There are a few reasons as to why a Hydra is feared by others.
Also, its strong scales and thick skin will repel any average attack, furthermore it can also attack with poisonous breath.
No matter how powerful and fast it may be, as long as it has the intelligence of a beast, there will be a pattern in the attack, so it´ll be easy after understanding what it is.
Its poisonous breath should originally be the most dangerous, however Kail´s dragon leather armor has the function to nullify most of the poison, so there wasn’t any reason to care about it.
“Take that!”
With the famed sword Sildonia and Kail’s skills combined, they were able to easily cut off the snake’s head which fell down like a big tree.
[Hmm, it’s easier than I imagined. I thought he’d put up a little more resistance.]
“It’s also a surprise to me. it seems that my body has become stronger than I imagined.”
But, however.
In Kail’s sight, was the part of the first snake head that was cut off, but there was already a new head being regenerated.
Even normal magic beasts can heal from a life threatening wound over time, it’s not only the wound itself, but also the part that was lost that heals.
I was winning, but I don’t have any way to definitely kill it.
The only way to kill a Hydra with its regenerative abilities is to instantly kill it, but dealing a fatal wound that would kill with a sword is hard because of its size.
An attack magic that could kill it instantly has to be higher than high level magic, but Kail can’t use any at the moment.
In the first place, Kail’s specialty isn’t attack magic, it’s auxiliary type magic.
Now that the problem of having a shortage of magic power has been solved, Kail could even use the highest level of magic, but right now he had his hands full with training his body, so he still hadn’t trained his magic at all.
“I know without having you tell me. Moreover, compared to that time, I’m feeling rather blessed right now.”
While he says that, Kail grabs a bunch of magic stones from his pocket filled with the attack magic:【Explosion】.
“No matter how strong your life force may be, you’ll collapse if I destroy you from within.”
Kail’s gaze was aimed at the part of the body, where the snake heads were attached.
For a while now, Kail has been trying to get close to it’s weak part, but the snake heads have been getting in the way.
“…… Guess I’ll have to use that.”
Since its regeneration will go down when it moves, it didn’t go after Kail and waited for its lost head to regenerate.
“…………【Haste】!”
Kail who was originally good in auxiliary magic, could easily use the magic by finely controlling it.
Breathing in deeply, together with a compact yell, he made a rush with all of his body and soul.
The snake wasn’t able to react to it, Kail stabbed his sword into the main body of the snake.
After a dull sound of being stabbed in the stomach resounded, the Hydra lost to a human that was only a hundredth of its weight while rushing at each other. After stepping backward the snake heads let out screams of pain while vomiting blood.
Simply put, using magic to raise his speed to the limit, using the force of his rush in a simple attack where he just collided with the enemy.
But even among magic beasts the giant Hydra had an overwhelming life force, this attack may have gravely injured it, but couldn’t finish it off.
When his upper arm was inside, one of the snake heads recovered from the shock, and attacked Kail from the side.
He felt a surge of pain going through his body, normally his bones would have been crushed, but he only suffered severe bruises at most.
While Kail was yet again impressed by the defensive capability of this armor, he sheathed his sword and broke his combat posture.
Just when the snake head’s fangs were going to reach Kail, at that moment the Hydra exploded.
Making a guts pose while clenching his fist.
If an explosion happens within the body, defensive power doesn’t have anything to do with it; as expected, having more than half of its body blown away, the Hydra was eliminated.
“It’s called ‘Shukuchi’.”
“Well, it’s a technique based only on speed and strength. Since it takes some time to prepare, it would work against a magic beast, but wouldn’t work on skilled fighters.”
“For now, my body can keep up with the magic I use, so I tried using it…… but still, even if I did this myself, it’s still horrible.”
Furthermore, it stinks, it originally smelt like rotten fish, but because of the explosion, it smelled like burned rotten fish with some blood on top.
The once white royal Carriage, was now covered in blood with some flesh and organs on the roof, Kail’s face twitched a little because of this sight.
A few had their heads crushed, others were burned to death, so it seems like Lize and the others did this.
Magic beasts usually have their own territory, so it’s rare when different races appear at the same place.
“Kail! So you were alright?”
“To think you’d really beat a Hydra….. how amazing.”
“Of course, something like a Hydra isn’t a match for me!”
“But, if you could, couldn’t you have beat it in another way?”
“…… I’m repenting on it a little.”
“Also, Kail, you stink terribly.”
“…. Is that so?”
Urza and Lize were stepping away from Kail, while furrowing their eyebrows.
[……You wanted them to praise you a little more didn’t you.]
Kail who became a little sad, got a water bucket and began to wash his head.
One was princess Mirena whom we saw yesterday, today she was wearing a white dress.
All three of them were sleeping against each other within the carriage.
Seran said, with a voice that held both admiration and tiredness.
Urza says, while seeing the princess and the other two.
“I understand.”
“Ah, Kail take a look at this. It was left at the driver’s seat.”
“This is…….a bag that summons magic beasts?”
The organs of a magic beast can be used in order to make medicine, if it’s a big one, the bones and claws can become ingredients for weapons.
Like that, in order to lure monsters, they use a special monster summoning bag, that baits them with the smell they like.
“So they tried to lure out magic beasts with this. And then they tried to attack the princess……”
The ones who set it up, were probably those two, this means that princess Mirena’s death was not because of an accidental attack by magic beasts, but an assassination disguised as one.
“I see, well then……”
“Oh…… Am I still alive?”
“I thought I wouldn’t open my eyes again…… But it seems luck is on my side for now.”
At that time, she finally looked at Kail and the others for the first time.
“Yes. My name is Kail, Kail Leonard. In the middle of our journey we saw that princess Mirena’s carriage was attacked by thugs and magic beasts, we decided to help out.”
“Thank you very much. If you all didn’t pass by, then my life surely would have been lost.”
“It is alright, these people seem to be the ones that saved us.”
When princess Mirena was trying to go outside, she was stopped by Kail.
“That is so, but well…… how do I say this, the surroundings are in a terrible situation right now.”
“I do not mind, since I have to see to it with my own eyes.”
As expected, she looked at the Hydra that had a giant hole in it, but without losing her cool she looked over the field.
“Wha-, yes, just as you have said……”
“It kind of feels different than the impression from yesterday.”
When Lize and Urza were whispering to each other, Sildonia talks to Kail in a voice that only he can hear.
Even now, Sildonia’s hawk clone was surveying the area.
“So they finally show up.”
“You may not! If we do not leave from here immediately, those knights coming here, will kill me, and of course, all of you too.”
“The assassination this time that was aimed at me, the mastermind behind it was the second in command of the Imperial knights Zentos.”
Kail became speechless.
Kail and the others, as if doubting their ears, saw the maid called Aruca perform fire magic without hesitation.
It was a matter of fact, but princess Mirena’s simple explanation was totally different from her image when she was in Acken, Aruca had already started to burn the bodies with【Fireball】, a flame magic.
The younger maid, Ninos would follow the order but Aruca was disagreeing.
“Being the coachman is an important job. You have to take care of the surroundings and it’s something I can only ask of you.”
Saying she doesn’t have another choice, Aruca went to the driver’s seat.
Princess Mirena says while facing Kail and the others.
Then Seran made a face, as if he had thought up a plan, opening the magic beast summoning bag “There!” and threw it in the area of the Hydra’s corpse.
Seran said it, while having the smile of a prankster brat on his face.
Not like the slow travelling from before, it was at full speed, in order to outrun them.