The Shepherds Are Dense – Chapter 631

Chapter 630
Dim Yellow Meteor
The howling storm approached the earth, and the downpour fell to the ground with a roar.
The sound of large raindrops mixed with storms that howled like vengeful spirits, falling into this forest, which was much sparser than decades ago.
Leaves were knocked down, branches were broken, and raindrops hit the face, so heavy it felt like being punched.
Knights in the camp scrambled to put on their helmets, and the rain fell on their armor and helmets, producing a chaotic and violent symphony, like a madman beating a drum.
And at this moment.
The “flesh and blood moon,” which looked like a bloody eyeball and a pulsing heart, suddenly fell.
—Like a comet, it crashed into the earth!
The blood moon, which had seemed relatively small at first, grew larger at a visible rate.
“What is that?”
A knight shouted in surprise, “The moon… the moon is falling!”
“That’s not the moon!”
Merlin reflexively said, “That is ‘Caligula the Tyrant’!”
In the blink of an eye, it filled the entire night sky.
It was a blood moon with a diameter of over two kilometers—
As it fell, it scattered the dark clouds along with it. Lightning crackled and struck the “giant heart,” leaving behind large patches of frost and lightning strike marks. The downpour also became more violent as it approached, and in the end, it could barely be called rain, but rather large chunks of “splashed water.”
Then, the earth began to tremble.
Under the pressure of the approaching “meteor,” the ground, quickly covered with rainwater in the downpour, rippled with increasing intensity.
The uneasy roar of the rainwater stirred, forming waves in the forest, surging outward in circles. The wind grew stronger, and the trees began to sway violently back and forth, with the creaking sound of breaking wood incessant.
As the scarlet radiance almost filled the entire night sky, even the downpour subsided significantly—because it had directly shattered the just-condensed dark clouds!
The heart of flesh and blood in the night sky was now pulsing rhythmically.
As it gradually emerged from the dark clouds, countless visible lightning bolts formed a large net on the “heart’s surface.”
“The moon! The moon is falling!”
“How… so big…”
“Are we going to die…”
Looking at the blood moon comet that almost covered the entire night sky, some young knights felt despair.
Eivass also felt some pressure watching this scene.
…Can I really do it?
Penetrating a meteor of this magnitude…
Using the body of the King of the Wild Hunt for the first time, Eivass had no idea of his limits.
But just as the scene, which seemed like the end of the world, descended, Eivass calmed down instead.
—A strong sense of peace made Eivass feel as if time was infinitely slowing down. The ticking sound of clock hands appeared in his ears, and this ticking sound became slower and slower, more and more sluggish, until the entire world in his eyes was immersed in a dim yellow color that was slow to the point of being almost still.
The blood moon falling in the night sky seemed to be frozen by that dim yellow ice as well.
I can.
—A strong confidence emerged from Eivass’s heart.
I can shatter it!
Just fly up—
At Eivass’s will, the Ghost Pegasus, with which he was in perfect harmony, neighed silently and raised its head.
Then, in the void of twilight, it charged like the dead!
—[Death Charge]!
Every time the Ghost Pegasus’s hooves landed in the void, it was like landing on a thin sheet of ice.
Like pieces of clean ice hidden in dim yellow whiskey, only detectable when touched or shaken.
And as the Ghost Pegasus charged, a ladder to the sky appeared behind it—like a martial artist on light footwork, creating ripples as they quickly skimmed across the water. Except these ripples were in the air, splashing droplets in the stormy atmosphere, which were then condensed into ice flowers by the power of twilight.
The charge grew faster and faster, and Eivass lowered his body as much as possible. His dim yellow armor shone even brighter.
The tip of his spear also ignited with flames.
It was a slightly scorching red luster within the dim yellow, like a blowtorch or a rocket.
Under Eivass’s gradually accelerating charge, the flesh and blood meteor, which seemed frozen in ice, became so close to him—
As Eivass switched to gripping the spear with both hands, sandwiching it under his arm, the flame at the tip of the spear exploded again, bursting into even more dazzling fireworks!
Closer, ever closer!
The knights could only see the dim yellow knight rising from the endless night and charging towards the meteor!
The moment the tip of the spear touched the meteor.
The next moment, the reverse-flying dim yellow meteor plunged directly into the blood moon!
—Time seemed to freeze at this moment.
And if one looked at this scene from the side, from a distance.
One could see a crack, winding like lightning and full of shattered ice, appearing inside the giant flesh and blood moon.
The point of entry was only one point, but it spread wildly like a spiral inside!
When Eivass emerged from the other end, the first thing he saw was the giant light spear in his hand—its color like the sunset, transparent like crystal.
The moment he emerged, countless splashing frozen flesh and blood also flew backward with him in a conical shape!
The next instant, two large, disc-shaped white shockwaves, one large and one small, spread out simultaneously from the entry and exit points of the giant heart!
These were sonic booms caused by exceeding the speed of sound!
Dark red cracks, densely packed like a spiderweb, seeped out from the interior, rapidly covering the entire “heart.”
—Then, it suddenly exploded!
The rapidly splashing flesh and blood flew apart like shrapnel in all directions. The knights instantly erected barriers, intercepting them all.
The tree trunks struck by the flesh and blood were immediately entangled by curses. They blackened and withered at a visible rate, losing their life force.
And in mid-air, a giant clad in scarlet robes emerged from the center of the flesh and blood moon.
He wore dark red armor, as if it were its original color, or as if the leather armor was soaked in blood.
His appearance was different from that of ordinary giants—although his height of over twenty meters was undoubtedly that of a giant among giants, his appearance could still be considered handsome.
He had a very masculine face, a resolute, tough-guy look, prominent muscles all over his body, and wheat-colored skin. But he also had scarlet waist-length hair, which gave him a strangely effeminate aura in his silhouette.
And at this moment, he was clutching his broken left shoulder, his brow furrowed.
“…King of the Wild Hunt?”
Caligula muttered softly, “How could…”
His left arm had been severed, floating in the air.
Dim yellow cracks appeared on both his body and his floating arm.
Specks of dragon fire remained in the air, leaving a clear trail.
As Eivass passed at high speed, the hurricane caused by the disturbance of the atmosphere erupted at this moment!
At this time, Eivass, who had already flown to the horizon, turned back.
He gripped his spear with both hands and swung it down fiercely!
Accompanied by a dragon’s roar, a giant golden-red flame in the shape of a dragon’s head struck down from high in the sky!
—Dragon Flame Strike!
Caligula the Tyrant, who had not officially appeared yet and whose left arm had just been blown off, frowned slightly, unafraid of Eivass’s attack.
Without him making any apparent movement, his severed giant left arm suddenly exploded into a cloud of blood mist.
From the blood mist, a shield with eyes, or an eye demon clad in metal armor, emerged.
It flew in front of Caligula the Tyrant, spread all its tentacles, and condensed into a scarlet light shield—
The dragon’s head flame fell upon it and was blocked!
The dragon flame shattered.
It turned into a stream of golden-red flame like molten iron, flowing down like a waterfall.
This stream of flame formed a golden-red curtain of flame, briefly obscuring Caligula the Tyrant’s vision.
Although it was only for a fleeting moment.
Just as the flame stream obscured Caligula’s vision, Eivass, wielding his spear, had performed a U-turn, used Death Charge again to freeze time, and silently attacked again!
Eivass held the spear in one hand, pulling it back slightly to gather strength.
Accompanied by a wind roar like a dragon’s cry, the spear was covered by a layer of azure lightning, gradually lengthening with the increasing charge distance, forming a stream of azure lightning meteors.
Before the waterfall-like flame stream dissipated.
Eivass’s continuous attacks had already arrived!
The lightning-flashing spear tip “flicked” the curtain of molten fire, and with one thrust, it plunged fiercely into Caligula’s chest!
(End of this chapter)