NOVEL NEXT Chapter 206 – Vs Yamata no Orochi
“Should I help too?” Hagoromo Gitsune asked.
“No. Just join the other battlefield, leave this big boy to us,” I answered Hagoromo Gitsune as I re-activated Kyouka Suigetsu.
“Alright.” Answered Hagoromo Gitsune. She tapped her leg against Gasadokuro’s head and said. “Let’s go.”
“Yes~” Answered Gasadokuro as he made his way to the other battlefield. He moved fast and destroyed some enemies in his way.
I turned toward the big dragon in front of me. The presence of Yamata no Orochi was not complete yet. His revival was not perfect, as we secured Valerie before it could be fully revived. So, he only had around three fourth of its strength, or maybe less.
“Let me handle four heads for you. Can you deal with the rest of it?” Susanoo asked as the wind began to surround him. As the sky had already darkened because Odin summoned thunder clouds, he didn’t even need to summon them again to create a storm. He only needed to control the winds.
“No problem. I can deal with it alone if you don’t mind it. But, I think you want a rematch from hundred years ago, no?” I swung Gram lightly as I said that, leaving a purple flame trail.
Susanoo looked at me and laughed. “Hahahaha. You have become that strong, huh? Unfortunately, I also want to behead this guy again. So let’s split it in half as there are eight heads to be dealt with.”
“I don’t mind. I will go first.”
Leaving those messages, I kicked the hardened air and aimed at the rightmost head of Orochi. It turned its eyes on me and tried to attack me with the other heads at the same time. Two heads headed in my direction as the rest were trying to prepare for breath attacks. Green liquid dropped from their mouth, a sign that they were preparing for poisonous breath.
Even with my specs right now, getting poisoned by the poison of Dragon Kings would be fatal for me. I had no poison resistance at all, so all I could do was dodge the breath as much as I could.
But, those heads that prepared breath attacks had no chance to attack me. A fierce wind shut their mouths instantly, and they gulped their poison back as there was no place to let it out.
“Thanks, Susanoo!” I shouted and swung my sword horizontally at the incoming heads. A trail of purple flame erupted from my sword as it cut the eyes of the first head, burning its head whole with Incinerate Anthem.
The second head managed to dodge as it felt danger from my attack. It was a smart move from Yamata no Orochi. With this, I could confirm that he had some intelligence left in that big body even though his revival was not completed.
“ROAAAAA!!!” Eight heads roared at the same time. In an attempt to extinguish the fire that burned the second head, the first head spouted a green liquid over the second head.
Somehow it managed to extinguish the fire, and now its second head was covered with green poison liquid. This might be a bit bad for me, but luckily, I had a backup.
“Let me handle it. You can handle the other.” Susanoo passed me at a fast speed and swung his sword, creating a fierce wind slash that blew away the green liquid.
I was a bit worried that it would hit our ally, but he managed to contain the liquid inside a small tornado and move it away from the battleground with perfect control. As expected of the god of Storm, his control over wind was topnotch.
“Nice!” I praised him and went to the other heads. They were able to open their mouth again as they managed to shake the wind that closed their mouths earlier. For a big guy, Orochi was fast.
Six heads opened their mouths and bared their fangs at me. I promised to take four of them, but it didn’t seem possible when six of them were focusing their attention on me.
‘My bad, Susanoo. It seems I will take six of them.’
Increasing the power of Incinerate Anthem that was infused to Gram, I swung the sword wildly. As a result of my wild swing, a surge of purple flame was sent out, flying toward the six heads of the Yamata no Orochi.
But Yamata no Orochi was not a fool. It knew that the flame was dangerous, so the six heads that approached me quickly stopped and made a maneuver to dodge the flame. They scattered in all directions, but that was what I wanted to achieve from this.
My Kyouka Suigetsu had activated all this time. My real body had since long arrived at the back of its body, at the place where eight heads branched from each other.
Although Orochi was a Dragon King, surely he wouldn’t has the regeneration at the level of Tsuchigumo, right? If he had the same level of regeneration as Tsuchigumo, who could even recover when his head was slashed into two, then it would definitely be a problem that needed my Balance Breaker to solve.
But, I was confident that he didn’t have that. I hoped that he didn’t have it.
I used Touki to enhance my physical abilities to the limit and turned my Fear into the offensive. Not only that, I used Incinerate Anthem to its maximum power too.
“Susanoo! Get away from that at once!” I shouted at Susanoo, who became a target of eight heads after I disappeared from its sight.
He was flying around, dodging the attack from eigth heads at once, as if he was dancing in the sky. He sometimes attacked by sending wind blades, and he nodded his head immediately and jumped away after he heard my voice.
“Do it now!” He shouted back.
After getting his confirmation, I raised Gram above my head. Orochi’s eight heads immediately turned toward me at the same time and bared their fangs. Not only that, but Orochi’s tail also attacked me after not moving for so long.
However, it was too late.
“Bye-bye, big baby,” I smirked and swung Gram down. With its Dragon Slayer properties, severing Yamato no Orochi’s base head was easy.
It severed cleanly, and the Incinerate Anthem burned the severed parts. As expected, Yamato no Orochi’s revival was tempered, and it had regeneration that tried to connect the severed head back to the body, but that was useless. He couldn’t spew the poison liquid too, so it couldn’t extinguish the flame.
It was our victory.
“It’s easy,” I said as I let go of Gram, making it disappear.
