Listen While Reading: Yasomagatsuhi

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  SPLAASH!

  A wave of hot magma surged, spshing over the entire vilge. Chris used his light magic to fly high by releasing a photon explosion, barely managing to escape the burning molten rock.

  “W-What the hell is going on? Is the Volo about to erupt or something?!” he cried.

  “No…” said the Heavenly Emperor. “It seems that your final challenge is here, my reination.”

  “Final challenge? Is that drowning and burning to death inside of magma or something?!” Chris asked angrily.

  Grasping upon the ceiling itself, he gnced in disbelief at the thing that emerged from above the volo, perhaps…

  RUMBLE!

  It was, most likely, the culprit behind all these tremors, and what was happening to these people! Its footsteps made the entire mountain tremble as it moved forward, emerging from the molten va, ued by it.

  “GRRRHHHH…!”

  It was a massive red and bck-scaled draister, a beast with two heads at that, over thirty meters of height, a massive, bulky body posed of two enormous arms and a long tail, sharp cws, and several golden and bck horns.

  This appearance alo shivers down Chris spine! If he had Paul, Argentia, and everyone else to help him out defeat this Raid Boss-level monstrosity, he wouldn’t even be half as nervous.

  But right now, he was alone, and without even being able to rely on the equipment Paul crafted for him with so much love and attention to detail…

  “GRAAARRGGH…!”

  The draister’s chest was infused with a strange bd red crystal, stantly dropping miasma everywhere, iing even the va itself…

  The Samander people g the creature, as the monster’s aura immediately began to trol them, suddenly beginning to affect them in ways Chris could have hought possible before.

  “W-What is happening to the Samander people?!”

  “Oh my, it seems that monster might be the root behind the Miasma spreading everywhere…” the Heavenly Emperor said. “Most likely, this thing has been here for a while; the Samander people had fully succumbed to the Mold and Miasma, being zombie-like monsters.”

  “E-Eeeh?!” Chris cried. “I won’t be able to save them?! But my points!”

  “I don’t think you should be w about such things at this moment!” The Heavenly Emperhed, facepalming. “Look!”

  “GROOOAARRR!”

  As the monster screamed at Chris furiously, the Samander people transformed, being gigantic, bulky draistrosities with long tails and sharp teeth, and there were at least forty or fifty of them within the viity.

  Not only could they swim in the va, which covered the entire area now, they had their stats beefed up, plus there was a Raid Boss Level abomination just a few meters away from mung on him like a snack!

  “Ah sh*t, are you kidding me?!”

  Chris couldn’t believe that this carefree adveurned out like this at the end! He began to think about Paul the mht now; he just wanted him to e here and help him out.

  “Dammit, I ’t call Paul here? Maybe if I use the Party Invitation fun…!”

  “ROOAARR!”

  Before he could try anything dumb, Chris heard a Samander roar, rushing towards him by jumping directly from the magma beh, spshing it around as its jaws opened.

  “Is this thing really a Fire Spirit?! it’s just a mo this point!”

  He barely evaded, lifting his legs up before the jaws could tear them apart, and then Chris gathered his Heavenly Ki and Ara within his hands.

  “Dammit, I need my bow for this…! If I had it, I could… Huh?”

  FLUOSH!

  As Chris thought about that in this predit, the light he wielded rapidly transformed, taking the form of a bow.

  “Oh my, you’re truly a genius at handling Heavenly Ki.” Said the Heavenly Emperor. “You’ve just used the Light Materialization Teique, turning light into a solid object. I usually make swords though, but a bow? I suppose it suits you more.”

  “The only thing you do is yap and yap!” Chris cried. “I wish someone could give me a hand!”

  As Chris kept whining, he fired several arrows of light from his Light Materialized Bow, the arrows reached the Samanders nearby, ag as homing missiles.

  BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

  Explosions of purifying light engulfed them secutively, as Chris kept firing them endlessly without stopping. However, the Mutated Samanders were tough, resisting several arrows in a row, although they were growing weaker.

  “Just get purified already!”

  Chris tinued his assault, but the Samanders rapidly did the same thing he was doing, opening their jaws and firing giant bck fireballs at him, which began hitting the ceiling, making giant boulders colpse.

  “Uaaaggh!”

  He kept esg the fireballs and the boulders, ing himself around barriers to reflect them; the barriers didn’t work that well though, most of them breaking down into pieces rather quickly.

  He was growing more and more stressed, too many things to take into sideration as they came and attacked him, and the Raid Boss was beginning to prepare a nasty attack, beginning to breathe in a lot of air!

  Chris had never been a fan of hardcames; he abhorred souls-likes, and he preferred fun RPG adventures, visual novels, or typical 2D or 3D ptformers.

  The level of precision he had to pull out to survive this onsught was simply too much.

  “Alitheus… or Chris, whatever your true name, remain calm.”

  He heard the voice of the Heavenly Emperor resonating within his mind.

  “Wha…?! What you even do to help me anyway?”

  “I will tell you what to do, and you will do it. Move to the left.”

  “Eh? Ah!”

  Chris moved to the left, flying away from a boulder he hadn’t seen before.

  “Desd, now!”

  “What?!”

  “Do it!”

  Chris desded a sed before the two-headed draister fired a massive dragoh where he was.

  BOOOM!

  The attack was devastating, decimating a rge part of the ceiling as a massive amount of boulders fell from the skies, crushing a dozen Samanders beh.

  “Woah…! Wait, what?”

  “Unlike you, as a ghostly being, my senses are spread everywhere. I see behind, above, below, to the left and right, and everywhere else. Although I ’t do anything for you, I tell you precisely where to go.”

  “Oh wow, you’re actually useful!”

  “I’ve always had been useful, you ungrateful little demon… You’re up for some reprimanding ter, but for now, trate!”

  “But are you sure that…?”

  “Again with doubting me so much, I’ve been helping you sihe beginning, Chris! Stop doubting me so much. I only want you to get a good score in this trial and then Rank Up! Don’t you want to bee strong? As strong as Vd, perhaps?”

  “Yeah! I want to! Okay, sorry, sorry, I’ll follow your ands!”

  Chris realized that the only way he was going to even approach a ce of winning was by following the ands of the Heavenly Emperor.

  And right now, he had to give it his all!

  “To the right, quickly. And then, take the opportunity and shot!”

  “Gotcha!”

  Chris moved to the right as he desded; three Samanders rushed just where he was and swung their cws, aiming to slice him into pieces.

  “Now!”

  Chris pointed his bow at them as they were in midair, firing three loaded Heavenly Arrows, which looked more robust and strohaher Light Arrows.

  BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

  The arrows reached their targets instantly, and as they moved as quick as light itself, three explosions engulfed the Samanders, spshing into the magma below.

  SPLAAASH!

  Their bodies slowly mutated back to their inal Samander forms, although they remained unscious, making it so the Boss didn’t care about them.

  “Bullseye!”

  As Chris celebrated, the Heavenly Emperor anded.

  “Quickly, run upwards!”

  “Ok!”

  Chris kicked the air using his Light Aura, reag several meters high, evading a giant whip-like tail ing from the two-headed monster.

  CRASH!

  The tail ended hitting the ceiling as several boulders fell from above, crashing down on Chris.

  However, Chris used his barrier to protect himself from them, quickly rushing outside of the cave.

  “Escape the cave; the pce is too unstable. Lure the Samanders outside and take them down. That monster is te to get out through that cave; it’ll have to break out, and it will take some time.”

  “I see!”

  Chris was learning a lot of insights about his surroundings, making the existence of the Heavenly Emperor as if he had eyes on his back, above his head, and even on his foot.

  It was incredible, as if his senses had fully expanded!

  FLASH!

  As he rushed outside, the dozens of Mutated Samanders quickly followed him, firing more bck fireballs at him.

  Chris evaded them with much more space to fly, while the monster behind them roared angrily.

  “ROOH!”

  BAAAM! BAAAM! BAAAM!

  It began to rapidly attempt to break out of the caverns, using its giant cws to tear through and dig the hard ground.

  However, even with all its efforts, it would take a couple of mi the earliest!

  “Alright, time to take you guys down!”

  This time, he decided to use the rest of his skills now that he saw that he had to deal with actual foes and not just spam his Light Elemental Spells or Teiques.

  First, he jured a huge cloud of pink-cas; it was Dream Magic.

  “{Dream Eating Cloud}!”

  By using the Dream Eater Skill and further enhang and ging its shape through raw Ara, Chris did a little imitation of Paul’s Geomancy.

  FLUOSH!

  The cloud of dreams reached the Samanders; they didn’t go to sleep or anything, but their dreams being rapidly devoured made them groan in surprise, most of them getting stunned.

  “Amazing! I had no idea you could take your skills to such levels!” said the Heavenly Emperor. “Are you taking inspiration from your lover?”

  “Kinda!” Chris said. “I am not near as good as that no-life gamer is, but it’s something!”

  Chris followed by creating several arrows around him, his bow pointing down as the arrows followed his ands.

  The arrows weren’t just made of golden light but also of silver moonlight.

  This was because Chris not only used his [Magic Archery] Skill, but also his Css exclusive Skill, made from the Blessing of the Goddess of the Silver Moon, [Silver Moonlight Archery Arts]!

  “{Silver & Golden Moonlight Archery Arts}: {Mercury Star Rain}!”

  The arrows desded as Chris fired the ohin his bow, much rger than the rest, b down the Samanders with small, secutive explosions that seemed to never end.

  BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

  They resembled golden and silver stars that stantly fell from the skies; even Chris Aura ged, resembling some sort of iebu as it merged with his Dream Eating Cloud leftover energy.

  The Samanders began to rapidly ge, returning to their normal forms as the blinding silver and golden light ed them, burning the miasmic mold away.

  “Take this! And this! Don’t you dare turn into monsters ever again!”

  Chris tinued firing more arrows, ultimately returning everyoo normal! The advantage of flying was always the best; being above them made it easier for him to fire as many projectiles as he wanted.

  “Ugh…!”

  However, he immediately felt like he was about to puke his entire body, beginning to quickly fall from the skies.

  “W-What the…?!”

  “You’ve overused your Ara and Ki! You’ve almost run out of it pletely, Chris! I guess I old you about the side effects, which may include falling unscious and nausea, among many…”

  The Heavenly Emperor informed him about very important things quite te!

  “You damn…! Ugh, I just have to absorb what’s in the forest!”

  Using whatever he had left, Chris quickly ged his falling trajectory, falling in the middle of the forest.

  Right at the same time as the two-headed draister emerged from the volo!

  CRAAASH!

  It pulverized everything in its wake, destroying the entrance as the monster finally freed itself from the volo, gng at the evergreen forests, ready to be buro the ground.

  “ROOOAAARRR!”

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  Pach