CH 80

[New Style Completed! Multi-weapon Yuri-kunchan!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

The tentacles that had been nailed down by the greatswords wriggled in agony as they danced through the air.

“Huh, w-what’s going on?! I just nailed them down, but why did the tentacles suddenly got cut off…?!”

Confused, I turned my attention to the five greatswords that were about to disappear.

–That was when I realized.

“Huh… the swords are… shining…?”

They were releasing blades of light.

If my eyes weren’t playing tricks on me, they were special effects from ‘Light Slash’. What the hell was going on…?!

“…On the strategy guide site, it says arts will take effect only on one of your weapons even if you equip multiple of them. Well, the bow and arrows are a special case—ah?!”

A lightbulb went on in my mind…!

It felt like disjointed puzzle pieces began to put themselves together inside my mind and formed one clear picture!

“Right… think about it…! The reason I could make rains of weapons with ‘Arms Barrier’ was that I exploited the ‘error’ phenomenon in which weapons fly out of your hands when you don’t meet the requirements. ‘Arms Barrier’ isn’t supposed to be used to attack…”

At the end of the day, an error was an error. The system didn’t regard it as an attack.

That was why it didn’t trigger damage-increasing skills that activated upon attacking.

But at the same time, I had also come to discover a loophole: ‘The system recognized an object launched while holding a bow as an attack’.

And that was how I transformed the defensive skill ‘Arms Barrier’ into an offensive skill.

“Yeah—‘the system recognized an object launched while holding the bow as an attack’! Then, what ‘object’ is it recognized as?!”

The answer was simple. Since I had a bow in my hand…

“—An ‘arrow’, that’s what! Which means you can apply an art to all objects fired by ‘Arms Barrier’ in the same way as arrows!!!”

When I finally came to the terrifying truth, I couldn’t stop myself from raising my voice—!

The result of that was Cthulhu・Replica’s fatal wounds.

The five greatswords were classified as both ‘swords’ and ‘arrows’ at the same time, and the slash range expansion-type art ‘Light Slash’ had applied to them all.

“Fu-fufufufu…! I found it. A new combat style for archers!”

Ah, this was going to be so much fun!

Now that I had come up with a new combat style, more and more ideas sprung up from the back of my mind—!

“Ahahahahahaha! Okay, status window, open! I select this as my new weapon, and done…!”

It was when I was excitedly fiddling with the window.

The practice-use Cthulhu・Replica screeched “Gyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa——!”

Then he glared at me and opened his mouth wide…!

“Gissshhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa——!”

No sooner had it converged magic in his open mouth than it released a dark destructive ray with all his might toward me!

“Haha, I almost forgot you’ve got such a move!”

Last time, I had withstood it with my Gigantic Dragon Plant’s ultimate move.

But now I didn’t even need to summon any familiars anymore!

“Activate skill, ‘Arms Barrier’! Protect me, seven shields!”

In response to my shout, hard and thick shields flew out of the subspace and hovered before me.

Indeed, I just chose the shield as my new weapon. And as a cherry on top…

“Activate art, ‘Radiant Barrier’!”

I activated shield art.

‘Radiant Barrier’ was a defensive art that enveloped the shield with light magic to increase its impact reduction.

I applied it to the seven shields and the destructive ray emitted by Cthulhu dispersed without being able to even graze me.

“Kueeeeeeeeeeeee?!”

“And I’m sorry, but this is the end!”

Replacing the shields, I materialized seven new swords.

In addition, I took out several powerful arrows possessed by my familiars ‘Shadow Weapons’ and nocked them to my bow!

“Haha! Other archers probably can’t shoot multiple arrows at once, but I’m also a Summoner! My familiars will make up for my accuracy and power!”

“““Kishashaaaaaaaa!”””

Pontaro and the gang were excited at finally being given time to come out and play after so long. That put a smile on my face as I pulled the bowstring.

“And then, since all the weapons I materialized are categorized as ‘arrows’…!”

That would mean…

“If I use an arrow art now, it’ll be applied not just to Pontaro and the gang, but also to the swords! So, die! Activate art, ‘Shining Arrow’!!!”

The shining arrows and swords shot off.

Clad in the special effect of ‘Shining Arrow’ which greatly increased their attack power, they pierced the Cthulhu・Replica—!

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‘Genocide Killing’ activates! Damage doubles!

‘Fatal Strike’ activates! Damage doubles!

Critical hit! Damage triples from hitting a weak point!

‘Heartless Shinigami’ activates! Critical damage increases by 30%!

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“Kueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?!”

Of course, the effect of my extremely high Luck kicked in, too.

The buffed arrows and swords dealt greater damage, and Cthulhu couldn’t stop himself from screaming in pain.

Then, to close this.

“…Explosion skill, ‘Crimson Demon King’, activate.”

In the next moment—BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!—a huge explosion went off!

Using my new skill that let me freely control the timing of explosions, I detonated the swords that were deeply stuck in Cthulhu’s body.

The forbidden evil dragon was blasted out of existence. A red pillar of fire roared, and blood and pieces of flesh rained down.

“Welp, see ya around, Cthulhu, that was fun.”

Showered by blood, I left the training ground with the determination of becoming even stronger…!

Though I gotta say, my exit sure was like a fully awakened hero!