Chapter 257

Evan D. Sherden, Being the Knight Commander. (7)

Evan smiled proudly as he watched the Kraken, a colossal monster, twisting and turning in the middle of the ocean because of the collision caused by the massive waves.

"Okay, somehow we managed the tsunami problem with this."

"It's amazing how you say that you've 'somehow' managed out that scene, Master."

"The sea worm seems to have lost some of its stamina, so I'll try taming it now!"

Shine calmly criticized Evan's absurd words, while Serena shouted with her eyes twinkling. Evan's expression became grave as he saw Serena's determined expression.

"You know Rey... You might not succeed in taming and controlling that massive monster. Do you still want to try?"

"Evan, I want to be a person who does what she wants to do, rather than a person who chooses only what she can do with 100% success where there is no risk involved."

"Your quotes are great as always, but if you fail to tame it, it can kill us!"

"I am not worried. You're here to protect me. Then Louis, please!"

[Bounce]

Serena threw away Louis, the Metal Slime Elite, and it turned into something like a thin, long oval board and fell onto the sea.

"Then, Serena of the Astray Knights will be dispatched!"

Serena climbed on that surfboard (metal slime), then looked back at Evan, pretending to be serious, and patted her heart on the left chest with her right fist in order to salute.

Evan, a little shocked to see her chest swaying rhythmically, seriously thought about banning salutes for her, but in the end, decided to let it go.

"Then go!!"

[Boing-bounce]

"Yahooooooo!"

After finishing the salute, Serena immediately launched the metal slime. Evan touched his forehead as he saw a metal slime board running over the sea at the same speed as the jet engine, made previously made by Belois by spraying her magic power.

"I don't think allowing her to do what she wants is going to be fruitful this time."

"Only suffering awaits us after this, Master," Shine replied from his side. Evan looked back at Shine with widened eyes.

"Is there someone else assisting right now? Go with her! If she fails to tame it, you block the Kraken from the front."

"No, I can't even scratch its skin with my dagger... Yes, yes, I am going. 'Protect the princess.' That's what you're saying, isn't it?"

Shine complained, yet gently set off after Serena. Of course, he didn't need a footstool. His shadow moved from place to place, and surprisingly, it was gathered under his feet, and it was substantiated with magical power, eventually becoming a stepping stone.

This was the power of Shadow Stalker, the Ghost Lady's class who was attached to Shine.

"He has adapted to the Ghost Lady now."

"...Does it seem like that?"

"Yeah. There was a time when he insisted on becoming stronger with only his own strength, but now he gently accepts the Ghost Lady and trains to harmonize their abilities... Ah."

Evan felt proud of Shine's progress.

Anastasia's expression as she looked at Shine, running fast on the sea while stepping on the shadow, did not look good at all.

"It's not enough to always be together. They even battle together... That unpleasant spectre.... I am such a narrow-minded woman, ain't I?"

"...Lady Anastasia, are you jealous of the ghost now?"

"She can materialize, right? Maybe Shine prefers her, who is always by his side, more than me, who is stuck in the manor all day..."

"No, that's not true."

It was the first time for Evan to hear that the Ghost Lady could materialize. The Ghost Lady had also leveled up in the dungeon with Shine. Since she had been steadily improving her ability, it was not strange for her to materialize...

"Do you think so, Master Evan? That the Ghost Lady is more intimate with Shine than I am!"

"Oh, that's..."

-Evan, the sea worm is damaged enough! I think it's going to be tamed, but it's not enough!

Evan, who was in trouble because he didn't know how to respond to Anastasia's tears and delusional worries, heard Serena's message in his ear!

Evan seized that chance.

"Uh, I'm going now! I think I will also have to fight on the front line, so I'll go now. Please continue to support me from behind. Dain, make sure to guard Lady Anastasia!"

"You are leaving me at such a convenient time!?"

Evan lapsed into silence.

He stepped over the sea, ignoring Anastasia, and handed her to Dain. Stepping stone? With only will and a little mana, the whole world was his stepping stone.

"Haaaaa!"

"Young Master, watch out for its legs!"

As he ran fiercely, all the while getting closer to the Kraken, Shine, who was already slashing on one of the Kraken's legs, shouted and warned him.

Soon after that, a huge shadow fell on the surface of the water, and a terrible octopus leg fell over Evan's head!

[Waaa]

«Shhh....«

'Maybe I should kill it. Still, it can be avoided, so let's avoid it for now......'

Evan, who had been contemplating for a while, stopped there, believing in his intuition. He struck the uppercut in the air, taking the momentum while he was running.

"Eat your own fist, damned monster!"

-Kwang!

His fist, wrapped by the rising divine power, bounced the giant octopus leg several meters thick and tens of meters long with a roar! The flapping octopus legs splashed water and soaked Evan.

[Gwoooooorh!]

The Kraken shouted in a terrible scream and shrank. It was only then that its whole body came into Evan's sight.

A hundred meters? No, it was more than that. Perhaps it was the largest among monsters in the world outside the dungeon. Was Serena stupid or brave for wanting to tame this?

"Rey, can you really tame this?"

"It took the bait! If it gets a little weaker, I can catch it!"

Serena, who was protecting herself with Ruby and Rudy, shouted confidently at Louis, who had changed her shape from a speed-oriented oval, to a safety-oriented circular stepping stone.

There was nothing they could do about it. It would end up with either Serena taming the Kraken, or with Evan and Shine killing it.

"Okay, if you can't tame it, I am cutting next month's pay."

"Okay!"

"Oh, do the Knights get paid?"

"Then, did you think the Knights are hired only to eat food? Get ready to fight."

Evan stared at the Kraken's giant body, which was soaked in the sea, gulped again, and clenched his fists. The good thing was that he didn't feel as helpless as he thought he would. He could gauge it with the Yo-Ma Great War game.

Because it was a symbol of endless despair, he was very nervous. However, when he faced it directly, he got a sense of its ability, stamina, and even magic.

"It's definitely stronger than the Four Heavenly Kings."

"We should be so happy about that fact right now."

Shine responded to Evan's blameless words in the same way, and then fixed his dagger.

It was more than two and a half years ago that they faced the Four Heavenly Kings. Evan had changed a lot.

"Shine, keep Rey from getting any stray attacks!"

"Be careful not to kill him!"

Evan could no longer doubt his abilities and came to the forefront. He then leaped lightly from the sea, kicking the air once again and rushing toward the Kraken.

Even so, the Kraken, who had been watching Evan, stretched out all of its legs that had disgusting suckers and aimed at him, but such a direct attack was nothing for Evan's speed.

He wondered if this guy, the king of the sea, needed to learn combat techniques.

"Ha!"

"No Heaven Blade, Evan! My worm's legs will be cut off!"

"I know!"

She hadn't even tamed it yet, but she had said it was her sea worm. Evan made a bitter smile and clenched his hand with a fist. He straightened his waist, pulled his fist back, and threw it forward.

'Ugh!'

The terrible pressure that stretched straight along Evan's punching orbit bounced off dozens of pairs of thick, long legs that had been hitting him... Dozen pairs of legs?

"He has a lot of legs!"

"As expected of the sea worm!"

Kraken's countless legs that filled Evan's eyes were crumpled up because it could not withstand the pressure from his fist.

However, the shock did not end with just the legs. The divine power that took over its entire body inverted its weight, sending the giant Kraken's body to float on the sea, even for a moment!

[Guooooooorggh!]

Including the length of its legs, the giant monster, which was hundreds of meters long, soared high above the sea, then it fell back into the water with a roar that could have crumbled an entire building with its magnitude and intensity.

Shine and Serena's stinging eyes flew toward Evan, who had swung his fist once to blow away the giant monster.

"Master ..."

"I clearly told you not to kill it!"

"It's not dead. Its Mana is still... Ah?"

It was then that Kraken's hideous mouth, which was exposed by a big shock and turned upside down, sprayed the ink, aimed at Evan!

The ink sprayed in a straight line, as if it were a laser, containing intense Mana and poison, and a touch of the skin could cause terrible damage.

"Ruby!"

[Boooong!]

Ruby, which was quick to jump to Serena's quick instructions, spewed out flames with all her might, but no matter how much Ruby ​​grew, the Kraken was stronger than the Four Heavenly Kings.

The skill of the powerful field boss could not be completely nullified.

However, thanks to that, the ink's momentum that flew in like a laser died a bit, so Evan could buy time to deal with it.

He raised one hand to the side where the ink was flying and clenched his fist strongly, emitting a front-facing dreadful pressure! The ink, which had lost momentum while confronting Ruby's flame, stopped under pressure.

Evan applied strength to his fist in that state, and the ink stuck in the air began to gather and be compressed. It was indeed a mysterious sight. Shine began to mutter while skillfully slicing up the legs that flew in his and Serena's direction.

"I am sure you have decided some weird antic with the Kraken, Master."

"I'm going to take some of this and use it for alchemy research. Where else can I get Kraken's Ink?"

"I knew it."

Evan pulled the ink that had clumped into a black sphere in the air, pulled it towards him, and put it in a special flask taken out of the inventory pocket. To some extent, it was a flask that could withstand the poisoned tea that Evan was usually drinking.

"If I hit it more, wouldn't it spew out more ink?"

"You'll die before that, Oppa... Oh, it's running away again!"

Originally, when an octopus encountered a natural enemy that it could not handle, it would shoot ink and run away. The Kraken was just a humongous octopus after all!

"Hold it, Evan!"

"It seems like you can't tame it!"

[Guoohhhhhh!]

When Serena shouted urgently, Evan responded reflexively and rushed to the Kraken, who was about to dive into the water.

Kraken swung dozens of its legs to flick Evan and tried to dive, but it might as well have been a handshake. Surprisingly, Evan reached out and grabbed its legs!

'Phew.'

Of course, the legs were so thick that it was impossible with bare hands. By applying Divinity and Heaven's Press, it was possible to grab its legs with the divine force, just as he held the ink in the air.

It was as if a transparent giant following Evan's movement appeared and held the Kraken directly.

"Hump..!"

Evan held the other flying legs in a row with divine power. The sight of the legs running around being caught in the air one by one was more than surprising. It was just shocking.

"Oh, this bastard's strength is terrifying...!"

"Look who's talking..."

Evan had to do his best to confront Kraken head-on. The purple rune Zera engraved on his glove gave him a more brilliant light and added strength. Shine was too busy moving to see.

"Hey, tame it quickly...!" Evan shouted, holding Kraken's legs with all his might. Serena was dumbfounded, but activated her Tamer power right away.

"It's still not enough, Evan! Just a little more, a little bit more!"

"You have been talking like a real fitness trainer...!"

[Guaaaaaargh!]

'All right, one more time!'

He clenched his teeth and held his hands tightly in the air and raised his hands as if he had drawn a net.

As a result, Kraken's legs, held by the divine power, clanged together, and the Kraken's enormous head came out of the water.

"Uwaaaaaaaaaaargh!"

[Grrhjaaaaaaaaaaa!]

Evan didn't stop there. He drew a semicircle with both hands and held the Kraken with his divine power, shoulder to shoulder as much as he could.

It was then lifted to the other side!

Kraken's body rose out of the water again and moved through the air in a half-circle, following the flow of divine power.... It fell on the other side of the sea with a loud sound.

[Khu, aaaahhhhhhhhh...!]

"Tossing a Kraken... What the hell am I looking at now...?" Shine sympathized with it as he watched the dying and groaning Kraken. It appeared with a momentum that seemed to be able to destroy one or two countries, but now it was so pitiful...

"Taming success! I love you. You are the best!"

At that very moment, Serena shouted in a bright voice. The string of Mana that followed from her was firmly holding it.

Serena, who had dug into the Kraken, a creature whose body and mind had been weakened by Evan, had finally accomplished the miracle of taming the field boss!

"I look forward to your kind cooperation, sea worm!"

[Gooooo.......]

On that day, Astray, the Sherden Dungeon Knights, became a legend in the kingdom's capital.

Matthew couldn't get up, fainting by the end.