung vertically and was nearly fifty meters long, was lowered into the collector.
The floor shattered in a vertical line, and the collector’s body bent in the wrong direction and leapt into the air.
Along with his beloved large sword, the dagger with the flying tip left his hand.
“Gah! My, my……”
The collector waved his hand, and the large sword returned to his hand.
The collector’s twisted body continues to be repaired in a twisted motion in the original direction.
So that’s Amrita’s regenerative ability.
I let him use it twice now. If possible, I would like to get him to surrender before he uses it three times, but …… it would probably be difficult.
“My tower!?”
Altamir screams in the face of destruction on a scale never before seen.
I’m sorry, but I can’t stop here.
And if you eat poison, you’ll end up with a plate. We’ve already turned the rest of the level into a hole in the ground, so it’s no use letting up now.
As for apologies, I’ll make as many as I can after the incident with the collector is over, and I’ll accept whatever reimbursement Altamir asks.
I unleash the second shot of my giant whip.
It pains me to fight like this, but I have to get the collector to give up once and for all.
I gave him a follow-up shot with all my heart.
“” Gujarna Demon Face Stone”!”
The collector raised his hand to the approaching giant whip.
The face stone that appeared caught the blow of the giant whip.
The face stone didn’t shatter, but it was heading towards the collector at about the same speed as the giant whip.
The face stone crushed the collector’s body and bounced.
The collector quickly got up and waved his hand to the side. The face stone disappeared cleanly.
It seems that the third one has been used as well.
I continue the third strike.
The collector raises his arm.
” “Universal Hardwood Behemoth”!”
Together with what he said, a huge black shadow spreads around the collector.