Chapter 9 Part II

    Giga Rafflesia

    There was no way the young man could survive this attack alone, but fortunately, the fox lady had already gathered enough magic power. She jumped and fired a golden beam of light over Moebius to destroy the incoming vines and precisely attacked the point that Möbius pointed at.

    4,000

    This ultimate attack used almost all of the fox girl's power, so it could easily pierce through the giant poisonous tree, creating a large hole, and went all the way to the top of the cave entrance, causing the entrance to collapse with rocks, blocking any wind from coming in.

    The attack that hit the Giga Rafflesia's main trunk head-on caused the giant tree to choke on its own yellow pollens heavily, and it seemed like the point where Gumiho's ultimate move had a lot of yellow pollens gathered. When combined with the fact that there was no wind to blow the pollens to the ceiling anymore, the whole room was filled with a cloud of yellow pollens that slowly spread out from the hole on the boss tree's main trunk.

    (Go to that rock, Miho.)

    Möbius pointed at the biggest rock in the room that the yellow poisonous pollens had not reached yet. The fox girl gathered her last bit of strength and ran to hide behind the rock as Möbius told her to. As for the young man, he ran to observe the changes of the giant enemy in front of him unblinkingly.

    +99999

    The tree used the power of the moonstone to heal itself once again. This time, Möbius, who was watching closely, saw a white light coming out of its mouth and the hole that Miho pierced in its body before all the wounds disappeared once again. When he saw that, he immediately jumped behind the rock to join the Gumiho.

    (Miho, let's try it one more time.)

    He handed Gumiho 1 yellow and 2 blue potions, which were the last set of his remaining potions in his bag, and told the fox girl his final plan to deal with this poisonous tree. Gumiho, who saw the look in Moebius' eyes, although he was cornered, his eyes were not like those of someone who had given up. Instead, they were filled with determination to win.

    When she saw that, she was ready to die with him immediately. The tree boss, seeing that the two were hiding behind a large boulder, wove most of its vines together into a huge fist that shot out to destroy both the boulder and its enemies at once.

    At that moment, the voice of the young man who was injured all over his body rang out from behind the boulder.

    "Even though the path is blocked by indestructible obstacles, I, Möbius, hereby declare here that my heart will not abandon the hope of turning it into a possibility...the possibility of victory over you."

    Möbius stood arrogantly behind the boulder. The importance of his promise, the importance of what he had to protect, had driven him into a new possibility that only a young man who had lost everything could reach.

    Although within this simulated world he could perceive things through his five senses, what he perceived did not really exist. They were just simulated brain waves sent to the central nervous system for processing. And for him, who had lost all five real senses, his brain had to use every part that was once used for the five senses for processing instead. It was like a blind person having better hearing than someone who had eyes that could see.

    But in Möbius' case, having lost everything, the development of his central brain was many times more powerful. Now his analytical thinking, prediction, and reaction speed were incomparably superior to ordinary people.

    "Hmmm!!!"

    The roar of the demon tree, like the bell signaling the beginning of this decisive battle, as its giant fist made of intertwined vines was about to reach the boulder behind which the two were hiding.

    Boom!!!

    The loud explosion that echoed throughout the cave demonstrated the ferocity of the attack very effectively. But amidst the cluster of yellow pollen, there were no flying rock fragments, because Möbius had pulled that boulder into his left hand a fraction of a second before the broken vines could destroy it. The loud noise was just the sound of the vines powerfully smashing into the rocky cave floor, sinking several feet down.

    Möbius ran up the giant vine that was stuck deep and hard to get out. With the power of his tiger fang shoes that could grip things well, both hands were free as from here on he needed maximum agility.

    "You abominable tree, punished for daring to destroy this beautiful and important place. It is too great to be forgiven. Prepare to receive this punishment."

    The voice full of power boomed across the room. The boulders throughout the room, which even the currents of time and wind could not shake, trembled as if responding to the young man's words. The giant tree could not escape either. The words from an ordinary human made its heart eaten away by fear. It then used all its remaining vines to attack in the hope that the source of this fear would disappear.

    But to Möbius, focused on the obstacle ahead and no longer caring about his own changes, he saw what came at him as if time around him slowed down. The incoming vines, he didn't need to care about all of them; he just dodged the ones that would hit his body in order of sequence, and that would be enough. Starting with the ones lashing down from above, his body moved by itself according to the complex yet straightforward thoughts popping up in his mind.

    'Crouch', his pace instantly changed from long strides to short steps in order to keep his balance as he leaned forward to crouch down low, letting that vine shoot over him.

    'Swerve', several more vines shot straight at him. The young man took advantage of his short steps to swerve back and forth to avoid the attacks in front of him with the least and fastest movements, all while still crouching to make himself the smallest target.

    'Jump', the next attack could not be dodged by swerving anymore, as a large vine swung up from below. Only in the air could he dodge it. Möbius straightened up in time to generate the force to jump over the large vine, but in front of him were more than 10 vines shooting straight at him. He could not dodge them while floating in the air.

    'Shoot to intercept', in the blink of an eye, the Thompson submachine gun was in his hand. He could clearly see from which angle the attacks in front would come, as if a faint shadow miraculously overlapped with the image in front of him. When he saw that, he waited until the vine was close enough to almost hit him.

    Before pulling the trigger to shoot at them to deflect their trajectory, at a distance where he would not miss, the feeling of the world slowing down caused by his accelerated brain activity did not make him move faster. However, the complex calculations that were beyond his own understanding helped his movements to be free of wasted motion.

    The Giga Rafflesia, sensing the danger of its prey that had changed as if it were a different person, released the large vine that Möbius had used as a bridge to run towards it, so that the young man floating in the air would have no place to land.

    (Miho.)

    Möbius sent a telepathic message to his partner immediately. With the little time he had, he could not say it all, but he believed with all his heart that she would understand what he meant.

    (Uh.)

    The fox girl replied briefly before firing a fireball that shot forward at high speed almost as soon as the young man called her name, before dashing after the fireball herself.

    "No matter how far the path is, as long as there are people who understand me by my side, there is no goal that cannot be reached."

    Möbius used the fireball that Gumiho had just released as a foothold. With the speed of the fireball, the young man gained momentum to reach his destination, which was above the head of the Giga Rafflesia. In the blink of an eye, the gun in his hand was changed to a pair of pistols that shone with a bright white light. Both eyes searched for the moonstone quickly.

    A spark shone inside the mouth of the giant tree, showing where what he was looking for was. At the same time, the large golden fox dashed to float beside him. Möbius pointed the pistol at the location of the moonstone, which was in a mouth full of long, sharp, fearsome-looking teeth.

    (Trust me, Miho.)

    (Uh..)

    The fox girl replied briefly before using one of her tails to reach in and grab the stone with precision. The Giga Rafflesia did not give up easily. It quickly closed its mouth, which had white fangs lined up like shark teeth, in the hope of biting off the fox girl's tail.

    As the mouth of the giant flower closed until it was less than an inch from Gumiho's golden tail, her golden tail wrapped around the moonstone perfectly.

    "Prepare to die, you ugly flower."

    Möbius, who had been waiting for this moment, aimed both his pistols at the closing fangs of the Giga Rafflesia and immediately pulled the trigger to use his ultimate attack.

    Cool shot

    Bang!!! Bang!!!

    Small bullets that shone white shot out of the pistol barrels like two beams of light, splitting apart to shoot into both sides of the mouth that was closing, going against the closing mouth.

    6000×2 (Critical hit from shooting a vital point)

    The poisonous tree, which was hit by Möbius' ultimate attack in its weak point, had all its yellow pollens burst out of its torn trunk due to the force of the bullets, until the whole room was so thick with yellow pollens that the cave floor could not be seen.

    "Hmmm...!!!"

    The Giga Rafflesia's scream of pain echoed throughout the room, and what came out with it was bright red pollen from its mouth. Möbius predicted that it must be much more poisonous than the yellow, and if he got hit by it, he would not have the strength to escape.

    (I'm going, Möbius.)

    The fox girl wrapped her other five tails around Möbius before using the Giga Rafflesia's red petals with white dots as a jumping base to shoot up to the hole in the ceiling.

    The fox girl ran up the hole in the ceiling that went straight up, going around the round hole in a diagonal line to use the centrifugal force to allow her to run on the wall. Below was the red pollen that was shooting up after them closely, and above was the sky, which was now a dark blue with the moon right above the entrance.

    There were only 10 meters left before reaching the exit, but the bright red mist that was shooting up at high speed was almost catching up to them. But Möbius would not let that happen.

    'Hands of Möbius, White Hole, Large Boulder'

    Möbius released the large boulder that he had absorbed when he started fighting the giant tree from his right hand down below. The size of the boulder was larger than the path the two were using to escape, so the boulder blocked the hole below so that the red mist could not follow.

    (I'm going to fly now.)

    Gumiho, who did not have much strength left, used all her strength to shoot straight up to the exit that was not far away anymore. Then the two shot out of the hole in the ground that had once released the yellow pollen. Due to the high speed at which they shot out, Möbius and Gumiho, who were exhausted and had transformed back into humans, shot high into the air.

    They rolled in the air several times before landing on the ground steadily. In Möbius' mouth was a bright red wild rose that he did not know where he had gotten from. He walked back to the hole they had just come out of and threw the colorful flowers down the hole before turning to pose for the moon and saying the ending line of Cool shot.

    "If there is a next life, I hope you will be reborn as a flower as beautiful as this red rose."

    1,200×2

    A small explosion sounded near where they were standing, and a split second later, an explosion ten times louder than that echoed throughout the forest.

    Boom!!!

    50,000

    A huge damage number shot out of the hole in the ground along with a lot of flames that turned into a mushroom cloud when they came out, shooting high into the sky.

    The system's voice sounded in his head, confirming that the enemy in the pond had been taken care of.

    'Congratulations, Mr. Möbius, you have successfully defeated the Giga Rafflesia.'

    'Your level, Mr. Möbius, has increased to level 30.'

    'Your level, Gumiho, has increased to level 35.'

    It seemed that today the system's justice was on his side. It sent the money and items from killing the giant tree to fall in front of him. He got 25,684 reals, 2 bottles of high-level antidotes, 1 small, beautiful pink lace bag, and 1 necklace with a red rose pendant.

    Möbius put everything in his bag before giving an antidote to the fox girl lying next to him. Her eyes had become spirals from the dizziness of having to run in circles at high speed. He himself took the remaining bottle of high-level antidote before lying down next to Gumiho.

    "Möbius, why did it explode so violently?"

    The fox girl asked Möbius about the massive damage he had done, even though he shouldn't have been able to attack that hard.

    "Oh, because I intended to create a 'dust explosion'. It's caused by the combustion of small, flammable dust particles in a confined space. When the dust burns, it turns into a huge amount of gas, causing a second explosion. Plus, it was an explosion in a sealed room, so the force of the explosion reflected off the cave walls, making it even more powerful."

    Möbius explained the power of the technique he had used before looking at the fox girl, who had not responded at all.

    ZZZzzzz…

    Actually, she had fallen asleep a long time ago because she did not understand a single thing Möbius had explained. The young man could only smile gently before picking up the fox girl and using the scroll to return to the fox village.

    The scroll sent him to the village square, where he saw Inari in human form talking to a middle-aged to elderly man who looked about 56-60 years old, wearing a priest's robe but in gray. When he saw Möbius, he walked over and said,

    "Oh, you're quite a sight, young man. I can't believe you dared to eliminate the Giga Rafflesia."

    The man walked around Möbius, who was carrying the fox girl in a princess carry, several times. He looked at Möbius with curiosity before stopping in front of the young man who was standing there confused and introducing himself.

    "My name is Moss Cosmos."

    "Cosmos."

    Möbius widened his eyes at Cosmos, thinking that whenever he seemed to have good luck, the system's justice would send something equally bad soon after. And he was right.