The Return of Lilietta - Chapter 58

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Chapter 58

‘The reason we suffered such massive damage from the Kraken back then was partly because the ship sank due to betrayers and spies, but… it was also largely because we didn’t know the characteristics of the magical beast called Kraken.’

A Kraken is a magical beast created when an octopus mutates from magical contamination. And octopuses were originally bizarre creatures with 3 hearts and 9 brains. They had one additional brain in each of their 8 legs.

‘Krakens also have three hearts and nine brains like their original octopus form. Until you simultaneously destroy all twelve hearts and brains, a Kraken will never die. If even one remains, it has such good regenerative abilities that it will immediately regenerate.’

She had practiced until she could fire a maximum of 12 bullets per second because she had fought a Kraken before.

‘But bullets fired in rapid succession like that are weak individually and can’t penetrate the hide and muscles of a named magical beast to deal proper damage.’

Then how could she kill the Kraken?

When she was 19, the squad members scattered to stab the 8 brains in the Kraken’s legs, Gid and Ethan slashed the 3 hearts, and Rita simultaneously pierced the cerebrum to barely kill it.

After that, in its final moments, the Kraken thrashed about and spewed deadly poison, killing all the squad members who had been close to it. Only Gid, Ethan, who were skilled enough to quickly withdraw before being poisoned, and Rita, who had been far away from the start, survived.

‘I had resolved that if there was a next opportunity, it would be different.’

She should have shot all 12 from long range herself. Then it wouldn’t have mattered whether the Kraken spewed poison as it died or not. If she had done that, she might have been able to save the squad members who survived until the end.

The technique she had conceived while gritting her teeth like that.

A technique she had continuously refined and practiced afterward, but ultimately couldn’t implement up to 12 shots with a body that had terrible Oath aptitude.

‘This body should make it possible.’

Though her thoughts were lengthy, the actual time that passed was only about 10 seconds from the moment she recognized Gid until she stood up and aimed her gun.

Rita took a deep breath and formed bullets with Oath. Twelve shots. Six shots formed in the six chambers of the revolver’s cylinder, and the remaining six shots formed in her left hand supporting the gun.

Whether magic or technique, to master something in your body and deploy it easily, clear visualization is important, and what helps most with such visualization is giving it an appropriate name.

She gave this technique a name derived from legends of the old era.

‘Bullet of Zamiel.’

Long, long ago, a certain hunter met Zamiel, a demon living in the forest. He made a contract with the demon and obtained magical bullets.

Those magic bullets would hit wherever they were shot with the demon’s help and could pierce through anything, but there was a price. Only the last bullet would move according to the demon’s will, not the shooter’s.

As stories of deals with demons usually go, this legend also ends in tragedy. The last magic bullet shot by the hunter misses its target and kills his beloved lover.

Rita created her unique technique based on the image of the magic bullets from this story that hit wherever shot and pierced through anything.

‘The first bullets are the contract.’

The silver muzzle spat fire. Bang, the first shot flew in a golden trajectory and hit the Kraken’s forehead.

‘First, the cerebrum.’

That bullet only left a small scratch on the magical beast’s thick hide and couldn’t penetrate through. But it was enough to anger the Kraken.

Uuuuuu.

The magical beast moved while making a low cry, Oli looked around in surprise, and Gid whipped his head around. Toward the direction the bullet had come from.

Meanwhile, the muzzle was already moving.

‘Brain one, two, three, four, five.’

Five shots were fired in an instant. They struck in succession at the upper parts of the five legs wrapped around and clinging to the sailing ship, where the brains were located. Like the first shot, only small scratches remained, but because they hit precisely at the vital spots, the Kraken became extremely enraged.

Uuuuuu!

The magical beast’s cry, which had been like an echo from the deep sea, became sharp. As the magical beast gripping the sailing ship thrashed about, the deck shook wildly.

Rita didn’t resist the shaking and let her body ride with it as she flew over the ship’s railing.

‘I was having trouble moving because of the dominion anyway, so this works out well.’

Just before falling outside the railing, she bent her knees to hook her legs on the railing to secure herself, then let her body hang outside the ship, suspended upside down.

Her long blonde hair poured downward and her dress hem tangled messily around her legs, but she didn’t care. She just roughly pushed away what blocked her vision.

Hanging upside down from the railing of the swaying ship, she processed six more bullets into the empty cylinder. She also made six more in her left hand. Including the six shots she hadn’t fired earlier, a total of twelve bullets filled her grasp.

Then she fired.

‘Six, seven.’

Bang, bang. The gunshots rang out rapidly and consecutively.

She drove the ‘contract’ bullets into the brain locations of two legs that were clinging to the bottom of the ship and couldn’t be seen from the deck.

The last one was attached to the opposite side of the sailing ship, so the angle didn’t work. She put strength into the leg hooked on the railing and pulled herself up.

As she landed back on the pitching deck, her eyes met with Gideon, who was standing at the bow.

His golden eyes shook. He moved his mouth.

With the Kraken’s enraged roar and the sound of the river water churning, the sailing ship creaking as it was wrapped in the creature’s legs, and the suppressed screams and groans of people, it was so chaotic that his voice couldn’t be heard well. However, she could read his lips.

Rita.

It was her name. Rita curved her lips and thought.

He recognized me right away.

Even though I look so different.

But that conversation was for later. Rejoicing over the miraculous reunion was also for later.

Right now, she shouted something else.

“Release the dominion and provide cover!”

While saying this, Rita kicked off her uncomfortable shoes.

As she removed her shoes, the oppressive feeling weighing down her body disappeared. It meant Gid had excluded her from his area dominion, and it also meant he had recognized her.

‘Then there’s no reason to hesitate.’

Running barefoot across the deck, she brought her gun-holding hand to her neck. While gripping the revolver, she extended two fingers to touch her neck.

“〈I desire.〉”

Magic was cast with a voice mixed with strange resonance.

“〈The leap of a goat and the sprint of a deer.〉”

The physical enhancement magic that Oli had taught her, telling her to use this instead of trying to imitate enhancement-type abilities.

The eyes of Viscountess Blen, who had been standing in the magic circle maintaining the citadel magic, widened. Because she recognized the magic she had taught her friend. She muttered blankly. Rita?

Golden light tinged the legs entangled in the fluttering dress hem. Lillieta sprinted across the wide deck like a deer and leaped onto the railing at the opposite side of the ship. She stood on the narrow railing like a goat stepping on cliff crevices and immediately aimed her gun downward.

Bang, the bullet fired.

‘The eighth leg. What remains are the hearts.’

Rita leaped up just like that. Beyond the railing, she stepped on the translucent wall of the silver-white citadel that Oli had erected on the water with goat-like footsteps and ran up it. She ran to the farthest point from the sailing ship, to the edge of the citadel, and stood there.

Uuuuuu!

With an irritated roar, the Kraken moved its lighthouse-sized legs. To wrap around and crush the impudent human who had repeatedly attacked its vital spots, the giant octopus legs detached from the sailing ship one by one and approached Rita standing on top of the faint castle wall.

She stood tall in that spot and raised Silvergrace.

‘The Kraken’s three hearts are below its head, on both sides of the mouth where the eight legs converge and inside the mouth.’

Unless you had the diving talent to keep up with an octopus-type magical beast’s speed underwater and hit its vital spots, the only option was to target the gap when the Kraken moved its legs like this and opened its mouth.

She calmly waited for the massive legs to reach toward her and the magical beast’s mouth to be revealed.

Normally, the Kraken, which moved faster than most enhancement-type Oathbinders despite its size, was moving sluggishly thanks to Gid’s area dominion. Taking advantage of the gap this created, she glanced at the deck.

If they were really Gid Pascal and Oli Pascal, they would definitely understand and follow her request for cover.

‘As expected.’

They were partners who had coordinated so long they were sick of it.

She saw a green magic circle rising around Oli in the distance and Gid placing both hands on the sword he had planted at the bow, ready to draw it at any moment.

Reassured, she turned her head to face forward.

As part of the Kraken detached from the sailing ship, it escaped from the black circle. The moment it broke free from the area dominion, the legs shot toward her at tremendous speed. Rita didn’t dodge.

Because they would definitely provide cover.

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