
"What should we do now? Ozaru said we should back off but after that what?..." Petra said with a look of confusion on her face.
The heroes including Hazama and Petra had gathered in one place. Tortoise is still actively moving and continues to walk towards Britannia. The soldiers had been asked to stay away and they were no longer on the road that Tortoise was about to take.
"The white monkey tells you to wait and replenish your energy." Ozaru took one step in front of everyone while staring at Tortoise.
This turtle is very large if seen this close. Can I be this big...
"As Ozaru said, we must conserve our energy. Our turn will come later."
A girl appears among the heroes. She was Yuri who was a little late for having to take care of some things. Seeing Yuri healthy, Takumi and the other heroes breathed a sigh of relief. But on the other hand they also looked disappointed and sad.
Yuri looked around, "Where's Nanami?" and realize that one of the heroes isn't here.
No one will answer. The bitter expression was engraved clearly on everyone's face, even from guessing it, Yuri definitely knew what was happening. He muttered so yes with a tone of sadness.
"From that, did Rigel come here as well?" Takumi asked while sitting and leaning against a tree. He looked a little tired, probably from using too much Magic energy.
Yuri turned to Takumi and smiled while saying Rigel also came here. Takumi was a little happy and also upset, he was happy because Rigel came to help even though his hand had been rejected. But he is also upset that Rigel's delay caused Nanami to die.
No. gabe...I can't blame Rigel! it's all my fault for being too weak that Nanami had to meet her end...
As Takumi blamed himself, without realizing it someone was walking up to them from behind.
"I didn't think you'd be this bad... I almost doubt whether you're really a hero or not..."
The man was the one who came in at the last moment, Amatsumi Rigel. What an unpleasant sight to see when he saw the heroes become this evil. For Takumi Rigel can tolerate having to pay a level reduction over the power of the laziness curse. It was obvious that he would be much more tired just by using the Spear of judgment.
Hazama looks fine, as do Aland, Nadia and Argo. Marcel and the sword bastard looked a little messed up, why don't you all just die...
Realizing Nanami does not exist, Rigel has confirmed that she is dead. Well, Rigel had expected that there would most likely be a dead person so he asked Ray to bring the body.
"As expected, the creature will not die even if its head is severed..." Rigel said with a slight mockery to another hero.
His own arrival was not welcomed by other heroes, including Hazama. The one who had embraced together with Rigel in the shadows. Hazama himself is disappointed with Rigel who arrives late and does not provide information about Tortoise. Even so, he had no intention of blaming Rigel for this matter.
At least he still wants to help even though he has been rejected before. Well, we'll see if his presence helps or not.
"... So, what are we gonna do? there's no way you're here without any plan, right?" Hazama asks Rigel while hiding her disappointment.
Rigel glanced at Hazama at a glance and looked back at Tortoise who continued to move forward, "I honestly don't have a mature plan because my original plan was to finish off this creature at sea."
Hearing that Rigel was sticking to his plan of killing Tortoise at Sea, everyone thought the same thing, if there was something only Rigel could do at sea. Nuclear bombs are one of the many options.
"Are you saying that you came here without any plan?! Are you out of your mind?" Marcel said impatiently and angrily.
"I never said I didn't have any plans. It's just a little different from the original plan." Rigel closed his eyes and smiled evilly, "You better be him and watch, my civil fight and the Region!" Rigel shouted with a hint of excitement mixed within.
Rigel instantly unleashed his magic energy so that Tortoise could realize his existence. Tortoise turned his head towards him, coinciding with that, hundreds of Missiles sped towards him.
*boomm......
*boomm........
*Graowwr.....
"I-that, P-bullet Missile?!" Marcel was surprised by what he saw.
Hundreds of Missile controls were sliding endlessly towards Tortoise. As Nisa said, everyone will witness the wonders of the world Rigel created.
"W-is that magic?!" Alexei muttered with a look of disbelief.
Altucray and Tirith also watched it from the projector Rigel made. They were silenced, the combat power of the Region might be the strongest in this world.
"When did you prepare for such a thing, Rigel?" Takumi walked over to Rigel's side and asked.
"I've had a lot of them for a long time.. Time and time again I wanted to use it but the opportunity never came..."
In the end, the opportunity came on its own. I don't know how often Rigel can't resist the sense of showing off to the heroes and humans in this world.
The missile rain had stopped and the outer skin of Tortoise had very many injuries but was slowly recovering.
"Alright, get into stage two, Fang it's your turn and your troops advance!" Rigel gave the order via a small radio that was in his ear and connected to each of the squad leaders.
Fang replied with a "Alright."
"Everyone, Attack!" Fang shouted from within the forest.
The Region soldiers stormed from within the forest and fired at Tortoise nonstop. Starting from the Riffle to the RPG bullets launched everything and just as Tortoise was about to take a step towards the soldiers, a huge incision shot towards his feet.
*Graaoowww.rr......
Tortoise screamed in annoyance. The attack just came from a noble girl, Merial Ainsworth who used a disposable magic sword. The sword in his hand turned into dust shards.
"Merial, and Fang, can you buy me some time? I'll go to his back to find out if there's anything useful." Rigel said through his little radio.
"Well, if things start to get worse, I'll let you know." Asoka answered while helping to calm down the warrior who was mad about parasites.
"... You, where did you know that?" Hazama asked in surprise. But Rigel's reply was very short, "I'm watching you."
Even if the heroes keep their mouths shut to Rigel, it's useless because Rigel has been watching them all this time so he knows their plans. Satisfied at Rigel's reply, Hazama wasted no time running and led Rigel.
Although it is quite difficult to reach the shell because the creature is still moving, but they managed to reach the place where Hazama had found before.
"So this is the place..." Rigel muttered and unhesitatingly stepped into the cave. Hazama follows him from behind and is ready to throw an air shield in case something goes wrong.
There is nothing so far and no monsters to stand in the way of Rigel and Hazama during his journey. Until they finally reached the end of this cave.
"Th-this..." Hazama muttered in amazement.
Even Rigel was the same as him. This place is amazing. There stood eight giant statues and one slightly smaller statue than the other. The floor itself has strange magic carvings that Rigel has never seen. The eight giant statues both extended their swords to the center, and in the middle of it, a blue colored stone floated in the air. Although he had never seen it, Rigel knew what it was because he had sensed this kind of energy in the Region even if it was only a little.
"Maybe... Prediction stones?" Rigel muttered in admiration.
The first time Rigel saw this in person. Although she had already asked Misa to investigate the new Divination in the Region, she had never seen it in person. The magic energy that the divination unleashed was extremely calm, almost like it was mixed with the Mana of the world. Even so calm, the divination stone had an enormous amount of magic. If it were to explode, perhaps its power would be twice as strong as Nuclear.
"Looks like you were right... I can see some little writing there... But I don't know what it is and I can't read it." Hazama narrowed her eyes to investigate further.
Rigel closes his right eye and focuses the vision through a modified left eye. His left eye was like a long-distance camera, he could see objects and ask Ciel to keep them.
"The question is, why is the divination stone here?..." Hazama called out a question in his head.
Rigel himself was also curious about it. But he was more interested in the magic circle on the floor. Rigel has a good memory, although faint, the carvings on this floor are almost the same as the carvings in Britannia. More precisely, a special room that is used to summon heroes. Although the same, but the carvings are a little different.
"We'll keep the reason why the divination stone is here later. More importantly, the city should be looking for something that might provide more information about Tortoise as well..."
We need to find the seal that the heroes of the past made!
Rigel's main objective is to investigate this place because he's looking for where the seal is. The Fairy Queen simply said that it was on Tortoise's back or inside her body. He himself did not know exactly where the seal was. Then the remaining possibilities...
Inside his body Yes. This is even more troublesome if the seal is inside his body...Beheading, smashing his Seal and Heart at the same time... Is that really doable? For seals and hearts it is possible, but beheading will be a tough job. Even if it works, the odds are 50:50 that Tortoise will die.
That's why Rigel insists on beating Tortoise at sea because a 100% victory is not certain. The reason Rigel chose the sea, was because he could use the Territory Hydra and make Hydra fight with Tortoise while Salah searched for the seal and Ozaru or Asoka looked for the heart. For the head of Tortoise, Rigel will take care of it directly. Even if destroying all three did not succeed in killing him, Rigel would only need to destroy Tortoise until it was not at all in contact with Solar Eclipse, the same power that killed Hydra. Little sun.
As Rigel thought, Hazama asked again. "Is it possible that the divination stone was the one that gave Tortoise an increase in defense?"
"I can't deny the possibility, but from the information I received, Tortoise would grow stronger as it absorbed the moonlight. The fact that Tortoise stops when night falls reinforces the information itself."
Hearing Rigel's answer, Hazama is shocked and thinks that Rigel is right. Hazama was a little curious, where did Rigel get such information from?
He was about to ask, but a voice from a small radio that was in Rigel's ear rang.
"What's up?"
"Mr Rigel! I guess we can barely hold it any longer because of the dwindling ammunition supply and the uncontrollable Tortoise!" Merial was the one who informed Rigel.
"I understand, good job. I'll be back now."
It's been quite a while since the other heroes fought and I came right at noon, so there's still quite a lot of time left huh...
"Material, Fang. Withdraw troops, we'll end the fight today... The rest let me, Yuri and Ozaru buy time."
"All right!" Merial and Fang said in unison and ended the call.
"Let's go back now, Hazama." Rigel turned his head towards Hazama and held onto Hazama's shoulder and used Teleportation to go out quickly.
"Rigel, Hazmas! you've come back!" Takumi is the first person to greet Rigel and Hazama. Hearing Takumi's voice, another hero comes and approaches Rigel and Hazama.
"So, what's your plan and what have you found?" Takatsumi asked reluctantly.
Rigel returned his gaze with a look of hatred. Inevitably, he had to put aside his emotions and cooperate with this bastard.
"For now we stand down... There are more things to talk about and strategies to beat Tortoise... For now, Ozaru, Yuri, we'll hold off on Tortoise's movements until nightfall."
"All right..." Yuri agrees.
"Aren't we killing him now, white monkey?" Ozaru asked with a bored face.
"Of course we'll kill him, not now, but tomorrow." Rigel answered him with a bold smile on his lips.
"Wait on! if we wait for tomorrow, he will recover and his defense will become even harder! if you want to kill him, now is a good opportunity!" Marcel became a complete person about Rigel's decision. Argo and Takatsumi seem equally dissatisfied.
"Beating the creature isn't as easy as hitting a mosquito, stupid. The proof is that you have cut off his head, but the creature did not die... This matter is much more complicated than you imagined and it takes extra effort to kill it." Rigel walked past them and headed for Tortoise, "To now be a pig obedient to me." The last word Rigel said before flying to Tortoise.
Yuri and Ozaru follow behind Rigel to hold Tortoise. Marcel looked furious because Rigel thought he was a pig.
Rigel landed and stood right on the path of Tortoise and blocked it. Tortoise did not seem to ignore Rigel and looked at him curiously.
"All right, let's see what you're capable of, big body." A smile grew on Rigel's lips.
Until nightfall, I'll know a little how powerful your attack is...